{"id":49824,"date":"2018-06-04T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=b4df41fecc32fd88959f169d673e144c"},"modified":"2018-06-04T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:09:00","slug":"the-watcher-by-the-woodmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/04\/the-watcher-by-the-woodmen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watcher by The Woodmen"},"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\/35\/35079\/tmb_150x150_35079_157390.jpg\" title=\"The Woodmen\" alt=\"The Woodmen\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/thewoodmen\">The Woodmen<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=21520&#038;mediaID=287213\">The Watcher<\/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 sounds so much like Triumph from the early 80&#8217;s with the high range &#038; energy earnest vocals\/lyrics and blasting guitar.  Solid playing all around with driving bass and very good drums that play the song well, along with the hot guitar playing.  A powerful vocal performance and vocal phrasing that fits the song perfectly.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;m giving high scores because things are done well.  But the mix is overblown with the guitar too high and IMO too distorted&#8211;I love heavy guitar but there&#8217;s a break point where the sound goes from crunch to rasp, and I think you&#8217;re well past it.  It can sound great in the room and then the recording misses that feel.  I&#8217;d like to hear what it sounds like with only one rhythm guitar track and a low level reverb of it sent to the other side.The vocals feel too strained for my taste&#8211;you hit all the notes but it&#8217;s so intense.  Really it&#8217;s more a question of timing&#8211;this would have been radio material in &#8217;82 &#8211; &#8217;86 during the Triumph, Night Ranger, Loverboy years, but the sound isn&#8217;t current.  If it&#8217;s the sound you love though that&#8217;s what matters and you just gotta find listeners who like it too! <\/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\/35\/35079\/tmb_150x150_35079_157390.jpg\" title=\"The Woodmen\" alt=\"The Woodmen\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/thewoodmen\">The Woodmen<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=21520&amp;mediaID=287213\">The Watcher<\/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 sounds so much like Triumph from the early 80&#8217;s with the high range &amp; energy earnest vocals\/lyrics and blasting guitar.  Solid playing all around with driving bass and very good drums that play the song well, along with the hot guitar playing.  A powerful vocal performance and vocal phrasing that fits the song perfectly.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;m giving high scores because things are done well.  But the mix is overblown with the guitar too high and IMO too distorted&#8211;I love heavy guitar but there&#8217;s a break point where the sound goes from crunch to rasp, and I think you&#8217;re well past it.  It can sound great in the room and then the recording misses that feel.  I&#8217;d like to hear what it sounds like with only one rhythm guitar track and a low level reverb of it sent to the other side.The vocals feel too strained for my taste&#8211;you hit all the notes but it&#8217;s so intense.  Really it&#8217;s more a question of timing&#8211;this would have been radio material in &#8217;82 &#8211; &#8217;86 during the Triumph, Night Ranger, Loverboy years, but the sound isn&#8217;t current.  If it&#8217;s the sound you love though that&#8217;s what matters and you just gotta find listeners who like it too! <\/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-49824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824","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=49824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49825,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49824\/revisions\/49825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}