Some Philosophy for Metalheads

Bane · 2008-09-15T12:33:34+00:00

So i was wandering....Am I the minority because I love metal or am I a metalhead because I love being the minority. Just a thought. I will let someone else take the lead here.... ?

Lil-Bass-Goddess

Plus 1 to Norio!

Im a metalhead, yet I listen to a widw array of music (excluding rap etc)
I especially have a love for classic rock/metal (and it does bug me sometimes when some people diss me as to why i listen to "old crap", but hey, if it wasnt for the "old crap", there would not be new music...)
Im a huge fan of 60's/70's and 80's music (whether it be rock or pop, they all rule)
Not to mention that some of the best bass riffs came from the 80's "cheese" era! ?
So I say Kudos to "old crap"!

Sometimes people try so hard to be unique that they end up just being average...
you dont have to wear long black capes if u like listening to goth rock, you dont have to donn a mohawk if you listen to punk etc.
As for me, i always get the line "you dont look like a metalhead"... well, what should a metalhead look like i ask u?! ???

Bane

I believe a metalhead should look like this...

NorioDS

Bahahahahahaha Bane, nice one!

Lil-Bass-Goddess

hehehe! Nice! ?

Still_Missing

Lethe wrote Which is quite a paradox since most metal heads like to believe they are original and unique while following a trend. I hope I'm not offending anyone and yes, I am generalizing, but just to get my point across... Your thoughts on this?

At the end of the day, compared to the rest of the mindless sheep out there, they are pretty unique as a group. Perhaps not entirely as individuals, but they certainly aren't clones, with the same collared-shirt+expensive jeans combo so common on the street. Also, within that group, the little things identify them. They might have tattoos or piercings unique to them, or unique piercing heads/balls. Not every one of them gets a single design. Compare that, to http://www.cad-comic.com/images/news/thebloominonions.jpg
It might be image, but it's definitely one step up from That.
Metal's a music genre, but the culture behind it's there for a reason.

tubby

I read a study the other day that said us metalheads are more content with ourselves than people who listen to other forms of music. Are we content? All I know is, I f-ing love metal!!!!!!

Wessel

Metal is the best thing since classical music. No other genre of has pushed music to its exremes like metal does. The wierd thing is there is less and less people that don't like metal.

The other day I saw a guy from Saudi Arabia with a Opeth T-shirt on. Pretty cool!

Lethe

Still_Missing wrote
Lethe wrote Which is quite a paradox since most metal heads like to believe they are original and unique while following a trend. I hope I'm not offending anyone and yes, I am generalizing, but just to get my point across... Your thoughts on this?
At the end of the day, compared to the rest of the mindless sheep out there, they are pretty unique as a group. Perhaps not entirely as individuals, but they certainly aren't clones, with the same collared-shirt+expensive jeans combo so common on the street. Also, within that group, the little things identify them. They might have tattoos or piercings unique to them, or unique piercing heads/balls. Not every one of them gets a single design. Compare that, to http://www.cad-comic.com/images/news/thebloominonions.jpg
It might be image, but it's definitely one step up from That.
Metal's a music genre, but the culture behind it's there for a reason.

Don't know if I agree with that. Bunch of kids running around with Korn and Slipknot T-shirts. Nothing wrong with those bands, but the kids all do as fashion dictates. (Polarized... Carcass anyone?) I don't see much difference whether its pink collared shirts or shirts with prints. To the point I am generalizing to (which may be somewhat too much) they are all the same. Not saying everyone who wears a slipknot t shirt is following a trend, just as little as I'm saying that everyone who wears collared shirts is a jock. (Does that sentence make sense? not so sure, kinda does in my mind) But to a large extent its all fashion. I'm sure within them Jock (is that how its written?) groups, small things also identify them... like how badly they can do their hair or who has the smaller brain... In the end its perspective. Clearly I must be blind.

Bane

Yip i'm sure alot of Cap-And-BaggyJeans-And-GoldJeans guys think they are badass and different to everyone else aswell. Hey i own a few band-shirts and love wearing them, but i am a metalhead because i love metal, not because of the shirts i own

Nergal

hahahaha Still_missing, thats a funny ass photo, made my day ?. Ye bane i agree, its the love for the music at the end of the day, the culture comes along with that.

lightspeedchili

i love metal but theres a buttload out there that i havent listened 2. dude if u can see urself rockin it out in ur rockin chair at age 90, that shud seperate u from just following a trend or minority as u said.

arjunmenon

Norio wrote It's just that, when you're learning to do them, they're kak-difficult, so once you get 'em, you keep at it for a while ? But, ja, everyone grows out of it and ends up using it for emphasis rather than EVERYTHING ?

Unless its Zakk Wylde or a Zakk Wylde fan ?

Hey, i love pinch harmonics too..and i used to practise that stuff all over the fretboard and it took me a few weeks to perfect it..and i felt like this shit hot player because i could nail pinch harmonics anywhere on the fretboard...
The feeling didn't last too long, when i saw guys sweeping and tapping all over the place...

Moral of the story : You keep learning and you have to keep raising the bar for yourself, in order to become an awesome guitar player

And the philosophy behind it is that "Metal Kicks Ass!" but every needs to broaden their horizon to become a better musician. My ultimate goal, as a musician, is that i should be able to play to the best of my abilities in any musical situation...

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