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You’ve run into a person, and this is very prevalent, who confuses something they do with who they are. It is a sign of a not wholly developed psyche. They internalize something they are better at than most people and integrate it into their personality, and it becomes part of their ego.
Either learn to let them stay confused in their ignorance, or say fuck it and burn a lot of bridges as you go through life. I’ve tried both approaches, and find the live-and-let-live approach better for me.
Heavy use of psychedelics decreases this phenomenon.
you were in a ska band? unfathomably based
the fact you did ska at all makes your folk punk much more credible :very-smart:
It’s actually better to have other interests, this leads to more avenues of expression to work from
I’ve worked in the music industry full time for 10+ years, worked with countless musicians and I’ve found “being a musician” to be pretty useless in terms of whether I get a long with someone lol
I think fundamentally interest in music is just too broad a category to meaningfully be useful. Everyone likes music and tons of people from all walks like it enough to get into playing it.
We can talk about some music stuff but outside of that it can get stale, and tbh in all my years I’ve never met someone who I was aligned with politically. I’ve gotten close but most people are reactionary chuds and libs and so are most musicians
The rant was very much anecdotal, I’ve also got a lot less experience than you obviously.
I do enjoy the conversation I sparked though.
For sure mine is as well. I may have had a bit better luck but I’ve met tons of dumbasses who happened to be musicians lol.
Hope you find some like minded musicians soon. Maybe there will be some at a local org or something?
Since covid risks are dying down and live music is coming back, I’m gonna try to attend a monthly manouche night that’s local, maybe get the nerve to join for some songs.
all of this is systemic to the ‘music theory’ intellectuals because it really is ‘the harmonic style of 18th century European musicians’ but they just don’t want to deal with critical takes on it
Lol I knew the exact video that you linked before I clicked on it.
I really think music theory needs to take the route of linguistics and try to analyze patterns in enjoyable music and try to figure out what makes something “music”. You are right that music theory right now is just a bunch of lanky white guys jacking each other off but it could be a lot more.
