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If the problem is backup vocals. Hire 1 or 2 good singers just for that.. or a choir! :D

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Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.

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nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.

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mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
Dang, why didn't anyone tell this Lars Ulrich back then?

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:lol :lol :lol :lol

Wait. You're serious?

I do think that bands should consider when they write songs whether they can play them live. As it is, I have no problem with the way Myles handles his vocals on songs including when he occasionally leaves out some of the repeated lines in the outros. Plenty of bands do that. Mandating that a 13 year long lineup changes so someone else can sing an extra line at the end of a handful of songs at best is going about a million miles too far.
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mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
That makes zero sense.

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Actually, wasn't there an interview in the ABIII days where they said Brian wanted to sing backup?
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nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
That makes zero sense.
Go on.

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mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
That makes zero sense.
Go on.
Mark started off as a guitar player but then expanded on his artistic expression by singing and he also then expanded by painting. People trying new forms of art is the very definition of artistic expansion. People don't start off as guitarists. They become one. Like they become singers and like they become painters.

It's pretty common for artists to grow tired of a single form of art. i've done this myself. I used to draw a lot myself but then I moved on to poetry, then singing and now I'm writing a book. Brian is perfectly entitled to do they same if he so chooses.

If he wanted to try something new creatively to scratch that itch, like so many others have, I don't see why he can't try. Just because he hasn't sung before doesn't mean he can't start. Mark didn't always sing either. Neither did I.

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nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
That makes zero sense.
Go on.
Mark started off as a guitar player but then expanded on his artistic expression by singing and he also then expanded by painting. People trying new forms of art is the very definition of artistic expansion. People don't start off as guitarists. They become one. Like they become singers and like they become painters.

It's pretty common for artists to grow tired of a single form of art. i've done this myself. I used to draw a lot myself but then I moved on to poetry, then singing and now I'm writing a book. Brian is perfectly entitled to do they same if he so chooses.

If he wanted to try something new creatively to scratch that itch, like so many others have, I don't see why he can't try. Just because he hasn't sung before doesn't mean he can't start. Mark didn't always sing either. Neither did I.
So I could be wrong but I think he was more referring to forcing Brian vs Brian wanting to do it

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Jhenrid wrote:
nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
That makes zero sense.
Go on.
Mark started off as a guitar player but then expanded on his artistic expression by singing and he also then expanded by painting. People trying new forms of art is the very definition of artistic expansion. People don't start off as guitarists. They become one. Like they become singers and like they become painters.

It's pretty common for artists to grow tired of a single form of art. i've done this myself. I used to draw a lot myself but then I moved on to poetry, then singing and now I'm writing a book. Brian is perfectly entitled to do they same if he so chooses.

If he wanted to try something new creatively to scratch that itch, like so many others have, I don't see why he can't try. Just because he hasn't sung before doesn't mean he can't start. Mark didn't always sing either. Neither did I.
So I could be wrong but I think he was more referring to forcing Brian vs Brian wanting to do it
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mikeyd23 wrote:
Jhenrid wrote:
nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
That makes zero sense.
Go on.
Mark started off as a guitar player but then expanded on his artistic expression by singing and he also then expanded by painting. People trying new forms of art is the very definition of artistic expansion. People don't start off as guitarists. They become one. Like they become singers and like they become painters.

It's pretty common for artists to grow tired of a single form of art. i've done this myself. I used to draw a lot myself but then I moved on to poetry, then singing and now I'm writing a book. Brian is perfectly entitled to do they same if he so chooses.

If he wanted to try something new creatively to scratch that itch, like so many others have, I don't see why he can't try. Just because he hasn't sung before doesn't mean he can't start. Mark didn't always sing either. Neither did I.
So I could be wrong but I think he was more referring to forcing Brian vs Brian wanting to do it
Yup
Where in my original post, the one you replied to, did I say we should force him?

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Mr. Slash wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
Dang, why didn't anyone tell this Lars Ulrich back then?
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Ubik wrote:I say we go the other way, and rename the band to Alter Brian.
As a fellow Brian, I support this idea. :rockon
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nagpo wrote: Where in my original post, the one you replied to, did I say we should force him?
I'm making the assumption he'd have to be forced, since you know, he's been a professional musician for nearly 25 years and in those 25 years he's simply been a bass player. Not a singer, not a lyricist. I'm once again assuming if he had the desire to artistically express himself in those ways he would have done so by now, even just in the form of collaboration with Mark and/or Myles.

I guess I just find it baffling that a band that has arguably two of the best rock writers of the past 20 years, not one, but two, have fans that think they need to have the bass player branch out artistically and randomly start singing or writing lyrics. What about Flip? I think Mark and Myles are getting pretty boring on the guitar, I think Flip needs to branch out artistically and play a guitar solo on the next record. Am I doing it right?

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If he want's to I'd like to hear it

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This whole thing reminds of that one video of AB on the road during the AB III tour where Myles was talking about what's he's been up to (touring with AB and going to work in the studio with Slash) and he joked that he's also going to work on Brian Marshall's solo project where he asked Brian what's it about. Brian then stated that Myles is writing the album and then they made some sort of lipstick joke (I can't recall the last bit of that scene, but it was pretty weird).

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Kreuger wrote:
Mr. Slash wrote:
mikeyd23 wrote:
nagpo wrote:Bad thread but I would like to hear Brian sing or write some lyrics just for fun. I'd like to see these guys expand artistically.
Having someone who isn't a singer or lyricist try to sing or write lyrics isn't artistic expansion.
Dang, why didn't anyone tell this Lars Ulrich back then?
People shit on Lars for St Anger, not realizing he and Kirk have always cowritten songs.
I'm not talking about the songwriting, I'm talking about his attempts on background vocals.

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Wasn't the lipstick joke about a snow cone?
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"It seems you spent last night dressed up as a woman" :lol :lol

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I love these guys. I watch it each time I'm down :lol
Watched it literally "forty nine fucking times" and will never get bored by that :D

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