Good choice, and the best live performance of any song I've ever heard (Charlotte 2012). Danny's drumming is incredible. Not sure exactly what he's doing here, I'm pretty sure they're all shifting b\t 7/8 and 4/4, but he's known to do stuff like play the kick in 7/8, the ride\hat in a diff time sig, and then put in all kinds of diff time sigs for fills. All while the rest of the guys are playing diff time sigs. And tons of polyphony. No wonder it takes them forever to put out a record. I'm a hack at drumming but I can fudge my way threw most 4/4 and 3/4 stuff, but I can't even begin to play their songs. Guitar/bass no prob, but the drums, nope. And it's like he writes everything out then mixes up the drums. You expect a crash, you get a tom. You expect a snare, you get a kick. And so on. Deftones drummer does similar stuff, just not to that extreme.
Yep, too bad Anselmo is such a douche. F'd up that Dimebag gets killed, and ****brain keeps on keeping on.
Yep. A lot of my friends just stopped at whatever they were listening to in their 20s. Not even interested in hearing anything new. I don't get it. Agree about doing the legwork, but that's true of about everything.
I can't possibly name a fav. I like everything from classical to rap to metal to rock to country to punk. But it has to be good. Every genre has some good and a lot of crap. I hate pop music in any form though. You can just tell the ones that are written for the sole purpose of making money. No soul. That being said, Jimmy Page is the reason I picked up the guitar decades ago. And god knows how many times I've listened to The Wall. At heart though, I'll always be a metal head. I wander into diff genres but always come back to metal,
Agree 100%. With Cliff gone and Lars and James ego's blowing up, it was...not good. Plus the fact they've admitted they deliberately cut Jason's bass tracks out of the mix, just to haze him. WTF? Who does that to their own music? I remember when AJFA came out. After Master we were stoked and couldn't wait to listen. My bro bought it and we rushed to his place, he had a suite stereo. We listened to the first song...then second...and after a while it was obvious, it just wasn't good. A friend of mine (RIP Mike "Headbone" Jones), who was a really good metal drummer, called them "Aluminica" and it stuck with me ever since.
For me, I don't really have a lot of time to check out newer music anymore. I definitely still check out newer music being made by the bands I've liked for years, whenever they put something new out. Sometimes it's good and other times it's not so great. The last Social Distortion album from earlier this decade wasn't too bad. I love the band Samiam and have been listening to them for over 25 years now. Some of their late 90's-early 00's stuff wasn't great, but it was alright. Then they put out an album in 2006, which was like 6 years after their previous album and it was awful. I liked maybe 3 or 4 songs on it. I actually only thought 3 or 4 songs were listenable at all, it's not even that I really liked them. Then they put out an album in 2011, their first since the awful one. And I was like "Meh, I can see this is gonna be good! NOT!" And when I heard it, it actually has some of their best songs they've made since 1994. It had a few duds like their 2006 album, but at least it wasn't damn near an entire albums worth. A lot of the record labels I liked started putting out AWFUL bands too. Like Revalation started doing adding a few more hardcore bands to their roster in the last decade, but my 2000 or so, they were putting out some awful, awful, awful, awful and unlistenable stuff. Same with Victory and Equal Vision. By the late 90's those labels were putting out terrible stuff. Same goes for Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords as well. I really liked Rancid in the early-mid 90's, but I can't take a whole album of anything they've put out in the last 15 years.
