Ima Rockster!

Yeah, I see the spelling mistakes in the title. It was made as a gesture of what I think is starting to happen. Music has really become more about what you sing and the image you want. You see these people popping up everywhere. Ten years ago you would have thought an African-American lady with green hair, big ass and ridiculous clothing would never be a thing but in modern music we have this thing called Nicki Minaj. She also has a white counter part; she has normal colour hair but has more ridiculous clothing. She is known as Lady Gaga.

Oddly enough I prefer Lady Gaga just because she is actually doing what bands from the sixties would have done if they we're making music today. It's quite a parallel I'm making I know but that's the thing of parallel lines, they'll never touch. They can go on forever close as can be but they will never touch. It might look like it if you look into the distance and see train tracks "becoming" one thing but they never do.

As a musician I want to make a living of making music or helping others make music. If it takes me 7 hours of time spent promoting/ practicing/ studying, I will be willing to do it but oh, if only I had an easy way out. A way to get my vocals on a track at perfect pitch everywhere without the practice and training I would be so well off, right? I disagree with that. A person should always take the hard way if it means gaining experience needed to fulfil future tasks. I make this sound like a game where you have to level up and becoming an amazing musician will unlock the special Guitar of the gods but that is exactly my point, you might not gain that Guitar of the gods but there is a certainty that you will level up but alas we age don't we? 

Voices strain and muscles grow weak with time but that is part of life, it's part of the living experience. You can always take the easy way out, see the great things in life much quicker but if you take the hard way you gain the knowledge needed to be able to understand the great things. Let's just say that every person has their own road to follow. They get to run around doing things they choose to do with free-will and if you want to become a person who's whole life is revolving around something you aren't then do it. I'll stick to my way of just doing what I want and putting effort into the things I want to be part of me or embody me.

Why is live music dying?

Who would have thought that a live music experience is so hard to come by in this day and age? Who is to blame? The lack of musicians or venues that turn down bands?

Personally I think it can't be the lack of bands, because there isn't a lack of bands. Maybe a lack of commitment but there is still a handful of bands that stick together. Those bands are the ones that get turned down by venues because the venues only want the bands that are "cool" and attract crowds. Those bands don't last long, they never have.

Live music is becoming rare because of money. Music has become all about money and image and not about music, that's a shame seeing as I make music for the music.

What people don't realise is music is more art than a way of communicating. A guitarist adds a certain type of colour and a bassist adds another. The band as whole writes a piece of art and that gets called a song. What music needs is "galleries" not venues.

Music has always been a form of expressing one self not copying what is on the radio or on the television and Internet. Music needs a rebirth. Where flash photography is allowed to promote originality not laziness.

I hope live music experiences happen more often otherwise it will die, venues will die and music as an art will die but seeing it as a rebirth I hope it's more of a christian rebirth than a reincarnation otherwise it will have to die before it can be reborn.