***Disclaimer***This is no offense to the particular style of music or to the people who listen to said music. I happen to love some of the music that the people that will be aformentioned listen to but shit, I'm drunk and I'm making an observation.
What is the deal with everyone being pretentious ass-holes and thinking that oldies/classic rock/jam band music is the ONLY good music in college. I understand that people who listen to the music that I predominantly listen to are sometimes pretentious bastards about their tunes to. That is not the point of this wasted post. Wasted meaning I'm drunk while I'm writing this. Isn't my grammar awesome :). Anywho, the thing that really pisses me off is the people that think it's cool to listen to Janis Joplin and The Doors and Phish just because they came to school. I think all of that music, respectively rocks, but I just hate the people that think that that is the only good music. FUCK YOU! Open your ears. My roomate, specifically, listens to a lot of music that I would have never experienced if I didn't know him. It's of the above genre but he's not a dick about it. He shares music to me and I share my music to him and he's receptive of it. What he likes, he likes, what he doesn't, he doesn't. The same goes for me.
My problem is that people who listen to Hendrix and Zepplin think that they're somehow better than me because they "only" listen to the "classic".
GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!
No music, based on genre, in my mind, is better than any other and every song is based on it's own criteria in my brain. As it should in everyone's brain.
To keep with some sort of a theme, and becaue I'm drunk, here's an OPEN LETTER TO THE MUSIC LISTENERS EVERYWHERE!!! Stop believing that just because it's old, it's good. Or just because they can bust out 15 minute jam solos, it's good. Especially if you're a college student. I don't know much about music (meaning the mechanics and technical business and notes and etc etc) but I know that structure has something to do with writing a good song. Jamming lacks structure people. That's not saying that I don't love it in some aspects but that also doesn't meant that every band that jams is AMAZING. Avenged Sevenfold(who I don't really even like anymore) and Thrice have better guitar solos than any other band that comes to my drunken mind right now. And I'm not even bringing into play SLAYER, AS I LAY DYING, ATREYU, PANTERA, and numerous other metal bands that people play off as a "joke" but can rock more than most jam guitarists. It's come to mind, at least for me (and please people realize that I'm actually pretty well versed in the areas of music and enjoy just about a little of everything) that kids, once they come to college, think it's cool to listen to these throwback or older bands as a testament to their desire to smoke pot or to "feel trippy" or to take them to a time when things, arguably, were better, and that would be the 60's. What I have to say, whether you love it or not, is find your own nitch. Make music that's new and inspiring. Don't sit around and wait for another Hendrix or Morrison. Take the time to realize that just like time, music flows in a linear fashion. You need to grow and accomadate. If it was the 60's your 30 minute solo would be supremely enjoyed by all the "dead heads" and trippers at the show but it's not the 60's anymore. It's more than 30 years later. Take what you've learned and enjoyed from that music and make your own. And, stop listening to rap, especially Nelly or anyting commercial unless it's just for fun because, shit, goldigger is a fun song and, I'm mean, I'm not going to lie, "Holla Back Girl" by Gwen Stefani is a guilty pleasure of mine....
Okay, I'm drunk. There's a point above but it's not THAT strong. I should post wasted more often. I know I posted a disclaimer at the beginning of this rant but I'd just like to mention that this DEFINITELY doesn't apply to everyone or every current jam band. It just feels to me that at college, you're only cool if you listen to oldies and peopel who are so high they can jam for days. Highness is not an aspect I look at for music. This, in no way, means that I don't like a lot of jam bands. For instance, I listen to DMB, Phish, String Cheese Incident, Dispatch, O.A.R., FORMAN, Moe, Liquid Tension Experiment, Umphrey's Mcgee, The Dead, ULU and I could go on....
But get off your damn high horse and judge music on an individual basis. Rap isnt' that good either. Neither is emo. There needs to be a happy medium, in music, in politics, in everything.
I'm drunk, deal with it.
Speaking of deal with it, check out this link
http://www.thepostshow.com/2006/02/02
You might have to copy and paste that link because i'm void of all html skill at this point. I hope you're happy with my grammar excellence which, as far as I knwo, has been impeccable...
P.S. Goshen people! I'll be home on February 24th until March 6th. I can't wait to rock out with my peeps again. You know, the ones I haven't seen in over a month. The ones who come up every other weekend, I'm still stoaked. Sorry to anyone who wanted to come and visit me this weekend and couldn't. It's nothing personal. It's a lack of room. If I had known that it was just ONE night and "some people" were going to fall in love, other could have come but, in any case, I'm still sorry.
I love all yallz.
And, you may think this is lame but if you do I say fuck you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
Fuck off if you think it's lame.
I love anyone who loves me and also doesn't think what I just drunkedly wrote was lame.
Peace and Love on a ramble
-The Will-Miester
