Meet John
ok, so this is a little delayed from when the event actually happened [the night of the skapocalypse show] but hopefully that doesn't distort what i am trying to say. anyway, we just finished playing a horrible set, to which everyone still tries and tell us we ripped up the night. well one person says he's seen better, but he's seen worse. i think i should stop playing with that guitar, even though i love it. anyway, mickey mutts also finished their set, had i known they kicked the crap out of someone at the end of the night i would have stayed, because they gave me a shirt to give mike for letting them use the drums. so, it just didn't make sense why they would blow up on someguy when they seemed to be cool guys. anyway, that wasn't my point either, i am just setting up a reference to what the night was.
so far, i didn't watch the table for more than 20 minutes so i figured i'd give everyone a little break and watch the merch while tammy and greg enjoyed the heatskores, even though i really wanted to see them and yell at ed (who is either pretending to be or really mad at me) to play 'haunted house'. so, i was just sitting there minding my business (literally) and an older man, said he was born in 1957 (::calculates in head, he was 37?::), comes up to me and introduces himself. i say hello, and he wonders if can take a seat beside me, i say sure, 'take a load off'. he proceeds to take the desired seat. he asks the general question like what kind of place is this and such, i guess he had never been here before. i asked him if he lived in newmarket and if he had just come from work, etc.
further discussion would begin as follows, me being braindead i would have nothing to say unless he leaned over and asked me a question. it was very loud when the heatskores started so there was much leaning. he would ask the usual question when the topic of me being a band comes up; what do you play? how long have you been playing? what are you guys called? and so on and so on and so forth. then he began to ask me about which bands i like and see if i was truly a good conversationalist about music. he tested me on bands i liked and if i liked the same bands he did. tonight was not a good night, as i wasn't in the mood to prove how i was a rabid fan of older music.
he would laugh and pass me off as someone who didn't know anything because i couldn't sing a tune of a song he was asking or repeat a lyric. now, it was hard for me to hear john because of the immense volume of the heatskores so it was even harder to concentrate on a melody from jefferson airplane. i can easily hum it now, i guess it was the game show effect, you know the answer when you watch someone else up there but the minute you get on the show, you can't answer a single question. anyway, the second test of the lyrics was a write off. anyone who knows me, knows i can't even remember my own lyrics let alone lyrics from a song, my brain just doesn't register them properly. anyway, as he proceeded to 'quiz' me the discussion shifted from the 'good old days' to the 'bad new days'. citing his first example, he began to bad mouth the music currently playing, saying it was 'devolution'...just as this was said an announcement from the stage came, proclaiming that the next song was dedicated to adam pariselli, to which the lyrics (from what i can remember), 'i f*cked your mother in the a** and she had you (repeat)'
so laughing, not at john, but at ed, i begin to refute his statement. the statement being that new music is purely based on money and not about the art and how punk music was devolutionistic. so, here's what i wanted to say: (punk music began as political/social protest for everything that was going in the 70s, and sought out to have the DIY attitude and not sell their musical souls to a pimpin' label but to make their living their way, playing what they wanted to play) and this is what came out (i don't see it as devolutionistic, i think they are trying to bring it back about the music even if you can argue the point that its less structured and such from music from before, it is trying to take money away from the aspect of music).
he didn't necessarily agree, he thought that all music was all about the money. i was now not trying to just go along with what he was saying and wanted to defend what i was doing. i said, like it or not, if you play in band and keep playing people will start liking you, you might become famous and rich, but if you can do it with playing the music you want and the lyrics you want to sing about i don't see anything wrong with become rich and famous for it. as long as you don't lose your integrity as a musician, you don't have to suffer to make great music.
REFLECTION: i don't care if i sell out, i might play music someone else writes for me. but i was speak my mind, even if my mind doesn't grant me the intelligence or clarity to make public what i have to say. even if music is devo., maybe music has evolved to a horrid state and we need to go back a couple of evolutions and try it from there...what's the word called...or right devolution. anyway, i welcome your picking apart of my statements throughout this story. peace.
