Name: (There's Only Room for) One Of Us
Channel: Mad-Mike
Description: 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.

(There's Only Room for) One Of Us

MJ (Mad Mike)

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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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MJ (Mad Mike)

M.J. was a one man music project of Mike Jacobsen. It was started in 1996, and ended in 2013 when he got married, and thusly the name would have changed.

BIO Of M.J. The "Eras" of M.J. are split up accordingly... The Grunge-Wave Era (1996-1998) Demos - Lanna, Kramer Sound - Think Nirvana meets ZZ Top and The Cars, but with lots of whammy bar abuse The "High School Crush" Era (1998-2000) Demos: Dirty Talk, Sexy Girls Sound - Pomp AOR "radio friendly" rock, similar to Loverboy/Journey/Styx The "Post-Lithium" era (2003-2005) Demos: Monochrome, Icebox, Killing Alabama Sound - Nu-Metal meets New Wave The "Everett Era" (2006-2011) Demos: Agent Blue, EGA Stereo, 8088, M.J., System Shock, Urban Exploitation, Apocalyptic Hockey, Content through Negligence Sound - Finally found my sound, sort of an alt-rock heavy metal hybrid with the occasional New-Wave synth or experimental instrumentation and effects The Last Album (2012-2013) Demos: Back to the Mower Shed Sound - Similar to Everett

Song Info

Genre

Beats • Rock

Author

Mad-Mike

Rights

1999

Uploaded

November 03, 2007

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MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:55

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.

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