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Mesajde Aliosha » Mie Noi 27, 2002 8:47 am

Pana de curand era un site pe care il vizitam (cred ca si bobechina ) de fiecare data cand cautam cate ceva despre Pearl Jam. Incercand astazi sa caut ceva pe el am dat peste acest mesaj al celui care il infiintase si care avea grija de el.
Mi-a placut si am zis sa fac un thread desi nu cred ca ar fi prea multe lucruri de spus...


I owe a lot to Pearl Jam. They basically taught me to love and obsess over music, they were my first true musical love. I sat in my room listening to their albums over and over, I traded for their concerts without restraint, getting shows for their daughter tag alone. I salivated over every piece of Pearl Jam trivia I could find, and I got in touch with as many other rabid fans as possible to talk about our obsession.

So why, after years of absolutely loving this band and their music, has the spark faded for me? I think it can be attributed to the maturation of myself as well as the maturation of the band. I was in 6th grade when I started this site, 8 long years ago. I really didn't listen to much besides Pearl Jam for a while in the middle of that stretch, they were all I needed. But I've grown and changed, and my musical tastes have done so as well. I still love the music that I was so obsessed with a couple years ago, but I just don't feel the urge to listen to it anymore. Once in a while its nice, but it's a rare occurrence.

It's been a couple of years since I've really been a huge Pearl Jam fan. I was probably at my peak during and after the Binaural tour, but in the period of inactivity following the release of the bootlegs and Touring Band 2000, things started to change. I just slowly stopped listening to PJ on a regular basis. When they played the Bridge School Benefit shows and debuted I Am Mine and Lost Soldier, I was entirely unimpressed. Neither song warranted more than one or two listens for me. And when Ed busted out his trusty Uke for the Concert for Artists Rights and ATP shows, I was even more put off. The songs he debuted were absolutely horrible. Not just uninteresting, but bad. Bad lyrics, bad music, just plain bad.

Fast forward to when I heard Riot Act. I tried so hard to love this album, I really truly wanted to. Alas, it just doesn't grab me. The songs just don't stand out to me at all, lyrically and musically. There are no songs that jump out and remind me why I loved this band so much in the first place. I never thought to myself, "hey, I could really go for listening to Riot Act right now." It just did absolutely nothing for me.

Combine my complete lack of interest with every song written in the last couple years with the dropping level of respect I had for the band, and that can basically explain why I don't consider Pearl Jam my favorite band anymore. I had always held a special place in my heart for PJ because I viewed them as above all other bands playing the rock star game. They were near saints to me; always acting in accordance with their own personal values and not giving into the industry. They rarely gave interviews, refused to tour with ticketmaster, and didn't do videos because they hated the process. They stuck by what they said, they lived the values they talked about. However, more and more often I saw the band doing and saying things that I just couldn't understand them doing. Jeff commenting on the shallow nature of the dot-com industry after sending his vacation photos of heli-boarding in Alaska with pro snowboarders out in the last Ten Club newsletter. Ed playing a private show for the CEO of RealNetworks. Ed sounding like a pompous ass seemingly whenever he spoke in public. Insensitive Christmas single artwork. A lousy video for I Am Mine that seemed to exist for the sole purpose of focusing on Ed's dreamy blue eyes. Loads of promotion for Riot Act, including an AOL first listen and MSN exclusive video. What was happening to my pinnacles of anti-corporate rock music? Perhaps some people see these things as fine, but to me, they heavily damaged my view of the band.

So with the new music not keeping me interested, and my respect for the band quickly falling, what was to keep me around as a PJ fanatic? As it turns out, not much. During all this time in which I was losing interest in Pearl Jam I was discovering hundreds of other bands that had completely captivated me. My musical tastes were growing and changing, rapidly. I'm not going to get preachy and give you a list of bands I like better than Pearl Jam now, but it's safe to say my fading obsession with Pearl Jam was replaced with these other artists that gave me the feeling that Pearl Jam use to.

Even after I realized that Pearl Jam just didn't do what they used to to me, I kept running PJN. It was a great hobby, and I truly enjoyed running the site. I met tons of great people who I'm still friends with, and I didn't mind paying for the hosting out of my pocket. It really made me feel good to do a service to the fan community, I felt like I was doing something that people really appreciated. What started as a way to learn HTML has turned into a monstrous project, one that brought in over 200,000 monthly visitors at its peak. I'm still very proud of what the site became. However things have changed. With the increasing popularity of the site, hosting costs have increased. I've been paying upwards of $100 a month out of pocket, which is a price I can definitely not afford as a college student with no income source.

