Ah, the wonders of "On Demand"(trademark thingy here)cable programming! There is considerable contenet for music and musicians, though little of it is more than vanity pieces. The Celebrity Lessons portion featured some schmoes named "Dragonforce." I have heard their recordings and though, while technically impressive, was unlistenable- kind of like Super Nintendo's "Actraiser" audio track played at ten times speed. Their Celebrity Lesson was fucking laughable. The Asian guy plays a messy series of Amaj7 arpeggios in twelth position and, proclaiming "betcha can't play this!"(the new tagline of the young quasi-shredders that appear on this program), fawns over himself and the fact that it is NOT an A major arpeggio but something else...what's it called?...uhh...(messily plays sweep arpeggios of something like Amaj7)...ees gott eleventh frett, uhh...so ees different...uhh...

I'd rather see some memorable riffs, good songs, and the permanent unemployment of Cookie Monster from the Vocalists' Guild than the continual sledgehammer assault compositionally, tonally, and production-wise. Oh, while I'm on that subject, check out this link concerning...

The Death Of Dynamic Range (My computer skills suck, so the following will not appear as a hyperlink, but I'm still a mean Wiffle Ball player.)


http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htm