Feelin' Frustrated... I need to jam out !!!

[TESTAMENTLegions YouTube Group]

UggghhhHHHhhh !!! ....

Whether it is the results I just read about from Guitarworld magazine, and how absolutely INSANELY STUPID !!! they are, the ridiculousness of the Grammy awards last night and how completely MORONIC they are, just so much stupidity, the "Rock And Roll (sarcastic cough cough) Hall Of Fame" inductees, or Warner Music group removing more than a third of our TESTAMENT videos on YouTube this last two or three months...

I am frustrated.I shouldn't give a rat's ass I know.I know... let it go...

I know I shouldn't be, screw the Grammy's, when did they ever matter to metalheads like us ? , and we all know the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame is and has been a total joke, and magazine surveys are a dime a dozen, I know, I know,I know...

It is just that I wish people would realize Alex has more talent in his belly button lint than most of those so called artists who win awards, Eric has more talent in his ear wax than some of those so called musicians in the Grammys.

Judas Priest isn't in the Hall Of Fame ? But Prince and Madonna are ? Ummmm... anyone see something wrong with that ?

And WMG has millions upon millions upon millions of dollars, and they have to remove TESTAMENT videos every week from YouTube. Damn, last year we had every song on there, and multiple live performances from across the Globe.Now so much is gone.

Oh well I guess, time to go jam out...
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=testamentfan&view=groups

 

[Sole Reaper]

That sucks about the videos. Personally I don't care about the Rock n Roll hall of fame or the Grammys or any of that crap. But when labels squash fans that are only helping them, it's no wonder that people download stuff and not care. I'm not one of those people (although I confess I use to be). I look forward to the days that labels are no more and bands make more money off of their music. Fuck those greedy corporate bastards.

 

[redfly]

You are not alone it makes my blood boil too.They don't get it and they never will.If Mozart were alive today he would be ignored because he wasn't shaking his ass and his music didn't repeat itself over and over......the grammys were last night? That's how much I care.These people don't care about musician ship or real integrity.They just want to play dress up, jump up and down and say werd and yo a hundred times.

 

[Sole Reaper]

Motherfucker. WMG is taking down everything. I tried to watch a newer Megadeth vid and WMG had their label on the vid. Dammit, I forgot Warner owns Roadrunner too. This shit is unbelievable.

 

[redfly]

I'm so sick of record company bullshit.These metal bands should all get together and start their own shit,and buy back their music from these fuckers that aren't doing anything with it anyway.I mean how much could they want for it.They didn't even believe in the band enough to not try and make them change,or give them support.They are doing nothing with the music or videos,so why are they pulling it from Youtube?
Speaking of record company bullshit,I saw that they are re-releasing Machine Heads " the blackening" and for what the cover of the Iron Maiden song? and what maybe one more track? What happened to EP'S ? now these fuckin company's want us to re buy an entire album that just came out late 07 and they wonder why people download shit.Fucking Greed...also not real smart business in a recession.

 

[ddhase]

Yea Man i totally know what you mean, everyones is so fucked up with their music these days

 

[redfly]

We should only care about the Metal Hammer awards anyway.

 

[ms. anthrope]

f*ck!!! a good chunk of my thrash metal playlist has been deleted... LAME!!!

 

[redfly]

WHAT THE FUCK!!! THIS IS BULLSHIT!!

 

[Srontgorrth]

Its not just music videos either, YouTube and big companies are cracking down on practically everything, its ridiculous.

 

[Sole Reaper]

I'm telling you, it won't be long before bands wise up and just do things themselves. For established bands like Testament it won't hurt, for new and young bands it'll be harder for them.

 

[redfly]

So they don't want to do anything with the music,but they don't want anyone else to either?! That should be against the law especially if the music is 20 years old.They should have to use it or give it up.

 

[Guitar Goddess]

Regarding the deleted videos......if you don't already have "Real Player" on your computer go to www.real.com and download the free software...then when you watch a video on (for example) YouTube move your curser over to the upper right hand corner of the video and a box comes up and asks if you want to "download the video" click on it and it will download it to your computer and then if the video gets deleted you still have a copy on your computer to watch.....

I'm sure some of you already know this but if you don't try it out and you won't lose your favorite videos when they get deleted. You can also create playlists etc. within the Real Player program.....

 

[arg]

yeah i have realplayer, it's great... i can even save streaming pr0n!

 

[redfly]

Nice I'm going to go get it.I saw last night that some Gregg Howe stuff got removed.

 

[ms. anthrope]

what's the point of youtube, then? they removed the old testa-videos that nuclear blast uploaded. AAAUGH. really a pain. i was so anal and meticulous putting my playlists together...

 

[redfly]

Wait....they took down videos that Nuclear Blast put up?! That is fucked. I hope Nuclear makes Atlantic an offer.Some money is better than none and Atlantic sure as hell isn't doing anything with it.They are just mad because they backed grunge and it lasted all of 2 or 3 years and couldn't fill a concert....but really what is their problem they are doing nothing with it they won't even remaster the old albums.So what do they care?

 

[Defiance]

It's all quite weird. If Testament were showing really violent stuff on their videos I'd kind of understand, but they don't. And well we can still see "The Sacrilegious Scorn" by Dimmu.

So what the bloody heck is going on?

 

[redfly]

Yeah it's definitely not because of violent content.There is way more violent things on the Tube....they should call UselessTube

 

[Guitar Goddess]

All the original Testament videos are still up on MTV's website (yes, I'm shocked by this, I didn't think MTV had anything to do with music videos anymore )...here is the link:

http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/testament/videos.jhtml