Lead Singer Disease
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Count_fuzzball Count_fuzzball https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=182471
- KVRian
- 765 posts since 9 Jun, 2008 from Ireland
Did Varg really burn down that church?
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- KVRian
- 804 posts since 16 Nov, 2004 from Kangzhou
Well, my experiences were with two now defunct labels; Scepter-Wand and Roulette. I seriously doubt most of the others are any different. I also found that if you start to rebel after the contract is signed and insist on producing quality music, you become just a tax writeoff and promotion virtually grinds to a halt. But if you want to be a whore, the world is your oyster, except for the months with an "r" in them.Chuck E. Jesus wrote:go on...taijiguy wrote:If you're willing to sell out...
i'm listening...taijiguy wrote:
and let them control every aspect of your life...
super! where do i sign up?taijiguy wrote:
they will make you a star by injecting massive quantities of money into promotion...
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- KVRAF
- 8389 posts since 11 Apr, 2003 from back on the hillside again - but now with a garden!
Summer's alright to party then!taijiguy wrote:But if you want to be a whore, the world is your oyster, except for the months with an "r" in them
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- KVRAF
- 2975 posts since 18 Sep, 2006 from Rosehill Cemetery
Or how about when the "Aske" EP came with a lighter.robojam wrote:Probably easier to make a list of the churches he didn't burn down...Count_fuzzball wrote:Did Varg really burn down that church?
"a confession without need of absolution, without need of redemption"
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Chuck E. Jesus Chuck E. Jesus https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=108246
- R.I.P.
- 7301 posts since 23 May, 2006 from in between a cornfield and a river
well, it's sounds a lot esier out of context...taijiguy wrote:Well, my experiences were with two now defunct labels; Scepter-Wand and Roulette. I seriously doubt most of the others are any different. I also found that if you start to rebel after the contract is signed and insist on producing quality music, you become just a tax writeoff and promotion virtually grinds to a halt. But if you want to be a whore, the world is your oyster, except for the months with an "r" in them.Chuck E. Jesus wrote:go on...taijiguy wrote:If you're willing to sell out...
i'm listening...taijiguy wrote:
and let them control every aspect of your life...
super! where do i sign up?taijiguy wrote:
they will make you a star by injecting massive quantities of money into promotion...
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- KVRAF
- 21348 posts since 26 Jul, 2005 from Gone
Is that the one with the photo he took of a church he burned down?vespers75 wrote:Or how about when the "Aske" EP came with a lighter.robojam wrote:Probably easier to make a list of the churches he didn't burn down...Count_fuzzball wrote:Did Varg really burn down that church?
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Count_fuzzball Count_fuzzball https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=182471
- KVRian
- 765 posts since 9 Jun, 2008 from Ireland
Think it may have been..robojam wrote:Is that the one with the photo he took of a church he burned down?vespers75 wrote:Or how about when the "Aske" EP came with a lighter.robojam wrote:Probably easier to make a list of the churches he didn't burn down...Count_fuzzball wrote:Did Varg really burn down that church?
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Voidoid Surrealist Voidoid Surrealist https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=41079
- KVRAF
- 4048 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Places far less tedious than this blue trainwreck...
Ha, I forgot about that. Somewhere, I've got a Century Media sampler that has a match that rattles around in the spine of the crystal case.vespers75 wrote:Or how about when the "Aske" EP came with a lighter.robojam wrote:Probably easier to make a list of the churches he didn't burn down...Count_fuzzball wrote:Did Varg really burn down that church?
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- KVRAF
- 2975 posts since 18 Sep, 2006 from Rosehill Cemetery
Voidoid Surrealist wrote: Somewhere, I've got a Century Media sampler that has a match that rattles around in the spine of the crystal case.
"a confession without need of absolution, without need of redemption"
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Voidoid Surrealist Voidoid Surrealist https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=41079
- KVRAF
- 4048 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Places far less tedious than this blue trainwreck...
