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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by stephent28:
Screw the genre.
A good song is a good song and crap is crap.
If you condemn a song due to genre, you are ultimately missing out on some good music. well said |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Agreed. Saying that all country&western music is crap would be like saying that all taylor guitars suck. Unless you have heard every single country&western song ever recorded, or unless you have played every single taylor guitar ever built, you can not authoritatively back up your claims.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | heh heh heh...gotta love Dave's analogy! :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | I agree that you can't say that it ALL "sucks", but I could just never get "into" it, even theough my parents used t'listen to it around the house when I was growing up . . .
While I'll admit there is good technical "playing" (on SOME of it, anyway), I just can get "into" the songs.
As of late, everything is just so "formulaic". Songs are either about the dayid Mama or Daddy, Jeezus, or 'MUHRica . . and quite often cobbled together immediately after the CurrentEvent du jour.
Reminds me of the character that WillieNelson played in "WagTheDog".
That, and that whiny, in-bred, twangy, nasally, waitress who's JUST been beaten by a truckdriver voice (or the truckdriver's voice) that just (to me) harkens to a leaf rake being dragged across about twenty running feet of chaulkboard).
Don't EVEN get me started on those stupid f@ckin' HATS . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff, You'd look good in one of those! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Keeps ya from burnin' that 'Monks-do' while in sunny climes. 'Long as your in Jersey I imagine it's not an issue. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | There's some good country tunes out in the world, but very few on commercial radio... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cliff, that's one reason I like Big & Rich.....screw the typical country genre.
(Oh yeah....and Big Kenny wears a top hat!) |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | Shania Twain... I love listenin' at her videos... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Sorry 2s, we're talking about Country music....
....but welcome to the neighbourhood. |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | But wasn't she the 1999 CMA Entertainer of the Year... :D
And thanks for the welcome, it's a great neighbourhood to be in! :) |
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Location: enid, ok | 1999 Country Murdered Again Entertainer Of The Year, yes.
However, Jeff Beck assures us that Clapton is playing some nice country nowadays... |
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Location: CA | Old country is meat and bone, sung — at least in part — by people who lived what they sang about. New country is jello sung by people, most of whom have no stronger ties to the genre than cowboy boots and big hats. There are some talented musicians there, but IMHO, slim pickins for quality music. And each new song seems dumber than the cookie cutter one before. There are exceptions of course. Garth, Toby, Martina and Alan are included in that group, but even some of theirs are pretty lame. But they'll never be Johnny, Merle, Willie or Waylon.
And rap is not music to begin with, so of course ANY country is better than that. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | " New country is jello sung by people, most of whom have no stronger ties to the genre than cowboy boots and big hats"
Don't forget Aloha shirts, Puca shells and flip flops is also considered "Country" these days. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
Don't forget Aloha shirts, Puca shells and flip flops is also considered "Country" these days. Wow. Hey, Moody! You're "Country" now! |
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Location: big island | culture lesson:
in hawaii the cowboys, called "paniolo", are an odd lot. they wear levi or wrangler jeans, boots, hats, plaid long-sleeve shirts and big belt buckles. imagine that!
"country" singers here wear the same get-up but sans the big belt buckle cuz it gouges the back of the guitars and ukuleles.
puka shells were "in" in hawaii in the 70's and early 80's until the island's supply got exhausted. the ones on the market now are usually from the phillipines and drilled, not natural pukas. "puka" means hole. tourists are about the only folks wearing them now.
we do not wear "flip-flops" in hawaii. we wear "slippahs".
aloha shirts are usually worn by locals for particular occasions like church, weddings, funerals, parties, ovation fan club shindigs, etc. the T shirt is the typical attire for daily wear. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Otra leccion de cultura:
"Paniolo", desde espanol, la idoma del primera "cowboys" en Hawaii. |
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Location: big island | the first "cowboys" in hawaii were those spanish-speaking vaqueros who came over from mexico and southern california about 1840 to help herd the cattle that had taken over the big island. they taught locals how to ride horse and herd cattle. they brought the first guitars and braguinhas (portuguese 4 stringed, small guitars) to the islands. hawaiians adapted the instruments so we now have slack key guitar and ukuleles. |
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Location: NJ | . . and then "there went the neighbourhood" . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Is there a traditional hawaiin percussion instrument used when played in a uke, guitar, lap guitar ensemble? |
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Location: NJ | a credit card swiper. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | LOL |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by an4340:
Is there a traditional hawaiin percussion instrument used when played in a uke, guitar, lap guitar ensemble? no traditional hawaiian percussion instruments for typical guitar/ukulele ensembles. there are several traditional gourd, log, bamboo and rock percussive instruments for hula though.
and yes, "credit card swiper"s are prevalent here.
good one, clifford! |
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DOES COUNTRY MUSIC SUCK???
