Boc: BOC Cleveland Ohio Show

[Theodore O Jackson]

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On 01 Sep 2009, at 09:32, Theodore O Jackson wrote:
> Those 2 CDs were great because
> the band resisted the urge to copy old stuff.  Then
> again, some of the new material was pretty lame too.
> I doubt half the songs on those 2 discs could have made
> the cut for a CD in the old days...



Yeah, HF and CotHM recalled the likes of RbN and CN more than ST or  
FoUO! 

Yah, I agree.  Hmm...I guess they aren't so great
after all!



 I just don't think that their hearts are in it.  Or Buck and  
Eric by themselves can't turn out the necessary volume of good  
songs.  

That's been the problem since they told Al to
fout le camp.  He was their most prolific writer
and after they quit using Pearlman and Meltzer
for lyrics, the well kind of dried up.  Buck
can write great songs, but he takes his time
between writing them... 



There were more songwriters in or associated with the band  
back in the day, and taking the best from all of all them was  
sufficient to produce some quite good albums quite a lot of the time.


No doubt.  Even when they used new outside sources
for writing, c.f. Heaven Forbid, the lyrics were
usually the downfall...


tj