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- gelato822, on 05/14/2008, -2/+58eh
- SwiftKick34, on 05/14/2008, -2/+52What is stiff, eighteen inches long and makes a woman scream at night?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -6/+33That was one of the most offensive attempts at comedy I have ever witnessed.
- bokep, on 05/14/2008, -2/+27If this is what digg's front page has been reduced to, then I quit (for the night).
- Surferess, on 05/14/2008, -6/+30This was really funny until it got to the end part. Still, totally diggable.
- kinggimped, on 05/14/2008, -8/+36It's far too true to be funny, unfortunately. Especially the bit about 99% visual, 1% non-visual. Classically trained musicians who actually have talent have very little chance of success unless they look like a pretty boy or have a great set of *****.
The music industry is all about industry. And I'm not talking about the 'hard work' sense of the word. - Krillin, on 05/14/2008, -1/+22reversed audio at the end: "put your trunks on and swim the bay"
- dedakia, on 05/14/2008, -4/+18Pizza guitar totally rocked.
- repick3, on 05/14/2008, -1/+14Uhh... if you are a guitarist who can shred, it doesn't really matter what you look like >_>
Buckethead, Janick Gerst, Alex Lifeson, Kirk Hammett, Geddy Lee (yeah he's a bassist, big deal). - prgmctan, on 05/14/2008, -0/+11that was a bad idea
- razmig, on 05/14/2008, -0/+13All artists you've named Come from the 80's or earlier. A friend and I were talking about how many unattractive major label musicians there were back in the 80's (and before) and how we can't name many unattractive big-label-musicians these days. The industry is big on looks and its true unfortunately.
- Vich, on 05/14/2008, -3/+12Windows is better than macs for having fun, regardless of what the mac ads say. Seriously wtf? All games are released for windows, just because you think windows is stronger as a business platform (which it is based on statistics, but you probably don't want to say this in the ad) doesn't mean it's bad for multimedia and games.
I think that should do it. - digitronix, on 05/14/2008, -2/+12Has anybody tried playing that last sentence backwards? What is being said?
(I'm using a mac, and they don't have anything like sndrec32.exe, which I would normally use to figure this out for myself really easily.) - elambing, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8good music may be what you appreciate (and i know i do), but sadly a recognizable portion of the music industry is centered around youth and good looks : /
- iDiggIt42, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=4 ...
- underdog138, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7In the morning we'll find him strung up by his feet in a tree in that little forest across the street from his house without a head.
- bgfinkel, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7jessica simpson - girl w/o talent
- TheWorm, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7I'm outside your window as I type.
- jemka, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7"put your trunks on and swim the bay"
- notzak, on 05/14/2008, -1/+8People need to find new loops other than the first 100 that come with Garageband
- ninxmz, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5*****' A.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6LSD
- arrenlex, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5"Put your trunks on and swim the bay." I reversed it in audacity.
- dougdiggerton, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5weak sauce
- bgfinkel, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT I AM GLAD YOU ENJOYED.
- bgfinkel, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4your name is CASH?
- bgfinkel, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5there's some pretty hot girls in my orchestra....so.....
- happytedium, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7What's it say at the end? (cbf reversing it)
- nextyoyoma, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5That depends on how you define success. If it means being Jessica Simpson, then you're right. If it means having the respect of both your peers and music lovers, then you are absolutely wrong. For one example, Paul O'Dette is one of the best lutenists in the world, and he is (now) extremely overweight, and not at all good looking.
- ChristophyBrown, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Mm... I think that could've made it to a TBS commercial. Not sure after that though.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4The guy who made this is a complete musical and artistic failure.
- digitronix, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5Wow. How lame is that?
- opticwind, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Yeah, when you hit that, THEN you get to brag.
- underdog138, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3It's-yer-flippin-ipis-wan-yet
It's-yer-flippin-ipis-wan-yet - Brss45, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4No one every got the girl by playing Oboe...
:( - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Watch out if you get the pizza guitar. You can't play it until the strings coagulate.
- toekneebullard, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Agreed. The problem is not the music industry (well, it is a problem, but not this one) It's the outlook. Plenty of people make music and are happy without every owning a giant house and 19 cars.
- sykotik, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Perhaps he's Canadian, eh?
- blindmonkey, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3Lead singer of Fall Out Boy. Lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie. That's two right there.
- Karmavs, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3While yours is too short. You're missing an 'O'.
- Kenzan, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2I must have missed the funny and or interesting part.
- azzythedemon, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Bach wrote for money. Mozart wrote for money. Beethoven wrote for money.
Music is like all other professions; people with some skill trying to use it to survive.
Working for profit doesn't decrease the quality of your music.
I'm getting really sick of people trotting out the idea that we're the only generation of musicians to do things for money, and that that's somehow bad. - Atmandk, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4I thought this was dumb.
- jemka, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Ultra epic eva lame.
- FlagrantDrugUse, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Sounds like you tried. What song did you play? If it wasn't "The Final Countdown", I think I know what the problem was.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1nice
- MattSkiX13, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1i need to find that "sweet spot"... near those turny things... then i will be a star!
- kinggimped, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I'm speaking as a classically trained musician who will never make it because he has a face like a dog's arse.
But I'd rather that than have a brain like one, which would allow me to tell anonymous people with over the internet with opinions that don't utterly match their own to "go ***** themselves". - kinggimped, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Wow, you really have literally no idea of what you're talking about, do you?
J S Bach wrote music in order to survive. His (large) family were almost all composers and organists, he studied from a young age, and spent his entire life churning out cantatas, fugues, preludes, minuets etc. Immediately after his death his reputation bottomed out because his music was considered old-fashioned, as the baroque period came to an end and classical form came to the fore.
Mozart wrote music for the Emperor of Austria. He was a court composer. He was a SERVANT. He was buried in a mass grave, with thousands of other paupers. He never even made enough money to support his drinking habits, having to sell most of his possessions just to break even. Most composers in the classical period made most of their money from teaching young aristocrats, which he was unwilling to do (in order to dedicate more time to pure composition).
Beethoven (finally, you're straying towards being correct about something, if only straying) is generally considered to be the world's first 'professional' musician, as he was the first to write the majority of his music on commission. He never got particularly rich from it, and commissions started to fade away when his deafness was encroaching.
My point is that these composers were paid for their writing and performing, but only enough to survive. People like Jay-Z and 50 Cent can put together a song that features a 4-bar loop stolen from a 70s soul tune, and shout some swear words above it, occasionally referencing how many people he's shot today, how much jewellery he likes to wear when he leaves his multi-million dollar mansion, and how many girls he ***** that afternoon. This song will shoot straight to number 1, and he will be paid millions and millions for his paltry efforts. The (true) musicians that you refer to, however, spent their entire lives dedicated to music, and were only rewarded in legacy, not money.
I repeat my point: the music industry is not about music. It's all about the money. And this means that the quality of the music suffers. I am referring mainly to popular music here, but I would have thought that was implicit. Give something enough hype and the fickle public will buy into it. It's classic 'Emperor's new clothes' syndrome, where people don't want to rock the status quo at the risk of alienation.
This is not the only generation of musicians to do things for money. But it's the latest in an increasing trend of making music *solely* for money. If the music was good enough, they wouldn't require a music video featuring scantily-clad girls writhing suggestively on car bonnets while the 'musician' shouts out over the top. Which everybody seems to need now in order to sell their records.
I'm sorry, but I'm finding it very difficult to hear you above your ignorance. I recommend reading some books, though maybe you'd be better off just buying the DVD... - frostola, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1She was .... chopping broccoli! chopping broccoli! chopping broccoli!
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