All for the money!

Ok let's talk about music.

Now I am not the type that goes to bars and clubs and really listens to local music, but being in my band I hear local when i'm playing, some are good some are crap. What I have noticed is that the crap bands that talk about beer, sex, and other nonsense seem to get the crowd riled up (usually when they are already drunk I am assuming). So what! They sounds horrible, do I need to just randomly scream "LETS GET DRUNK MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!" and all of a sudden the band will go big??

Thats the problem with the music industry, not only it is over run with pop music and rap (which to me is just a rant with a beat) but any original music out there is few and far between. Take a look at who is popular, when I have the radio on I honestly feel like i'm listening the same crap over and over and over again. There are only a few bands that sounds different, Shinedown is one of them and they are newer, 5 finger death punch had that one good song, umm...thats all I can think of.

What about good original music, bands that don't copy themselves from another band, yes I am talking about bands like Tribal Path, bands that are what they are and may sounds similar to other bands, you can't really compare them (and no we do not sounds like maroon 5).

The music industry is so involved in looking at this like a business, which it is, but they just want what is going to make them money and do not want to take the risk.
That shit just really bothers me, now unique bands have to work ten times as hard as some crap band that sings about sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

What the music scene needs is a jolt of freshness, a new attitude on what music should sound like none of that pop culture. I am not saying that all of that pop is bad, I like Perry and.... well thats all I can think of at this moment.

Point is we all could do ourselves some justice in rediscovering older bands. Earth, Wind, and Fire is a great band, Kool and the gang is another, and what about the Bee Gees, the Beatles, Primus, Black Sabbath, old school Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pat Benatar, Heart ( I love Baracuda), Mountain, some Pearl Jam, the stray cats (now known as the Brian setzer group), and give me some more Muse too.

I don't know, it is what it is I guess, I hope it changes.
Don't be a puppet by the media, if you like something then you like it, shit when I was a kid people were listening to the backstreet boys while me and my buddies were listening to Queen, FREDDY!. Just because its popular doesn't mean its good. Love what you love and don't be afraid.