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Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz: Variety within an album just like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin & Van Halen
All of my major influences created music with variety, often within the same album. As bands grow and progress both as individual musicians and collectively as a group, so does their sound. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen all created albums that touched different genres within the same album & Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz does exactly the same!
Led Zeppelin was and is a musical powerhouse. Their use of light and dark, loud and soft sounds, really catapult the music to soaring heights when it is called for and bring peace & tranquility at other times. I look at Led Zeppelin as a model for what a band should be. They broke the mold of live rock bands. Musicians capable of creating so many diverse sounds and moods within the confines of a rock group. They used whatever influences and "genres" they felt like using. Can you find the genre link in "Bron-y-aur-stomp" and "Kashmir?" "D'yer Maker" and "No Quarter?" The connection has nothing to do with genre, only the way these stellar musicians interpreted it and set it before us. It's the same band! They used big drums and bottom end, confident soulful vocals, masterful guitar playing and the best recording technology available at the time.
I can give you another example, the Beatles. (First of all the Beatles are the greatest band in history, and what they accomplished will never be matched.) What's the genre link between "Michelle" & "I want you/She's so heavy?" "I wanna hold your hand" & "I am the walrus?"
Should I continue? The Rolling Stones: "Sympathy for the Devil" & "Dead flowers?"" Miss you" & "Gimme Shelter?"
Jimi Hendrix played anything he wanted and added a touch of blues to it all. He did a waltz with "Manic Depression", straight blues with "Red House", blues rock with "Voodoo Chile" slight return, a touch of jazz with "Third Stone from Sun". Soulful ballads with "The Wind Cries Mary", psychadelic funk with "Foxy Lady" and "If 6 Was 9"and so on.
Van Halen covered many genres in just their Diver Down album. They rocked with :Where Have All the Good Times Gone?", "Hang Em HIgh", "The Full Bug": straight jazz with "Big Bad Bill", folk music with "Happy Trails", Motown with "Dancing In The Street."
The point is, my musical influences incorporated many different musical genres into their music and so will I!
We all have more than one mood, more than one shirt or pair of jeans, (so I hope) we like more than one movie or TV show and like more than one color. We all like more than one form of music, whether we admit it or not.
Fantazzmo will continue to make music with variety and use whatever means necessary to make music that entertains, excites, envokes emotion, passion, moves and grooves!
Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz
Led Zeppelin was and is a musical powerhouse. Their use of light and dark, loud and soft sounds, really catapult the music to soaring heights when it is called for and bring peace & tranquility at other times. I look at Led Zeppelin as a model for what a band should be. They broke the mold of live rock bands. Musicians capable of creating so many diverse sounds and moods within the confines of a rock group. They used whatever influences and "genres" they felt like using. Can you find the genre link in "Bron-y-aur-stomp" and "Kashmir?" "D'yer Maker" and "No Quarter?" The connection has nothing to do with genre, only the way these stellar musicians interpreted it and set it before us. It's the same band! They used big drums and bottom end, confident soulful vocals, masterful guitar playing and the best recording technology available at the time.
I can give you another example, the Beatles. (First of all the Beatles are the greatest band in history, and what they accomplished will never be matched.) What's the genre link between "Michelle" & "I want you/She's so heavy?" "I wanna hold your hand" & "I am the walrus?"
Should I continue? The Rolling Stones: "Sympathy for the Devil" & "Dead flowers?"" Miss you" & "Gimme Shelter?"
Jimi Hendrix played anything he wanted and added a touch of blues to it all. He did a waltz with "Manic Depression", straight blues with "Red House", blues rock with "Voodoo Chile" slight return, a touch of jazz with "Third Stone from Sun". Soulful ballads with "The Wind Cries Mary", psychadelic funk with "Foxy Lady" and "If 6 Was 9"and so on.
Van Halen covered many genres in just their Diver Down album. They rocked with :Where Have All the Good Times Gone?", "Hang Em HIgh", "The Full Bug": straight jazz with "Big Bad Bill", folk music with "Happy Trails", Motown with "Dancing In The Street."
The point is, my musical influences incorporated many different musical genres into their music and so will I!
We all have more than one mood, more than one shirt or pair of jeans, (so I hope) we like more than one movie or TV show and like more than one color. We all like more than one form of music, whether we admit it or not.
Fantazzmo will continue to make music with variety and use whatever means necessary to make music that entertains, excites, envokes emotion, passion, moves and grooves!
Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz
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