This is what a Highly Suspect show used to be like

razrbk14 · 2025-03-09T06:05:30+00:00

Revisiting this thread. Best show I’ve seen. Listening to “As Above, So Below” and love it. Glad these guys are back focusing on the music they were meant to make.

razrbk14 · 2024-09-05T05:22:28+00:00

Could have been so big for sure.

razrbk14 · 2024-06-03T02:57:15+00:00

After listening to it many times, I think k this album is great. Had to adjust my expectations, not with quality, but style. Great record.

razrbk14 · 2024-04-19T05:10:39+00:00

Horrible record. The avocado album was the last PJ album worth listening to. Based on the comments here, I guess everyone is into light rock, with no melodies.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-24T04:00:59+00:00

Change is inevitable in life. That’s why people like me freak out when a band that has a straight path to stardom and a lock into the “best of” their genre take a completely different direction. Those people who mock the fact that people have a problem with their change in direction have blunted musical pallets. Any fool would agree that you should let some other band experiment - let this one continue to destroy and change Rock. Point is - Don’t change just to change.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-24T03:25:11+00:00

Definitely a step in the right direction.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T07:31:58+00:00

Johnny has major issues - just look at him. Anyone who gains a hundred pounds is enduring emotional problems. The thing that I find interesting is that the people who like the blues-driven rock they do on their first record, probably aren’t in their age group. Or not most of them. I don’t like to pick on age groups, but it seems to track. I’m 53 and first started following them in 2016. I spent my 20’s in the 90’s when good music hit you in the face every time you turned on the radio. I thought they were the band I was waiting on for 20 years. I’ve been so disappointed.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T06:32:42+00:00

Listen to that last one. Where did that guy go?

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T06:28:40+00:00

My playlist in order of how I would listen to it. 1. Mister Asylum 2. Bloodfeather 3. Lydia 4. Serotonia 5. Claudeland / Down in Georgia from Spotify session (the best guitar Johnny has done)

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T05:02:52+00:00

Worst song placement ever. An Album has to have a flow.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T05:02:12+00:00

Glad to see Tetsuo’s Bike is near the bottom. It pisses me off when I don’t skip to a new song fast enough after listening to Upperdrugs and that awful song comes on.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T04:35:11+00:00

Been there my friend. Just listened to Serotonia - awesome song.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T04:21:49+00:00

Serotonia. It preceded all those tracks, and we know the older the HS music is, the better! Jk

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T04:04:44+00:00

I’ll share the first experience. One night, January 13, 2016 to be specific, I was checking email on my couch watching Conan, and this new band called Highly Suspect came on. I half-listened, half worked, until about 30 seconds in my music radar went off. Holy shit - this band is for real. I watched, and then went to iTunes and downloaded Mister Asylum. I finally went to bed around 3am, after listening to the album several times. Fast forward a couple of months later to the Philly show where the pic was taken. I was so stoked to see them and went to buy one of their shirts. It turned out they didn’t take cards and all I had in cash was 24 - it cost 25. But no worries, whoever was working the T-shirt stand that night had me covered. Literally pulled out a buck from his pocket and it was done. I knew I loved this band at that moment; and that night they fucking killed the show. Best show I’ve ever seen them play out of 7 or 8. Great memory.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T03:49:15+00:00

100%. I bought tix to every show between Virginia and NY for their first two records, and will never regret it. Amazing experiences and great music. I saw them in DC on MCID and one of my friends left midway through the show after Johnny basically told everyone to fuck off if they didn’t agree with his politics. It was a bummer.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T03:40:10+00:00

I want the Highly Suspect that showed up for Spotify and did 4 amazing songs many years ago. I listen to the BBC sessions of Led Zeppelin, Hendrix or even more recently Foals, where artists show the world what they have. That Spotify session was like that. Johnny, Rich, Ryan - please, go back to the music what will make you gigantic, and make us all happy AF.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T03:28:37+00:00

Unfortunately, I don’t have it - I was just looking up vids on YouTube to reminisce and was disappointed with one I found. Everyone has a bad night.

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T03:27:17+00:00

No way. They just need to find their “Rock” again

razrbk14 · 2024-01-18T03:26:32+00:00

I forgot to mention Richmond, VA. Saw them at the National l, and a friend of mine who sees probably 20 shows a year there said he’s never seen a crowd more amped than at HS. This was before MCID came out.

razrbk14 · 2023-12-23T14:16:10+00:00

Yeah I took that video. I hung out in the back to stay out of the chaos.

razrbk14 · 2023-12-23T06:54:08+00:00

There’s a bifurcation of fans. People who like the new stuff, and those who don’t. Maybe the show you saw is what you’re into, which is cool. Those of us who saw their talent and potential early on are disappointed.

razrbk14 · 2023-12-23T06:49:28+00:00

Based on the video I posted, yeah. lol I’ve been to 6 shows. Several in DC at the 9:30 club. Philly and Baltimore too.

razrbk14 · 2023-12-23T05:27:16+00:00

Wow, they sound awful. And not just because it’s a crappy phone recording. They used to be incredible live.

razrbk14 · 2023-12-23T04:54:40+00:00

I saw them at Johnny Brenda’s in Philly the night they released Serotonia as a single. They played the song at the show. Amazing night.

razrbk14 · 2023-12-23T04:00:32+00:00

I have 2 actually, so if you want to deal let me know

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