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S/D-85: Tasty clippings from Corey's Box

$1900...

Laughable.

That price is mostly branding/marketing and cashing in on the hype of a new Orange bass product. No dice for this fanboy.

So does Kuma's have a Bongripper burger yet? If not, then what the hell are they waiting for?

I checked out Kuma's. It was solid but not spectacular. I think I had a Slayer? The Mrs. had the Minotaur. The special that day was Sleep. The band names for their burgers is cool, but, again, not as good as I thought it'd be for the prices.
 
I love one of these after a long night of drinking

The Saint Mulligan

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1/4 lb burger, 1/4lb corned beef, cheddar and swiss topped with a 1/2 lb of fries, coleslaw, spicy brown mustard, and
bbq sauce.

Fat kid delight.

Damn those fries look perfect too!!! I can't wait to go home, I slapped a deer butt roast in the slow cooker, with taco seasoning, Dale's sauce, and a can of beef broth, in the cooker yesterday around 6 pm, still rolling on low. Going to make some deer meat burritos tonight!!!
 
That price is mostly branding/marketing and cashing in on the hype of a new Orange bass product. No dice for this fanboy.



I checked out Kuma's. It was solid but not spectacular. I think I had a Slayer? The Mrs. had the Minotaur. The special that day was Sleep. The band names for their burgers is cool, but, again, not as good as I thought it'd be for the prices.

Tried to go there twice but both times it was packed solid with a line out the door so we went somewhere else.
 
Damn those fries look perfect too!!! I can't wait to go home, I slapped a deer butt roast in the slow cooker, with taco seasoning, Dale's sauce, and a can of beef broth, in the cooker yesterday around 6 pm, still rolling on low. Going to make some deer meat burritos tonight!!!

That place serves BBQ, Mexican, and traditional Polish food.

Happiest place on earth. :)
 
Rudy's here in Austin is really the only bbq I like. Every other sauce I ever had is to sweet. Rudy's is my sauce.
Farther north in the states the sweeter and no brisket. From my experience.

Rudy's!

I love one of these after a long night of drinking

The Saint Mulligan

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1/4 lb burger, 1/4lb corned beef, cheddar and swiss topped with a 1/2 lb of fries, coleslaw, spicy brown mustard, and
bbq sauce.

Fat kid delight.

If I had a fork I'd be down.

Probably 86 the cole slaw
 
Rudy's here in Austin is really the only bbq I like. Every other sauce I ever had is to sweet. Rudy's is my sauce.
Farther north in the states the sweeter and no brisket. From my experience.

There are some nice less sweet sauces in Memphis though there are some super sweet ones there as well. I never understood why that whole Kansas City super sweet style has become the norm. It is good on some things like chicken nuggest but on bbq I would prefer just about any other style of sauce: smokey, hot, vinegar, mustard. I haven't ever had that white mayonaise based Alabama sauce. Leave it up to Bama to make BBQ sauce out of mayo.
 
That place serves BBQ, Mexican, and traditional Polish food.

Happiest place on earth. :)

Damn Virginia sucks for food, not far enough south for good BBQ, and too far south for straight up fat bastard Yankee style cooking. Blue Crab which are good but damn only one local dish I can think of here, that's it. I haven't even found one soft ice cream stand here yet, and it is hot as hell in the summer, bunch of clowns I tell ya...
 
the first two tracks are much better than the second two IMO. reminds me a lot of cursed/converge in terms of tone and attack. the only thing missing for me is something to breakup the pounding, something more guitar noodly as sort of a break/bridge in those songs (thats what id do if they were my band). set that driving foundation, then take the song somewhere else with some interesting/dissonant guitar riffs (single note/lots of movement), maybe have the bass/drums still kinda thumping underneath. you also need some kick ass pissed off angry vocals over them to bring it all together.

those riffs are solid tho, throw some kurt ballou stuff in there and youve got something.

Thanks for the feedback. Everything is very rough sketch at this point, every one of those songs is something that was written and recorded in one or two sittings, pretty much a first draft demo. There are already some things I want to go back and make minor changes to or flesh out a bit. Breaking things up and layering guitar parts is something I've already been mulling over. They're written to be able to be played with one guitar, because instinct is to try to keep it to something I could do as a power trio. Given my experience in the past with bands, the fewer people necessary to make it a viable live band, the more likely it is to work and have less hangups.

I'm hoping to sort of go back and fine tune everything, once I have all the basic ingredients in place. Add more subtlety to the parts, go over the arrangements again and all that.


I just listened to all four tracks for the first time. I think they work just fine as a cohesive unit, the tones, tempo and riffs all seem like they came from the same band at the same time.

I'm hard pressed to pick a favorite or a weak spot, which is good. I really like all of the tracks, some of it reminds me of Doomriders, some of it Wolverine Blues-era Entombed. I'd definitely listen to this band.

That being said, there's a big missing piece that could have a huge impact on the final product and that's vocals. I kept hearing LG Petrov in my head singing over the track, so I guess that's the initial vibe I was getting, but I think a singer that could straddle the line between harsh screaming and melodic singing would really tie the whole project together. Again, Nate Newton of Doomriders/Converge comes to mind.

Musically the tracks didn't feel like a whole lot was missing. I think occasional double bass would be cool, I think there's a spot in the last track where it could be used to good effect. I liked the little bit of guitar harmonies/melodic lines that I heard in the first or second track. I think more of that, and/or a second guitar track playing weird noise/melodic stuff like Torche was doing for a while would add some interesting atmosphere.

There's a few parts with big, open chords. Those spots might be good places for effects and/or samples. I liked the use of feedback, reminded me of Cavity, which is always a plus.

Anyway, that's what I would do, it's easy to be an armchair composer, much more difficult to pull it off by yourself. So kudos to you, man. The tracks sound really killer and I think it's a really solid base for a first EP/demo type thing.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, the vocals are a huge missing piece. I've only just started thinking about what I might do for that. I could easily push everything in very different directions with some subtle changes, which is why I'm trying to decide whether to keep all the songs or just keep the first two and write more material around those. I'm doing a solo project because I've had so many super f*cked up issues with people holding up project that could get done so much easier/faster, but having no one else to bounce ideas off of or collaborate with makes it a little harder to be decisive and get things done on a deadline. No regular practice schedule and all that.