Terrapin_Station

Speaking of seeing concerts, bragging and Hendrix, Hendrix was my first concert. I was very young, though, and I don't have much more than vague memories of it.

OccultHawk

That's a good way to put it. He's unenlightened.

The Batlord

Sure, but I'm pretty sure I understand a lot of that on a simple level, and probably a subconscious one as well. I can tell that Yes is far more complex than the Rolling Stones, but I couldn't tell you why in terms of musical theory. And while I can't appreciate the details of Yes' complexity, I can on some level understand it instinctively in a nebulous sense.

Likewise, I can't really appreciate how complex the music of a power metal band might be, but I can still tell that Dragonforce's songwriting abilities are near nonexistent, even if I couldn't give you an academic rundown of their failures. Same with the Insane Clown Posse.

So yes and no I guess.

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Mondo Bungle

Our opinions aren't really conflicting but I dunno how to put mine. I guess I could use black metal examples for your post here, bands like Wolves in the Throne Room play 100% black metal of the purest form, instead of going too far away from the formula, they execute everything that makes the genre flawlessly. They're certainly not cut and dry but I wouldn't call them experimental or anything

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Chula Vista

Way more than half of the stuff in my iTunes was released post punk.

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Mondo Bungle

I only listen to music that is pre-man

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Frownland

When you say released post punk, do you mean like they were literally released after punk was created? That doesn't mean you listen to punk or post punk.

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Key

Pretty sure he was born when all the bands that you love today including classic rockwere starting out or releasing their best work, so...unenlightened doesn't seem to fit.

Chula Vista

When I think of punk I think late 70s, early 80s. Punk itself never appealed to me except for maybe The Clash. Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, Television, etc. just didn't do it for me.

Around that time I was into a lot of fusion stuff like The Dixie Dregs, Return to Forever, Tony Williams, Alphonse Mouzon, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Holdsworth, etc.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

T-Rex roar Japanoise?

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