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we used to be in a band together as teenagers..
me on guitar, him on drums..
when he was just another SE London estate kid he couldn't afford anything and his parents did everything they could to help him..
Now he's a world famous drummer / percussionist
I remember him saying to me once that it's nuts.. cos now can afford it, folks give him drum stuff for free
Adam
Paraphrased: ‘don’t waste forever trying to research and buy the best piece of gear, spend that energy getting good and working hard and you’ll end up getting it anyway’
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
not in a misanthropic way. i'm totally pro young people finding their passion and making the most of it, and i'm sure this kid has a great time playing. my distaste is more to do with a certain negative climate of pushy parenting and overindulgence that so often seems to exist behind the scenes in such instances. a climate which (though seeming to work in the kid's interest when young) can ultimately (long term) spin young heads in a way that makes adjusting to not always being the centre of attention, and other realities of grown up beyond-family life, hugely difficult to adjust to as they get older.
so i can't help watching these sort of things feeling superficially positive, a kid enjoying their interest is a good thing, but with a little pilot light of dread burning in the back of my mind thinking 'is this kid going to end up another failed-to-fulfil-potential crackhead childstar at nineteen?'
but i sincerely hope he does ok.
Those parents are 100% guaranteed to be up to something, with a spot of luck they'll both be left-handed so we can have them burned as witches and be done with it.
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Adam.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Seriously, pull yourselves together.
Oh, and tidy up your room too.
The only thing you are qualified to judge music by is your own personal taste. Even the most knowledgeable musicologist with a first-class doctorate is no more qualified to make value judgements on music - it is all personal taste.
You were saying something along the lines of "it's people like you who think they're qualified to say stuff like this that mean the human race is doomed" - so trust me, those words didn't take a hell of a lot of twisting to fit my "agenda". You can try and back-pedal, but that is what you said. You're the one making utterly ridiculous, astonishingly arrogant statements like that, with an apparent total lack of self-awareness, not me.
How is the entire human race "doomed" just because the total subjectivity of music is being upheld, and people aren't particularly keen to overturn it just because you think Beethoven is objectively better than Taylor Swift? Is it because people are refusing to come round to your demonstrably ridiculous point of view?
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
i was thinking more about the Bieber's, Brittneys, Downey-Jnrs, etc. the list is sadly long and well known.
So for me, personally, that (maybe disproportionate) dread is always in the background when i see a kid i feel may be being strongly encouraged by parents to perform on a public platform.
will they handle all the pressure and attention well or badly, short and long term?
and if some of that pressure is coming from within the home, where can a kid who needs a break (but doesn't want to disappoint loved ones) retreat to if they need to?
i was exaggerating for effect in the section you quoted. but my general point was about conflicted feelings it is possible to feel in these situations. maybe i worry too much.