A metal rant on the classic school popularity contest gone horribly wrong. Cool riffs, but sometimes I think I should have been inspired by something else.
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Story behind the song
I was caught up in a popularity contest guitar-wise in school, and was sick of people giving me sh** that I liked to play fast, and do lots of metal-ish stuff (that's what I get for being a hard rock guitarist in the grunge generation). I just wanted to play my stuff and hear constructive criticism at worst, but apparently, people are not like that, especially the one this song is about.
So essentially, it's about guitar elitists, you know, the rats with the Les Paul guitars and the "I think everyone should have this setup just like this guy because he's a "guitar god" types (laughs). So I guess it's not so irrelevant these days after all.