Some People Still Don't Get it (What we are/ are not 2)
Everywhere we go we get the same stuff. Why don’t you play this song or why don’t you make the song longer by stretching it out with more solos? A lot of people think they know the answer for global success for us. All we have to do is cover their favorite blues song that they have heard 10,000 times before. Once we do that and make our 3 minute songs 10 minute guitar masturbation snooze fests, millions of music fans will want to see us and buy our discs.
We are an original blues band (a rare entity) and we are very proud of it. The road we travel is much harder, but we feel in the long run it is the right road. We believe the songs we write are quite good and we like to show them off. If you want to hear Terry sing an “Etta Franklin” song, do yourselves a favor and go see the real thing while they are still around.
Our message is simple, our songs are simple. What do is primal, it is meant to hit in the gut. Our songs are short because most people’s attention spans are short. Our goal is to entertain, get the message across and finish before we get boring. After a hard week of working in poor economic times, a working man/woman does not want to have to work more to listen to and enjoy music. He or she just wants to let loose and that’s what we are here for.
Our goal is to provide the audience with a product that is 100 percent real without any filler. This band feels the song is more important than egos of the players. The five of us agree that our job is to showcase our material the best way we can. If a song does not need a solo we don’t add one, period. This is a blues band that may have more in common with The Ramones than the extended jam blues rock from the late 1960’s. If you want to see and hear five minute guitar solos there are about a million “Stevie Ray Claptons” out there that would be happy to thrill/bore you for hours until your forehead caves in. Again, we encourage you to seek out the real thing.
This is not to say that everyone misunderstands us. Everywhere we go (and don't go) people make positive comments about our material and original sound. And we thank you for that.
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Comment by Brian Brazil on November 27, 2010 at 2:13am -
Most bands that have twenty minute guitar solos every song are that way because they have a guitar player fronting the band. Most singers wouldn't do twenty minute vocal solos every song because they would wear out their throat or run out of energy before the night was over. As the front man, singer/ harmonica player I try to keep the solos short and to the point. I just a play chorus or verse length solo that's enough for me to say what I want to say in a solo. You really don't need any more than that. If you are playing in a live situation it's okay to stretch a song out some, if the crowd is really into it and wants more. Other than that, it's just self-indulgence.
Good luck,
Brian Brazil
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Comment by Kareña K on September 1, 2010 at 10:59am -
Love it! Totally agree, where is it written that there has to be a four minute guitar solo in every blues song? Seems to be the law with most bands.
Peace
KK
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Comment by Matt Marshall on August 18, 2010 at 1:53pm -
Y'all keep doin what you're doing. There's always frustrations, for sure, but I enjoy y'all.
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Comment by EJB on August 16, 2010 at 8:35pm -
Hang in there. Most folks won't ever get it, just keep on rockin. the blues had a baby...Vinnie
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