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Email me In the 25 years I've been alive, 20 of them have had a strong focus on music. As years go by,trends are set, change again while leaving a residule effect on the next musical movement. As when MTV became popular enough most people would associate the phrase "I want my mtv" with David Lee Roth, Brett Michaels, Jani Lane etc... Then there was a void,one so big you knew there was something going to destroy careers, and change the face of music so there was no going back. This void may have only been 6 months or a year at most during 91' (my memory is not as good as it used to be). It was real quiet, Poison & other "hair band" throwbacks were still there; not nearly as popular but still alive.


Then there was grunge. With a four chord distorted guitar intro a floodgate was opened. Everyone and their mother picked up a guitar and started writing (including myself). "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the album it came from "Nevermind" blew the doors off the hinges. Yes, this one band's one song started this revolution. I am not saying Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam never existed until this moment. I'm saying this one album made it alright to not make sense, not look pretty and not spend a million dollars a video to make Pop Music. Because that is what it became...Pop. Alternative. Alternative to what? Maybe alternative to Soul, maybe Rap? Maybe the alternative to the crooning of Michael Bolton. That is about all that was left to choose from. And I was happy. No I didn't burn my Motley Crue tapes, or my mom's Billy ocean tapes. But flannel shirts & cardigans started to replace my dress shirts & baggy jeans. My hair grew down to the bottom of my ear lobes. I pierced my ear with a sewing needle and a potato. And before I was old enough to get my drivers license, it ended. Kurt Cobain killed himself. Was there a void? No, Seattle kept rocking along. It became "popular music" and it went on like this for well... years. Slowly the pop princes & princesses, started filing out of the holes they were hiding in. Now no longer scared of the sun, they took the stage and life resumed as if the revolution never happened. Because that is what it was.


A revolution. Yes, the record companies owned Nirvana and the whole lot of them. But there was a subtle non-violent resistance with in them. Were gonna make our music, not shave, or be pretty, and if you don't like it "go fuck yourselves". Which showed on Nirvana's fourth album "In Utero" it was raw, un daunting, the fact that they managed to get a few hit singles off that album showed that radio & pop music has changed dramatically in 2 years.


11 years later we’ve almost come full circle, the seven string distroted guitars have replaced synthesizers but it's still the same. Your options are to hear Korn or Nickelback recycled 8 different ways and spit back out by different bands. I am not saying that good music is non-existant. I love Nickel Back, and I still have appreciation for Korn, and it’s not the musicians fault; they make what they want to. It is the record companies, radio’s & our fault, we have accepted defeat.


I’m not even attempting to tell you that my music is gonna change anything, or that you should even listen to it. I’m a realist (my girlfriend says I’m a pessimist). I want more options. I want to hear Country rap, Folk-Tronica, I want to here yoddeling over a techno beat I know its out there but I may never hear it as long as the record companies and mainstream radio are supplying what I hear on t.v., the radio, movies. E-mail or call your local radio stations, tell them to hell with the regulations about not playing unsolicited music, tell them you’re in a band (or a friend) and you have a cd and you want to hear it on the air. Every day. Bug 'em. Or the record companies e-mail them, send them your stuff. Do it, do it now, take back your music. Ever ask your self how the hell did this song get big? Eg: (the Macarena) because it was pushed on the masses and pushed and finally it sold, and sold huge. All you gotta do ispush... back & harder.