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« Reply #50 on: February 03, 2010, 08:28:23 pm » |
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I fear for the future children of America.
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« Reply #51 on: February 03, 2010, 10:08:47 pm » |
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i even heard of a scene calling themselfe Steamo´s a mix of stempunk and emo scary.. very scary... we shall all lock up the straight-razors, forthwith.... |
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« Reply #52 on: February 03, 2010, 10:28:49 pm » |
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i even heard of a scene calling themselfe Steamo´s a mix of stempunk and emo scary.. very scary... we shall all lock up the straight-razors, forthwith.... xDD haha yeah |
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« Reply #53 on: February 04, 2010, 04:51:31 am » |
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Let us just hope they don't start making Steamo music. It's already bad enough they make songs about crying because their girlfriend left them, we don't need songs about how she also took his airship.
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« Reply #54 on: February 04, 2010, 04:55:50 am » |
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Let us just hope they don't start making Steamo music. It's already bad enough they make songs about crying because their girlfriend left them, we don't need songs about how she also took his airship.
Ewww.... now it's starting to sound like "steam-country".  |
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« Reply #55 on: February 04, 2010, 04:25:20 pm » |
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Let us just hope they don't start making Steamo music. It's already bad enough they make songs about crying because their girlfriend left them, we don't need songs about how she also took his airship.
that REALLY made my day thanks to ya xD |
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« Reply #56 on: February 04, 2010, 04:48:37 pm » |
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Let us just hope they don't start making Steamo music. It's already bad enough they make songs about crying because their girlfriend left them, we don't need songs about how she also took his airship.
that REALLY made my day thanks to ya xD You'd think that as a banjo player, I'd be offended by the above, but actually, most of us clawhammer players (meaning clawhammer style on the banjo, not playing actual clawhammers - yes, I have been asked that question, lol) actually don't like modern country. There's a difference between that and Old-Time, which is what we play. And no, despite what "uncle Earl" (Earl Scruggs) says all the time, bluegrass is not the same thing. The reason he says that, and the reason why a lot of people believe it, is that Old-time predated bluegrass, which grew from great depression-era and earlier rural (notably a large contingent of appalachian) musicians, who played teh old-time style, moving from the country to the city, and encountering the clash between the two cultures, which led more often than not to strife and melancholia amongst the transplants, which is why so much of bluegrass and country sounds so (insufferably, in my view) sad and despondent. Old-time, on the other hand, is notably in large part what schoolchildrens of my generation (american, at least, though I have heard that a trove of equally-ancient tunes were done much the same with across the pond) used to sing in elementary school, and what some elementary school children still do sing. These are the tunes that one finds in period sheet music, the rags, the waltzes (the waltz was a rather plebian step long before the huge orchestras started playing tunes to match it), mazurkas, various and many other styles brought over from the old country (Europe; sorry, folks from the other side of the pond, I'm just emulating previous authors here). So , no: I actually agree with much if not all of what has been said above. The last thing we need is more "caterwauling cow-molesters" (what my cattle-raising uncle called people who sang cowboy music but had never raised a cow, but perhaps had posed with one whilst holding a guitar [eww]). |
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« Reply #57 on: February 04, 2010, 04:56:28 pm » |
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Out in the steampunk west, the giant clockwork robots are made out of gold instead of brass!
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« Reply #58 on: February 04, 2010, 05:02:45 pm » |
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LOL. I cringe to think what they might be putting in their airships' gasbags...
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« Reply #59 on: February 04, 2010, 05:38:09 pm » |
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Out in the steampunk west, the giant clockwork robots are made out of gold instead of brass!
errr... but not pure gold, or? |
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« Reply #60 on: February 04, 2010, 06:28:54 pm » |
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Steamwestern gunslinger ballads that's what we need. Marty Robinsesque songs about gun fighters wielding electrically primed pearl handled hoglegs flinging lead at one another in the center of town at high noon!
