ORIGINAL: yep
I think the people who are destined to really "make it" in the world of music are exactly the kind of people who can't NOT do it, they can't HELP doing it.

I think I have posted this before but this notion puts me in mind of an essay that was quite encouraging to me a while back and I figured I'd repost the link as food for thought:

Creation: A Culture of Gift

There is a seminar presentation on his site that has some interesting tidbits that apply to arts in general:

Triggers & Practice: How Extremes in Writing Relate to Creativity and Learning

If you've ever had someone poke their head over your cubicle wall and say something like, "If you tap that pencil one more time, I'm going to kill you with this stapler", then you may be a good candidate.

Who cares where you're from, Joe?

I don't remember mentioning it, but whatever….

Your credentials don't exist.

I've given you every hint you should need to figure things out, and revealed as much as I'm going to on a public message board. If you don't get it by now you're not very bright. And there are at least two people at this board who know exactly what I'm talking about. Kudos to them for keeping their mouths shut, and for ignoring you. Oh, and I noticed that your band is so good there aren't even any samples at your site. Class act there. Buy before you try.

Let's see, my tunes are no good; my webpage is apparently not to your liking. Got anything to say about my dead mother's corpse before I hang-up? Again, class act. That's going to win you a lot of friends I'm sure.

We're done.

Your credentials don't exist.

I've given you every hint you should need to figure things out, and revealed as much as I'm going to on a public message board. If you don't get it by now you're not very bright. And there are at least two people at this board who know exactly what I'm talking about. Kudos to them for keeping their mouths shut, and for ignoring you.

dance dance dance, bro. You still got nothing tangible. Hint at whatever you like, you opinion is null until you establish some REAL credentials, man.


"Oh, and I noticed that your band is so good there aren't even any samples at your site. Class act there. Buy before you try."

Funny, not even sure how you found a site, since I've yet to mention my band's name. However, much like my post history, and your google searches of Berklee, it's just another example of your inability to work the interweb. If you'd like sound samples, maybe you could try myspace? http://www.myspace.com/pilloryhmmmm... Don't bother though, I really, REALLY doubt you'll enjoy or appreciate any of it, and I'd hate to waste your time.

As for the main website, they took the sound clips down right after I quit the band. Their new stuff with Adam is going to be very different, so why keep cycling the old material?

I definitely don't believe in "buy before you try". In honesty, I've probably given away dozens and dozens of copies of the CD to people, just to see if they dug it. I'm not in this for $$, I just want to find people that like it, and do whatever I can to get it into their hands so they can enjoy it.



"Let's see, my tunes are no good; my webpage is apparently not to your liking. Got anything to say about my dead mother's corpse before I hang-up? Again, class act. That's going to win you a lot of friends I'm sure.
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1) You misunderstand what is sarcasm, and what is not. I MEANT it when I said I dug your tunes, and I meant it when I said I like your guitars. What I said was that you don't have the chops you think you do. Otherwise, I can actually get into at least 70% of the tunes on your CD. However, there's a lot of metal players you could never even HOPE to keep up with. And I NEVER implied I was one of them.

2) again, I actually liked your webpage. Clean, simple, and a solid design. My implication is that hocking CD's on the interweb does not make you an industry pro.

3) I have nothing to say about your dead, living, or any other type mother. However, I will most likely at some point take another jab at that horrible, horrible mustache. Such a pretty guitar, but it's like there's a monster lurking right behind it. You look like maurice, the cab driver from the old Sesame Street show.

4) I'm not trying to win friends on the interweb, Joe. I came here to read about and interact with other musicians. Unfortunately, this time around I came across you. I don't like being poked, Joe, and you tried way too damned hard. The whole reason I came here, the other threads, it all became secondary. It seems like you need this, to have someone actually call you on your ****. If I were some scared 25 year old kid, playing metal, I'd have seen your initial advice and never even given it a shot. Douchbags like you know a LITTLE about a LOT, and **** their way through the parts they don't know. There was even some small bit of truth to what you had to say. As I said, you know a little about a lot. However, to outright bash a style of music and a group of musicians you know nothing about is rude and unjustifiable.




We're done.

Not even started, Joe.

You've finally run in to an ego every bit as large as your own, and I'm not planning on going anywhere.


yep said:"I hope this thread has been a valuable lesson in what happens to people who take music too seriously. "

Not so much that. I mean, I take music seriously, but I take it ALL seriously. It's just the idea that I come here and listen to everything, and enjoy so many different styles from religious choiral techno whatever to jazz to guitar rock to folk. Some is good, some is bad. But I give it all a shot, because I know whatever I get - someone put a lot of heart into it.

Anyone bashing the kind of stuff I do, without even giving it the same shot I would give their own, is ignorant.

And anyone trying to pretend they're my daddy, well, ... I'm going to slap them. I'm coming here into your turf, your own community. I try to behave. However, where I'm from, we do things a little different. If you try to play "pick on the tourist", the tourist is likely to tear off your arm. Metaphorically. I don't think I could actually tear off an arm, there's ligaments and stuff.

But nonetheless, a metaphorical (metaphysical?) arm SHALL be torn.

Don't poke me.

Original:Yep
One of the worst mistakes people make in life is to make big life choices walking backwards. By this I mean that they focus on what they are moving away from instead of what they are getting into.

Quite possibly the strongest statement in this entire thread.
How many failed marriages, careers, etc. have we seen that started out on this premise?
If you mean it, go for it, but make damn sure you mean it.

ORIGINAL: ArrowHead
Way way more like this

youtube - 2 ****s fighting

2 ****s fighting? irony, thy name is arrowhead...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZWwmDwqL8

No, I watched those listed above and found the one I posted, so not for me.

Hmmm....well this thread was interesting; 'oh well, whatever, nevermind'

teenage girls

Plus, for them getting session jobs is not really an issue - besides the fact they appear on just about ANY record ever made. Try and beat that.

Too late Bit, he's 26 now. It's all over.

My favorite thing in the world is giving 2 weeks notice. :-)

Like people who want to be an actor or actress. They end up working in a local diner or some other type same job.
 

https://soundcloud.com/headspace-1-1
 
This guy, Eddy Lawrence, has a great song about a person who knows she has to do something stupid or she'll never do anything at all. :-) Maybe that's you?
 
I couldn't find the song itself on his soundcloud page.