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[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360085563' post='1964638'] ...... [/quote] That last statement was the most wicked thing I've read this week. Art is NOT entertainment. Art is creation, communication, beauty and self growth. Entertainment is for clowns and pole dancers and very possibly whores....but hey whatever floats your boat.

[quote name='Mcgiver69' timestamp='1360084640' post='1964621'] I can hear spanish in there, are you spanish speaker or any of your ex-band mates? [/quote] Absolutely right, it's Spanish.

[quote name='BandmasterPete' timestamp='1360083837' post='1964604'] Great playing! I like the tune. [/quote] Årnes?!

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360081314' post='1964533'] Well, I would take issue with one point -- I don't consider all commercial/popular music to be "compromising." More often than not, when people make music that is condescending to the audience, it doesn't work. And writing a catchy melody is as much of an artistic skill as anything else. Case in point, the Beatles were high art that were also the apex of popularity, as was Beethoven, Monet, Hemingway and Kubrick. I also don't think of complex music as superior. (I went through that stage). I think you're doing yourself a disservice thinking that ignoring what people like and just satisfying your own indulgence as admirable. And remember -- I'm the guy who said you can really play. But it's about using one's skills to communicate one's art. Rule number one of any form of expression, be it writing, music, or filmmaking -- why should the person experiencing it care? If they don't -- it failed. [/quote] I think you're wrong in one point there. I really couldn't care less about what ignorant people think. I will only listen and take to heart the opinion of someone that I judge to be superior to me in knowledge and skill, the rest is just interesting but not important. It's like asking me what I think about some advanced math stuff...I wouldn't have a clue, why should a mathematician care about my theories!? Another thing: stating that you " have gone through that stage" as in " I'm bigger than that" is the same as saying you're still stuck in the same thought pattern as before. There are many different kinds of complexity besides moving your fingers well and fast. And a mature musician should respect simplicity and complexity equally. Why would anyone even care about learning an instrument if music is just feeling? Romantic nonsense. You either can play or you can't and although I hate dream theater there's a reason why people get tired of sitting in a garage playing eight notes, theres a reason why people get tired of playing a major scale. Shure music is communication but never forget that the most important person you're communicating with is yourself. People with the desire to grow find different ways to get better while the others just earn money and play cool like Lemmy. Always stuck. Always poor on the inside, not because they're bad but because they are not artists: they're entertainers.

As soon as you begin makin music for others you'll have to start compromising hence losin honesty. That's why I can't listen to the radio. All I hear are people begging for money. That's not the way music should be. The population need a better esthetical education. This music doesn't move you the same way fusion doesn't move a hip teenager. Fusion is way better than Justin Biever in every aspect, but this can't be understood by an untrained mind. The same person would also argue that Wagner is worthless to him and in a subjective world that would be valid. That's why Gangnam Style has most clicks...and not anything else. Beacause the general population is ignorant and resents growing. But we cannot judge our moving forward as species on the subjectivities of untrained minds because that would lead us back to the nazis and the inquisition. Same goes for music of course, why not? I can't make music with " the people's taste" in mind. Not if I want to grow. Not if I want to be honest. Not if I love music. And don't forget that this piece (not a song, a song needs a special structure) was made by teenagers, we were inmature and had not much of a clue about music really. Thanks for your feedback, it's very interesting.

[quote name='seymourfluid' timestamp='1359990343' post='1963045'] .......Get rid of the MAC. :-) [/quote] Haha, why? Its just a home recording!

Subjectiveness, envy and laziness is and will always be the number one enemies of human evolution. You have to be open.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1359968294' post='1962511'] Nice playing, and very nice sound you have there too [/quote] Thanks! Yes it's a tone monster, hope I never need to sell it.

Rush: Hemispheres Death: Individual thought patterns (Allan Holdsworth: Live in Japan)

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1359847439' post='1961261'] People go crazy over mediocre players who are famous. This guy is playing his ass off and it's like "Eh, so what." That's human nature for ya. [/quote] I will honor your quote with my signature.

Just came across these cheap yamaha attitude std clips. I bet 95% of all users here would agree if you told them that this is an expensive boutique bass in a blindfolded test. http://www.youtube.com/user/ciniobass1/videos?flow=grid&view=0

[quote name='Nico@Bass' timestamp='1353517997' post='1875542'] Good things I know about Sweden: EBS amps, nice cars, [s]Ikea, Abba[/s], absolut vodka? and most important of all nice women! Welcome! [/quote] True that! Although I've never played EBS, I don't drink, don't listen to ABBA and I don't like cars but the women....ah the women.

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