Shot Down Satellites [Import]

shot down satellites [import]

Track Listings

1. Love Not Loving You

2. Unfolding

3. Everybody's Right

4. Really Wrong

5. Phantom Limb

6. Shot Down Satellites

7. Worse Than Before

8. Rust

9. Moment That You Came

10. Wide Eyed

11. Eleven

12. Please Go Home

13. It's So Bad

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Blues-influenced Canadian alternative rock act. The band honed it's live chops playing with ZZ Top, George Thorogood & Big Sugar & their frontman was invited by Van Morrison to join him onstage at The Montreaux Jazz Festival. UMVD. 2005.

Shot Down Satellites,Wide Mouth Mason,Curve Records,Blues-Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Wide Mouth Mason (WMM) is an R&B based, modern pop/rock, power trio, reminiscent of a modern day combination of trios such as "The Experience", "The Police", and "Nirvana".

Shot Down Satellites [Import]

Average customer rating:

Incredibly underrated band rocks out and survives hard times
i'm sure it will grow on me but...

Shot Down Satellites
Wide Mouth Mason
Manufacturer: Curve Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AMXTPQ
Release Date: 2005-09-12

Tracks:

Love Not Loving You
Unfolding
Everybody's Right
Really Wrong
Phantom Limb
Shot Down Satellites
Worse Than Before
Rust
Moment That You Came
Wide Eyed
Eleven
Please Go Home
It's So Bad

Album Description

Blues-influenced Canadian alternative rock act. The band honed it's live chops playing with ZZ Top, George Thorogood & Big Sugar & their frontman was invited by Van Morrison to join him onstage at The Montreaux Jazz Festival. UMVD. 2005.

Album Details

The Canadian Rock Veterans Release their 2005 Album "Shot Down Satellites". As One of Canada's More Interesting Musical Exports, Wide Mouth Mason is a Trio of Musicians from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan who Represent the Heart of a Nation Built of Many Different Cultures. Personnel Include Shaun Verreault (Vocals, Guitar), Safwan Javed (Percussion, Vocals) and Earl Pereira (Bass, Vocals), the Band Wide Mouth Mason Creates Music that Transcends the Easy Labels of Music Media and Instead Lays Ground for a Sound that is Wholly the Band's and Best Heard Live.

Customer Reviews:

Incredibly underrated band rocks out and survives hard times.......2005-09-11

This new Wide Mouth Mason album is absolutely fantastic. It starts off with four super-high-energy songs that are highlighted by some thick, revved-up slide guitar. This is the signature Wide Mouth Mason sound, but a lot more straight ahead and energetic than we're used to. Those first four tracks are awesome. Don't get me wrong, the rest is as well, but the energy and that ferocious slide guitar on the opening four is completely contagious. I haven't taken this CD out of my car in the week that I've had it. BUY THIS CD, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!

Now for the problems (not with the music of course!). In an age where image rules over substance it is obvious that this band has been constantly struggling to keep their heads above water. They've been through the wringer that is the Canadian music industry. It doesn't matter how good you are. These guys have been improperly marketed for years under their former "record company", Warner Music. This horrendous label tried to market them as a hip-hop act and a teeny-bopper act, among other things. This has left them with an admittedly loyal fanbase, but also one that is small and mostly comprised of prude young girls and effeminate males. Completely the wrong audience for a jammy blues-rock band that sings about smoking pot and one night stands (among other things of course!). In order to survive these guys NEED to get their music to the American jamband fans that will embrace and really appreciate their music. They need to play jammy festivals such as the Bonnaroo festival and really penetrate that scene. A tour opening for Ben Harper in the US would be exactly what these guys need. Or perhaps a stint with The Black Crowes, warming up the stage for the bros Robinson in the marijuana smoke filled auditoriums they play for beer drinking, magic mushroom swallowing, hallucinating audiences. That is where Wide Mouth Mason needs to be, and until they find somebody who can open these doors for them I'm afraid they will never get the recognition that their music so rightly deserves.

This CD is awesome. Keep playing that slide Shaun!

i'm sure it will grow on me but..........2005-09-09

WMM are one tight little rock outfit let me get that out right away. Also they are one of my favourite Canadian bands and have been since their debut.
However, their first two albums I liked instantly, their third I had to get used to (a little over produced and commercial sounding than the others). Then came Rained Out Parade with it's killer lead track. I had to put it away for awhile and come back to it but came to love it as well.
I am finding the same with this new release. The playing is as tight and rocking as ever, songwriting seems to be strong. You know what the difficulty has been for me? Well, I'll tell ya (thanks for asking)...it's Shaun's voice. He has an amazingly versatile voice that can do rock, ballads, blues, funk equally effectively. However, I keep waiting for his voice to mature and leave that high pitched, nasal sound and instead he seems to be using it more and more.....and more.
I gave it 3 stars because i like the album, i just don't love it - yet. With repeated listening, i'm sure that it will grow on me but that's what i think at present time (for what it's worth).

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