Nothing happens in a vacuum. Every genre owes something to the past. Has roots. And the roots has roots and so on. Love the roots of a thing
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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Hehehe. My favorite Flower Travellin' band record (and maybe my favorite record title) is From Pussys to Death in 10,000 Years of Freakout.
Yeh, that's
One heck of a title for sure. TheePope gives some good background material about the bootleg Invalid Link Removed
Amen dude, same here. I'm just starting to get stuff figured out and planned. I just gotta fully "get after it."
Sig it, I'm definitely a sucker for 60s-70s rock and psych. I can definitely see the path that could influence the heavy and slow.
I don't want to labour the point about 'roots' , but check out extended boogie jams and I challenge anyone not to feel the hypnotics. A lot of music has the reverse effect and makes you too alert. I've become quite drawn to Stoner stuff because of this hypnotic aspect. As an Aussie I'm quite partial to this one from Sunbury 73.
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These ladies from Austin, TX usually work in punk rock mode(I saw them open for Amyl and the Sniffers last fall), but this just dropped, and is so relentlessly heavy and, dare I say, doomy, that I just had to share..
Kate Holder rocks this little batbass…
Kate Holder rocks this little batbass…
Yeah…to cut down on gear changeover, she used the Sniffers’ bass player Gus Romer’s fridge, then he had his SVT head. The guitar girls had Fender combos, then Sniffers guitarist Declan Martens had two Marshall half stacks; it was at an outside venue, in the desert, in October, a bit nippy, and everything was in the PA, but it still wasn’t quite loud enough
It's common knowledge that 60 and 70's psychedelic music was influential in the birth of stoner rock. You'd have to say Strawberry Fields Forever is iconic of the devoloping psychedelia in the 60's.
And Bakery ( pre Jackie time though. They were laying down some heavy riffs)
- Here's an interesting cover performed in the early 70's on Australia's GTK by a Hungarian progessive rock outfit called Syrius. Syrius were one of the acts that performed at Myponga in South Australia in early 1971. The outdoor festival is notable for being the first performance of Black Sabbath in Australia. Apparently despite amp limitations they put on a great show. Anyhow, here's Syrius with the trippy SFF with the lead, Jackie Orszaczky on bass. Jackie ended up settling in Australia and joined Bakery. He had quite a role with numerous other well known bands and performers.
And Bakery ( pre Jackie time though. They were laying down some heavy riffs)
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There is so much untapped/unheard stuff from Australia. My LUGGY bandmate turned me on to The Masters Apprentices lately, good stuff.
Same bandmate made (perhaps the first) a totally AI generated stoner/psych/protometal/doom/whatever record. This sh1t is cool and also very fcking scary because it learns and learns and just gets better at it.
Same bandmate made (perhaps the first) a totally AI generated stoner/psych/protometal/doom/whatever record. This sh1t is cool and also very fcking scary because it learns and learns and just gets better at it.
Speaking of 60s/70s rock, I just got the Avalanche, with a passive bass and flatwounds you get a classic bass fuzz sound, heavy, kind of glitchy, but clear and no real loss of lowend.
Yeh great band was TMA. They made the transition to a harder edge quite succesfully.
Howz a bout this band for Aussie obscurity. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who knows of them. Anyhow this band, Shadowfax ( not to be confused with the U.S band) reportedly were a support act for Black Sabbath at Festival Hall in Melbourne in Nov 1974. So you know they were doing some good stuff. Not the greatest audio in this vid
Why am I posting this stuff? The roads lead to Stonerdom eventually he he
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I was partying with Dixie and the boys in Conway, Arkansas. Dixie was doing all his Dixie stuff and at one point during their show, he asked me if I wanted to sing one. I took one look at the lone, puke-covered mic, and politely declined.
That's amazing. A friend's band opened for them once. My friend brought a big bottle of Evan Williams for Dixie to sign. Dixie ended up CHUGGING a good bit of it. Dude is insane.
I probably (definitely) would have politely declined too. Lol
Just found Slower, a supergroup (Bob Balch, Laura Pleasants, etc.) doing slow Slayer covers. It rules.
I recently saw this band, Mother Iron Horse, open up for Mutoid Man. Both bands put on a great show and I got to chat with the folks in MIH for a bit at the merch table.
