My opinion of Brendan O'Brien...

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

At least he gets their asses in the studio.

Though he could be like a controlling, manipulative significant other. Those are never good.

Who knows?

xsmytx wrote:

The "tone" of mikes guitar solo alone, shows you that he has way too much input right away! When song have you ever heard of theirs that the guitar sounds like that?? It's your #1 80's ballad go to refrence tone..I mean its like B.O.B clicked on "80's ballad" setting under guitar amps for his laptop protools fasttrack setup..With that being said, I honestly think the song would have been simply amazing if B.O.B was not producing it. And why the f' is he playing on it? He plays the most basic piano lines and his sound/tone is wack as hell. Where the hell is Boom?

Its like Brendan O'Brian is taking the Pearl Jam out of Pearl Jam.

I immediately thought of the tacky delay setting on the Comeback solo when Mikes lead broke in and Obrien had nothing to do with that. It's also something that Mikes done quite a bit in a live setting.

Obrien is 1000x the piano/keyboard player that Boom is and if you wanna stay away from basic, tacky, bad toned keys, the first step would be to keep Boom away from the album.

Cheese Jam ... I'm done. Backspacer and Lighting Bolt do not exist, I tell myself, everynight I go to sleep. Like WHAT IN THE HELL.

They got ahold of some of Walter White's blue.

Put the cheese away Brendan. Please!

DewieCox wrote:

xsmytx wrote:

The "tone" of mikes guitar solo alone, shows you that he has way too much input right away! When song have you ever heard of theirs that the guitar sounds like that?? It's your #1 80's ballad go to refrence tone..I mean its like B.O.B clicked on "80's ballad" setting under guitar amps for his laptop protools fasttrack setup..With that being said, I honestly think the song would have been simply amazing if B.O.B was not producing it. And why the f' is he playing on it? He plays the most basic piano lines and his sound/tone is wack as hell. Where the hell is Boom?

Its like Brendan O'Brian is taking the Pearl Jam out of Pearl Jam.

I immediately thought of the tacky delay setting on the Comeback solo when Mikes lead broke in and Obrien had nothing to do with that. It's also something that Mikes done quite a bit in a live setting.

Obrien is 1000x the piano/keyboard player that Boom is and if you wanna stay away from basic, tacky, bad toned keys, the first step would be to keep Boom away from the album.

Disagree about Boom, wouldn't say hes THAT bad, but yeah I actually really like the piano at the end of Sirens and I don't think Boom could have came up with something as catchy. And yeah that solo screams Mike, I personally like it but that defiantly wasn't BOB.

I'm convinced that nothing they do (theses day's) is good enough for some in this community. I've been looking SO forward to hearing Sirens this week ... but because I read through this thread ... I'm losing my hope.

Secondly, how are you already hearing the song?

DewieCox wrote:

xsmytx wrote:

The "tone" of mikes guitar solo alone, shows you that he has way too much input right away! When song have you ever heard of theirs that the guitar sounds like that?? It's your #1 80's ballad go to refrence tone..I mean its like B.O.B clicked on "80's ballad" setting under guitar amps for his laptop protools fasttrack setup..With that being said, I honestly think the song would have been simply amazing if B.O.B was not producing it. And why the f' is he playing on it? He plays the most basic piano lines and his sound/tone is wack as hell. Where the hell is Boom?

Its like Brendan O'Brian is taking the Pearl Jam out of Pearl Jam.

I immediately thought of the tacky delay setting on the Comeback solo when Mikes lead broke in and Obrien had nothing to do with that. It's also something that Mikes done quite a bit in a live setting.

Obrien is 1000x the piano/keyboard player that Boom is and if you wanna stay away from basic, tacky, bad toned keys, the first step would be to keep Boom away from the album.

Except Boom didn't add those keyboard string to "The End".

I do not understand why the band would even attempt to be radio friendly at this point. Who really listens to radio anymore? We don't even have a station in Northern California that would play new PJ no matter how "radio friendly" the tune might be. I thought the band would be making rather abstract albums at this point. Trying to challenge themselves line NIN, Radiohead or Neil. I'd be shocked if this isn't the last album they make and I never thought I would say that. I see a long hiatus after 2014, maybe they resurface in 7 or 8 years. This is going to be the first time that even hardcore fans give an album negative reviews. Yes some of that was there with Backspacer but the faithful like myself thought it was just a phase and another great album was in their future. It's not though, it's in a lot of ways it's over. BOB probably didn't help them but maybe the tank is just empty. I wouldn't blame him, it's like a coach who is trying to run a team past it's prime. Not sure any producer could get them to reach past heights at this point. They clearly write better songs apart from each other as Ed and Stone have shown over the past few years. Time to move on and not taint the legacy. Hopefully they still will tour from time to time but no more new material unless they want to really push themselves.

There's a right way and a wrong way to say something and this thread is overflowing with wrong so it's done.

When the album comes out and people hear the whole thing, that'll be a more appropriate time to talk about it and not make insulting comments about the people who made it.