Random Thoughts About Ed, Whatever Comes To Mind Options

[Deku]

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[SJN1279]

random thoughts......Okay, I'll play. WTF happened to this guy!!!!!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9AXL8BQZ

I know the answer though!!!

Sure you do, you know everything.

[EF341SC]

My random thaught of Ed is a boy that knew everything and had the world then he turned in to a man and lost his way hehehehehe

[EF341SC]

Full Self Distruction

I mean he can still sing but he has no creativity anymore there is nothing creative about Ed walking down the street singing La Da Da Da and thinking to himself yeah ill just put that in one of my songs somewhere coz i cant think of anything else to say.

That probably isnt the way he does it but it wouldant supprize me if it was the way his song writing prosess works.

[mattyeagles]

an opinion, yes, but if you asked people in the music industry, what would be the percentage of people voting for TGF? Come on Nick! Seriously I would say 98%.

TGF's album is not a masterpiece, but a very strong album worked with the collaboration of 5 people.

Ed? He wrote 12 non-factor songs (well I like Grace, Zion and Drive) by himself Some of the songs are alike (in the same key) Can't you see the difference in the depth of the music? The chemistry between instruments? The live performances?

It's ok not to like old school rock. But to always hit on them talking about the fact that Ed is still touring and blablabla is pointless, useless and showing that finally, popularity and sales are more important than the music itself...

AWFUL!

It also almost fact that "people in the music industry" do not feel the same way as you do about TGF, because if they did, they wouldve signed them and given them some suppurt to tour more extensively than they did. The CD was great and although the objective was clearly not to reach pop status or sell massive amount of copies, TGF failed to get the music out to the people. If I asked 100 random people if they have even heard of TGF, 0-1 would say they have. I am no way, shape or form calling TGF a music failure, because that is so far from the truth. They did, however, fail on other fronts. Do not tell me that didnt matter to the band, because it does. They would much rather play to 2,000 fans than 75. The goal was to make music they love primarily but I am sure they expected a bigger reception from a wider audience. The vast majority of people at concerts and who know the CD are candebox and live fans.

Ed, for that matter, has failed musically and has also failed to deliver his music to a new audience but lets not claim that TGF was a success in ever facet.

[mfitz804]

It also almost fact that "people in the music industry" do not feel the same way as you do about TGF, because if they did, they wouldve signed them and given them some suppurt to tour more extensively than they did. The CD was great and although the objective was clearly not to reach pop status or sell massive amount of copies, TGF failed to get the music out to the people. If I asked 100 random people if they have even heard of TGF, 0-1 would say they have. I am no way, shape or form calling TGF a music failure, because that is so far from the truth. They did, however, fail on other fronts. Do not tell me that didnt matter to the band, because it does. They would much rather play to 2,000 fans than 75. The goal was to make music they love primarily but I am sure they expected a bigger reception from a wider audience. The vast majority of people at concerts and who know the CD are candebox and live fans.

Ed, for that matter, has failed musically and has also failed to deliver his music to a new audience but lets not claim that TGF was a success in ever facet.

If I wasn't a member of this message board, I would probably have never heard that Ed had a solo album or that The Gracious Few even existed. Neither one of them were even a blip on the radio here, and I am in the biggest radio market in the U.S..

If you ask me which one I enjoyed, I would say both.

If you asked which one I thought had more artistic integrity, I would say TGP.

If you asked me which was more like Live, which is still my all time favorite band, I'd say Ed.

[OutToDry]

It also almost fact that "people in the music industry" do not feel the same way as you do about TGF, because if they did, they wouldve signed them and given them some suppurt to tour more extensively than they did. The CD was great and although the objective was clearly not to reach pop status or sell massive amount of copies, TGF failed to get the music out to the people. If I asked 100 random people if they have even heard of TGF, 0-1 would say they have. I am no way, shape or form calling TGF a music failure, because that is so far from the truth. They did, however, fail on other fronts. Do not tell me that didnt matter to the band, because it does. They would much rather play to 2,000 fans than 75. The goal was to make music they love primarily but I am sure they expected a bigger reception from a wider audience. The vast majority of people at concerts and who know the CD are candebox and live fans.

Ed, for that matter, has failed musically and has also failed to deliver his music to a new audience but lets not claim that TGF was a success in ever facet.

your post is good, but the opening line is not what their objective was. They have their own label and herein lies those challenges. For what they wanted to do, they succeeded and look for that record to be re-released in order to get more support along the sames lines as the new Live album.

If they really wanted to explode (yes, I lead the charge in that championing, but certain people took a piss over sales figures), they would have played Live & Candlebox and billed themselves as that with less TGF music. Going to a big label was what they didn't want. They controlled the entire project. Most of the folks at the shows loved it and it's been a grass roots effort. The old labels are dead and broke, they don't have the cash to go about it the old way.

[OutToDry]

MA......TGF isn't trying to be Live.

This post has been edited by OutToDry: Sep 30 2011, 10:05 am

[SJN1279]

your post is good, but the opening line is not what their objective was. They have their own label and herein lies those challenges. For what they wanted to do, they succeeded and look for that record to be re-released in order to get more support along the sames lines as the new Live album.

Why would they bother to rerelease TGF"s album?

This post has been edited by SJN1279: Sep 29 2011, 6:36 pm

[OutToDry]

i believe they stated they would.

[Hoodstock]

Why would they bother to rerelease TGF"s album?

Because their passion is making music and this is one avenue they have to explore, create, and share.

Nick - seriously, if you take out any connections at all to Live, Ed, sales, and concert attendance .... if you just take the album, pop it into your stereo and listen to it with a clear mind like it is a brand new thing that you have no connections to, are you seriously telling us that there is absolutely nothing (not even a single aspect) that you enjoy about TGF and their album?

[mfitz804]

mftiz......TGF isn't trying to be Live.

When did I say they were?

[OutToDry]

hey my bad, I meant this towards mattyeagles not you. sorry

[crazy1]

random thoughts......Okay, I'll play. WTF happened to this guy!!!!!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9AXL8BQZ

I know the answer though!!!

I heard it once on here that his balls are in his wife's purse. I think that explains it all.

[throwing_cheetahs]

Wow, i miss the intensity, but he was only 21-22 years old here, just a kid.