scout's honor, matty G (communist), and a reminder
Last night the entire sea-cow staff attended (seperatly) the burning love letters/scout's honor split release show. This is what i gleaned from that fateful night.
Matty G, Filthy communist dog----do yourself a favor and go read matty G's LJ. specificly,this part. Our Sea-Cow Staffer went out and fought for the for the blue collar and the man came after him. check it.
GO TO THIS SHOW OR WE'RE BREAKING UP!!!
Tuesday November 9th
At: East Peoria Legion Hall
6:30 | 6$
groovie-ghoulies | (Ghoulish rockin pop punk legends from Sacramento, on springman)
Jackass | (on tour with the ghoulies, ex members of Bad Religion and Ill Repute on BYO records
The Amazing Kill-o-watts | (rockin pop from my house
XRise AboveX | (New Local Hardcore featuring members of Burning Love Letters, Declaim, and more)
MIA | (Punk as Punk)
Despite what you may have heard, THIS SHOW IS NOT CANCELLED
Some of you might know of my trouble with Jared Grabb related recordings, that trouble being that nearly every recording I hear with him on it, has little to none of the amazing energy his live shows have (which have lead me to clamor for a live cd to be released, but i digress). The three Scout's Honor tracks on this spilit do not suffer from that.
These recording are a solid representation of the band. My favorite track is "Sweating Through Our Days" (Scout's Honor's rock-n-roll song), however, I feel "Highway son, has the most potential. "True Blue" falters slightly, but not due to the music or even the signing, but instead the reliance on whispy sound effects in the background.
Scout's honor is a stripped down guitar and drums two piece from central IL. They are not a hardcore band, nor are they an emo band. But as I've heard them classified as both by people, it seems as if they themselves are confused.
"Highway Son" is an excellent and moving song, but when it speeds up, rather than yelling till his voice breaks (as you would hear live) Jared Deep throatedly growls, as a hardcore front man might, which really steals the emotion you start to feel with those first few lines (also, is Tom doing all the back up vocals? I can hear him sometimes, but during the growl/yell i find it hard to believe it's him). It's important to remeber, this didn't RUIN the song, merely help it back from being as exciting as it could have been.
The third track "True Blue" is the most emotionaly charged song of the three. That emotion does begin to sweep me in...until the whispy sound effects come in (kind of a wind sound with a little clicking, i dunno). I assume it's there to hide the vapidness of the teo man sound. And that's the crux of the problem.
Scout's Honor is one of my favorite bands, Their live shows are excellent, and this recording IS a good representation of that, but it falls short, ONLY because Scout's Honor do not have the confidence present in their recording as they do on stage. There is no backup whispy noise when they play live, cause it's just not needed. Just like old blues, the emotion inherit in Jared's singing would have carried the song perfectly. The yell/growl serves only as almost unintionaly funny. This band needs to become more confident in the fact that they are a great band w/ an excellent striped down rural sound. a perfect reflection of central IL.
While this might have sounded harsh, know that i'm completely ga-ga for this band and am only pointing these OPINIONS out cause I want the best from them. I doubt molly coddling them cause i know em would help them in any way shape or form.
EDIT!!!---this paragraph was removed cause it was stupid and immature. thank you to iamhiding for pointing this out
Jp
Note from Matty G: I fixed the god damned code, so now it looks normal again.
Matty G, Filthy communist dog----do yourself a favor and go read matty G's LJ. specificly,this part. Our Sea-Cow Staffer went out and fought for the for the blue collar and the man came after him. check it.
GO TO THIS SHOW OR WE'RE BREAKING UP!!!
Tuesday November 9th
At: East Peoria Legion Hall
6:30 | 6$
groovie-ghoulies | (Ghoulish rockin pop punk legends from Sacramento, on springman)
Jackass | (on tour with the ghoulies, ex members of Bad Religion and Ill Repute on BYO records
The Amazing Kill-o-watts | (rockin pop from my house
XRise AboveX | (New Local Hardcore featuring members of Burning Love Letters, Declaim, and more)
MIA | (Punk as Punk)
Despite what you may have heard, THIS SHOW IS NOT CANCELLED
Some of you might know of my trouble with Jared Grabb related recordings, that trouble being that nearly every recording I hear with him on it, has little to none of the amazing energy his live shows have (which have lead me to clamor for a live cd to be released, but i digress). The three Scout's Honor tracks on this spilit do not suffer from that.
These recording are a solid representation of the band. My favorite track is "Sweating Through Our Days" (Scout's Honor's rock-n-roll song), however, I feel "Highway son, has the most potential. "True Blue" falters slightly, but not due to the music or even the signing, but instead the reliance on whispy sound effects in the background.
Scout's honor is a stripped down guitar and drums two piece from central IL. They are not a hardcore band, nor are they an emo band. But as I've heard them classified as both by people, it seems as if they themselves are confused.
"Highway Son" is an excellent and moving song, but when it speeds up, rather than yelling till his voice breaks (as you would hear live) Jared Deep throatedly growls, as a hardcore front man might, which really steals the emotion you start to feel with those first few lines (also, is Tom doing all the back up vocals? I can hear him sometimes, but during the growl/yell i find it hard to believe it's him). It's important to remeber, this didn't RUIN the song, merely help it back from being as exciting as it could have been.
The third track "True Blue" is the most emotionaly charged song of the three. That emotion does begin to sweep me in...until the whispy sound effects come in (kind of a wind sound with a little clicking, i dunno). I assume it's there to hide the vapidness of the teo man sound. And that's the crux of the problem.
Scout's Honor is one of my favorite bands, Their live shows are excellent, and this recording IS a good representation of that, but it falls short, ONLY because Scout's Honor do not have the confidence present in their recording as they do on stage. There is no backup whispy noise when they play live, cause it's just not needed. Just like old blues, the emotion inherit in Jared's singing would have carried the song perfectly. The yell/growl serves only as almost unintionaly funny. This band needs to become more confident in the fact that they are a great band w/ an excellent striped down rural sound. a perfect reflection of central IL.
While this might have sounded harsh, know that i'm completely ga-ga for this band and am only pointing these OPINIONS out cause I want the best from them. I doubt molly coddling them cause i know em would help them in any way shape or form.
EDIT!!!---this paragraph was removed cause it was stupid and immature. thank you to iamhiding for pointing this out
Jp
Note from Matty G: I fixed the god damned code, so now it looks normal again.