Adding PRO feature down?

yes and no. genres help so people see what kind of use those guitars/basses/equipment/bullshit get. thus, rock should be split into like rock, metal, punk, pop/rock, etc.

no, this isn't telling me ANYTHING about how they use stuff, seriously.... looking at settings or just critically LISTENING tells me how they use it. Marshall Plexi, case in point. All the hard rock of the late 60s. Cream, Zep, Free.... BUT also? the Police. You're thinking JC120, but if the sound's not chorused and mixed ins tereo its not a roland. Andy Summers plays a Tele with the amp pretty clean and spanky. Both are rock, what did the genre tell me about how its used? AC30? Queen and U2. Should I even get into this one? Its pretty obvious if you've listened to a song by each band in a more than cursory fashion. Listening to the records tells me how it was used. LISTENING. We learn music with our ears, not with our eyes. People have forgotten that and its pulling the art form down in a lot of instances. Reading the genre and looking at the gear? tells me nothing in reality. My old band? In the studio with a pile of Plexis and JMPs right? Most of the rhythm drive tones are a blackface fender cranked up. I actually used a plexi for a lot of clean parts because it had a nice andy summers sound. If you listen carefully you can figure that out, but if you see plexis and showmans and see rock as the genre you're like "oh, plexi for OD and showman for clean." but if you listened you would know you're backwards. On the record that reversed setup sounded good and you aren't getting that from a genre tag all of the time... heck, in many instances you will be MISLED.

you can take my word on this or you can take my winding, personal road to understanding music... plan A is going to make you better faster while plan B is more fun

I don't mean to be a dick.... I just hate music marketing (its not even a nescasarry evil in the post-iTunes/youtube age) and totally disagree with a lot of people's feelings on this whole genre topic and will never be brought around. I don't give a fuck about genres and I don't give a fuck what microphone I put in front of a guitar amp. I have preferences in both regards but I don't take either seriously and its about MUSIC, notthe marketing bullshit from David Geffen or the gents at Neumann!

you know what? i've fallen into that trap. totally. and i see what you mean. tons of genrebending acts are out there and i can see those lines eroding.

those lines have always been artificial and some of the most iconic gear from one scene was specifically marketed at another group of musicians.... take the aforementioned Jazz Chorus! or the afore mentioned Marshall Superlead? The Superlead is known for its great power amp drive, but Andy Summers later used it to great effect as intended. The original marketing material touted it as 'the world's most powerful distortion free amplifier' and everything Jim Marshall claimed in itnerviews about looking for more dirt is untrue. Once they failed tog et a tweed fender sound that could go to 10 clean artists embraced the dirt and marshall did too, but originally they were selling it as a clean amp. Marketing categories, be they genres of music or intended uses for gear are like shackles on creativity and need not be discussed on a site like this.

that's me though.... I don't own a label and would never want to, I don't even want to deal with the drama of music as a career anymore, I do this because I love it and I am compelled to.... and I love to share ideas with other music afficianados

Pigeonholes are for pigeons.

I am not very afficianado... but I am passionate about what I do with music. Unorthadox in my explanations, but I understand why I do things.

another great example:

great punk rock band uses a semi-hollow thinline tale with like three Thbe Screamers in a row, and also a solid American Standard tele with a Bigsby bridge.

Pigeonholes are for pigeons.

and pigeon-shit! fucking flying rats

I wanna add that everyone is insane, some days I wanna just crawl in a bomb shelter with my SG and a lifetime supply of beer, spam and canned peaches and hide out.

Schrodinger's Marchione.

i'd join you, but i like pasta.

I guess we could put a stove in... I actually couldn't do the spam and peaches without all the beer, I went to culinary school and I'm a serious 'foody'... I actually own a Japanese chef's knife worth more than a lot of guitars, that's how into it I am. But enough beer can make Spam taste good.... or neutralize it and I am going underground for the LONG HAUL

okay, not really... some days though, people are so obtuse they just get under my fucking skin, even on the internet

Did I make you want to crawl in a hole?

nope

https://youtu.be/g8huXkSaL7o

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i really do agree with that sentiment.... beer does negate spam.

i'm kidding, people piss me off so much every day. it's why i hate applying for jobs, even/especially short-term ones.

Hi all. Metal is now a top-level genre that can be attributed to artists. 😎 🤘

There are quite a few artists already associated with the genre, as you can see here: equipboard.com/genres/metal.

But obviously you can use the artist editing feature to add it to anyone that needs it.

Also, removed the "& DJ" from the genre "Electronic & DJ" because, well, Disc Jockey is not a genre of music! Ahh, gotta love ghosts in the machine from EB early days 😆