Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following entry earlier today.
My jaw remains fully dropped over your comments on the Tea Party. Truly one of the top 10 Canadian BANDS of all time. Although I am saddened by the end of this chapter of the boy's career, I would consent that their latest offering was their weakest. The River was only the start of the many killer tunes that would follow, The Bazaar, The whole Transmission CD, Sister awake etc... I would take The Tea Party over OLP at any Edgefest, (and have). They were always a fun band to watch live, and the comparison to Morrison is so 1995 they proved their music chops many times over.
R.I.P. Tea Party, we await further incarnations...
Thanks For All The Music.
Carter
I've been hearing from the small contingent of Tea Party fans all day because of what I said. Granted, they had a few tunes that didn't cause me to dive for the radio dial but I've never felt an urge to add them to my collection of 1029 discs.
"Temptation", "Heaven Coming Down" and "Walking Wounded" are in my collection though, thanks to Big Shiny Tunes. "Heaven Coming Down", in fact, appeared on an edition of SLS. It must have been a pretty damn weak half-year.
