lol I was literally *just* lamenting about how Mad With Power fest was always the same weekend as GenCon so I wouldn't be able to go, and this is the very next thing I see in my recommendations lmao. how did I miss this announcement
but I really do appreciate the passion that you have in your hatred of 'pay to play' gigs. I'm with you 100%. If bands would stop paying to play , it would go away as a practice. This system only keeps very talented but poor artists from getting good paying gigs. It would be like if you were looking for a painter to paint your house. and someone decided that they would agree to pay you to let them paint your house. wtf. I'm sure in the house painting world, if someone did that, the other local painters would beat his a__.
Why is 20 hours only "a drop in the bucket" of how much time it takes to make an album? You know as well as me that there have been albums completed start to finish in a couple days. Think Neil Young, Bob Dylan, The Beatles (maybe 4 days) . Maybe you're taking about lots of add-ons, plug ins, sonic digital fireworks, : but you really don't need that if you a talented artist. It's like making a good film. You don't need a bunch of 'explosions' and visual effects ; The greatest films don't rely on these 'attention grabbers'. But nowadays lots of audiences are so artistically muted that they need all the 'explosions' and 'effects', .
Now THIS is how you get fans excited about new music! KILLER video for a FANTASTIC new song! That instrumental breakdown in the later part of the song was just AWESOME!!! This entire song is just an OBNOXIOUS amount of FUN!!!
