Philip
BenMMusTech
Dappa1
Hard to break out of the production line type of production if that is how you have been taught.
My question is.
How do you learn in a new way for you to stand out? Is it better to learn by ear and be creative from day dot or, be taught to be like everyone else then create your own style? Which is quicker, better and which is the smarter move?
I have my own thoughts on this but an interesting topic, how different can we really be when all our learning is taken from somewhere?
"I don't care if it's perfect I care about feel. Do we have a great song???
(I appreciate that statement more than "finished is better than perfect")
Certain feelings, IMHO, seem to transend the stereotypes:
If the artist's ponderings are lame ... expect lame songs.
If the artist's ponderings are stereotypical ... expect nothing-new-under-the-sun.
But if the artist's ponderings are magical, inspiring, redeeming, comforting, disturbing, forcible, killing-with-love, etc. ... it may be that the stereotype-boredom can be overcome.
Does not every man have a non-stereotypical story to sing? ... else I'd probably conclude we're all neurotic clones.
Personally, I'd be an evo-biologist and not a singer ... if I believed we're just neurotic clones.
Sorry Philip,
"I've got some bad news for you sunshine, Pink isn't well he's back at the hotel, so they sent us along as a surrogate band, now were going to find out where you fans really stand."
Philip the world turned and whilst we wern't looking all the things that made an indivdual special were, banned, frowned upon, stamped out, weeded out or else they burnt out.
Is there pockets of resistance, HELL YEA but to climb above the clamour and be bigger than the internet because this is what is necessary to reignite the flame is going to take someone truly biblical (and no Philip, I'm using biblical as a metaphor) this is my belief.
My proof goes back to The Beatles for a few bright years they were bigger than all the media that exsisted at the time, they were everywere, T.V, print media, Time Magazine even ran a story on Ringo's tonsils. And finally they were the first band to be beamed around the world to a global audiance of a billion people. Truly fantastic figures.
Lady Who Ha has tried to emualte this and she understands my statement about being bigger than the internet, unfortunatly there is two things lacking to make her the person to reignite the flame, one, she is truly musicaly awful and secondly we don't have a moment in history where the whole world held it's breath and went is it (world war two) the end.
You see The Beatles for all there talents would not have been HUGE if it wern't for that tiny little war, the whole world had gone through armageddon, then the bland 50's (starting to see any parallels Philip?) then along come The Beatles like a breath of fresh air and they took our blues, our collective hearts and our breath away because the world needed it.
Now here is the kicker in the story, we are on the precipice of another armageddon moment, the west is not the best and the west have over spent and over borowwed and guess who from, The Chinese.
Now this is off topic but in the 90's we had what we called the Asian crisis, this is the same as the financial crisis as the west is facing now. We over lent to a number of Asian countries the wankers sorry bankers got cold feet and they then pulled their money out of these countries, their housing prices were too high and the whole Asian banking system collapsed. Sound familiar.
They learnt, the Asians are better at pulling their heads in and quickly paid back their debts and then they decided to give the west a dose of their own medicine.
Back to the armageddon moment, the west does not have the same discipline as the Asians, we over borrowed from the Chinese and there is going to be a moment of some pain, I don't know what, how or where but there will be that moment of pain.
From here then the recovery and this is the moral of my tale, then perhaps we might get some decent tunes because after all this gloom we will need cheering up.
I know I ramble and a lot of people will go huh but basicly history does repeat (cool name for a song LOL) after each socital breakdown comes a renaissance and the renaissance is the best chance to right the sinking ship.
So I hope you get what I am saying Philip, don't get too discoraged. I don't know how old you are but in 20 years we might yet be needed to help guide a new generation through their art.
Peace Ben