Kid Bands

[spinal_compression]

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They might be good, but they can't compare to DragonForce, lol.

With age and experience comes talent and extremely over done guitar solos.

Rock on!

[Xack24]

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Listen to Joe Satriani, see him live in concert like I have, and then you'll know what it means to say, "I play guitar".

can play many of Steve Vai's solos with ease, yet I don't have a recording contract or a CD out.

Yay! Joe Satriani! And Steve Vai! Yes!
Anyway, I've never heard a kid band that was worth anything.

[AcaciaRain]

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So there's some 18 year old know it all. Hhmmm...never seen one of those before. So what makes you a musician is ripping on other musicians right? They are ONLY 11, and 12 years old you dork! Regardless, they have talent, they're young and have done more than it sounds like you ever will.

[OrganisM]

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Yay! Joe Satriani! And Steve Vai! Yes!
Anyway, I've never heard a kid band that was worth anything.

Steve Vai's actually my all-time favorite guitarist. I have his signature model Ibanez JEM. It's a beauty.

So there's some 18 year old know it all. Hhmmm...never seen one of those before. So what makes you a musician is ripping on other musicians right? They are ONLY 11, and 12 years old you dork! Regardless, they have talent, they're young and have done more than it sounds like you ever will.

I love how you march onto the forums like you own them, and then choose to insult me based upon my age. Your ad hominem attacks don't move me.

What makes me a musician is the fact that I'm skilled and classically trained on three instruments, and I'm skilled at composition. I've bought my own equipment and know how to use it to its full potential. I'm training to become even better.

They are young, stupid, and talentless. They'll never make it. You think they have anything going for them other than the novelty of their age?

And I find it particularly interesting how you also tell me based upon the fact that I dislike them that I won't get anywhere.

How about this:

When I do make it, I'll give you a special position shining my shoes.

Blow me.

[AcaciaRain]

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Oh, sorry, I had NO idea this was your forum. How rude of me to "march" in here and voice my opinions. If you think I'm insulting you about your age, you might want to take a look back on everything you wrote about kid bands.
Who's insulting who based on age?

They are young, that's right. Stupid? Can't answer that and you shouldn't assume something like that. That's just childish name calling. Whether they've made "it", that's to be determined. What, they've been a band like 8 months?

Can't accept your job offer, sorry. Need shiny shoes? What? Do you dance too?

[T3hDDRKid]

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So there's some 18 year old know it all. Hhmmm...never seen one of those before. So what makes you a musician is ripping on other musicians right? They are ONLY 11, and 12 years old you dork! Regardless, they have talent, they're young and have done more than it sounds like you ever will.

OrganisM wins.

I listened to The Flaming Monkeys, and they were bearable, but nowhere near good enough that I would buy anything from them.

I listened to Smoosh, and the singer seriously needed to go through puberty and give it another go. If I only had the music to go by, I would have difficulty determining the singer's gender. Good try, now get off the mic.

I'm currently listening to Squish, which is difficult to do, seeing as I have to simultaneously not vomit on my speakers.

I suck at most instruments, but I guarantee I could sing better than any of those children.

[OrganisM]

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Oh, sorry, I had NO idea this was your forum. How rude of me to "march" in here and voice my opinions. If you think I'm insulting you about your age, you might want to take a look back on everything you wrote about kid bands.
Who's insulting who based on age?

They are young, that's right. Stupid? Can't answer that and you shouldn't assume something like that. That's just childish name calling. Whether they've made "it", that's to be determined. What, they've been a band like 8 months?

Can't accept your job offer, sorry. Need shiny shoes? What? Do you dance too?

