{"id":35117,"date":"2017-03-03T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=888bf33072c2bac14c80756ae1071034"},"modified":"2017-03-03T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:21:00","slug":"lets-ride-by-top-dead-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/lets-ride-by-top-dead-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Ride by Top Dead Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/112\/112116\/tmb_150x150_112116_205779.jpg\" title=\"Top Dead Center\" alt=\"Top Dead Center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/topdeadcenter\">Top Dead Center<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=77387&#038;mediaID=531782\">Let&#8217;s Ride<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>This reminds me of Blackfoot, Y &#038; T, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Dokken, April Wine, Schencker, etc from late 70&#8217;s early 80&#8217;s, with Captain Beefheart guesting on vocals.  There&#8217;s a boogie beat underneath all the guitar work, so all the Jersey chicks with hair puffed five inches above their heads could be out dancing in their sprayed-on jeans.  The guitars are classic hard rock&#8211;you can&#8217;t play these licks without sticking your tongue out at all the fourteen year boys that wanna be you up there.  It&#8217;s really a perfectly executed tune in the style.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>IMO you&#8217;re taking it a bit too far with the vocal overdrive.  I&#8217;d argue for keeping the gravel but bring it back to where it&#8217;s gritty not totally gob-spitting, raving pschizophrenic.  Then you could hear the lyrics better.  As in the other review I&#8217;d like the guitars better if you dialed back a bit and took the harmonic rasp out of the tone and made it overdriven, tubes honkin tasty breakup.  This has more impact&#8211;the paradoxical thing about distortion is that as it gets raspier it has less gut impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/112\/112116\/tmb_150x150_112116_205779.jpg\" title=\"Top Dead Center\" alt=\"Top Dead Center\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/topdeadcenter\">Top Dead Center<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=77387&amp;mediaID=531782\">Let&#8217;s Ride<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>This reminds me of Blackfoot, Y &amp; T, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Dokken, April Wine, Schencker, etc from late 70&#8217;s early 80&#8217;s, with Captain Beefheart guesting on vocals.  There&#8217;s a boogie beat underneath all the guitar work, so all the Jersey chicks with hair puffed five inches above their heads could be out dancing in their sprayed-on jeans.  The guitars are classic hard rock&#8211;you can&#8217;t play these licks without sticking your tongue out at all the fourteen year boys that wanna be you up there.  It&#8217;s really a perfectly executed tune in the style.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>IMO you&#8217;re taking it a bit too far with the vocal overdrive.  I&#8217;d argue for keeping the gravel but bring it back to where it&#8217;s gritty not totally gob-spitting, raving pschizophrenic.  Then you could hear the lyrics better.  As in the other review I&#8217;d like the guitars better if you dialed back a bit and took the harmonic rasp out of the tone and made it overdriven, tubes honkin tasty breakup.  This has more impact&#8211;the paradoxical thing about distortion is that as it gets raspier it has less gut impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35118,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35117\/revisions\/35118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}