From: paranoid about my paranoia
Message:
john//peanut
> Did you go to T in the Park iain ? Any good ?
Watched the coverage on the telly and came to the conclusion that
traditional bands are shite. What more variation can be achieved with
the same 6 strings? If you like guitar music, buy some LP's by The Who,
Stones, Beatles and a handful of few others and that's it. You'll never
have to source any more music ever again as it really has all been done before.
I'm willing to accept that some folk may like it and whatever people
want to do in the privacy of their own homes, that's fine by me.
However the live "band" must be the most dullest spectacle ever. You
have 3 to 7 people on stage and what are you actually seeing? Some
knobends staring back at you. Everyone is too far back to appreciate
any skill or dexterity that may actually be taking place so your left
with lumps on stage and then what? Piss poor versions of songs that
were probably recorded in big fuck off studios capable of landing
planes, running the FSTE and mapping the entire solar system on the
side. Could be a shitey pub covers band for the sound that's coming out
- out of tune, knackered vocals, no soundcheck so the mix is all over
the place and musicians plainly unable to recreate their opus in a oner.
And then there is the crowd.
Music is essentially the soundtrack to our lives. So how do festival
goers respond to the songs that they left home, had an excellent holiday
or fell in love to? They jump up and down. The end of a relationship,
a scary move to a new city, or just at a point where they feel they
cannot cope with life any more? They jump up and down. Travelling,
eating, working, shagging? They jump up and fucking down. That is of
course if they don't choose to either just stand a wee bit from the
front and watch lifelessly or the real cerebral mind melt, peak of
visual and aural transcendence that must be - standing in the crowd
waving a fucking flag of the country of your birth.
It makes people happy and keeps folk of the streets so I'm willing live
and let live. But at the same time lets not pretend there's any value,
worth or interest in any of this these days.
