If you wanna play fast, check this out!!!

[kingbrutis]

Some of you might know the locust, but I'm sure most of you dont. Anyway, check out this clip of them live. Sometimes you cant see his hands, but he is doubling up with the guitarist. He his the fastest(very good also) bassest I have ever seen. If you look closely, he is wearing gloves. Get that. He plays a Dan Armstrong/ ampeg clear bass. If you think your fav punk bassist is fast and good, check this out. Click on the link, scroll down and click on number 9. 13 is also very good too. Just amazing. Later Joe

http://www.pheer.com/bvideo.php?bId=43

[James Hart]

meh... I want my 1:23 minutes back

sounded like locusts

[edit] but yeah, he's fast.... I downloaded another just out of morbid curiosity [/edit]

[Benjamin Strange]

Well, that totally sucked.

For the record, they were playing at roughly 125 bpm. Not exactly blistering.

[kingbrutis]

Originally Posted by James Hart

meh... I want my 1:23 minutes back

sounded like locusts

[edit] but yeah, he's fast.... I downloaded another just out of morbid curiosity [/edit]

I didn't say it was normal or the best music ever. They play a differnt style, no crappy 4/4 time stuff. Try and play that with your fingers. There is no way you can look at that and say the guy is slow or no good. I guess you could but, I think he is awesome. Later Joe

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by kingbrutis

I didn't say it was normal or the best music ever. They play a differnt style, no crappy 4/4 time stuff. Try and play that with your fingers. There is no way you can look at that and say the guy is slow or no good. I guess you could but, I think he is awesome. Later Joe

Different? I've seen shows of stuff like that since back in the late 80s. I agreed the guy was fast... but I heard no odd time stuff and don't throw the "pick" stuff at me... a few of my idols use picks regularly and I use them when I need that sound.

My beef is with the vocals.... I'd like to ring the neck of the first guy to try to imitate Cookie Monster on crystal Meth... it's an instant and total turn off for my ears. Put any one that actually sings in there and I'd listen to more... the dudes bass had a pretty cool tone from what I could make out of it.

[Tez]

Thats was the biggest load of crap I have ever been exposed to

[LoJoe]

I've heard those songs before! When my kids were 2 and 3 years old, they put a bunch of pots and pans upside down on the floor and started banging on them with wooden spoons while screaming at the top of their lungs. We should have copyrighted. I've been robbed!

[SlavaF]

LOL... it sounds like 4 upset infants having a temper tantrum.

[JMX]

DiPiazza is fast. This guy isn't (also, I hate bands that turn their backs on the audience).

[Osama_Spears]

hey! the Ottobar is right around where I live!

I hate loving the locusts...

thanks for sharing!

[Whafrodamus]

Musical instruments and lobotomies don't mix.

[kingbrutis]

Originally Posted by Osama_Spears

hey! the Ottobar is right around where I live!

I hate loving the locusts...

thanks for sharing!

I've been to the ottobar many times. I live in Phoenix now and the scene is very weak. Thats the only thing I miss about DC and Baltimore. I met my wife at Fletchers, watching sick of it all. If you look at the jesus eater video on pheer, I am in it constantly dancing. They opened for darkest hour that night. Anyway, like the locust or not, they are talented musicians. They opened for dillinger escape plan here recently. They cant match the intensity of dillinger, but they get much props. They have toured all over the world, japan, europe, ect... You guys should check out thier song titles. Pretty unique. Later Joe

[geoffkhan]

Originally Posted by kingbrutis

Some of you might know the locust, but I'm sure most of you dont. Anyway, check out this clip of them live. Sometimes you cant see his hands, but he is doubling up with the guitarist. He his the fastest(very good also) bassest I have ever seen. If you look closely, he is wearing gloves. Get that. He plays a Dan Armstrong/ ampeg clear bass. If you think your fav punk bassist is fast and good, check this out. Click on the link, scroll down and click on number 9. 13 is also very good too. Just amazing. Later Joe

http://www.pheer.com/bvideo.php?bId=43

Hmmm... not quite to my musical tastes.

That's gotta be pretty killer having to wear those things over their heads like that. I mean, I'm sure although the fabric that the mask things are made of are light and allow breathing, it just soaks up the sweat and lets it sit against your skin. They all probably have bad acne problems from that.

As for the speed of the bassist, it looks like he's just playing anything, just to be fast, and play those hits in unison. I mean, come on, you can see his hand sliding up and down the fretboard, I'm sure it's not going to make too much of a difference since everything is so distortion-laden.

Watching the audience is kinda funny, too, cause there's no real definite beat, so they just sort of shake their heads around and maybe flail their arms around and stuff.

Their energy is very good, though!

[ChiliPepper]

crap...

[NJL]

that sucked major ass

[bassicinstinct]

A waste of:

1. Skin

2. Oxygen

3. My time

Not necessarily in that order

[screwball]

that was pretty poor

[kingbrutis]

Talk about close minded bassists. The guy can play. Later Joe

[thunderthief_29]

That was quite possibly the worst thing I have heard/seen.

[GobyWan]

That was the worst thing in the whole world.

The bassist can pick fast, and he can move his left hand fast, but he's not doing those things in sync (or even on the same string! He's just strumming really fast across all the strings) and his left hand is moving almost entirely randomly. Those are not talented musicians (or if they are, they don't care and won't show it.)

Edit: He is NOT doubling up with the guitarist, they're both playing randomly. Unless you count "spazzing out with the left hand and strumming all your strings frantically with the right hand" as playing in unison, that is.