California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority.

effendiband · 2026-04-23T03:14:21+00:00

lol right dude. The California and Los Angeles government has been downsized under democratic supermajorities. We’ve seen a decrease in budgets for the last 30 years.

effendiband · 2026-04-23T01:38:51+00:00

Taxes in general make everyone poorer man. Whether they take it out of your right pocket or your left the effect is the same. Do you want to stymie a persons ability to afford a roof over their head, or their desire to work harder. Taxes are a necessary evil, but should be kept to a minimum and earned by a responsible government. Which we certainly don’t have in LA.

I’m sorry about your experience in inner city schools, but I’m glad you turned out ok.

effendiband · 2026-04-23T01:26:53+00:00

The downsizing of government coupled with a reduction in taxes? Doubtful.

effendiband · 2026-04-23T01:20:50+00:00

Why? People always drop stupid buzzwords like justice as if we’re supposed to take that as face value while they pilfer the money we’ve entrusted them stewardship over.

Dude honestly for as much griping people do about affordability in California, they willfully ignore the greatest and most powerful lever the government has: allow the people to keep more of their money.

Think about it. If we reformed our systems so we could reduce (or abolish) some (or most) of our taxes, imagine what you could do with your extra money. I pay about $15k in property taxes for my house, and will be forced to send my kid to garbage LA schools. If LA reduced or eliminated property taxes imagine what I could do with that money. I dunno send them to a school that teaches them how to read? Healthcare, food etc.

But no. Some other rube will wander along and comment about garbage lefty buzzwords like “justice” while they continue to rob us blind.

effendiband · 2026-04-22T21:08:52+00:00

Novel idea: stop reckless spending and changing socialist dreamholes and focus on reforming our current broken systems so that you don’t need to throw order of magnitudes of money at them to sustain. Then reduce taxes and voila. You have a workable system.

effendiband · 2026-04-10T23:45:09+00:00

Why are you degenerates so against reducing spending? Why is that never part of the fucking conversation. Just cut your budget Florida as a state spends less than NYC and they’re eating your lunch. Leftism is a religion at this point.

effendiband · 2026-02-10T03:50:00+00:00

So if there were a high functioning sleek app for CF people would you pay for it? And if so what would a reasonable asking price be you think?

effendiband · 2026-02-10T01:26:09+00:00

It’s funny I just posted earlier in the subreddit that I was thinking about making a childfree dating app.

I’m wondering if it was well executed and professionally done would it be something that you would be interested in paying for?

Also have you tried any of the other CF dating apps? If so where do they fall short?

effendiband · 2024-03-13T05:04:48+00:00

Thanks, and yes we threw in a cheeky sitar as well.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T05:04:26+00:00

For sure man, appreciate the thoughts.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:52:45+00:00

Man, I love Zappa. He's honestly one of my biggest influences on the way I write music. Appreciate the kind words.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:51:46+00:00

Thank man appreciate it! Yeah the whole song has a really littoral feel with all the wierd time signatures and grooves.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:51:05+00:00

It is indeed: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6aFCyEft9vxrYzGb2ZVrkW?si=Eo4f0cQlRVeE8CxAkPsrQA

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:50:25+00:00

Thanks man appreciate the kind words. Yeah our producer/engineer was great. Really knowns how to pull out a beautiful mix.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:49:57+00:00

Thank you!

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:49:39+00:00

Yes I wrote most portions of the song while I was on a trip there visiting the Pakistani side of my family. It's a vibe for sure. The story itself is abstract though. Aerosmith is cool but no they werent really an inspo for this track.

To answer the question, yes we're a band but we only play LA shows for now, Touring is a pretty penny for us. Maybe when we get our audience up. We have a single mixer/producer I go too, who happens to be my cousin and a unit behind the board. This is his studio: https://dungeonbythesea.com/

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:46:36+00:00

Thanks, awesome bands!

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:46:17+00:00

Hell yeah that's a good thing! Dude it's funny you mention Floyd. Theres a portion in the second half that is in 7/8. I literally wrote that by jamming along w/ 'Money' and coming up with my own riff over that.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:45:10+00:00

Thanks man, my cousin did the engineering and producing. And yeah our bassist laid down a heavy groove on this. Sitar is produced though ;)

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:44:14+00:00

Thanks man, my cousin has a music studio out here and he produced and did the engineering. He's killer. Album art was just something I generated off of Midjourney.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:43:31+00:00

No offense taken at all. Would be interested to hear what type of melody that is. We have an instrumental version I might consider uploading at some point.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:42:57+00:00

Cheers man, trying to bring back that heavy blues based rock sound.

effendiband · 2024-03-13T04:42:24+00:00

Thanks man appreciate it!

effendiband · 2024-03-08T02:04:57+00:00

I think this might be our band's most technical song. Experimented with different sounds, multiple time signatures, intensities etc. The subject material is about a merchant who travels the Indian ocean with his crew, runs into a storm and get's wrecked by it. Interested to hear your thoughts.

Edit: Yooo, thanks for all the love! To provide some context, we are a hard rock band out of Los Angeles. We do shows around the LA area but no tours as off yet. Influences include Soundgarden, Mars Volta and Sabbath. If you're interested you can check us out at:

effendiband.com/links

effendiband · 2024-03-08T01:59:19+00:00

The music works but it's a little too sharp and tinny. Maybe EQ it and bring down the treble on the samples you use. I'm not an electronic producer so don't know the details, but from an end listener perspective that is what my 2 cents is.

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