Firstly Big ED,
that is truly admirable and the fact it passed congress even more so, the effort needed to get this moved was greater than any mountain I bet. I can remember being just a kid, maybe 5 or 6 hearing this played at an Anzac Memorial and as i did then and do now think it is THE most moving piece of music, hats off to you all and all the success it deserves - hope they have a rather sizable side window...
JW, Phil, Jonathan re Bands would have to say the last couple of bands and most of last year, I have seen have been Thrash, Punk (well modern day interpretation anyway) Death Metal along with a whole lot of Folk Rock bands. Except for the folk rock, the volume the drums are played with the modern way of making sure every piece of the kit is hit as hard as possible at least once every bar ensure all other instruments are turned up and a blancmange of sound, not Phil Spectors wall of sound just a wall. These people don't care about lyrics.... Think mostly these people would call themselves Indie and as a general rule they don't think the music is for the listener it is for them!
The venues are not paying for bands or a best token amounts of cuts of the door and bar %
So yesterday went to a Poetry reading (wrote and posted some the other night, first time in long time,,,) I didn't read as it was basically full and I had to leave half way through to see a very talented mate I had not seen for some time, well he played his last album with most the songs using the recording from the album, him just playing guitar and vox, bit disappointing for mine, but hey it is his choice.
Finished off at the old timey session, the pub was packed so had to sit of the outside of the group, could barely hear the violins, but as i was on the outer, the people who came up and were blown away by this MUSIC were congratulating me, they were duly told of course it wasn't me but when the session finishes have a chat with Craig the bloke who runs the session. Tis a beautiful thing,hearing music as its meant to be,
RE MUSO CENTRAL
One of the others at the mates session was a girl I had not seen for a few years and we were talking about jobs and music etc, she has been working for a record label here and when i told her of the songwriting initiative she mentioned there already was one. Turns out this for Techno types with multiple producers and programmers with a few writers to write over the top, pretty much the POP world I guess, is of worth to try and break into?
An article that was put up re bridges, I really only use them if the story is incomplete, but it does include some intresting trending going on.
Arty
that is truly admirable and the fact it passed congress even more so, the effort needed to get this moved was greater than any mountain I bet. I can remember being just a kid, maybe 5 or 6 hearing this played at an Anzac Memorial and as i did then and do now think it is THE most moving piece of music, hats off to you all and all the success it deserves - hope they have a rather sizable side window...
JW, Phil, Jonathan re Bands would have to say the last couple of bands and most of last year, I have seen have been Thrash, Punk (well modern day interpretation anyway) Death Metal along with a whole lot of Folk Rock bands. Except for the folk rock, the volume the drums are played with the modern way of making sure every piece of the kit is hit as hard as possible at least once every bar ensure all other instruments are turned up and a blancmange of sound, not Phil Spectors wall of sound just a wall. These people don't care about lyrics.... Think mostly these people would call themselves Indie and as a general rule they don't think the music is for the listener it is for them!
The venues are not paying for bands or a best token amounts of cuts of the door and bar %
So yesterday went to a Poetry reading (wrote and posted some the other night, first time in long time,,,) I didn't read as it was basically full and I had to leave half way through to see a very talented mate I had not seen for some time, well he played his last album with most the songs using the recording from the album, him just playing guitar and vox, bit disappointing for mine, but hey it is his choice.
Finished off at the old timey session, the pub was packed so had to sit of the outside of the group, could barely hear the violins, but as i was on the outer, the people who came up and were blown away by this MUSIC were congratulating me, they were duly told of course it wasn't me but when the session finishes have a chat with Craig the bloke who runs the session. Tis a beautiful thing,hearing music as its meant to be,
RE MUSO CENTRAL
One of the others at the mates session was a girl I had not seen for a few years and we were talking about jobs and music etc, she has been working for a record label here and when i told her of the songwriting initiative she mentioned there already was one. Turns out this for Techno types with multiple producers and programmers with a few writers to write over the top, pretty much the POP world I guess, is of worth to try and break into?
An article that was put up re bridges, I really only use them if the story is incomplete, but it does include some intresting trending going on.
Arty
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