For those who have become jaded...

[Darksider415]

To be honest, I admit to not being a typical teenager. I don't listen to the modern, over-commercialized crap that P. Diddy or whoever tells us is good. Again, let me stress that I'm not typical, before I continue.

I listen to Jazz, Classical, Prog and even some metal. (Nightwish and Opeth, mostly) Again, this may be the clarinetist in me speaking, but I like to listen for a complex background, keeping a close ear on the bass, taking notes for my half-hearted attempts to play them on the contrabass. I've about got Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky" perfect on the soprano and contrabass clarinets...

There's definitely a niche for more complex music, and I'll be the first to admit that I'm more than a little jealous of David Jackson, if only for his skills on the sax. Eh, we need to see more complex, darker music coming to the forefront in the modern prog scene, to balance out the bright, airy tunes of The Flower Kings and other bands of that sub-subgenre, which I am a fan of, by the way.

~ds415