does anyone of you two know the bands "quicksand" "rival schools" and "hell is for heroes" ? were/are they popular in the USA or are/were they just underground bands?
Nope, never heard of any of those bands, and I keep up on pretty much everything in most all genres of music, except country.
I've never heard my brother mention them either and I get a lot of information regarding what's out there from him.
Must be some seriously underground bands, or more than likely if they are any good and can play more than three chords and make a rhyme, they won't be accepted here in the U.S. except by the real hardcore underground fanatics (true music fans!)
I know exactly what you mean when you where talking about playing in bands.. I've pretty much given up on it..
Everytime I present something I wrote to another guitarist they always start telling me that this should be changed and they don't like the way another part works .... then when that person is done with it it isn't even a song I wrote anymore.. Just a few bits and pieces here and their and I usually don't like it. When I spend so much time trying to express one certain feeling in it and have another guitarist just scrap that all away I'm usually not very happy.
Check this out...Back in the day when thrash metal was just getting a following, I was into stuff like Slayer, King Diamond, Possessed, Exodus, the heavier the better in my opinion, so the music I was writing at the time was getting more and more heavy as this type of music surfaced, I had dudes in the band complaining because the songs were too fast or too hard or too heavy, of course as always I was the only one who ever wrote songs, played all the leads and did all the vocals.
No big secret that in the late 80's I was a big hair guy, and yes my songwriting was 80's pop metal sounding, but it was always on the heavy side, but man, I never expected the type of wussing out some of those guys gave me when my music progressed into an even heavier style. I was trying to move forward while those guys wanted to stagnate and play Poison covers forever.
Personally I always hated playing cover tunes but would do some just to make folks happy, but we did cool ones (at the time) like Iron Maiden (The Trooper, Flight of Icarus), King Diamond (Halloween), Metallica (Creeping Death, Trapped under ice), Judas Priest (Breaking the law, Another thing comin), and we threw some gay ones in there too like Poison (Talk dirty to me), Kiss (Heavens on Fire, Lick it up) and of course we did "For whom the bell tolls" just like every other band in the world, (I can't stand that song now, after playing it 1000 times).
The last stuff I wrote was around '97-'98, I still believe it was the best material I ever came up with, always on the heavy side of course, but still melodic enough to have been widely accepted, I always called my songs gay metal, like Type O Negative, very heavy but still gay at the same time, heavy, heavy metal love songs and junk.
I actually had a manager interested for a short time, until she tried to change everything, I'm like "Nah, you don't tell me how I want my music to sound, it's coming from my head, if anything I want to make it heavier not popish."
By this time I was so messed up from drugs and alcohol and women that I just dropped everything and moved to Arizona, where I discovered a killer underground scene that was all about original music, but by now I'm getting into my mid 30's and music is turning into three chords and a rhyme, what happened to guitar solo's? I didn't have any of my equipment with me either, or I may have tried to hook up out there.
I saw some really good original bands in Phoenix, but I think it was too late for that style of music, at least there were places to go and see good musicians playing their tunes, no matter how loud or heavy or technical.
That's enough ranting from me about my flopped music career, I really believed I was original enough to make it to some degree, if I would have played at the right place at the right time for the right people, but I guess I was born in the wrong place, I should have moved to California in the 80's, I'm sure I could have made something of it.
Oh well, I guess it wasn't to be, a lot of it due to my own poor judgement and bad decisions.
Such is life.
Still no linked images allowed around here Paz! Naughty...
bands have come from.
But those lyrics are for my band. 
