Lucky 13

Skill. Luck. You need both, plain and simple. Without skill, any luck you have will turn bad eventually. Any skill you have needs a little luck or nothing happens. I find that most bands who have a lot of skill may seem like they don't need a lot of luck but I'm sure that they do/did. Take Metallica, they have been around for a long time and they will always have a mass of fans, but think back to when they first started. They probably needed to be lucky finding people that liked what they did. Vice versa for bands bands like Pussycat Dolls, they had a lot of luck to end up where they are today, but without some cetain amount of skill they wouldn't have made it at all.

For almost all bands(ex. Hardcore metal bands) they are all lucky that they had the band Death pave the way for them, or else they might not exist today. MIGHT being the oprative word. I'm sure some band would have made it but it sure would have been harder nowadays. The same thing goes for a lot of rockbands and pop bands. Their genre wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for jazz bands back in the day. So thats a lucky break for them. So, in my opinion if your gonna be great you do need a certain degree of luck, but without skill, well lets just say there is such a thing as bad luck to. And those are my thoughts on luck and skill in the music industry.

The Second Slap On The Snare

This rant may sound a lot like Caitlin's but I really need to get this out of me and into the atmosphere. People who say certain music sucks. I have a few choice words for those people and I'm going to say them in the most school and age appropriate way I can right now. You motherf$#* sons of #&%* a#@holes can go f$#* yourself with your conservative a#@hole attitude and inconsiderate regards and comments. Just because you don't enjoy that music does not mean that you have the right to verbally bash it in front of someone who enjoys it. If you want to sit at home and mutter to yourself about how much you hate it go right ahead, in fact I encourage it, it's healthy to vent that stuff out. That doesn't mean that you should go ahead and say it in public in front of people who might actually enjoy it. For example, I like listening to Goo Goo Dolls. I like listening to their music and I like their sound. Then someone comes along and says, " Wow , what is this $h!%, turn it off". Being the person I am, I'll turn it off but it really hurts when someone says that one of the things I love most in this world is $h!% (not saying I love Goo Goo Dolls the most in the world) It really hurts and I don't think that it's cool to hurt people. There are exemptions to that statement but I won't get into that. And that's my rant. It was a little shorter than the last one but I did swear a lot more in this one so it compensates.