steeljake's real music thread...

[Pitty]

If there's one thing steeljake and I can agree on, it's the greatness of 'The Band'.

[steeljake]

I gave 3 a legit shot...I couldn't take anymore after that I was being told this band is more musically talented then Tool.

starts your own fucking thread...

[steeljake]

today's lesson is a lesson in less is more. some bands use tons of keyboards and overdubs for guitars and 5 part harmonies to make their music sound big. some use huge amounts of effects and lasers live to make them seem huge. this band only does one thing... they rock. simple songs in 4/4 time and a few chord changes, with the bass player not doing much else than pumping the root note and just rumbling the house. This is the kind of band when a song comes on the radio you look down and your doing 80 and are not sure how that happened...

I bring you, the thunder from down under, AC/DC...

Orignally formed inteh 70's in Australia with brothers Malcom and Angus Young on guitar they took their name from a warning tag on a sewing machine. The original lead singer, Bon Scott was not known for his bird like voice, but instead his vocals could break glass and make your parents ask 'what the hell did he just say?' Angus' blues based leads mixed with malcom's solid rythm's made for the kind of music that makes you want break shit. Bon Scott died in 1980 and it would have seemd that all was lost. But enter Brian Johnson, whose voice sounds almost idnetical to Scott's. They released Back In Black, which is the 5th highest selling album in US history. This band is rock and roll, so for those about to rock...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMUgmU_Hsjc"]YouTube - AC/DC - For Those About To Rock[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFd4MIa2eU&feature=related"]YouTube - AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JWBmZTad2E"]YouTube - AC/DC Rock and Roll Aint Noise Pollution[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w&feature=fvw"]YouTube - AC/DC - Thunderstruck[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2TADt0y5h8&feature=related"]YouTube - AC/DC - Who Made Who[/ame]

[Anthony]

I personally think AC/DC is one of the most overrated bands ever.

[steeljake]

I personally think AC/DC is one of the most overrated bands ever.

are you sure you know what that word means?

[BigHouseUSA]

Have they ever wrote a song that didn't involve the word rock?

[steeljake]

They are overrated...not badly overrated...but overrated. There are people who think AC/DC is a top 5-10 band of all time and that they changed music, etc. etc. when you said it yourself

"simple songs in 4/4 time and a few chord changes, with the bass player not doing much else than pumping the root note and just rumbling the house."

nothing against that...I love AC/DC and they're one of the best live bands out there...possibly ever. However...if you've heard 2 AC/DC songs, you've heard them all. That's the criticism of the band.

you have to think about when they first started playing, they have been around since the 70's. back then cream was the heaviest thing out there. AC/DC helped to invent metal. just becasue something is simple doesnt mean it is overrated. you need to let go of your unhealthy obseession for tool and their prog rock sound. not every great song is 9 minutes long.

[dope]

back then cream was the heaviest thing out there.

black sabbath disagrees.

and imo MC5 shits on all bands trying to be heavy in the 70's cause they did it first in the 60's

[Coked Up Elmo]

black sabbath disagrees.

and imo MC5 shits on all bands trying to be heavy in the 70's cause they did it first in the 60's

this is true

[Anthony]

black sabbath disagrees.

and imo MC5 shits on all bands trying to be heavy in the 70's cause they did it first in the 60's

Motor City 5 is music to fap to. Fact

[steeljake]

ok, next up we have one the most influential guitarist of the 20th century. Eddie Van Halen, his brother Alex, bassist Micael Antony and front man David Lee Roth burst onto teh scene in 1978 with thei self titled debut and it changed rock music forever. Eruption, a solo guitar piece by Eddie, was not only innonvantive but has become the standard by which all guitar solo's are judged. Not only can eddie shred a guitar, but his work on the keys is legendary as well. The band sufffered the dreaded lead singer change in the early 80's, but much to Dave's dismay, it was Eddie that drive the band. Singer Sammy Hagar steppedinto the lead mouth role and the band enjoyed a great career throughout the 80's and 90's. While the band has turned into a novelty act as of late, their influence on rock and metal cannot be dismissed.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0XLKcMoXRE"]YouTube - Van Halen - Hot For Teacher[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swzh0ngMNJo&feature=related"]YouTube - Van Halen - Jump(Music Video)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyYENhbgJY"]YouTube - Van Halen - Right Now[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohafxmy1Q50"]YouTube - And The Cradle Will Rock...[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXTqtXHOP_w"]YouTube - Van Halen - Panama (Studio Version)[/ame]

[Maynard]

Eagles FTW. Hotel California and Life in the Fast Lane ftw

great, you named the 2 most over played mainstream songs ever. Can you name something you didnt hear 2 million times on the radio?


i was curious about jakes music because i am always facinated by things retards do. But this thread is full of a bunch of hillbilly hairband music that most 1 testicle holding homos from little west virginia would listen too.

LOL @ giving lessons on music. the only lesson to be learned here is that steeljake needs to go sit his fat overall wearing mullet sporting pabst blue ribbion drinking ass back down at the camp fire and keep lighting a flame while listening to freebird on his 8 track

[steeljake]

lynard skynard will not be a part of this music lesson. go back to teh auto tune and leave the real music to everyone esle.

[wingsfan77]

Here's a band I've been listening to a lot recently, they've been around since the early 90's but a lot of you probably haven't heard of them:

[NAHSTE]

Debaser = one of the worst songs in video game history. I almost took took a bat to my screen whenever that came on during NCAA 2006 gaming.