Jankowske
Senior Member
In my case, being in a metal band and always playing shows with terrible, terrible hardcore bands. I'm in a good metal band that I can't think of any fitting trendy pre- or suffixes for, besides maybe "heavy". We have some more melodic songs, some faster songs, some heavier songs. One song has one beakdown. There's a solo in every song and some nice harmonies going on almost all the time. Blah blah blah...I like our music. I'd say in the last 3 years, 60% or more of the other bands we've played with have been some form of nu-grind-thug-smash-whiney-garbage-apple-core. If anyone's interested, I can easily give about 20 little examples of what I hope you never have to witness.
It's really awful having to experience some of this stuff, but it's also ineresting to play to a little crowd of 2HxCx4u fans and band members. Instead of moshing or two-stepping, they stare mouths agape at what is probably the most structured and melodic thing they've ever payed attention to (which isn't saying much). They usually end up headbanging a bit and giving us loud applause after each song and compliments after our set.
So (metal elitist that I am) I hate these bands and their music, and I pity their fans, but ironically they make up the majority of the people who have heard our music. And if these bands didn't exist, we would probably somehow have less shows to play. And besides their (otherwise?) awful tastes, they usually seem to genuinely enjoy our music. Also there's definitely billions of people out there to which my own band's music definitely would not appeal to, so what does it all matter, anyways?
I got to thinking that, with whatever music it is that you play, there's probably some other stuff you get lumped together with that you just can't stand. I would guess that metalheads would be the worst about this...maybe second to KISS cover bands. I really don't know. What do YOU get to put up with, either occasionally or on a regular basis?
It's really awful having to experience some of this stuff, but it's also ineresting to play to a little crowd of 2HxCx4u fans and band members. Instead of moshing or two-stepping, they stare mouths agape at what is probably the most structured and melodic thing they've ever payed attention to (which isn't saying much). They usually end up headbanging a bit and giving us loud applause after each song and compliments after our set.
So (metal elitist that I am) I hate these bands and their music, and I pity their fans, but ironically they make up the majority of the people who have heard our music. And if these bands didn't exist, we would probably somehow have less shows to play. And besides their (otherwise?) awful tastes, they usually seem to genuinely enjoy our music. Also there's definitely billions of people out there to which my own band's music definitely would not appeal to, so what does it all matter, anyways?
I got to thinking that, with whatever music it is that you play, there's probably some other stuff you get lumped together with that you just can't stand. I would guess that metalheads would be the worst about this...maybe second to KISS cover bands. I really don't know. What do YOU get to put up with, either occasionally or on a regular basis?