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« Reply #61 on: February 04, 2010, 07:14:42 pm » |
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I agree with the comment about modern country. It's rock n roll with a fake Southern accent. True country is the best. Like true metal. Nowadays, kids don't like looking into the past, but they do try to replicate it without any knowledge of it. That's why the heavy metal now sucks. True heavy metal is a bunch of nerds singing about their D&D campaigns. 3 Inches of Blood for example. Or Iron Maiden. Maiden is full of history geeks! Which is why they're my favorite. |
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« Reply #62 on: February 05, 2010, 02:14:14 am » |
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I could do with so-called "outlaw country" adapted to steampunk.
Johnny Cash (God rest his soul) singing the tale of an ill-fortuned lad who escapes hanging for murder by way of airship only to suffer vengence at the hands (claws?) of his victim (now a head attached to a whirring, steaming, multi-legged apparatus) would have been a classic.
Come and listen to the tale of Punchy McCard,
How his soul was burdened but his heart was hard.
The life he took was not the first or last.
He met his end upon those claws of brass.
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« Reply #63 on: February 05, 2010, 03:54:50 am » |
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I could do with so-called "outlaw country" adapted to steampunk.
Johnny Cash (God rest his soul) singing the tale of an ill-fortuned lad who escapes hanging for murder by way of airship only to suffer vengence at the hands (claws?) of his victim (now a head attached to a whirring, steaming, multi-legged apparatus) would have been a classic.
Come and listen to the tale of Punchy McCard,
How was soul was burdened but his heart was hard.
The life he took was not the first or last.
He met his end upon those claws of brass.
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« Reply #64 on: February 05, 2010, 04:32:12 am » |
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Scans pretty well to "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," MW...  ~T |
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« Reply #65 on: February 05, 2010, 04:34:56 am » |
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Scans pretty well to "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," MW... ~T Damned if it don't at that! Arvis |
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« Reply #66 on: February 05, 2010, 04:48:17 am » |
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Well, let's see how more of it does... Punch was raised on the Aether Line
Feedin' boilers hot as hell for a buck and a dime.
Ma was a drunk, Pa a wanted man in the north
And Puchy himself he took after 'em both.
He shot the boss over a bottle of rye,
Stole a rocket pack and took off to the sky.
Gather, hear the story of Punchy McCard,
His soul was mighty burdened but his heart was hard.
The life he took was not the first or last.
He met his end upon those claws of brass.While I am not copying the tune, the tone/style of what I have in my head can be found here and "All the Pretty Horses" by Calexico. |
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« Reply #67 on: February 05, 2010, 05:12:54 pm » |
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I really like where this is going, but while I like some Cash and such like, I've no ability to actually predict when I'll like country (and for me, its either love it or hate it, no in between at all). So I'll just join in with a rousing corrus of: Jayne! The Man they call Jayne! Oh, He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne.
Our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin'.
He saw the mudders' lament.
And he saw the Magistrate takin'
every dollar and leavin' five cents.
So he said: "You can't do that to my people."
said "You can't crush them under your heel."
So Jayne strapped on his hat
and in 5 seconds flat
stole everythin' Boss Higgins had to steal.
Oh, He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne.
Now here is what separates heroes
from common folk like you and I.
The man they call Jayne
he turned 'round his plane
and let that money hit sky.
He dropped it onto our houses
he dropped it into our yards.
The man they called Jayne
he stole away our pain
and headed out for the stars!
(Here we go!)
He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne... |
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« Reply #68 on: February 05, 2010, 05:16:26 pm » |
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utini you remindet me of the song from the clockwork-dolls black jack jezebel i just love it xD
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« Reply #69 on: February 05, 2010, 06:15:43 pm » |
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I want Bluegrass and Cajun Steampunk. AND i WANT IT NOW...  |
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« Reply #70 on: February 05, 2010, 11:07:15 pm » |
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I want Bluegrass and Cajun Steampunk. AND i WANT IT NOW... Grin SteamZydeco would, indeed, kick many rear-ends  Bluegrass has a firm basis in traditional British folk music - just add a century or 2 to include 19th Century "factory" music Think "Silicosis" with fiddles and clawhammer .. wow.... |
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