Thoughts on "Honest Man" and "Believe", One Song - Two Versions Options

[Hoodstock]

You guys do realize that music from "Honest Man" by TGF comes from the song "Believe" by Live.

Just give it a listen:

Honest Man: http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/gracious...-man--218696430

Believe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZqT0stibWs

New lyrics - same base song . Ed had his chance with it and then Kevin (or the band) redid the song.

I wish I had a studio version of Believe to directly compare the two vocal performances. I prefer the lyrics of Honest Man but I would have loved to hear this as a Live song.

This post has been edited by Hoodstock: Aug 3 2010, 7:54 am

[sh4rpz]

To be honest, when I first heard it, with Ed as Believe, I thought it was good - irrespective of the lyrics, cos by then I knew we weren't getting the pre-2000's LIVE back. Especially not since Ed seriously thought SFBM was a return to old-school LIVE. But had the hiatus not come, I'd probably have accepted 'Believe' as a LIVE track.

That isn't to say that I'm not thankful for TGF's 'Honest Man' as I think that has to be one of the better songs CCP have done and it so much better suited to KM in terms of his style of vocal. I think Funky said it back when TGF's album dropped in 2010 that being a drummer, KM has great timing - and for the riffs in Honest Man, that really shows and he doesn't disappoint.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

To be honest, when I first heard it, with Ed as Believe, I thought it was good - irrespective of the lyrics, cos by then I knew we weren't getting the pre-2000's LIVE back. Especially not since Ed seriously thought SFBM was a return to old-school LIVE. But had the hiatus not come, I'd probably have accepted 'Believe' as a LIVE track.

That isn't to say that I'm not thankful for TGF's 'Honest Man' as I think that has to be one of the better songs CCP have done and it so much better suited to KM in terms of his style of vocal. I think Funky said it back when TGF's album dropped in 2010 that being a drummer, KM has great timing - and for the riffs in Honest Man, that really shows and he doesn't disappoint.

That sounds smart so sure, I said it.

When I heard Believe I didn't think it sounded like the band was on the same page at all, then Ed twittered that it was one of the first times the band had ever even played the song together. It wsa getting pretty obvious that CCP and Ed were done but this song was when I knew it.