Each day passes, and impatiences grows. I just hate waiting, especially when something this big is waiting on the other side. My mind cannot rest at ease until I know what the hell is going on. So I just sit here and wait, and wait some more. Even though I may ask, "what took you so long," but better late than never bodes very well with me on this subject matter. Until then, I shall just turn up some Bouncing Souls, and keep waiting.
That is just what is going on with that for now. The waiting game continues, now it is some time for some commentary that I have always been known for. Don't be quick to judge, when something is out of place, I will argue about it. Even if it seems totally non sequitur.
I have recently heard my former band mates "new" songs if you want to call them that. I'll start with the basic gist of what I heard. Garbage. Not only that, I have heard some of my lyrics, and melody in one song they have posted. I have the original recordings of it, and lyrics saved on a server (yes, that stands up in a court of law, they are time stamped.) That's only if they ever make money off it, which I doubt they will. Then I saw a title of a song that I write three years ago. I really find it funny. The fact that they have to pick off of stuff that I did while taking part of the music. To me it shows their lack of creativity, and it is really sad. They think they can pass mutton off as lamb. It doesn't work.
There is something that I have found funny the entire time I was in the band. The fact that Shawn could never get over the joke that Aneurysm was. He really liked to live in the past with that band. I would always hear him screw around with the guitar playing songs from that band. That was three years ago, and that band is long dead. He likes to live in the past, and I really find it funny. 2007 is gone, and never coming back. The fact that he and the band would take a song title from a song I wrote in 2007 and use if for a "new song" of theirs is really sad, and uncreative.
Wait, it doesn't end there. They are using songs that had lyrics already, and not writing new original material. That was a reason I left, the writing process was too drawn out, and we would go months without writing new material. It is an excuse that they are making for writing new songs. When in fact, the songs that they are posting are not new, and not new by a far stretch. I have recordings for all but I think three of the old songs we wrote. Laziness persists with that band. Meanwhile I have been writing new lyrics (see this blog), and writing music too. I have one song posted on this site, and my myspace, and I have a new song I am going to record sometime this week. It is something, but it is better than what you got. If it didn't work the first time, what makes you think it will work a second time rehashed.
The lyrics that they have thrown over the material are straight up shit too. The style that they are trying to do, isn't conducive with the lyrics that they are writing. You want to be 80's but writing crappy half-assed Metallica lyrics. Remember this the kids that liked hair metal back in the day, hated thrash kids, and vice versa. It still stands true today.
My advice to bands that are out there today. If you have a member leave, and decide to branch off into a new project, don't rehash the songs that you did in your former band. That is like saying Rise Against started out by claiming 88 Finger Louie songs were their stuff. It is okay if you cover your old stuff, but putting new lyrics over the song will not work. Be original, obviously these jerks aren't original. At the show on Dec 11, I might cover some of the stuff that I did then, but I won't turd on what has been done.
Originality, learn it, and become it. Meaning, find it, and embrace it, don't forget that what you stand for, and what you portray is more important anything. Lyrics are just as equal as the music, if not greater, because what does the crowd sing back to you when you are on stage?
That's if for now... "Good night, and good luck..."-SS
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