Good Without One
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MsRandee
Feb 22, 2006
HI Guys,
Just dropped by to take a breather.. and relax... Great music! Enjoyed it to the max. What a group of excellent talented souls.. Wishing each of you the best of everything you do.. I'll be back from time to time.. Until then my SC Friends... Take Care..
joe solo
Jul 18, 2004
Can any of you explain the use of subjunctive in colloquial English? KJ's mom, formerly an English teacher, cajoled her to rename her song, "I Wish It Were Me." Similarly, as i review the GWO song titles, shouldn't the title more properly read, "I Wish It Were Baseball"? Please respond, I find this exceedingly troubling.
joe solo
Jun 01, 2004
In answer to Yellowstone, our little cartoony embellishment, who bears the name Honky, is a creation of LJ Kopf, author of Edge comics which may be seen in Funny Times and other mags from time to time. LJ was the resident photographer and graphic artist for fred, a band from a past life of one of our guitar players. LJ also is responsible for most of the nonphotograpic images that accompany songs on this site and the joe solo site, and for the photography and images on the "ffred" site.
GlobalCitizen
Feb 27, 2004
I would like to join the chorus of pleas for drums and percussion on Good Without One recordings. Most of this stuff would be wonderful road trip music if only there was some pounding percussion. In my opinion, it would also free up Mr. Totten on bass. It must be hellish for him to have to hold anchor to the sorts of rhythmic scatterings Potor seems to carry into his songwriting.
DUNGEONmastee
Feb 18, 2004
This band is circulating a good message to people of the wired... that really needs to be heard more often.
Keep it up!
yellowstone
Jul 26, 2003
Deck Seats on the Titanic confirms this band's place in the pantheon of proto-folk-punk groundbreakers. Seething with a burning passion and all-too-healthy cynicism, Deck Seats is an apocalyptic vision that takes one's breath away. DeCristopher's biting yet fluid guitar runs, Potor's always angular but never misplaced rhythms, and Totten's bubbling bass and committed vocal leave you battered but never bruised. Good Without One is here to stay, get used to it. There isn't a drummer alive who could improve on this product.
scrotumpole
Jul 12, 2003
Though the passing over of the name Potorhead saddens me, I am inclined to heap praise on this unique project. Naturally, the comparison to John Mayall's 'Turning Point' record is on my mind as I listen to the electric band without drums aproach, but this is so much deeper and more heartfelt. The liner notes on 'Turning Point' state that the band wanted to try an ensemble without the rhythmic base of drums, but there remains an annoying tendency to emulate the presence of percussion with rhythmic guitar-top tappings and early efforts at 'human beatbox' vocal stylings as on Room to Move. If the purpose of this record was to show that drums were not needed, why emulate them in sound and function?
Good Without One plainly demonstrates the possibility of the electric band sans drums without pandering to this loud, overbearing bastard instrument known as the drum set. They are free of this awful anchor, and it shows. Who needs drums? Really? Yellowstone has it right by calling
yellowstone
Jun 12, 2003
Innovative and fresh, the electric-drummerless approach is the wave of future folk-punk. Literate and melodic, this band has a unique approach which many more established acts could learn from.
collabs
Jun 10, 2003
In His Own Tongue... another Potor classic. Gotta like these guys...refreshing rebellion Dave Blackledge of CIC
god's drainpipe was a fun ditty. peter paul (sans mary) meets dire straights? nice playin, fellas. --stockwrock