{"id":12589,"date":"2014-03-05T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:51","slug":"album-review-monte-pittman-the-power-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=12589","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Monte Pittman – The Power of Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So just who is Monte Pittman? Well, here\u2019s a brief introduction. Monte Pittman has played in Prong and has also been a guitarist\/collaborator with pop queen Madonna since 2001. Well, that\u2019s about the bulk of the info I knew before popping in his latest solo release The Power of Three<\/strong>. For some reason, when I hear \u201cguitarist makes solo album\u201d I assume that it\u2019s going to be an instrumental platter of wank ala Shrapnel Records. I was very surprised to find that it wasn\u2019t that at all. Matter of fact, if it had been just that I probably would\u2019ve loved this album but alas it wasn\u2019t to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Dark Horse\u201d kicked in and I have to say that I was intrigued by what I was hearing. This particular song sounded a lot like something I could hear from a later years Ozzy Osbourne so needless to say my interest was piqued. Unfortunately, my interest in this album rapidly dissipated with the passing of each song. The album is a really well produced piece and I have to say that Pittman is a really a great guitarist but the songs just weren\u2019t there for me. In all honesty I just found the songs to be completely forgettable and just not any good. After a while, the songs just all sounded like modern, nu-metal crap with nerve grating choruses like, \u201cGive me more.. . Give me more \u2026 Give me more \u2026 Can\u2019t get you off my mind\u2026 Can\u2019t get you off my mind\u2026 Can\u2019t get you off my mind\u2026\u201d After about 2 minutes of that it was all I could take.<\/p>\n

The sad thing about The Power of Three<\/strong> is that there is so much potential for greatness. Pittman is a really great guitarist but as a songwriter he seems to lack any kind of true skill of dynamic and melody. All the songs sound so one dimensional and he seems to lack any true ear or use of melody. The melodies that he does use as the chorus\/hooks of his songs are all just repetitive, drab, and flat out annoying. Each song sounds like the previous one and nothing about this album with the exception of the first song did much to pull me in and capture my attention. I don\u2019t even know that I could listen to this album as background music because it\u2019s so grating to me and don’t get me started on that album art.\u00a0 That album cover… oh boy.<\/p>\n

The Power of Three<\/strong> just isn\u2019t an album I can get behind. All of the songs on The Power of Three<\/strong> all sound like just run of the mill down tuned modern \u201cmetal.\u201d I put \u201cmetal\u201d in quotes because this is not what I think of when I think of metal. This is the kind of \u201cmetal\u201d that I expect from bands like Avenged Sevenfold and to me that kind of music just doesn\u2019t click with me. It just sounds so synthetic, overproduced and lacking any true dynamics. I definitely don\u2019t think it would appeal to the Madonna fan base or fans of classic metal but I could totally see this appealing to the Mayhem Festival\/Hot Topic crowd. It sounds modern and it sounds like something the kids today would embrace and get behind. As for me, call me an old curmudgeon fuck but The Power of Three just sounds like annoying noise. Get off my lawn Monte Pittman. Get off my lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So just who is Monte Pittman? Well, here\u2019s a brief introduction. Monte Pittman has played in Prong and has also been a guitarist\/collaborator with pop queen Madonna since 2001. Well, that\u2019s about the bulk of the info I knew before popping in his latest solo release The Power of Three. For some reason, when I hear \u201cguitarist makes solo album\u201d I assume that it\u2019s going to be an instrumental platter of wank ala Shrapnel Records. I was very surprised to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1114],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-monte-pittman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19774,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions\/19774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}