IN KEEPING SECRET OF SILENT EARTH 3
Apparently, there's still RUSH-esque prog-rock being written on this planet. Actually, I shouldn't come off so naive; there's plenty of bands internationally doing the progressive rock thing, but they can't crack the U.S. nut so they stay away. However, COHEED AND CAMBRIA seem to have bucked the system with
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. When is the last time you heard a guy with a voice like Geddy Lee wailing away on radio? What, maybe like fifteen years ago? ...When DID
Roll the Bones get released? Sheesh...
I like the fact that the Coheed and Cambria guys are pumping their songs full of memorable licks and choruses. Sure, being able to play, write, arrange, and perform the doors off every other local prog-rock band is one thing... getting on the radio is something else entirely.
"A Favor House Atlantic", while oddly named, has a great chorus that just begs to be thrown on the air....which it IS (at leas here in New York it is).
More cerebral rock music fans (RUSH fans, I'm looking in YOUR direction) will latch onto Coheed and Cambria fairly quickly. Everyone else is just going to have to hold hands with the smarter kids until you learn to like it.
