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• Perhaps now, with Guitar Hero, more bands will write more music with rockin' guitar solos (because they want to be in GH)... nah, wishful thinking + they'd probably make the solos lame anywho.
  • posted by: nemo7467
  • [ 2007.05.15 | 6:57:33am ]
• holy freaking crap i hope bands don't write music just for GHx/RB.  that would be a truly sad day for music worldwide.
  • posted by: earl, THE earl
  • [ 2007.05.15 | 7:54:29am ]
• As if the music world wasn't sad enough already.  But then again, it goes without saying that a 52min. guitar feature from Jimi Hendrix could be to some people what started the decline of music.
  
  All I am saying is this:  when you turn on the radio and flip to any station these days to hear almost any recording artist it seems giving vocabulary and spelling lessons by having songs comprised of nothing more than spelling out random words, (sometimes incorrectly) as the majority of their lyrics while overlaying sampled classics, it is clearly time to start sounding the death knell for music.  There is no creativity, no craftsmanship, nothing prolific.
  
  Of course I am only referring to pop music and top 40, but that is where the majority of our society resides as far as musical taste goes.  It's catchy, its quick, and it contributes to the ever growing ADD of our age group.
  
  As for writing songs for GH, you have to look at the media outlet involved.  The game in itself is a huge success among hardcore and casual gamers alike.  Almost all of my friends hate most of the video games I play because they are either 1player games or they are games that you can't just pick up and play, with the exception of GH, Halo, and Party games like anything on Wii and stuff like Fuzion Frenzy, they absolutely can't get enough of them.  With all of the controversies involved with the RIAA and piracy and such, putting a song in the video game is almost a guaranteed successful way of marketing considering it makes the band known and very familiar to a target audience and potentially increasing concert ticket sales just so players can come and "rock out" with the band.  And the RIAA is stuck because the tabs in the game aren't the actual tabs for the music, so players aren't learning to reproduce the songs, therefore there is no way to sue over infringement if a kid plays GH and decides he wants to take his show on the road for profit, cuz it isn't happening.
  
  The only thing I have against putting a song in GH is that I'll have to pay to download it.
  • posted by: claryam
  • [ 2007.05.15 | 8:38:50am ]
• i'm still missing how jimi hendrix started the decline of music...
  • posted by: earl, THE earl
  • [ 2007.05.15 | 11:57:01am ]
• I think the decline was way before jimi... depending on how you look at it, you could say the decline was with the invention of small bands, taking away from a masterfully composed piece of music.  I miss trumpets in music (not cheezy stuff like the band Cake) but real horn sections playing incredibly with the violins and the upright bass'.  Yeah, those were the good days of musicianship.  All this other stuff is crap.  Really, I see no point to the complaint, as music changes waaaay too much and it's just going to change a whole lot more.
  • posted by: nemo7467
  • [ 2007.05.15 | 12:17:04pm ]
• I just said to some people would say it was.  For the same reason why people thought Elvis was the anti-christ.  The fact that Jimi's use of a full gain on an electric guitar was simply unheard of at the time, and a nuisance to anyone besides "those damned hippies".  I do think nemo is right about it going back before Jimi, although we only live at a time when our elders would criticize prolific musicians like Hendrix because they were the ones around changing things.  Before it was elvis and johnny cash, and before them it was coltrane and gershwin, before them it was showtunes changing classical music, and so on.
  
  I agree with nemo, music will only continue to change, accept at an accelerated rate like everything else it seems.  I just hope that metal music doesn't end up like the 'zen' music in  Children of Men.
  • posted by: claryam
  • [ 2007.05.15 | 2:38:56pm ]
• I agree with Andrew... especially about Children of Men.
  
  Anyway, remember this Earl?
  • posted by: nemo7467
  • [ 2007.05.16 | 6:49:53am ]
• if you hover over the image it says, "and then do it again in a moment now that they're out of star power"...LOL!
  • posted by: earl, THE earl
  • [ 2007.05.16 | 8:28:30am ]

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