Big wake-up call on prejudice

[Knastratt]

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Gimme a break (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY)!

Can't watch it without crying. Gotta be the amount of beer. Def the amount of beer...

[MGMc]

Goddam! Did you see her win over that audience? That's the kind of stuff you only see in Disney movies. :)

I'm feeling a little verklempt myself...

[Knastratt]

Verklempt is a great way to put it! :Thumbsup: :lol:

[Dega]

Like it's been said - you can't judge a book by it's cover.

Excellent performance

[crunch]

I'm feeling a little verklempt myself...

A little? Holy shit, I'm a wreck. I'd heard about this, but never went to go watch... That one girl rolling her eyes... HA!

Gotta go watch again.

:Thumbsup:

If we could just steer the market away from spoon feeding corn syrup to 15 year olds, the music industry as a whole would be a lot more fun place to be.

[MGMc]

Can you imagine if people started listening to music with their ears instead of their eyes?

[Bob Olhsson]

We've got to get the ad agencies out from between music and fans.

[Keks]

Can't watch it without crying. Gotta be the amount of beer. Def the amount of beer...

*sniff,
damn, coffee makes me always sooo emotional...

Thanks for sharing that.

All the best,
the keks

[crunch]

We've got to get the ad agencies out from between music and fans.

I don't think it's really so much that, video killed the radio star, and because of that, the labels got the idea that people only want to listen to music created by pretty children - even "country" (if you can call it that anymore) has been that way for more than a while. The 70's had some killer, killer bands that had some ugly mofos...

Jazz (and possibly classical - don't know, don't really listen) seems to be the only music available that people just genuinely don't give a shit what the artist looks like or how old they are. If you got chops, you got chops.

TRK had a killer record promoter and well known label absolutely in WUV with our album, that is, until they figured out I'm 42 - they couldn't tell from the photography, only from my SSN when came to be go time. Shunnnnnnnnnn! It's not ad agencies, it's the labels not willing to sign someone not in their 20's.

Or, maybe we just suck.

:Thumbsup:

[Knastratt]

We suck! She doesn't.

[Dega]

You didn't use to have to be "good looking" to make it

http://www.fender.com/news/news_images/78/snippet_78.jpg

[otek]

It's nice to know that while an audience loves to see someone fuck up, they love it even more when someone they thought they knew would fuck up.... doesn't.

That was amazing. I got a little misty watching it.


otek

[Anx]

Fantastic story. Great intestinal fortitude, even a better of humility on her part.

I really hope that she continues to do well.
She was amazing.

I also hope that it reminds people that musical talent has nothing to do with looks.

Bob O and crunch I whole heartedly agree.

[Smileyblue]

How quickly the judges of that show forget.

I thought Simon and those other two would have learned their lesson the first time with Paul Potts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA

[MacGregor]

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Gimme a break (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY)!

Can't watch it without crying. Gotta be the amount of beer. Def the amount of beer...

"And, how old are you Susan?"
"I'm 47, ... ... ..., and that's just one side of me!"

Gold :Thumbsup::lol:

And, of course, seems to be someone with a great heart and a great voice.

Mac
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[Immanuel]

I strongly dislike shows, where people profit on ridiculing others. But I love it, when professional arseholes has to take their words back. Only sad thing about it is, that the judges are still "heroes", because they let themselves win over.

I hope something beautiful in live will be her reward for her brave soul.

[Bob Olhsson]

The radio star was already on life support by the time the videos came in because Madison Avenue had begun doing the radio programming.

MTV was originally an end run around the radio exposure problem.

[Dave Perry]

Just as an aside...
























...why is this in the Distorted Guitars from Hell forum???

:Confused: Evil! :grin:

[blackieC]

You will have to ask Par.


If it brings this topic any closer to being relevant to the forum, that woman's performance made more of an impact on me than the first time I spun Judas Priest's Hell Bent For Leather, and I still love that record.

I believe beer was involved.



Lots and lots of beer.

[Knastratt]

Mixerman posted the same topic 5 minutes after me. It's a part of a scheme where the topic is relevant to the next radio show. So I got helicoptered.

Big deal.

So, let's make it about distorted guitars from Hell!

Don't worry - I got numbered tickets to next Strange Faces show in Lithuania and am now the official holder of the Shit Encrusted Claw Hammer. MM also removed the cinder block.

[Knastratt]

I strongly dislike shows, where people profit on ridiculing others.

I can't really understand ppppeople who's WATCHING shows like those.

[Dave Perry]

I loved it when Malmsteen surprised everyone and joined her on stage for his Variations on Paganini for Two Guitars! God Almighty did they rock hard!

That'll teach people to make stereotypes about Euro-classical-metal-speed guitarists.

[Knastratt]

I absolutely adored him on the "Hörrödudu, Paganini" festival.

[Zoesch]

Mixerman posted the same topic 5 minutes after me. It's a part of a scheme where the topic is relevant to the next radio show. So I got helicoptered.

Big deal.

So, let's make it about distorted guitars from Hell!

Don't worry - I got numbered tickets to next Strange Faces show in Lithuania and am now the official holder of the Shit Encrusted Claw Hammer. MM also removed the cinder block.

Metal, the only genre where ugly people are still appreciated for their talent...




















And how ugly they are! :lol:

[Dave Perry]

I absolutely adored him on the "Hörrödudu, Paganini" festival.

I heard about that...isn't that when he finally released the FOCKING FURY?

[Knastratt]

After spending 8 hours a day in a stinkin' rehearsal room, eating nothing but grandma's cookies for years, you've GOT to let it out somewhere.

[Dave Perry]

:) Exactly :)

Either that or if you've been sitting on a plane coming from Japan, or wherever, and some woman throws a drink on you...:grin:

[RWC]

Like it's been said - you can't judge a book by it's cover.

Excellent performance

I wasn't surprised, but it doesn't make me less prejudiced for not being surprised.

I've noticed an inverse relationship between star attitude & looks and actual talent since I started recording. Where I started there was a vocal coaching class, and a lot of musicians right next to the studio. There was a constant stream of singers working with people on new songs me and friends would get paid to record.

The hotter the client looked, the longer a night of R2-D2like melodyning misery and "take 252" I knew I'd be in for. Stuff like this (http://messageboard.tapeop.com/viewtopic.php?t=15772&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0) was business as usual.

The sense of entitlement someone walks in with and where they got it from(their beatmaker/manager who will "make them a star") tells me more than looks ever could.