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04-08-2005, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | Guys...I...I don't know what to tell you. [Warning: Hanson.]
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I'm sorry, TalkBass, but I'm about to say it:
Hanson doesn't suck anymore.
I know! It sounds crazy, right? Completely bonkers! But...it's true. A friend of mine sent me a cover they did of "Ain't No Sunshine," and it's great. These guys are miles...GALAXIES away from the yester-year garbage of "mmmbop" and whatnot. Actual, beautiful vocal melodies and harmonies (sweet jesus, the harmonies!) and the instrumentation...well, nothing spectacular, but the piano playing one (my hanson fan friend says that one's Taylor) has a great feel and sense of space on this track.
Just to be safe, only get stuff (download, buy, whatever) pertaining directly to their latest album. Test the murky waters of the past, and stay far away from that awful debut CD from the 90's.
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04-08-2005, 03:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pleasanton, CA | | | It's a witch!!! Burn him!!!
Actually, I kinda always had a feeling that those guys would be pretty good eventually. Though I haven't heard anything from them since some god-awful song like six-seven years ago, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to hear something good from them. And I'd hope the harmones would be good. They are all brothers. |
04-08-2005, 03:48 PM
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And I'd hope the harmones would be good. They are all brothers.
| This is something I'd like to note -- anyone else listen to Los Lonely Boys? Now THOSE are some great vocal harmonies! That, and all three are spankin' musicians.
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
04-08-2005, 03:48 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | |  I like Celine Dion
But for the love of humanity, man- HAN SON ? |
04-08-2005, 03:52 PM
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04-08-2005, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban But for the love of humanity, man- HAN SON ? | They were young, they had an excuse. Celine Dion's sucked her ENTIRE career, though!
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04-08-2005, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Govithoy This is something I'd like to note -- anyone else listen to Los Lonely Boys? Now THOSE are some great vocal harmonies! That, and all three are spankin' musicians. | STONE HIM!!! |
04-08-2005, 03:57 PM
| | | And I thought I was losing my marbles.
Not too long ago, Bass Player did an article on Joe Chemay & a couple of his famous lines were charted out. One was "One Bad Apple" by, yep, The Osmond Bros.
I hadn't heard it in awhile, so I downloaded it.
It is an obvious J-5 ripoff...nevertheless, Chemay's bass is upfront & active.
That's my confessional for the day.
(Wondering if Govithoy & his pals have taken a few too many pucks off their coconuts). 
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04-08-2005, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Freaky Fender My first concert was Hanson... | I was 16-
Mine was The Edgar Winter Group...The James Gang opened up.
Times have changed(hopefully you were younger).
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04-08-2005, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Bel Air Maryland | | | My first concert was Huey Lewis and the News when I was about 8.
You really can't blame Hanson for that stuff sounding like crap, just look at the credits, they hardly wrote any of it and almost every track had "guest" musicians.
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04-08-2005, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by JimK I was 16-
Mine was The Edgar Winter Group...The James Gang opened up.
Times have changed(hopefully you were younger). |
I was 8...
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04-08-2005, 04:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: San Francisco | | MMMmmBop!
So...Hopefully they grew up and dont look like little girls anymore.  |
04-08-2005, 04:48 PM
| | | | Hmm.. Maybe I should try listening to that new Hanson stuff.
Hey guys, do you remember when Hanson was in Futurama? |
04-08-2005, 05:50 PM
| | | | "Ain't No Sunshine" is a great tune.
So, I'm assuming whoever covers it will do it justice.
Sting also did a great cover.
On the DVD side of the house-
Check out Bill Withers doin' "Ain't No Sunshine" on The Old Grey Whistle DVD.
Hansen can be found doin' "Mmmmbop" on the Saturday Night Live 25 Years of Music DVD set.
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04-08-2005, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Govithoy (my hanson fan friend says that one's Taylor) |
Mmhmm. A "friend". You've got all of the Tiger Beat posters, and there's nothing you can say that will convince me otherwise. |
04-08-2005, 08:39 PM
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Hosey the Bear - "It's a battle station. I call it the Sphere 'O Fear."
Which one does the piano?
Hosey the Bear - "It's a battle station. I call it the Sphere 'O Fear."
*edit*, he's good
Hosey the Bear - "It's a battle station. I call it the Sphere 'O Fear."
Just such a great sense of space
-Samantha- [Don't lose yourself in your fear...]
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PROOF! And what's Tiger Beat?
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Originally Posted by HollowBassman Doesn't she know that they're not really people until the age of about three? | |
04-09-2005, 12:08 PM
| | | Tiger Beat was/is a magazine geared for young girls/teeny boppers.
Was this the magazine that tried putting a shirtless Jim Morrison on the cover?
...or was that 16 magazine?
Anyway, back in my day, these magazines usually had David Cassidy, Donny Osmond, Robbie Benson, Radolph Mantooth, etc as cover boyz.
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04-09-2005, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | Gov, it's not that Hason doesn't suck anymore; it's that you started to.
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04-09-2005, 03:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Leuven, Belgium | | | I feel like I lost a significant chunk of my manliness just by *reading* the first post about Hanson =/ |
04-09-2005, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Syeknom I feel like I lost a significant chunk of my manliness just by *reading* the first post about Hanson =/ | It's cheaper than a vasectomy- & painless. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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