Metal School

[Janx]

They're all so full of crap it's insane. Nothing coming out of any of them is to be believed. Looks at the writing credits of the albums, since DeGarmo went grunge and left Tate's done the majority of the writing, for good or bad. Tate's definately gone more mellow but it also appears the other guys never stepped up and they're blaming flagging sales on Tate alone.

I saw them open for Maiden on the Final frontier tour. Not a huge fan, and didn't hear anything that turned my head.

Coheed and Cambria on this year's tour did pretty well, and was a bit more memorable for a band I don't follow in comparison.

Plus, Maiden rocked as usual.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Coheed & Cambria, despite their obvious talent- which I respect- do nothing except annoy me. I cannot explain why.

 

[Herschel]

I'm with you, they're like Tool to me: The sum is not the equal to the very good parts.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well put- I'll be using that turn of the phrase in the future.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I like C&C, but you kind of have to be in their head space to get them. They write most of their music based on their comic book. (yes, they wrote the graphic novels, first). So not trying to figure out the lyrics works for me, I frankly cannot listen to music anymore without immediately dissecting it (hazard of the job/bio make-up) so it's nice to hear good music that I don't have to think about (or even understand). It makes me feel normal, or at least like nearly everyone else that says, "Oh, I don't listen to the lyrics, but it has a good beat." (I HATE that phrase...)

BTW, April Wine is on tour, unfortunately nowhere near here otherwise, I would be all over that.... Didn't I just ask about them a few pages back?

 

[Herschel]

Queesrÿche update:

1) Geoff Tate is definitely suing his band, and he has signed a solo deal with InsideOut records.

2) he has been replaced in Queensrÿche by (SURPRISE!) Crimson Glory vocalist, Todd La Torre.

3) this leaves Crimson Glory in the lurch of course. Perhaps they should send Geoff an email...

And the tangled web continues...
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/geoff-tate-recruits-sarzo-blotzer-for-new-queensryche-lineup/<O</O

Geoff Tate - Vocals
Bobby Blotzer - Drums
RudySarzo - Bass
Glen Drover - Guitar
Kelly Gray - Guitar
Randy Gane - Keyboards

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hhmmmmm...don't know what to say about that. Those guys all are skilled, but not really as Prog minded as the original Queensrÿche lineup. Perhaps we'll get something more...Judasy Priesty.

 

[Herschel]

Which wouldn't be bad, but that was also kind of my thought too, though Gray Drover and Tate may have enough in them to make it work somewhat. It would be interesting to see Chris DeGarmo work with one of the groups again, but he's been more reclusive musically than Jake E. Lee of late.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My bet is DeGarmo is sick of all of them.

Hm- maybe he'd get back into the game if he went in a totally new dimension. Maybe do some Prog-pop or Prog-funk?

I mean, Buckethead does some cool stuff with this musical collective called Material, which includes people like Bootsy Collins, Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble, Brain, Bernie Worrell and Nicky Skopetelis.

So who could get DeGarmo going again?

Raoul Walton is a stealth funk master- he played bass on something like 80% of kraut pop in the 1980s- I'm sure he'd be good to go.

Add William Orbit, DJ Shadow, Cindy Blackman and Skin...you've got power and ambiance like nobody's biz!

 

[Herschel]

It would be interesting to see what DeGarmo, Walton and Will Calhoun could come up with. Of course they'd probably end up with Miles Kennedy on vocals just to make it not as cool as it could have been.

He had done some stuff with Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinnney a number of years back, but that didn't seem to go much of anywhere.