>Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:47:02 +0000 (UTC)
>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Mike Shetzer wrote:
>> Second, does James write his own vocal melodies and such to DT songs
>>(or more accurately, does/has he always, sometimes or never...)? My friend
>>recently asked me that and I was stumped. In other words, if James doesnt
>>write that much lyrics anymore and the vocal melodies are essentially
>>given to him, then what does he actually do? I hope he writes some of
>>his own...
>>
>
>From: Eric George <drizzt@sdf.lonestar.org>
>I believe he writes most of the vocal melodies. I was watching a 7
>minute vidclip that i pulled off the net. it was shot by portnoy for the
>italian fanclub, i believe. it was at beartracks studio, & they were
>working on SFAM. mp went around to each bandmember & did a little blurb
>with each. while talking to james, james mentioned that he was "putting
>the vocal melodies together & getting them down", as he would be recording
>his tracks in a few days. this leads me to believe that he's the one
>actually coming up with most of the vocal melodies. anyone else have any
>other input on this??
>
Mike,
I think that's a really interesting question. And if Eric is right,
that James writes most of the vocal melodies, then I'm pretty disappointed
with James' efforts lately. However, I think that part of the problem is
that the lyrics may not lend themselves well to vocal melodies. I found
many of the lyrics on SFAM to be stiff and that's how they came out in the
vocals too -- more of a spoken story than a song. Writing lyrics which
create good rhythm and rhyme is difficult and DT hasn't been spending enough
time and effort on it, imho. I like some of the vocals from ToT, but very
little of it stands out.
Steve
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