Quote Originally Posted by Euphoric
whats up with all the old ass music!?
I agree with your assessment. But, what else is there for the masses to talk about. Once you go obscure, which means NOT MTV, you have to provide the source. After I hear a song 5 times I dont want to hear it anymore. So I keep getting new stuff. I have some 5000 cds in boxes, most autographed, and rarely do I pull one out to listen again. I put Rats of Unusual Size in there, and they are a 90's band, most famous as they were the house band for a big Canadian comedy TV show, but they had early hits, like Coffee Man that were classic.

When I was working at the Bull and Gate in Kentishtown there were 6 new bands every night. I got a lot of gems from there. Keane was one, I was there in 1998 for their first performance. Or didn't you know they are old ass music too for me?

But the thing is the old bands laid the foundation, and while old folks dont like to change into new forms of music, without the old foundation nothing would be there to build. I have Reason, Fruity Loops and all the tools and crank all kinds of stuff. Sometimes total electric, sometimes I plug in instruments and play with them, and mix with ProTools.

"Those who do not keep up with the times are left behind the times." Art Rollins

I dont like the hard metal really, even though Rancid and the like are hoodies for me, but, I just cant get that angry being such a wasted stoner. So I go more for Racheal Sage for babe music and Zane Campbell for insaneorock and Ween brother for weird (I do mean early Wean when they made recording by hand pulling the tape through the machines) I have some great hand pressed records from them, early demos they sent to the radio station I worked at. WFMU, check them out, wfmu.org for the wildest radio online.

I work with Reason, Fruity Loops and all the tools and mix them up with ProTools. You cant ignore the present and live the past, but ignoring the past is as bad as ignoring the present. I plug in my guitar and work with that too. Part of living is to respect and learn from history and the past while working with every tool available bringing new horizons to the present. Living in the past may be pleasant for some, safe feelings, but ignoring the changes of the present will only lead to stagnation and that does not go anywhere fun. So; watch the past, play in the present and create the future.