What's the most ignorant thing anyone has ever said to you about music?

[Scar Symmetry]

The person that said that has obviously never listened to Steve Vai. I can see the point if comparing songs like 'The Riddle' and 'K'm Pee Du Wee' because they're both almost entirely in Lydian but when considering his full catalogue... just no.

 

[Ill]

"Metal isn't legitimate music"
"Metal is all just macho bullshit'
"Line 6 spider valve is fucking sick"
"d standard... thats fucking weird... thats voodoo tuning, man"
"A 7 string? What can you even play with that? Who uses 7 strings?"
"Play something indie"
"Yeah... I'm mostly a jazz bassist..." *Snob after attempting to jam with me and realizing hes too slow*

Person: "Wanna hear me play crazy train/stairway to heaven/eruption?"
Me "NO, GO AWAY"

I could go on and on...

 

[Joker962]

OH!

Asswipe : "Why do you play sevenstrings?"
Me : "Because I like the extra low string...?"
Asswipe : "Seven strings are cheating they're gay."

 

[Leuka]

"Why do you go to gig's when you just can listen to music at home?"

 

[Murmel]

My friend is one of these "If it isn't old school or has a guitar tuned lower than D standard it automatically sucks."


His most common argument is that they can't play with any feel what-so-ever and that they just come up with random stuff and don't know theory and that those who play metal doesn't like anything else.

First I showed him the solo in the calm bit of Triviums song Shogun. That solo has got some sweet feel to it.
After that I proved to him by showing him some random Alexi Laiho interview. That dude knows his theory, he's just drunk 90% of the time

And the last one, I showed him Alexi and Roope playing


He also hates on pop music. I'm gonna admit it, I was one of them metalheads who hated everything that wasn't metal until about a year ago. Now I listen to alot of stuff, but I'm still growing. I've started to listen to pop more (Japanese pop blows my effing mind.)

Blues rock like Jimi Hendrix is awesome. Though alot of the old bands I can't stand, but Jimi is just one of the greatest artists ever.
I do enjoy some classical music. Not been listening alot to it but sometimes I come over a piece that I really like. (I'm in love with Yiruma.)

Though regular blues, polka and many other genres I have a hard time to listen to. And rap/hiphop... I'm yet to find an ENTIRE song of that genre I find good. There are bits but meh...

My other friend who is also into music, he was the same until I introduced him to Children of Bodom. He really likes them and has expanded aswell. But he is in general, not as ignorant and can accept that he is wrong and that others really enjoy different stuff.
The only thing he can't stand in metal is when they growl and then have clean vocals, he just thinks it sounds gay

Oft: How the hell do you get youtube vids in the posts? >.>

 

[sol niger 333]

Me at age 13: I love that song becoming by Pantera. I love the castanets at the end

 

[anthonyferguson]

Me at age 13: I love that song becoming by Pantera. I love the castanets at the end

lmao

 

[El Caco]

Asswipe : "Seven strings are cheating they're gay."

7 string closet lust

Oft: How the hell do you get youtube vids in the posts? >.>

Just paste the url in your post and the board will add the youtube BB tags to it automatically. All I have done below is cut and paste the address of the vid from your post, I have added nothing to it, if you quote my post you will see the board has added the youtube BB code to it.

 

[JohnIce]

I've started to listen to pop more (Japanese pop blows my effing mind.)

Rep for you!

 

[Konfyouzd]

I have no idea. He probably has not listened to most of Vai's catalog. Like Tender Surrender and For the Love of God sound nothing a like.

Ppl who can't at least respect Vai as a musican, regardless of how they feel ab his style, = fail to me. There are plenty of artists that I don't particularly like but I still know it takes talent to do what they do. Hell, a lot of em do shit I even can't do (I don't really want to said things, but I feel like that comes across as an excuse to suck at somethings haha)

 

[Xiphos68]

The person that said that has obviously never listened to Steve Vai. I can see the point if comparing songs like 'The Riddle' and 'K'm Pee Du Wee' because they're both almost entirely in Lydian but when considering his full catalogue... just no.

Ppl who can't at least respect Vai as a musican, regardless of how they feel ab his style, = fail to me. There are plenty of artists that I don't particularly like but I still know it takes talent to do what they do. Hell, a lot of em do shit I even can't do (I don't really want to said things, but I feel like that comes across as an excuse to suck at somethings haha)

Sometimes people do that. But this guy comes from a musical background a big one in blues. Like his grandpa used to play for the Alman Brothers. From what I know he is a good musician. He plays a lot of stuff. I just think he is probably like "shred is no feeling kind of junk." He didn't say that. But that's what I think he probably thinks?

