DmbFanJason wrote:hmmm....I thought this topic was gonna be about Getting ass-raped while while being beaten over the head with a club...
I thought he was gonna ask: Have you ever seen a lamb getting rammed by a ram, down by the bay (down by the bay) where the watermellons grow (where the watermellons grow)
ok ok, I didn't sleep last night so I'm a little on the loopy side tonight.
i thought i made up the main chords for all along the watchtower before i became a dmb fan, then when i bought my first cd i was like, why are they playing my song, then i got out the old dylan records and yeah
I wrote something a while back that sounded pretty good for a verse riff. Then I realized that it sounded sort of like that stupid Creed song Arms Wide Open. I then vomitted and shortly there after discarded the riff.
Everything has already been done before; all we can really do is try to improve upon it.
Some guy (can't remember who)around 1900 said something like "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Your probably about as wrong as he was.
Well there is a pretty big difference between something that is constantly evolving and not exactly linear (technology)
and something absolute and in some ways, unchanging.
the fact remains, every chord progression possible is in some song, somewhere.
This is not to say music is entirely linear - new forms and ideas are constantly being introduced.
but every song written borrows something from another song.
Is this a bad thing? absolutely not... but over a thoursand years of music productoin, it's kinda hard to write something that is entirely original.
I have alot more to say but have a terrible migraine right now, so I will end my post with these quotes:
relating music to poetry (hey they aren't that far off from each other)
"...musc, in its various modes of meter, rhythm and rhyme, is of so vast a moment in poetry as never to be wisely rejected - is so vitally importnt an adjunct, that he is simply silly who declines its assistance" (577)
"...thus there can be little doubt that in the unior of poetry with music in its popular sense, we shall find the widets fields for poetic development" (578)
-Edgar Allen Poe, The Poetic Principle
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different." (431)
-T.S. Eliot (through John Robert Colombo) A Found Introduction
"There must come a day... when the unfinished work of our heroes, must truly be our own."
gravedigger wrote:I thought he was gonna ask: Have you ever seen a lamb getting rammed by a ram, down by the bay (down by the bay) where the watermellons grow (where the watermellons grow
grave, hilarious. takes me back to the days of raffi growing up.
