another one of those days...
this one was my two cents on a topic in i-bands. the original topic was 'kenapa muzik rock tak diterima lagi?'
Erylasia wrote:
tapi rock sekarang hanya mahu jadi terkenal je, apa tu rock pun tak tahu;;;;
satu lagi yg aku tak agree ...kenapa music rock sering dikaitkan dgn cintan, his benci aku .....
em. sebenarnya lah aku rasa, bukan saja muzik rock je yang dikaitkan dengan cinta, infact banyak lagi lagu dari genre yang lain yang ada elemen cinta.
pendapat aku ialah memang lumrah manusia untuk merasai cinta (haha..jiwang habis ayat hehe) even to the greatest hard rockers, heavy metalist, guitars gods alike. it's an inspiration to write songs base on their current emotions. and ofcourse they write songs that they are usually accustomed to. and love is not just love for the tangible things if you'd realize that. it's abstract, it's untangible, it motivates, it drowns, it's everthing and nothing all at once (ok, being too idealistic here so i'll stop talking about love).
put that aside. if you'd notice, there is a new wave or movement of comeback in rock songs. bands to name a few such as the darkness and jet applies rock n roll in every aspect of their song hence the solo work and the progressive rock chords. names like jimmy page, martin friedman, ritchie kotzen, paul gilbert, van halen, etc are becoming known again by the new generations of young rock-addicts everywhere. even trivium applies so much influence in their songs if you hear it close enough (note: i really like the vocals style).
yeah the particular scene in our industry for rock music seems bleak and uncertain for the moment and i believe that it will take time for the main players of the industry to even realize the abundant talents we have here. for instance, if you look back at the indonesian music industry, they manage to evolve and be accepted somehow in relativeness of rock music in the mainstream arena. i trully believe that what's happening now in our country is that the major labels are afraid to open their doors and signed up a real bonafide rock band. they tend to look at figures, look at what sells the most. it's trully sad it's becoming this way. 10 years back, people in indonesia are idolizing our bands such as search and now, our people today idolize their bands and not vice versa.
do you know, that for a rock band to release their album, major labels are only releasing albums base on the break-even point quantity of albums?if only their sales reach break-even, only then they will release more albums to sell. this was told by a friend of mine who just recently released their new album.
another factor here is the radio. how much rock music i mean real rock music do you hear on radios nowadays? hardly any. it's full with pop, hip hop, ballads, boy bands who can't play their own stuff genre music. the only way you can get to hear rare stuff raw talent in radios IMO are the red rottw show at 104.9 and sadly the time they air it is on thursday starting at 12:00 midnight (slalu terlepas). oh, and i do love to hear bode's band box from our own i-bands.
so my conclusion is that we just need to keep on ROCKIN TO THE BONES and make ourselves be notice. so i think that's my two cents here for this topic and i hope that we all should share knowledge and passion of music together to create an utopian of talented musicians in malaysia.
** fadhli's brain is actually on overdose of caffeine and tobacco because of his studying for the finals. this article is written mainly to kill time and to show how passionate he is in playing the guitar and making music and how he wants the rock industry be the main thing in malaysia. okeh, time for study!
Erylasia wrote:
tapi rock sekarang hanya mahu jadi terkenal je, apa tu rock pun tak tahu;;;;
satu lagi yg aku tak agree ...kenapa music rock sering dikaitkan dgn cintan, his benci aku .....
em. sebenarnya lah aku rasa, bukan saja muzik rock je yang dikaitkan dengan cinta, infact banyak lagi lagu dari genre yang lain yang ada elemen cinta.
pendapat aku ialah memang lumrah manusia untuk merasai cinta (haha..jiwang habis ayat hehe) even to the greatest hard rockers, heavy metalist, guitars gods alike. it's an inspiration to write songs base on their current emotions. and ofcourse they write songs that they are usually accustomed to. and love is not just love for the tangible things if you'd realize that. it's abstract, it's untangible, it motivates, it drowns, it's everthing and nothing all at once (ok, being too idealistic here so i'll stop talking about love).
put that aside. if you'd notice, there is a new wave or movement of comeback in rock songs. bands to name a few such as the darkness and jet applies rock n roll in every aspect of their song hence the solo work and the progressive rock chords. names like jimmy page, martin friedman, ritchie kotzen, paul gilbert, van halen, etc are becoming known again by the new generations of young rock-addicts everywhere. even trivium applies so much influence in their songs if you hear it close enough (note: i really like the vocals style).
yeah the particular scene in our industry for rock music seems bleak and uncertain for the moment and i believe that it will take time for the main players of the industry to even realize the abundant talents we have here. for instance, if you look back at the indonesian music industry, they manage to evolve and be accepted somehow in relativeness of rock music in the mainstream arena. i trully believe that what's happening now in our country is that the major labels are afraid to open their doors and signed up a real bonafide rock band. they tend to look at figures, look at what sells the most. it's trully sad it's becoming this way. 10 years back, people in indonesia are idolizing our bands such as search and now, our people today idolize their bands and not vice versa.
do you know, that for a rock band to release their album, major labels are only releasing albums base on the break-even point quantity of albums?if only their sales reach break-even, only then they will release more albums to sell. this was told by a friend of mine who just recently released their new album.
another factor here is the radio. how much rock music i mean real rock music do you hear on radios nowadays? hardly any. it's full with pop, hip hop, ballads, boy bands who can't play their own stuff genre music. the only way you can get to hear rare stuff raw talent in radios IMO are the red rottw show at 104.9 and sadly the time they air it is on thursday starting at 12:00 midnight (slalu terlepas). oh, and i do love to hear bode's band box from our own i-bands.
so my conclusion is that we just need to keep on ROCKIN TO THE BONES and make ourselves be notice. so i think that's my two cents here for this topic and i hope that we all should share knowledge and passion of music together to create an utopian of talented musicians in malaysia.
** fadhli's brain is actually on overdose of caffeine and tobacco because of his studying for the finals. this article is written mainly to kill time and to show how passionate he is in playing the guitar and making music and how he wants the rock industry be the main thing in malaysia. okeh, time for study!
posted by Fadhli Rahim at 12:36 AM
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