Sa Music is it on PAR

MIKA-the-better-one · 2009-12-05T16:04:51+00:00

SO I have been thinking long and hard about this, after some crazy little girl adimentally told me that the SA music scene (at least in relation to its bands) is on par, if not better than the american or European scene. I sadly, and greatly disagree, I have found thus far at least in the more alternative aspect of bands in SA that to start, they all seem to copy what was big in the USA and Europe, 2 or more years back. There seems to be very little good music written by guys who really feel that music in a natural way. All in all its seems to be a copy. there are exceptions to this I do know, a band I saw a while back called the BLK JKS were amazing, they seemed to fuse Jimi Hendrix styles and Sowetan music and made it work, however they were smart and left for the USA. Qualtiy of bands seems to be a big issue as pretty much any band can get going for two weeks and secure a show and some bar or club and play ten of the worst songs ever, BUT because they have lots of can I say rich friends and family they go further. Just watch the local MK89 (which is improving) but some of those bands are really really bad, and therefore should not be aired however because they are afrikaanse and the channel must fill its quota as a Afrikaanse channel they are aired!!! Another thing is bands in this countrey relying on BAttle of the bands to "reach FAMe" per month I can count maybe 5 or more batttles, sadly they do not judge on the strength of a band but on the money that band can ensure from door sales. The industry in the aspect I have highlighted seems to be run by failed bands that now find it fit to judge a perofrmance based upon the VERY little knowlege they have. This is by no mean an attack on SA music it may well be growing BUT, to state that the industry is just as good as overseas is in my view VERY ignorant. Has anyone else experienced this sort of feeling that perhaps The music scene here is getting to big for its boots?

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Hey that's the beauty of getting older and playing more, you just get better! If I remeber correctly you weren't too bad with it to start off with.

vic

singemonkey wrote
Viccy wrote Krakatoa rocked. Pity you guys didn't do the show with the grass skirts and masks, or did I miss it?
Thought I'd sneak by without being noticed ?

I'm still practising the Carcassi Study in A Minor. I play it better than before. Who knows, one day I might even play it well ?

Hi Singemonkey....tell us more about this grass skirt and mask business.... ?

aubs1

vic wrote exactly.....al those names of musos doing us proud. Forgot to mention a singer from PE who went over to the USA as part of a touring group of kids from the EC townships....Danny Williams ! He recorded the original (and best) version of Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's) which sold millions of copies.

I think he went to the UK Vic, married an English girl, etc etc..... Second major World Wide hit after "Moon River" was "White on White"......... ?

vic

aubs1 wrote
vic wrote exactly.....al those names of musos doing us proud. Forgot to mention a singer from PE who went over to the USA as part of a touring group of kids from the EC townships....Danny Williams ! He recorded the original (and best) version of Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's) which sold millions of copies.
I think he went to the UK Vic, married an English girl, etc etc..... Second major World Wide hit after "Moon River" was "White on White"......... ?

You're absolutely right Aubs....I also liked "White on white" ......."here she comes in her wedding gown...looking like a queen....." :?

MIKA-the-better-one

I do not doubt SA s ability to house talent, I do question the scene itself in which they plat in here, in regard to venues, events, and the local bands here in SA.

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