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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: Soulicious467 on January 08, 2006, 06:23:02 am
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sorry guys, but as a southerner who moved to New England, I can\'t possibly imagine how LA could be worse than Mass...
New England was most definitely NOT the place for me.
Hey Marcial, you seem very confused. You should just go home if you don\'t like this town..........
I did, guy! Note my location.
Don\'t get me wrong, I had fun while I lived there & made some great friends... still come to visit at least once a year.
I couldn\'t take the weather, the grimey industrialized CT coast, the fact that everything was dirty, and OLD (some like to call this "character" or "quaintness", but I call it old... give me a new apartment with central heat & air, good water pressure and good insulation over a drafty, radiator ridden, no water pressure, 75 year old house that has been divided into 5 apartments anyday). Also, for the most part, people from the Northeast are about as far removed from "southern hospitality" as is possible.
It all boils down to what you are used to... take a redneck from Alabama and put them in Northeastern city... no good. Take a liberal Masshole & drop them somewhere in the bible belt... also no good.
Hey man, I was just joking about that go home comment. You\'re right about what you say here........but ya know, although I am a liberal jerk-off from Massachusetts, i didn\'t find the South all that unpleasant when I was there. I did notice a little bit of hostility about being a Yankee from quite a few folks when I vacationed with my parents when I was a kid, but nobody gave me a hard time when I was visting my boy and hanging with all his friends. With that said, I think the Southern Hospitality thing should come with an asterisk, noting that "Southern Hospitality" generally only applies to white southerners. I was a little shocked at the level of racism that still exists in ole\' Dixie (or at least in Charleston, I suppose it could be different in other places??) so, uh, rock out with your ****.....floppin\'
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I\'d rather be in Amsterdam ;)
:that:
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I\'d rather be in Amsterdam ;)
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What do you think would happen to the south after the north destroyed it and never rebuilt following the Civil War? We obviously couldn\'t make it better then the north.
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"Also, for the most part, people from the Northeast are about as far removed from "southern hospitality" as is possible"
THey are also far removed from the inbreeding, ignorance, lack of culture and low mental capacity commonly found among southerners!
(this thread is already a \'my geographic region is better than yours\' pissing contest, figured I mite as well join the fun ;))
^true dat...moving from ny down to va was quite a change. there is a completely different mentality here that is nothing like the northeast at all. i personally can\'t wait to move back up..the south is weird on so many levels.
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Better watch out Klout, you may be "annoying" some southerners ;)
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"Also, for the most part, people from the Northeast are about as far removed from "southern hospitality" as is possible"
THey are also far removed from the inbreeding, ignorance, lack of culture and low mental capacity commonly found among southerners!
(this thread is already a \'my geographic region is better than yours\' pissing contest, figured I mite as well join the fun ;))
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sorry guys, but as a southerner who moved to New England, I can\'t possibly imagine how LA could be worse than Mass...
New England was most definitely NOT the place for me.
Hey Marcial, you seem very confused. You should just go home if you don\'t like this town..........
I did, guy! Note my location.
Don\'t get me wrong, I had fun while I lived there & made some great friends... still come to visit at least once a year.
I couldn\'t take the weather, the grimey industrialized CT coast, the fact that everything was dirty, and OLD (some like to call this "character" or "quaintness", but I call it old... give me a new apartment with central heat & air, good water pressure and good insulation over a drafty, radiator ridden, no water pressure, 75 year old house that has been divided into 5 apartments anyday). Also, for the most part, people from the Northeast are about as far removed from "southern hospitality" as is possible.
It all boils down to what you are used to... take a redneck from Alabama and put them in Northeastern city... no good. Take a liberal Masshole & drop them somewhere in the bible belt... also no good.
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sorry guys, but as a southerner who moved to New England, I can\'t possibly imagine how LA could be worse than Mass...
New England was most definitely NOT the place for me.
Hey Marcial, you seem very confused. You should just go home if you don\'t like this town..........oh, I mean, that\'s cool.....it ain\'t easy moving from the South to New England. One of my best friends lives in Charleston, SC and I\'ve never had a better time in my life than when I went down there to visit.....and how the hell do you Southerners manage to drink so much booze and not become disgustingly obese? I\'m still trying to figure that one out.....
I think that Souletc. might have the balls to survive. LA is definitely what you make of it. MAKE a scene and once word gets around people like yourself will find it and come to it. 80% of the people who show will be trend-followers that will clear out when the next hot thing comes along but those who remain can be very valuable.
Self-promotion is key in such a sprawling city. Good thing is that Hollywood is a magnet for musicians and freaks. Btw what do you play in the band?
I\'m the singer, and play a little bit of rhythm guitar as well
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sorry guys, but as a southerner who moved to New England, I can\'t possibly imagine how LA could be worse than Mass...
New England was most definitely NOT the place for me.
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Soulicious467 you are very confused. You Mind as well go back home since you don\'t seem to belong in this town.
Chill out SoHo. You fuckin\' mayor of L.A. ? sheesh. lol
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I think that Souletc. might have the balls to survive. LA is definitely what you make of it. MAKE a scene and once word gets around people like yourself will find it and come to it. 80% of the people who show will be trend-followers that will clear out when the next hot thing comes along but those who remain can be very valuable.
