IIIrd Gatekeeper rules! Most of their stuff from the 90's is great. From the newer stuff, the only two I liked was Exquisite Fvcking Boredom and Orange Canyon Mind, although it was very different from all the others.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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IIIrd Gatekeeper rules! Most of their stuff from the 90's is great. From the newer stuff, the only two I liked was Exquisite Fvcking Boredom and Orange Canyon Mind, although it was very different from all the others.
So nice to take your car to a garage and not get screwed. No upcharge on the price of the part and only one hour labor to do the starter on my Tracker which is in a miserable spot to get to on my car.
I bring you the history of our people.
I know that I am missing at least one parallel thread if not two or more. If you can find them, please let me know and I will add the links.
Pelham and Sam..... YOURE FIRED!
(i know I went out on a limb with Joy Division.... but we cant let you stink up the place with no dookie!)
Ps.. I WANT A CYCLOPS EMOJI!
I was thinking back to when it came out, for me b/w 5th & 6th grades. I didn't even own a copy, I borrowed it from a pal. Prior to that I'd taped the singles off the radio.
The dudes at CME have the coolest jobs[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
I was chuckling a little under my breath, but I laughed out loud at the relic guitar case thing with the dog.
Nice, I think the GLs will be sweet, I think I'm just gonna en up with the Tung-Sol RIs for convinences sake. As far as another head to run as the dirty side to compliment the Sunn (I assume, maybe you're driving the Sunn that far and need a cleaner amp?), maybe like a Bugera 1960 or some sort of Marshall RI (I bet a 50w 1987X would work pretty well as the crunch side).
If I had an unlimited cash flow, I would love to get either a Metropolous 45/100 or Germino Monterey or Fillmore run into 2 4x12s (both straight front, with the bottom being one of those awesome extra tall 60s 4x12s, what I think Marshall reissued as the Jimi cab or something). That would be dirty, Noel Redding style.
I had one, just sold it. Stacks pretty well, lots of flexibility with the 3-band EQ and voice control. You can set it clean and run dirt into it, then use the EQ + Voice control to further tweak. It sounds really good, kind of hard to go wrong for the price.
I'm not a Green Day hater, but when I first heard them (their early stuff) I remember thinking "Well, I've already got The Buzzcocks..."
Not deliberately trying to be a douche.
Yeah, I have GOT to order me up a copy of this, along with some Monobrow.
Who else on here has releases I should check out? I know one Doom Poster has a project called "Hex Volt" (which I contend is a kickass name) but they may only be a live entity.
Joy Division are one of those bands that were HUGE to me back in the early 80s. I learned every bassline...
But they are also one of the bands from that era that doesn't hold up for me that well. I still admire them a great deal, and appreciate/understand what they did for certain scenes and genres of music, indie releases, etc. but while I do get in a "Trip Down Memory Lane" mood now and then, and dig in to a lot of stuff that I played to death decades past, Joy Division just comes off as too gloomy and pretentious for me to listen for long.
I'm the same way with a lot of old hardcore. I was a punk early on, and I still dig a lot of the old stuff, but I find that most punk/HC I can still pull out and get into today is the less overtly political stuff...bands with maybe more of a sense of humor or more diversity in their approach than simple LOUDFASTRULES. There was a period around '82-'85 when a lot of punk stuff got mixed with LSD-inspired psych weirdness. Love a lot of that sorta thing...
Hey kids, I have an actual gear question!
On my ancient Peavey Combo 300, I'm getting fart-out from the BW 15". I'm running a SABDDI into the power amp in, with controls on the SA being in the "SVT" position. (Pretty much everything at noon, except the Level is maybe at 10-11 o'clock as a volume control). Would there be a solid upgrade to the speaker I might look at, or any other tweak you may know about? since this is a not-often used rig, there's no hurry in responding.
On my ancient Peavey Combo 300, I'm getting fart-out from the BW 15". I'm running a SABDDI into the power amp in, with controls on the SA being in the "SVT" position. (Pretty much everything at noon, except the Level is maybe at 10-11 o'clock as a volume control). Would there be a solid upgrade to the speaker I might look at, or any other tweak you may know about? since this is a not-often used rig, there's no hurry in responding.
Hmmm....maybe a little Husker Du "Zen Arcade"?
Oh hell, man. Dunno how old you are, but BOTH "Zen Arcade" and Minutmen's "Double Nickels On The Dime" came out the Summer of '84, about two months before I turned 16.
I was already into both bands and I begged my mom to take me to Starship Records in Tulsa (cool old shop--one blue house with yellow trim that was a head shop, one yellow house with blue trim next door that was a record store) to pick up both double albums. I guess I had my driving permit but still had to have an adult driver in the car with me or something...
Anyways, I recall it was raining like hell. My mom waited in the car while I popped in, grabbed both double albums and, for good measure, I also picked up "My War" by Black Flag which I had a taped copy of but wanted on vinyl. What a haul.
I kinda feel bad for younger music fans who maybe haven't had the same experience of hearing about music by word of mouth or xeroxed old ragazines, finding them in a record store stacks, getting them home...the big artwork, the smell of new vinyl...it's cool that today you can pull up just about anything--no matter how obscure--on a music blog or YouTube or any other number of methods, but I think some little pleasures got lost too.
I haven't spun Zen Arcade in ages. That's hitting the TT tonight. Spun Dookie at work this a.m., nostalgia city.