 

[Konfyouzd]

Sometimes people do that. But this guy comes from a musical background a big one in blues. Like his grandpa used to play for the Alman Brothers. From what I know he is a good musician. He plays a lot of stuff. I just think he is probably like "shred is no feeling kind of junk." He didn't say that. But that's what I think he probably thinks?

I know PLENTY of those... Basically everyone else I know that plays guitar is like that. Which begs the questions why they look so intimidated when I ask them to jam as opposed to just "teaching me real music". My technical proficiency--*I* think--is proof positive that I'm teachable...

 

[jjjsssxxx]

I worked with a guy that was convinced metal is the easiest style of music to play. He was into hip-hop and pop-punk.

Me at age 13: I love that song becoming by Pantera. I love the castanets at the end

 

[Xiphos68]

I know PLENTY of those... Basically everyone else I know that plays guitar is like that. Which begs the questions why they look so intimidated when I ask them to jam as opposed to just "teaching me real music". My technical proficiency--*I* think--is proof positive that I'm teachable...

lol.

 

[El Caco]

I know PLENTY of those... Basically everyone else I know that plays guitar is like that. Which begs the questions why they look so intimidated when I ask them to jam as opposed to just "teaching me real music". My technical proficiency--*I* think--is proof positive that I'm teachable...

I can't say that I have experienced that, the reason I don't Jam very often is because I can't (yeah I know I really suck) but every guitarist and musician I know would jam with me, everyone I have met has asked for a jam even though they know I play 7's. I think that if you were playing with a blues guitarist and all you did was wanked the whole time I could understand why he wouldn't want to play with you again but if you got into it with him and got a cool vibe happening I can't see why they wouldn't want to play with you no matter how many strings you have. If all you are doing is shredding or brutalz and all he does is blues or rock how is that fun for anyone?

I guess I just don't get it because I haven't seen it, I only know musicians who think jamming is cool and like to play with different people whenever possible. They are massive gear snobs though and would have no problem telling me everything but what they own sucks To be fair they wouldn't say that, they would simply say I only like ....... guitars.

 

[InCasinoOut]

I worked with a guy that was convinced metal is the easiest style of music to play. He was into hip-hop and pop-punk.

Haha, same thing happened to me once. Some pretentious, indie-elite girl at my high school said the same thing. I put on Diminished to Be by Necrophagist and asked her to transcribe it for me.

 

[Xiphos68]

Haha, same thing happened to me once. Some pretentious, indie-elite girl at my high school said the same thing. I put on Diminished to Be by Necrophagist and asked her to transcribe it for me.

Ok that's about the most awesome thing I've heard as comeback.

 

[CrushingAnvil]

Me and a friend played a rough version of Nile's 'Sacrifice Unto Sebek' for a practical music exam about 5 years ago, and the tolken indie/piano playing/leather jacket/charlie sheen glasses/skinny jean/chuck taylor wearing guy in our class lept across the room and switched the shitty Marshall VS I was using off and said "Man, that sounds like shit" and I was like "Sweet man, I'll just come and turn your shit off, and it wont be when you're pracising, I'll do it when you're actually performing. Deal?"

He's all "Yeah but that just sounds awful"

In reply I explain to him that I really didn't want to haul my amp to school for this and that, pointing at the wee marshall, I made note of how awful and possibly faulty the amp is and that if he doesn't like what I'm playing for the exam, tough fucking bikkies - worry about your own examination.

We scrapped the Nile idea and just jammed something and we got Excellence (highest mark).

I sat there the morning we got the marks with a look of unmistakable satisfaction on my face

 

[BrainArt]

Me and a friend played a rough version of Nile's 'Sacrifice Unto Sebek' for a practical music exam about 5 years ago, and the tolken indie/piano playing/leather jacket/charlie sheen glasses/skinny jean/chuck taylor wearing guy in our class lept across the room and switched the shitty Marshall VS I was using off and said "Man, that sounds like shit" and I was like "Sweet man, I'll just come and turn your shit off, and it wont be when you're pracising, I'll do it when you're actually performing. Deal?"

He's all "Yeah but that just sounds awful"

In reply I explain to him that I really didn't want to haul my amp to school for this and that, pointing at the wee marshall, I made note of how awful and possibly faulty the amp is and that if he doesn't like what I'm playing for the exam, tough fucking bikkies - worry about your own examination.

We scrapped the Nile idea and just jammed something and we got Excellence (highest mark).

I sat there the morning we got the marks with a look of unmistakable satisfaction on my face

That was pure ownage.

 

[CrushingAnvil]

That was pure ownage.