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'disclaimer' [stolen from niko]
the views expressed in the above are those of one person. you probably a better, maybe even a master, debater than i am, but you know what...the game show effect is a hard thing to shake. so you can argue you with me if you want, but understand, i can say shut up and be done with it. i will most likely discuss the topic with you though.
so far, i didn't watch the table for more than 20 minutes so i figured i'd give everyone a little break and watch the merch while tammy and greg enjoyed the heatskores, even though i really wanted to see them and yell at ed (who is either pretending to be or really mad at me) to play 'haunted house'. so, i was just sitting there minding my business (literally) and an older man, said he was born in 1957 (::calculates in head, he was 37?::), comes up to me and introduces himself. i say hello, and he wonders if can take a seat beside me, i say sure, 'take a load off'. he proceeds to take the desired seat. he asks the general question like what kind of place is this and such, i guess he had never been here before. i asked him if he lived in newmarket and if he had just come from work, etc.
further discussion would begin as follows, me being braindead i would have nothing to say unless he leaned over and asked me a question. it was very loud when the heatskores started so there was much leaning. he would ask the usual question when the topic of me being a band comes up; what do you play? how long have you been playing? what are you guys called? and so on and so on and so forth. then he began to ask me about which bands i like and see if i was truly a good conversationalist about music. he tested me on bands i liked and if i liked the same bands he did. tonight was not a good night, as i wasn't in the mood to prove how i was a rabid fan of older music.
he would laugh and pass me off as someone who didn't know anything because i couldn't sing a tune of a song he was asking or repeat a lyric. now, it was hard for me to hear john because of the immense volume of the heatskores so it was even harder to concentrate on a melody from jefferson airplane. i can easily hum it now, i guess it was the game show effect, you know the answer when you watch someone else up there but the minute you get on the show, you can't answer a single question. anyway, the second test of the lyrics was a write off. anyone who knows me, knows i can't even remember my own lyrics let alone lyrics from a song, my brain just doesn't register them properly. anyway, as he proceeded to 'quiz' me the discussion shifted from the 'good old days' to the 'bad new days'. citing his first example, he began to bad mouth the music currently playing, saying it was 'devolution'...just as this was said an announcement from the stage came, proclaiming that the next song was dedicated to adam pariselli, to which the lyrics (from what i can remember), 'i f*cked your mother in the a** and she had you (repeat)'
so laughing, not at john, but at ed, i begin to refute his statement. the statement being that new music is purely based on money and not about the art and how punk music was devolutionistic. so, here's what i wanted to say: (punk music began as political/social protest for everything that was going in the 70s, and sought out to have the DIY attitude and not sell their musical souls to a pimpin' label but to make their living their way, playing what they wanted to play) and this is what came out (i don't see it as devolutionistic, i think they are trying to bring it back about the music even if you can argue the point that its less structured and such from music from before, it is trying to take money away from the aspect of music).
he didn't necessarily agree, he thought that all music was all about the money. i was now not trying to just go along with what he was saying and wanted to defend what i was doing. i said, like it or not, if you play in band and keep playing people will start liking you, you might become famous and rich, but if you can do it with playing the music you want and the lyrics you want to sing about i don't see anything wrong with become rich and famous for it. as long as you don't lose your integrity as a musician, you don't have to suffer to make great music.
REFLECTION: i don't care if i sell out, i might play music someone else writes for me. but i was speak my mind, even if my mind doesn't grant me the intelligence or clarity to make public what i have to say. even if music is devo., maybe music has evolved to a horrid state and we need to go back a couple of evolutions and try it from there...what's the word called...or right devolution. anyway, i welcome your picking apart of my statements throughout this story. peace.
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'disclaimer' [stolen from niko]
the views expressed in the above are those of one person. you probably a better, maybe even a master, debater than i am, but you know what...the game show effect is a hard thing to shake. so you can argue you with me if you want, but understand, i can say shut up and be done with it. i will most likely discuss the topic with you though.