I've had some success with stations like Pandora, Slacker, etc. I'll be working on my cars or something like that and just let it ride, and every now and then something new and good will come on. I'll pause and go see who it is, give it a thumbs up, and sometimes jot down the name. Also, believe it or not, youtube. I put on headphones at work and listen to stuff and it will stumble into a new band I haven't heard of that's decent. Red Fang and Skeleton Witch are a couple I found that way. Agree about labels. Most labels have youtube mix channels but it's really hit or miss. Sometimes find something, other times I'm 30 mins in and saying "WTF is this sheet?". Relapse is still putting out some decent stuff though. Digital recording + internet has made it easier for a lot of bands to get out decent recordings and get lots more exposure than in the past (I recorded my first demo on reel-to-reel to give you an idea of how long I've been doing this..). With my setup I have basically unlimited studio time and can get studio quality recordings that I can export as raw tracks and send to our mixing and mastering guys. So the double advantage is 1) We don't have to try to cram everything into hours of paid studio time, and inevitably have to compromise on either number of songs we put out, or the quality, and 2) we can spend that money on pro mixing and mastering. Our mixing guy is amazing, no way could I ever come close to his equipment, or skills. And so many sites to get it out on. The downside it there's tons of other musicians out there doing it too, so there's tons of crap out there that just flat out sucks. So much more sewage to wade through to find a gem. Pretty wild how it's changed. Recording on tape, walking around handing out flyers, demo tapes, calling place after place or just showing up and begging for gigs. Very hard in the past to get beyond anything local. Now if you get one hot video or song it can blow up all over the world. I look at who's viewing and interacting on our sites and see people from all over the globe, Serbia, Ukraine, Brazil, Malaysia, and so on. No way in the past that our music would have ever reached any of those people. But we're also competing with a bazillion other bands. A few years back I was talking to John Custer, a pretty successful and well know producer (he's done several CoC albums among other things) that lives here in Raleigh. He said he can get the same quality recordings from 10k setup today that in the past would have cost 100k. The mixing and mastering isn't there yet though. Hard to digitize a vintage 70's all tube Massenburg EQ. It's getting closer though... Anyways, sorry for the novel, too much caffeine thi
Nice man. I'm young, 27. So i don't know what it was like in the old days. But my drummer has a legit studio. Its actually just me and the drummer. He sings and plays guitar too. I'm just a bass man. Sometimes we just right stuff and record, sometimes we find other singers or guitarist to collaborate with and record. Its all for fun. But anyway my point was that we get really good sounding recordings. The guy went to school for this so he knows what he's doing. Sure the equipment is expensive. But we can write and record a song in a day. Mix it and work his magic. Boom we have a professional sounding recording. Lots of other guys doing the same thing and with sites like YouTube, you can really spread out. Hell Joseph Gordon levit... the guy in the Batman movies and tons of other stuff.... paid us to use one of our songs in some internet show he had. Granted it was like 30 seconds. But still cool to just be having fun and get paid by a famous guy like that for it. That type of stuff wouldn't of happened 10-15 years ago.
Exactly. That's the beauty of it. You guys can fock around all day, jamming, etc. and if you get something good, you can get a decent recording and put it out. Pretty much what we do too. We record every practice, every jam session, and if we get something good, fantastic. It not, then it's all just disk space, and disk aren't that expensive. I don't even bother deleting, just put in another drive once one fills up. And I can backup everything on to a separate drive, so if I f up something or something goes teets up I still have it. I still have the first demo we did on the reel-to-reel, but I have no idea if it's still any good. Very cool that JGL used one of your songs. In the past there's almost zero chance that would have happened. And you're lucky that you have a drummer that also sings. Good, MOTIVATED, singers and drummers are the hardest to find. And you're guy is actually motivated enough to build his own studio? You sir, have found the mythical musical unicorn. (Feel free to use that for a song or album name...) I'd like to hear your stuff if you're down. Just PM me if you want. No worries if you want to keep that life separate from SI-land, I totally understand. \m/
Nah man totally. I'm actually scrounging up some recordings as we speak. Don't have a computer, I'm old school hahaha. Got a bunch of discs with recordings on it though and a live in gf with a computer. So ill figure this out. We got some stuff on YouTube, but the better stuff i have on disc There is a sad part to this story though. Me and the drummer, best friends. That's what is really cool. When it came to jamming, writing, ideas, whatever... we were always on the same page without even saying a word. Made the whole process so much smoother and fun. Unfortunately he developed a problem with pills. We still talk and jam here and there, but it's not like it was. On the bright side, he is recovering and seems to be getting back on track. So hopefully things fall back into place again. When he was really bad and we weren't playing at all, i tried getting with other guys. Never worked out. Never on the same page. But like i said, looks like things are on there way back up.
