An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

To each his own, but I think Live Dead is fantastic and certainly psychedelic. Though to be honest I actually prefer their country stuff, American Beauty is a flawless album, great record. Just country songs, and none of the jamming that they're known for.

My advice for those wanting to check out The Dead would be to ignore any albums they've done after Pigpen died.
 
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37 : Touring Musicians​

Imagine how depressing it must be to be a touring musician. There you are playing to thousanRAB of people in massive arenas & stadiums for , say Morrissey for example. and not one person in that crowd has any idea of who the hell you are. Worse still if you're his guitarist everybody in that arena is looking at you wishing you were Johnny Marr as you try your best to make all the Smiths songs in the set sound as convincing as possible.

But it gets worse than that. Imagine it's the tail end of the 70s and your Bowie's guitarist you've just finished a successful tour and Bowie is about to record a new album , you get all excited at the thought of playing on a Bowie record only to discover that you've been dropped like a bad habit because David got in his mate Robert Fripp to do all the guitars on the album instead of you. But hey never mind , at least you get to play all Fripp's stuff on the next tour. You could go out and record an album of your own during the meantime but you know full well that those millions of people you played to on that last tour don't give a flying fuck about your own material and won't buy it.

Touring musicians , don't get me wrong I don't hate them but you have to admit it is a rather pathetic existence and is probably the worst case of selling your soul. I recently was channel surfing the other day and saw Cliff Richard playing his new single. The bassist looked about 20 years old and didn't stop smiling the whole time , and I just thought to myself 'Fuck , imagine how much stick he's going to get from his mates for that' , especially if they're all in trendy indie banRAB'. I mean if you love music enough to want to learn an instrument why the hell would you want to be in Cliff Richard's band at that young age?
I just don't get it. I'd rather be broke playing my own stuff at that age than play songs for a God botherer whose nearly in his 70s
 
Everyone made a big deal about how Mitt Romney was religious, and failed to realize that he had the best economic background. Well, everyones fucked no matter how they vote now!
 
Yeah, I wasnt "a part of the 80s":laughing:. Actually, I like more than "Rock me amadeus?" by Falco, and I do like Dexy's Midnight Runners, just not that song. I "wasn't part of the 80s" is a laughing joke, and you obviously have no ****ing clue as to what you're speaking about. Not everyone "looks back on the internet to check out banRAB". I was actually handed some Falco around 1984, and didn't even care about "RMA", as i was more of a "Jenny" and "Vienna Calling" fan. Good try though.

You know **** about me. I was born in 1970, I grew up & really started becoming a huge music fan in 1979/80. It was actually before that, when I first listened to KISS Alive. I then became(and still am) a huge Journey fan, and then, I started to really enjoy: new wave/synthpop, after a friend of mine (Jason Zalecki) handed me the Cure's:" Boys dont cry", and Depeche Mode's "Speak and spell", from that point on, I became a huge fan of theirs and others, and couldnt get enough of the genres/decade.

So, for you to talk out of your ass(which you clearly are doing now), on something you know nothing about" which is obvious), makes your opinion, or anything else you have to say, afaic, worthless. For the last 30+ years, I have been huge fan of 80s music, all genre's, and proud to say I still am a fan of it.

Now....**** off!!!
 
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