Safety

Artist: Ty Tabor
Label: Metal Blade
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 039841434828
EAN: 0039841434828
ASIN: B000063CN8

Release Date: 2002-04-09

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Tracks:

Tulip (Your Eyes)
Better To Be On Hold
Missing Love
Funeral
Room For Me
Safety
True Love
Now I Am
Anger
I Don't Mind

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Customer Reviews:

Definitely ear candy.......2005-12-24

Ty Tabor, once again demonstrates his gift as a song writer and musician. His song writing abilities and guitar abilities, I feel, are so uniquely different and apart from most musicians I listen to. Every track on this cd builds creatively upon the other. There are no fillers on this cd, only memorable lyrics and musicianship. I really cannot pick any one song that I love the most. I just let the whole cd play through in its entirety and do my best to learn as much as I can on the guitar chords.
Well done! sir Tabor....I also HIGHlY recommend Jerry Gaskill's "Come Somewhere." His solo project is another masterpiece of ear candy.

There exists a creative and unique harmony between Ty, Jerry, and Doug. Each one of them makes the perfect trintarian King's X. Much like Rush, they complement each other as musicians and song writers, and they (Ty, Jerry, and Doug) love what they do, because they are fans of each other in a very kindred way.

This cd is for any serious lover and listener of music. "Safety" is a project that has substance lyrically and pure magic musically.

Helped me, wonderful album........2005-12-18

This album helped me through my difficult divorce, and I had the pleasure of telling Ty in person a couple of weeks ago at a King's X show in Dallas. He was very humble and had wonderful words of encouragement for me, which I greatly appreciated. For anyone going through any kind of difficulty in your life, this album will remind you of how sweet life is, bumps and all.

Wow. Tears of sorrow, or tears of joy?.......2003-11-14

It may be hard for some to choose a favorite, but Moonflower Lane, Ty's previous record, could quite be the greatest album I've ever heard.
What makes an album great? Songwriting, Production and Performance. When's the last time you sat through an album and loved every moment-looked forward to every moment?
Well, now Ty has done it again. I swear that Safety is disc two to Moonflower Lane. Yeah, the lyrics are a little less optimistic, but the songs are just so infectious- like those on Moonflower Lane.
I listen and cry tears of joy in celebration of such great music, then I weep tears of sorrow and sympathy for Ty. Ty- dude. You have proven that pain for art's sake is acceptable, even preferable. You are tortured artist effect's poster child.
Look, I could ramble here forever about how great King's X is, how great a singer/songwriter/guitarist Ty is, blah blah blah.
The simple fact is this: Safety is a must own rock record. (So is Moonflower Lane, of course.) You just won't get it until you get it.

Incomplete and really depressing.......2003-09-05

First of all - Ty wrote these songs while going through a divorce. And from the words, she must have been one heckuva woman to reduce him to some of the lyrics on this album.
The best tracks are "Funeral", which is the hardest song on the album and could easily be a King's X song, and "Better to be left on hold", a very witty song about how his wife is a "countess" and other words ending in "-ess", but shows his utter helplessness in the breakup.
The problem is that this album depressed me. The songs that caught on I would sing in my daily life and the hopelessness overwhelmed my attitude toward MY wife, which doesn't really need that kind of input.
A good view into his "muse", using it for an outlet. If you can handle the fact that view, then by all means partake. But it left me wanting. Some of the songs just didn't seem polished or complete enough, and most are not really rockers.

Irrisistably Strong Album from Tabor.......2003-05-26

Just when I thought Ty couldn't top Moonflower Lane, he goes and releases an album that is as good, if not better, than that disc. If anyone doubts Ty Tabor's ability to create melodic hard rock that is both powerful and listenable, they need only hear this wonderful disc.
Ty's progression as a producer is noticeable. Moonflower Lane, while well-produced, had lots of seperation in the instrumentation, and when compared to Safety, seems amateurish. The sound on Safety is much more cohesive, and the blending of vocals and music has just the right balance so as not to be too raw or too polished.
His writing skills are exceptional as well. He has always been known for being a great guitarist who rarely shows off; he likes to serve the song, not feed his ego. Here he continues this trend by playing guitar parts that sometimes slide right by the listener, integrating themselves into the whole of each song. It takes another listen or two for one to pick out some of his great lead lines and flourishes that give each track an extra touch without standing out.
Despite what some may say, I think Ty Tabor has a great voice, and is a wonderful blend of classic pop/rock singers of years gone by with his own distinct delivery. Here, Ty's vocals (and backing vocals) are used as building blocks for each melody, and one will find it hard not to sing along.
His band King's X had released an album that featured experiments with drum loops (Manic Moonlight). Although that was a hit and miss disc, Ty did learn a thing or two from the experience, and here employs a drum machine for a handful of the tunes, and you really can't tell which songs use fake drums or real drums until you read the liner notes.
And speaking of real drums, King's X bandmate Jerry Gaskill joins Tabor here, giving this album 2/3's of the band. If Ty had just gotten bassist Doug Pinnick to play, this could have been the best King's X album since Ear Candy 6 years ago.
As for the songs: Better To Be On Hold and Funeral are the rockers and would fit comfortably on any of King's X's recent albums; Tulip (your eyes) sounds like a hit, and should have been one; the album's title track has a jangly acoustic sound that, oddly enough, seems reminescent of Fleetwood Mac; True Love sounds as if Pink Floyd had gotten together in Ty's body and played through him, along with John Lennon; Now I Am reveals a personal trial in Tabor's life, and is reflective and interesting; and Anger is a strong melodic rocker.
The mood and feel of most of the album is meloncholy and pensive, whereas Moonflower Lane was so upbeat and optimistic. This is due to the divorce that Tabor went through, and those feelings of loss are captured well in this album. Fans will sympathize with Ty and find themselves drawn into his pain. Tabor manages, though, to keep the album from being a total downer, as he explains a bit about in his liner notes.
So the bottom line is: classic disc that no one will really ever hear since Tabor and King's X are not 'mainstream', but if you have never heard Tabor or his band, buy something right now, especially Tabor's solo albums. You will thank yourself later.

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