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- Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:05 pm
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
But what do you know about me? Do you know how many records I have bought in my life? Do you know how often I go to shows? What do you know? You don't know anything about me, you're only assuming. I've paid a lot of money for HM but that doesn't make me live it at all, what makes me live it is that ...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:07 pm
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
Avenger, here's how it is: When someone tells you you're being insulting, and all you have to offer 'well that's your problem', it is a matter of perspective. I ask then for other regulars to arbitrate: Is being repeatedly called a joke because you said you live specifically Heavy Metal, specificall...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:40 pm
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Scorpions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15662
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:48 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
Enough with the easy insults and enough with the easy humour. I am not a kid, I am older than you in fact. I make Heavy Metal, I don't just collect it. I don't know about 'trying too hard' but perhaps you could start by trying a little to take other people's beliefs and positions as something else t...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:26 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Scorpions
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15662
so here's the thing. I have heard all the ballads and the odd non-ballad (like the godly 'In Trance' or 'Rock You Like a Hurricane') and I always appreciated the musicianship (besides the singer, whose pronunciation I always have had a bit of trouble with) and the very careful composition. Even when...
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:25 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:10 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
I cannot understand your obsession to constantly intellectualise musical experiences - why are you seemingly opposed to purely emotional responses? I am not. At all. I have them just as you, I'm no robot. The intellectual concerns that come after the emotions do not invalidate them, at least for me...
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:44 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Why weren't Saxon bigger?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11260
I agree and I don't think they should have modernized at all actually. I mean, them not becoming huge was probably something they came to terms and decided to stick to the stadium thing because they liked playing live the most, I'd guess. Personally if I felt I wasn't pushing the envelope and myself...
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
exactly, but this is why I don't just trust 'riffs'. As it is often said, *any* guitarist will have 4-10 great riffs in them just by playing and practising and channelling whatever discreete forces of inspiration there are in this cosmos. But it takes real effort to craft a fully-composed song, and ...
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:33 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: new(er) bands rehashing & copying
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7482
same here. I see a direct line from Black Sabbath to say, Burzum or Skepticism and it really surprises me when other people don't. As you say, hierarchical structure. It's really really interesting that (I posit) when the sub-scenes themselves started to 'stray from the mothership' of Heavy Metal an...
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:02 pm
- Forum: Poisonoise
- Topic: XERXES (SWI) - Falling Leaves 1997 Prog
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1401
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:52 pm
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219
Ion Britton here's a theory I've been kicking around in my head: To some degree, we like Heavy Metal because it's difficult to do and do right. It takes effort, right? Sweat, determination. Isn't it the case that when you listen to a 'perfect riff' you might get images of someone sitting down with h...
- Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:33 am
- Forum: Into Battle
- Topic: Greeks and US metal, are they really so obsessed with it?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 23219