RE: Dave Grohl Mothership Review

["Tim Druck" <tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Travis Meeks is a pretty good musician, but a truly shitty human
being.  He used to hang out in the same places as myself and my musician
friends, trying to arrange jam sessions, but nobody would jam with him
because he's a jerk.  His dad is a doctor and bought him a bunch of studio
equipment, etc. and he always had this
it's-my-studio-so-we-do-everything-my-way attitude that drove musicians off
in droves.  
        Plus his dad insisted on managing the band and turning everything
into a business decision, hanging out in the studio and "helping" with
mixing and recording based on what he thought would sell best.  Days of the
New was strictly product, strictly controlled by Travis' dad, and that's why
the production sounds so cold and empty - there's no soul or musicianship
involved at all.
        The guys in Days of the New were the only musicians in Louisville
who could swallow their pride long enough to record an album with him, and
how did he thank them?  As soon as they made it big he fired the entire band
and replaced them with the members of another local band called the Java
Men.
        When I think of Travis Meeks I get this mental picture of him
sitting in a corner booth of the Twig 'n Leaf (a local diner) with his
acoustic guitar, all by himself, because nobody wanted to play with him.

He's not underrated, he's genuinely hated.
TimD


-----Original Message-----
From: admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Nathan Hevensone
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:41 PM
To: Lee McCauslin
Cc: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dave Grohl Mothership Review

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I, for one, consider him one of the most underrated musicians of the
day, along with Travis Meeks.