Originally Posted by Seerix

I've actually been thinking about this a lately for some reason, that I would like for bands to stop wallowing in low B-flat any day now and just play everything an octave higher like the ears can tolerate. Listening to old metal, E always seemed to be low enough, right? If you wanted to play a song in D you played the open D and it was fine. Thrash bands didn;t tune down every time they played in something other than E and we never expected them to do so. Now I am not knocking the low end, and I love it, but we've been low for so long that all of a sudden playing in E seems like some sort of new magical approach, almost to the point where I almost went home and clipped the B off my 5-string bass (but I didn't). One day I transposed The Jester Race to standard tuning and the spell was broken (if you thought old In Flames sounded like Iron Maiden before, try this yourself and it will keep you up at night).

I have been listening to stuff from when I was 7, 8, 9 years old lately. Right now the song "Southern Girls" by Cheap trick is playing. I have finally figured out what the fuck is going on. Somewhere my life got completely and utterly screwed up, and while I had simply accepted this fact for years, subconsciously I have been trying to figure out what actually went wrong for a while now. Apparently if I listen to enough of the old music and I do this in the correct order, I should be able to figure out exactly what happened and go back and fix it. Next up: Bob Seger's "Turn The Page." You know, the song Metallica totally fucked up.

Of course, Metallica is also turning back the clock with guitars in standard tuning, and they want to make sure you know it. With unflinching ego, they have opened the website http://www.missionmetallica.com and turned their recording project into a reality series. Now honestly I am glad to hear they are trying the same thing as me and retraced their own plummett by retuning their guitars to E and attempting to party like it's 1985 again, but all this guarantees is that we'll probably get another Black Album. We'll see which one of us straightens out our lives first, me or them, in a few months, but seeing as I haven't even gotten to the J Geils and Bruce Springsteen records yet I would say they have a pretty good headstart. Unlike them, however, if I fuck this up no one has to know

Originally Posted by Seerix

Well work got in the way as I was dealing with Live At Budokan (it still is a major disruption at the moment) and then my order got really messed up. This is EXTREMELY hard to do. I mean Cheap Trick songs are fine; I got no beef with the band's 70's output. Listening to said output is a different matter. I get through about 2-3 songs and I have to change it up to something totally different. Funny how the stuff sounds good as you run it through your head and then you put it on and it's like "what am I doing?" The Bob Seger stuff worked out nicely, and then I found myself listening to When The Eagle Flies by Traffic. (Going the wrong way)

What I need to do is map this out better. It doesn't mean the Cheap Trick gets left out, because lord knows it's probably the best choice I could make from that time this side of Joe Jackson or the Police, artists I still listen to now. There isn't really much point to simply listen to the "greatest hits" of my life. I do that anyway