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Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham
It kinds of bugs me a bit.
When bands have a bunch of members and they're sound is lacking. I think if your going to have six guys in your band then you better have some heavy fucking music, or intense, or complex. I mean look at bad religion. Three guitarists and it sounds like one. Do they really need that many people.
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it depends on the context...
for example in a reggae band you could easily have ten people, and it could come across as simple, but yet it is very complicated.
five guitars (three rhythm as there are three ways to play any chord, two simplified leads, one a harmonic scale one accenting the bass line)
one bass
two or three horns
keys
drums
hand drummers
two are three vocal harmonists
all of these parts blend together much better then they do stand apart and the technical skill in reggae music is for all of these people to play together and sound as if it was all just one simple part. in less techincally profecient bands, you can hear all of the parts muddy together and it sounds half assed at best and just plain terrible and congested at its worst considering you can play the exact same song with only drum/bass/keys