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Weird obscure bands you like??
- Thread starter Cadillac_Mike
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Jandek is the correct answer. But I'm also a huge fan of Cormorant Tree Oh, who are both obscure and consistently weird.
Considerably less weird but still quite weird, and something I've mentioned on TB before because of the bassist's approach to ABG, is Psycho-Acoustic Goat.
I've covered a different G-Frenzy song, probably the second most obscure artist I've covered behind the not-so-weird Regan Brown... Anyhoo, this was a CD-R of relatively "normal" music on a New Zealand CD-R label in that there were somewhat recognizable songs, but produced... well, just click on the below. The opener was Lovecraftian hip-hop, the ending a wistful folk song, but sadly neither of those seems to have made it to Youtube.
And stretching the definition of "band"... this girl seems to have literally done this one song, under 500 YT views now, and... that's it, this might be her entire music career.
Considerably less weird but still quite weird, and something I've mentioned on TB before because of the bassist's approach to ABG, is Psycho-Acoustic Goat.
I've covered a different G-Frenzy song, probably the second most obscure artist I've covered behind the not-so-weird Regan Brown... Anyhoo, this was a CD-R of relatively "normal" music on a New Zealand CD-R label in that there were somewhat recognizable songs, but produced... well, just click on the below. The opener was Lovecraftian hip-hop, the ending a wistful folk song, but sadly neither of those seems to have made it to Youtube.
And stretching the definition of "band"... this girl seems to have literally done this one song, under 500 YT views now, and... that's it, this might be her entire music career.
I am indeed still on TB! Thanks for listening to us.
Nice!
Was "Winds..." recorded with that LB-100?
It sounds great, but not at all what I would associate with that bass - it almost sounds like two pickups, and the higher up the neck you go, it sounds like a sub-octave pedal has been mixed in.
No, it was recorded with my #10 semi-hollow bass I made in 2002, same one as the live video also linked in the original post. Two pickups, J-bass style (which I also made, but they aren't special in any sort of way). The one part of the song you're referring to does have an octave pedal. I found a picture of the recording setup, complete with my bread board amp driving the whole thing:
You are living my dream, Greg.
I'm a self-employed EE who's too busy serving clients to build all the stuff I've dreamed up in my head, and when I'm not working, I'm trying to make music and wishing I had time to build all that stuff I dreamed up...
Nice!
Wouldn't trust myself in that situation to not trip on a wire / pull the amp off the table (or more likely spill the contents of a sandwich into it).
Used to have a drummer who was always making things like amps, active pre-amps to go in guitars, and pedal power supplies.
The trouble was, most contraptions involved structural dependency on Lego, and mains transformers were almost always mounted in plastic margarine tubs.
Scary stuff.
Anyway, are there any recordings where you did use the LB-100? (I'm curious how it would sound in your context)
Cheers!
Not weird obscure to me but to most who didn't live in Long Island/ NYC in 70' and 80's
Sold out MSG for 3 nights straight and voted by Rolling Stone Magazine "World's Greatest Unknown Band"
Sold out MSG for 3 nights straight and voted by Rolling Stone Magazine "World's Greatest Unknown Band"
I am not familiar with most of their work, but back in the late 70s, I heard the title track from their RATCITY IN BLUE album (1976) and was knocked out by it. To my ears & taste, it's still one of the most impressive recordings I have heard by a band featuring two lead guitarists, with complex harmony lines in a song that shifts gears several times while remaining very much in the rock genre (though clearly drawing a bit on some jazz chops) rather than falling into "prog" clichés." Nice bass parts, too!
Still have several Good Rats albums. Got to see then a few times.
