Joe Oppenheimer - The Story of You, Live at the Phoenix

bloodnut said :

gospeedygo said :

kwpendragon said :

Really? I must say I’ve heard much more inspiring and entertaining stuff at The Phoenix. Why is it that when someone gets up and strums a bit and wails with a large group that it is suddenly musical genius?! Everything that is wrong with the live music scene in this town and why musicians with real talent can’t get a break. The proliferation of lazy music which all sounds the same – folk folk folk which I used to love but it is getting rapidly overdone and worn out. Yawn.

I agree with this guy/girl.

Suck it up kiddies.

While an iphone may not faithfully translate a musical ‘moment’, what you describe is not unique to Canberra. You can go out and pay 15 bucks to watch three acts and go home disappointed on any night, in any city in Australia.

And between you and me – if you’re playing music with an aspiration to get a ‘big break’, you’ve already got it all wrong guys. Sorry for all your future musical disappointments.

You’d think that with the proliferation of bands putting songs on myspace you would be able to tell if a band was shit or not.

But don’t listen to me as I would be disappointed with any Canberra band you could possibly show me. Its all pretty boring and uninspiring to me really.

gospeedygo said :

kwpendragon said :

Really? I must say I’ve heard much more inspiring and entertaining stuff at The Phoenix. Why is it that when someone gets up and strums a bit and wails with a large group that it is suddenly musical genius?! Everything that is wrong with the live music scene in this town and why musicians with real talent can’t get a break. The proliferation of lazy music which all sounds the same – folk folk folk which I used to love but it is getting rapidly overdone and worn out. Yawn.

I agree with this guy/girl.

Suck it up kiddies.

While an iphone may not faithfully translate a musical ‘moment’, what you describe is not unique to Canberra. You can go out and pay 15 bucks to watch three acts and go home disappointed on any night, in any city in Australia.

And between you and me – if you’re playing music with an aspiration to get a ‘big break’, you’ve already got it all wrong guys. Sorry for all your future musical disappointments.

Thanks, that’s my favourite Joe Oppenheimer song. Wish I’d been there.

kwpendragon said :

Really? I must say I’ve heard much more inspiring and entertaining stuff at The Phoenix. Why is it that when someone gets up and strums a bit and wails with a large group that it is suddenly musical genius?! Everything that is wrong with the live music scene in this town and why musicians with real talent can’t get a break. The proliferation of lazy music which all sounds the same – folk folk folk which I used to love but it is getting rapidly overdone and worn out. Yawn.

I agree with this guy/girl.

Really? I must say I’ve heard much more inspiring and entertaining stuff at The Phoenix. Why is it that when someone gets up and strums a bit and wails with a large group that it is suddenly musical genius?! Everything that is wrong with the live music scene in this town and why musicians with real talent can’t get a break. The proliferation of lazy music which all sounds the same – folk folk folk which I used to love but it is getting rapidly overdone and worn out. Yawn.

That was pretty awesome!