Christopher Holmes wrote:Being in a bar band, BTW, isn't about playing what's "good" or "great". If it were, we'd be doing Rush. We play what people want to hear and what they want to dance to. Sometimes that means playing a song that someone in the band doesn't like. I'm not particularly fond of "Paralyzer" by Finger 11, but people love to dance to it so we do it....
First of all, my apologies for responding to such an old post.
However, and even with your general replies in this thread, it's good to see an individual that has such a stoic and level opinion on matters such as these. Nickleback doesn't suck simply by virtue of the fact that there are millions of people who either like or love them. I can respect that, while I may not care for the band, they've certainly done a Hell of a lot more (musically and commercially) than anything I was ever able to pull together.
Hell, we had a few people that loved to listen to us too, that's all that really matters is being able to make people happy and, "Forget about life for awhile," as said Billy Joel in, "Piano Man."
I should also say that I loved both Rob Zombie and White Zombie, but I am not a fan of the song, "Dragula." You could bet your last cent that we played, "Dragula," every time we were out because everyone responded to it. We put it right in between two of our originals every time to get the people back that we may have lost with the first original and to try to get some of the people we never had to begin with so they would be listening to the second of those originals.
Anyway, it's one of those things. You write and practice songs for yourself and you play them for everyone else. The last time I checked, Nickleback got to play for a few million more, "Everyone else's," than me, so who I am I to judge?
I think he sounds like a deeper, more gravelly, Rod Stewart, it almost always sounds like a reverberation of some kind as opposed to what's actually being actively sung.
