All posts by Kev Brock

I'm a musician, singer/songwriter, blogger, writer, poet, bodybuilder, movie lover, music lover, video gamer, history/political buff, conservative/republican, etc. I like to do a lot of things.
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Raspy singing… it can be good!!!

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When trying to learn how to sing, some instructors wouldn’t recommend raspy singing ’cause some believe that “raspy” singing isn’t good. “Raspy” singing, as in singing that is kind of like growl almost. I disagree. “Raspy” singing can be great for rock n’ roll and even acoustic music. As you’ve probably heard in my originals, I sometimes experiment with raspy singing. Whatever works for the song and whatever sounds good, ya know?

There are plenty of famous singers with a raspy voice like Brian Johnson of Ac/DC for starters. Lemmy of Motorhead. John Mellencamp. Tina Turner. Also Billy Idol can have a raspy voice in a lot of his songs too.

You don’t always have to sing “clear” all the time. “Raspy” voices work good for rock n’ roll and metal mostly, in my opinion.

As you can probably hear, I’ve been experimenting with all kinds of vocal techniques. I’ve been trying to do “raspy” singing, growling, screaming and I’m trying to do some “falsetto” as well.

“Raspy” singing can be cool as long as you stay in key while doing it and stuff. I did some “raspy” singing in a few of my covers on youtube if get around to listening to them.

Man, I would like to start a rock n’ roll band or maybe try to join someone else’s band as a lead singer. I believe I’ve gotten way better as a singer and vocalist nowadays. I still have plenty of work to do and plenty more to learn but I actually like how my voice turned out lately. If you’re a musician and don’t think you’re the greatest singer in the world, you can always improve. Honestly, I’m more focused on singing than guitar playing these days. I really want to become an actual “singer”. I want to be the frontman. I don’t want to be the backup singer at all. I want to be the entertainer.

I’m trying all I can to become a great singer. I sing because it’s fun and I love it. It’s addicting for sure. Feeling that buzz in your head when you sing with the head voice feels real good. I can understand why singers love what they do. I also want to sing the real high notes and learn how to scream as well. Just practice and stay dedicated, you’ll get a lot better for sure.

Kev

movies, Politics/war

Video: See the new red band trailer for “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” directed by Michael Bay…

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A lot of people especially liberals can’t see how tragic the Benghazi attacks really was ’cause there was no video footage of the attacks released to the public. Well, maybe this film will help give people a bit of a reality check that Benghazi was a pretty serious tragedy that shouldn’t get ignored.

When this movie comes out, I’m sure it will spark a lot of controversy and debate. I’m sure some movie theaters in America will refuse to screen it and stuff like that.

I’m hoping more people will wake up on Benghazi once this film comes out and I think more people will. That’s the whole goal of the film, I believe. Hoping to wake more people up and hoping to get more people to care.

I’m looking forward to the film and will see it in January. Even if you have liberal political beliefs, you should still go see it anyway but I doubt liberals will see it. A lot of them will probably boycott it.

Kev

Politics/war

You want proof that Donald Trump is a good guy? Well here ya go…

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It’s pretty crazy how the mainstream media wants to ignore the fact that Donald Trump really is a good guy and that he really cares for people. All the media wants to do is make him look like a villain or the enemy of America. All the haters will ignore this article and will shrug it all off but that’s because they’re ignorant. All people wanna do is hate Donald Trump. Hate, hate, hate.

Donald Trump has done good things for people including singer, Jennifer Hudson.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/11/461306-these-5-acts-of-kindness-reveal-theres-more-to-donald-trump-than-just-his-celebrity-persona/?author=jc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=gooddeeds&utm_term=ijamerica

The Trump and Jennifer Hudson thing is true… he really did help her.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/articles/donald-trump-puts-jennifer-hudson-family-up-for-free-in-chicago-hotel-66176/

Donald Trump is a real good guy and all people wanna do is treat him in a negative direction like the jealous losers they are.

