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Alright, try this.. pick up a bass or a pair of drumsticks and play me a mudvayne song. Learn programming well enough to do a Static-X song, and get a group of 9 musicians together who all have the same mindset long enough to even cover a slipknot song.
Pick up a guitar and play me some sweeps and scales and learn advanced strumming patterns well enough to pull off Disposable Heros by Metallica. Then talk sh*t all you want. Far as i'm concerned, anyone who just hears a metal band's name and listens to it for 30 seconds, i cant give that person any credit or crediblity.
And here's something awe inspiring for you... i've heard all 4 of those bands on the radio in the last month.
Pick up a guitar and play me some sweeps and scales and learn advanced strumming patterns well enough to pull off Disposable Heros by Metallica. Then talk sh*t all you want. Far as i'm concerned, anyone who just hears a metal band's name and listens to it for 30 seconds, i cant give that person any credit or crediblity.
And here's something awe inspiring for you... i've heard all 4 of those bands on the radio in the last month.
Considering I'm to Music what Totem is to Black here, I'm going to field this one.
As a professional musician who's put out 2 major label albums, let me say that I hate (for the most part) metal and nu-metal and anything that tries to sound like the first Tool album, Opiate (as most of these new ****[/i]ty bands do).
It would be simple as pie to cover any of their crappy songs if I cared to. In fact, my first band ever when I WAS 15 was a metal band and YES we did cover Metallica songs (in addition to Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer...etc..).
Metal can be somewhat complex musically, but complexity is not the be-all-end-all of how to judge music. Some virtuosos simply suck (e.g. Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, anything that was featured in GFTPM...). Songwriting and timbre and thoughtful lyrics or just something DIFFERENT will turn my ear before blistering licks.
A fine example of a combination of great playing and good songs is Sonic Youth. I just saw them play on Saturday night at the Fillmore. It was probably one of the tightest live shows I have ever seen. They were consummate musicians who wove dissonance and consonance in a way no Metal band EVER will.
Metal is just for little kids or people that think like little kids. You grow out of it. An intelligent person moves on and finds something different to listen to. An intelligent person challenges their prejudices and expands their musical tastes.
As for your radio comment, who the fu[i]ck cares about that sh[i][/i]it? About 90% of the best music I've ever heard will never be on the radio. Just because music is bland enough to please most of the people most of the time is not a valid measure of how good it is.
(Someone finally found a topic that I can go off on like Gbaji.)
