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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know those songs on YOR had already been written before he was sent packing.
Yeah I like Jesse's songs he contributed to the menu and some of them are my faves but Alain had a better hit to miss ratio than Jesse. Seems as if I got all excited for nothing.You and I feel very similar with this. I agree that the chance to have Alain's songs again, and a new LP being recorded so quickly after he rejoined the band --- it was just all trending in the best possible direction for a 'born-again Morrissey'. Unfortunately we're now back in the muck of uncertainty, and I am sorry that we are.
Jesse is a good player overall, it's not his fault we're in this situation. I do not have any problems with any opinions to the contrary, but I wanted to give Jesse some credit for keeping the Morrissey train moving for most of my adult years (because I assume they read some of this, and I wouldn't mind saying hello to people that I'm grateful for)If they don't read it, I still feel the same way.
He needs to fine-tune his effect boxes (also use them less altogether) and listen a little more. Besides that - he seems kind, loyal and professional. Playing in bands as an adult, unless it's a million-dollar-ticket, you only want to play with people you like/admire/respect. Obviously, Jesse and Morrissey are friends - and Morrissey respects his abilities. Isn't it close to twenty years with Jesse on-board now?
People disliking this clearly didn't see Rick Astley and Blossoms live. I never said Rick Astley's voice was as good as Morrissey's, but Blossoms' playing sounded just like Smiths records. It's no surprise they can play Smiths records better than any of Morrissey's solo bands - they're better, tighter musicians by a country mile - there's nothing wrong with admitting that lmao.
Honestly, Morrissey would do well to have a band as skilled as Blossoms. I can't say I'm a big fan of their own music, but Jesus wept those lads know how to play.View attachment 90544
Maybe Morrissey and Rick Astley should’ve toured together like a couple of proper old school crooners - backed by Blossoms looking like The Shadows.
Although he'd stopped appearing with the live band, Alain was still active as a song-writer up till Years of Refusal. According to numerous reports at the time (officially unconfirmed, but they certainly have the ring of truth about them), Alain wasn't aware he was completely done with Moz until he turned up to the Years of Refusal recording session expecting to be involved and perform (as he had on 'Ringleader'), only to find he was refused entry. Boz was dispatched as the hatchet man and sent to tell him in the carpark that his services were no longer needed by Morrissey, and that was the end of his involvement until last year.
And yet... in an interview, Alain said that Morrissey had changed for the better when he rejoined.
I'm not saying that in estimation of his ability. As strange to some as it seems now, a keyboardist in the live band was still very fresh at the time - it was a bit jarring after years of the two guitars/bass/drums line-up in every Smiths/Morrissey solo band - the short-lived extra guitar of Craig Gannon notwithstanding. Also, since Deano was born in England, Farrell was the first American-by-birth in the band. "Th' Lads" would organically never be the same after that.
I guess I am, yeah. Perhaps not in the way that M suggested, trying to "grab the crown" and wanting his face on album covers, etc. That sounded paranoid and over the top.
You want Morrissey to change?
Never been quite the same since James Maker got the elbow from his ‘spicy Bez’ role in The Smiths. Took the heat off Johnny Marr, allowing him to play the crucial guitar parts without having to dance and shake the maracas.
That's pretty much it, but you are a hater if you notice or say something. It's not near the quality it was before and Morrissey seems to have turned into a bitter old man.
