If beer could talk, that\'s what it would sound like

Yeah, LA definitely has its own charm. I could not find it after three months so I left (oddly enough) to go to Massachusetts.

Like Leith said, you are playing the wrong music if you want to make it in LA.

I\'ve already met plenty of people here, and I\'m not one to feed into stereotypes, but damned if they aren\'t mostly true about LA folks......most of the people I\'ve met so far are mindless, self-absorbed coke-freaks with a few decent people mixed in......And if I played in a jamband I would have never moved here from New England, but that\'s not exactly the kind of music we\'re playing.........anyways I was wasted when I posted this originally so I guess yall could just disregard it

Aside from the widespread narcissism, is there anything you like about the place?  I think I\'m actually headed to Long Beach/Hungtington Beach to hang with friends/relatives this coming weekend.  With 20+ million people, there is lots of cool stuff to see and do, though the never-ending sprawl of the decentralized monster kind of turns me off.  

The modest element present in most New Englanders can be hard to find down there.  I hear there are people who would rather be homeless with a new Mercedes than live within their means.  

What style of music is played by your band?

I\'m learning about LA on the go, I\'d never left the East coast before moving here.........however, I\'ve had to move 5 times in the last year and lived in an array of different environments back home, so I didn\'t see this as being a huge deal.  I think part of the problem is that I pretty much had to move where my friends/bandmates were going to locate being that they had previously lived in LA.....I landed in the Hollywood/West Hollywood area, living in a pretty decent neighborhood. Unfortunately, I\'ve discovered that this area of the city is where all the shitheads are centrally located.  Being as it is that LA is just so **** enormous, there\'s a huge cultural difference between Long Beach, Hollywood, Pasadena, etc. and literally every different community in and surrounding LA. Before I rattle off every stupid thing that bothers me about living here, I guess I\'m just a New Englander who dosen\'t like the "vibe" or attitude of almost all the people I\'ve met here.  People like to call the West Coast attitude "laid-back", but it\'s closer to apathetic, bored, and uninformed.  It\'s just not the place for me, and I couldn\'t have known that without giving it a shot. And again, I\'m just characterizing people in and around the Hollywood area, because I don\'t have enough experience with anywhere else to really know. If I had loads of money (or any at all), I would just move somewhere out here like Portland or San Fran. where there\'s actually still a decent music scene and decent people, but even the musicians in LA kind of blow. I figured in a city this big it would be easy to find solid musicians, but such is not the case. Apparently "Punk" and nu-metal are much bigger than I thought.  With all that said, there is an awful lot of **** to do all over the city, and I have no doubts the people of Long Beach are more down to earth than they are here in Hollywood. Then again, people are more down to earth everywhere else on the planet than Hollywood.  I could type about all this nonsense for days, but enough with the negativity trip already.........so my band plays a style which I\'d say is just straight forward rock with a heavy blues and funk influence, and a touch of reggae.  Think James Brown and The Meters meets Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy with a touch of Sublime.

go see ozomatli!

" People like to call the West Coast attitude "laid-back", but it\'s closer to apathetic, bored, and uninformed"

hahahahhaha. deffinitly true in many \'california hippies\', but not in all cases.

shake your ass party music

I just feel like a city with so many resources should be alot cooler than it is, that\'s all. I understand the whole "It\'s who you know" thing, but alot of other cities make the music scene work without the whole nose-in-the-air, secret password, special knock, secret handshake, pretentious nonsense. Besides, isn\'t the a big part of the idea of playing gigs to get as many people to your venues as possible and to expand your fanbase? It seems counterproductive for bands to work their asses off but have "private" guest lists and fixed numbers in the audience.  Maybe the breakfast spoiled me, but I would rather catch a gig at the Guilford Green any day of the week than act like I\'m friends with some **** so he can get me into a TurdBurgers concert ( I made that band up, btw). Anyways, I was lucky enough to score some Tenacious D tix for next week.

Look man, don\'t get offended.......I\'m sure this city is wonderful if you\'ve been out here for a while and you know plenty of people (or maybe not?) but it just ain\'t my kind of scene, and that\'s pretty much what my problem with LA is, it just dosen\'t fit my personality or tastes.