Friday, November 12, 2004
I don't know what the je ne sais quoi is.
Müf went out for a drink last night, first band social engagement?
Anyway, whilst watching the bands at Colorz the following question came back into my head from where it has been worked on by the subconcious to no avail.
"Why do some bands sound good and some sound shit?"
I had been thinking that maybe it was a combination of tightness, quality of equipment and the quality of ability to get the sound that you want out of that equipment. I put the question to AK and Sam to get their thoughts. After sleeping on it I think that AK probably hit the nail on his response which was in essence; "They know what it should sound like".
It sounds simple when stated like that but it's not really. Knowing what sound you want to achieve and how to do it is hard enough but actually achieving that, or as close as you can get to it, is even harder. The basis though is to know what you want to sound like, be able to hear and feel what you do sound like and tell if those two things are different. Maybe that's it. I dunno!
Buying a really nice guitar probably helps loads as well.
Amazon, schmamazon
I'm extremely annoyed by Amazon at the moment. They sent me my Megadeth but two of the CD boxes didn't have CDs in. Wankers. So I wanted to complain and all the help documents on their website are empty so I've been sending complaints to random addresses at Amazon in the hope that one of them will get through to someone who isn't an automated response telling me that wheresmymegadethyoubastards@amazon.co.uk doesn't accept incoming e-mail. Ok, so I didn't send anything to that address.
Therapy?'s new albums works though which is very good. Their best for ages.
Yours,
Annoyed of Reading.
Anyway, whilst watching the bands at Colorz the following question came back into my head from where it has been worked on by the subconcious to no avail.
"Why do some bands sound good and some sound shit?"
I had been thinking that maybe it was a combination of tightness, quality of equipment and the quality of ability to get the sound that you want out of that equipment. I put the question to AK and Sam to get their thoughts. After sleeping on it I think that AK probably hit the nail on his response which was in essence; "They know what it should sound like".
It sounds simple when stated like that but it's not really. Knowing what sound you want to achieve and how to do it is hard enough but actually achieving that, or as close as you can get to it, is even harder. The basis though is to know what you want to sound like, be able to hear and feel what you do sound like and tell if those two things are different. Maybe that's it. I dunno!
Buying a really nice guitar probably helps loads as well.
Amazon, schmamazon
I'm extremely annoyed by Amazon at the moment. They sent me my Megadeth but two of the CD boxes didn't have CDs in. Wankers. So I wanted to complain and all the help documents on their website are empty so I've been sending complaints to random addresses at Amazon in the hope that one of them will get through to someone who isn't an automated response telling me that wheresmymegadethyoubastards@amazon.co.uk doesn't accept incoming e-mail. Ok, so I didn't send anything to that address.
Therapy?'s new albums works though which is very good. Their best for ages.
Yours,
Annoyed of Reading.
# posted by Mike @ 13:20 
