Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Guitar Riffs and Crowd Control

When the strumming begins you just sit quiet, in your mind you just think of an audience, an audience in front of you. The adrenalin kicks in you feel the hair on your forearm doing something silly(ladies i really don't know if hat holds good to you), then it happens. You realize your at work and the elation drops to "oh hmm wow, i only wished" .
Its the exact opposite at a live concert. The strumming begins and then BOOM the audience (you included) explode be it Zepplin with "whole lotta love" , Nirvana with "Teen spirit" , Deep Purple with "Highway Star" you just cant miss the fact that the audience are louder than the band...
It was called CROWD CONTROL ye something that's rare these days, a lost art in live shows especially with the new breed.

How many times have we all seen videos of the legends "Command Respect" from a packed audience and they did this without their mouths right? (i love vocalist but when you enthrall a crowd without uttering a word,that's fucking control, respect, the best bloody feeling) yes Paige and Hendrix(im a mortal i dont really have the right to speak about these guys) did it Bonham(foof),Keith Moon(mercurial very mercurial),Angus(wow i mean wow), Iommi,Gilmour(calmness personified) and Cobain(the erratic,eccentric crazy little C$%t) to name a few did(forgive me if i missed a few you know who i'm talking about).

The selected few that manage to do them "NOW" are Morello(calm peaceful yet a disturbing dirty political Strife to his riffs), Daron Malakian( he he)... I'mean come on we dont need a Dickinson, Eddie Vedder kinda persona to handle the crowd I just love these vocalist but isnt it about "MUSIC" first.

Well if your waiting for me to point out the culprits well nope i aint doin it. From what I've written here its obvious, and the topic of discussion is concerts(read carefully:Rock and not pesky pop retards or the fat ugly hip hop blokes) these days are more about trash talk rather than music itself. All I'm saying is let the guys with the instruments do the talking. An audience headbangs to a riff or a beat not when the vocalist asks them to right.. they body slam when the tempo builds not with the vocalist asking them to.

Bands these days are so obsessed with telling the crowd what to that the crowds natural inhibition to adapt to its environment is so fu#$%ng lost. Well again i wanna assert that its not a Vedder or Bruce or any of those vocalist(from the era of music) who knew their role and played their part. You will never see Bruce Dickinson or the Lizard King butt into a solo or a riff, unlike hmm huh errr whatever NEVERMIND....

No comments:

Post a Comment