How's your local band scene?

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That’s a pretty broad “we” you’re using there, but I will generally agree that people can always be more open minded. For example, I should probably not despise '60s and '70s AOR as much as I do.

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@Wombat-metal don’t take this stuff seriously. It’s just music.

It’s not stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

I like what I like, you like what you like.

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The ‘I only want to hear what is familiar and I agree with’ syndrome.

Thanks Zuckerberg. Ya, I see this more and more.

I am VERY lucky in that I have two music scenes to choose from:

  1. Home - 30 min north of NYC in Westchester, NY - while Westchester music scene is almost non-existent, due to the proximity of NYC, we do have NYC, which has just about everything, and thank goodness for the jazz scene which is bar none. The only issue here is the slog in/out of the city to see anything vs. the truly local.
  2. Rochester, NY - where I work just a bit over half the time. For a smaller city, they are amazing for music - why? Eastman School of Music is a couple blocks from my apartment. Rochester has always been a huge music scene, esp alternative bands and other off the beaten pathers. Buffalo gets the bigger acts (1-hour away or so) but Rochester get’s their fair share. In the summer months you cannot keep up with the shows going on. Their jazzfest is awesome, and music in bars is very very common. Covid almost killed the scene but it is back in full swing. Slows a lot in winter when everyone is frozen, but when the thaw comes….:musical_notes:
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Side effect of joining a band is I now go out and listen to more local music as I’ve made friends with local musicians and want to support them. As they in turn support us.

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:100: :100: :100:

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South Florida is filling up with metal bands! I’m about 90 miles north of Ft Lauderdale, we used to have to go down there to hear anything other than cover bands. Now we have a lot of home grown metal bands beginning to pop in the area!

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There’s a kid who plays his saxophone at the farmers market here on Saturday mornings. He’s pretty good.

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Yeah \m/

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Sadly the only local bands here worth supporting are high-schoolers just starting their first band or a bunch or a bunch of old rockers who are actually retired and do a small reunion (they’ve had their golden age back then).

What’s actually populair here are local folk singers who don’t even mind bringing a band, just a background tape and that’s it. Sometimes they even take a hit song (example: Thunderstruck by ACDC) and put their own lyrics on it. BOOM. You’re populair.

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I’m slowly thinking to move either to the states or to England, but the Netherlands feels so safe here XD

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You could also get in to EBM, industrial, EDM and techno. Belgium and the Netherlands are strong there :slight_smile:

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Many people in Germany consider David Hasselhoff to be a “legend” because of his performance of “Looking for Freedom” at the Berlin Wall in 1989. The song somehow became an anthem of the fall of the Berlin Wall (together with “Wind of Change” by the Scorpions which is imho also an awful piece of music). However, the German public celebrated The Hoff as if he had personally teared down the Berlin Wall. :joy:

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It’s actually not the ears but the brain which is programmed. Recently, researchers have used NMRI technology for visualization of what happens in the human brain when people are playing music (or listening to music), and the structures are processed (and the bodily reactions happen) in the brain stem, at a level before the musical information has entered the auditory cortex and reached the conscious mind. This is by Mother Nature’s design. She did it brilliantly, as always.

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You have Golden Earring with “Radar Love” which is one of the most iconic songs and bass lines of all times. So don’t complain. :joy:

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I didn’t pick up bass to play EDM and techno :c

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Part of wanting to play for me is being able to play some downbeat / trip hop. Not quite EDM but in that universe.

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Check out Squarepusher, he’s an excellent bass player

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Yes.
There’s a great study out of Australia about what we recognize as familiar = good. When you’re familiar with more sounds, more music sounds good.
I know I said ears, but yes, it’s the brain that is making these decisions.

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There’s a whole host of unconscious biases like affinity bias that come in to play too.

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There’s a fabulous book @howard and @Gio (one of my favourites to recommend) which is all about how we make unconscious decisions that seem counter intuitive / sometimes not beneficial.

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

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