I’m over on http://vyemusic.com/ listening to the offerings from Them Crooked Vultures http://www.themcrookedvultures.com/, the supergroup formed from Dave Grohl (Nirvana), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age).
Well… everyone’s raving but I don’t know… it’s a bit like if you took Led Zeppelin and removed the world-class singer, the world-class songwriter and the world-class guitarist, then took Nirvana and removed the world-class songwriter… I mean, what would you have left of any particular distinction?
This outfit is what you’d have left, pretty much. Musical leftovers. It is all very well done but listening to it I’m reminded of what Tony Palmer said in his review of the first Led Zep album, that Zep were the band most likely to fill the void left by the demise of Cream and that every song on the album had its sting.
There’s nothing so distinctive that can be said of the Vultures.
Despite the obvious empathy I’m going to have for something that’s fat, waddles around and eats a lot, this doesn’t fly for me.
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