| Monday, December 12, 2011 | | · | Like Us? Hate Us? Like Us Anyway | | Thursday, August 25, 2011 | | · | Model D Media / WDET / MSHDA Present Talk On Detroit Music Scene at Majestic | | Thursday, August 11, 2011 | | · | Big Black, CC Chanel and Big Cat to Attend Rockapalooza 2011 | | · | Kings of Rock and 102.5 Present Buzzfest 2011 August 14 2011 | | Sunday, May 01, 2011 | | · | Music Review: The Lion Of Judah Hath Prevailed; The Process Meet Ghetto Priest | | Saturday, April 30, 2011 | | · | Mushroomhead to Rock Rockapalooza 2011, June 25 | | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | | · | 24 track digital recording | | Thursday, April 07, 2011 | | · | Lordd Virgil Goes Into the Studio with Sponge Producers Andy and Tim Patalan | | Tuesday, April 05, 2011 | | · | Released - The Lion Of Judah Hath Prevailed; The Process Meet Ghetto Priest | | Sunday, March 20, 2011 | | · | DMA 2011 Voting Underway |
Older Articles |
|
| The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content. |
|
|
No Comments Allowed for Anonymous, please register |
|
Re: Music Review: The Hopescope ''Bring In The Sun'' (Score: 1)
by hopescope on Monday, October 13, 2003 @ 10:04:22 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.hopescope.org | Open Letter to Mitch Williams:
a few things...
I found the review of my record very amusing...
I thought the review itself and the hemingway-esque "lost generation" format you decided to use overshadowed perhaps my work and seemed a little self important.
Having said that I realize I just wrote a record focused on the last 5 years of MY life so perhaps I am the pot calling the kettle black.
Nevertheless, any album that causes this much internal conflict is at least thought provoking and that was encouraging. Indeed if iit figuratively ripped your psyche in half than I can say that at least another human being critically examined the content and it's weight.
Bottom line I liked Mitch much better than *****...
It seems that everything today is about the "bling bling" "style over substance" and my most loathesome observation which you ultimately cop to is the hunger to be cool.
Coolness from my standpoint seems to be a sort of detachment. So much so that you are above caring about things that may or not matter.
So I expect to hear negative remarks from someone who is threatened by "heart on a sleeve" naked emotion. Because there really are only two kinds of responses to that much intimacy, to embrace it... or to be repelled.
Mr. Williams appears to be deeply conflicted on whether he wants to side with the angel or the devil on his shoulder. No problem it made for entertaining writing.
Anyway couple of quick corrections that I will clear up. I do the singing on tracks 1,3,6 and 9. Brian Richardson does the remaining vocals.
Also I am uncredited as playing all the guitar on the record. Please addend.
And on a few personal notes... i AM a feckless nerd in the same vein in that say Billy Corgan or Rivers Cuomo is. Smart enough to be above Boston or Cheap Trick but loving them for all of their guilty pleasures anyway.
A few personal corrections:
I couldn't take personal revenge on my ex-wife with her younger sister or write a song about revenge on her for a few reasons... 1. she doesn't have a younger sister. 2. I did the next best thing, I married her college roommate. 3. the best revenge you can take anyway is success.
Also as much as it would be cool to get ladies interested in me by pining away in my room writing sensitive songs, that was not the motivation for writing these songs... i wrote them retrospectively. And the inspiration for the title track was my now current wife.
If you have read this far please check out our gig at the Blind Pig. We are opening for a crazy good national band called dada.
The show is Thursday, Oct. 23rd doors open at 9pm.
Mitch, we will put you on the guest list, and maybe we can make "*****" a believer.
P.S. Regarding your e-mail. I don't provide the hellfire and damnation, I actually appreciate your attempt at fair and balanced reviewing...
|
|
|
Re: Music Review: The Hopescope ''Bring In The Sun'' (Score: 1)
by hopescope on Monday, October 13, 2003 @ 11:59:01 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.hopescope.org | | my apologies it should have been Mitch Phillips not Williams... |
|
|
Re: Music Review: The Hopescope ''Bring In The Sun'' (Score: 1)
by Mitch on Monday, October 13, 2003 @ 13:07:26 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.michiganbands.com | Dear Hopescope,
I'm glad you were amused and entertained by the review as that was my intent. I'm also glad you understand that ***** derives his motivations from the part of my psyche that tries to appease pop-culture values and expectations, a tendency I try very hard to repress.
Furthermore, *****'s personal attacks and presumptions are based entirely on projectionis of his own fears and failings (believe me, when it comes to feckless nerds he takes the prize) and do not in any way reflect objectivity - as he's never actually met you. He does, however, tell me that he's, "glad you bagged that *****'s roomate."
I respect what you've accomplished and I thank you for your patience regarding my review.
Sincerely,
Mitch Phillips
P.S. I hope you decide to frequent our site and become a regular part of our community. |
|
|
Re: Music Review: The Hopescope ''Bring In The Sun'' (Score: 1)
by supermodel-t (info@supermodel-t.com) on Monday, October 13, 2003 @ 13:19:23 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Very good article. |
|
|
|
