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Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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Nsync makes a terrible cover band :embarrassed:

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I have 2 issues with the performance.

One of them is that they are not "owning" the song. Its like watching a union cover band play "Y.M.C.A." at the VFW hall for the 400th Saturday night in a row.

The other is that they are a Vocal band but they are doing almost none of the existing harmonies in the original. They should have done an arrangement where they were showing off the thing that they are supposed to be about in the first place.

Just my take on the video. :)
 
markwein said:
I have 2 issues with the performance.

One of them is that they are not "owning" the song. Its like watching a union cover band play "Y.M.C.A." at the VFW hall for the 400th Saturday night in a row.

The other is that they are a Vocal band but they are doing almost none of the existing harmonies in the original. They should have done an arrangement where they were showing off the thing that they are supposed to be about in the first place.

Just my take on the video. :)
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I agree that they absolutely did not "own" the song--nothing special at all.
I also agree that they could've done a much better job with the vocal arrangement.
However, I had no idea that any of them could play any instruments at all. And though the playing (aside from the drums) was pretty pedestrian, the performance was actually pretty tight.
And Fatone was rockin' the kit.
idn_smilie
 
micwalt said:
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However, I had no idea that any of them could play any instruments at all. And though the playing (aside from the drums) was pretty pedestrian, the performance was actually pretty tight.
And Fatone was rockin' the kit.
idn_smilie
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I'll give you that...I tried to find other videos of them playing like that but couldn't...
 
micwalt said:
Actually, Fatone was kinda killin' it on the drums.
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I don't think the bassline was too bad either.

The dude playing guitar sucked ass, though. He even looked uncomfortable playing. Almost like, "Guys...I only started taking lessons last month and you want me to do WHAT?!"
 
JModius1972 said:
I don't think the bassline was too bad either.

The dude playing guitar sucked ass, though. He even looked uncomfortable playing. Almost like, "Guys...I only started taking lessons last month and you want me to do WHAT?!"
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Better than I thought it would be. The famous guy playing bass is actually a pretty good musician. I saw him playing Rhodes on a song he performed on the Grammy's once and thought....."Uh oh... this kid is legit! :eek:".....
 
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markwein said:
The other is that they are a Vocal band but they are doing almost none of the existing harmonies in the original. They should have done an arrangement where they were showing off the thing that they are supposed to be about in the first place.
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That was going to be my first comment.

The second one is that I punched myself in my d*** for having watched the whole thing.... :HB:
 
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