This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

[blargherness]

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Listened to all of them. Oh boy.
Smoosh - Singer sucks. Badly. No excuse, I've heard good kid singers before. And it's not just because he/she (lol) hasn't gone through puberty, it just sounds completely unprofessional. Music is okay...at times. At other times, it's pretty darn bad. Piano needs A LOT of work.
Squish - Not too great, but definitely not the worst. Music is stale. Singing...eh. Not the worst of the bunch. It is slightly sub-par though.
Flaming Monkeys - Quite tolerable. They need to concentrate on singing more than yelling, though. The song I listened to...Till I drop...that was better than I expected. They just REALLY need to refrain from yell-singing, it ruined it completely. It's still possible to put emotion into songs without doing what they did.
Tiny Masters of Today - No. JUST NO. Singing, WORST. OH MY GOD HORRID. No emotion, off-key, and unprofessional. Just HORRIBLE. I cannot stress that enough. Make sure you have emotion if you want to write a song called "Stickin' it to the man". Ok. I was typing this while I had some of their music on so I could better review their music. I just gagged. I'm not even kidding. I'm talking about "Stickin' it to the man". If anybody else here listened to this particular one, I can only hope you made it through okay. Sticking it. to the maaaaaaaan. stickin to the maaaaaaaaaan. stickin it to the maaaaaaaaan. Every daaaaaaaaaaay. AND ALL OF IT IS OFFKEY.
And their chords make me cringe. And they play the same damn chord again through the whole song. Every 4 seconds. That is a LOT of cringing.
They are utterly hopeless. UTTERLY. CAPITALIZATION.

Ratings because I feel like it.
Smoosh - 3.5/10
Squish - 3.5/10
Flaming Monkeys - 5/10 (Just stop yelling please. I don't care if your genre is punk rock.)
Tiny Masters of Today - 1.5/10

[madmatt621]

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Kids bands suck now in this time period.

PS. I need help to unscramble these letters into one word:

T P Y E R R A P

[g4z33b0]

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AcaciaRain. I say "probably" only because I haven't taken a guitar lesson in around 3 months, and if I said "I can definitely play better then them", it wouldn't be true, seeing as I have no basis for that statement. The probably is just my own comparison of my skill against theirs.

http://www.myspace.com/thescarletdivide - My friend Nick, Kevin, and Ben's band. In my opinion they are much better then any of the bands in the first post.

g4z33b0 can't give his opinion about music because he's not a musician

oh.

[badalsharpton]

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This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

hey hey hey, what is all of the name calling and crapping on each other about?! Acacia Rain (sounds like a hot name - I hope you're not a 45 year old hairy man) is only saying that these kids obviously have enough talent to book TV shows and big gigs. All that ORGAMIC is saying is that he thinks he is better than other musicians that are younger than him. I am not sure if he feels inadequate or something, but that is a pretty tall statement. So enough immaturity.
Check this link out and then tell me if you guys are better than their guitarist. I found it when I was looking into Squish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDaKIDYrKQ
I have been playing guitar for two years and this kid is better than me.
Looks like they are endorsed by Peace Drums and Heelys shoes too.
I say give them props where props are due. If they are charging for concerts and getting it, then that goves them more clout at the age of 12 than 99% of other bands out there playing for beer and cigarettes.

[badalsharpton]

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This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

hey hey hey, what is all of the name calling and crapping on each other about?! Acacia Rain (sounds like a hot name - I hope you're not a 45 year old hairy man) is only saying that these kids obviously have enough talent to book TV shows and big gigs. All that ORGASMIC is saying is that he thinks he is better than other musicians that are younger than him. I am not sure if he feels inadequate or something, but that is a pretty tall statement. So enough immaturity.
Check this link out and then tell me if you guys are better than their guitarist. I found it when I was looking into Squish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDaKIDYrKQ
I have been playing guitar for two years and this kid is better than me.
Looks like they are endorsed by Peace Drums and Heelys shoes too.
I say give them props where props are due. If they are charging for concerts and getting it, then that gives them more clout at the age of 12 than 99% of other bands out there playing for beer and cigarettes.

[sciron37]

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w/e if they can rock out, they deserve my respect regardless of age.

