Now following this misunderstanding about Dream Theater's new record,
I actually think we touched a point here :
we started to talk about Dream Theater's new record which is basically and obviously way different from what the band has done in the past. As we all seen, some people like it and some people don't.
This is leading me to a subject that may be interesting to discuss about (and I'll try to make it understandable for everybody, if it's not sorry, then I start to lose my english, sic) :
according to you, should a band evolve or should it keep on using the recipe which made him become succesful ? Bands like AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Malmsteen, Motorhead or Slayer to name a few never really quit their trademark style. And they have their followers and hard core fans through thick and thin and looking this way which is still working after 10,15,20 or 30 years they don't try to add some new elements to their music so they keep on going the same again and again.
So this brings me here :As a musician should I care about the fans' satisfaction or should I care about my own satisfaction (and then being selfish in a way). One of the best exemples is (once again, sorry) Dream Theater's 6 Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. When this cd was released, Mike Portnoy said : We arrived where we wanted to be musicwise. So this means his personal satisfaction was more important than the fans' one, and looking this way, this kind of thinking might explain then why the record has been bashed by some fans when it was released.
Some bands like Metallica, or Queensryche chose the path to go another way from the style they kinda created hence they took another musical direction and they said :" if we change, it's because we feel we have to. "
Consequence : here again some of their fans bashed them because some were expecting "Black Album #2 or "Operation : Mindcrime #2 : The Return Of The Vengeance or I-Don't-Know-Why"
and this leads me to another point :
As a music listener, am I looking for something new or am I looking for the Images and Words' 783rd clone or Mindcrime 132nd copy and most of all can I accept the fact the band has to evolve knowing I could bash it with other fans ?
Some bands took the risk of chosing another musical direction and they succeded in it : Queen, Rush, Marillion, Genesis, Enchant *
so what do you think ? Enchant guys I really think your opinion might be very very interesting so can you please react to this ?
I actually think we touched a point here :
we started to talk about Dream Theater's new record which is basically and obviously way different from what the band has done in the past. As we all seen, some people like it and some people don't.
This is leading me to a subject that may be interesting to discuss about (and I'll try to make it understandable for everybody, if it's not sorry, then I start to lose my english, sic) :
according to you, should a band evolve or should it keep on using the recipe which made him become succesful ? Bands like AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Malmsteen, Motorhead or Slayer to name a few never really quit their trademark style. And they have their followers and hard core fans through thick and thin and looking this way which is still working after 10,15,20 or 30 years they don't try to add some new elements to their music so they keep on going the same again and again.
So this brings me here :As a musician should I care about the fans' satisfaction or should I care about my own satisfaction (and then being selfish in a way). One of the best exemples is (once again, sorry) Dream Theater's 6 Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. When this cd was released, Mike Portnoy said : We arrived where we wanted to be musicwise. So this means his personal satisfaction was more important than the fans' one, and looking this way, this kind of thinking might explain then why the record has been bashed by some fans when it was released.
Some bands like Metallica, or Queensryche chose the path to go another way from the style they kinda created hence they took another musical direction and they said :" if we change, it's because we feel we have to. "
Consequence : here again some of their fans bashed them because some were expecting "Black Album #2 or "Operation : Mindcrime #2 : The Return Of The Vengeance or I-Don't-Know-Why"
and this leads me to another point :
As a music listener, am I looking for something new or am I looking for the Images and Words' 783rd clone or Mindcrime 132nd copy and most of all can I accept the fact the band has to evolve knowing I could bash it with other fans ?
Some bands took the risk of chosing another musical direction and they succeded in it : Queen, Rush, Marillion, Genesis, Enchant *
so what do you think ? Enchant guys I really think your opinion might be very very interesting so can you please react to this ?