Greta Van Fleet
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The flip-side to this are those who can't understand that people have different tastes, and immediately get defensive when someone says they don't like something that they do.
Saw them in Tucson right after they released their EP in early 2017 and they played five songs. Was cool to see them before they started to blow up. Hell the tickets were like $20. Saw them again in Phoenix last fall and they improved a ton and the tickets were around $60. They put on a great show.
Ha- find me a successful front man who isn't. If you want your rock n roll to be edgy, you better have a memorable mouthpiece. I'd actually encourage him to be more flamboyant. Get in a bar fight. Get arrested for public indecency. Jim Morrison & Axl Rose believe in you, Josh.
I have zero singing training and not much knowledge about proper form, but I'm curious how long his voice will hold out. It really sounds like he is working his vocal cords hard at times.
There is no "proper" form to Rock n Roll. Endurance is what cocaine & whiskey is for. Billy Corgan & Lemmy Kilmister have horrible technique, but they sound unique.
I think Josh Kiszka has a naturally high voice like Steven Tyler or Sammy Hagar. I've seen them both live and they were maintaining soaring vocals well into their 60s, so it can be done.
You can also flame out like Vince Neil or David Lee Roth, but they had $h1tty voices to begin with.
They're not my cup of tea. When they played SNL a few weeks back my wife actually laughed out loud as soon as the frontman started singing. I think she thought it was a comedy skit.
His appearance might have had something to do with it. But it's mostly just musical tastes. They don't do much for me, and she thought they were laughably bad. To be fair, most acts don't sound good on the SNL stage. It's a ****** venue for live musical performances.
That's fair. To each their own. The laughing comment caught me by surprise however. Don't know if I've ever had the thought/instinctual reaction to laugh at a performing act other than comedy. if anything I cringe haha
I'm not being specific. I'm just saying in general, there are a lot of people out there who enjoy shitting on everything and the only thing they enjoy... is shitting on everything.
I'm not defensive, y'all can like what you want. I just referring to what a previous poster said about it being trendy to hate GVF, which I think is stupid.
I think they are pretty awesome. If you don't, then more power to ya.
I've tried but I've struggled to get into them. There is being influenced by a band and then there is straight up copying their sound. It's too much of the latter for me.
General question for everyone in this thread:
What's the best new Rock Band you've heard in the last 3 years?
I've been trying to thing of real honest to goodness rock bands, and I am coming up with a lot of blanks.
I guess it depends on your definition of rock band, but I will accept all variety of answers just to satiate my curiosity.
What's the best new Rock Band you've heard in the last 3 years?
I've been trying to thing of real honest to goodness rock bands, and I am coming up with a lot of blanks.
I guess it depends on your definition of rock band, but I will accept all variety of answers just to satiate my curiosity.
I showed my wife the video for Highway Tune and she thought he was hot. A little short for a Storm Trooper, but hot.
Bluesy rock is some of my favorite, so that's a plus for me.
In that vein I also love The Black Keys, but their emergence was several years ago now.
I get the feeling you're talking about harder rock - here are a few:
Thunderpussy
Low Cut Connie
The Dig
Tame Impala
Black Pistol Fire
The Heavy
Blackberry Smoke
Some others that are less traditional "hard rock":
Jim James
Rival Sons
Hanni El Khatib
Quaker City Night Hawks
Some of it is okay. Like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, for instance. Now that I think about it, it's probably more about the lead singers voice. KWS's voice is substantially deeper and more fitting, to me.
LOL, you asked about new rock bands in the last three years and I was going to say the Black Keys El Camino album. But I wanted to make sure it was in the time frame so I googled it. It was released EIGHT years ago.
So in my case maybe it isn't that there isn't any good rock music out there anymore, it's just that I'm so incredibly ******* lame.
