Music should come naturally. Not when someone says, "ok now we make song k and we have to make our voice sound totally different to our natural singing voice, to have a sound, we have to make our instruments sound like this, and we have to play this chord progression that all these guys play and we HAVE to have a solo otherwise it's not considered musical."

People are way too absorbed in nit picky bullshit and don't just fucking listen to the music. Music these days (and in previous days) has had to be so chocked up full of guitar lick that it seems to forget what the music was about in the first place.

It's like asshole guitarists HAVING to put solos in songs. "It's not music without a solo". It pisses me the fuck off. I'll be listening to an awesome melody and then captain-dipshit-rockstar-hog-the-limelight fuckhead jumps out with some overused annoying guitar whine dribble that I fast forward through because it's a stupid overused recipe for music. Not saying all solos are completely bad, I mean, a solo with an awesome bassline and drum beat accentuating each others force is a solid sound.

Too many musicians focus on making 1 layer technical, while the rest of the song seems to be boring and stale. Some guitar riff with a 4/4 drum beat in the background, a tonic note baseline and some annoying gargle yell over the top, that follows the same melody as either the bass or the guitars. What makes music really mind altering and soal shaking shit is layering. Not just shitting up 1 layer. I mean making about 6 or 7 layers all have varying melodies that not only accompany each other, but are different enough to focus on individually.

I guess thats why I love Tool, and hate Iron Maiden.

Tool, I get these technical melodic drums, with this varying and dissonant, yet harmonic vocal melody, accompanied by another, totally different rhythm guitar melody and then another, yet again different melodic layer of the lead guitar.

Iron Maiden, I hear 1 Guitarist, going off his fucking nut the entire song, a really high pitched squeel from the singer, and the other guitars copying each others melody, with the drums being about as simple as the little spelling game with the monkey playing the drums. Don't even get me started on the bassline. Totally unfunky, and pretty much just another rhythm guitar. The layers just aren't their own element. They all seem to be supporting and mimicking that shitty singer and the lead guitarist/s.

See, this is where I look like a total hypocrit. Truth is, This guy is playing his music to really connect and entertain the people around him. Big rockstar fuckhead bands just play out their solos and let all the little kiddies buy their T shirts and help fuel their Hummer limos.


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