Here's my more obscure doomy discovery of recent times... one of them 9+ minute songs, very much the opposite of die Spitz in terms of being absolutely not punk at all.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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I was just listening to that Smote album yesterday on my way to pick up that GK amp I was asking about a page back or so. I was asking if it would be good for Stoner rock. This thing crushes! I'm gonna run it along with 2x15 cab also. I haven't hooked that up yet , but I have high hopes. I'm confident it will be good.
Nice score! GK's are good for everything, the modern voicing cuts through very nicely in all styles and they have huge lows. I think the bassist for Karma to Burn was using them when I played a show as local support opening for them. Great live band. Always wanted to get one myself, sadly now that I have the money to afford the gear I always wanted I don't play out anymore so I never buy anything.
GK is always good for anything. It can do whatever any bassist would need. Especially if you use dirt pedals. Enjoy it, and I need to play my GKs more often, that's for sure!
Hello fellow doomers
I have a totally unoriginal question for y'all
My bass currently has Active EMG TBDC pickups. 18v
I'd want to convert to passive
I've read a ton but still unsure
Has anyone have experience with these pickups?
Avedissian Tbird
Lollar Tbird
Dunable D-Birds
I want pickups that can take a lot of fuzz and distortion
The EMGs push the effects too much I feel
I've googled and searched here but saw nothing 'Doom - Post Metal' specific
The tone and sound I love is Bongipper & Russian Circles
I have a totally unoriginal question for y'all
My bass currently has Active EMG TBDC pickups. 18v
I'd want to convert to passive
I've read a ton but still unsure
Has anyone have experience with these pickups?
Avedissian Tbird
Lollar Tbird
Dunable D-Birds
I want pickups that can take a lot of fuzz and distortion
The EMGs push the effects too much I feel
I've googled and searched here but saw nothing 'Doom - Post Metal' specific
The tone and sound I love is Bongipper & Russian Circles
It's a custom bass
Thanks for the insight!
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Thunderbucker Ranch
Edit: apparently that guy closed shop, never mind
(sees his F-bird go up in value $$$ I'm rich heeheeheeee)
Edit: apparently that guy closed shop, never mind
(sees his F-bird go up in value $$$ I'm rich heeheeheeee)
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That's a shame, they were pretty much universally acclaimed from everyone I ever heard use them. It's gotta be challenging to run such a niche business in this day and age generally though, but especially post retirement age.
Well, now that the name is no longer in use, time to start selling some ranch dressing...
Given the name, I'm imagining some sort of spicy ranch?
COVID had me down and out all weekend, so I spent it reading and watching movies that I have wanted to catch up on. Yesterday was the animated LOTR flick from last year. It was okay, nothing spectacular and I can see the valid criticism about lack of character development etc. Still, enjoyable enough. Today will hopefully be Braveheart, which I've somehow never seen. Maybe also Troy, again one I've never seen. Trying to make all this down time at least somewhat productive.
Braveheart is absolutely awful history, but a really good film. If you know anything about the historical period/figures, it might annoy you too much to watch. Lol. Otherwise its a great epic.
We'll see then. Most of what I've read the past year and a half has been medieval history, but nothing particularly focused on Scotland. Honestly, I typically google things as I watch historic films, and it seems much of my familiarity might come from the band Gravedigger, who have many albums about Scottish and English history. I'm familiar with the English side of things in a general sense, but much of what I've read has involved the Vikings and British history, and more often from the Viking perspective, and I recall Edward the Longshanks being mentioned here and there. Gravedigger made the connection for me that their song "Hammer Of The Scots" was the same person!
Just finished Braveheart, and the entire time I felt like it was Scottish propaganda. Not that I mean that in a bad way, but the exploits are so over the top, every battle is the most dramatic thing possible, and the "bad guys" are so one-dimensional. There's really NO character development or anything except for Robert The Bruce, who is mostly a pawn of sorts throughout the majority of the film. I distinctly remember thinking that it felt like one of the old pieces of incredibly biased medieval literature I've read that so obviously distorts the facts. Then - as I am wont to do - I googled a bit more. Braveheart IS propaganda! It's based off of an epic poem written nearly two hundred years after the fact as a patriotic Scottish saga, and the poem was literally used as anti-English propaganda during a period where Scotland and England were thinking of reconciling their differences.
Despite that, I felt it an enjoyable film, a bit long considering the fact that each battle follows the exact same basic formula, and that so much of it is melodramatic scenery etc. But the fact that it presents itself as history, while really being a sort of historical fantasy is somewhat bothersome. I'm sure as far as the text it's based off of goes, it's a wonderful adaptation, which makes the overblown battles and melodrama much more likely, as I've read PLENTY of that in similar texts. But it's clearly NOT history, as even with my limited understanding of Scottish history I picked up on relatively quickly. They basically blended the Scots with their descendants from a few hundred years later combined with the ancient Picts. Anyway, solid film, but I'm not sure I understood the enduring appreciation for this overall.
We'll see if I can get to Troy later today. At least I already know that's based on the Iliad, with its own historical quirks!
Best part was the Battle of Stirling Bridge, which featured no bridge. Lol. Especially considering it was the Scot's whole strategy - they were able to lure the larger English force across the narrow bridge where their superior numbers could not be brought to bear against the smaller Scottish force.
And there's the Scots in tartan kilts 400-500 years early and in Pictish woad warpaint 500 years too late.
It goes on and on. As an epic fairytale of "freedom" vs tyranny it's a fun epic movie at least.
Pretty much my take in the end as well. I knew enough history to know that pretty much NONE of the depictions of anything were accurate, with the possible exception of Robert The Bruce's shifting alliances. And even then, I can't say with any authority that those were depicted correctly, either, just that I'm sure he switched alliances a few times. Like MANY rulers of the time.
Now I'm researching the events a bit more in-depth - the whole princess love story thing seemed so off in the film. Apparently she was 9 and not even in the same country when Wallace was killed. So that part definitely never happened... And I knew the woad (face paint) was Pictish, and far too late for the time period. And the weapons were way off. Wasn't sure about the kilts, but apparently off too. This begs the question - I wonder what my friend with Scottish ancestry thinks of this film?
I have Scottish ancestry. I saw it as a kid. Before I knew much about the history. So I have a soft spot for the movie even if it's history sucks eggs. Mel Gibson can make a moving film but he's, uh, got some baggage these days for sure.
Still better history than his even more propagandistic "The Patriot" (odd for this 'America F yeah' patriotism/jingoism coming from an Aussie, but woof, that movie has got real problems )
