This is kind of cheating, but I had this conversation with my friend Jonah the other day about Zakk Wylde. (I think that's how you spell it).
He was saying that he loved him because he's a really good guitarist, and that's fair.
Buttttt.... I disagree. I don't like Zakk that much. I think that he's a shredder with some ideas that I don't really care for.
It's not really fair, but the main reason I don't like him that much is because of Rhandy Rhoades. That being that he's the best guitarist that Ozzy ever had. On top of being the amazing metal player he was, he was classically trained, and he was barely 20-21 when he died.
Rhandy is a boss. No one can compete with him. It doesn't really help that Ozzy hasn't done much better in his music without him. Don't get me wrong, he's made great stuff without him, but it's not nearly on par. You can't sit there and tell me No More Tears is even close in potential to Mr. Crowley. You can't. causeitcan'thappenbro
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Having us play DJ
I love listening to new things, and I love other people showing me things, especially since a lot of times if I'm looking for new things, I don't really know where to start.
Saying that, did I find anything that I liked from last class that was shown?
No.
I'm glad I listened to it, but..no. I found the songs to be WAY too long. Length isn't even really an issue with me. The problem is moreso being that there's nothing really innovative about it on top of it being really long.
I personally don't wanna listen to the same piano progression for 7 minutes straight with dumbass lyrics over it. That's kind of retarded.
If you're gonna make a long song, keep it interesting. How do you keep things interesting? Have more than one part? How many parts exactly? The more the better, honestly.
Saying that, did I find anything that I liked from last class that was shown?
No.
I'm glad I listened to it, but..no. I found the songs to be WAY too long. Length isn't even really an issue with me. The problem is moreso being that there's nothing really innovative about it on top of it being really long.
I personally don't wanna listen to the same piano progression for 7 minutes straight with dumbass lyrics over it. That's kind of retarded.
If you're gonna make a long song, keep it interesting. How do you keep things interesting? Have more than one part? How many parts exactly? The more the better, honestly.
Morphine Cure For Pain
My drummer in my prog band was nice enough to burn me a couple albums from the band Morphine since I told him that I was introduced to them and I was impressed. I listened to their second album, Cure For Pain, and I was not disappointed.
What I really like about Morphine is that it's a 3 piece consisting of a slide bass player with 2 strings, a saxophone player, and a drummer. It's an odd line-up, but the really odd thing about that band is just that they sound so full, and surprisingly a little heavy. They're all great at what they do, and the bass player/singer really impresses me with his playing style, and his really neat sounding baritone voice. It just sounds really tight.
That's kind of the key word with this band. Tight. Everything just flows together really well, and I think that's why they sound so full.
What I really like about Morphine is that it's a 3 piece consisting of a slide bass player with 2 strings, a saxophone player, and a drummer. It's an odd line-up, but the really odd thing about that band is just that they sound so full, and surprisingly a little heavy. They're all great at what they do, and the bass player/singer really impresses me with his playing style, and his really neat sounding baritone voice. It just sounds really tight.
That's kind of the key word with this band. Tight. Everything just flows together really well, and I think that's why they sound so full.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
School of Rock Metallica show
This show went really well. It wasn't nearly as good as I wanted it to be, but it went pretty well.
But what was wrong? It had a ton of energy, a lot of people went to it, and it's me playing Metallica.
Yes, all of those are true, but we also had to deal with a bunch of dumb stuff that shouldn't have happened.
We played Sad But True, and that song is in D. Whenever the SoR has a song that in a tuning like that, the director usually just says, "F*ck it" and has the kids play it in standard. I convinced our director to play it in D, because it would otherwise just kill whoever was going to be the singer (which originally was me, actually)
But, showday comes, and at least two of the kids are tuned wrong. One kid is tuned in C for some bizarre reason that I still don't understand, and another was tuned to standard because he wasn't listening because he's dumb. I'm not happy with that kid. He'd been rehearsing that song for months, and he didn't tune down. That leads me to believe that people had been holding his hand and doing stuff for him such as guitar maintenance, which includes tuning for me. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. FAILURE. GET OUT.
But I can't tell him that, because he's already on stage looking like a moron. So, our director unplugged him, and took his guitar to tune it. On top of that, the kid with tuned to C was never fixed, and the song never ended properly. It just kind of ended right before the bridge where the vocals echo "I'm your dream, I'm your eyes, I'm your pain." btdubs, even when they did play that part right, they didn't do the callback right. THENOTESAREN'TTHESAMENOTESFORTHECALLBACKWHATISWRONGWITHYOUKOFDBMDUBFMDFMBZ
I was upset. So what else went wrong?
Well, for the second showing, the tuning wasn't an issue, and that song actually didn't sound terrible, but one of the main drummers of the show got sick, and we had to scramble to fill in his parts. That wasn't fun. And most of the songs that people covered for him on sounded not very good. On top of that, the sick drummer is one of my best friends when it comes to playing music. I love playing with him more than I love playing with most people. We just kinda connect, you know?
I was upset. But hey...Master Of Puppets was really good... and so was Creeping Death.
...Master didn't make Best of Season, though.
...that upset me.
But what was wrong? It had a ton of energy, a lot of people went to it, and it's me playing Metallica.
Yes, all of those are true, but we also had to deal with a bunch of dumb stuff that shouldn't have happened.
