Re: TCV musings...

[Steve Sauer <sauerlemon@xxxxxxxxx>]

It doesn't have to be any more difficult than this.

JPJ is involved in TCV, and you're on FBO; therefore, you heard about TCV.

JPJ is involved in TCV, and JPJ was involved in Led Zeppelin, and you
know you like Led Zeppelin; therefore, you owe it to yourself to check
out TCV. And check 'em out live!

If TCV existed without JPJ, then one or more of the following things
would apply to the bass parts, keyboard parts, mandolin parts, etc.:
(1) Those parts wouldn't be as good because somebody other than JPJ
would be playing them.
(2) There wouldn't be any mandolin or things like that on the album
because who among Josh Homme's and Dave Grohl's peers would come up
with that kind of stuff?
(3) It would all come out equally as cool as if JPJ was not involved,
which would mean there's somebody among Josh Homme's and Dave Grohl's
peers who's equally as capable as JPJ.

Blah blah blah, on and on. You get the point. Not worth going into
every hypothetical scenario.

Basically, JPJ is involved in a new band. If you have the slightest
inkling that you like JPJ, then you owe it to yourself to check out
JPJ. For those of you who haven't because you were perhaps turned off
by the Butthole Surfers or Diamanda Galas, or Sara Watkins and Uncle
Earl were too soft for you, this project is different. I think it's
more like Zooma and The Thunderthief with some real accessibility.

"New Fang" and "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" may be quick little
made-for-radio songs, but they have a catchy energy. The band does
also have a tendency, especially live, to jam out, which -- with JPJ
involved with two musicians he really digs -- can't be a bad thing.
Hence my treatise about "Warsaw" yesterday: If you aren't digging the
jam of a live version of "Warsaw," then I don't think you could really
dig "Dazed and Confused" either.

JPJ is involved, and thank goodness he's turning heads. No, it's not
with Page and Plant and Jason Bonham, but if that's your requirement
for listening to new music, then you aren't collecting new music at
all, and you're probably finished listening to new music for good, and
you're sadly missing out on some good stuff.

It's about opening your minds, people.

Happy holidaze,
Steve "The Lemon"

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Someone mentioned that if it wasn't for Jones that most of us probably 
> wouldn't like TCV at all...