Marshy...

[Stacey0471]

I'm dying to read your McFly gig review. How was it? [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Dean Marshall]

Marshys review of the MC Fly gig !

It was excellent !! First came the Pickle platter with a stack of Poppadoms the size of Paul Stanleys Heals. This was shortly followed by the house special, a kinda Authentic dish as hot as the fire from Gene Simmons mouth, this was washed down with copious amounts of (King) Cobra Beer !!The rather small but intimate crowd of 1 ( my Bud' ) were appreciative of all tracks ( ordered off the menu ) offered. Good night all in all and would highly recommend. A+++++++++++

Oh yeah my daughter and her friends said the gig was "Great" and that someone in the band was " well fit.." (L.o.l) well ... er .. right!


Marshy

[andy69]

Funny post Bud [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[Dean Marshall]

Thanks dude, Going for an Indian meal with good company will always be better than having to listn to "Teeny-Bop-Pop band" pap-shmeer anytime.

B.T.W:- Am i to run off and hide in shame yet bro'? My ears have been burning all day !!! Come on .. tell!!


Please be gentle with me !;-)

Marshy

[andy69]

Had a spin of the bleedin heart album. Struck me as a little Crue sounding, although a little dated sounding, It didn't exactly jump out and grab me by the neck... But I need to listen again on some decent speakers when I get home.

[Dean Marshall]

Wow Crue eh? Personally i dont think it comes anywhere near as Gud as the Crue, but yeah i guess its in that same glammy tradition. Not trying to justify it or anythang but .. itw was done in 1991 and mixed end of 92, and production has come on in leaps and bounds since then.

One of the main reasons i got into production and ended up owning running my own studio was this album, i hated it, and hated the production, ( which was produced by Kit Wolven (UFO etc) Im not into the fact that the whole thing is drum heavy (Mick 'i want my own way' Ransome waz ultimately to blame!!)Bass sounds like shit, and theres far too much "blanket" reverb thrown all over it.

Still a good laff while it lasted.

If i had too, Real long way is the tune i liked the most, which was written by Marc Arma Chan .. another short lived Tatty luv Boat (Ex Gin Sling)
And mine and Adam Godzikowski's backing vocals on "White Lightning.." was a hoot to do (we fell about laughing for hours trying to get a take..)and the only moment on the album that im most proud of .. For what its worth!!

Marshy

[Lenni]

I guess you weren't too keen on the drummer.

[Dean Marshall]

To be fair he was a bit useless Lenni, talked the talk but dint walk the walk, i wuz 25 at the time and he was nearly 40 then, so maybe i wuz expecting more. I have myself been drumming for 30 years now (40 next month..) and it still hurts me to listen to it !!Crap technique is something to be left to people just starting off on a chosen instrument, that should if anything improve with time, being a big gob Southern wanker who fucked his way thru the ranks of Kerrang is nothing to be proud of, Admirable yes, but you still must have a modicum of talent in the first place. As a bassist, when working alongside a drummer thats always getting lost in a live situation, all ( the starts and que's for intro's etc fucked up..) the Rhytm section always tends to get the flack together, 'sloppy,' "Laid back off the groove" etc,comments i hated every minute of it, cos he made me look a tool too!! and if you dont like it then whats the point in staying. Man if you could have been there in the studio it was embarresing having to watch him play poor love !!

Oooooppppsy, ive ranted aint i? I'm not bitter .. Onest guvnor .. punch me in the stomach !!!

[Carl I.]

Andy, the second album is actually better (song wise, play wise, production wise) than the first album.

And personally Marshy, I would take TLB over the Crue any damn day of the week. But that just has to do with an intense hatred for the Crue. But I also like TLB.

[Carl I.]

I don't know why I don't like them, I just don't. Pick any band you don't like, and try and explain it further than a "they suck". There is just something.

I'm a Glam nut, been into it for longer than I can remember, been in many bands, but I will NOT like a band just for being "Glam". If a band sucks, I don't care if they have the best image and stage presence. That's part of the major problem with what little Glam scene there is nowdays, we are way too forgiving. I have heard bands praised here that are just flat out terrible. But they look good, so people like them.

TLB had something in their music. Mick's voice was damn near terrible, but musically there was something REALLY good about them. If they had a better voice on that first album, they could have been much bigger. But that voice...that voice was so weird. The second album was much better. But musically, there were some great pure RnR riffs going on, and a nice energy.

The first Crue was the best, but even that was spotty, IMO. SHOUT was pure Metal crap. Nothing Glam about that thing, just Metal. THEATER was a Hanoi inspired rip-off that failed at it's attempts to be Pure Glam/RnR. Everything after those fit in with the 80's "Hairband"/"Cockrock" bullshit that killed whatever chances Glam had of being successful, since all of a sudden bands like Firehouse (apologies to FH fans) and Warrant were being called "Glam".

Oldtimers on this site already know my feelings for the whole Hairband/Cockrock stuff, and the US scene and the extreme disliking of the Sunset Strip style of bands. Don't worry, you learn to ignore my rants and just laugh at my surliness. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]