Not only dumb liberals are hating on Donald Trump. There are some conservatives and “independents” that hate him as well. Donald is a great man and the media will never report that stuff above. All the press wants to do is treat him in a negative direction. There are even famous radio talk show hosts like Glenn Beck and Alex Jones who are trying to make Donald Trump look like the enemy. Yeah, Alex Jones of Info Wars has recently joined the Trump hating bandwagon so I guess, he’s next on the boycott list.

People treat Donald Trump supporters like shit and they try to tell us not to blindly support him. If you hate Donald Trump then chances are you are probably a Bernie Sanders supporter or a Hillary supporter. You probably voted Obama twice. If you’re a conservative who hates Donald Trump then you probably support Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. You shouldn’t be blindly supporting them as well so stop being hypocrites.

To be honest, most candidates in this election pretty much suck except for Donald Trump who is pretty much the best candidate that we have right now.

Kev

Politics/war

Dr. Ben Carson calls out Obama’s hypocrisy when accusing the GOP of being afraid of CNBC…

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At a fundraiser in New York City, Obama calls out the Republicans and accusing them of not being able to handle a debate on CNBC. Which means that Barack is making fun of the GOP of being afraid of liberal media.

Ahem… kind of funny coming from a guy who is afraid of FOX News criticism. Barack can’t handle FOX News. Hypocrite Barack. Nothing new here.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/03/ben-carson-responds-obama-taunt-cnbc-debate-obama-afraid-go-fox/

Barack may have had a few interviews with Bill O’ Reilly on the FOX News channel but did Barack go to the FOX News studio to have it there? No, instead Barack usually invites Bill to the oval office. Not sure how many interviews Barack had with Bill… I think it was just the Superbowl interview from last year. Not sure if he had any others with Bill.

Anyway, Barack shouldn’t be criticizing the Republicans of being afraid of CNBC when he’s totally afraid of FOX News. Barack is always criticizing FOX News all the time and always complaining about how he is being unfairly treated by them. If I must say again, hypocrite Barack.

Barack has done interviews for other networks and appeared on late night talk shows, I’m sure he’s capable of doing interviews for FOX News shows but he hasn’t done any other than Bill O’ Reilly. The man is such a coward and a hypocrite.

Kev

Politics/war

Donald Trump just speaks for himself, he doesn’t speak for either political parties or for the media…

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A lot of people want to accuse Trump of being a progressive or a “liberal” just because he calls out the GOP party and the GOP establishment. The thing what I love about Trump and it’s probably the same reason why most people love Trump is that he simply speaks for himself. He doesn’t speak for either Republican or Democrat. He doesn’t speak for the media either. He’s just an honest and fearless guy, that’s all there is to it. We need more real people like Donald Trump ’cause there are too many fakes in this world for sure. He’s just a guy who isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind and if other people doesn’t like it, he doesn’t give a shit. People expects him to apologize and retract things for the things they think he says is “wrong” but he doesn’t back down at all. The Donald doesn’t use scripts, teleprompters, personal assistants or handlers. He doesn’t need any of that ’cause he’s one of the best speakers out there and he’s great at speaking his mind without reading off of anything at all.

Trump doesn’t have anybody using his social media either. Most celebrities would have their managers, press agents, personal assistants, etc. to do their social media for them but not Trump. When Trump posts on his facebook and twitter, that’s really him. He’s one of the very few celebs who doesn’t have anyone else running his social media. I know Trump’s facebook/twitter wars with other people is kind of weird but he’s just like the rest of us. You know how real people like us use facebook/twitter to speak our minds and rant about things? Well, Trump is the same way. He too uses social media, youtube, etc. to rant about things and get things off his system.

That’s why people hate Trump ’cause he’s his own man. He’s the real deal. There are way too many celebrities and politicians that uses “handlers” so they can be careful not to say “offensive” things in the media that would get them in trouble. Not Trump, though. Trump is an intelligent guy, he doesn’t need teleprompters or handlers at all.

