Your super music group

[germanos]

Re: Your super music group

Originally posted by Kalius
For me:

Tony Levin - Bass

and you hook him up with

David Gilmour - Lead Guitar, Vocals
Roger Daltry - Vocals

un****ingbeleivable

[Dis]

Originally posted by reds4ever


He was a tosser and Queen were nothing more than a caberet act.

thems fightin' words. prepare to duel.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Live Aid was about reviving flagging careers while striking moral postures. I didn't say he couldn't sing, I said he was a creep.

As for the MTV/BBC thing - these polls are a joke. According to some of these 'greatest' lists, Robbie Williams is the best entertainer ever to have lived, and the best album in history is Radioheads wrist-slashing heap of morose, self-indulgent pile of ****, OK Computer.

But please, carry on enjoying the artists you like. Music would be so dull if we didn't have different tastes.

why is he a creep? because he's gay?

Most musicians are creeps anyways. gay or straight. I don't care for their lifestyle. And I certainly don't care for their political message. Just play some music dammit!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dis


why is he a creep? because he's gay?

Most musicians are creeps anyways. gay or straight. I don't care for their lifestyle. And I certainly don't care for their political message. Just play some music dammit!

No, he's a creep because he's a creep for phucks sake! Why must people get precious about Freddie Merk and denounce any critic as 'anti-gay' just because their can't handle the fact that other people may dislike him. I don't care who the guy likes to ****, I only care about his music.

One of my top two guitar heroes and influences of all time is Bob Mould. He's gay but he's not a creep, and he doesn't write annoying songs and sing them in an annoying voice.

As for your sweeping attacks on musicians and our 'lifestyle', just precisely which aspects of my lifestyle do you have such a problem with? Having a job? Playing Civ? Posting on Poly? Playing Music?

[Dis]

taking drugs

[Hueij]

Freddy Mercury, wasn't he the singer of one of those bombastic, overproduced bands from the 70's? One of the reasons punk got invented?

[Dis]

they were around in the 80's as well.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Dis
they were around in the 80's as well.

Yep, and the 80's were horrible, music wise...

[Dis]

no they weren't. People say that about every decade. They said the same thing about the 70's.

so when did any good music come out then?

The problem is people only seem to count the bad music. Bad music for the masses (mainly teenage girls) comes out every decade. New Kids on the Block in the 80's, Backstreet Boys and n sync in the 90's. In the 00's I guess we got Britney spears. I'm not sure who else as I don't pay attention to pop music anymore.

[Cort Haus]

I'll tell you what was wrong with the eighties. Two things - synthesisers instead of guitars, and crappy drum samples.

In the late 80's I was in a punky guitar band (like I'm in today) and some people said "oh, guitars are so dated, so seventies". Within three years guitars were back and 15 years later they're still here. So the eighties got that wrong.

Even worse than tacky 80's synths (DX7, anyone?) were the godawful 8-bit drum samples that became fashionable. Sampling technology was in its infancy, and to many of our ears at the time, the cheesy snare-drums that suddenly every producer 'had to have' sounded bloody terrible, and we had to fight tooth and nail in studios to actually use real drums, which producers at the time were reluctant to let stuff out of their studios with.

Eventually, the entire industry came to recognise that the drum samples they had been using sounded atrocious, and they were consigned to the dustbin of history. These days, of course, we can sample things properly, but the fashion fetish with a primative and premature technology has left a grim layer of musical archeology, that some of us are proud never to have sullied ourself with.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Dis
taking drugs

Most musicians drink, for sure, but not all of us take other drugs. If you do have a problem with musicians taking drugs, though, then the answer is simple. Burn all your albums.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Hueij
Freddy Mercury, wasn't he the singer of one of those bombastic, overproduced bands from the 70's? One of the reasons punk got invented?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Most musicians drink, for sure, but not all of us take other drugs. If you do have a problem with musicians taking drugs, though, then the answer is simple. Burn all your albums.

hey now, I'm the one who goes around quoting Tool. (as I did in Lancer's thread). Actually it's not a direct Tool quote, but something included in their song Third Eye. As with the Burn all your albums quote.

As for synth, yes it was very popular in the 80's. But mainly in the pop music circle. Most rock bands and of course all metal bands still did things with real instruments. though you could argue the real instruments. Is a heavily distorted electric guitar a real instrument? . And of course bands such as Van Halen and Dio used keyboards.

[flash9286]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGroup

Best show on T.V.

[reds4ever]

I'll always be indebted to the 80s, the music was that bad I got into 60s Soul music and R&B. Most people in my school were buying Erasure and Spandau Ballet, I was buying Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett ....