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12-05-2004, 10:53 AM
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This is one of the most interesting bands i've ever heard. just drums and bass, but you'll never miss the guitar. Personally, i think dfa79 put other minimalistic bands(white stripes) to shame. and altho the drum and bass band thing has been done before (lightning bolt) this is suprisingly different. i urge all of you to check these guys out sooner than later because eventually, they are going to creep into your playlist anyway.
if anyone has any opinions on these guys, post. i recommend sexy results, black history month, and blood on our hands.
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12-05-2004, 11:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Onatrio.Canada | | | They played here a while ago, opening for Billy Tallent. I didn't get to the show, but I heard mixed reviews from people that did. There were some that HATED DFA1779, but some loved them. It was split about 50-50. I've been meaning to check them out but haven't got around to it.
The bassist apparently plays a smokin Rickenbaker.
peace
johnny
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12-05-2004, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Peterborough Ont. | | | yea, their shows are mind blowing, they will play anywhere, as many times in a day as they can. i heard that they played a show at a bard, then drive to some kids ouse who won a contest and played in his living room, then drove to another show played that and then some guy invited them to play on his balcony but they couldnt get their gear up there.
i remember that tour where they opened for billy talent, metric opened too if im not mistaken.
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12-06-2004, 10:09 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | Their website is minimalist, but you can watch a clip and they have a streaming audio mix to crank... www.deathfromabove1979.com
Yeah, I like them. Then again, I love constant on-the-verge-of-feedback fuzzbass...so.....
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01-20-2005, 11:24 PM
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01-20-2005, 11:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | | I like them, they've got some great tunes. They're one of those bands though, that you wonder how much they have in them. Their album felt like such a final statement, It will be interesting to see where they go with their second release.
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01-20-2005, 11:54 PM
| | Radio Rock Leads To Sterility | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Halifax, NS, Canada | | Well technicaly "You are a woman..." is their second relese... They relesed an E.P. 2 years ago, and a single/e.p. a year ago...
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Originally Posted by Against Will I like them, they've got some great tunes. They're one of those bands though, that you wonder how much they have in them. Their album felt like such a final statement, It will be interesting to see where they go with their second release. |
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01-21-2005, 01:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | IMO...
Lightning Bolt seriously blows them away. |
01-21-2005, 07:08 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Tecx A+, A+!.. Hey, how sthe new album comming Ron?.. | It's done. We're just finalizing artwork, and it'll be pressed very soon, thankfully. Then it's the whole campaign / promo thing. Whee! |
01-21-2005, 08:09 AM
| | Radio Rock Leads To Sterility | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Halifax, NS, Canada | | Thats an unfair comparison, due to the fact they are very different bands... Aples and Oranges as it where, and a very little known fact - niether Jessie or Sebastion had ever heard Lightnig Bolt or the Ruins UNTIL they kept getting compared to them. Jess actualy listens to mostly hiphop... Funny eh?..
And why does no one ever mention The Ruins??? They invented the concept of bass and drum power duos!!! If you have not heard them, CHECK THEM OUT!!!
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Originally Posted by sean_seanson Lightning Bolt seriously blows them away. |
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01-21-2005, 05:01 PM
|  | Wanna buy some mandies, Bob? | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Longmont, Colorado | | | Better than I thought, though probably a bit more "muddy" than I like.
Sounds like a cross between the Mars Volta and....errrr.....some other stuff.
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01-21-2005, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Planet Boulder Better than I thought, though probably a bit more "muddy" than I like.
Sounds like a cross between the Mars Volta and....errrr.....some other stuff. | Really? I kind of thought of it as a mix between the Misfits and the Cure.
It is unfair to compare them to Lightning Bolt, it would be like comparing Silverchair to Cream: both are trios, both consist of bass, drum and guitar, but they have radically different sounds.
I'll have to check out the Ruins, thanks for the recommendation.
Another bass/drum duo worth checking out (who have toured with Lightning Bolt) is Japanther. I like to describe them as 'basement punk'; they're really lo-fi and fun to dance too. Chekacheckem!
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01-21-2005, 07:29 PM
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01-21-2005, 08:02 PM
| | Radio Rock Leads To Sterility | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Halifax, NS, Canada | | I do what I can... 
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Originally Posted by Against Will Really? I kind of thought of it as a mix between the Misfits and the Cure.
It is unfair to compare them to Lightning Bolt, it would be like comparing Silverchair to Cream: both are trios, both consist of bass, drum and guitar, but they have radically different sounds.
I'll have to check out the Ruins, thanks for the recommendation.
Another bass/drum duo worth checking out (who have toured with Lightning Bolt) is Japanther. I like to describe them as 'basement punk'; they're really lo-fi and fun to dance too. Chekacheckem! |
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