Oh, I'd say I'm involved in music for a few reasons. Back when I was in my mid-teens I was a hollow kid to say the least. I held no direction in life and felt nothing about a lot of things. It should be noted that I didn't even listen to music at this time. When I did start listening to music, however, I felt a bit lifted. Granted I was still empty, but I didn't feel so lifeless. When I began playing music, my instrument of choice being bass, I found myself with some direction. Of course, my primary tastes were trendy, mainstream and nothing overly challenging. About a year after I started bass I acquired my first electric guitar. The complexity of the guitar intimidated me (I was still unaware of how hard bass can be mind you) so I didn't play too much. As time passed I began finding better musicians, better music, better musicianship, structure, variety, everything and it was that day that my entire tastes would shift 180. I broke away from mainstream music and became a death metal head. True metal. Of course I don't listen exclusively to death metal, that's just my favorite. In the process of this 180 shift, I also developed tastes for various types of rock, blues, progressive and even several types of music that typically don't even include a guitar and began considering myself a "guitarist" over "bassist". I've been playing for about 3 years now and I consider myself to be a competant player (not the best so don't mention my boasting). I've got a lot to learn yet, but now I know where I need to improve which is different from when I was just playing bass. After all of this for an experience, I've deduced that music gave me direction, it filled in a big blank. In a sense, it saved my life. I play now because I owe my life to my music. I feel as though it is my responsability to make the best music I can and to take things as far as they can go. That is why I am in music and that is what I plan on doing with music. I'm not gonna turn into Preacher Excretions on you all, but as far as my opinion goes, music (arguably art in its many forms) is the closest thing to the supernatural that we can comprehend. Regardless of what race, religion, gender, personality, etc. you are. Music is there. It's always been there and I doubt life would be worth it if it wasn't there. No matter what genre of music, it's there, and people are enjoying it. I'm really not opinionated about music, just what I music I prefer to listen to. I'd really rather see someone happily listening to rap than to see someone that doesn't listen to any kind of music. Tis a waste. My mom's last boyfriend didn't listen to music. Not a bit. Everything he heard he insulted. He was also an extreme jerk. I concluded that he needed music in his life. Just something he could listen to to free himself. To fill that gap that I once had. Music is one thing I have never taken for granted and hope that I never will.
Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyhearthow bout this...would cobain be nearly as respected or regarded so greatly if the music never got air time and minimal publicity?
How about this, if Cobain didn't die and continued to make music, would we still regard him as such a "legend"? Think about it, how long would grunge have lasted? If he kept making grunge then who's to say it wouldn't have been overdone and thus making him a has been?
The Gods Made Heavy Metal, And They Saw That It Was Good
They Said To Play It Louder Than Hell, We Promised That We Would
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Whatever you do, don't eat limes. A friend of mine ate a lime once and BAM!! Two years later. Herpes.
