Music Trivia of the Week

Though their vocalist, Tommy Rogers, handles most if not all the the writing duties, bassist Dan Briggs (of Between the Buried and Me) wrote the line "Everyone grows but me."

you know, 'cause he's short as fuck.

The Loudness Wars

I'm sure this is a term a lot of you musicians have heard. I won't bother explaining the whole of the matter to you, merely say my piece.

I'm pretty torn between sides on this issue. On one hand, you want your music to be able to compete in the market. On the other, I have the utmost respect for artistic integrity, and feel that adding ass-loads of compression and turning it all up as loud as possible compromises those ideals. I suppose it'd be good to find a common ground (which is what I've been trying to do), but even going halfsies between the two, I feel like I'm compromising who I am as a musician.

I guess that's all I really have to say on the matter. A hell of a first post.

So this is my blog...

I'm not sure exactly why I'm choosing to start up my own blog. I don't really have anything I want to tell the world. A part of me feels like I should try and write regularly, about whatever (most likely something pretty pointless). This is far from attention-whoring; I probably won't even want to post on here, but it's something I'm going to make myself do just to keep up on my writing. I'm going to make a point to keep whatever topic I start writing about, regardless of how horrible it ends up sounding.

I might as well try and come up with something other than an introduction today, so I'll see if I can come up with anything worth writing about.

So sit back and stay tuned for more, or completely ignore this. Either is fine with me.

(Watch me forget about this in a week.)