REGARDING THE STATE OF MUSIC TODAY...the chart toppers suck

My dad Bpops and I were having a discussion today about music...he mentioned Glee,American Idol, etc and how those entities were misguiding people...my response was "yeah, huge corporate entities are devouring music from one end as legitimate ARTISTS are building a levee on the other"(I'm paraphrasing here but you get the point). He responded by saying that he couldn't think of a time in his life that some people didn't bitch about popular music and how some small corner of the music world was better and underrated. He went on to admit that he is a fan of LADY GAGA, acknowledging that alot of her music is genius sometimes obscured by all the artifice and stage-witchery....

I do know that many people in the Augusta area dismissed THE BEATLES out of hand at first blush....technology considered, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is not that far removed from "Papparrazzi"...a catchy verse followed by a rock solid hook...it's POP music after all....and truth be told, LADY GAGA is a very skilled musician....

I have two responses to that idea....well, really three because LADY GAGA irritates me with all her bullshit costumes....so number 2-one difference between THE BEATLES in their moptop days and GAGA at any point in her career is THE BEATLES could put their hands to instruments as a UNIT and reproduce their recorded music in a live setting without much of a discernable loss in quality...by and large, LG's music is manufactured by computers(and her stupid outfits are fashioned by demons posing as people who enjoy having a laugh at their client's expense...but i'm quite sure they sell it with flurry of pixie dust,a limp wrist and a "you GO girl, that outfit is utterly FAB-O")...number 3 in my response to Bpops requires a new paragraph because I intend to ramble...

ahem....number 3-with regard to musical talent among the current crop of popular artists charting on Billboard today(less of a REAL measuring stick of musical success than it has EVER been), NONE of them has half the talent(with regard to singing,songwriting, or performance) that is contained within the membership of any number of unsigned bands in THIS town or any other in the U.S. LMFAO has become famous with the most cloying,inane and half-assed attempt at even ATTEMPTING to make something that resembles music...I'm amazed that those idiots can tie their own shoes. JUSTIN BEIBER sings Christmas songs to his "shawty"...and he's WHITE....if only I had a large explosive device I could plant in the midst of the MTV Europe Music Awards show, I'd die a happy drummer.

Now I do realize that the very same year that NIRVANA broke, NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK was a hot act....and I realize that one of the best selling artists this year ADELE is the real deal....what alarms me these days is the absence of rock and roll....the absence of GUITARS....what encourages me is the fact that the guitars have not gone silent, they are still blazing....along with real drums and drummers and vocalists that don't NEED autotune....they have found safe harbor in genres that don't bust the charts under current musical trending(the vast majority of people who proclaim themselves "music lovers" just want to fist pump and dry hump in the club....Gym,Tan,Laundry=giant orange douchebag...)...genres like Americana,Metal,Indie Rock,Punk, etc. have not forgotten the power of that gigantic open E chord....and rarely is the term "shawty" uttered there....

Stak

P.S. who else finds GAGA repulsive?...

WHAT IF THE WORLD WERE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN...chapter one

I have awakened yet again staring at the stars moving between the branches of leafless trees. Tracking them across the skies for hours before I dare move. I grow weary. For decades my banner men have stomped a steaming shit-filled mud hole out the sorry excuse for an army left of the Roman Empire...what is left of it. Of late, they relentlessly attack the Southern boundaries of Erin with half a horse between them. They are nothing if not redundant and stupid. Our Welsh brothers at bow have to this point put down every charge by half before they reach my infantry. I am forever in Sir Bowen's debt for that. My heavy Calvary has on five occasions finished the job with scarcely a scratch, mowing down the ragged leftovers as though they had offered themselves up to a man a blood sacrifice to my throne. Rumor has it that some of the more base of my legion have had their way with those toothless faces before dining on the flesh of their cheeks.

I have been decisively isolationist in my foreign policy. I could send over air messages to the gargoyles of every single keep in the strongholds of Erin and raise an army of a size to easily swarm all of Briton. The legions could span the channel by locking arms and climbing back over back. I could stroll into Spania and Italia as easily as I stroll through my garden on my best mornings. I have to this point chosen not to do so. Not hard to figure. All of Euros is beset by plague, and has been for twenty years. Their food rots in the ground before they can eat it. Erin has been blessed by good fortune. The strong winds off our shores have staved off plague thanks be to Gods. There has been no reason whatsoever up until now to use my legions for anything other than defense of the realm...

I should be relaxed. I should be raising Hades at the tourneys and bending my Queen over the colors(allowing my Man At Arms to step in in the middle...I am half the man I used to be). Yet my nights are restless...

I could crush all of Euros on a moment's notice...the whole of that sad continent is brought worm level...so sad as to be a joke. Yet with the coming of the Iroquois,Cherokee,Creek and Chickasaw upon the shores of Spania, I feel my hackles rising on behalf of an already besieged countryside. Not that the beloved green flags of my home would EVER be threatened by such orange savages. In fact, I appreciate their seamanship...I just think it'd fun to kill a score of orange dogs. I need a fresh trophy for my mantle. If only I could drag myself out of bed for the event.

The first chapter of a novel yet to be named...

I WISH I COULD SLEEP...

Were I to be in a band not named JESUP DOLLY....Band Of Horses would be the dream gig...

Stak

LET'S GIVE THIS A GO AGAIN....I return to the personal blog

I got this new band I'm very fond of...tunes steeped in the Southern story-telling tradition...chock full of outlaws,bad decisions and desperation....it's called JESUP DOLLY and I play drums....

Check the band out at Reverb Nation.....Click Here

I triple dawg dare ya....

Rock it like you actually ROCK IT!

Stak