metal heads

LETTERS FROM MUSIC LAND:

I was never all that into metal either. It depends where you look. Some of the old stuff from the 80s, like Dio or this band "Blind Guardian" I listen to a lot. Most guitarists I would meet here in north are all metal heads. Pantera, Metallica, "Hatebreed" - these were all the big bands for the handful of white kids I knew growing up who also played guitar. I find it very sad how insturments are often no longer present in the modern black communities and i will admit that I blame conservative politics for the lack of instruments in that modern community and it is something I may one day speak about on a video...

. Unfortunately it's hard to find anyone who is into acoustic guitar music or really any music like that at all here because acoustic guitars and mandolins etc are immediately written off as "country", so theguys who actually play guitar here alll ike metal, and then everyon else just doing the rap as I said to ya another time I think. It's literally like an acoustic guitar is a lost relic to these people up here lol. Some instrument from ancient times that no one ever sees anymore.  The blues and all this stuff, the deeper origins of it it is all great stuff I only found years later when I start doing searches on the Net and everything, and I came to learn about how much more interseting the American music scene is in the South , or of course in the West, like Cali and Arizona and stuff, Chicago etc. I was very surprised by it all when I came to find it. 

Of course as much as i love acoustic guitars, I do have some grievances with "straight country music" because the lyrics can be limiting, and i have made another video speaking of it I might publish. The way this all ties in with Jack White is because in Detroit I feel he was in a similar situation that I was in: It was probably either metal or hip hop and he didn't wanna do either. He connected with this old stuff instead. So he found this interesting middle ground where he put these "modern dark ideas" about the weird goth stuff into these bluesy songs, which is actually fascinating because it never happened before. The Tedeschi Trucks band I referenced for a reason, because they only play, like, SRV type blues .. "sky is crying" "key to the highway" songs about stuff like that. Great songs. But the modern young people want twists. I don't believe people who merely listen choose music so much by chord progressions or sounds. 

Metal head are obsessed with complex solos and fireworks guitars. If I tried out for a metal band , I would be rejcted immediately. In my opinion, most people don't care about that flash though . They just want the lyrics. It's all about the lyrics I think. So if you look at Jack Whites songs, you see many of them he is not doing much that is complex. But he did write some really different lyrics, espeically on the early songs as he was rising. Some of his most memorable songs that were also very weird are "Blue Orchid" (which has a very bizarre, theatrical video), "Seven Nation Army" as mentioned in vid, "Icky Thump", "Little Cream Soda" , "Red Rain" ... I will write another thing explaining Jack White i gues lol Hope i didnt write too mcuh -- i get carried away