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Not that I'm aware of, there's a lot of young indie bands doing the faux working class schtick, which is at best annoying, and at worst insulting and patronizing.

Surely it's always been the same though, every generation takes inspiration from and builds on what's gone before. Modern bands might be borrowing a lot form Led Zep but didn't Led Zep borrow a lot from American Blues artists? And those American blues artists borrowed a lot from traditional folk songs, and you can probably go on and on until you end up with a monkey hitting a rock with a stick, and even he was probably just copying another monkey.

[quote name='urb' timestamp='1360484964' post='1970957'] OK here's mine - I took inspiration from my trips to Norway in recent years - especially in the middle of winter, when it gets insanely cold - when the beauty of the snow and ice give way to some serious partyng (drinking) as it's the only way to keep warm at -12! Hope you enjoy it - love to hear your comments on it - let me know what you think.... [url="https://soundcloud.com/munkio/trippy-tundra-oslo-nights"]https://soundcloud.c...dra-oslo-nights[/url] [/quote] That's pretty great, nice melding of the crazy synth stuff and the more restrained jazzy stuff. I need some assistance with mine, annoyingly my right ear has decided to get bunged up so everything's a lot quieter in the right ear and high freqs are a lot woolier. This makes mixing a little arduous to say the least, especially as my usual method is just to pan stuff hard left and right then adjust the levels till it sounds good. I think I've found a workaround, but I'd appreciate comments on the balance in this rough mix of the first section: [url="https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/feb-comp-intro-test"]https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/feb-comp-intro-test[/url]

I've got one playalong vid on youtube, recorded at the request of a potential band and only put on youtube as a convenient way of sharing it. I got a comment from a guy: "Stop showing off. No one cares." It surprised me mainly as the song is child's play compared to most of the show off pieces on youtube. The real kicker was I replied saying it was recorded for a band and he apologized and then deleted the comment. I just find it odd that some people judge this stuff entirely on motive, when really any musician who performs at all is showing off in a sense.

How many bananas can you hang from the tuning pegs before they start turning?

Shame it didn't have (delete as appropriate): (1/2/7.4) (more/less) (strings/pickups/necks/severed whale penises superglued to it) or I'd have (bitten/sawed) your (arm/face/coffee table) (off/in half)

That was very impressive, I wonder how many takes it took it though, he looks very glad to have gotten the slide on in time for that black crowes riff and I think that's the speediest drop tuning I've ever seen. Pretty decent riff choices too, surprised there was no Kyuss or QOTSA though, and Hysteria was a pretty odd Muse choice for guitar, but it was great to finish on Cruel, St. Vincent is a very under-appreciated guitarist.

Can anyone recommend a good free Harp VST, or harp containing orchestra VST? My simple post-metal track has taken an unexpected turn...

[quote name='Antiloco' timestamp='1360226345' post='1966876'] Totally agreed, thank you. At last someone with brains thats doesnt need to rely on the "arrogance" or "troll" card to defend their insecurities and lack of understanding. Shame on the rest of you. [/quote] Did you believe my description of your tone as arrogant to be a defence of my insecurities and lack of understanding? If so, what exactly do you believe my insecurity to be, and what don't I understand?

[quote name='Antiloco' timestamp='1360222270' post='1966794'] What you say sounds pretty fair except for the simple fact that the meaning of words is not subjective. "Entertainment is something that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention." -Wiki [/quote] First of all, I don't fully agree with that definition,and the fact I can disagree with it kind of proves it's subjectivity. Secondly, if Wikipedia is the arbiter of all absolute truth in the Universe then we are all in very deep trouble. Wiktionary has a similar definition, and cites a few examples, including opera. But that definition does not exclude art from being entertainment. I think the crux of the conflict is illustrated by your comment: [quote]So you should ask yourself: How pure is something that's made with the sole purpose of satisfying an audience?[/quote] Most entertainment is not made solely to satisfy an audience. In fact in my opinion, entertainment that is made specifically to pander to certain audiences is almost exclusively bad, but that doesn't rob it of it's artistic nature. Art can be bad. Art can be made with a pure artistic intent, and then experienced by others without stripping it of it's artistic soul. Indeed, music is usually made to be heard. I will almost guarantee that John Coltrane wrote Naima with the knowledge that he would perform it live, for an audience, and record it, to be heard by an audience. All of the films and video games and albums that I love and consider to be great works of art, were made to be experienced by an audience. My favourite album of all time and one of the greatest works of art I have ever experienced was recorded in a studio, using money from a record company, so that record company could sell it to people. And if you consider any album to be a great work of art, then the same is true to you. A work of art being available to an audience does not mean that it was specifically created for that audience. Do you consider your YouTube videos to be art or entertainment? You did record them specifically to be seen by an audience, after all.

[quote name='Antiloco' timestamp='1360220659' post='1966780] Am I really that wrong? [/quote] No, because NO ONE IS WRONG OR RIGHT on this entirely SUBJECTIVE issue. Phrases like: [quote]You need to learn the real meaning of words[/quote] Give the unmistakeable impression that you think your definitions are the absolutely correct ones. I, and most of the people here are more than happy to discuss this point with you, exchange ideas and compare views. But you have to enter such a discussion with your views malleable, or at least accepting of the validity of other views. There is no one true definition of art and entertainment. I listen to a lot of music that most musicians would dismiss as random noise, but I consider it art. I consider many video games to be works of art, other people consider them to be a vacuous medium devoid of any artistry whatsoever. Neither of us is wrong, my hope is that I can put forth a well reasoned argument for why I consider video games to be art that makes others re-evaluate their views. So if you're willing to discuss the topic, put forth your views in a coherent, logical, mature way, and consider the views and rebuttals of others, with an overriding principle of respect maturity, then welcome, you'll love it here. But if you're going to continue slinging arrogant, snide and elitist jibes around the place then you'll probably find it very frustrating here. Not least because I'll probably feel compelled to repeat this same long-winded speech every time.

