Well fuck, I do, too... There, I admitted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by blaaislaai
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Well fuck, I do, too... There, I admitted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by blaaislaai
And jazz, too. But the Classical connection is through the heavy use of bass (who'd have thunk it?), the arrangement of the music, and most importantly, the Diminished Fifth (a.k.a. the Tritone, or Devil's Note) - the note that make's people "feel" something when they listen to Metal and Classical specifically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
Me too.. Opeth is go to band for melodic and prog fix.Quote:
Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden
I agree with The Voice.. I listen to whatever sounds good regardless of genre. Solitude I've never thought of that.. using sub-genres to pinpoint your music "sweetspot" to each his own I guess. I hate it when people use these music sub-genres no one knows about to make themselves seem elite/cool whatever... it reeks of "pretentious highschool teen" durrr I'm so cool with my metalswaggstep. :p
/rant over
Agreed. The "Metalhead Elite" always pissed me off. Walk into a club, and they're all sat in a corner like "we're more Metal than you" because you're not wearing the correct band's shirt, or don't listen to sub-sub-sub-sub-genre X (that sounds like it was recorded in a toilet cubicle - PRODUCTION VALUE, PEOPLE!). Turns out they're usually a bunch of posers, anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
I used to be cvlt and tr00 when it came to metal (especially black) and used to treasure the stuff that sounded fuzzy and that was either released independently or on a collectors label. Since about 5 years ago I rather value good production.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Voice
It's funny, I've always gone for the production value with metal, but was far more forgiving with the more mainstream genre's I listen to..Quote:
Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden
I started really enjoying music at 13 or 14 when my uncle's boyfriend lent me his Live - Throwing Copper cd. That masterpiece got me to appreciate musicality and writing, and I wanted to start playing drums because of that album. Luckily I saw sense and picked up a guitar instead, and I've been playing since.
Because I play, I listen to a wide range of genres. Weird enough, not exactly the ones that I play, though. I listen to relatively mainstream metal (Killswitch Engage, Deftones, Times of Grace, In Flames, Metallica, Alter Bridge), Rock (Rolling Stones, Queen, Muse, Led Zep, Foo Fighters, old Live, Fokofpolisiekar, aKing, Ashes Divide, A Perfect Circle), Prog (Coheed and Cambria, and another band whose name escapes me... something with an 'm'?), Blues (Clapton mostly, especially his Johnson influenced work), a little guitar driven jazz (Eric Johnson), and some pop like Jimmy Eat World, the Cure, old u2, Mumford and Sons, etc.
I also have a soft spot for Katy Perry and her soft spots. :D
I've learned long ago that genre's are a necessary evil. It does help describe a musical style, but it should always be remembered that genres are descriptive, not prescriptive. aKing has a couple of songs with massive blues influences, Times of Grace does a mean acoustic country, and A Perfect Circle has been all over the place. Genres aren't important enough to get your panties in a knot over, IMHO.
@Avatar,
You wanted to play drums, but saw sense and picked up a guitar?
How dare you, sir. How dare you.
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Originally Posted by DuckKnuckle
What actually happened was that my best friend at the time suddenly got a set, I still don't know how he twisted his parents' arms. I thought, 'fuck that, I'm not gonna be a copycat', so grabbed my dad's old guitar and got a-learnin'.
Hahaha you didn't want to be a copycat?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatar
Well that's a new reason to not play drums :p
My friend showed me the school drumset back when I was 15. My parents bought me my first kit 3 months later for my birthday.
7 years later and I'm still playing and learning :cool: