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[BlackSwan]

Is your name Bmack? Shut up.

miscorrections speaks the truest truth.

[Jon Blazed]

miscorrections speaks the truest truth.

Yeah, but we all know that I am wanting to start trouble..

please dont. you dont know who you are messing with.

[PassiveTheory]

Nice edit.

[BlackSwan]

please dont. you dont know who you are messing with.

That's right edit your post.

Does your dad work for Honeywell too?

[AlecEiffel]

Where do you think popular music would have headed if the Beatles had never formed? Do you think they may have become famous individually or with other bands? Do you think things would be vastly different now or more or less the same?

[bmack86]

Where do you think popular music would have headed if the Beatles had never formed? Do you think they may have become famous individually or with other bands? Do you think things would be vastly different now or more or less the same?

I've wondered that. The Beatles were so important because the validated rock and pop music as something artistic in quite a few peoples eyes, and they were able to do that because they were so damn popular. I'm sure another band could have come along that would have validated rock music to the masses at some point, but the Beatles did it so well because they were so widely loved. Rock would probably still be around in some form, but I don't think it would still be as widely discussed, recorded and loved.

Paul McCartney would have become famous because it seems like that's what he's made for. George Harrison and Ringo would probably have joined small Merseybeat bands that did well locally, but never really took off. John Lennon I'd have no clue. He was a great songwriter with a decent voice, but I don't know if he would have fully developed without working with Paul. Same with Paul, except he would have just gone off and written cheesy pop songs and girls would have fallen in love with him because he's cute.

[AlecEiffel]

So you do feel like the Lennon/McCartney team was imperative and that separately could not have done what they did together?

[bmack86]

Definitely. At the start, according to all accounts, they were writing their songs together. That was a really important way for them to develop their songwriting skills and helped them develop their own unique styles. At least, that's what I'd say.

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

just finished reading most of this thread, really great stuff

too busy at work to actively participate, just reading while recording VO...but i want to nod approvingly

[RotationSlimWang]

i'd like to know how bryan thinks rock music would be looked at today if dinosaurs still roamed the earth. bmack, do you have any completely unfounded and preposterous speculation on how the space time continuum might have been affected had richie valenz buddy holly survived that plane crash?

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

I'm home. Ask away.

Damn, I'm 24 hours late and I forgot my question....

[kreutz2112]

why are the all fucktards spilling over from the Bonnaroo meet-up thread?
what's going on in there?

i'd like to know how bryan thinks rock music would be looked at today if dinosaurs still roamed the earth. bmack, do you have any completely unfounded and preposterous speculation on how the space time continuum might have been affected had richie valenz buddy holly survived that plane crash?

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[bballarl]

Bryan:

Cossacks are charging in. Charging through a field of white roses. What do you do?

[bmack86]

I put on a swanky suit.

[bmack86]

i'd like to know how bryan thinks rock music would be looked at today if dinosaurs still roamed the earth. bmack, do you have any completely unfounded and preposterous speculation on how the space time continuum might have been affected had richie valenz buddy holly survived that plane crash?

If Dinosaurs still roamed the earth, rock music wouldn't exist because we'd be prey rather than the ultimate predators. We wouldn't have time to bang our heads and mosh because we'd be running from the chilling pounding of footsteps just around the corner. (Or, it'd sound like that Led Zeppelin reunion. badumcha)

If Buddy Holly and Richie Valenz survived the crash, they would have both been extraordinarily prolific fathers, and would have birthed a whole generation of goofily suave kids that can't play music very well, but who nevertheless would have gotten recording contracts because of their famous fathers. As a result, bands with marginal draw to begin with (Bread, Air Supply, light rock) would have flourished on independent labels. The punk movement never happens because the underground is so filled with light rock, and a whole generation of people are raised to believe that yachting and pink collared shirts are amazing. And, Don McClean would have no career.

[canexplain]

And, Don McClean would have no career

so true, that made me chuckle

bmack very impressive ......



cr****

[bmack86]

Alright guys, album 3 is up on the blog. Circulatory System-Signal Morning. Go get it.

[wmgaretjax]

I put on a swanky suit.

A saint and a scholar.

[SoulDischarge]

Someone, let's say Randy for entertainment's sake, has just murdered everyone you love, and the only way that you can strike revenge is through musical torture. How would you go about it?

[gaypalmsprings]

arcade fire

[PassiveTheory]

Can it be like in A Clockwork Orange where that person just so happens to have a physiological repulsion to the music?

[bmack86]

Someone, let's say Randy for entertainment's sake, has just murdered everyone you love, and the only way that you can strike revenge is through musical torture. How would you go about it?

Randy's entirely too easy. All I have to do is play him a bunch of the music I love, and he'll say it sucks, and then I'll have Liars come and play live and he'll really start to say it sucks and then I'll have Les Savy Fav play and he'll get frustrated and then I'd have Angus from Liars and Tim from LSF join up and do a 10 hour acapella scream off while their band members play formless dissonant noise behind it. Repeat.

[schoolofruckus]

How would you seek vengeance if I was the real killer?

[Neutral Milk Hotel]

This is an awesome idea.

[buddy]

whats your favorite album to relax/comfort you? i.e. your linus blanket.

[bmack86]

I have two albums that I'll always put on when I want to relax. If it's sunny, or if the sun is going down, I use The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom. Listening to that brings me out to a country sort of headspace, and it's really calming. For night time, I'll invariably toss on Sonic Youth-Murray Street. It reminds me of a city at night, with the lights shining and the streets empty and everything calm.

[AlecEiffel]

What are your favorite albums to drive to?

[Aurgasm]

at night... gotta be the Lost Highway and Spawn soundtracks... they are so filthy and fun

[amyzzz]

Isn't that Bryan's question to answer? WTF is going on in here?

[Aurgasm]

Isn't that Bryan's question to answer? WTF is going on in here?

it is! haha i just had to throw my two cents in. sorry!!!

on another note, it seems even this thread isn't safe from mindless bickering