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I write and perform my own music. I play almost anything under the roots of rock.

soundcloud.com/minority-of-one/sets/ever...

If you like my music give me a ‘like’ on facebook!

www.facebook.com/pages/Minority-of-One/1...

So does anyone else on the Saints Row community make music?

Shadow-Knight]*Sigh*

This is why I'm sometimes ashamed of my generation.

Real bands who got their success got it by going out every single day and performing, even if it was for free. Anything just to get their name out. Traveling from city to city just hand out flyers for shows. Selling drugs on the street just to afford new instruments, doing anything they can to make a living and to support their dreams. After working for it and sweating every day for even years, eventually they started working their way up the music hill. Doing everything they can to make it and it took blood sweat and tears to get where some of the best bands out there today are. They earned it.

Today's generation? "Like me on Facebook".

Smh.

Get over yourself Shadow. That post was fucking ludicrous. You're ashamed of your generation because they have an easier way to spread their music? Give me a fucking break. Having a SoundCloud and Facebook doesn't imply a lack of effort.

I talk to members of Born of Osiris with regularity, and they're headlining deathcore shows because they're good. They played a few shitty venues (literally), but they were discovered on MySpace because they had a large internet fan base. Using tools to make something easier isn't a problem. If that was the case, you should be pissed at people for using spoons instead of their hands to eat soup. The fact that you have a penchant for small bands to wade through a lake of strife is irrational.

Furthermore, I'm tired of the double standard that seems to have become the norm here. Is it wrong for this guy to advertise his band? I'm pretty sure that he didn't ask for any of your shit by making this thread. Why do new members often get treated like criminals if their first thread isn't something that regulars like entirely? And why is it that a regular can post a thoughtless thread without any backlash? Ayngel posts a dramatically dumbed-down version of this and this, yet you people swarm it like flies to a pile of shit.

Jesus wrote:

FatalEmbrace]I dig it for the most part, but I think that the first twenty seconds were a bit deceiving. I thought the whole song was going to be quick and upbeat, but you oversimplified it in my opinion. The transition from the chorus to the second verse was pretty cool, but I'm a sucker for any band that does it that way. The bass riffs were nice, and you don't hear bassists playing independently from rhythm guitarists too often these days. Overall I think it was a radio friendly alternative song, and I'd bump it in the car if I heard it on the air.

As for my own music - I have a guitar that I quit playing. I've been in two bands. One was a pop-punk band, and the other was hardcore punk wrote:

I dig it for the most part, but I think that the first twenty seconds were a bit deceiving. I thought the whole song was going to be quick and upbeat, but you oversimplified it in my opinion. The transition from the chorus to the second verse was pretty cool, but I'm a sucker for any band that does it that way. The bass riffs were nice, and you don't hear bassists playing independently from rhythm guitarists too often these days. Overall I think it was a radio friendly alternative song, and I'd bump it in the car if I heard it on the air.

As for my own music - I have a guitar that I quit playing. I've been in two bands. One was a pop-punk band, and the other was hardcore punk.

Shadow-Knight]*Sigh*

This is why I'm sometimes ashamed of my generation.

Real bands who got their success got it by going out every single day and performing, even if it was for free. Anything just to get their name out. Traveling from city to city just hand out flyers for shows. Selling drugs on the street just to afford new instruments, doing anything they can to make a living and to support their dreams. After working for it and sweating every day for even years, eventually they started working their way up the music hill. Doing everything they can to make it and it took blood sweat and tears to get where some of the best bands out there today are. They earned it.

Today's generation? "Like me on Facebook".

Smh.

Get over yourself Shadow. That post was fucking ludicrous. You're ashamed of your generation because they have an easier way to spread their music? Give me a fucking break. Having a SoundCloud and Facebook doesn't imply a lack of effort.

I talk to members of Born of Osiris with regularity, and they're headlining deathcore shows because they're good. They played a few shitty venues (literally), but they were discovered on MySpace because they had a large internet fan base. Using tools to make something easier isn't a problem. If that was the case, you should be pissed at people for using spoons instead of their hands to eat soup. The fact that you have a penchant for small bands to wade through a lake of strife is irrational.

Furthermore, I'm tired of the double standard that seems to have become the norm here. Is it wrong for this guy to advertise his band? I'm pretty sure that he didn't ask for any of your shit by making this thread. Why do new members often get treated like criminals if their first thread isn't something that regulars like entirely? And why is it that a regular can post a thoughtless thread without any backlash? Ayngel posts a dramatically dumbed-down version of this and this, yet you people swarm it like flies to a pile of shit.

Jesus Christ.

My point was that people nowadays barely work on what they have. It USED to be working for your shit, nowadays it's just "click some buttons on a website so I can become popular".

Personal opinions on them notwithstanding, let's take ICP for example (yes I know you fucking hate them).

They never got any radio play.
They never got picked up by anyone.
They were never supported by any mainstream artists nor did they beg for anything.
They worked up their now huge business by themselves.
They signed several other struggling artists and helped them make it big.

Whether you like them or not, I think you can respect what they've accomplished.

As for this thread, it's because I see this shit way too much. Everywhere. People begging to "like" on Facebook, people spamming shit on YouTube videos, people making threads like this.

Look, it's not that I hate the music (It's alright but a little flat), it's just the way people do this that pisses me off. Hell, I know guys in bands that don't even upload their stuff on YouTube or forums or whatever. They'd rather discuss whats at hand.

But I guess with this modern age where everything is digital, I suppose the only way some people have of getting their work out is through the place where everyone is nowadays, the internet. Hell one of my favorite rappers, Hopsin, got a lot more fans and attention through YouTube and such.

I guess Bob Dylan said it best, the times they are a ch wrote: