The Stone Roses Reform...

[Kotowboy]

  So yeah this happened.

Mark Ronson tweeted it was more important than Led Zep reforming.. 

So a band who made one album then pissed away all their talent , have a terrible vocalist and embarrassed themselves at Reading 1996 with a stage full of hired guns..

Is better than the band who gave us Led Zeppelin IV ?

  K

[The King in Crimson]

Well, they did make TWO albums, though only one was good (read: it was awesome), but I can't believe that this will result in anything worthwhile.

Oh and glad to see that the years of obscurity haven't dulled their prickish arrogance one bit.

[Kotowboy]

Ian Brown is a *TERRIBLE* vocalist 

[The King in Crimson]

Ian Brown is not that great, but he's certainly not terrible.

If you want really terrible vocalists, listen to The Decemberists or Neutral Milk Hotel.

[black_biff_stadler]

So a band who made one album then pissed away all their talent , have a terrible vocalist and embarrassed themselves at Reading 1996 with a stage full of hired guns..

Is better than the band who gave us Led Zeppelin IV ?

  K

Thanks for the suggestion, that vid cracked me up. Shame that Ian sucked almost as bad as one of my old singers because the jam towards the end was actually pretty awesome. I only remember them for their single Love Spreads that came out on their '94 release Second Coming but that song was cool.

[Kotowboy]

^ Oh wow... 

[Bill Carson]

I was at the Reading gig and there were 3 major issues;

(i) IB's vocals
He's always had a problem but this was the start of his vocals getting even worse. He has said that he started to have physical problems of hitting certain notes.
And if you've seen him since he's just getting worse & worse.
(ii) The introduction of keyboards
If their was any room for keyboards in Stone Roses it surely needed to be some kind of psychedelic sounds but Nigel is a jazz player. Playing jazzy chords with piano and organ just watered the sound down and made it go all cabaret
(iii) The dancing woman who came out for a couple of songs.
She was ugly and it all looked cheap.

The "hired guns" were actually multi talented musicians that could of pushed Stone  Roses in a new direction given the chance.
e.g the guitarist Aziz, is playing for Steven Wilson now and that says all you need to know about his ability.