Real Radio Review

[bezerker]

that website that had the interview has a forum on it. why dont you post your own review right there. thats a good place to start.

thanks for the motivation chris.  i just posted a review of the band on the glide website.  here it is if you want to check it out.  http://www.glidemagazine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=456#456

[Spacey]

We should start our own marketing campaign and write reviews and send them into every media facet.

that website that had the interview has a forum on it. why dont you post your own review right there. thats a good place to start.

Chris,

Excellent idea, didn\'t even notice that.

[bdfreetuna]

Dimension 5 is one of the best songs on Real Radio.

Fair review, I think. Breakfast is 1000x better live.

[Gordo]

personally, i think the guy\'s gripes are less about the breakfast specifically, and more about the state of popular music today.  he\'s right, trying to get a band like the breakfast to deliver in the studio like they deliver on stage is like trying to write a book on exactly what moves a player must make to win a basketball game or something rediculous like that.  it just cant be done.  i personally think that the band should be releasing live albums.  if they had taken the same songs and same production budget and released a live version of real radio, i think this reviewer and many others might have taken to it better.  we know and love the songs because we\'ve been hearing them live for a WHILE, so we KNOW what their potential is.  people who are not as familiar with these songs and are hearing them maybe for the first time, they dont know what we know.  remember how it took people a while to get into fresh cut?  we had to hear it live a bunch of times before we realized what a good tune it is.  i think thats what this reviewer is saying.  sadly, he came across kind of aggressive, but i think i agree with his basic idea about music (especially jam bands) in general.

thats why i think Bona Fide is so much better than Real Radio. you get those true runs inbewteen verses and energy start to finish on every tune. i love this band\'s music much more than anything else ive ever heard, but RR still just makes me want to put on a live show immediately. Score is my favorite track simply b/c they got horns and its never happened live, every other song has numerous live versions that just blow the studio tracks outta the water.

[Spacey]

Puppet house shows should be released. Does that mean that they would have to pay for playing an entire classic rock album.

[freddiewaht]

personally, i think the guy\'s gripes are less about the breakfast specifically, and more about the state of popular music today.  he\'s right, trying to get a band like the breakfast to deliver in the studio like they deliver on stage is like trying to write a book on exactly what moves a player must make to win a basketball game or something rediculous like that.  it just cant be done.  i personally think that the band should be releasing live albums.  if they had taken the same songs and same production budget and released a live version of real radio, i think this reviewer and many others might have taken to it better.  we know and love the songs because we\'ve been hearing them live for a WHILE, so we KNOW what their potential is.  people who are not as familiar with these songs and are hearing them maybe for the first time, they dont know what we know.  remember how it took people a while to get into fresh cut?  we had to hear it live a bunch of times before we realized what a good tune it is.  i think thats what this reviewer is saying.  sadly, he came across kind of aggressive, but i think i agree with his basic idea about music (especially jam bands) in general.

thats why i think Bona Fide is so much better than Real Radio. you get those true runs inbewteen verses and energy start to finish on every tune. i love this band\'s music much more than anything else ive ever heard, but RR still just makes me want to put on a live show immediately. Score is my favorite track simply b/c they got horns and its never happened live, every other song has numerous live versions that just blow the studio tracks outta the water.

not way man.
bonafide=chopped up,pieced together rock show,with overdubs and the such..

[Gordo]

personally, i think the guy\'s gripes are less about the breakfast specifically, and more about the state of popular music today.  he\'s right, trying to get a band like the breakfast to deliver in the studio like they deliver on stage is like trying to write a book on exactly what moves a player must make to win a basketball game or something rediculous like that.  it just cant be done.  i personally think that the band should be releasing live albums.  if they had taken the same songs and same production budget and released a live version of real radio, i think this reviewer and many others might have taken to it better.  we know and love the songs because we\'ve been hearing them live for a WHILE, so we KNOW what their potential is.  people who are not as familiar with these songs and are hearing them maybe for the first time, they dont know what we know.  remember how it took people a while to get into fresh cut?  we had to hear it live a bunch of times before we realized what a good tune it is.  i think thats what this reviewer is saying.  sadly, he came across kind of aggressive, but i think i agree with his basic idea about music (especially jam bands) in general.

thats why i think Bona Fide is so much better than Real Radio. you get those true runs inbewteen verses and energy start to finish on every tune. i love this band\'s music much more than anything else ive ever heard, but RR still just makes me want to put on a live show immediately. Score is my favorite track simply b/c they got horns and its never happened live, every other song has numerous live versions that just blow the studio tracks outta the water.

not way man.
bonafide=chopped up,pieced together rock show,with overdubs and the such..

no way man.
bonafide=ridiculous energy with great sound quality and well done overdubs. oh yeah, also a nasty Drunk Monk Bar, perfect Spunk, hot hot hot Lanta, and some song called Rufus that aint so bad either.

bottom line its all opinion, if i got some people over im reaching for BF, RR can hide in the corner for all i care.