The reason why Trump doesn’t need handlers or teleprompter is ’cause this is probably from many years of experience of being a successful business man. He has probably done plenty of public speaking in the past. When he first started out doing public speaking back when he was young, I’m sure he started out reading off of things but he got better with public speaking as years went along and now he’s a pro.

Why is the Donald so tough and aggressive? Well, I’m almost pretty sure he got that from his father, Fred Trump who was also a successful business man. Donald probably learned from him.

People support Trump ’cause he’s real and there are not many people like him these days.

Kev

Politics/war

How the Obama admin. is in control of the media… they just want people to view the world how they see it…

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It’s gotta be pretty easy to see that the Obama admin. is in total control of the mainstream media. I’m sure the mainstream media wants to report news that are on both sides of the spectrum but I’m pretty sure that most media outlets stay on the left ’cause the Obama admin. wants them to. How? Well, Obama can’t do all the work himself to control the mainstream media so he has other people in his admin. help him out like look at the two charts above to see how. The Obama admin. has family members that work in the media that’s how they control it. The Obama admin. works very closely behind the scenes with the media. Whatever the media reports probably goes through the approval of Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett first. They’re the ones telling them what to report and what not to report. If you want more proof that the Obama admin. is in control of the media watch the video below where Valerie Jarrett kisses reporters on MSNBC.

It’s real disgusting to me that most of the media has agreed to work with the Obama admin. to help protect Barack Obama and help him stay in power. The reason that most of the media today is “far-left” is ’cause this administration wants the American people to view the world how they want to see it. Sadly the Obama admin. are winning and it’s getting even more difficult to fight back at them. It’s a real challenge to expose Obama ’cause the media protects him way too much.

I don’t waste my time reading or watching the news. I’m not like most people where they come home from work and then they relax and watch the evening news to see what’s going on in the world. I have way better things to do and I don’t even listen to “right-wing” talk radio either even though some people believe I might listen to “right-wing” talk radio like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck but I don’t listen to any talk radio. Not my thing. I’d rather spend most of my time playing my music, working out at the gym. When I do watch some TV… it’s either a good movie or a TV drama show but I don’t watch any news at all. All they do is feed ya one-sided views, the news can be “opinionated” as well.

Hopefully all this crap comes to an end when Donald Trump gets elected in office. When he does, you can expect the media to change the way they report their news. Seriously, kill your TV and stop reading the news on the internet or in the papers. I don’t need to watch the news to see what’s going on in the world and neither do you. Like I said before, everything you see in the news is not really how we think anyways which is probably why we all get called “conservatives” ’cause we have different views than the media. We’re just smart people who aren’t falling for their shit. Period.

Kev

TV

Just started watching the show “Longmire” on Netflix finally, so far it’s really really good!

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“Longmire” one of Netflix’s original shows, is one popular show on TV I never saw before until now. I’ve been hearing people saying good stuff about the show and it piqued my interest so I finally started checking it out myself. Just finished watching “Season 1” last night. So far, it’s an excellent show. Finally, a show with really good writing for a change.

This show are mystery stories and whodunit kind of stuff. The show is also filmed like a Western. They make the whodunit storylines pretty unpredictable really which is part of why I’m impressed with the show. Plus, the acting of the cast is really good. Robert Taylor who plays Walt Longmire is a really good actor. Lou Diamond Phillips who I’ve been a fan of for a long time is still killing it as well.

It’s a fun and exciting show. It’s definitely the best original show on Netflix for sure other than “House of Cards” and “Marco Polo”. Yeah, I’m real late getting into this show but I finally decided to get into it since I’m not watching any other TV shows at this time. “Longmire” is great and I think I’m definitely gonna catch up before the new Season 5 gets here which just got greenlighted.

Will I check out some of the other original Netflix shows??? I’m staying away from “Orange Is the New Black” and I think I’m gonna stay away from “Daredevil”. I’m thinking about checking out “Narcos” ’cause that one looks interesting to me. I’ll check out that one when I finish “Longmire”.

