Stoner/Doom Bassist Thread Part 13: The Lost Thread

[Lazarus.Bird]

Well looks like we decided on 9 tracks for the full length, probably around 60 minutes, maybe a little longer than that. There's a good mix of hard hitting sludge riffs, psychedelic spacey stuff, down trodden doom riffs, high energy Torche-esque sounding stuff and even some face-melting death metal. I am really excited to start recording.

If I cared what critics might think, my only concern would be someone may think there is too much diversity to our style. But the songs were all written naturally, with an attempt to just be ourselves and work off our different influences. Overall everything has some signature attributes that Supervoid projects, including extreme dynamics, intricate melodic guitar work, and lots of riffs that make you nod your head. Oh yeah, and bass that is LOUD AS ****.

 

[Squanch72]

Well looks like we decided on 9 tracks for the full length, probably around 60 minutes, maybe a little longer than that. There's a good mix of hard hitting sludge riffs, psychedelic spacey stuff, down trodden doom riffs, high energy Torche-esque sounding stuff and even some face-melting death metal. I am really excited to start recording.

If I cared what critics might think, my only concern would be someone may think there is too much diversity to our style. But the songs were all written naturally, with an attempt to just be ourselves and work off our different influences. Overall everything has some signature attributes that Supervoid projects, including extreme dynamics, intricate melodic guitar work, and lots of riffs that make you nod your head. Oh yeah, and bass that is LOUD AS ****.

I love when a band is diverse, hard to get bored with them then. And you always find something new they are doing on a album over time. Different genre but that is why I love My Morning Jacket so much, from guitar heavy 70s style arena rock, to one guy singing over an omnichord, to funk, to 1920s country, to, to, to etc. Real music lovers want to be tested, challenged, tons of music I didn't love at first take, but had to grow in to, and when it hits you it is like how did I miss that

 

[MICKUSS]

I love when a band is diverse, hard to get bored with them then. And you always find something new they are doing on a album over time. Different genre but that is why I love My Morning Jacket so much, from guitar heavy 70s style arena rock, to one guy singing over an omnichord, to funk, to 1920s country, to, to, to etc. Real music lovers want to be tested, challenged, tons of music I didn't love at first take, but had to grow in to, and when it hits you it is like how did I miss that

Ok, I feel like MMJ are a band I need to check out finally. What album should I start with?

 

[twhitedc]

MMJ: Okanobos... It's live

 

[Korladis]

The Sound City 120 and 200 have a odd EQ originally in them where they sort of filtered out the main signal into 3 bands and fed the 3 band into their own gain stages and then summed the signals back together with each band having its own control. So it is a passive filter fed into a gain stage to make what you might see is an active filter. Generally people think they are very touchy and tend to have soo much range. Most guitarists are used to passive EQs as mentioned in the EQ thread so that kind of mod is normal. The 120s ran 6 EL34s and probably puts out like 150W. Not bass material unless u love it dirty and have some efficient cabs to handle it. The 200s ran 4 KT88s and probably are closer to bass duty but the amp has a similar preamp in it and probably gets dirty a bit 2

That actually sounds like a really interesting EQ setup, and maybe really useful for bass.

 

[Squanch72]

Ok, I feel like MMJ are a band I need to check out finally. What album should I start with?

The last two are probalby the best guitar oriented since they lost the original second guitarist and keyboardist, and picked up Carl Broemel on guitar who is just amazing although Jim James can play some awsome rock guitar. Their earlier albums I enjoy immensly but they really test you to follow them on their journey. I would say start with their last release, Circuital. But my favorite song by them is Phone Went West off an older album. It's a long some that builds and builds, they are great at that build to explosion sound. At work now but I will get you some stuff to check out. Definitely my favorite band and probably an acquired taste, but they are the band that can take me to magical place that many bands can, where you mentally blend in with the song kind of thing

 

[dunwichamps]

New headphones and acrylic drill bit day

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The active-ish EQ might be nicer on bass, Could be tailored for bass as well.

 

[Squanch72]

MMJ: Okanobos... It's live

Damn straight, awesome DVD too. How did I overlook that one. I am Jonesin to hear Jim James solo album too.

 

[Ron Now]

Laz, not giving a **** what critics think is the best way to make music.

As long as you're having fun and digging what you make, someone else out there will too.

 

[Squanch72]

Okonokos not Okonobos lol
Tom Blakenship (Tommy Two Tone) is a slick and tight bass player too, and uses the right bass for the right job too. They are all tone hounds, cool gear.

 

[JoeVictim]

I love when a band is diverse, hard to get bored with them then. And you always find something new they are doing on a album over time. Different genre but that is why I love My Morning Jacket so much, from guitar heavy 70s style arena rock, to one guy singing over an omnichord, to funk, to 1920s country, to, to, to etc. Real music lovers want to be tested, challenged, tons of music I didn't love at first take, but had to grow in to, and when it hits you it is like how did I miss that

Boris.

They wander seemlessly through different styles. And I love them for it.

 

[dcarwin]

You guys ever hear this before? Melvins covering Black Betty:

Had not seen/heard that before. Thanks!

 

[Squanch72]

I think why people say they are tired of the song on the radio because they play it too much. I think yeah that is part of it but I think another big part is it is too basic doesn't challenge you enough.

 

[Squanch72]

Boris.

They wander seemlessly through different styles. And I love them for it.

Damn I forgot about Boris, haven't spun them in a while, glad you mentioned them.

 

[Squanch72]

Yeah in the morning I was checking out Earth, and although it made me tired I was still impressed and it needs to be listened to at the right time.

 

[Lazarus.Bird]

Laz, not giving a **** what critics think is the best way to make music.

As long as you're having fun and digging what you make, someone else out there will too.

Yeah, we really do have fun. Ever watch that Scarrified video with Paul Gilbert and Marco Minneman in the studio? At the very end when they finish the song they have this holy **** I can't believe we just did that look on their faces. Practice is like that a lot of times

 

[Squanch72]

Yeah, we really do have fun. Ever watch that Scarrified video with Paul Gilbert and Marco Minneman in the studio? At the very end when they finish the song they have this holy **** I can't believe we just did that look on their faces. Practice is like that a lot of times

I saw Zappa Plays Zappa a few times, and I can't even imagine how difficult it is to play that music, and you see they had to concentrate hard, but every once in a while you would see the bass player or another player just smile this ecstatic ear to ear grin, like a first motorcycle ride look, so wild to see in person, us in the audience got off easy we just had to stand there and smile they had to make us smile

 

[dcarwin]

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Here are a few from hellfest. (one of the better live recordings I've found)

Agreed. I bumped into the Hellfest vids a while ago, sound and vid quality are great. Thanks for the list. This may be on your list already (haven't looked at all of them) but the Goatsnake hellfest youtube vid is a favorite of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzKh0MFpW8o

 

[dozicusmaximus]

Is it me or is this f-ing hilarious?


Probably because I know the feeling.

 

[Squanch72]

Agreed. I bumped into the Hellfest vids a while ago, sound and vid quality are great. Thanks for the list. This may be on your list already (haven't looked at all of them) but the Goatsnake hellfest youtube vid is a favorite of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzKh0MFpW8o

The Goatsnake bass player is rocking the Gibson Victory Artist in candy apple red I used to have. What a lead sled that was, nice to see someone rocking one though.