After a short rest, David Cook and his band hit the road again last week promising a few new covers on this second leg of his nearly year-long tour.
Check out David’s version of the 80’s song “(I Just) Died in You Arms Tonight” at Saturday’s night’s Red White and Boom show in his hometown, Kansas City Mo. David takes the hair metal hit by the one-hit wonder band, Cutting Crew, and rocks it a little harder. Ok. A LOT harder.
After the JUMP…”A Daily AntheM” from the same show…
somebody help me… I decided to go check out TM to see if there were still tix to see Cookie at the AV Fair (94 miles away)…even though I just drove 100 miles to Delmar… and there were Gold Circle tickets and I bought them.
Is there a David Cook Anonymous? Someone stop me…
(I know, only going to 2 shows is not an addict… why is he so sexy?!??!?!!) And why isn’t he playing L.A.? My poor car…
You think Kyle is good? I thought he is the weakest one of the band. His drumming always comes across as manic rather than effective, sometimes it sounds good when a song requires the manic energy, a lot of times it doesn’t.
I’m not too keen on this version of Died In Your Arms, perhaps it’ll grow on me later.
Noctem, define “what he does”? *scratches head*. Is it his songwriting? I think David’s discography that I listed in my earlier post speaks for itself. I don’t know if the other band members are as prolific (maybe Neal? I dunno. It’d be close anyway). In any event, he fronted and managed a band many more years before he joined up with MWK. Then, when his band broke up, he joined up close friends MWK to be rythm guitarist & back-up vocalist, while working on his own solo project. Somehow that move alone earns him a ton of brownie points in my book. Then when in a fit of insanity (I kid, I kid LOL!) he falls into Idol, he makes one of the most intelligent runs in this cheesy contest evah – using a lot of his musical and non-musical ingenuity to ‘break’ this show (it’s all about meshing great vocals with songwriting and songarranging skills now, besides the malepolish. Hee).
But if “what he does” refers to his guitar skills, then I’d agree with you. Since he’s the only one who hasn’t had any formal training though (just picked it up and played it by ear), then I cut him hyoooooge slack in the technical department.
I’m okay with anyone not liking his music (art is subjective anyway. One guy’s cake is another guy’s poison). Just thought your statement was interestingly confuzzling (I think someone made that word up before me somewhere!).
which makes it sad for guitarists and drummers and bassists and all those instrumentalists who cant or dont sing! cos as talented and gifted as they are, there arent many notable instrumentalists (except for Slash maybe) and its sad that usually the frontman gets all the attention and the band members dont
i love DC’s band though and i dont think there needs to be comparison between the band members as such…
No, “what he does” refers to his singing. As I said, Cook’s a very good singer. But, Neal is a GREAT guitarist.
It may be a case of mileage, then. But, I’ve seen Kyle singled out for praise in reviews. And my personal take is that his drumming provides an extremely strong backbone for each song.
I agree there’s no NEED for it. I simply did it just to illustrate how talented the ensemble is around him. And I don’t think Cook fans need to threatened by the fact that he has people equally or even more talented around him. It’s possible that some fans of the band may be hooked in by, for instance, the lead guitar work. It certainly happened with Guns and Roses and, obviously, Van Halen.
Ditto. Individually, they are all talented, and collectively, they have mad chemistry and seem to be enjoying themselves. I look forward to finding out where they take the band musically in the future.
me too..and i look forward to the name of the band as well!!! Rickey calls it the Kyle Peek band (very appropriate given the awesomeness of Kyle’s drumming and also his super cute smile) :lol_tb: