ORIGINAL: ArrowHead
Because a list of existing radio stations is direct correlation to exposure and play. And radio exposure in turn indicates sales, right? And then those sales must in their own way prove that there is just no studio work available for those not receiving said radio play, right?
MOST radio stations are playing pop music (everything from Britany Spears to Kelly Clarksen). Most pop music uses session players. Most session players have a jazz background. I've already given you a long list of them. I know of not one guy who's known for playing metal that is also known as a regular studio musician. And no, a drummer is not a musician.
Currently the top radio stations in the boston market WAAF and WBCN. Both are rock format. Both currently have metal programming. Granted, one station does only one hour per night, while the other has a two hour show once a week.
Wowee!
Meanwhile, neither station plays any Jazz. There IS a local jazz station. It's listenership is a mere fraction of either of those top two rock stations.
Of course. We already went over this. Jazz is music for other musicians. Few people have the brains to understand it. Few people own a copy of
The Theory of Relativity,
The Universe In a Nutshell,
The Discarded Image, or even
The Faerie Queene, but they're still among the best books ever written and will always be used as refference books and university text books by others hundred's of years from now.
C'mon Joe. You told me not to go there when I mentioned numbers. Let's hear it! Substantiate your claims. I'd love to see some soundscans, myspace hits, radio playlist from top 5 networks, or any billboard top 100 lists that in ANY way prove your statements.
I've already proven every one of my statements while you've yet to prove a single one of yours. Show me where I EVER said jazz outsold ANY other music genre. The statement I made was that there's a jazz station in nearly every town and very few metal stations to be found anywhere. YOU'RE the one who claims there are metal stations all over creation. Let's see them.
And again, none of it matters. Numbers are meaningless. There's no math theorum that says the majority is usually correct nor incorrect. What we do know is this: very few, if any, musicians known for playing heavy metal are getting any studio work in other genres. Actually, I don't know of a single one. The field is dominated by jazz players as it well should be. A jazz player has a versitile background. The very nature of his music proves this. He must know a ton of chords in every position. That alone will get him session work. Meta uses nothing but basic major and minor chords. Nothing else works over all that distortion. Someone with a background of playing simple music is simly not going to be taken seriously by studio owners, nor record producers. It's never going to happen.
So back to the original topic . If a guy wants to have a long and healthy career in music, it would be most benefitial to have a background that shows he can do anything. Jazz is that background. It is the most complex music there has ever been. If you can play jazz, anything else will seem like child's play, and usually is.