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

#801
Sartori said:
I would quit the band on the spot, if a guitarist said that to me without it being an obvious joke.
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It's hard to be in your first band, I just told the guitarist he was wrong and an idiot and played my bass how I wanted. Luckily the drummer agreed with me. Lots of guitarists in heavy/extreme music have whack opinions about bassists; I've been kicked out of bands who felt they sounded better without a bass (black metal/punk, bleah), quit bands who got mad if i stopped doubling the guitar parts, told i wasn't allowed to play in a band if i didn't use a pick, etc. etc. I agree pretty much with Sartori, Death Metal and Black Metal will work just as well (if not better) with a good bass tone as with a bad one. It just takes more work.

That Kurt Ballou recording seminar sounds pretty exciting, where does one find that?
 
#802
cosmicsea said:
It's hard to be in your first band, I just told the guitarist he was wrong and an idiot and played my bass how I wanted. Luckily the drummer agreed with me. Lots of guitarists in heavy/extreme music have whack opinions about bassists; I've been kicked out of bands who felt they sounded better without a bass (black metal/punk, bleah), quit bands who got mad if i stopped doubling the guitar parts, told i wasn't allowed to play in a band if i didn't use a pick, etc. etc. I agree pretty much with Sartori, Death Metal and Black Metal will work just as well (if not better) with a good bass tone as with a bad one. It just takes more work.

That Kurt Ballou recording seminar sounds pretty exciting, where does one find that?
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It's on creativelive.com right now. They're streaming today's course on a loop until tomorrow. You can buy both days for $99 or for $79 while it's still streaming. It's not really an introductory course, but highly useful if you already have a working recording knowledge. A lot of the non super technical stuff would be useful for musicians to watch before recording.
 
#803
Lazarus.Bird said:
When I worked at Best Buy they made it clear it was very important to get as many people as possible to sign up for Kapersky Antivirus for the same reason. It was one if your sales numbers you had to try to keep up. I always felt pretty guilty about it and told people to make sure they call and cancel as soon as they get home.

It's similar to those "free" credit report sites. You have to call to cancel to prevent auto billing and they almost refuse to let you cancel unless you're firm.
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Yeah, i feel like i should have known better. I'm glad i noticed it, I'm sure a lot of people don't, and that's what the company is banking on. I have checks out that would have bounced had i not noticed.

When i told the guy i was canceling he immediately offered the same year of service for half price, which just exposed another layer of shadiness.
 
#804
cosmicsea said:
It's hard to be in your first band, I just told the guitarist he was wrong and an idiot and played my bass how I wanted. Luckily the drummer agreed with me. Lots of guitarists in heavy/extreme music have whack opinions about bassists; I've been kicked out of bands who felt they sounded better without a bass (black metal/punk, bleah), quit bands who got mad if i stopped doubling the guitar parts, told i wasn't allowed to play in a band if i didn't use a pick, etc. etc. I agree pretty much with Sartori, Death Metal and Black Metal will work just as well (if not better) with a good bass tone as with a bad one. It just takes more work.

That Kurt Ballou recording seminar sounds pretty exciting, where does one find that?
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My first band was in middle school... broke up due to everyone being kind of an idiot at that age. I've basically always played with a really aggressive sound, though.

I figure if the bass isn't supposed to be heard, what the hell am I there for?

I was actually really proud of a lot of my bass lines in my black metal band that I guess isn't active anymore. We usually wrote different lines for each guitar and bass.
 
#805
Corey Y said:
It's on creativelive.com right now. They're streaming today's course on a loop until tomorrow. You can buy both days for $99 or for $79 while it's still streaming. It's not really an introductory course, but highly useful if you already have a working recording knowledge. A lot of the non super technical stuff would be useful for musicians to watch before recording.
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Cool, i wonder if i can get my job to pay for it. Does he put much focus on gear or is it more about technique?
 
#808
I know zilch about recording, but I mentioned dead confederate here before, they aren't heavy but they played for a few years before recording, and when they recorded they recorded the entire album in a couple takes in a bunker covered in mics here in Austin where they recorded the original Texas chainsaw massacre noises. They album sounds amazing and beyond that when I saw them live in an semi outside venue they sounded dead on.

I think that is the most impressive thing to me, getting a sound you can get both in the studio and live that sounds consistently great.

Their lead guitarist had like a wall of 5-7 strats, he generally uses a slide for at least part of most songs so I guess he has a ton of tunings.
 
#819
Killer show last night, Roky and his band were awesome, it was about 3/4 Elevators stuff, with a few from The Evil One. Roky got lost a few times and missed some lyrics, but I don't care. If anyone gets a pass it's Roky Erickson. Really awesome set.

Black Angels were good, they had the best light show that I've seen in years, just on the edge of being too much to handle. Their set started to drag a little toward the end, a lot of their songs have the same tempo and drum beat. But it was fun nonetheless.

My ass is dragging today, but I kept the drinking to a minimum so it could be worse.
 
#820
Where do you gents find the listings to all these cool shows you catch? Is it certain clubs in your areas that have bands in the genre, are you looking at the band's actual websites, or is there a website that lists shows? I have only found one club in Richmond that seems caters to aleternative, punk, metal, and doom bands. Not sure where to look to find more shows to attend. I guess I will chew some of the GC and Sam Ash employees ears this Saturday and see if they know.
 

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