David Cook Yahoo Interview, Plus A Performance on the Road!
David Cook tells Lyndsey Parker in this Yahoo interview that on last season’s American Idol, the Top 2 did a great job carving a niche out for themselves–Adam Lambert, by doing a great job of defining himself and Kris Allen through striking an “organic” vibe. He looks forward to seeing what they both turn out.
As far as his own future, David says he’s started casually writing and searching through his back catalog. But right now, he’s concentrating on touring–he hopes to be on the road until the end of this year.
About his current album, David Cook, David says 19 let him make the record he wanted to make. He hopes to build on what he’s already accomplished on the next one, by maybe adding some Ben Folds-like piano and more riff-based guitar work, for instance, to try to “tweak” what’s considered the rock sound and expand it a little.
David has also thrown his hat into the acting ring–he’s done a little cold reading for parts. But, he says, the music comes first.
BONUS: After the jump, check out David and the band performing a new addition to their set list, Johnny Hates Jazz’s “Shattered Dreams”, Thursday night in San Diego.
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Hey, MJ thanks for posting this. The Shattered Dreams cover rocks. It’s a little obscure. The only reason I know it is because my HAC radio station has an 80’s request Friday. I don’t know how big a hit it was back in the day? Till I’m Blue sounds go but I’ll need to hear it a few more times.
I think the whole Andy debate is much a do about nothing. The problem I have with the whole debate are the extreme reactions. I think there are some Andy fanatics that turn me off and there are Andy haters that turn me off even more. I love MWK cause they have some great music. Andy and Neal are made talented musicians in their own right. I think that with Dave and Joey and Kyle they have found a great chemistry that not a lot of bands have. Andy and Neal are some of the musicians I think Dave references when he says there are talented people out there that have never made it. I think together they are greater than they are alone
I also wish they would play more Analog Heart songs. I know a fan asked Neal about Let Go specifically. I think this was at the start of the first leg of the tour. And he said that he was tired of that song. I guess he played it a lot back in Tulsa with Dave. And I think Dave was asked and he said you would have to ask Neal because he is the “Musical Director” So we have to blame Neal for no AH songs. Shakes fist at that damn Musical Director.
Just for informational purposes David never sang lead on any MWK songs nor did he ever sing lead when they did a show. The closest he got when he was with MWK to singing lead was the cover of hunger strike where him and Andy sang. Now Andy was the lead singer of MWK and David joined an established group so he would not have supplanted Andy for lead. So I think the same holds true for this group, it formed around David Cook as lead singer and I would not expect Andy to sing lead in this group just as David did not sing lead in MWK.
I would love more AH songs, if Let Go is a no go then any other would fit the bill. I am one who loves the whole album also.
If they have indeed worked out another AH song for this leg of the tour, I bet they’ve saved it for Red White and Boom tonight. Hometown crowd is a good place to debut some old school Cook stuff. Fingers crossed….
So, they’re not playing Let Go because Neal is tired of it!? I hope that’s not true. If so, he should be just as tired of playing MWK songs. Surely, he’s done those more. I didn’t think Neal/Andy made the solo rounds with David in Tulsa. Hopefully, even if Neal is the music director, David still has the last say on what eventually gets added to the set and what doesn’t.
I don’t see why they can’t play 1 MWK song and 1 AH song each concert. It would honor both David and Andy/Neal as songwriters, and please the fans too.
It has crossed my mind before to wonder if it’s because Neal is music director that they don’t sing AH songs but MWK songs instead. I like Neal but that kind of bugs me. I wish David would explain why they won’t/don’t sing AH songs when the fans are crazy about them (and they are great songs too). I also wonder if they have plans to re-record them and are saving them for that (but that’s probably wishful thinking).
I don’t like Andy’s voice. But in order to make the concerts longer and rest David’s voice at the same time, I think it would be fine if Andy sang a couple of songs while David took a break. Actually there’s a discussion going on at DCO about all this right now. Or it was yesterday anyway.
I EFFING LOVE Feed Your Ego. I don’t think he’ll do any Axium live with this band, but if he does… and if he does Feed Your Ego… I will die happy.
I was at the San Diego concert! Shattered Dreams is so random but great… and Bar Ba Sol is the best song ever!
I’m pretty sure that exchange was in regards to Creep, not Let Go. And I can’t imagine how Neal would have been playing Let Go often enough to be sick of it – I know he played on the album, but at shows? I know that either David or Neal said that they wouldn’t be playing alot of Analog Heart songs because they were too David Cook, and didn’t fit the band, or something. A very WTF comment.
I like the explanation someone on here had that MWK songs are still available for purchase, and also the MWK songs showcase Andy and Neal, and that will perhaps give them more bargaining power when it comes to the next album.
I know that Andy was the lead singer with MWK. One song in particular that I heard Andy sing was Anodyne and he didn’t pack the punch that David does when he sings the song. David’s vocals are so much better than Andy, who is a little bit more mellow in his style but I feel David puts a lot more passion and feeling to it and packs a bigger punch. I think I read that David & Neil wrote the song but Andy performed it with MWK. Andy might have had some say in the song too, but this song screams David Cook. Just the word “anodyne” screams “word nerd.” Andy is a prime example of being talented but never getting that big break. Neil also produced Cook’s 2nd indy album. I have to think it must be difficult for Andy to be now a back up vocalist & musician but frankly, his career wasn’t going anywhere and David is the star of this group. After Cook left MWK to strike out on his own he still didn’t forget his friends as obviously, he was working with Neil and also got Andy to join on with EEB. I thought I read that Cook is going one step further in not only getting an official name for EEB but making everyone partners rather than just Cook’s employees. That is why Cook is such a stand-up guy.
I can sort of grudgingly understand what he means (if he really did say that). I was initially surprised that he picked Straight Ahead as the one AH song to play, especially since the ones that people seem to talk about the most are Silver, Truth, Let Go, Porcelain and Makeover. However, Straight ahead is more rocking than all of those songs and is probably more fun for the band to play. Let Go does have a guitar solo but it has an overall slower pace than Straight Ahead. Even though I would love to hear more AH, I do think it’s very important for David to consider the band when he is picking songs, especially if he wants them to stick around. Otherwise it would just be David Cook and a bunch of backup musicians, and its obvious that he doesn’t want that. David should still keep in mind, however, that some of his most powerful performances are the slower songs like Lie, Permanent and TWIK, where you can really hear his voice. I would hate to see songs like that phased out because they’re not exciting for the band to play (Rumor has it that Neil hates Avalanche, which might explain why we don’t hear it much).
Regarding MWK songs as being better for the band: They might be good for the band but I don’t think those songs necessarily suit Cook’s voice (with the exception of Anodyne which he co-wrote). I really disliked Make Me, but I think ’till I’m blue is an improvement.
I looked at a few videos of the Red, White & Boom concert and the band was on fire! Very high energy set and I loved their cover of I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight. The band really gets better and better.
and hopefully they get a really cool name for the band….not something like The Kooks or Puddle of Mudd or worse…Deathcab for Cutie :thumbdown_tb:
guys, do you have any suggestions for the unnamed DC band?