higgsblossom wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:43 pm
The question remains: if all the people I like don’t like their videos and make good music, what music is it the fans of those videos make? Who‘s attracted by Chappers?
I've asked this before but I've generally come to the conclusion that 'Demo dude noodle' is a genre, just like Ibanez guitar clinic shredz in a genre, though I'm too much of a delicate flower around geetar playing to have any rational opinion as observed by Jaguar018.
Jaguar018 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:15 am
Unlike distorted guitar-averse Shadowplay (I imagine him to be like a campy vampire hissing at sunlight when he hears them
) I DO like guitars playing chords and distortion just fine.
The fundamental thing is that i like music and was a music obsessive long before i had a guitar and I honestly don't get that feeling from guitar demo dude, I think they like guitar but are indifferent to music whereas I just love music, buying new records and finding new artists and I don't care what it's made with, from noseflute, to home keyboard, to dueting with an Owl, to slapping some meat...don't care, only that I like it and virtually from the egg I've found the traditional guitar hero, his trousers, his haircut and his more often than not his attitude to women anathema to everything i love about music (and value).
The thing about music is that it's not really skills based, skills can make it easier and give you confidence but music is all about ideas but I can't be the only person who has been stunned by the music of someone you could play way 'better' than. No one will fall in love to Demo Dude rawk, no one will soundtrack loss with it, no one will dance to it or even go out running to it and therefore it's less than nothing, You know when I first heard
Molly Nilsson I felt such deep shame that I had more skills and better gear than her rudimentary Casiotone but I couldn't lay a fucking glove on her and I get that feeling a lot from music. That's because music is witchcraft and essentially unknowable.
As for the humour mentioned upstream it's no laughing matter, it's roughly on a par with the sort of wit free dullard that posts memes. That fnarr fnarr down the student union at rag week bilge is roughly as appealing as a tape worm infestation. When I was at University I endured similar arseholes quoting The Big Lebowski, The Young Ones, Withnail or similar well trodden crutches of the witless but then I'd just get up and get the fuck away from them and their stupendously charmless verbal diarrhoea, these days I just avoid the Captain of nothingness and Chappers.
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