All I want for Christmas is.... Options

[SctSamadhi]

[figure8]

There is no problem with having different opinions.

There are only 3-4 people in the world music that are awesome to me by default. They have never EVER failed a single time in terms of what they were doing. Chad T is among those.

If you call TGF mediocre, you do not listen to it, right? If you consider the coming Live mediocre, you will not listen to it.

The rest is in my previous post. There is 1 word that you might have missed while reading.

I am not saying that new Live will be mediocre, I'm just saying that it is also a possibility. The thing is: Yes, CCP are great musicians (no doubt in it at all), but what they are missing is a good singer, I would go even further and say that they need a unique voice to make it all work. The Gracious Few was just too standard. Yes, music wise it was what you expect CCP to do, but Kevin Martin is just a good guy with a standard voice (it may be good, but not for CCP) - and that's just my opinion. Now they have found Chris Shinn - I've seen the videos, I've heard his solo stuff and his previous band stuff - nothing special. Unless he will pull a trick on the recording session - there will be nothing new. I've read an article once stating that Live is a mix of Nirvana and REM. To me it is a very cool mix. What mix had The Gracious Few - everyday american rock and roll meets an everyday american rock and roll. I just hope that it won't happen with the new Live record. This is all that I am saying.

This post has been edited by figure8: Dec 24 2012, 8:31 am

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I am not saying that new Live will be mediocre, I'm just saying that it is also a possibility. The thing is: Yes, CCP are great musicians (no doubt in it at all), but what they are missing is a good singer, I would go even further and say that they need a unique voice to make it all work. The Gracious Few was just too standard. Yes, music wise it was what you expect CCP to do, but Kevin Martin is just a good guy with a standard voice (it may be good, but not for CCP) - and that's just my opinion. Now they have found Chris Shinn - I've seen the videos, I've heard his solo stuff and his previous band stuff - nothing special. Unless he will pull a trick on the recording session - there will be nothing new. I've read an article once stating that Live is a mix of Nirvana and REM. To me it is a very cool mix. What mix had The Gracious Few - everyday american rock and roll meets an everyday american rock and roll. I just hope that it won't happen with the new Live record. This is all that I am saying.

You still find it hard to read 1 word in my post.

I give up