fett on 26/3/2010 at 01:36

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Here's the new single/video from We Are The Fallen.

(http://video.aol.com/video-detail/we-are-the-fallen-bury-me-alive/72057661511898693) http://video.aol.com/video-detail/we-are-the-fallen-bury-me-alive/72057661511898693

Not my kind of thing really, but I've played with all these guys (except the singer) during my heyday in the Little Rock/Memphis/Dallas clubs, so I owe them a few shouts. It's the two guitar players and the drummer from Evanescence, Carly Smithson (one time American Idol person?), and Marty O'Brien from Methods of Mayhem. Carly's a dead ringer for Amy Lee who sang for Evanescence so don't bore me with comparisions - I know, I've heard it, and I don't really care. :)

I'm really proud of Ben (the bald guitar player) - he was 16 years old when his first band opened for mine in a little coffee shop in North Little Rock. He was nervous as hell but kept at it, and now he's a major success in the L.A. biz. Can't say I care for either band's music much, but he loves what he does, and that's worth cluttering up FM radio a bit I guess.

Turtle on 26/3/2010 at 03:54

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So not a dead ringer for Amy Lee.

Turtle on 26/3/2010 at 04:01

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Dude, it's cool. She's over 18.

fett on 26/3/2010 at 05:37

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To be honest, Ben wrote all of the Evanescence stuff and all this new stuff. If you hear any of the songs he's penned for Daughtry, Avril Lavigne, or Kelly Clarkson, they all sound the same. Hell, he even wrote a Celine Dion song that sounded like Evanescence. One trick pony in a sense, but it works for him I guess. Those guys have also always been into that faux-goth look with the creepy Tim Burton stuff forever so it's going to end up in whatever band they play in. By the way, where/who is Evanescence these days?

fett on 26/3/2010 at 15:07

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It is silly, and not true. Part of this is him trying to prove he can do just as well without Amy. She's the only remaining member of the original group (which was actually her and Ben - the other guys are/were hired guns). I'm not sure why she doesn't just use her own name now and continue on instead of constantly replacing musicians - most guys pictured on both of their albums didn't even play on them. Oddly, fans will find that WATF sounds more like Evanescence than does Evanescence because Ben was the principal songwriter in the original band. Amy tends more toward Tori Amos & Bjork than anything resembling the pop/goth thing that Evanescence does so it will be a struggle for her to maintain that vibe by herself, or even with another group of musicians, which I think was evident from the second album.