[delfunk1]

The Breakfast are just trying to appeal to more of the masses with an album like RR.  Just releasing live stuff appeals to the "Jam Band" crowd, but that throws away the possibility of having a radio friendly song.  The Breakfast are trying to make an explosive album showcasing their energy without a 15 minute jam, one thing that phish was criticized for not being albe to accomplish.

[skalnbyc]

I may add that whether or not the album is everything you want it to be, it\'s the current business endeavor and the band has committed to it.

[Gordo]

The Breakfast are just trying to appeal to more of the masses with an album like RR.  Just releasing live stuff appeals to the "Jam Band" crowd, but that throws away the possibility of having a radio friendly song.  The Breakfast are trying to make an explosive album showcasing their energy without a 15 minute jam, one thing that phish was criticized for not being albe to accomplish.

i disagree with the Phish statement. i think they accomplished it numerous times from the start. sure theyd have their jammed out tracks, but i still prefer their studio shit over their live shows. they all held a theme IMO, they all flowed great, and they had plenty of strong songs that didnt go past the 6 minute mark. off the top of my head:

Fee
Squirming Coil
Rift
Mound
Free
Character Zero
Waste
Billy Breathes
Llama
Mango Song
The Wedge
Birds Of A Feather
Limb By Limb
Water In The Sky
Talk
Dirt
etc.
etc.
etc....

dont get me wrong, ill support TB as much as i can in any way, whether if its w/$ or passing out discs at shows or just being a loud mouth about how good they are, but when i listen to Real Radio i feel like im forcing myself to \'really like it,\' something that wasnt an issue with Deuce and Bona Fide. im excited for their next album (whenever that may be, hopefully not 3 years or whatever it was) cuz theyre still so young and theyre getting better. just think RR will end up being a flop of an album in their discography down the road.

[plainandsimple]

that website that had the interview has a forum on it. why dont you post your own review right there. thats a good place to start.

thanks for the motivation chris.  i just posted a review of the band on the glide website.  here it is if you want to check it out.  http://www.glidemagazine.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=456#456

bezerker, I read what u wrote and all i can say is good SHIT

[Gordo]

definitely solid bezerker.. got the point across, i agree with you and the guys rebuttal after your post too. some, not all, of his reasons are legitimate. buuuut, he also said Brothers Past has the best jam studio album of the year which is, LAUGHABLE MAN.

[Steffmo]

As you all can see....there are a myriad of opinions even among folks who love the band.

Just for the record (sic) we simply set out to make excellent focused recording that showcased to songs as best as we could.  Why...because Bona Fide was widely criticised by folks who felt the songwriting was weak.  I wanted to show that the band could A) write songs, and B) sing.

I am quite comfortable that we did that, as is the band.  As for jamming....we already did two records which proved the band could do that.  Plus you can see the band do that at gigs all over, many of which are also available recorded form.  We were not trying to beat the live versions of the songs.....we were trying to define the songs that the jams grow out of.

If we did another Bona Fide, everyone would have continued to snipe at the band as a one trick pony that could jam but not sing or write a decent song.  We did not want to go that route again.

Cream had a lot of the same problems.....but the record Cream is remembered for is Disreaili Gears...the song album.  Not Wheels of Fire, the live album.

Collectively, we did what we felt was creatively the right thing to do.  Tim and the band have a lot of influences and interests that supercede just jamming, and we will continue to develope those interests as the band evolves.

Critics will continue to write articles about what THEY think we should do, which is inevitable.  We will continue to do what we think is best for the band.

[Rujah]

Cream had a lot of the same problems.....but the record Cream is remembered for is Disreaili Gears...the song album.  Not Wheels of Fire, the live album.

Collectively, we did what we felt was creatively the right thing to do.  Tim and the band have a lot of influences and interests that supercede just jamming, and we will continue to develope those interests as the band evolves.

speaking of cream just checked relix.com and seems as though cream is reuniting at msg for a 3 nite run in oct.  

also if the point of RR was to showcase the bands ability to write and sing songs than it was accomplished and it def. not be considered a flop inthe yrs to come. and to take on a smoking grand scheme of things is just plain out of this world. plus some of the catchy beats or hooks on RR should be getting some radio play. so much so I may request some to EQX inmy area since its considerd the only alternative and see what happens.

[delfunk1]

I\'m sure it doesnt help The Breakfast much that there arent really any "rock" stations in CT to play their music.  Just 99.1 and 106.9.