i went to see eric clapton last night.
this was the first time i actually went to a show and sat down to listen to it, and i found myself getting completely swept away in the sound.
it was so beautiful to get lost in a song again, i haven't let myself do that in so long. it's a really freeing experience.
too many people listen to music because it makes you cool, or they try to outdiscover some obscure new band before someone else just to say they get to it first. but really, how much of that crap that's so cool has the musical relevance that someone like clapton has? how many of them can play something that rocks even a 10th as hard as tales of brave ulysses? pretty much all those bands that we hail as the greats.
zeppelin, hendrix, sabbath, the beetles, cream, the who, all those guys. what they wrote mattered, what they wrote still sounds fresh and just as powerful as it was 35 years ago. all these bullshit little indie rock fucks you're so into now, they're not having any impact on music, they're just over flooding a scene churning out crap that pavement wrote back in 91. i don't see how people think they can connect with crap like that.
what happened to rock? it use to be about freedom, not about being cool. it used to be lighting a joint in your room, lighting some candles and insence, putting on the headphones and letting yourself drift away without a care for the world around you. music used to be pure, it used to be a drug, and now it's a fucking candybar being sold for 60 cents at the checkout counter of a local convenience store. everyone who struck out against the man let reality hit them and became the man, and those that didn't conform are ridiculed.
is our revolution over?
tofu "
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this was the first time i actually went to a show and sat down to listen to it, and i found myself getting completely swept away in the sound.
it was so beautiful to get lost in a song again, i haven't let myself do that in so long. it's a really freeing experience.
too many people listen to music because it makes you cool, or they try to outdiscover some obscure new band before someone else just to say they get to it first. but really, how much of that crap that's so cool has the musical relevance that someone like clapton has? how many of them can play something that rocks even a 10th as hard as tales of brave ulysses? pretty much all those bands that we hail as the greats.
zeppelin, hendrix, sabbath, the beetles, cream, the who, all those guys. what they wrote mattered, what they wrote still sounds fresh and just as powerful as it was 35 years ago. all these bullshit little indie rock fucks you're so into now, they're not having any impact on music, they're just over flooding a scene churning out crap that pavement wrote back in 91. i don't see how people think they can connect with crap like that.
what happened to rock? it use to be about freedom, not about being cool. it used to be lighting a joint in your room, lighting some candles and insence, putting on the headphones and letting yourself drift away without a care for the world around you. music used to be pure, it used to be a drug, and now it's a fucking candybar being sold for 60 cents at the checkout counter of a local convenience store. everyone who struck out against the man let reality hit them and became the man, and those that didn't conform are ridiculed.
is our revolution over?
tofu "
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write back to discuss. i know your on to something.