Matt7

Indeed, I tell you that history is precisely made up of this... and you can't throw groups at me like that, claiming they've done great things... You pass off as great music something that has very little greatness to it. Technique is where it all starts: a composition cannot be made out of thin air, in what you've written, dear one, you don’t realize it, but you've shamelessly given me reason. Technique is the fundamental element from which everything begins. An artist is someone who CAN DO, not someone who just randomly tries and maybe manages to sketch something original... no... all the groups you mention were the initiators, but not the artists of the genre. Those who lay the foundations are merely the ones who give the cue to the artists. Look at the primitives: they made graffiti just to make them, but that is not art; it is merely the cue that the rest of the world and history would be inspired by.

hahaha.. I hit two birds with one stone!
Of course, technique is important in music! It's the first thing to start with: to compose a song, it’s not enough to know major, minor, and seventh chords... you need knowledge of harmony and composition, whether it’s jazz... classical, modern contemporary... otherwise, everything comes down to playing four well-placed little chords and passing it off as art...! Putting four little chords because they sound good is not art; it’s just flaunting incompetence presented as emotions, sensations, and inspirations... this is a reasoning that comes from someone who knows little about the rules of composition, harmony, and music as such. So should we contest all classical music because it’s technical? Does something technical necessarily have to be derivative and stupid, lacking originality and more? ...easy, filled with clichés you!... for you, technique is just showmanship while simplicity is art... and no.. simplicity is the most glaring symbol and symptom of a worrying technical-instrumental deficiency...

of course I am a fan of Dream Theater, and unfortunately for you, I’m one of the worst (I could be one of the best, but for you my race sucks!!)

Bob Dylan wrote beautiful songs, but he didn’t know how to play anything, just like the Beatles... do we want to consider the Nirvana great too? Or the Smashing Pumpkins? But they can’t do anything! What about the DT, who have a musical knowledge that puts all these little bands to shame. Stop trying to defend yourself by always telling me the same things. If I'm ridiculous, I want everyone to tell me, not just you... because you have the usual attitude of someone who doesn't know what to say anymore and just shoots crap at the person...

Well... if you judge quality by the mournful singing of Robert Smith, you will never, and I mean NEVER, understand the quality of the DT.

You don't need to listen more because I listen to everything and I know what I'm talking about.

A simple turnist Petrucci? Your ignorance borders on the absurd... go brush up on the ABCs of guitar and you'll understand that Petrucci is by no means a simple turnist, but has one of the most difficult styles to emulate. Then... remain in your belief... at this point even Satriani is a simple turnist (and mind you... Satriani doesn't do the things that Petrucci does,... although they are stylistically very different).

The history of music was also written by the Beatles, who didn’t know how to play, or by Bob Dylan, who just strummed away, and many others who, in reality, couldn’t play at all. Hats off to history.

Choose: either I have offended you, in which case I fully concede your point, or I have offended your favorite groups. Because from what you wrote, you say: "he thinks he's argued something significant when the only thing he was capable of saying is that the Velvet Underground (or Sonic Youth) are not a great band, and I still have a good laugh about it, poor guy :-D ... now it's pointless for you to keep saying utter nonsense, you are the one who has offended, whether you like it or not.. :-) to claim supposed rights to be in the right, you should have avoided the rubbish that remains written above.. I'm sorry :-) "... From this, it’s clear that you say I insulted you because I insulted your idols... continuing to say that I am talking nonsense, that I'm ridiculous and so on. I wonder...perhaps you are the one who doesn't know how to defend yourself anymore and doesn't know how to argue. I have substantiated my points, and maybe YOU are the one not wanting to understand them or ignoring them, climbing onto mirrors like someone who doesn't know how to extricate themselves and spewing nonsense, knowing they're utterly wrong. Now I am not yet angry, despite you saying more unpleasant things, and I continue to remain polite and civil, unlike you who sees yourself as the musical messiah and the only one with an immense and unquestionable (albeit highly debatable) culture. A little humility, dear easy.

But how dare you call me a poor thing? A little politeness, as no one insulted you; at least I didn’t. I reiterate the point: your bands have done nothing but make music more commercial, and today we've reached an incredible level of commercialization precisely because of "mediocre" bands like the Sonic Youth, the Cure, etc... and they invented nothing, and if you think about it, all the genres you listen to don’t have any significance other than that of rock in general.