zanecarney:

Here is my slightly-re-edited-twitter-rant take on musical content these days :-) A very sloppy and thrown together debut Tumblr post but it’ll have to do as I run out the door to go to Spidey:

Finally watching Lana Del Rey’s SNL performance - a singer singing without auto tune making awesome music…am I missing something? Love it - I think she sounds amazing…raw, tender and as a discerning musical listener I’m having trouble hearing any glaring pitch problems…perhaps moments of breathiness are being mistaken as out of tune by a public that can’t even tell the difference anymore? I believe pitch is only a problem if it hinders the listener’s ability to appreciate the intent and Lana’s performance only enhanced the melody and movement for me - similar to when a guitarist bends to a note rather than going to the next fret perhaps?…

I think it’s sad that our country will turn a blind eye/support/not know the difference between the TERRIBLE auto tuned junk on the radio and actual music and then jump on a bandwagon that hates on the real music that Lana is making. Our country needs a musical revolution…

I hope we can get away from the auditory pornography and find beauty in truthful music again - we have to stop supporting the garbage with $. Almost off my soapbox: not supporting garbage music with $ might mean not going to clubs/bars that play said music…can we boycott?…

To clarify, what rubs me the wrong way is music that is mainly meant to be played by DJ’s at loud clubs and spreads a message of lust, greed, covetousness, hate, and degradation. Most “hits” these days have at least one of these if not all…

The problem is, the message is wrapped up in an easy to sing along chorus so people/kids are singing these lies and subconsciously taking notice all while a few special artists sing songs that can uplift, encourage truthful love, and even help cope. If we decide to get drunk at places that support these terrible and isolating messages they’ll continue to find similar kinds of music to play and radio will continue to pump it out to remind us of our night before and to encourage us to do it again. Music is the marionette for advertisement these days - should be so much more…

The problem to me is how subtle the messages are these days - it’s not always blatantly degrading to women but it will praise an unhealthy codependent relationship (read: No Air (whose melody I love!) or Bad Romance (whose leading tone V6/vi to vi movement I love!) or continue to remind the masses that bottle service and more women = more pleasure/a better life. So unfortunate that we’ve come so far as a human race and still want to fall for the same traps - when I say we, I mean all of us including me! Just like pornography to sex, we have mass proliferated a side of music that lacks intimacy, reality and truth in place of a sensationalized fantasy that will never fulfill or bring peace.

And NOW I’m done! Apologies for clogging feeds - perhaps it’s time for Tumblr… ;-) Nothing but love for anyone disagreeing/agreeing :-)

Amen! 

(Source: inthesebones)

supersatellite:

Carney - Tomorrow’s Another Day

ZANE CARNEY

1: Who am I?

The fact that I don’t know whether to be funny, fictional, factional, or a combination of all three with this answer probably gives the best hint. I like thinking? Wow, that’s about the best I can do…

2: What do you do and what project are you currently working on?

I play lead guitar in Carney andSpider-Man: Turn Off The Dark on Broadway. So, I’m a guitarist by day and guitarist by night which makes me a very lucky guy.

3: Where are you from and where are you going?

I’m from NYC, moved to LA, moved back to NYC, and I’m slowly making my way to somewhere in the deep south that involves some sort of Main Street and a lake.

4: Who is your biggest hero?

Long answer: musically, there a so many. Lots of guitarists -Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Page, Joe Pass, Django Reindhart, Bill Frisell, Ry Cooder, Buddy Guy, the list could go on for a while. Lots of composers and orchestrators as well. My love for jazz music has turned blossomed into a love for digging as deeply as I can into any musical moment. I think that’s why I love “classical” music so much. You know when you had that one record that you could play a thousand times and hear something new each go around? Well, when you have 80-100 instruments involved and someone with a deep and passionate musical mind exploring new possibilities (this is what I think of when I think of “classical” music that utilizes an orchestra of some sort) you can play that record a million times. I think that energy and newness is my hero.

Short answer: Kobe Bryant. Love how self-motivated he is. I wish I was more like that.

5: What book is your bible?

Although I’m deeply entrenched in my searching-for-answers-and-truths phase, I would still say The Bible would be that book for me. While from some vantage points it seems to have lots of inconsistencies, I’ve rarely picked it up and flipped to a random page without feeling some sense of hope. And I feel that it speaks it’s core moral/love concepts very lyrically and beautifully through its stories and parables.

6: What are some things you love?  And some things you hate?

I love: having a guitar in my hands especially when I’m alone and free to explore and learn new things, listening to orchestral music too loud in my room, having the NFL back after the lockout, more romantic comedies than I should, space to think, space to move so I can be productive, the 5% of the time where I really AM productive, coming up with a guitar part to an already great song that helps express the song even just a teeny bit more, and the idea of owning a white house where I can listen to 1930′s jazz as I look into a Southern midsummer’s eve while doing the dishes (I stole this idea from The Notebook I think…).

I hate: anger and the iPhone auto-corrections that caused the anger in the first place.

7: What is your raison d’être?

To get to the point where I don’t have to Google “raison d’être” to learn that it apparently is NOT pronounced “raisin day-EAter.” Wait, I have to Google it again to figure out what it actually means…

In all seriousness though, I guess I would say I have no idea. I have dreams and goals but I’m not quite sure why I’m actually on this planet–I’m not convinced that anyone can know the exact reason for his or her existence. In fact, the idea of people not knowing their exact purpose but still fulfilling it excites me, so hopefully that’s true?

Wow, totally dodged the question; the answer is not guitar or music, I can tell you that, even though I love both of those things passionately. Hmm, I’ll have to think about that one for another couple of decades before I have the sketch of an answer.

8: What is your favorite color?

Blue. Reeve chose red and I chose blue when we use to watch Double Dare as kids – actually he chose red so I was forced to choose blue. Oh, older siblings, you get us every time!

9: Who is your favorite comic book superhero?

Superman. In fact, I think he is the only superhero that made it onto a birthday cake for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love the duality stories that Batman and Spider-Man have. They’re a little easier to relate to because they struggle with a lot of demons and real human experiences, but the idea of a superhero being pretty much invincible excited me a lot more as a kid I think…

10: What is your favorite NYC hot spot?

Before I lived in NYC for this second go around as an adult, I would always get Ray’s on 11th and 6th and Gray’s Papaya in the village before heading back home to LA, so maybe a tie between those two?

11: What turns you on?

Gentle kindness.

12: What would the last question of this questionnaire be if you were the one asking?

What song are you listening on your iPhone right now as you finish typing this last question/answer? And my response would be:

Wes Montgomery’s “Full House” of the album of the same name. So good, but “S.O.S.” is my favorite song on this album. Wow, I totally answered that question as though someone actually asked it…what a weirdo!

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source  :http://pmc-mag.com

flamingsun:

Carney - Think of You