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No poll. Polls are gay. They keep getting bumped to the top even though no one posted anything.
Anyway, I don't like much country. I detest what passes for country these days for sure. I grew up in appalachia, so I always rebelled against it. Now I sort of embrace it - at least the old stuff. Recently CMT started rerunning Hee Haw and I have been watching it in small doses when I see it's on.
George Jones and Roy Clark with bag-assed mutton chops. Jim Stafford. Buck Ownens, God rest his soul. Nothing wrong with that.
Two minutes ago, I think I saw the death of true roots American music that we called country:
Garth Brooks.
When I think about the commercial, cross-over success of Garth, I can just picture the wheels turning in the record execs head. I can see the greed in their eyes. It was when they decided that rural folks and truck drivers weren't enough and they went after that mainstream pop dollar.
I guess this will end up being a "Country sucks" thread. As a guitar player and a performer, I can truly appreciate Hee Haw and what it represented to me as a pre-teen wanting to get into music. But I can also see how the country music manufacturing industry has really been turned into the equivalent of fiberglass rocks in a fake cave at Universal Orlando.
Just to further tie this to the "Who destroyed metal" thread, I have heard from various sources that all the hair metal shredders from the 80s that lost their gigs when money left metal moved to nashville and now play on all the country records. I did a sub gig once for a pop country band and had to learn that awful toby keith song "How do you like me now". The guitar solo in that thing is fricking impossibly hard. Could have been played by a head banger for sure.
Maybe it's up for debate. Do you think today's country is especially shitty compared to country before Garth? Maybe you think it's better. Maybe you think it always sucked and always will. I just wanted to bang out how much I hate what garth did to the institution.
Anyway, I don't like much country. I detest what passes for country these days for sure. I grew up in appalachia, so I always rebelled against it. Now I sort of embrace it - at least the old stuff. Recently CMT started rerunning Hee Haw and I have been watching it in small doses when I see it's on.
George Jones and Roy Clark with bag-assed mutton chops. Jim Stafford. Buck Ownens, God rest his soul. Nothing wrong with that.
Two minutes ago, I think I saw the death of true roots American music that we called country:
Garth Brooks.
When I think about the commercial, cross-over success of Garth, I can just picture the wheels turning in the record execs head. I can see the greed in their eyes. It was when they decided that rural folks and truck drivers weren't enough and they went after that mainstream pop dollar.
I guess this will end up being a "Country sucks" thread. As a guitar player and a performer, I can truly appreciate Hee Haw and what it represented to me as a pre-teen wanting to get into music. But I can also see how the country music manufacturing industry has really been turned into the equivalent of fiberglass rocks in a fake cave at Universal Orlando.
Just to further tie this to the "Who destroyed metal" thread, I have heard from various sources that all the hair metal shredders from the 80s that lost their gigs when money left metal moved to nashville and now play on all the country records. I did a sub gig once for a pop country band and had to learn that awful toby keith song "How do you like me now". The guitar solo in that thing is fricking impossibly hard. Could have been played by a head banger for sure.
Maybe it's up for debate. Do you think today's country is especially shitty compared to country before Garth? Maybe you think it's better. Maybe you think it always sucked and always will. I just wanted to bang out how much I hate what garth did to the institution.
