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Originally Posted by swa(y)
very disputable...yes.
new york and london have produced greater amounts of shit music though. there bigger cities...and excluding the people that actually come from them, and think its important to consider the ammount of people that actually move to them (atleast NY) in hopes of gaining success. no one ever says they want to move to nowhereville, alabama in hopes of making it.
you take away the scene, you got the artist. the lone artist, in my opinon, is not guarenteed, but more likely, to create more interesting stuff, more honest stuff....than the guys whos got fifty million bands in his local community to pull inspiration and influence from. he tends to also have more honest opinions, well maybe "honest" isnt the right word, but more "personal" opinions on music he has heard and been influenced by (music ussualy from other places he may or may not have been too from other places) than the people who were actually there, or given opportunity to experience that music in person.
look what a figures like kurt cobain has to say about black flag, then look at what thurston has to say about them. not that one persons opinion is more important than the other....but ones going to talk about it more from a historical perspective, like lecturing...to where the other is more prone to talk about it from a more personal perspective....how the music influenced them personally and what it meant to them as an individual...as opposed to what it meant to the history of music as a whole. i think both have their places, and no, im not saying one is better than the other. its important to have both sorts of individuals....but i relate more to the person that can say what black flag means to them as an individual, than the person that wants to say what black flag did to shape punk rock, metal (which they seemed to have a pretty major influence on....i hear black flag all in pantera).
i dont know man. i really dont think it matters much either way. if yr a good band, yr a good band, and if yr not, yr not. least thats the way i look at it.
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Yeah, of course you get creative people everywhere, and it's not as if they wouldn't be able to feel the same way about certain things while making any kind of music. There isn't a strict rule that says that you have to come from a certain background in order to make rebellious music and come across as a pissed-off human being. It's not for me to list the big number of musicians who made anti-establishment music and came from cosy backgrounds, but you get the drift. Also, feeling a certain way doesn't necessarily mean that you understand your own condition or that of others. It can happen that you have a lot of anger inside you and you want to filter it through creativity, but anger alone is not a good way to get messages across.