Red Hot Chili Peppers

Now I'm probably going to be barraged and hated for saying this but I do not like the Red Hot Chili Peppers at all. Their first album is the only one I can tolerate because of the funky bass riffs, which are the only thing good about the Red Hot Chili Peppers in my opinion. But other than that, all of their songs are monotone and boring. The singer is really what kills it for me. He sings the same note throughout every single one of his songs because he has no singing talent. If the band had a real singer, maybe I would like them, but listening to the same note of the same boring voice in every song is just annoying. I do like Flea though, he is a tremendous bassist with some real talent, he really should stay in a real band like Atoms for Peace and get away from the Red Hot Chili Peppers at all possible costs.

Might Get Loud

The movie Might Get Loud was pretty good, mostly cause it had my favorite guitarist in it, Jimmy Page. But I also like Jack White in the White Stripes, he's pretty talented seeing how he can make a world famous band with only himself and a drummer. But the other guitarist from U2 I don't really care for, I don't like the band he's in or been impressed with any of his guitar skills, and he definitely shouldn't be compared to, or even put side by side with Jimmy Page. But the movie was alright, I don't really know what to say about it besides that I liked that Jimmy Page was in it.

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd is my favorite 70's band and in my top 10 for sure. They love to play the same chords/notes for extended amounts of time, and let them kinda just ring out until they fade. This used to bore me, but then now I just know that I have to be in a certain chill mood to love Pink Floyd. I have to be on the border of sleepy and content, and have to not really be thinking about much. I can't be stressed out I just have to let my mind relax, and that is when Pink Floyd sounds amazing. I love the acoustics and the long vibes that they let ring out, it just puts me in a really relaxed and chill mood. They can also rock out, which is great as well, because it's not the same things they do over and over, they have good variation. I used to not like Pink Floyd but now I think they are up there near the Beatles.

Magical Mystery Tour

Magical Mystery Tour has a phenomenal second half of the album, and those 6 songs alone make the album one of my favorite Beatles albums. It has Strawberry fields, which is probably one of my favorite of their songs ever. That song alone has literally inspired me to start songwriting. Also, this album has I am the Walrus, Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye, and All You Need is Love, which are incredibly phenomenal songs as well. At this point, the Beatles has to be one of my favorite bands, and the more I listen to them, the more I am inspired.  I'm glad that they split up Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour because if they would have made a monster album with all of the best songs of each on one, that would cause Brian Wilson to go absolutely insane along with the rest of the world.

Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band

The Beatles album Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band I think had some really great songs, but also some really weird instrumental stuff that isn't really defined, but just a bunch of different notes thrown together in random order. I liked about half of the songs on the album, and I think it is one of my least favorite Beatles albums as a whole so far. I think the Beatles were just taking a lot of drugs and making sounds that would just make the listeners trip out, especially if they were intoxicated like the Beatles were in the making this album. It was definitely one of there most psychedelic albums, and you can kind of tell just by looking at the album cover. But this album is very experimental, which I really like a lot, because I hate bands that do the same crap over and over and over and over,  and at least the Beatles are changing everything up and making it interesting. If the Beatles always were stuck in the early period doing songs like "I wanna hold you hand," "And I love her," "Love me do," and "P.S I love you," I would absolutely get sick of it, and not have much respect for the Beatles. I like variation in music, and Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band shows a lot of it, making me truly appreciate the Beatles.

The Beach Boys

I think that The Beach Boys have a really smooth harmony, and it makes me feel pretty good when I hear them. Most of their songs sound pretty happy and very similar to a lot of Beatles songs. Their album pet sounds especially, sounded like the Beatles. This is because, Brian Wilson even says this in the video, that Rubber Soul blew his mind, he instantly felt competitive with The Beatles, and he made Pet Sounds, which was directly inspired by Rubber Soul. Pet Sounds in turn inspired Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band. The Beatles and The Beach Boys were very similar, and inspired each other constantly, all the while being very competitive with one another. In the video it also says that The Beatles were hooked on pet sounds, and they thought it was one of the best albums they've ever heard. But one thing that contradicts what I learned in class (nobody bought Pet Sounds) is that it also says that Pet Sounds was very popular, in fact it made #10 and was thought of as a classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz4rHCRNy_U

Free Will vs Destiny

I believe that Free Will and Destiny are mutually exclusive possibilities, and nobody can really know the answer as to how/why we are here. Though I lean more toward life being complete free will, some things in your life you cannot control, such as your parents, your ethnicity, your gender, where you live, etc. and because of this I don't think everyone has equal opportunities to fully accomplish what they are completely potential of. I think if someone has the potential genius to become the best astro-physicist in the world and come up with many answers to the universe, but they are born into extremely low poverty like in India or Sudan, they cannot reach their full potential no matter how much free will they have. They just happened to be born at an awful background which they couldn't control, and therefor couldn't focus on education and becoming so successful. So though I think life is fully free will, I think there are different limits for different people as to what they can do with their life. I believe that everything is based on probability, and until something actually happens, all of the possible outcomes are happening at once. I am also open to the theory of a multiverse(infinite parallel universes), and to the theory that we don't even exist. Our life is based on perception, not reality, so it's possible that everything we experience and see is merely an illusion.

Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page, lead guitarist for the band Led Zepplin, is probably one of my idols. He is definitely one of the top 10 guitarists of all time, and is up there with Jimmi Hendrix. The reason he is my favorite guitarists though is because there is practically nothing he can't do on the guitar, he knows it better than the back of his hand, and can rock out like nobody I've ever heard. The reason I like him more than Jimmi Hendrix, given that I love Jimmi Hendrix's music, is because of the style of music he plays. Jimmi Hendrix is more of a Blues and Soul/Rock kind of guitarist, while Jimmy Page is primarily hard rock and more metal. His guitar style goes perfectly with Robert Plant's voice and that's probably he's my favorite. He just has the a better vibe and unison with the band than any other guitarist I've heard. I'm still trying to get somewhere near Jimmy Page level sometime in my life, because he is a god.