EVERYBODY SAYS THANK YOU TO BRIGGINS IF THIS THREAD IS RUINED

THREAD RUINED BY BRIGGINS

lolwut that was terrible

lolwut that was terrible

 

if this music is terrible i feel sorry for you, your tastes in music are kinda low.

if this music is terrible i feel sorry for you, your tastes in music are kinda low.

 

that's got to be one of the most elitist/pretentious things I've ever heard.

that's got to be one of the most elitist/pretentious things I've ever heard.

 

if you don't have nothing to say about the topic of this thread, shut the fuck up.

A+ for copying and pasting.

if you don't have nothing to say about the topic of this thread, shut the fuck up.

 

From now on I'm going to report you every time you're rude to people and let the mods look after you. :kiss:

 

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http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72428

A+ for copying and pasting.

 

like 90% of the threads here .

why you must be always a dickhead ?

if you don't have nothing to say about the topic of this thread, shut the fuck up..

no need to be nasty.

 

 

as for the songs, they were alright... In Vain or True sounded a lot like Fistful of Mercy (which dragged on for too long). Honestly I found the songs a bit boring.

 

I like thenewno2 more.

Fistful Of Mercy (Ben Harper,Joseph Arthur,Dhani Harrison

 

**I'VE STARTED A NEW THREAD BECAUSE THE FIRST ONE HAS BEEN RUINED BY BRIGGINS AND A BUNCH OF OTHER IDIOTS

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4457649&posted=1#post4457649

 

 

Joseph Arthur (Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Organ) / Ben Harper (Vocals, Guitar) /

 

Dhani Harrison (Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Bass)

 

As I Call You Down

 

There’s a song called “With Whom You Belong” on Fistful of Mercy’s debut album

 

that sums up the simple, but affecting sentiment behind As I Call You Down — a

 

nine-song collaboration among musicians Joseph Arthur, Ben Harper, and Dhani

 

Harrison. A stellar tune that plays out between heartily strummed acoustic guitars

 

and exquisite three-part harmonies, “With Whom You Belong” is about friendship,

 

and, fittingly, it closes out the album. “While we were making the record, we all

 

became good friends,” Arthur says. “The album is the culmination of those

 

relationships.”

 

Spend time around these three and their easy camaraderie is readily

 

apparent. They banter like brothers and finish each other’s sentences. The album

 

they’ve made together under the moniker Fistful of Mercy is shot through with

 

that engaging chemistry. Deeply melodic and willfully groovy (thanks, in part, to

 

world-class session drummer Jim Keltner), As I Call You Down shines with the

 

aforementioned guitars, including some killer slide from Harper, and those

 

undeniable harmonies. It’s the sound of three very experienced musicians, each

 

used to running his own show, coming together and having a ball.

 

So how did Fistful of Mercy come to be? Arthur, a singer, songwriter,

 

guitarist, and painter with a decade-long recording career, and the two-time

 

Grammy Award-winning Harper had known each other for years, and had often

 

discussed writing songs together. In January 2010, Harper joined Arthur onstage

 

at Arthur’s show at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and the two decided to get

 

something going. Meanwhile, Harper had befriended Harrison, whom he knew

 

from a skate park the two both frequented. “Ben had no idea who I was when

 

we were finally introduced properly,” Harrison says. “He recognized me as ‘that

 

guy from the skate park.’ But I used to ditch school, get high, and listen to Ben

 

Harper records when I was 17.”

 

Harper admits he hadn’t recognized Harrison at the skate park (“I wasn’t

 

looking at his face, I was looking at the bottom of his board,” Harper says, “the

 

guy’s a badass”), but had heard him interviewed on the radio when Harrison was

 

promoting You Are Here, the 2008 debut album from his band thenewno2.

 

“Dhani’s music was amazing, the interview was amazing, and something hit me,”

 

Harper says. “It was a feeling you get when you hear something you know is

 

going to represent something else in your life somewhere down the line.”

 

Harper and Arthur (who had never met Harrison at this point) booked

 

studio time at The Carriage House in Los Angeles and Harper invited Harrison to

 

come down. “I thought they had a record done and that maybe I’d turn up and

 

play some acoustic guitar and do a bit of backing vocals,” Harrison says. “So I

 

arrive the first day and met Joe, who’s sitting on the floor with five pedal boards,

 

a sampler, and a sequencer, and I've got … a ukulele. I’m like ‘Shit, I thought this

 

was an acoustic record? What are the songs? Maybe I should learn them before

 

Ben gets here.’ And Joe says, ‘Oh, we haven't written them yet.’ And I said,

 

‘What do you mean you haven't written them yet? You've got an engineer

 

[sheldon Gomberg] sitting here ready to go, and you haven't written anything

 

yet?’ Then Ben walks in and says, ‘Right, let's write this record.’"

