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April 26th, 2014 | #1 |
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#1 Songwriting Thread
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I was reading some of your old interviews about writing terrible old poetry, which I can obviously relate to as someone who is trying to be a writer as a living. Where do you think you saw a shift where you started writing things that you liked? Or have you had that? That’s such a good question! I always think about that. I think it’s when [I wrote] the songs I wrote for the first EP. That was only when I was like 21 or so, so I’d already been playing for a few years performing solo. Just singing those really terrible singer-songwriter songs. Then I kind of stepped back from myself. I don’t know what the change was. I think I just tried to simplify things and stopped trying to write a “good song.” Because that’s what I was always trying to do, trying to write a catchy song and blah blah blah. Then I was just experimenting, like, 'how about you write a song with one chord that doesn’t have a chorus and see if you can make it interesting?' So it was a bit more of an experiment. And that led to finding my own comfortable voice, which led on to this. http://noisey.vice.com/blog/courtney...avant-gardener |
September 5th, 2014 | #2 |
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Gene Simmons is making headlines again, this time for burying rock ‘n’ roll. The outspoken artist says “Rock is finally dead,” in an interview conducted by his son Nick for Esquire magazine. The Kiss singer-bassist also shares his thoughts on the failing record business and how he would not want to be an up-and-coming artist today.
“The death of rock was not a natural death,” Simmons offers. “Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed, and now it won’t, because it’s that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it.” Simmons also offers sobering advice for young musicians and songwriters saying, “Don’t quit your day job is a good piece of advice. When I was coming up, it was not an insurmountable mountain. Once you had a record company on your side, they would fund you, and that also meant when you toured they would give you tour support.” He adds, “There are still record companies, and it does apply to pop, rap, and country to an extent. But for performers who are also songwriters — the creators — for rock music, for soul, for the blues — it’s finally dead. Rock is finally dead.” He continues on about how he feels for this lost generation of kids who will not have the same opportunity that he had with Kiss. “It’s very sad for new bands. My heart goes out to them. They just don’t have a chance.” Simmons remarks. “If you play guitar, it’s almost impossible. You’re better off not even learning how to play guitar or write songs, and just singing in the shower and auditioning for ‘The X Factor.’ And I’m not slamming ‘The X Factor,’ or pop singers. But where’s the next Bob Dylan? Where’s the next Beatles? Where are the songwriters? Where are the creators?” Simmons added that he is not being simply being cantankerous offering, “I’m not the guy to be pouting and complaining about stuff. I make a decent living. I’m very, very lucky. But that’s because we started before the chaos, in the days when people had to buy records. If you didn’t like a band, you didn’t buy their albums, and the people decided.” Read the full interview at Esquire.com. Read More: Gene Simmons: ‘Rock Is Finally Dead’ | http://loudwire.com/gene-simmons-roc...ckback=tsmclip |
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Of course, what he discreetly "forgets" to mention is that his fellow Tribesmen are the guilty party.
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Atlantic Records legend Ahmet Ertegun said (paraphrasing):
"You just don't find great bands like Led Zeppelin out there." Serious players have to dedicate themselves to years of hard work to master their instruments, sitting alone in bedrooms for countless hours of repetitive drudgery. On the other hand, a (c)rapper just has to grab a microphone and start mumblin' "fuck nigga ho benjamins chronic kill crackas"; a singer can either sing or they can't, hardly any need for work at all, except for the stupid, mandatory fag-choreographed dance moves. Who do you think greasy kike record company suits in search of the big, easy shekels would prefer working with?
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One of my favorite metal guitarists has written about his experience w/ record labels jewing him. He writes and composes all the songs himself and he's considered by a lot in metal as one of the top metal guitarists currently. He wants to start crowd funding to get his own studio (which his fans are more than willing to pay for) instead of having to rent out a studios for a massive amount of money, and be limited in recording time. The label won't let him unless they get a cut of the money.
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ALWAYS some bloodsucking shyster tick of a middleman getting in the way, demanding itz pound of flesh, ruining things for the REAL creators & their fans/customers. Like those filthy Warner Music Group kikes who get old clips of even the most obscure musicians removed from jootoob - not, of course, because they ever plan to release the footage on DVD, oh no: just because they "own the copyright", and goddammit, no one gets to see & hear "their" product without coughing up the shekels.....
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As Mr. Linder said, if you can't eat it, fuck it, or resell it, then it's worth no money to the vast majority of so-called humanity.
The "solution" to artists' problems is now supposed to be embracing giving your art away (as promoted by jews like Lewis Hyde in The Gift). The idea is that either you do this or civilization just won't continue, so you ought to be a giv-ah. In other words, provide civilization for free--don't touch the economic system. (Most people do give it away. There is less and less interest in intellectual property rights because there is less and less money in them, which explains why you can watch or download anything for free and practically no one cares.) The old solution was to spend as much time and effort building up educated audiences as making art. No audience means no art. So a lot of people's lives went into building institutions and schools and publications that taught the public that Shakespeare, for example, was someone to be respected, Beethoven should be respected, folk or whatever music should be heard, paintings are fascinating, this and that instrumentalist is great, etc. Cultural uplift almost always had rich sponsors, who considered it worthwhile to impress on the dumb-dumbs of the world that life might consist of more than whiskey and farmwork and they ought to shell out money to experience a bit of culture now and then. Where is the uplift today? Where is the market, the audience? Where are the rich sponsors? As someone here pointed out, the rich now make big money by pandering to the lowest common denominator (actually lowering that denominator)--so most of them will say fuck Shakespeare or Chet Atkins or whoever. The next Shakespeare or Atkins will have to give his work away for free, if anyone will take it.... The problem with money is that it's only as valuable as what it buys. What if there is nothing to buy? What if all that's left in the end--after the last urban yodeler has muhdikked his way into nigger heaven--is money? Piles of paper, that's all. Okay, farmwork and whiskey will remain, and maybe an old drunk with a banjo on his knee. Yes, back to 1849. Hey, you could still sing in church (bringing in the sheaves!) or in the wash bucket.
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Remember when he tried to sue John Fogerty for allegedly plagiarizing what was his own work to begin with? That was some serious kike chutzpah there. Last edited by Squarehead Chris; September 6th, 2014 at 04:12 PM. |
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John Fogerty Responds to Death of Creedence Label Owner Saul Zaentz With Stinging Video Read More: John Fogerty Responds to Death of Creedence Label Owner Saul Zaentz With Stingin
Saul Zaentz, the Fantasy Records label owner famous for suing Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty for self-plagiarism, has died at the age of 92. Fogertys public response to this news makes it clear he has still not forgiven his former nemesis, even in death.
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A classic jewsic industry kike. I'm pleased that Fogerty hasn't puled any conciliatory bullshit just because he's a Good Tapir at last. I bet Fogerty lets it fly at the zhids as a whole in private.
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