I'd like to take issue with one thing, which has nothing to do with this band.
My biggest gripe is about hippynthehills' logic in terms of who may, or may not, have an opinion on this band. You say they have gigs all over, they have a video, they have a management team, etc... and as such, unless any of us have similar things, then we seem unqualified to have a negative opinion. Well, first off, if you're going to use that logic then you also need to tell anyone with a positive opinion of the band and its video that unless they too have a slew of gigs coming up all over US and in Costa Rica, a video they will post, a management team, etc... then they too are unqualified to have an opinion. You're being inconsistent and illogical if you ban one opinion based on a universal requirement and not banning another for the same requirement.
Second, there are a lot of talented folks on here, many of whom are far more talented than these folks in your band. And yet, they don't have nation-wide gigs, videos, or management teams. Many of them have full-time and successful careers, and families, and other things that keep them from pursuing music full-time (such as a desire to make a decent living), and making videos, and having management teams. Many of them play in very good local bands that never attempt to do anything more than play locally. Many of them only play at jams...and they tear it up. Of course if your only criteria for someone having musical talent is making videos, booking gigs (which is not really that hard BTW), and having management teams...well, then I question how much you really know about music itself, as opposed to the veneer of being "in a band."
In our band alone we have some exceptionally good pickers (and I don't include myself in that statement) but they're all grown-ups, with careers, and families, and other hobbies...so it's often hard enough to arrange a handful of gigs where we can all make it, much less tour nationally, make videos, and have a management team. Just as an example, as good as our banjo player is, he is also a very successful surgeon with a passion for historical medical research, so he doesn't really have time to tour the country, make videos, and have a management team. But, using your logic, I guess that no matter how good he is on his instrument, or how much he knows about music, to you his opinion would be moot because, well, he's obviously not touring in Costa Rica, or making videos, or working with a management team...though he does manage a team of surgeons when he's not tearing up note-for-note perfect Scruggs breaks at breakneck speeds.
By your logic, no one can have an opinion on a president...unless they've been president. No one can have an opinion on the call a coach made in a football game...unless they've been a head football coach. No one can have an opinion on a TV show or movie...unless they've been in a TV show or made a movie. I don't usually go on rants, but I absolutely hate the old fall back of, "Oh, you don't like my friend's band...well...show me your band and maybe I'll consent to at least recognizing your opinion as possibly valid."
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