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Jack & Patience
>and you are telling me that you don't think there is a huge drop off
between
>the stuff on Patience and their recent attempts?
Are you kidding? No way! I really don't think Patience lives up to what TWHF
promised. Sure its looser and the arrangements are less crowded but the
guitar is way off somewhere and Karin's voice is drowned in delay. The best
thing about it is the cover (and the booklet is way too thick!)
I think Pateince is OTR's weakest collection of material, whilst GDBD is one
of their greatest achievements. GDBD is something unique, the atmosphere,
the simplicity and the sheer strength of the songs that stand up without any
real production.
>OtR's music used to be
>lively, with rhythm and spirit. not to mention Karin's voice used to be so
>much clearer.
Karins voice finally got time to breath on GDBD! No multi-layered vocals!!
It was heaven! Strong melodies and superb delivery. It knocks the first
three records out of the water!
I can't imagine the band playing without Brian. But for me the line-up that
played Emery in 1997 was the best rhythmically. Brian always said that his
best performance on record was 'June' and his laid back playing on
'Jack's...' and 'Little Blue River', not to mentioned really driving 'A
Gospel Number'. It was the perfect back drop to Jack's guitar playing. Which
brings me nicely on to...
>Jack's lackluster guitar playing cannot hold the candle to
>what Rich used to do for the band.
I totally disagree. I think what Rich has acheived with Monk demonstrates
that his style is much better in a looser environment where it has room to
be the real driving force behing the songs and musical textures.
Jack's plaing really opened up the GDBD material when played live. His
playing is off the cuff, brash, unpredicatble and damn excellent. Look at
what he did to 'Jacks Valentine'. Comparing Rich and Jack whould be like
asking Joe Strummer and Dave Gilmour to hold a joint guitar clinic based on
common music themes in their music. With Jack's playing you don't get the
same performance twice.
He stops OTR becoming predictable.
>and it was comical when everyone went nuts over his strumming the
>guitar, yeah, that's hard to do...
Is this a touch of the old "another amazing guitarist on the list just
waiting to be discovered and pick up where Rich left off"? Now how many of
those have there been? Well how come he's up there doing it and being
appreciated? The mind boggles...
>And of course their recent insistence on
>playing mostly as a trio without a drummer or a bassist hasn't helped their
>case any.
Now this does worry me.
>As far as i can tell, there has been a slow decline ever since Eve,
>maybe even Patience, but Good Dog Bad Dog was definitely the beginning of
>the end.
The beginning of the end of 'post nuclear, pseudo-alternative, folk-tinged
art-pop', what a relief!
Ed
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