Which leads me to wonder if the angst over band names might be a manifestation of a deeper set of frustrations about creativity and music. No matter what you play, it’s hard to distinguish yourself and it’s hard to get people to listen. Doing new things with the same old notes is hard, too—they’re not making any more of those, either.Especially that last sentence. Give it up, pluckers, it's been done already, & probably much better than you could do it.
UPDATE (moments later): AOL agrees: Music is over.
Spinner.com, a rock-music news site under the AOL Music banner, announced suddenly on Thursday afternoon that it was shutting down. Minutes later, it said in a tweet that the entire music editorial division of the media giant, which owns The Huffington Post, was closing, too.
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One thing I like about my gee-tar is that I *can* make new notes. Just fiddle with the string tension (either directly or via my left hand bending a string) and voila! Of course, then the peeps start whining about how my gee-tar playin' sounds like outta tune caterwauling, but they're just jealous.
- Badtux the "Creativity is overrated" Penguin
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
(All the good ones are already taken, twice at least.)
Obviously, you haven't been paying attention to Substance McGravitas over the years, old chum.
Creation Editor:
Hell, tuning is overrated. More that we think new combinations of notes are over. Ab-so-fuggin'-lutely all possible three-chord combos have been run into the ground.
And outsourcing to robots is no help.
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