Ever feel like the internet has led us astray? How many kids can you say really mean it when they talk about a band, a show or even wear a Tshirt these days?
I am tired of it all. This eternal fucking blow everyone so no one feels left out mentality has gotten some egos a bit too large, and everyone's feelings set on candyass. You couldn't happen to disagree or go out of your way by saying this band or that band sucks. You would have to think about the people behind the bands and think about the fact that it may or may not hurt your band, your zine, your shows, your rep. Fuck all that. I think being in Shattered Realm has protected me from having to be in that terrible circle jerk phenomena going on in the core right now. God bless being the scumbags because no one wants us to really like their band and no one needs us to talk up their band. I am tired of reading about how a band is backed, how this guys a good dude or how much they can't wait for so and so to come through? Its all in effort to help whatever you're doing out.. I used to have this shitty job as a porter at a bowling alley. Real proper, I even got to unclog toilets and watch as my manager/head mechanic would fish out tampons from the women's bathrooms on occasion. There he professed to me the meaning of life and the one thing that holds true is -" Consider the Source". Whenever I read that someone is making a post about another band or something I see who the poster is that is heralding his fellow man's efforts. 9 times out of 10 its a friend or a guy who has a financial interest in the popularity of the band rising. I guess it don't hurt to talk good about your friends but to lie to strangers time and time again out of sake of being popular or god heaven's NOT BE POPULAR!@!$! I don't know how these people get through their lives with such decisions. ha ha.
I book This Is Hardcore Fest and I do shows. I think I still haven't booked a band that I really didn't like. There were 2 or 3 bands the first year that I didn't have back the second and it was more out of them not impressing me or doing well that made the decision an easy one. It also helped that I can't duplicate 2006's lineup every year all over again so no one's feelings are hurt. I write all of this thinking about how many bands are out there now. How many people have risen to scene celebrity in just two year's time. How are some of these guys going to deal with the fact their band really isn't that good? Alot of these bands have potential in that as a whole the scene is doing well with good bands that aren't all exactly alike. But the numbers that are stacking up are showing me that there is an army of clones not unlike the Star Wars Prequels and its going to get ugly. How many Integrity/Ringworm clones can you name these days? How many bands with Pink tshirts were out on tour last year? The ripoffs and the gimmicks are going wild for now, but when we get down to brass tacks its going to go down to substance. Who is really saying anything? Who is making an impact.. Who is not up there on stage wasting up space and stealing 25 minutes of people's lives to walk through the motions? How many dudes truly believe in what they do, what they say, what they wear, who they support and how their actions effect everyone?
This world is so fragile, often like a house of cards. It don't take much for the whole thing to crumble down. The end of Floorpunch,Ten Yard Fight and In My Eyes gave way to the dark times of the rise to metalcore and the hype of A.N. Hardcore rose to defeat the evil Victory records to give birth to all that we would eventually hold in our hands now. The battle for popularity will begin. I've watched these bands grow and they all seem to play nice now but the pickings will start to slim and we will see who is really friend or foe.
Its pathetic to hear a guy give a blowjob to 25 dudes in 15 minutes on stage just so people get into his band. He could spend his time rationally coming from his heart, but truthfully we're watching a bunch of kids live their dream at any cost and sadly that entails accepting an amount of bullshit hollow plastic words with a band that will just go through the motions to say they lived the dream as they walk away from our world once their 15 minutes is up.
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You know Joe this is why we are friends. We have, and have had mostly the same veiws on things like this throughout the years.
We are from the day of wearing your friends bands t shirt on stage just so people notice it. So you can rep for them. Or shouting out a friends band because they are good, and niggas need to listen to them. Gone are those days. Most of our peers play shows and just shout out whoevers dick is in their mouth for the moment. They would rather have people watch their band to because they shouted out job for a cowboy....or some other lame shit
I agree with a lot of what you have to say here. The friends i met through this band that i know I can trust i met really early on...before people gave a shit. It sucks to have to question why someone is being nice to you or talking to you...but you have to because 99% of people have an angle and an agenda.
Outside of friends and loved ones...At the end of the day all you have is the work you've done for something that you love. All the talking and posturing is bullshit and the people that spend their time doing it will have to face reality...even if it is way down the line after the gravy train they hopped a ride on skids off the tracks.
amen and amen. I long to see bands that are just passionate about what they do and trying to play as best as they can while also having something to say. I am tired of the image being more important then the message, even if the message is only to have fun or live free.
Here's a great behind the scenes story. It hit on exactly what your saying. My band plays with the distance. The following day on a messageboard they're talking about the show. my bassist on his review of the show is giving his opinion about all the bands. He says "the distance, not my thing".
A year or so later our cd in on the desk at stillborn. Jamey and Ezac dig it. Jay gets wind of what's going on and says "this band talks shit, no way do we sign them".
The sad part of the scene is that instead of rallying around the underdog, kids look to labels to tell them who is good. So, bands pussy up to not offend, for the sake of popularity and scene cred.
doesn't sound like hardcore to me.
Joe, keep telling it like it is!
Kids only get on their knees and blow bands (figuratively speaking kinda) only so long as all their freinds are blowing them too... And usually 2-3 years after the band comes out... Kids jump on band wagons far too late now. Case in point: First Blood... Where the fuck was everyone in 2003? Terror... Where was everyone for Buried Alive? Not to mention the other 3 GREAT bands Scott was in prior... Where were you? Not here... And next week you will be jocking someone else. Just make sure to let everyone know about them on Bridge 9 haha! Joe, you're a genius and 60% of the hardcore population sucks! Give it 2 more years... They always fade away...
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