Kev

Books, Politics/war

New Donald Trump book “Crippled America” is out today…

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I know Donald Trump has written so many books over the years in his life but I’ve never read a single one of them. I’m about to for the first ’cause the Donald just released his new book “Crippled America” today and it’s in book stores everywhere and I’m sure it’s available digitally too for your Ipads, Kindles or whatever.

I think I’m definitely gonna buy the hardcover edition, though. I’m planning on buying Trump’s new book this Friday when I go see the new 007 movie, “Spectre”.

Can’t wait to read the book. Trump is doing an autograph session for it at Trump Tower in NYC today in celebration of it. Wish I could go. If I had the money for a bus trip to NYC, I’d go in a heartbeat. It be cool to meet the Donald in person for sure. The Donald may seem like a villain to you on TV but in reality, he’s a nice guy.

Kev

dating/relationships

Women like to drive guys crazy in facebook ’cause why? It’s because they love attention is why…

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Ever wonder why women always post beautiful photos of themselves on facebook? Ever wonder why women are always posting selfies everyday? It’s because intentionally drive men crazy and they enjoy that kind of attention. Everybody knows that guys obsess with pretty women in facebook and that’s pretty much all they use facebook for. They go around facebook looking for beautiful women to hit on and hopefully get their chance with them.

Women like to play dress up for photos. They wear a lot of makeup, they often give the duckfaces and a lot of times they like to show off their cleavages.

Then guys would obsess over women selfies, they’ll be like, “Oh you’re so beautiful and gorgeous. I hope to one day date you.” Showering them with compliments on their looks. blah blah blah blah, you get the deal.

Hey, don’t get me wrong… I love checking out the gorgeous women in facebook myself and I enjoy looking at their selfies too ’cause I gotta have my “eye candy” as well. However though, I try not to shower women with compliments on their good looks ’cause they hear that stuff all the time from people, ya know?

If you want them to respond to you and get their attention, you gotta be different and mysterious. Instead, you don’t wanna shower them with compliments at all and try to compliment them on other things. Don’t come off being needy and try not to be obsessive with her like most guys do these days is pretty much key to getting her attention.

I see this every day in facebook and other social networking sites… women post their selfies and guys obsess over them. Like I said before, I like to treat women like humans and treat them with respect most of the time. When women drop a selfie, I’ll usually hit the thumbs up button and not drop a comment at all.

Facebook is crazy and it proves that guys obsess over gorgeous women and they’ll never admit it. Women intentionally drive you crazy ’cause I believe they are testing you, I think. If they see that you’re not obsessive, they’ll be impressed with you. I am noticing that women don’t respond to guys showering them with compliments on their good looks. Like I said, try to be different and mysterious and who knows how they’ll respond.

Kev

music

Taylor Swift sued for $42 million by R & B artist accusing her of plagiarizing the lyric line, “Haters gonna hate”… really???

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Taylor Swift just got sued for $42 million by an R&B singer named Jesse Braham accusing her of ripping off the lyric line, “Haters gonna hate”. The lyric line from Taylor’s hit song, “Shake It Off”. He claims he was the one who created the phrases “Haters gonna hate” and “players gonna play” and even claims he’s got the copyright for both of them.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34692465

This lawsuit is pretty ludicrous and it’s probably gonna get thrown out anyway so there’s nothing to worry about. This Jesse Braham is just an egomaniacal singer with huge delusions of grandeur. He’s probably all jealous that Taylor’s song is a big hit and his music isn’t going anywhere.

That’s what seems to be going on a lot in the music industry nowadays. When a band or an artist makes a song and it becomes a huge mainstream hit, someone will get all jealous and accuse them of plagiarism.

This Jesse Braham asshole doesn’t own the phrases “haters gonna hate” or “players gonna play” ’cause they’ve been popular internet terms for years now. I’m sure those phrases are in many other songs too.

He’s only attacking her ’cause he’s jealous of her fame and superstardom. Period.

Kev