Maybe I should stop thinking...
Just the other day I was thinking, "Man, it would be cool if The Tea Party came back to North Bay to do a show sometime."
They won't be coming anytime soon.
Mind you, I'm not deeply saddened or overly depressed to hear that one of Canada's best bands has broken up. Things happen. Work that closely together for fifteen years and you'd start to find things that will cause you to think about leaving. And really, I've seen some decent bands break up and the music got better. Perfect example would be the Matthew Good Band. After Audio of Being (which I found to be a disappointment after the perfection that is Beautiful Midnight) came out, the band broke up. The result: Avalanche, one of the best rock compilations to every be put on a compact disc.
Sometimes it doesn't work out. I think Chris Cornell was way better with Soundgarden than he'll ever be with Audioslave. And Scott Weiland was much better with Stone Temple Pilots than he could ever be with Velvet Revolver. All he is with that band is the poster boy for drug abuse.
Jeff Martin will probably find success as a solo artist. Jeff Burrows and Stuart Chatwood will probably find success in whatever they decide to do.
But, some people really, really need to move out of their parent's basements. The online forums are loaded with whiny people blaming it all on Jeff Martin's wife. Every time one of these losers starts whining, I (and I'm not a violent person, honest!) want to smack the Star Trek uniform off of them and tell them to find themselves a boyfriend/girlfriend (and not the inflatable type) and go and have a good time in an actual dimension here on Earth.
By the way, ever notice that the really crappy bands never break up or change members?
They won't be coming anytime soon.
Mind you, I'm not deeply saddened or overly depressed to hear that one of Canada's best bands has broken up. Things happen. Work that closely together for fifteen years and you'd start to find things that will cause you to think about leaving. And really, I've seen some decent bands break up and the music got better. Perfect example would be the Matthew Good Band. After Audio of Being (which I found to be a disappointment after the perfection that is Beautiful Midnight) came out, the band broke up. The result: Avalanche, one of the best rock compilations to every be put on a compact disc.
Sometimes it doesn't work out. I think Chris Cornell was way better with Soundgarden than he'll ever be with Audioslave. And Scott Weiland was much better with Stone Temple Pilots than he could ever be with Velvet Revolver. All he is with that band is the poster boy for drug abuse.
Jeff Martin will probably find success as a solo artist. Jeff Burrows and Stuart Chatwood will probably find success in whatever they decide to do.
But, some people really, really need to move out of their parent's basements. The online forums are loaded with whiny people blaming it all on Jeff Martin's wife. Every time one of these losers starts whining, I (and I'm not a violent person, honest!) want to smack the Star Trek uniform off of them and tell them to find themselves a boyfriend/girlfriend (and not the inflatable type) and go and have a good time in an actual dimension here on Earth.
By the way, ever notice that the really crappy bands never break up or change members?
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