The albums that the band released are now extremely rare and as such they are much sought after by fans. There were many musicians that were involved in the movie but he is the only one whose real voice was actually used in the final cut. He met Jason Bonham and Zakk Wylde which he was filming this movie. This is a scene that mirrors the opening of the movie, when it is Wahlberg being invited on stage by his idol.
He was going through a difficult period in his life and looking back he believes he was in a state of depression at the time. He became disillusioned with music when he began to suffer with tinnitus. GNR Central reports that he believed he made the right decision when he heard the band perform with Scott Weiland as his vocals worked really well.
After saying no to Velvet Underground he received another invitation to join Alter Bridge. At this time he had started to get involved in music again and he agreed to lay down some vocals for tracks that Tremonti had written.
They were officially formed in and they released their debut album not long after this. The band have released six studio albums altogether. On their debut album Kennedy just provided the vocals. I was shell-shocked. I don't know if I'd ever met anybody that worked harder than he did. He always came prepared for his lessons. He always came in with questions, always came in ready to play.
He was one of the most passionate guys I ever met in terms of playing his instrument and his music. That passion would soon push Kennedy into writing his own songs. It was there that Citizen Swing congealed as a house band of sorts, with Kennedy singing and playing guitar. They were put together by Caroline Lawson, and she wrote the lyrics for the band's first album, a collection that featured Kennedy's first efforts at songwriting.
That project helped push Kennedy into pursuing his own music, as opposed to simply being a hired gun. In Seattle at the time, the so-called "grunge" movement was turning bands like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Nirvana into some of the biggest bands on the planet. Those bands were writing their own songs, being true to themselves, and they were doing it in their hometown. They did it there, and that was really important to me.
A lot of Kennedy's Spokane friends moved to Seattle during those years, but Kennedy knew he didn't want to just be another voice and guitar in a city suddenly glutted with bands trying to make it big. And I wanted whatever I was going to develop to be unique. It took a long time to figure that out, and a lot of growth, and a lot of mistakes. Another push to write his own music came while Kennedy was still playing at Ankeny's, looking out the windows down at the Big Dipper, which was establishing itself as an important outlet for local original music.
And that was very enticing. The Big Dipper had entered Kennedy's mind as a potential outlet years before, when he was in Bittersweet, doing hard-rock originals and covers by the likes of Bon Jovi. Kennedy was lead guitarist, having joined as a high school junior. Early on, they had to rent grange halls, throwing parties full of high school kids that eventually got them banned because "the grange halls didn't quite look the same when we got done with them.
Eventually, they got a gig at Gatsby's. We'd be playing until in the morning, and then have to get up at 7 and go to school and do it all over again.
It was a blast. When Bittersweet at one point found itself desperate for a new rehearsal space, they found Arts, a building with a bunch of rehearsal rooms and a performance stage.
For Kennedy, Arts was eye-opening, a place where he realized there were a lot of different sounds than those he was making with the hard-rocking Bittersweet. In one room, they met some guys from Coeur d'Alene called Sacrament, who eventually added some horns and became Black Happy. Some young California punks called Green Day came through and played a show there. We didn't necessarily fit in with sort of the cool alternative-punk thing that was happening at the time. I never assume anything is going to last forever.
I certainly appreciated and admired it. T hrough all years since playing those old clubs , through Mayfield Four's brief run at the big time and his decades of success since, Kennedy has stayed in Spokane, living with his wife, Selena, who he met at the old Blue Spark now the Observatory, and what Kennedy calls "the most important club in this town" and generally laying low when he's not on tour.
His mom and stepdad live in Deer Park, he has a couple dogs, and he likes to do a lot of the same things he always did growing up. Old friend Joe Brasch says the young guitar player he met 30 years ago hasn't changed much. That drive is what led him to realize a couple years ago that the songs he'd been working on and recording off and on for more than a decade simply weren't working for him anymore.
He literally scrapped an entire album and started from scratch in , deciding to explore his love of sounds far from the guitar-based hard-rock he's best known for, and finally address, through his lyrics, the pain and aftermath of his biological father's death. Once Kennedy committed to exploring those feelings, he jumped in fully. The result is an impressive document on Year of the Tiger , an emotional journey that — even with Kennedy utilizing things like banjo, lap-steel and mandolin — still, indeed, rocks.
You just know you need to purge this and you let it flow. You have such a finite amount of time on this planet — be honest with what you're singing about.
Kennedy hits some seriously high notes while Tremonti brings the noise. The EP is a collection of six live cuts and one new track. Kennedy works well with guitar masters. Slash nails a number of solos, and the songwriting chemistry is there. After stepping back and realizing that this too shall pass, I began to understand it might be best to keep calm, carry on and take it all in stride.
Now, I realize it rings truer than ever. So, after I woke up, I grabbed my phone and a guitar and recorded it. From a lyrical standpoint, the first half serves as a warning. It paints a sonic picture of a very dark dystopian future. Though it took months to complete, it was worth it in the end for me.
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