Any Raw Flesh?

Yogi, Shawn Farley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: March 13, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wonky Records
• ASIN: B00005AV8H
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,117,032 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent stuff, December 26, 2001

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D. Singleton (California) - See all my reviews
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This guy overdosed on Rush and Star Wars and blended it together to give us a healthy dose of progressive hard rock. One of the five best albums of 2001.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yogi rocks!, June 3, 2001

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D. Boucher (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Any Raw Flesh? (Audio CD)

This is one of the very finest albums I've heard so far this year, and I love everything about it. Yogi's songs echo everyone from King's X to Steve Vai and many points in between. Each song is a gem. Killer riffs, great lyrics, vocals, and melodies, fantastic production, and excellent playing abound. Heck, even the packaging is top-notch. The whole deal looks and sounds great. My current favorite is the song Yogi put an MP3 of on his site before the album was released - My Love For Lois Is Real. This song makes me very happy. I play it over and over again and it's the best King's X song that King's X never wrote. They should've, too. But don't let the King's X comparisons fool you, there's a lot more going on here, and the whole thing is so fresh and full of dynamic writing and performing you forget quickly about the obvious influences and just groove on how magnificently Yogi has put them all together. Yes! This album is calling for you! Buy it now!

Yogi's guitar playing and singing is of particular note, but his band provides some awesome backing. Drummer Chris G and bassist Bryan Beller provide solid and exciting support for Yogi throughout. Bryan Beller, by the way, is the brilliant bassist for Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins.... Yogi would want you to, he's a huge Keneally fan as well.

Any Raw Flesh? is melodic pop-inflected hard rock the way it was meant to be. And it might just end up one of the very best albums of 2001....

5.0 out of 5 stars The best music you've never heard, August 17, 2004

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Ian M. Perge "I walk except when I don't" (Evansville, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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Despite the cries of musicians everywhere shouting "But my music is completely original!", influences are indeed a good thing if used to help shape one's sound and not create a carbon copy. Such is the case with Yogi's release, Any Raw Flesh? You can hear the influence of artists such as King's X and Mike Keneally in the songwriting and Steve Vai particularly in some guitar tracks, but this album sounds like anything but a hodgepodge of the above - in fact, Yogi even has the class to thank them in the liner notes. Instead, all the best of the above plus Yogi's highly unique writing and guitar playing plus the first-class backing of professional-level sidemen like Bryan Beller (whose tone is to die for here - the best he'd even recorded on tape until his own solo album) on bass and Chris G on drums makes this an absolutely killer rock album. Add in the crystal-clear engineering by Darin DiPietro and it's a killer rock album that sounds amazing, something most modern releases lack in their need for "Too Hot For Proper Levels!" clipping and digital distortion. It's also a "progressive" album in the true sense of the word - moving forward with different styles and sounds as opposed to "how many 32nd triplet runs and sections in 19/16 can I fit into a 25 minutes concept opus?"... and this, my friends, is a very good thing. Replicating even the most difficult of techniques is easy given enough time. Creating your own recognizable sound and style is much harder, but ultimately much more rewarding as a musician. Yogi has done so remarkably well, and it's to our benefit that he has. Sure, he may gain a few dollars from a sale but we gain the beauty of his music, and there's nothing more satisfying than that in my book.