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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Rant #3: Right...whatever. So, many of you know...many of you don't, that outside my life here at Salsa, I play in a band called Complex Zero. We have been together for just outside 3 years and although we are not amazing by any means I think we have a good sound and a solid show. We are on the heavier end of things with quite a bit of double kick and some heavier deftones type slow grooves. So anyway...for whatever reason we decided to enter in this local band tournament, which we hate but sometimes you can get some good constructive feedback from the judges. We actually paid to be in this tourney. (yeah i know....) Well round one of this tournament took place last Friday. We played an average show, not our best, not our worst...the energy wasn't there as much as normal and all of us just felt a bit off. Hey it happens that way sometimes. but...we really we just interested in feedback anyway so it was not big deal. problem lies at the feedback that we recieved. To make this really long rant into a slightly shorter one here is some of my issues. Oh, and to clarify this was a "Hard" music Tournament. #1. The judges were by no means qualyfied to be giving feedback on any of the bands. They were all really young (in age and in the scene) and really have no where near the industry experience to be giving anyone advice on how to further their success as a band and what not. #2 as for the feed back. We had several comments that were just humorus in nature because they were so stupid. One of the judges said that we needed more tatoos to look like a rock band, and then a couple lines later said we looked to tough and intense on stage and instead needed to be more light hearted and goofy. What?? Is that a direct contradiction or is it just me. This is rock and roll right?? If we were a ska band then yeah..goofy works...but when was the last time you saw any "tough" rock band be goofy. I'll have to say that I certainly wouldn't be opposed to a bit more ink but i'm pretty sure that it would have absolutely no effect on our music or our show!! anyway... One of the judges said that we played too much double kick and that double kick was an 80's fad that is no longer relevent to todays culture. What!!??? yeah because System of Down never uses double kick lines at all. (#1 selling album release this year for almost 3 months in a row and last time I checked was still top ten.) Killswitch, Slipknot, Throwdown, Haste the Day, Demon Hunter.....etc.. etc..yeah...none of those best selling artists use any double kick. Stupid....not to mention the fact that all of the judges were like 5 in the 80's so what the heck would they know about it 80's rock anyway?? Right...whatever. oh man...there was soo much more but I'll spare you. So to be clear I honestly am not whining or even upset about our score cause we could really care less...its just the principle and absurdity of the whole thing. It just proves once again that Band contests are stupid. Book shows, play rock and roll, and have fun. End of story. If you all want to make me feel better and raise my ego a bit, check out our My Space account and listen to a tune. If you like it, sign up to be a friend and leave us a message telling us what you liked...shoot if you think it sucks...let us know that too. I'll let you all be the judges. okay..I think thats enough for now....back to bike stuff. Thanks and out. www.myspace.com/complexzeromusic or www.complexzero.com Ride and Smile (but in a tough way....) Bobby Salsa Crew Posted by Bobby : 10:00 AM 0 comments | permalink  |
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