Hey visitor!

"Dissection of the Question" June 2008 - to answer your question here.

Is this a rhetorical question?

The nature of the dullness gently cracked me up because of the pure waste of typing you took in order to post that.

And then I decided to respond.

So now, sit back and let me tell you a thing or two about what I think and have never had the time to say - nor the motivation to let myself be heard. But tonight, maybe you will listen to me.

Surely, a lot of new bands in Colorado are good and noble; some are "better" while some are "worse" - - I believe that you are cool to even give it a shot in this town of Denver. But hey kiddo, only one band can actually be the notorious BEST. Just like only one of them can be the worst. I think that your question begs many other questions.For instance, why do people ask so many pointless questions?

Change is constant. Therefore, the best new band happens every day or so. It keeps happening. The best new band is no better than the next new best band who rolls along and takes the stage and makes you think they are the next new best band but, like, then they aren't new anymore but then there is a new band. How long until they are not "new"? Could you please be more vague? You should have asked, "Who is the best new band in history?" Now, that would have been kind of funny and tempting to answer creatively!

Oh, well.

Rhetorical question #1: Can you please refrain from potentially ruining this message board by spilling stupid questions which waste our valuable cyberspace?

As much as Denver needs another wealth of helpful professional rock stars online, and we would love to invite all the music scholars who wander over from the DMB with their acute insight to edumacate our intellect with their magnetic communication and lead us to wise decisions via their (general) static boredom; as much as we need these inspiring poets of our DMB generation who make history every time they log in make themselves proud in their awesome experiences told so helpfully (no offense to B - he is my friend has always been smarter than all of us), people will continue answering the same redundant, narcissistic, stupid questions. Then who will have the BEST Board of thoughtless, self-absorbed rock stars; a greatbignewshinymessageboard of the Denver's best of the bored artistic.

Now, the question should have been, who is the NEXT best band? Who will be the next BIG thing? Do you want my opinion? Do you want me to hear your band because you are new? Okay. Where are you playing?

Or do you think anyone wants your opinion? Do you want a fact which uses generated data from experts, statistics, and sales? Or... Is there a contest going on that will prove who is the best and make the promoters or owners of a venue a lot of money?

If you care so much, why can't you even bother to write a question like a 5th grade graduate? Are you trying to ask smart people with taste and have a conversation with that or are you as bored as you are boring?

Point-in-fact:
The good folks at THE MUSIC BUZZ have actually launched a site that could be a place where the Colorado music community participate with other thoughtful musicians and fans and promoters who work together and who play together. Go ask this question somewhere else please. Please don't let this become another DMB. Please go back to it if you are one of the very cool kids who have a profile there. Please do not post here. Please. No one needs two DMBs, man. Please.

If you have ever read the DMB and never posted (even drunk) then stay here and let's talk about

I have to ask some questions finally. Finally! I have to ask some questions because I want you to listen.

I am wondering if perhaps you need our feedback so that you could check out some new bands. Maybe you have run out of bands and you have seen them all so you want some fresh bands to go see and have new experiences and you don't care what genre or style, you love music and you want nothing more than to find out what we think no matter who we are or who we aren't. But slightly, I suspect that you have an agenda.

What is your agenda?
 
And can you give me a list of new bands? Is this multiple choice? May I write a band in? GET IT?

Are you looking to go dancing? Are you new in town?

AND WAIT! Again, what constitutes a NEW band? When does a band become part of the category of best band? Or best old band?

OR -who is going to reinvent themselves musically and step in and take over? Who is going to be the next legend? Who is going to be here long enough to make a name in this town?! Who isn't?

Semi-good news:

New bands are always a glimmer of hope and love in a town where the favouritism is abundant. New bands may get the attention of one of the prominent few Denver promoters to whisper sweet nothings into their ears and give them a shot. If they are true newbies, the band members hang onto the words of these "promoters" because they are getting attention, feedback and a sense of self-inspiration but will the promoters are not interested in them but how much they can earn as a mentor who invests bullshit and somehow gets away with it. The band is only NEW while they are still innocent. Then the band goes away when the promoter finds the next new BEST band.

I guess this information is obvious - but what is the point?

What is the point of telling everyone what band is better than the next? Who are you helping by judging who is better and who will sell more records and who will be the next big thing? Who are you to tell a "community" who is the YOU think is the BEST?

I love a lot of new bands. And old bands. And new books. Old reruns of "My So Called Life." Old friends. New friends. All beer. However cheesy, I love the brilliance inside those creative mind(s) who surround us the most. I love the songs, music, artists, writers, anti-contenders and contenders who are the real thing, man; the ones who are madly beautiful and inspiring and give you a reason to want to create.