Thursday, June 30, 2011
Different...
Why do I feel like the only woman more interested in collecting funk & jazz records than in collecting innumerable amounts of shoes & bags?
Monday, June 27, 2011
All beats,no musicianship...
You know, real musicians get no respect in this society. But I'm not surprised. Too many people listen to music for the wrong reasons, they like a song just because of the beat or because everyone else likes it, so they don't understand how important MUSICIANSHIP is. I guess it takes more brainpower to actually LISTEN to a guitar or drum solo & most people can't handle that. Isn't that why Jazz isn't as popular as it should be? Why we now live in a world where people "make up beats"? It certainly doesn't sound like a drummers' playing on most popular music of the last 20 years. Not that anybody notices, the people who listen to that stuff have never even heard live drums & what they're supposed to sound like. And they don't care.
Its just something to play in the background right?
Wrong, music is supposed to be more than that!
Trust me, what Stevie Wonder plays on the drums on Too High is a lot more interesting than the so-called beats on the radio today. And James Brown's shows were so mind-blowing, not just because of his singing & dance moves, but because of his BANDS. Do you know what a band is, because on most music today, there's no band playing, especially in r&b, there's just a voice and a beat, no pianos, guitar, bass, drums or horns. They've DUMBED DOWN the music, cause they think you're dumb. If you're not dumb,you know that already. Take the difference for example, between Aretha Franklin's Respect & most r&b and most popular music since the mid 90s, during the intro, we get a guitar RIFF and if that's not enough,during the bridge, we also get a saxophone SOLO, now what do you get today "BEATS" but no riffs or solos. Not that most people know what a riff or solo is.
And another thing...
I love to listen to the ALBUM VERSION of Prince's I Wanna Be Your Lover, & get to my favorite part of the song-the part where he stops singing & just starts to jam-which is what real musicians love to do. Now I wonder how many people who listen to today's so-called music even know what jamming is, considering that most popular music of the last 2 decades doesn't have any jamming in it. And how many dummies would turn the song off at that point,cause they don't think there's any point in listening to that part?
This also reminds me of something an idiot at Spin magazine wrote a few years back-"But who needs musicianship? We want beats."
Simpletons like that are one of the reasons this mess happened.............
I NEED musicianship, stupid!
Maybe if some of those so-called music writers didn't willlingly join the brain dead masses in supporting the beats mentality,then the "beatmakers" wouldn't have taken over, & destroyed music, along with the souless corporate thugs who took over the record companies.
Its just something to play in the background right?
Wrong, music is supposed to be more than that!
Trust me, what Stevie Wonder plays on the drums on Too High is a lot more interesting than the so-called beats on the radio today. And James Brown's shows were so mind-blowing, not just because of his singing & dance moves, but because of his BANDS. Do you know what a band is, because on most music today, there's no band playing, especially in r&b, there's just a voice and a beat, no pianos, guitar, bass, drums or horns. They've DUMBED DOWN the music, cause they think you're dumb. If you're not dumb,you know that already. Take the difference for example, between Aretha Franklin's Respect & most r&b and most popular music since the mid 90s, during the intro, we get a guitar RIFF and if that's not enough,during the bridge, we also get a saxophone SOLO, now what do you get today "BEATS" but no riffs or solos. Not that most people know what a riff or solo is.
And another thing...
I love to listen to the ALBUM VERSION of Prince's I Wanna Be Your Lover, & get to my favorite part of the song-the part where he stops singing & just starts to jam-which is what real musicians love to do. Now I wonder how many people who listen to today's so-called music even know what jamming is, considering that most popular music of the last 2 decades doesn't have any jamming in it. And how many dummies would turn the song off at that point,cause they don't think there's any point in listening to that part?
This also reminds me of something an idiot at Spin magazine wrote a few years back-"But who needs musicianship? We want beats."
Simpletons like that are one of the reasons this mess happened.............
I NEED musicianship, stupid!
Maybe if some of those so-called music writers didn't willlingly join the brain dead masses in supporting the beats mentality,then the "beatmakers" wouldn't have taken over, & destroyed music, along with the souless corporate thugs who took over the record companies.
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