Rock Star Supernova : Week 6 Reality

It's really a shame that this portion of the show isn't being put on broadcast tv because it gives quit e a bit of insight into the behind the scenes action. As far as I know Rock Star was the first show to offer it's competition phase and reality phase as seperate sets of episodes.

This week the Rockers received gifts, starting with a set of Gibson electric guitars. Technically these are the second set of guitars they've received - the first was a set of Epiphone acoustic guitars during Week 1 for each of the rockers.

Putting myself in their shoes at the time I was thinking - "Acoustic"? Is this a Rock band or what? I've never been a fan of Epiphone guitars (I usually pronounce it "Epi- phoney" or "E-piffony") Blech. Now the electrics they received this time are much cooler, including some Les Paul's and flying "V"s. Real Guitars. Gibson's never been my thing, I've been more into Yamaha, Musicman and PRS - but if ya handed me a Gibson I wouldn't piss on it. Epiphone? Oh yeah - get ready to unzip , but Gibson's are all right with me.

Yes, I am a guitar snob -- with good reason. Bad guitars make bad music. After 20 years I've gotten to the point that I won't even touch most of what Guitar Center has hanging on the walls. Nearly all of them : Total Shiite.

But a new guitar isn't all they received, Magni had a pair of vistors. His wife and infant son from Iceland. He pretty much lit up like a Christman tree when they arrived.

Not long after that heartwarming moment Gilby arrived on his Harley and notified everyone that they were going to be writing the lyrics and melody for an original Supernova track on their own. Starting today and finishing in 24 hours.

The different performers each handled the challenge and pressure in their own way. Storm went running while listening to the track, Lukas took 15 minutes and knocked it out, Dilana stressed and struggled over getting her lyrics just right - but the one person with the greatest difficulty was Ryan who was still working on his song at 2 a.m.

I'm not sure if it was part of his "game strategy", but Lukas was certainly making life difficult for Ryan by intruding on his songwriting and repeatedly doing his version of the tune while Ryan was still working on his own lyrics. Like Rude, man.

When the time came to perform their version of the new song for the band, Ryan - although he'd struggled - produced a good strong version. Jason noted that his vocals cut right through the music, which is true - and something that he seemed to have a problem accomplishing with the house band. In most of his performances their sound tends to squash him, which is why his solo piano performance last week stood out - we could finally hear him.

Various Suave Porn comments - Jill oversang her version, Storm does everything "big" and was very melodic, Dilana's lyrics were "hookey" and unmemorable. "Good girls and Dirty boys getting together on the hill..." or somesuch. The one person who seemed to "Kill it" in Supernova's words was Lukas. "He really seems to understand where we're going musically".
That's going to give him lots and lots of credits in the SN bank, hopefully he won't spend them all in one place.

We didn't get to hear what most of the other rockers versions where like, and I for one am glad. I'm not sure I could sit through another Zayeeda yip-fest without lots of sparkly objects and lights to hypnotize me into a stupor. Her just standing there singing, is a horror too great to contemplate. Whew.

Next up was song selection which included Radiohead's "Creep" and the Who's "Won't get fooled again" (featuring Gilby on guitar). Dilana took command at this point grabbing the Gilby's song for herself - to surprisingly little opposition. Then making a strategic move by suggesting Creep for Lukas. "If he can't open up his throat and sing this song - he shouldnt' be here".

I'm not sure if I agree with that - this actually isn't a singing contest like American Idol. The best singer doesn't win, which was made abundantly clear last year. JD crashed and burned on hsi most difficult vocal song "We are the Champions", but in the end it makes no difference if the band he's actually trying out for isn't going to be writing songs like that. Supernova certainly isn't planning to do a Radiohead. This is a move that could backfire on Dilana. If Lukas pulls it off - he eliminates his vocal limitations as being an issue. If he doesn't - it still doesn't really matter all that much considering how much the SN boys like the way he sings their songs.

Final visual delight from the Webisode, the House Band kicking the Rockers butts at Basketball. Maybe they should have played against the girls?

Priceless.

Vyan