Self-promotion is key in such a sprawling city. Good thing is that Hollywood is a magnet for musicians and freaks. Btw what do you play in the band?
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Soulicious467 you are very confused. You Mind as well go back home since you don\'t seem to belong in this town.
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Sup Joe?
What\'s up Lindo
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Sup Joe?
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Easy now, you don\'t have to wet your pants over it.........oh, and another thing....all yall LA people are way too sensitive and easily offended. I can\'t even bust balls out here without someone crying and threatening to sue. The traffic sucks, the weather is terrible, it never stops snowing here, there are all these little trolls running around in the sewers singing God Bless the Queen, No one eats steak, I bought some Oranges last week and Mike Watt jumped out of one and slapped me with his bass and flew away on his golden wings, I called the LAPD about a break-in at my apartment and they showed up and whipped me with leather guitar straps, and they were all humming "Shiny Happy People" (some of them were singing that awesome tune, MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM) and Jesus made me a chef salad but didn\'t use enough lettuce so I was like, "yo Jesus, what up wit dat, boyee??" and Jesus was all like, "if you don\'t like the salad, my fair maiden, then just stick your finger down your throat, that\'s what Lindsay does" and then he was like "Who\'s the man with the master plan, a nigga with a muthaf***in\' gun" so I asked if he was friends with Dre and he was all, "yeah, but that Warren G is one hell of a blackjack dealer, I owe him 50 G\'s" so I was like..............oh ****, that was just the dream i had last night......
I think I\'m done with this thread......unless you want some more of that, sucka
Soulicious you just need to bail L.A. If you want to stay in Cali. check out S.F or if you want to really play music come on down to S.D. Lots of places to play for smaller bands. Cool local music scene all kinds of music being explored.
Leith I\'ve heard mucho good things about S.F., San Diego and especially Portland, OR lately......I feel like it\'s at least worth checking out eventually, and if I had my pick of which city to come to initially I would\'ve prob. gone to San Francisco.....but alas, no money, more problems
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Soulicious you just need to bail L.A. If you want to stay in Cali. check out S.F or if you want to really play music come on down to S.D. Lots of places to play for smaller bands. Cool local music scene all kinds of music being explored.
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If it is not your scene, leave. You are one less person to clog up the roads.
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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.
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As a working musican, I can not help you.
As for the you have to "pay" to get in statment, you are wrong. The music scene/events/concerts is by invite only, and it\'s like that for a good reason.
You have lived in this town long enough to know that you do not pay to get into events.
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shake your ass party music
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There is a great music scence in LA, you just have to get invited and know the right people. Any given night there is a CAA event going on where Stevie Wonder or other musicans are playing.
The bottom line is: This town is what you make of it, not what you think of it.
Like I previously stated, I\'m not rich. Therefore I can\'t afford nor would i want to, 200 dollar tickets to see Stevie Wonder or whatever overpriced musicians happen to be playing in LA this week. Furthermore, the term "music scene" in which it was to be meant has NOTHING to do with which mainlining acts are playing. Truth is, the current mainliners (you know, U2, Britney Spears, Usher, all the truly great ones) play in Boston, Providence, New York, etc. as much as they do LA or anywhere else. The term is applied to availiabilty and desire of MUSICIANS starting or progressing with their own careers, what GENRES of music are most popular and most desired by the public, What type of music is selling or being given an opportunity to thrive in the given community, accessability of GOOD music to the community devoid of who sucks Val Kilmer\'s **** or drives a 7 series BMW to get in, so forth and so on. And you\'re assertion that you just have to get invited or know the right people is EXACTLY the type of attitude that makes the music scene weak right now in LA.....That\'s the antithesis of any good music scene. Again, I\'ve checked out enough of the gigs so far to see that you need a serious affinity for Emo, pseudo punk, nu-metal and whatever else kind of bullshit noise they call music these days if you want to enjoy a show here. Sorry to be so negative and all, but if you care to point out all the wonderful things this city has to offer a working musician, fire away.
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.
Ozomatli?? What kind of music do they play?
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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.
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There is a great music scence in LA, you just have to get invited and know the right people. Any given night there is a CAA event going on where Stevie Wonder or other musicans are playing.
The bottom line is: This town is what you make of it, not what you think of it.
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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.
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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?
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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
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The problem at hand is that you do not know anyone. Get to know some people and watch a whole new world open up.
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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.
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That\'s what you get for moving to L.A.
If you play heady music L.A. IS not the place for you.
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If beer could talk, that\'s what it would sound like ;)
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Hey yall......I\'m Joe, longtime breakfast fan and new poster on the site..recently moved to LA area with some buddies from Mass/RI area to pursue music career, however, this place blows cockgoblins. thinking about moving back home already, hopefully in time to catch some more breakfast seeing as it\'s been nearly a year since my last encounter......I had a blast singing whipping post with Tim at Richters last May, anyways this is just incessant rambling nonsense at 3 in the morn\' (6ET) out here in hollywood whatever blahhhhhhhhsnootchie bootcies thanx for puttin up with this goodnight