Just wrote the script for the Arcade Fire videoblog, responding to Steve Stoute’s rant. I got a bit of a rant myself and help defend Arcade Fire. I’ll have the video uploaded either tomorrow afternoon or evening. I’m hoping the next video will get a lot of views and hoping this video will become the youtube sensation. If it doesn’t get many views, that’s okay, at least I was confidence enough to get it off my chest. It’s going to be good, you’ll like it.
Kev
…it is why I’ve decided to take some time to study up guitar again, to get good at guitar solos and play like my heroes. I can play all the techniques: hammer ons, pull offs, slides, string bending, vibratos, etc. I can do all that stuff fine. The only thing I’m not really good at yet, is improvising and having a good ear. I’ve been practicing and learning ear training, and getting better. I’m also not good at making my lead guitar solos sound musical. You want to make your lead guitar solos sound musical. Not making your solos sounds like your practicing scales. It’s all hard work to learn but getting the hang of this stuff.
A lot of musicians out there are afraid to admit that they suck, because a lot of them are delusional and their ego will get in their way, but not with me. I’ve always been honest about my talent. I’m not that great of a singer and guitar player, I just do it for fun because music is my passion. As you all can see, I am looking to improve both guitar & vocal. I’ll always be looking for ways to get better.
Kev
The thing with my music is that I’m not just going political. It’ll be boring for me to write political and war songs all the time. So for my plans for my next batch of songs, are things that happen in “current news”. Pretty much everything in the entertainment industry. As you can hear so far in my electric songs, they are very hard rock and a little punk. That’s always been my genre.
I really want band backup behind my electric songs and I already started asking around other musicians to see if they want to help me. This is just for fun, not for money but if other musicians prefer to get paid, yes, I’ll pay them a little something as long as they don’t ask for a high price. This weekend, I’ll also start asking for musicians through Crumbs or Craigslist.
All this ProTools and music recording software is very popular these days, and all musicians pretty much have ’em. As long as my playing through ProTools sounds perfectly clean (which does), other musicians should have no problem playing along with my songs ’cause I am using a click track as you can hear.
I have always been a hard rock guy, y’all know that. Led Zep, Metallica, Sabbath, Slayer, Ac/Dc, Megadeth, etc. All the bands I love, is where I inspire these riffs from.
I need band back up so they can sound a LOT tighter and meaner, you’d be surprised of the difference.
Most hard rock and punk music write songs about death, war, drugs & alcohol, medieval songs, etc. Not with me, my songs will be honest and real.
I know my listeners would like to see me do full band tracks and I’m trying the best I can to make that dream actually happen.
Kev
When I’m showing you my electric guitar tracks which I record on Pro Tools, I know some of you thinking, these tracks need a back up band. Yes, I know. I’m still planning on it. When will I form a band? I’m going to try it, this year hopefully. I hear ya though, my electric guitar rock songs would sound MUCH better if they had a bass player and drummer backing it up.
What I could do, is look for musicians online to see if they are willing to help me put drums & bass behind my songs. As long as they have Pro Tools, do a musical online collaboration with other musicians, that’s an idea.
I would like my songs to have band back up, so they can be for radio airplay. I’m very serious on making an in your face, electric guitar rock demo, full band. I have a lot of musicians out there who are actual fans of my music, so I should have no problem.I really want full band material, pretty badly. I want to rock out and be part of the full band scene myself.
Maybe I’ll start looking for a band, right away this Spring/Summer.
Kev
This blog has been slow this weekend ’cause I’ve been really busy. Been busy doing some cleaning, moving around and rearranging things in this room. Bought new furniture. New computer desk and new entertainment center. They both look good. I still have CD and DVD wall hanging shelves coming soon, so this room is not yet complete. I spent all weekend doing this, so this is why I haven’t been online that much.
Just getting done watching the Grammy’s. This year was pretty interesting to say the least, I’ll write more about it tomorrow. I hate the Grammy’s but hey, nothing else on TV, plus I wanted to watch something and relax the rest of the night, since I was busy all weekend. Went to the Greenwich Y to get my leg workout in too. So yeah, I’m kind of beat. Probably gonna go to bed now and then I’ll get the blog going tomorrow.
Kev
Didn’t blog all day today ’cause I went out shopping for furniture for this room. Going to get a new computer desk for my computer, a smaller computer desk this time around. I’m also getting a new entertainment center for my TV, DVR box, DVD player, and PS3 system. Will also be ordering a couple of wall hanging media storages, so I can shelf my CD and DVD collection all on the wall. Been cleaning this room all day. Getting new furniture is what I plan to do with my tax return money for this year.
When doing cleaning around, you’d be surprised of what you find around here. I came across my old guitar amplifier, that I used way back when I first started playing guitar. It’s an old Lafayette, electric guitar tube amp, I used back when I was 18 years old. I haven’t used the amp in years. I was going to throw it out, but I decided to plug it in to see if it still works. Yes, the Lafayette tube amp surprisingly works, there is one minor issue with it which can be fixed easily. I have three guitar amps now: my Fender Frontman 212R, a Crate amp, and a Lafayette. It’s good to have more than one guitar amp. Use one for playing live shows, and use the other for home. It’s good to use for back up too.
I’m done cleaning for the night, so I’ll catch up with the blog now.
Kev
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Kev
It’s that time again, the Metroland Best of Reader’s Poll is just around the corner. Please vote for this website. You can vote for this website for two different categories. You can vote, “K’Brocking Entertainment” in the “Best Local Website (news)” category or you can vote me Kev Brock for Best Local Blog. I made Best Local Blog once back in 2007. We can see if I can make it again in 2011. Take the survey, here.
The Metroland magazine are big fans of my blogging style, yes, they are longtime readers too like some of you and they still support me to this day.
While I blog mostly about national news, I also try my best to keep this site local. To all you loyal readers & fans of this site, please help me out! Thanks! This is for Capital Region readers only. Out of area voters won’t be accepted.
Kev
Then be respectful and play nice. Sure, I may make a mistake on a few little things with facts in news, but you can correct me in a respectful manner, instead of being rude and negative. I don’t tolerate comment bashing and the rule still sticks. If you want to hate me, that’s fine, hate me like a 5 year old little kid. Be my guest. You’re just not going to hate here. Some of you out there really need to grow up and get a life, seriously.
Kev
So Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and there’s already a lot of talk about that Holiday on the internet. My question is, why are so many young people, are in such a rush to get in a relationship with someone or even get married? In facebook, I’m noticing a lot of that lately. People love to obsess with that “in a relationship” feature in facebook, I don’t get it. Maybe it’s because it bothers them when they see the “single” status in facebook. That’s probably it.
My thoughts on this for those that are single, who cares, just enjoy the single life. I’m in no rush for a relationship right now. Will I ever get myself a lady friend, someday? Yeah, someday I will, when the right woman comes along, who knows what might happen. She don’t have to be a fitness lady or a music lover, but it would be nice.
For right now, all I care about is playing my guitar and working out at the gym. If I get myself a woman, I’m probably gonna have to put her as my first priority which might put more time away from the music. I would like to be like everyone else though, get married and raise a family of my own. It’ll happen, only when the time and the right woman comes around.
I like most holidays but Valentine’s Day is one I don’t really care for.
Kev
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