Ross Allaire is an author, composer, screenwriter, EMT, and security officer who lives, works, and plays in the Philadelphia area.
Age 44, Male
EMT-Writer-Composer
Egg House, NJ
Joined on 9/6/04
I think I came a little.
"Figment Sage
reVISION"
^I'm curious. are those books?
and, is this a concept album, or is just S4N a concept song?
the way you grouped the songs together makes me think the entire album is a concept.
which would be cool. I can definitely see those being strung together. This is It is the curtain opening/opening credits, and the rest being emotions of someone's life.
speculations..
anyway, I'm excited, this summer looks promising. :D
lol ewww
yes, they're books. more books! viva la biblio!
Figment Sage is a novella, written somewhere in middle of "Godlings" as a break from that whole format/heartache/plotline/attitud e. It's a nice, little story in which no one is killed. It's a quirky character piece with an open-ended ending.
reVISION is a book of poetry/lyrics... it's also a prophecy of doom and hope. it's also probably my most personal publication to date. parts of it are really about me, and my life, in poetry.
concept album?:
1) half and half, really. yes and no. there are moments were the stringing together of songs creates a certain transition or mood between the songs for dramatic effect. "state o teh union" effectively undoes the 'abysmal status quo' from "on an -ism" and "tragedy trance" almost interrupts the sheer anger at relationship/interpersonal bullshit in "sick, tired, down" to create an overall unspoken narrative for the album. you're right about S4N being a concept song, though. :) it tells a definite story in the lyrics. i can't wait for everybody to hear it, experience it. it's a fuckin trip, man...
2) yes, in the sense that NO STANDARD MODEL also applies that none of the songs are quite the same genre. this is taken to its utmost extreme in S4N, where something like 8 or 9 different subgenres are represented in one really fucking long song. for instance, "tragedy trance" is trance techno. i don't even know wtf you'd classify "state o teh union" as.
"i can't wait for everybody to hear it, experience it. it's a fuckin trip, man"
I can't wait personally. my grunge levels have been dangerously low and diminishing. these long, experimental-type, grunge epics are definitely your element. The Brink and This is It (The Title) are probably my two favorite songs of yours just because it feels to me like an entire idea is expressed and uncompressed, its peaceful in a pissed off kind of way. sorta.
to sum up, im hella excited. :D
really can't wait for you to hear S4N then, it's like all the best things (read: my fav things) about 'the brink' just taken to this next-level place, sonically.
re: "my grunge levels have been dangerously low and diminishing" - i hear ya on that one, man... my grunge tooth is starving! i find my hand instinctively reaching for the volume knob (to turn it up) whenever a Nirvana song is played on the radio (at work) just because there's so little other shit played that comes to close to that sound of raw guitar power that grunge has, especially Nirvana. very few albums have really come close to just how BIG those guitars sound on Nevermind and In Utero, or how unabashedly angry the singer is singing. it's rock in one of its purest forms; not pretty or sweet, it's not false or misleading, it's not winsome unless sarcastically so... it's just out-there-loud-crazy-angry-fuck-y ou-with-these-fucking-chords-spit -acid-in-your-face-burning power. i really cherish that sound, the sound of that energy.
Yeah, exactly. And I'm not sure how I feel about this post-grunge nonsense. Some of the lyrics are cool but I can't tell one seether song from another. It's taking that loud-soft dynamic to sickening new levels, and I crave that old feel of 90s alternative. I don't bother listening to radio.
I've contemplated suicide 50x more hearing Lil Wayne then Nirvana or Alice in Chains.
The only music I can listen to that feels current and real is this laid back indie stuff, which is cool. But "I'm a man am I not?" and I wanna punch holes in walls, and cuss people out. Indie doesn't provide me with the energy or mindset.
i've been snooping on wikipedia just looking for bands that I've overlooked and that's no way to live. So anticipating the new album and hoping Grunge gets its act back together.
here, here! here's to hoping! :) (raises glass of ale)
Neophyte-Ronin
Where can I buy this album?
I only ask because, barring Alice n' Chains' return, there isn't enough enthusiasm for the grunge scene anymore. You got tone like Cantrell, buddy!
Gunshy (Updated )
stores.lulu.com/rossallaire - JULY 1ST or 1ST WEEK IN JULY
long live alice in chains, but there will never be anyone as good as layne :(
thank you much, be well :)