Jeff Martin The Bazaar 2007 (Dead Can Dance's 'Rakim') Live in Melbourne

*17 April 2011: I just have to say, 'I told you so' to all of the haters. As I predicted five years ago, The Tea Party has reunited after the massive failure of Jeff Martin's solo career. JM will make more money doing a few festival dates this summer than he has in the last five years playing dinner theatres in Australia. I hope he apologised to the band when he called them up. *

Jeff Martin plays another TEA PARTY classic that sounds like poop without his real band.

Get back together before you flush all your careers down the toilet!

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[AkiraFudou]

If he wrote the lyrics, he has the rights to keep the song and play it without the band.

Really, was calling him a 'dickhead' necessary? The Tea Party, while a great band, became commercialized and their later songs didn't have too much artistic freedom. Not to mention there were drugs involved; I think it's admirable, what he's done.

[twojawas]

Ask anyone that isn't on his payroll what kind of guy he is; believe me, my description is accurate.

[HallowedHoly]

He wrote almost all of the songs in entirety; the band members expanded on what he laid down for them...

He also produced.

[twojawas]

@HallowedHoly Yet he can't replicate the success of The Tea Party on his own. The magic was in the three of them, not matter that he wrote most of the music. I foresee a reunion in the next year or so given the dismal state of his career at the moment.

[HallowedHoly]

The magic was definitely in the 3 of them, but he was the head & writer of the group, as well as the producer & visionary. What they've done on their own doesn't even close to compare what he's done. It's been by his choice.

[twojawas]

@HallowedHoly I'm guessing you're one of his girlfriends. He has not had any solo success. None. So I'm not sure how you could say that he has been more successful post-Tea Party than Jeff and Stu.

[livingdeadpeg]

wow harsh words, seems to me his career is doing just fine.

[aricomagik1]

@twojawas Don't you think if JM was after fame, he would have stayed with his world renowned band instead of going on a humble acoustic-folk-roots projet intended for small venues? Regardless of what I think of his solo work, I can only admire JM for refusing to become a caricature of himself, going back to his roots, and choosing to spend more time with his wife and son. Plus I think his voice has never been better!

[NolatariSlasher]

Err, this is like 19 secs of the END of "The Bazaar" and the rest is "Rakim" of Dead Can Dance cover.

[LeatherCladVegan]

The second half of this video is not a Tea Party song, it's a Dead Can Dance song called 'Rakim'. Lisa Gerrard is one half of DCD, and she's from Melbourne - that'd be why he's playing it in Melbourne.

[HallowedHoly]

His success is based on how much he's enjoying what he's doing. He disbanded The Tea Party by choice. Anything he's done since is by choice, and he's happy in his life. He didn't want "commercial" success while sacrificing what he wanted out of it; he wanted to be able to look at himself in the mirror, & that's exactly what he's able to do.

He's seen the world.

[HallowedHoly]

My, my...can't make a point or hear a counter-point without having to attempt an insult.

And you've released how many albums...? You have how many loyal fans in how many different countries...? And you've been composing, playing, writing lyrics, singing, arranging & producing, touring doing the above-mentioned for how many years...? And you've seen how much of the world doing this...?

I thought so.

[HallowedHoly]

Very doubtful. His career isn't dismal because he's chosen it to be exactly the way it is. He chose to do the musical and personal explorations he has & if he wanted a commercially successful career, he could call up a large label & they would give him a contract in a heartbeat. First it's about the music and what it represents to him.

Granted the other 2 musicians are power-musicians that is nearly impossible to find the calibre of.