Comments on: Sunday Setlist Update [5.3.09]

By: Justin K

Justin K — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:41:50 +0000

That sounds like an insane way to play that song- I love it. The last breakdown was very cool. :)

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sunday setlist [05.10.09] | danieljohn music — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:44:37 +0000

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By: Brian Peters

Brian Peters — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:41:44 +0000

As the drummer, it was a REALLY fun song to play.

By: Janaki

Janaki — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:54:51 +0000

I never would have thought of the term, but YES! Arena rock! Love the breakdown.

By: David

David — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:14:10 +0000

Yeah, arena rock – for sure :) V.cool way to breathe fresh life into that song

By: yod

yod — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:59:03 +0000

It sounded cool…like you guys were getting “emo”tional about God and having fun

is that emo??? help? >>

,,,and a breakdown is when you don’t make it to the gig on time

By: Jon Reid

Jon Reid — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:03:50 +0000

I have no idea what to call it, but I like it, especially the vamp on “his love endures forever.” I think any time a familiar song is redone, it forces people to reconnect with it and reexamine what it’s about.

By: Russ Hutto

Russ Hutto — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:54:24 +0000

@Mike: ooh nice thoughts. I love Bluegrass. A lot of my musical heritage is rooted in bluegrass/country/rockabilly.

@kendall: Definitely, I didn’t mean to imply that we as a band, or even the song was “emo” … just trying to stylistically categorize that last “breakdown”

The only reason I kind of half-landed on emo was because all of this screamo/emo stuff that hit a few years back ALWAYS seems to have some sort of break down like this in it.

We’re also using some FAT distortion in the main mix, you just can’t hear it because the camera is far from the amp AND it’s right next to a vocal monitor.

But I like retro-80′s arena rock. That’s probably the last thing I would have thought of to describe it!!

Thanks for the comment!

By: kendall

kendall — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:06:56 +0000

You know – I don’t hear any emo. I guess because the melody line is so poppy, that it rules the roost. Also, there is no really distorted guitars… So – just because the band came together for some well orchestrated hits, I don’t think you leapt into any new genres. You just changed a nice song and made it more interesting. It reminds me more of arena rock from the late 80′s. So, I’d start off by saying it felt more retro-80′s arena rock.

But it sounds like a blast to play…
To God be the Glory!

By: Mike Mahoney

Mike Mahoney — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:58:57 +0000

In bluegrass, a breakdown is a fast instrumental, ususally done by a banjo or fiddle. (Foggy Mountain Breakdown) Maybe that’s where it came from.

I’m not real familiar with the basic song (we don’t do it) but I like this!