[badalsharpton]

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Listened to all of them. Oh boy.
Smoosh - Singer sucks. Badly. No excuse, I've heard good kid singers before. And it's not just because he/she (lol) hasn't gone through puberty, it just sounds completely unprofessional. Music is okay...at times. At other times, it's pretty darn bad. Piano needs A LOT of work.
Squish - Not too great, but definitely not the worst. Music is stale. Singing...eh. Not the worst of the bunch. It is slightly sub-par though.
Flaming Monkeys - Quite tolerable. They need to concentrate on singing more than yelling, though. The song I listened to...Till I drop...that was better than I expected. They just REALLY need to refrain from yell-singing, it ruined it completely. It's still possible to put emotion into songs without doing what they did.
Tiny Masters of Today - No. JUST NO. Singing, WORST. OH MY GOD HORRID. No emotion, off-key, and unprofessional. Just HORRIBLE. I cannot stress that enough. Make sure you have emotion if you want to write a song called "Stickin' it to the man". Ok. I was typing this while I had some of their music on so I could better review their music. I just gagged. I'm not even kidding. I'm talking about "Stickin' it to the man". If anybody else here listened to this particular one, I can only hope you made it through okay. Sticking it. to the maaaaaaaan. stickin to the maaaaaaaaaan. stickin it to the maaaaaaaaan. Every daaaaaaaaaaay. AND ALL OF IT IS OFFKEY.
And their chords make me cringe. And they play the same damn chord again through the whole song. Every 4 seconds. That is a LOT of cringing.
They are utterly hopeless. UTTERLY. CAPITALIZATION.

Ratings because I feel like it.
Smoosh - 3.5/10
Squish - 3.5/10
Flaming Monkeys - 5/10 (Just stop yelling please. I don't care if your genre is punk rock.)
Tiny Masters of Today - 1.5/10

Dude, you are crackin me up. I loved the gagging comment. Post on brother.
Smoosh, 3/10
Squish - 7/10
Tiny Masters 1/10
Monkeys 3/10
Most every other rock band I have heard in bars, clubs and dives 2/10

[badalsharpton]

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This may not be my forum, but it sure as hell isn't yours either. It's not rude to voice opinions, it's rude for you to be a ridiculously pretentious asshole.

In addition, you insulted me solely based upon age.

It does not matter if they were thirty years old, their music is garbage and requires no talent. The only reason they exist is because of their age. The fact that they are still kids makes their playing in a band a novelty, even if their playing sucks. And it allows for their parents to conveniently pay for everything.

Careful what you say about the offer now; I might be too hot to extend it again someday.


And another thing, this is the Tiny Masters' claim to fame, straight from their website:

"In the intervening years, their sound has matured to the point where several songs actually exceed one minute in length."




Congrats for supporting the cookie-cutter mediocrity of the industry. Churning out albums and singles at a young age instead of getting to be any good? How can you compare the skills of real bands to these pitiful excuses for musicians?

And for whichever band it was that has had two or three albums released already when the kids are 14 years old, ouch. That's pathetic. They're contributing to the loads of **** the industry has been clogged up with. Interesting how society adores mediocrity, as do you.

One more thing. I actually did a little searching around on the net before I made statements. The Smoosh girls father is a doctor, and they toured with the Eels. With a sound like that they have to go on novelty alone and I am guessing that their father put up the $$ to pay their way on the tour, because there is no way that if I owned a label and put them on tour that they would be able to break even on their own. They just arent that good. But he wth a keyboard and drum set only, set up is fast.
I read nothing about any of the other kids parents having money. Not from the Flaming Monkeys, Tiny Masters, or Squish. So you cant just make a blanket statement about their parents pushing them to popularity through money like Vanilla Ice and Paris Hilton where talent = 0, but money equals millions and billions.
OK, I correct myself a bit. The drummers father of Squish does own a small music store. But after searching that out on the net, the music store is really small and pretty much insignificant. Knowing what i know about small businesses, especially music stores, competing with the online E giants like Musicians Friend, I am betting he makes a blue collar wage in that store if he is turning a real profit at all.
So without that info, you have to assume they got where they did through hard work, persistence and appealing to the crowd. By the way, I just called and bought a Squish CD. MP3s suck in quality I have found. When a discerning ear is listening it is blatant.