Percy Sledge Fleet
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 April 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
Yeah, they suck. Something weirdly superficial I've noticed, too, is that there are a lot of little frontmen that seem larger than life, but this guy just seems ... tiny.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 April 2021 13:11 (nine hours ago) link
It's really odd -- he's kind of slight to begin with and then he has this way of tightening his shoulders and keeping his arms in and shrinking himself. He looks very blankfaced on stage too, like he's really not sure what he's singing or why he's singing it.
Their costumes look like mom made them.
The guitarist probably has the most presence out of all of them but p much does that one leaning way back move almost the entire show.
Audience seems to love it, people just love classic rock so much that even a pale imitation of it sells. Like these guys aren't just sub-Zeppelin, they are sub all the imitation Zeppelins that came after Zeppelin.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
They are sub-Wolfmother.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
My hard-rock pal (who agrees they suck) says he reminds them of Kingdom Come.
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
They're like a band that has actually never heard Led Zeppelin, or any amplified music, but then heard and saw Wolfmother, and were like, this band is crazy, you can do that!? This is the greatest music of all time!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
he reminds them^flip that and reverse it
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
― MarkoP, Saturday, April 17, 2021 7:20 PM bookmarkflaglink
TAKEDOWN!!!
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 April 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
Wolfdaughter?
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 April 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link
At least Kingdom Come were competent at Zeppelin imitation. GVF are EASILY one of the most incompetent rock bands I have ever heard. And they seem to be getting worse with each release.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 18 April 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
One for the sticker
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 April 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
Showing some real range by also doing sub-sub-Rushhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5PiROGaPXg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
oh man, the opening instrumental shit in that red rocks video is infuriating.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah when he does that wheedly lick that every 14 year old stumbles onto in their first six months of guitar, but for like a few minutes straight!
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
was waiting for them to cover this
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
I'm watching this Red Rocks thing and went from "are they going to play a song" to "when does the facility management rush the stage and beat them"
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
haha watching the red rocks clip now, amazing
what's with these fuckin hobbit wizard nudie suits
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
"Intro (Guitar Center Suite)"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
They're a thought experiment: If Rush hadn't met Neil.
― dinnerboat, Monday, 19 April 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
I mean they seem like nice enough guys and they are reasonably talented and I can't really hate them, but I kind of hate the musical zeitgeist that enables them to be a phenomenon rather than just a good bar band.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, April 19, 2021 12:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
hahaha nailed it
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
i'm not sold on 'reasonably talented'. feel like they too will be embarrassed of this in 10 years. but they'll also have a real estate portfolio and no real job, so they definitely still win.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
yeah i mostly just kind of feel bad for the crowd going crazy eating it up, thinking they are seeing amazing face-melting rock, not realizing that they could be seeing a hundred versions of this band at their local bar or summertime beerfest in the park or whatever
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
they cannot break into the foo fighters fan scene. need to buy early on greta van fleet.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
they feel less like a bar or beerfest band and more like a band that plays one song in a "Rock Through the Ages" type show that is free with park admission when you need to take a break from the roller coasters at Cedar Point.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
or maybe a similar show in an off strip vegas casino/hotel. someone comps you tickets at check-in because your room wasn't ready yet. you see them selling for $8 later that afternoon.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
yeah i mostly just kind of feel bad for the crowd going crazy eating it up, thinking they are seeing amazing face-melting rock
When the camera cuts to a guy in the crowd gleefully singing/rockin' along, it's a real eye-opener in terms of "even THIS is someone's favorite band"
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
I just think it's kind of funny that these kids playing classic rock cosplay get people so absolutely, frothing at the mouth furious in certain corners of the internet.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link
still watching this red rocks vid and gotta say i take major issue with them busting out the 4+ minute drum solo feature only 10 minutes into the set! a true asshole move
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
it's more being frustrated that there's a non-quiet sect of people hearing them and going YES, REAL MUSIC IS BACK, as if rock in the 70s was the zenith and we must never move beyond that template ever again.
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I mean the people praising them are just as hard to understand. I just find them too boring and, really, ultimately harmless, to get that angry about.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
is the "it's rockist to hate this band for being derivative" take going spare or has it been done already
― Left, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
I guess this is classic rock's Renaissance Fair stage
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, April 19, 2021 1:03 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah this is right, and also better captures the rated-PG feel of their classic rock pastiche
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Monday, April 19, 2021 1:10 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't even mind this as much as I mind that you could probably just take four random nashville studio guys and make a more convincing "classic rock is back" band than this with a week of rehearsal. It's like celebrating Bob Ross for reviving the technique of the old masters.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I heard these guys on the radio this weekend and was prepared to give them a shot. But when the singing started it was actually offensive.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
We already have an album of this!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
I mean, lmk when GvF bassist plays something even on the level of "Working Man".
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
first Rush album is sweet
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link
Totally! If they can give us anything as awesome as "Before and After"...Also, thanks for the Starcastle rec earlier in the thread!
― Bill Bruford's drumbeat for "South Side of the Sky": proto-dubstep? (Prefecture), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
Wait for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQO6J-EU08
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:31 (three years ago) link
This is like classic rock written by an AI.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link
yeah, Al Roker
― If you value Vox, we have an axe (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
that is literally a c.2006 sketch show skit that is now a legitimate band in 2021. what a world.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
That is one of the funniest combinations of music and performance I have ever seen.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 04:20 (three years ago) link
I literally lolled when he started singing
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 04:47 (three years ago) link
Who Wore It Better: GVF Singer Dude, or Your Niece Madison at Homecoming.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 04:51 (three years ago) link
Man the guitar player's acoustic fingerpicking sucks so bad, he can barely play in time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 04:57 (three years ago) link
I will say it's nice that they can also rip off '70s Elton John in a way that reminds you just how good he was and they aren't.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 04:59 (three years ago) link
omg, the drummer
https://decider.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/seinfeld-jerry-puffy.jpg?quality=80&strip=all
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
Fuckin Edith Bunker on vocals
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 05:05 (three years ago) link