John Wood vs electronic music

i saw this guy outside of Amoeba trying to give away these stickers. Everyone ignored him.
 

I bought a drum machine and it brought out my inner drummer. Didn't know I had one. Now I get to play music with other musicians, sometimes in front of an audience. Before all this I just played the stereo.
 

of course they have a soul!They're just hard, cold and made of plastic and metal.

can someone tell me where I can get some of these?
 

I'll decide which music has soul and which music does not has the listner, thank you very much. I don't some old geezer telling me which music has sould and which does not. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
 

people with no soul expect their machines to have one.
 

Dear Drummer, Please practce and learn this drum part 'coz we have a show in two weeks, k? thanks.

http://www.nophi.net/r_garcia_-_nerd_parade_-_music_is_the_only_reason.mp3

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http://www.randygarcia.com
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http://www.phitunes.com
 

Drum machines are musical straight jackets. Just because people find entertainment through listening to them does not give them any credibility. Anybody who depends on digitally sampled monotone thumps to create music is missing out on the versatility a good drummer with real percussion instruments has to offer.
 

It was new for me... however thnx for post!
 

all that matters is that there are a shite load of people making music who, without the aid of a drum machine, wouldn't.

it might be crap, but in my opinion, the more people exploring music, the better.

hail to the souless 303.
 

I just stumbled across this article. What a joke. Unless you whistle or sing or slap yourself, all instruments are made out of some kind of material. HELLO? Drums are made out of the same material as drum machines: plastic, wood (in vintage), metal. Who has the right to define a threshold that if it contains circuitry (designed and built by humans), it is no longer a musical instrument? Some of the most talented musicians I have heard don't care about the medium, anything is fair game. Radiohead is a prime example, a band often covered by expert classical musicians.

People dont use drum machines because they want to be a drummer. They use drum machines because they want to create complex rhythms that no drummer could ever dream of getting close to. Those who define constraints are only missing out. I feel sorry for those types.
 

Every response to this article on this page is misunderstanding the message of the sticker. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE FUCKIN DRUM MACHINES! It's about musicians, and what it means to be one.

Since the birth of music, people required skills to make it, just as a painting is made by a painter, someone who is talented in the area, an artist. Take Van Gough's self-portrait, scan it onto a computer, and Photoshop the hell out of it. It will look really cool, but it doesn't make the mouse-clicker an artist. So what if you can creatively use a drum machine, or a computer to create something with a beat. It may sound like music, sure, but it doesn't require a musician.

That’s the message of the sticker, that music coming out today, full of a powerful electro-percussive loops, isn't created by musicians, it's created by armatures. My grandma could roll her wheel-chair up to a turn-table and spin shit so hot it'd make kanye and fiddy both retire, but that wouldn't make her a musician, and nor is the dude making the beats to their songs. He's just someone who knows how to use a computer, getting paid to make 3-minute tracks comprised of elementary beats. What makes music good is the musician behind it.

This isn't coming from a nostalgic geezer bashing on anything that isn't soft, quite and old. It's coming from a 19-year-old 2nd generation musician who has some rap on his iPod. It's there because it serves a function; its easy to dance to, its easy to understand, and because the lyrics to NWA's, Fuck Tha Police are the TRUTHH, That's all. I don't listen because I think there's a brilliant mind, or a skilled drum-machinist behind it, because there isn't. It's shallow music that isn't made by musicians.

Maybe it takes a musician to see who really isn't, I don't know. Do what you like, listen to what you want, at least I'm not missing out.
 

amateurs rather.
 

John Wood rocks.
 

When we get to teh bottom of this thread and see "Hippie Faggot" - well, all that does is prove Wood is right. Music isn't about music any more, it's the boring, stupid boring soundtrack to the violent fantasy lives of hillbilly idiot boys, and it's about as much fun as being kidnapped by aliens and having a chop saw forced into your spine. BTW Mr. Honda CRX dipshit, recent studies prove homophobes are usually also woman haters like your criminal hip-hop idols, and that they respond sexually to images of naked men. Interesting, no?

Back to drum machines though: yeah, they're a tragedy on a global scale and no mistake. They are flattening out regional and national styles of music worldwide, the hip-hop nation is imposing its boring tinny-ass 4-on-the-floor tyranny on the whole world. total garbage, and people who think otherwise have no ears, end of story.