We played Sad But True, and that song is in D. Whenever the SoR has a song that in a tuning like that, the director usually just says, "F*ck it" and has the kids play it in standard. I convinced our director to play it in D, because it would otherwise just kill whoever was going to be the singer (which originally was me, actually)
But, showday comes, and at least two of the kids are tuned wrong. One kid is tuned in C for some bizarre reason that I still don't understand, and another was tuned to standard because he wasn't listening because he's dumb. I'm not happy with that kid. He'd been rehearsing that song for months, and he didn't tune down. That leads me to believe that people had been holding his hand and doing stuff for him such as guitar maintenance, which includes tuning for me. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. FAILURE. GET OUT.
But I can't tell him that, because he's already on stage looking like a moron. So, our director unplugged him, and took his guitar to tune it. On top of that, the kid with tuned to C was never fixed, and the song never ended properly. It just kind of ended right before the bridge where the vocals echo "I'm your dream, I'm your eyes, I'm your pain." btdubs, even when they did play that part right, they didn't do the callback right. THENOTESAREN'TTHESAMENOTESFORTHECALLBACKWHATISWRONGWITHYOUKOFDBMDUBFMDFMBZ
I was upset. So what else went wrong?
Well, for the second showing, the tuning wasn't an issue, and that song actually didn't sound terrible, but one of the main drummers of the show got sick, and we had to scramble to fill in his parts. That wasn't fun. And most of the songs that people covered for him on sounded not very good. On top of that, the sick drummer is one of my best friends when it comes to playing music. I love playing with him more than I love playing with most people. We just kinda connect, you know?
I was upset. But hey...Master Of Puppets was really good... and so was Creeping Death.
...Master didn't make Best of Season, though.
...that upset me.
Killing is my Business... And Business is Good!
Megadeth's first album is probably one of the most insane yet at the same time most well written metal albums in the history of all the bands I can think of at this moment. Is it my favorite album from them? No. Rust in Peace is...because of other reasons.
BUT, that album is also totally different. This is album is batsh*t crazy. You take one good listen to the first song, Last Rites/Loved to Deth, and the first thing you'll probably think of is, "Cocaine? Like... A LOT of cocaine?" And, you'd be right. At this point in history, the goal of Megadeth was to be the most aggressive, most fastest, and most heaviest band in the history of the universe... and with this album, they kinda succeeded.
Of course not every album is perfect, especially when it comes to me, so what's wrong with it?
Well. First off, the original album cover is a joke. The whole concept was supposed to be of Vic Rattlehead (the mascot of the band who appears on almost every single album cover) but what we ended up getting was a cheap plastic skull with some tinfoil on it with a knife in the background, and everything is covered in ketchup in some really bad lighting. How they messed it up that bad, I dunno. If I had to guess, it was because they only had $8,000 to record and produce the album, and half of that money ended up being spent on drugs, alcohol, and food. After doing that, they ended up being forced to fire their original producer and to produce it themselves, so of course, nothing is really going as planned. I've heard rumors that they had artwork from Dave Mustaine, but lost it...and I just find that really hard to believe.
Secondly...THEY HAD TO PRODUCE IT THEMSELVES.
They were high off of everything you could get high off of literally every single day for the first 3 albums. I'm kind of amazed that it doesn't sound any worse.
Like, if you're the kind of person to throw on a Venom record because you wanna break shit and have a good time, this album is for you. And even if you're not that kind of dude, and you just wanna appreciate or at least see how insane Megadeth was back in the day, also check it out. Minus the demos on the rereleased versions of this album, it clocks in at a length of 31:10, which for a thrash metal album, is perfect.
Go listennnn. Give them your moniess. Or just go steal it orsomethinIguess.
BUT, that album is also totally different. This is album is batsh*t crazy. You take one good listen to the first song, Last Rites/Loved to Deth, and the first thing you'll probably think of is, "Cocaine? Like... A LOT of cocaine?" And, you'd be right. At this point in history, the goal of Megadeth was to be the most aggressive, most fastest, and most heaviest band in the history of the universe... and with this album, they kinda succeeded.
Of course not every album is perfect, especially when it comes to me, so what's wrong with it?
Well. First off, the original album cover is a joke. The whole concept was supposed to be of Vic Rattlehead (the mascot of the band who appears on almost every single album cover) but what we ended up getting was a cheap plastic skull with some tinfoil on it with a knife in the background, and everything is covered in ketchup in some really bad lighting. How they messed it up that bad, I dunno. If I had to guess, it was because they only had $8,000 to record and produce the album, and half of that money ended up being spent on drugs, alcohol, and food. After doing that, they ended up being forced to fire their original producer and to produce it themselves, so of course, nothing is really going as planned. I've heard rumors that they had artwork from Dave Mustaine, but lost it...and I just find that really hard to believe.
Secondly...THEY HAD TO PRODUCE IT THEMSELVES.
They were high off of everything you could get high off of literally every single day for the first 3 albums. I'm kind of amazed that it doesn't sound any worse.
Like, if you're the kind of person to throw on a Venom record because you wanna break shit and have a good time, this album is for you. And even if you're not that kind of dude, and you just wanna appreciate or at least see how insane Megadeth was back in the day, also check it out. Minus the demos on the rereleased versions of this album, it clocks in at a length of 31:10, which for a thrash metal album, is perfect.
Go listennnn. Give them your moniess. Or just go steal it orsomethinIguess.
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