Let's Play. Let's Support. Let's Experience

Music. the best form of art, language, hobby that i have discovered in this world. I'm just so overwhelmed by how much music can express and conform to anything without words. it is indeed a language itself. Its the bridge that connects the life and the soul. It can be a stairway to heaven or even a highway to hell..

I'm writing this post with the accompaniment of pieces by Kevin Kern [thanks for the intro at Borders, Wheen]. This man is a virtuoso on the piano despite that he is partially blind, playing mostly new age music...yes, awesome stuffs, i can really feel the music engulfing the heart and i'll have goosebumps all over.the best feeling attained when listening to instrumentals.

Back. I'm 18 this year and don't think that i have listened enough. And lately I've been wondering if i play all the good music in this world back to back non-stop, will I finish enjoying them before i die...not likely, i came up with. so the best a person can do is to rip and get the best of the best before its too late. In fact, for me, I love music too much to just sit and listen...like many others, i have to get up and play, and create, and contribute to the scenes!!

To make it clear, I've gotta say I'm a fan of all types of good music, be it pop, rock, classical or metal. but I'm particularly interested in music with lots of guitars and drums...you know, band kind of music.there's really no need to segregate them into genres and all that, music is music as it is. all the genre words are just adjectives to classify them, not type or meaning. Two group of music i wanna discuss here are the Classical and the Metal...many compare them as the furthest possibilities that happened in music; classical is above in the heaven and metal is way below hell, they say.
But if you analyze carefully both have lots of similarities.
Both have great fans. after a few hundred years, people still listen to classical
Both love great musicians. people love composers and guitar virtuosos
Both got a lot of technicalities. the musicians are seriously well trained
Both kind of music are not created for commercial values.its the musicians expressing themselves

I give my utmost respect to musicians who had crossed both of this impossible genres into their works.mostly given new adjectives again - neo-classical, symphonic metal, etc. the one i see clearly is Yngwie Malmsteen - yeah, now he's the man. also to Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and a lot more guitarist names I'll never finish mentioning. and a particular band too, Stratovarius. you can see from its name formed from the rock guitar Stratocaster and classical violin Stradivarius, hence Stratovarius.they play classical influenced metal and a lot more bands do.

Most radio music nowadays are mostly seriously overrated. if you look at the chart toppers, mostly are hip hop and rap and related kind of music. I'm not a genre-ist okay, I still think Eminem is the best rapper in the world. back few years ago radios are filled with really awesome stuffs, but now mostly are conquered by sounds, not music. as if they are currently the best music in the world...wtf Top 40 and all that. they are not real...u can listen from the fake drum beats, they are created on mixers by producers, studio people.no effort taken by the musicians to express themselves...lots of them are just for publicity and commercials sake.exploited.cash cows.

And these assholes are blocking the real talents from getting an audience.the ones that really deserve the radio plays are in the unknown. and I think thats what sprouted the DIY/Indie scenes.Musicians are just tired of record labels controlling and exploiting music...they freakin control the length of songs, amount of vulgarity and expressions. shit them.

Besides, talking about music scenes, i felt that our local scenes lack support for each other. The people on top don't support the people below because they are afraid they will be more successful than them.and people below doesn't want to support people above because they think they are cocky and overrated.so that's how its flowing now, people on top are degrading because of lack of support and people below can't go to the top. - thats briefly quoted from Kelvyn Yeang which i very much agree.


Support all type of music.
Support the local music scene.
Let's make a change.





Sorry if i have contradicted with anything, I'm just spontaneously opinionated.