Craig's Brother Sucks!

I'm sure you've heard that before, from people who either don't like Ted's voice or who don't like Craig's Brother, or who do like Craig's Brother and were disappointed by a drunken show or a crappy show. I've been realizing lately that bad press is better than no press, though. This Article by David Segal of the New York Times, kind of memorialized that idea. It was one of the most entertaining articles I've read in a while, and has kind of let me see through a cracked door of internet possibility.

I created this blog in 2004 but at that point I was activley blogging on myspace.com/snowflake79/blog and getting a tremendous amount of views... so this place was left on the back burner. (I think I still have less than 400 views accumulated over the past 7 years.)

Since I hardly ever log onto myspace anymore, and there's nowhere to blog on facebook, I'm attempting to resurrect this blog site and get some more traffic through here. I wish I could switch up my blog a bit. I wish I could consolidate my posts without loosing the dates they were posted on... the dates are kind of significant to me, but it's clear that I had no idea how to use this site when I first created my profile.

I've had some stuff to say about Craig's Brother lately, which is good because it gets me writing.

I'm listening to The Insidious Lie right now and considering how awesome it is that the band, as it is, is able pull off a lot more complex guitar work than before and have a tighter live set. I don't know if it's because they're older now or what... but Craig's Brother has occasionally had difficulty living up to their own musical standard live, and I think that situation has vastly improved in the last few years.

I think it's because Ted and Glade are now the longest standing guitar players, both having been actively playing guitar in Craig's Brother for over 5 years, I don't think any other guitar player has been with the band as long.... well, Steven... but he's a special exception and has his own thing going.... but having consistency in band members has been an important ingredient in pulling off an awesome live show. Who'd have known?

I'm really proud of Ted. He was an amazing front man without having to play guitar. He moved around and climbed up on top of things... but anything he lost in mobility was gained in shreddingness of his guitar playing. Plus, he can still move around a little with his guitar and do like, windmill's on the strings and stuff.

I'm also really proud of Craig's Brother. I have long appreciated the quality of fan they attract - not that they don't attract loons too... CB fans are, for the most part, really intelligent and introspective people. There are the ones who have been known to us since the message board days, and more that we've only just discovered. It's really encouraging. I think we get confused as to what the goal of Craig's brother is. The goal might be something different in the view the actual band members, and not the "honorary" members or "support staff" - as I've taken to calling myself lately, but here it is from my perspective; impacting lives.

They've done it. If the last week has shown me anything, It's that. I know people will read this, but I don't know if everyone will... I want to say thank you for sending in letters of support and thank you even for just talking about Craig's Brother in your personal lives, blogs and message boards. They would make music even if there was no one to listen to it, but since there is, they make it for you and knowing that it has touched you is so significant.