LOL At least he admits it

SonVolt said:
As someone who's currently knee-deep in Youth sports, I'm going to have to say I strongly disagree with that statement. Natural born talent very much exists.
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It does but in the music business it's more about the business and those business and social connections surrounding it than being able to sweep pick good and stuff. Post radio it's been mostly driven by marketable image so looking good with mediocre chops and a "sound" will sell better than chubby guy with bad teeth and an amazing voice and guitar chops.
 
Still not watching this or any of his videos! (or from Fluff, Rob Chapman, or any other duo hosts)
 
Gitfiddler said:
Still not watching this or any of his videos! (or from Fluff, Rob Chapman, or any other duo hosts)
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You vill eat ze bugs
You vill live in ze pod
You vill own nothing
You vill be ze happy
And you VILL watch clickbaity youtube guitar channels

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I never liked his channel mainly for his Kemper opinions, BUT.. I met him at NAMM last year and he's actually a really nice guy in person. It changed my opinion on him. I sometimes wonder if other youtubers I hate would be delightful in person.

Except Glen, I could smell him coming from a mile away and avoided at all costs.
 
romanianreaper said:
I feel bad for anyone who is soaking up popularity on social media to the point where it becomes the substance of their life.

Life is hard on everyone, regardless of status, how much gear they have, etc. If you don't have a bigger purpose or ability to remove yourself from repetition and stressors, you'll start losing yourself.
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Some people live for the clicks/likes/thumbs up/etc. You have to wonder what would happen to them if they were disconnected for 30 days. Get one of these 845734757 post a day over their various platforms and just shut them off. See how fast they meltdown.
 
vultures said:
I never liked his channel mainly for his Kemper opinions, BUT.. I met him at NAMM last year and he's actually a really nice guy in person. It changed my opinion on him. I sometimes wonder if other youtubers I hate would be delightful in person.

Except Glen, I could smell him coming from a mile away and avoided at all costs.
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He may well be a nice guy in person, but his youtube persona is absolutely insufferable

And this video is a prime example of how obnoxious the whole InFlUeNCeR shit is

"Yeah so what I have no talent, I'm a big youtuber and blah blah"
 
vultures said:
I never liked his channel mainly for his Kemper opinions, BUT.. I met him at NAMM last year and he's actually a really nice guy in person. It changed my opinion on him. I sometimes wonder if other youtubers I hate would be delightful in person.

Except Glen, I could smell him coming from a mile away and avoided at all costs.
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I'm sure most of them are cool guys as people but their demos and reviews suck and some of them inject politics into a gear review, however the hell they manage that. I should start a gear channel and then inject christianity into every video. But but but I'm a nice guy in person. No I ain't. :LOL:

Say what you want about Glenn, he can be a little foul mouthed and opinionated, but he's one of a few major youtube gear guys I've seen that will actually trash a product that deserves to be trashed. Most of them are on a paid gravy train at which point it's a company sponsored demo, not an independent player reviewing gear. That's why it's all glad handing now and the reviews suck. The best channels are actual player-gigging types, usually without a ton of subscribes because they are busy using gear for it's intended purpose, making money playing music.
 
DanTravis62 said:
"Yeah so what I have no talent, I'm a big youtuber and blah blah"
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I mean it must really massage your ego, you've been a nobody your whole life and then suddenly without any talent you make a living being an "influencer".

It would create a god complex on anybody, that's why these guys end up being smug pricks, always.
 
Mahlakuorrutus said:
I mean it must really massage your ego, you've been a nobody your whole life and then suddenly without any talent you make a living being an "influencer".

It would create a god complex on anybody, that's why these guys end up being smug pricks, always.
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That's a really good point. It probably would give anyone a god complex
 
VonBonfire said:
The best channels are actual player-gigging types, usually without a ton of subscribes because they are busy using gear for it's intended purpose, making money playing music.
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100000%

I've thought about doing this - just doing videos about the gear i'm using at gigs, and interspersing clips of my bands showing the gear actually being used to *gasp* make music
 
DanTravis62 said:
I've thought about doing this - just doing videos about the gear i'm using at gigs, and interspersing clips of my bands showing the gear actually being used to *gasp* make music
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That's actually a cool idea. Emphasize the fact that "this is how it sounds in the mix/with a band" and then mix in the live clip. You're still in an uphill battle because most of the brick brains watching the reviews are not guys who have bands or make music. Heck most of them can't even play guitar. :LOL:

I thought about a channel that mixes some gear reviews plus some short lick-lessons, working knowledge, and stories from experiences gained booking shows and gigging but I'd be fighting the same uphill battle so is it a good use of my time? The bigger question we should both be asking is will it bring more exposure to our actual music? I have doubts about it but I thought maybe using the "playing blues around Austin STEEEEVEEEEE!" angle might actually bring in some people who just wish they could do the same but can't due to family, work, life, etc obligations.

A lot of youtube is about viewers living vicariously through people actually chasing dreams and doing it in reality. Part of me thinks it'll just be a big paint in the ass that won't pay off but I don't really see any channels with practical advice for younger guys playing blues. I wish I had had access to something like that coming up. It was years before I even learned what cross channeling an amp was.
 
hey you're all realizing what you tubers actually are! non-vetted, amateurs! This is the same thing we did as little kids in the 80's, making "radio shows" on tape recorder boom boxes. Its just bigger kids with bigger opinions now.

they're all obnoxious little twerps repackaging old info, or just giving a "reaction" to stuff that already exists.
don't get me started on the tik tokers who sit in the drivers seat of their car and ramble into their cell phone cams.
that is how americans get their psychology and relationship advice these days.
 
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