[quote name='Antiloco' timestamp='1360217997' post='1966768'] That's a pretty shallow statement but hey, whatever makes you happy. [/quote] Oh good, more of this. Art and entertainment are ENTIRELY subjective terms. Absolutely no one is ever going to be right or wrong here. You have views you want to share, which is great, being exposed to different viewpoints is one of the great joys of life, it's how we change and grow as people. Trading snippy remarks back and forth isn't changing or growing anyone. Discuss things like mature intelligent people or not at all. I for one, am sick of this playground bulls**t.

Aye, I got one, instantly filled away in my mental spam folder.

I had vowed to actually play the guitar and bass on mine for once, but the first minute is now a noodly guitar thing that I can't really play well enough to record, so VST's it is again. I might still do the bass if I can get it to sound good with the VST guitars.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1359791033' post='1960301'] The song is meant to be written to the picture and should be written in yhe same month really. [/quote] That's the thing, this riff is the first thing I thought of when I saw that picture, and it's still the thing that most fits it in my head. I know that anything new I try to write for it will basically just be this riff, but not quite as good. Oh well, probably best not to enter then, hopefully March's conjures up a new good idea.

Hmm, that's a pretty good one. I've actually already got a bit of a song that I think would fit perfectly with that, is that within the spirit of the competition? It would be reworked and re-recorded and wouldn't be the whole song, but that's pretty much the image I had in my head when I wrote that bit.

Being able to sing would be pretty cool, although mostly because it means I would never have to go through the pain of finding a singer.

As I recall, Hitler did call it "Mutterland" instead of "Vaterland" which was the norm. As I recall, a German psychologist (presumably in exile) published a paper about Hitler during WWII and said that he was fixated on a pre-WWI symolism, where Austria was his old tired father, and Germany was his young vibrant mother, about to be violated. Sounds a little thin, but he did predict that Hitler would commit suicide in a symbolic womb, which he kind of did, depending on how large and fortified you consider wombs to be.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1359297001' post='1952606'] [url="http://en.necropedia.org/obituary/Carol_Kaye"]http://en.necropedia...uary/Carol_Kaye[/url] For just a minute there... what kind of sicko publishes websites like this ? [/quote] What's so sick? It's a wiki about death, not everybody is squeamish about death. The obituaries thing is a little odd, but as they point out, news organizations routinely prepare up to date obituaries about prominent people so they can put them out instantly when that person dies, surely it's no more ghoulish than that?

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359229227' post='1952003'] Ok I'll let you in on my weird crazy meter... Your reply is pretty weird! So maybe you are crazy. And what is a passing transient? [/quote] I'm not crazy, I have a certificate and everything. A transient is a polite southern euphemism for a homeless individual. And passing is, well, passing.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1359228290' post='1951984'] I'm firmly of the opinion that anyone who names an inanimate object is mentally ill and my friend Brian the Telecaster agrees with me. [/quote] Well Billingsley, the 19th century gamekeeper who lives in my sock drawer, disagrees. He says it's perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. He also says we need to help out our boys in the Crimea.

Wow, craziness is logarithmic. Who knew?

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359223496' post='1951896'] Someone on the Sales Forum just bought an envelope pedal, and posted "I'll take good care of her!"... Her? A stomp box? This is not sentimentality... This [i]is[/i] weird craziness...! [/quote] I'd appreciate access to this absolutely correct weird craziness meter you have, it would help settle a few arguments. Different people do different things, if you start writing off entire groups of people for minor idiosyncrasies, then I think you'll find yourself quite lonely. My advice is to gradate "weird craziness" and act accordingly, here's a couple of examples to get you going: Example: A man refers to his bass guitar by a female name. Action: No action required. Example: A man murders a passing transient, peels his skin, wears it like a suit, and runs around screaming about garlic. Action: Inform the police, hide any garlic you have on your person.

I do it, luckily I've only got 2 basses and a guitar, mine are named after my lady friend at the time. This just seems to me as another facet of the sentimentality debate. At uni me and my housemates ended up in a discussion of first thing you'd grab in case of fire. Mine was my bass, without even thinking, it holds so much sentimental value. It's not my first bass, but it's the one I learned properly on, I worked a proper job just to pay for it and I just can't imagine being without it. One of my housemates however, just couldn't understand this. It was covered under house insurance, so he just didn't get why I'd bother taking it, I'd get a brand new better bass from the insurance claim. He wouldn't take anything in case of a fire, he said there was nothing he had that was irreplaceable. Personally I find that a little sad. So really it's just a form of sentimentality, obviously I know my basses don't ACTUALLY have independent personalities, but projecting emotions and personalities onto things that don't necessarily have them is hardly the exclusive realm of the psychopath. Ever have a teddy bear? A pet? Ever get slightly misty eyed when moving out of a house you've lived in for a while? If not then fine, you're just not a sentimental person, but hat doesn't make those of us who are weird or crazy.

A friend of a friend was planning a Green Card marriage with an American friend of his, I can't remember what she was getting out of it but her parents found out and threatened to report him. It is apparently quite illegal, so don't do it, and if you do, cover it up well.