Sorry to hear about your bf. Even beyond the music, that's gotta be tough on you. I really hope he gets back on track. Them pills are evil. Know what you mean about chemistry, my bass player from 91-94 and 97-2000 was also my bf and best man in my wedding. We were always on the same page, even when we were arguing about it. Never was a question of where we wanted to go, but we'd argue (in a good way) till we were blue in the face about how to get there. It can be very hard to play with someone else when you've had that kind of chemistry. My current bass player is the one I started this current project with many years ago. The original drummer and him had been bf's since they were 6. Similar story, except his problem was booze. We had to give him the boot. The bass player has never been able to really adjust to a new drummer. He's also a "grass is always greener" kinda guy. Always complained about the drummer when he was with us, then when we got a new one, all he could do was complain about the new guy and talk about how great the previous guy was. Then when that guy moved on (babies and life caught up with him), he complained about the latest drummer and talked about how great the second guy was. Ended up running that drummer off, so we're in limbo again. (Not saying you're anything like that...). I came up a different way, doing jam sessions, open mics, playing with all kinds of diff people and acts. So I had to learn the hard way how to adapt and work with others. Was a rough ride in the beginning, but in the long run it made things easier. Not sure what I'm going to do about the current project. IDK if I want to find another drummer, my wife (singer) can't stand the bass player, and I'm just not sure if we can find someone that will get along with him. He's got a pretty abrasive personality, and not in a good way. (Think Yankee = good vs Bradpitted = bad). I can put up with him (most) of the time, but outside of the band I don't want to be around him. And I'm getting too old to keep starting over. At this point I think I'm just going to finish up what we have, put it out, the go do something else. Maybe just go be the guitarist in another band and let someone else do all the crap work for a change. I'm still friends the last two drummers, and both said they'd love to play with us, just not him. In fact, the whole reason I was downtown the other night when Raleigh caught fire was to see the last guy's new gig. Good Kyuss-style stoner rock band he's with now, so I'm happy for him. It gave me some mojo to get back in the studio and get to work too, which I've been sorely lacking lately. Plus I got to hang for a bit with Mike Dean, the bass player from CoC. Won't say we're bff's by any means, but we've bumped into each other several times over the years via music and also hockey (he used to play too). He's always been a really solid guy, super down-to earth, and really supports local music. The guy's done world tours opening for Metallica playing in front of HUGE, bigly crowds, but still just as approachable and down-to-earth as when I first saw CoC playing in some guys basement and they were nobodies. Hit me up with some songs whenever you want, no rush. I gotta get busy, gotta fix the pumps in my hot tub. Wife and I were beat last night, so we're celebrating St. Pat's tonight, and she wants to play. Now that's how to motivate me to knock out something on the honey-do list! Slainte mhaith!
I have listened to a lot over the years. Mostly rock and metal. I am totally from the old in that regard, but am up with modern bands as well. Here are some of my favorites: Rock: Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, Deep Purple, Dream Theater Metal: Old Metalllica, Opeth, Dillinger Escape Plan, Pantera, Maiden, Preist, Slayer and on and on Country: David Allan Coe, HWJ Jazz: all of it. No Top 40 garbage or Hip Hop But this has been my favorite of the last several years. The now defucnt Porcupine Tree. A long introduction, but a great song by one of the most under rated bands in history. Speaking of drummers: [video=youtube;W3lsqUqGTzM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3lsqUqGTzM[/video]
In My Time Of Dying [video=youtube;scpqae3P7Dg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqae3P7Dg&feature=youtu.be[/video]
