- Mar 2, 2007
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1) Classic Rock-heads who complain about how technical music is nowadays.
I consistently hear classic rock fans talk about how "music has turned into a mechanical adorn to promote duels of techiniques and skills by some people who are not worried in learn what music is all about". Get with the freakin' program! Music is a form of entertainment, nothing more. If the music is entertaining people, it's doing it's fucking job! Not to mention, it gets fucking boring hearing the same simple songs like "Smoke on the Water" or "Paranoid" constantly.
2) Guys who constantly preach to me about how Serj Tankian or SOAD is the fucking best, blah blah blah, yet when I try to show them some Exodus or Black Sabbath or something, they say "That's fucking shitty."
Without Sabbath, those guys wouldn't have a genre to call home. So enough said.
3) People who dismiss bands that use harsh vocals saying "zomg deth metuhl taekes no talenstz lawls!!11"
Yeah, and everything you listen to is just talking over a repetitive synthesized beat. Now tell me whose music requires less talent?
1) Yeah Classic Rock-Heads can be horrible to have in a band. If they can't solo theres no use for them, because all they want to do is solo. Having been one before myself, I know. The ones that hate Punk are even more annoying. Without Punk Guns N' Roses and pretty much all of Hard Rock bands after 1980 wouldn't've existed. Also they think modern music is a lot less technical. Led Zeppelin stuff is so easy to play. After you can play fast enough to play Metal you can play anything Zeppelin. And even Zeppelin dries up if you listen to them too much.
2) Without Sabbath Metal wouldn't be dark.
3) Screaming takes a hell of a lot more talent than clear singing. Doing the right scream is hard enough but being able to scream so that it doesn't tear up your vocal cords is even harder. Raspy singing in my opinion is harder though, you have to make sure it doesn't hurt and all but you also have to put in different levels of rasp depending on what sounds you're making so it requires more control than screaming.