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<!--QuoteBegin-njdrummer+10-21-2003 01:53 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (njdrummer @ 10-21-2003 01:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Said Eyes person,
I read the reply you posted on my thread for my bands show this past weekend. In case anyone missed it here it is:
1 - you don't know anything about what we do besides this. For you information I DO some of my own stuff besides this. And I am a trained musician. I have studied with several teachers that are professional musicians for a number of years.
2 - Are you even a musician?
3. Where do you get off calling me and my band "second rate" musicians when you don't even know us or have even heard us - ESPECIALLY if you aren't a musician yourself...try getting a clue before making insulting comments like that and taking potshots.
4. All I am doing here is promoting my band for the Creed fans here since thats what we do is play Creed tunes. I've never said a negative thing EVER in any of my posts about any other musician no matter what they do whether it be play original material or covers. So I guess you just found the need to be negative...
5. Why don't you just keep your insults to yourself. You have every right to think we are "2nd rate" musicians, but there is no need to broadcast your negative opinions to everyone else. [/b][/quote]
Those are all fair points I guess. Its just my point of view dude. If you're doing your own stuff, how 'bout we get a chance to hear it! Who's your band? Where/when are you playing? Got any samples? Any music coming out for radio? Any EP or LP releases?
My opinion on cover bands being second rate still remains, however.
I am a musician actually (although I use the term loosely), I play bass. I have heard some of your music, downloaded from your website. I still think if your main claim to fame at the moment is for being in a cover band, then you are second rate. Show me some stuff from your original band and I'm prepared to listen and hey, I might even like it. Who knows.
Meanwhile, this is a bulletin board, it's meant for broadcasting opinions, negative or otherwise. If I do have a negative thing or if someone else does, I'd want myself or them to speak up, in fact I'd expect no less. Life isn't all sunshine and rainbows, neither is this BB.
As a side note, like facelessman, I absolutely love it when bands I see through in an unexpected cover. Its just cover bands who play nothing but covers that I think are second rate. Creed themselves started out as a cover band (although you guys are more a tribute thing, which, while slightly different still makes me think of you as second rate), and I'd have had the same opinion until I'd have heard some of their own stuff - just like your own band.
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