Grotelul wrote:
Please Matt, enough already with your father! Your Dad is not the same musician that was great ('75-'78) and he never will be again. It's 30 years later and he is not the same person. Now he sings every song like he is singing in a broadway show. Give me some raw attitude while singing, not Barry Manilow. Just watch the soundstage show. Grand Illusion is a ROCK song and should sound heavy. His version does not. It is weak. This new CD with the same group of players will also sound weak. Rock music has attitude and your Dad has none right now to do a real ROCK CD.
Wow. Great post! I totally agree. I listened to clips of the Deyoung Symphony deal and it just doesn't ROCK enough. I love Dennis' voice and I love his writing pre-Paradise Theatre, but it's like Dennis was replaced after that album. Geez, should I look at my album covers for Dennis is Dead clues? Sorry, but I haven't heard Dennis do ANYTHING that's rocked since 81. I wanna be wrong, but Dennis needs to prove himself as a bonafied ROCK singer again to me. Otherwise, just like this poster said, it's "Barry Manilow" to me. 10 on Broadway was a GREAT record. BUT it wasn't the Dennis Deyoung that I know and love. It might as well have been Tony Bennet and it totally proves Tommy and JY's point that Dennis wanted to do anything but Rock. Let Dennis do his own thing and Froy can go buy a million copies of it. In the meantime, I will take whatever from BOTH camps as long as it's good.
Froy, you constanly beat up on Shaw. The Damn Yankees rocked more than Styx or Deyoung EVER did and that was Tommy's band. I don't think Shaw's got anything to worry about. For every rock song Tommy's done, Dennis has answered back with lame attempts at Broadway. The Hunchback CD's a joke. Terrible. Dennis needs to prove himself again as ROCK artist not friggin Michael Bolton.