In addition to the costs, I began feeling like it just wasn't worth it anymore. Other sites are doing everything this site does. I feel like I've gotten more "what's the name of that oh where oh where could my baby be song?!?!" than serious emails from fans. I received an angry phone call from a certain fan club president that just further lowered my respect for the Pearl Jam organization. I'm just tired of dealing with the responsibilities that come along with running a high-traffic website. It's draining my bank account and giving me headaches I don't need. When I don't really love the band I'm supporting anymore, my sites' content is no longer original, I'm receiving angry calls from the bands arrogant management, I'm losing lots of money, and I'm dealing with idiots on a regular basis, why keep it up?

So, after a lot of thought, I have decided to shut down PJN. It's been an amazing experience, one I would do over again in a heartbeat. I've learned so much through running this site, and I'll always remember the experiences I had because of it. I'm giving the original content from this site to Scott at the Sky I Scrape, and I'm going to continue to moderate Master/Slave on DelphiForums. I want to thank everyone whose ever helped me out with the site, as well as everyone whose ever visited. It's been amazing.

See you at the shows.

- Adam Frucci, 11/12/02
"Against modern football."
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Mesajde vali » Vin Noi 29, 2002 6:01 am

absolut genial.
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Mesajde tre » Lun Mar 03, 2003 5:03 am

da....din pacate. sfarsitul e aproape....
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Mesajde Aliosha » Mar Mar 11, 2003 6:49 am

Vin Pearl Jam la Montreal pe 29 Iunie. Mereu mi-am dorit sa ii vad live insa probabil ca voi fi in Ro atunci.

Dar nu de asta m-am apucat sa scriu. Biletul costa 60 de dolari, cu taxe cu tot ajungi pe la vreo 75. Pai hai sa fim seriosi...as da banii astia insa pretul reflecta din nou ipocrizia mai sus amintita.
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Mesajde Tavi » Vin Mai 09, 2003 8:32 pm

Mi-am amintit cí£ existí£ pe undeva un thread dedicat Pearl Jam si iatí£ cí£ l-am gí£sit... ce vreau eu sí£ spun nu se prea loveste cu restul, in afarí£ cí£ e vorba de PJ.

Dupí£ ce am citit prima datí£ mesajele de aici, mi-am cumpí£rat Riot Act (de la bootleggeri, cí£ altfel n-as fi dat atatia bani :o). La inceput, adicí£ si dupí£ trei ascultí£ri, in afarí£ de Love Boat Captain, pentru care si cumpí£rasem albumul, nu imi spunea absolut nimic. Chestia e cí£, incepand de la a patra ascultare, am inceput sí£-l apreciez din ce in ce mai mult.

Evident, existí£ o MARE diferentí£ intre primele lor 2 albume, sí£ le spunem "comerciale", si urmí£toarele, cu o fazí£ intermediarí£ reprezentatí£ de Vitalogy. Ultimele solicití£ infinit mai mult ascultí£torul, dar acesta este rí£splí£tit la sfarsit cu o muzicí£ mult mai valoroasí£ decat marea majoritate a ceea ce e acum la modí£ in rock. Pentru mine, ei au avut de fí£cut o alegere dificilí£ dupí£ primele albume, care le aduseserí£ celebritatea. Puteau sí£ exploateze acest lucru scotand incí£ unu-douí£ albume de succes pe aceeasi linie (desi, dací£ stau sí£ mí£ gandesc mai mult, nici primele douí£ albume nu seamí£ní£ intre ele - oricum, ele sunt mult mai apropiate decat celelalte), dar au ales altceva. Problemele lui Eddie Vedder cu celebritatea sunt cunoscute, nu stiu ce sentimente au avut si ceilalti membri.

Asa cí£ s-au apucat sí£ scrie o muzicí£ radical diferití£ fatí£ de ce fí£cuserí£ paní£ atunci. Din catí£ muzicí£ am ascultat eu, adicí£ din ceea ce ascult eu in mod obisnuit, PJ sunt de departe cei care au evoluat cel mai diferit fatí£ de momentul initial. Trecut a fost timpul sunetului clar si direct, mult mai mult decat doar a nu mai scrie melodii ce ar putea pí£rea "comerciale". Cu toate acestea, melodiile de pe Yield si Riot Act (nu am ascultat No Code si Binaural), cu sunetul lor "aggro", "noisy", au de n ori mai multí£ tensiune interioarí£ decat 10 Linkin Parki si Limp Bizkiti. Tensiune interioarí£, adicí£ ceea ce, personal, caut si apreciez cel mai mult la muzicí£.

Ca urmare, sunt iar intr-o fazí£ PJ si "am dezgropat" Yield-ul (in special, pt. cí£ il ascultasem cel mai putin) si celelalte albume pe care le am... Despre Riot Act, pot sí£ spun cí£, fí£rí£ sí£ se ridice la nivelul celorlalte pe care le am (incí£ o datí£, toate in afarí£ de No Code si Binaural), este totusi un album foarte bun.
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