 

“We had one line: ‘You love like I love,’” Harper says of the lyric that

 

begins the album’s title track.

 

“That was it,” Harrison says. “We started there.”

 

The odyssey had begun: Three days, nine songs — three songs per day.

 

Because of the time crunch, Harrison would give them each assignments and

 

they’d each go off to their corners to write. “It was okay to reject people’s

 

ideas,” Harper says.

 

“So our big man egos were kept in the back seat,” Arthur adds.

 

Harrison: “It was definitely an open forum—”

 

“—Which is rare,” Harper finishes.

 

The first day yielded the album’s first trio of songs, the plaintive “In Vain Or

 

True,” “I Don’t Want To Waste Your Time,” and “As I Call You Down.” The second

 

day found them switching gears, kicking things off with the rollicking “Father’s

 

Son,” which Harrison calls the album’s “jug-band jam track,” followed by “Fistful

 

of Mercy” (which they chose as the band’s moniker after realizing that only a

 

handful of bands named their group after a song), and the instrumental “30

 

Bones,” featuring violin by Jessy Greene, who plays with Arthur. On Day Three,

 

the psychedelic “Restore Me” was recorded, along with the trippy “Things Go

 

‘Round,” and the emotionally resonant “With Whom You Belong.”

 

At the end of the initial sessions, nine songs had been sketched out with

 

vocals, guitars, occasional bass, and bits of production on top. “We thought that

 

was going to be the record,” Arthur said, “but Dhani was pushing for it to be

 

more.”

 

“I'd never done anything like this before, and I thought that with a bit

 

more effort, it could be this incredible, world-champion kind of record, rather

 

than just an acoustic thing,” Harrison says. “It could be up there punching

 

heavyweight.” That’s when the group hit on the idea to bring in Jim Keltner to

 

play drums.

 

“He’s the god of the whole thing,” Arthur says of the veteran session

 

musician, who has performed on albums by a seemingly endless list of artists such

 

as George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, and The

 

Rolling Stones. “Jim is the Dalai Lama of the drums, straight up,” Harper says.

 

“He's one of the most important living musicians, and he graced us with his

 

connection to Dhani.”

 

“The night I called to ask him to do this, we spoke for three hours,” Harrison

 

says. “We were both crying, and he said, ‘Not only do I love this record and

 

would love to do this, but I have all these ideas.’ Sure enough, when he came in

 

the next day and started playing, everything changed from the first hit of the

 

drums. Joe said, ‘Now I’ve got to play the fucking bass.’ It opened up a whole

 

world of possibilities.”

 

Those possibilities are fully realized on As I Call You Down, which will be

 

released on October 5th on Harrison’s label Hot Records. The three musicians

 

plan to tour together and are already incubating lyrics and ideas for a follow-up,

 

though each has his own solo albums in the works.

 

“For me, the reason to make a record like this is to be on an album with

 

Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur,” Harrison says. “That's why I turned up, because I

 

love their music, and to be involved is improving my musical repertoire. It was a

 

no-brainer. Why would I want to be on this record? Why would I do this? Because

 

they're awesome, and I like that.”

 

http://fistfulofmercy.com/download/

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QjIGa_WMTE]YouTube - Fistful Of Mercy - Fistful Of Mercy (Studio) Joseph Arthur, Ben Harper & Dhani Harrison[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcg9scKfbhM]YouTube - Fistful of Mercy - Fistful of Mercy (Live on KEXP)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub06BLalx84]YouTube - Fistful of Mercy - In Vain Or True (Live on KEXP)[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkfIlV7Nur8&feature=related]YouTube - Fistful of Mercy performing "Restore Me" on KCRW[/ame]

like 90% of the threads here .

why you must be always a dickhead ?

 

Actually I haven't seen that many people just copying and posting somebody else's work without giving credit as the start of a thread in this section.

 

And I wasn't being mean, I was just saying A+. Don't make me report you.

http://fistfulofmercy.com/download/

We already have a thread for this band.

 

http://coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72705

We already have a thread for this band.

 

http://coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72705

 

you have ruined that thread

How have I ruined it?

I'm not the one running around telling people they have bad music taste or calling others dickheads.

How have I ruined it?

I'm not the one running around telling people they have bad music taste or calling others dickheads.

 

From now on I'm going to report you every time you spam this thread

Sounds good

I guess I ruined this thread? Interesting.

up

Maybe I should have read the other thread before doing my

with them.

 

Ah well too late for that

Woah, these are good :D Just went looking for the album to d/load but it's not on amazon :bigcry: