I think you are missing the point. So you've studied massively and have now attuned your ear to the point where it can hugely differentiate different and less obvious sounds and relationships. Well marvellous, but guess what, most of the buying and listening public haven't. So then you either employ your instrumental skill catering for the tiny, uneconomic market of those who appreciate, or you cater to the masses. If I understood your opening post correctly, what really gets up your nose is that there is no money in the music game for most. So what you want then, is mass appreciation to provide you with a comfortable lifestyle. And what's wrong with that? But you want it entirely on your terms. You don't want to produce shite music like Oasis, The Arctic Monkeys or probably any other popular band of the last 30 years. You want to produce technical, demanding music which stimulates you and capitalises on all you know and are capable of. Well fine, but wake up to the fact that there isn't much of a market for it, because people probably like listening to The Proclaimers. You're in a niche market mate, and there are probably plenty of other people like you vying for the same segment. If you don't want to give people what they want, you can't complain about it. I doubt that when Joyce wrote Ulysses he imagined it would be a global phenomenon which would allow him to buy a stately home. I read the Da Vinci Code purely in order to find out what there was in it that so appealed to the non-discerning public. It is dross, but it's a cleverly marketed product. Does Dan Brown think he writes literature? Probably not, but as he laughs on the way to the bank, does he care? Let's face it, most jobs are fairly shite, in whatever field. I was lucky enough to go to the top university in the world and then get an MBA, studying for it in a foreign language. And what have many of my jobs entailed? Writing and sending faxes, making boring phone calls, waiting for people to be available, printing out mailings and stuffing envelopes, filling in Excel sheets. When I think that I studied Sartre's oeuvre in a fortnight aged 21 and that paid work has amounted to this - it makes you want to weep. But I bet that this is the same for vast majority of people. Organisation, logistics and basic buying and selling - that's what most people do all day. There just aren't that many people doing quantum mechanic fundamental physics. And you know what? If they are, most of them are also teaching half the time and they hate that too. I would still say that you've been lucky to spend 20 years in a creative field, where your imagination actually allows you to create something out of thin air. Most people can't claim that. So it didn't buy much of a lifestyle. Meh. That's life. Should have gone into banking, then you could have done something entirely mindless and probably detrimental for society and been paid a fortune for it.
fuck it...if only you couldve told me that years ago. were drifting off the point here. my gripe is with the validity of various musical styles blah blah, its with the industry as a whole.
I know the words! Nought, three, five Nought, three, six-five Nought, three, five, three, nought. Nought, three, five Nought, three, six-five Nought, three, five, three, nought. Nought, nought, nought, nought Three, nought-nought-three-nought-three-nought-three-nought ... I forgot the rest. *insert pedant correction HERE*
LOLOLOL!!! Laurence, youre a fucking legend... This is exactly how it goes when youre teaching the kids...this is the sort of shit my mates and i send to each other..the other stuff is shit like, 'playing a bar code at the fifth threat'....theres lots of em.. Youve wandered straight into the guitar teachers den with that one...fkn pissed myself Loz!!!:biggrin: * pedant correction: stroke of true genius
It isn't quite right, I think.......I reckon there is a couple of noughts missing.....unless there is sustain on the single ones.... AL PS I have every version of SOTW.....but Made in Japan is the best one....
Yes, use sustain ... it's a marathon, not a sprint! As an expert on the old alt.music.pink-floyd newsgroup once famously said: Everything sounds better with ring modulation! Or at least, without it! No. No idea what he meant. Funky, we used to sing that old Smoke on the Water thing at parties. As if we needed a bigger reputation for being down-right strange.
Tell you what.......hows this for a theory?...........The best guitar players don't need to look at the frets.........(watch Bryan May)....... ......bass players don't have them......watch Jack Bruce. AL.
Ha! Which one is top of the pops now, eh? Go on, Google it! (I know this makes me extremely special).
I bet it is a poxy industry. It's always had a bad reputation. Similarly Hollywood is meant to be horrendous. In fact just about any industry where you try and sell your creativity is probably grim, unless you're in the tiny fraction of a % who get paid a fortune for their artistic endeavours. Most graphic designers are frustrated artists. They show their thing to the client who says, "you've done that orange - I think blue would be better." Actually, having been the client, designers often seem to confuse their artistic aspirations with their commercial obligations...
OK, Glidd. Three main indices: ARWU 2012 - Cambridge 5th THE 2012 - Cambridge 7th QS 2012 - Cambridge 2nd. So very nearly the top, as I said.
I am resigned to the fact that most of my career is behind me (no panto jokes, please!), so am looking forward to retirement and riding my bike more often. I'm not wishing my life away, merely taking a positive view of things.
Fuck knows what this means. I assume it explains why some categories of music are more technically accomplished than others. All I know is what I like to listen to, but not why. Any explanation in laymens terms would be appreciated!!!!
OK, Glidd. Three main indices: ARWU 2012 - Oxford 10th THE 2012 - Oxford 4th QS 2012 - Oxford 5th. Yeah, well, whatever. It was top last year in one of these indices. Mind you, all a bit irrelevant. I studied there 28 years ago (God, THAT long ago?). Maybe it was best then! :smile:
