So, the song Built By Nations came across my radar over the weekend. I listened to it a couple times. That's a bad ass riff. Of course there's the Zep influence and all. I can get past that. So of course after I fall in love with this riff, I have to go to my guilty pleasure, Marty Schwartz, and learn the song.
Takes about 20 seconds, oh, this is The Ocean, Jake just couldn't get his pinky on the low E string on the 8th fret, so he almost, kinda, made it his own. I can get past that.
Then I go to listen to some live shows, like my whole heart is trying to rally around the band. That singers voice is 85% Plant, 10% Geddy Lee and there's some like Hobbit stuff in there too. His power is addicting.
So now, off to some live shows. I'm completely open minded, completely wanting to love this band.
After about 5 minutes of some strong riffing and some good verses and choruses and stuff the band starts to jam ........
This is where things fall apart. Moments of, UGH. Not good. Give it time, they'll get out of it, more cringe, more UGH.
Then, I'm like damn .. that's sounds like me, and not in a good way. It's like the guitarist has learned certain standard guitar techniques and is just trying to shove them in where ever he could.
Then I listened to another live show. Rinse and repeat.
After my 3 hour exploration in Greta Van Fleet I came away really disappointed and not because of the Zepplin thing, just because damn, scratch the surface and there's really nothing there.
Takes about 20 seconds, oh, this is The Ocean, Jake just couldn't get his pinky on the low E string on the 8th fret, so he almost, kinda, made it his own. I can get past that.
Then I go to listen to some live shows, like my whole heart is trying to rally around the band. That singers voice is 85% Plant, 10% Geddy Lee and there's some like Hobbit stuff in there too. His power is addicting.
So now, off to some live shows. I'm completely open minded, completely wanting to love this band.
After about 5 minutes of some strong riffing and some good verses and choruses and stuff the band starts to jam ........
This is where things fall apart. Moments of, UGH. Not good. Give it time, they'll get out of it, more cringe, more UGH.
Then, I'm like damn .. that's sounds like me, and not in a good way. It's like the guitarist has learned certain standard guitar techniques and is just trying to shove them in where ever he could.
Then I listened to another live show. Rinse and repeat.
After my 3 hour exploration in Greta Van Fleet I came away really disappointed and not because of the Zepplin thing, just because damn, scratch the surface and there's really nothing there.