timellison
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You don't like Tom Scholz?
Guy Picciotto said:"I realize I hate the sound of guitars / A thousand grudging young millionaires"
Great quote, nomos. Dare I ask where that's from? Considering that Picciotto's contributions to rites of spring and fugazi (and later as a top-notch producer) helped to define the landscape of north american hardcore . . .Originally Posted by Guy Picciotto
"I realize I hate the sound of guitars / A thousand grudging young millionaires"
(couldn't resist)
Yeah, being in a guitar-bass-drums-vocals lineup just gives people too many cliches to fall back on if they can't be bothered doing anything different.the real problem is that people who play guitar tend 99.9% of the time to repeat, replay, and rewrite the same old godawful tedious cliches that ought to have been jettisoned already in the 70s. even when people think they are doing a neato, crude, post-punky guitar thing, they are usually regurgitating the same old garbage
Great quote, nomos. Dare I ask where that's from? Considering that Picciotto's contributions to rites of spring and fugazi (and later as a top-notch producer) helped to define the landscape of north american hardcore . . .
the real problem is that people who play guitar tend 99.9% of the time to repeat, replay, and rewrite the same old godawful tedious cliches that ought to have been jettisoned already in the 70s.
in an innovative, non-traditional, non-cliched way
It would be a utopia of snappy clothes and perfect programmed beats.
There is a lot of truth in this although hearing it crowed by triumphant NME journalists makes it quite unpalatable."the shortcomings of "dance music" (what is that precisely?) are directly responsible for the resurgence of rock."
I'm just guessing here but surely Swears isn't necessarily asking for a culture completely replacing guitarists with djs, he's asking that the default position becomes something other than forming a guitar band influenced by the Rolling Stones."Face it, throwing on a guitar is like strapping on an AK47, while DJing is like scrubbing dishes"
This is stupid. There are and have been plenty of great guitar bands. What people are doing with guitars and the rock format (on the whole, nothing really worth talking about) is the problem, not the instrument itself or the genre as a whole. No I do not want to see more Kasabians, Hard Fis, Razorlights, but I would be enormously happy if there were more bands like TV On The Radio. Swears, I think you're forgetting that we have had a period of dance music hegemony, not so terribly long ago, and for the most part, the music was bloody awful and the culture surrounding it even worse. In fact, the shortcomings of "dance music" (what is that precisely?) are directly responsible for the resurgence of rock.
This is a joke isn't it?"guitars represent something very sinister now."
I would just like to point out (again) that here in north america no such hegemony ever existed and I don't care how terrible it would end up being because dear god would it be nice to have a change of pace from guitar music. (uhhh yeah, i guess hip hop somewhat counters my argument, though I don't know whether you could say it has ever been completely dominant over rock)Swears, I think you're forgetting that we have had a period of dance music hegemony, not so terribly long ago, and for the most part, the music was bloody awful and the culture surrounding it even worse. In fact, the shortcomings of "dance music" (what is that precisely?) are directly responsible for the resurgence of rock.
Face it, throwing on a guitar is like strapping on an AK47