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!
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FANTAZZMO- 1: ENTER THE FANTAZZ: Genre, what genre?
FANTAZZMO 1: ENTER THE FANTAZZ
Genre, what Genre?
Who cares about genres?
Why are there so many of them?
Who sits around and comes up with shit?
Do people that only listen one genre eat only one type of food?
Do they only have sex in one position?
Do they only listen to that genre for the rest of their lives?
I think not!
I'll agree there is some need for genres. Music stores, ways for people to categorize what they listen to and why they dress as they do, etc. But it seems to be taken to the extreme.
Classical, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip Hop. Blues, R&B, Gospel.
Most music can be put into these categories, if you want to get crazy ad a metal genre, world music, and maybe different languages.
Led Zeppelin played blues, blues rock, american folk, traditional, classical, middle eastern, pop, prog rock, elements of jazz, tropical, calypso, and many other styles of world music, all while under the name of Led Zeppelin. Did people freak out? No, they LOVED it!
The Beatles covered pop, rock, r&b, doo wop, elements of jazz, classical, middle eastern and many other types of world music and guess what.....they're still considered one of the greatest bands and greatest song writers of all time!
The Rolling Stones covered, pop, rock, blues, soul, r&b, delta blues, elements of jazz, classical, disco and other world music and they are and were one of the greatest bands of all time!
Jimi Hendrix covered, many blues stylings, rock, pop, soul, r&b, waltz and pushed the sonic envelope further than anyone could, and he is one of the greatest musicians who ever lived.
Do you see a pattern here? The greatest, most successful songwriters and musicians incorporate many different styles of genres into their music & so will I!
My heros did what they wanted, played what they wanted, and said what they wanted & Fantazzmo will do exactly the same. So don't take genres so seriously, you may only like one song on the album, or you maybe willing to enjoy the ride. I can only guarantee one thing, if you like any of the artists I like, if you share any of the same heros I do, then you will like AT LEAST ONE SONG ON THIS ALBUM. I guarantee it!
Genre, what Genre?
Who cares about genres?
Why are there so many of them?
Who sits around and comes up with shit?
Do people that only listen one genre eat only one type of food?
Do they only have sex in one position?
Do they only listen to that genre for the rest of their lives?
I think not!
I'll agree there is some need for genres. Music stores, ways for people to categorize what they listen to and why they dress as they do, etc. But it seems to be taken to the extreme.
Classical, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Rap/Hip Hop. Blues, R&B, Gospel.
Most music can be put into these categories, if you want to get crazy ad a metal genre, world music, and maybe different languages.
Led Zeppelin played blues, blues rock, american folk, traditional, classical, middle eastern, pop, prog rock, elements of jazz, tropical, calypso, and many other styles of world music, all while under the name of Led Zeppelin. Did people freak out? No, they LOVED it!
The Beatles covered pop, rock, r&b, doo wop, elements of jazz, classical, middle eastern and many other types of world music and guess what.....they're still considered one of the greatest bands and greatest song writers of all time!
The Rolling Stones covered, pop, rock, blues, soul, r&b, delta blues, elements of jazz, classical, disco and other world music and they are and were one of the greatest bands of all time!
Jimi Hendrix covered, many blues stylings, rock, pop, soul, r&b, waltz and pushed the sonic envelope further than anyone could, and he is one of the greatest musicians who ever lived.
Do you see a pattern here? The greatest, most successful songwriters and musicians incorporate many different styles of genres into their music & so will I!
My heros did what they wanted, played what they wanted, and said what they wanted & Fantazzmo will do exactly the same. So don't take genres so seriously, you may only like one song on the album, or you maybe willing to enjoy the ride. I can only guarantee one thing, if you like any of the artists I like, if you share any of the same heros I do, then you will like AT LEAST ONE SONG ON THIS ALBUM. I guarantee it!
Monday, October 25, 2010
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