Henry Garza- Guitar/vocals
Ringo Garza- Bass/vocals
JoJo Garza- Drums/vocals
If you download music, make sure you download "Jam", which is a 7 1/2 minute long jam performed live. It has some very nice guitar solos, a good bass solo that sadly has a not so good middle to it, but good anyways. It amazed me how they moved from one part to the next as a band, and landed some fills perfectly together.
Well anyways to the songs in the CD:
1. Seņorita- Not a great song, but a good start to the album. The lyrics are half english, half spanish. The song has two guitar solos, the first one being my favorite of the two. The bass is jumping around the entire song with some nice bass lines. The drums are nothing special, but follow the feel of the song anyways. 4/5
2. Heaven- Heaven is the song that was made into a video and was aired on MTV and VH1 occasionally for a while after its realise. It starts out with a nice, happy guitar riff, and then the other two brothers join in after "Vamanos". Right after going around the riff another time Henry goes into a nice solo. They are harmonize with the vocals, something I quite like. The bass is very good in this song also, but isnt brought out like in Senorita. The drums, once again, were nothing special, but keep in mind he also sings while playing. With three guitar solos in the song, all very good, I gotta say this is a great song overall. 4.5/5
3. Crazy Dream- The song opens with guitar and then the rest of the band comes in with a nice steady beat with a hit on every beat, with some nice fills. Not a special song, but I love its simplicity compared to the other songs. the first guitar solo is, once again, very good. The drums in the song are particulary good in this song and theres a nice bassline throughout the entire song. The song ends with another great guitar solo. Ya gotta love the solos. 4.5/5
4. Dime Mi Amore- Not a special song, but I love the first guitar solo in it, and how it ends with the whole band on a stop. the second guitar sounds great and you can hear the bass making some nice fills in it. 4/5
5. Hollywood- It opens with a nice happy guitar riff that has an odd feel to it and a second guitar opens with a guitar fill. The bass bounces around the entire song and sounds great in it. the drums can barely be heard, it's more of percussion really, although I think that hit on 2 and 4 is a snare drum hit.. Good thing too, cause a rock beat would ruin the feel to the song. The lead guitar in this song is great, but there's oonly one solo, and its on the end and short. 4.5/5 an odd feel to it.
6. More Than Love- This song opens nice and easy with rim clicks instead of the snare head. the bass follows the feel of the song perfectly. Once the song breaks into the chorus JoJo starts hitting the head of the snare and the beat seems to pick up a bit. Then Henry has a nice guitar solo, and next they all go back into the verse and it all repeats. piano is playing throughout most of the song, too. All three brother harmonize for the chorus, and I think two of them do for the verses. I gotta give credit to anyone who can play and sing at the same time, especially the stuff they're playing. 3.5/5
7. Nobody Else- Not a special song, but I love the bass and some of the bridges. You can hear keyboards in the backround, which fit the song well. The guitar solo, ahh I love that too. right after the solo they all start singing in Spanish, which gets me every time. I wish I knew Spanish well enough to understand these guys. After the Spanish verse or chorus? they go back to English and then Henry gets another solo. Great feel to to the song, one of my favorites. 5/5
8. Onda- now we finally get to an instrumental. It opens with a sweet guitar solo, and then bass serves as backround with some cymbal action on drums. About a minute in the song gets into a full band part with some nice drums and then they brake into some sort of pre-chorus until they start singing for what I think is the chorus. After that Henry has a sweet solo, with bass and drums messin around in the backround. Damn I wish i could play like Ringo. Somewhere in that 2nd guitar solo you can hear blocks being hit around the drumset, ya gotta love the little stuff. Aftert that guitar solo they back into a pre-chorus then straight into another guitar solo then into the chorus. After that, what'd ya know, another guitar solo. My favorite guitar solo, cause it has one sweet bass fill in it. Actually the drums are quite good throughout the solo too. after that, OH MY GOD, a DRUM SOLO! 'bout time. Mighty sweet drum solo, too. After that solo comes another good guitar solo, of course they're all good or better. And gosh I heard some nice bass stuff throughout that solo. Theres some pedal action goin on with the guitar in that solo. well then the band goes into i think some type of ... well not-soloing and then into a nice breakdown. 5/5
9- Real Emotions- It seems every song opens with guitar. Once the intro is over the bass follows guitar most of the time. Nice percussion, I'd like to know what that thing is called, but I don't. The song seems like a normal rock song, with some cool guitar stuff added. Oh and of course, some sweet solos. Ends with the guitar wahhing out. 4/5
10- Tell Me Why- opens with guitar again and then the drums and bass join in after a bass slide up the fretboard. The bass is great in this song. The verse is good, but the chorus sounds good with the vocals starting to sound like... not mean but more serious I guess. And after that, a guitar solo, and what's this? a keyboard solo? It is. I ave no idea who plays it, but its there. Then after that solo they start singing Spanish for what I think is the verse. Once the chorus comes round they go back to English, and then, another guitar solo. Really nice one, too. 4.5/5
11. Velvet Sky- Short intro that goes straight into a verse and then into a harmonized chorus. Keyboards can be heard in this song too, and they play some good parts and fills. The bass is great in this song too, and has a nice short fill into the guitar solo. I love how the guitar solo goes through the verse and chorus without vocals. It changes sound half way and makes for a more interesting solo than it would be played through say, 2 verses. The second guitar has vocals in the backround, and once they're gone, the solo really takes off. 4.5/5
12. La Contestacion- Ahh stupid Spanish. I like how the drum part in the chorus, with the snare hit at the the one spot nothing else is being played. The first guitar solo is nice and slow, but sounds great. The piano plays a huge part in the song, and you can also hear keyboards playin. Nice too hear LLB pull off a good slow song. 4/5
The only thing I wish I could've heard would be some bass solos. I can tell from his basslines and fills he could pull some nasty solos. He has one in "Jam" which is a live jam that's not on the album. It's good, but it's not great. I just hope that wasn't his best.
