Honest Man, First single?? Options

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Chad's Facebook says a station in Spokane, WA has added Honest Man!!

" KHTQ in SPOKANE adds The Gracious Few's "HONEST MAN" We haven't even shipped the single - excellent news! Major props to KHTQ."

Wonder when we get to hear it????

Apparently it is premiering here too, though they have the artist and song name switched:

http://www.93x.com/cagematch.asp

Is this tonight? 9pm? Can someone listen live and record it?? I'm going to be out!!



This post has been edited by thefunkyredcaboose: Apr 30 2010, 4:21 pm

[PillarOfDavidson]

It might not be the most innovative song in the world, but as a musician who is rarely surprised by rock music the little guitar riff before each chorus is really, really nice. It is a great creative touch and is quite odd rhythmically. Also, the key change during the guitar solo is a similar nice touch. Those may not be innovations, but they are nice rock music touches you aren't going to hear from many bands these days. It really shows that they are being creative even in their single.

As for the vocals, Chris Cornell sucks now. Lets just be glad that Kevin hasn't done the same and give him all the credit for that. Cornell definitely wouldn't have written those vocal lines these days.

His pop vocals do... there's no gut, no rawness in them anymore. But the rock vocals of Cornell would kill in this song (and in Tredecim). That's not to say Martin's vocals suck... far from it. In fact, Martin's vocals may well be the best vocals that could've been performed for this music. I also agree that Cornell wouldn't have written lyrics like Martin has. Who knows what he would've written? If it were in the same vein as Black Hole Sun I wouldn't complain, but it's been so long since then. Then again... his lyrics in Audioslave weren't bad, IMO.

Btw, the key change during the guitar solo and the odd rhythm... that's part of what I'm talking about when I refer to the execution of the song. The riffs aren't anything earth shattering, but they don't have to be. You have to be passionate to make decent rock n' roll because a lot of rock isn't overly complex. If you're just going through the motions because the recording contract says so in order to make money, your music is going to suck. Exhibit A: SFBM. Of course, having decently written songs to get passionate over helps... I do have one tiny nitpick about this song, though. During the chorus of the song after hitting the back and forth C-to-D chords, they go down to F and sit on it. It might have sounded fuller if they had instead hit the F, but then came up for the G chord right before going back into C-to-D. Even if it was just on the second go-around that they hit the G. But that might just be me...

Anyway, I can feel the passion coming off these songs. The rock hath returned.

This post has been edited by pho3nixtar: May 7 2010, 2:30 pm