Jerry Gaskill - Come Somewhere
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Artist: Jerry GaskillEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-09-13
Music Label: InsideOut Music
Soundtracks:
- The Kids
- She's Cool
- Johnny's Song
- No Love
- L.A. Flight
- Faulty Start
- All The Way Home
- Crazy
- Garden Stroll
- Walk Alone
- Every Day
- Gallop
- Hello Mrs.
- I Saw You Yesterday
- Face The Day
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Free Music Review: Jerry Gaskill - Come Somewhere
Hit: 5 Stars
This album has caught me completely off-guard.
I didn't know what to expect from the drummer of one of my favourite bands in my life. It was expected that I'd buy it, but what I was buying I was unsure of. Gaskill's presence as a songwriter for King's X seems mostly evident in the songs 'American Cheese' from Ear Candy, and 'Six Broken Soldiers' from Faith Hope Love. Two songs in a nearly 20 year recording career is not a lot to go on. But his voice was always distinguishable in King's X, so I knew what I was getting in that at least.
I am a huge fan of Doug Pinnick's Poundhound albums, particularly Pineappleskunk, and I bought both of those releases when they came out. I am a later fan of Ty Tabor's solo work, having just recently purchased both Safety and Moonflower Lane. I had owned Naomi's Solar Pumpkin since its release in 1997, but I have to be honest and say that it didn't particularly floor me at the time. I took a recent listen to it, realised it was actually very good, which prompted me to buy his 'official' releases. Gaskill's album I picked up a little while after its initial release.
Since I bought it, it has not been off my cd player in weeks. I can listen to this album once, twice, or three times in a row, and have at times. I am slowly coming to the conclusion that this album has become my favourite of the King's X solo releases, though I have been an admitted fan of anything Pinnick does solo anyway. There is a certain something that Gaskill has captured on this CD that I haven't heard on a King's X album in about 3 years, maybe even longer, maybe 12 years.
The songs are mostly all acoustic based, and the heavy sections only appear when needed. But what happens on these 15 songs is something I can remember happening on the first 4 King's X albums. Something a little mystical in the music, something unsaid happening in the songs. Maybe that's just me, but there is a vibe throughout Gaskill's CD that is very hard to find on some of the latest King's X offerings. It only makes me hope that Gaskill takes an even stronger role in the King's X writing chores next time around.
First of all, Gaskill's sense of melody is even more distinct and harmonious than Tabor's obvious talents. Where Tabor emulates Lennon's blues based melodies, Gaskill is far closer to McCartney's classical derived melodic lines, and for some reason, it makes these songs incredibly accessible to a wider variety of people. This album is in homage to The Beatles just in execution, but one has to realise The Beatles and other European bands were just as influenced by the Bach's and the Beethoven's as the Chuck Berry's and Elvis Presley's.
This album is full of irresistibly catchy melodies. I could recommend this album to anyone unfamiliar with King's X, and not worry that they would be 'put-off' by this thing or that thing, whatever that may be. Songs like 'She's Cool', 'Johnny's Song', 'All The Way Home', 'I Saw You Yesterday', in fact any one of the 15 songs are so radio-friendly (apart from 'Face The Day'), that I can only hope someone starts requesting at least something from this album to be heard on American or European radio stations.
My wife is not much of a King's X fan, but the few songs she has heard from Gaskill's solo album she has liked emphatically. She actually called the album 'refreshing' compared to what else is out there on the music scene. From a non-King's X fan to endorse a King's X related album has to say that this album deserves a bit more attention. This album deserves to reach as many ears as possible, because it seems so many different ears will be able to appreciate it.
If you don't like it on first listen, give it another chance. Let the album sink in, because pretty soon you'll find the songs are starting to stay in your head, the melodies and arrangements are that good.
Come Somewhere is quickly becoming to these ears, possibly the best solo release from a member of King's X. And it's the drummer!
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