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(way back in the day obviously, in fact, it might have been Korn opening for House of Pain, I'd have to ask him which way it was). I guess where Eric Everlast was about to play "Jump Around" he told the crowd he hated the song because MTV overplayed it and he was just sick of it. However, none of the bands I specifically mentioned had starts like that. I do understand a lot of bands begin in that way, but I don't think you can do that with this genre of music. In fact, no one wanted to sign Linkin Park because everyone said they didn't want "another Limp Bizkit." This is the entire reason the Projekt Revolution tour exists... it's for bands who need to get a start somewhere. The second stage is all no-name bands trying to make it big. And don't tell me that the music on the radio isn't on there because it's good. If McDonalds hamburgers didn't taste good at all, they wouldn't be popular. I think their hamburgers are pretty good, and all the people I know will agree. When they first opened, it was just a good and fast hamburger place, and they grew, and that's how the true musicians do it. If a band truely sucks, they're not going to make it on the radio no matter how hard the record industry tries. They need something to work with, and therefore need some sort of fan-base... it has to start off at least decent. It's almost like you're telling me if Daewoo came up with the best marketting campagne, everyone would buy their cars reguardless of quality. I'll tell you this... most people on this forum, and anyone who knows anything about cars, wouldn't buy a Daewoo just because of marketing. Similarly, music fanatics aren't going to buy a record (or play a record on the radio) simply because a record company pushes it... they're going to buy it or play it only if it's good (no, radio stations don't always play what the record companies try to bribe them to play, if the station knows it'll kill their ratings, they won't do it). Like I said, I do agree with Marshall's points on corporately created bands, but when it comes to Metal and other genre's of music that you can't create in a boardroom, it's all the music that makes them big. They get onto the radio and on the record shelves on their own accord, not by the record company doing it for them.
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