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Image and Rock

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bluewine

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Sep 4, 2008
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Anyone ever experience this:

Say your a rock Guy a cool rock Guy and maybe a little older. Being a rock guy use to mean looking cool and feeling cool.

The term "Rock Band" has become alot more reletive than it used to be.

Have you ever been between bands and your doing the audition thing.

You see an ad for a "Rock Band" that looks like it might be worth investigation.

You go to the bands web-site and all the band members look like "Larry The Cable Guy"

Happened to me yesterday :)
 
#7
I hear ya man. I have my own style of dress and my own personality and they go well together. Sometimes people with a clash of presentation and personality cause my head to cock sideways.

I often see some people and wonder why they dress the way they do. Not judgmentally, but just curious. They look so bland and boring to me and to me, how a person presents oneself is important in understanding them.
 
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Papa Dangerous said:
I hear ya man. I have my own style of dress and my own personality and they go well together. Sometimes people with a clash of presentation and personality cause my head to cock sideways.

I often see some people and wonder why they dress the way they do. Not judgmentally, but just curious. They look so bland and boring to me and to me, how a person presents oneself is important in understanding them.
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I have had a lot of help over the years from girlfriends and my sister.

Some guys on their own just don't understand what looks good on them. Even at work you will see guys and think, I wonder what made him think that's appropriate corporate store.
 
#11
XOV said:
The term "Rock" is now so broad and multi-dimensional that it carries almost no descriptive weight at all.
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Now, that you mention it your right.

The sad part is, when you turn the radio on today there is less and less actual instruments (guitar, bass, real drums) being employed.

Older TBers may have had parents that grew up in the "big band". Well for the most part big bands died and never really came back.

Is that what is happening or already happened to rock?
 
#13
im glad i dont consider myself a rock musician. i could go into stylistic subsets of rock like punk or metal but theres a problem with that. i dont think music should be catagorised (spelling mistake).

image is importent to the bands who want to fit in or as they'll say "stand out" but the truth is to people who grew up in the 60's and 70's "rock" is led zepplin where as nowadays its paramore.
 
#14
bluewine said:
Is that what is happening or already happened to rock?
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Yeah... I mean, around here the only rock that gets airplay on mainstream radio stations is a couple of domestic pop-rock bands and a few old classics like Joan Jett, Bon Jovi or Scorpions. Anything else is relegated to the niche "rock" station.

Also, I tried looking for the most popular rock bands' videos on Youtube a few months ago, just bored at work... A few (Guns'n'Roses, Paramore, Metallica and Nirvana) had some videos that were close to 50 million views, so it seems that even the world's most popular rock bands are less popular than, say, Daddy Yankee or Wisin & Yandel.

Not that it matters, even if you like rock. These days even small niche music will survive because it's so much cheaper to play and record than it used to be.
 
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s_mcsleazy said:
im glad i dont consider myself a rock musician. i could go into stylistic subsets of rock like punk or metal but theres a problem with that. i dont think music should be catagorised (spelling mistake).

image is importent to the bands who want to fit in or as they'll say "stand out" but the truth is to people who grew up in the 60's and 70's "rock" is led zepplin where as nowadays its paramore.
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Right again, however I am a Paramore fan.

I will se an ad that will say "Rock Band Needs Bass Player" and go on to list bands I have never heard of or bands I have heard but would not consider them Rock by any stretch.
 
#19
If your a semi-pro band and want to get better paying gigs then image is important. I am an older musician in the market for a new band. The last couple of bands I auditioned for all looked like Larry the Cable Guy dive bar dudes....tacky T-shirts / shorts / ball caps etc yet they all wanted to hustle higher paying casino / festival gigs. That just not going to happen especially when competing with bands that have fashionably hot women in them. If your happy wearing ball caps, shorts and t-shirts playing the local dive ....Thats fine but it will be tough to get a band to the next level without a better image..
 
#20
bluewine said:
Say your a rock Guy a cool rock Guy and maybe a little older. Being a rock guy use to mean looking cool and feeling cool.

The term "Rock Band" has become alot more reletive than it used to be.
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Well, I think that's all normal since rock music, as with any other genre, has evolved and divided into many different categories. Crossovers between genres have happened for decades now, so the line has been blurred.

Still, there are people who can consider "classic rock" the "true" rock music and stay with it.

bluewine said:
You see an ad for a "Rock Band" that looks like it might be worth investigation.

You go to the bands web-site and all the band members look like "Larry The Cable Guy"

Happened to me yesterday :)
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Well, if image seems like a problem, there is always the possibility of talking about it, right? And to do research about image and intended gigs to see how to adapt to it.
 

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