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Crossover artists and Triple Threats = ugh
Bastardous Bassist:
Like I said, your only problem was the practicing 8 hours a day thing. You don't have to tell me that being a musician is hard work that doesn't pay as well as the skill and work required should pay.
a pack of wolves:
That's 8 hours in an incredibly hot little box in LA, and Ginn insisted they played as hard as they would on stage. Imagine playing a hardcore gig for 8 hours. Also, their touring ethic was brutal. They were rarely home and pretty much single-handedly invented DIY touring across the US. There's a reason Black Flag had serious problems holding on to members since hardly anyone could handle what Ginn demanded of them. Well, that and the fact that Rollins and Ginn sound like they were massive cocks during the Black Flag years.
Sure, they were never one of the lyrically great punk bands, but I actually think the lyrics on Damaged were fine. Crude, yes, and you wouldn't want to go comparing Police Story to Suspect Device or anything. I don't have a problem with crude or even teen angst though, what they're expressing in the lyrics might but simplistic but it's given depth and bite by the music and delivery. Plus, quite a few songs are deliberately funny. I can't imagine anyone writing Six Pack and TV Party without knowing they were pretty hilarious, and the video for the latter bears this out.
Drinking And Driving is just laughable though, and not deliberately so.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 08 Oct 2009, 06:54 ---That's still less than a "normal job" would require.
--- End quote ---
Hang on, since when is 8 hours a day not a normal job?
Bastardous Bassist:
...Music is not a normal job.
Bastardous Bassist:
I completely misunderstood the point Khar was making. My point was "up to," and after looking at the wikipedia article, they are not specific as to a number other than "several." I found a reference that said it could last six hours a day. Even if it lasted six hours and took place all seven days a week (the reference also said that it could take place either six or seven), that's just the time a "normal job" would take up. I doubt many of the musicians spent much time outside of rehearsal on individual practice, so it's really just like a normal job, at maximum. Anybody who can actually manage to make a living off of music without a label is not somebody I would consider lazy, but the rehearsal time is not indicative. Between rehearsals and individual practice (which is much more intense for the parts of my body used to play music), I wold probably put that much into my instrument when I was doing that for a living.
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