The funny part is I got it as part of a swag package for making a tax-free donation to a local radio station.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
lead singer true story.
A guy who will remain nameless, but a total David Lee Roth sort, was in the same band as me for about, 2.5 hours or something. The drummer whose house we tried to practice in, was the son of some sort of Neo Fascist Italians, with some big scary dogs. The place reeked of wet dog, and other dog by products. The drummer himself also reeked, a big fat slob of a teenage male character. From a military/rudiments drumming background to be sure, and he Had Some Chops. But, way into the creepazoid area.
After the I think one rehearsal at this horrible place, this singer took exception to the aroma of the drummer, after a couple or 2.5 hours of sweating out some Zeppelin and whatever covers, and said this:
What do you do all day, dude? I mean, I've been working all day construction, 8 hours and then come to this shit and rehearse in this hellhole, and I swear to god you smell worse than I do? Do you not ever bathe? (the bass player and I were really suppressing the chortles. I mean we thought we needed to hold this thing together for a minute and get some dance gigs, some damn thing, and this was the better drummer in town for sure). But this singer character has a BAD rep for pissing people off by being so 'direct'.
A couple months later, we find out that in the next attempt at being in a band, this singer had pissed off the sound guy, who tossed a hihat stand I think it was at him, which went directly into his heart killing him instantly. And we just were not shocked.
He liked me and the bass player for some reason though, a lot.
A guy who will remain nameless, but a total David Lee Roth sort, was in the same band as me for about, 2.5 hours or something. The drummer whose house we tried to practice in, was the son of some sort of Neo Fascist Italians, with some big scary dogs. The place reeked of wet dog, and other dog by products. The drummer himself also reeked, a big fat slob of a teenage male character. From a military/rudiments drumming background to be sure, and he Had Some Chops. But, way into the creepazoid area.
After the I think one rehearsal at this horrible place, this singer took exception to the aroma of the drummer, after a couple or 2.5 hours of sweating out some Zeppelin and whatever covers, and said this:
What do you do all day, dude? I mean, I've been working all day construction, 8 hours and then come to this shit and rehearse in this hellhole, and I swear to god you smell worse than I do? Do you not ever bathe? (the bass player and I were really suppressing the chortles. I mean we thought we needed to hold this thing together for a minute and get some dance gigs, some damn thing, and this was the better drummer in town for sure). But this singer character has a BAD rep for pissing people off by being so 'direct'.
A couple months later, we find out that in the next attempt at being in a band, this singer had pissed off the sound guy, who tossed a hihat stand I think it was at him, which went directly into his heart killing him instantly. And we just were not shocked.
He liked me and the bass player for some reason though, a lot.
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- KVRer
- 11 posts since 15 Jun, 2009
This is terrible...
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
Speak for yourself. Personally, there are precious few bands where I'd rather hear the singer than the musicians.blueman wrote:People (i.e. the audience) connect more with the human voice than with instruments.
Most of the time I find lyrics and singers more prone to destroy what's good about a song. When they don't, it's powerful, but most of the time vocals take a complex, abstract idea and transform it into the banal.
Take Donna Summers's disco music. I probably would really love the electronic music by Giorgio Moroder that it's set to, but she turns that music into little more than the soundtrack to a porn film. Love to love you baby.
It's really not the singer's I'm down on, it's what they sing.
Also, I think the article misses the mark by focusing on the singer as performer. The flamboyance they're dissing has nothing to do with the music, but rather with the fantasy projection of the audience. That flamboyant, exhibitionist, dynamic, boisterous, cocky, self-assured, rich, hip persona strutting around on stage is there not for the audience to listen to, but rather for them to project themselves into. It's all about the audience wishing they could be that cool, dynamic, in control, vital, rich, glamorous, sexually desireable...whatever. Music is simply the way that fantasy projection is being sold. It could just as well be an actor in a play or on TV or in a movie.
