Graham

Watching a demo made me think the M900 v3 will essentially be this, with a power amp bolted on and a separate footswitch

I finally got round to listening to the full album, and it's fine.

A couple of decent songs, a bit boring in the middle, could do without the military fetishism, but overall pretty inoffensive. I might listen to it again, but it's not particularly likely 

On 09/09/2022 at 09:22, thodrik said:

I would offer the Lou Reed/Metallica Lulu collaboration with Metallica as a further bar.

Ian Astbury from The Cult loved it:
 

https://thequietus.com/articles/07865-loutallica-lulu-ian-astbury-the-cult

Frankly, there is more artistic beauty in Astbury's defence of the album than in the music itself. 

On The Cult, I actually think that Beyond Good and Evil is their best album. It was released on 2000 and they were kind of going for a harder edged sound to fit in with the nu-metal crowd. They then made a brilliant psychedelic/stoner rock album almost by accident. I still really like it. 

I love that Lulu exists, because I swear Lou Reed trolled Metallica into making it, convincing them it was a work of profound art, laughing his derrière off the whole way.

I will however, never subject myself to listening to it a second time.

The new Fallujah record that came out yesterday, some very tasty bass playing on this tech/death/prog album @odysseus you might like this, not sure how you feel about heavy vocals though?

https://open.spotify.com/track/0W5LVt1fLq1SdCrmj9S7EU?si=Ft2QX1XORt2qJCkBw6uQ8w&utm_source=copy-link

It's been a while since I looked at a bass and immediately wanted it, that's stunning! And you say there's a blue one as well?

Just now, Merton said:

Never played there before but it was great! Even with the pressure of the bass player dude standing right in front of me - I just concentrated on the lovely lady instead 😅

Was that a young(ish) lad who wanted to talk your ear off about Darkglass?

6 hours ago, Merton said:

Just back from a loud, rowdy pub gig looking after the bass seat for @Graham again.

Got to use my newly acquired Two10S (thanks again @RickW!) with the other already in my possession. Sounded marvellous!

Crowd were great (especially the lovely lady dancing right in front of me, ahem) and the dude who took this pic - a fellow bassist who was probably horrified at my sloppy playing 😀

Thanks, glad it went well 😀

It's always a fun venue there and good there was a decent view 😄

Nine Inch Nails

I think when I was younger I was like "urgh, synths" but finally gave The Downward Spiral a go a couple of years ago and was astonished at how good it is

I reckon if I'd heard them about the age of 20 they'd have become my favourite band.

Akercocke in September

Cave In in October

Damnation Festival in November

Rolo Tomassi in February

Echoing a couple of other people, the carpet covering on my EBS cabs, I'm not a fan in general as they seem to degrade quicker than other covering options, and even more so as a cat owner.

My main bass is an ash Lakland in natural finish, not a fan of natural finishes on light coloured woods, but I like everything else about it so live with it

30 minutes ago, Merton said:

Haha! I think you’re probably right 😁 Good fun gig though, thanks for letting me step in your shoes 😎

It is a very fun band, thanks for covering, I'm having to play fewer at the moment due to family commitments, so good to know there's good players filling in 😀

11 minutes ago, Merton said:

Two gigs this weekend.

Gig 1 - Lingfield Park for a school for epileptic kids. I was depping in the band and always enjoy their gigs because the singer messes around with the songs and structures so it keeps us on our toes 🤓

 

Gig 2 - tiny function room in a pub for a mate’s wife’s 60th. Completely makeshift band who’d never actually played together as a 5 piece before that evening. Drummer didn’t seem to have done a huge amount of homework (“What’s that song?”) but we had a giggle and on the whole scraped through without anything horrendous happening.

 

 

Nice to be back to a level of normality with these things. A quiet august will be followed by a pretty busy September I think so that’s nice.

Oh, you were depping for me on Friday night

it's less that Matt changes the song structures around, and more he's not always sure what they should be 😁

Nicholas Cage Fighter

https://open.spotify.com/album/7GzN1P1QFtMNIp3p6ZQEFe?si=xU5P7xE8RwGIgwR28kel2g&utm_source=copy-link

Put it on because of the name, but actually very good metallic hardcore

So there's another new track out, Nightcrawlers 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7E23y6lreAy6VWsxTnFx4s?si=IpLKtW75Q0a8upAB0DOw4A&utm_source=copy-link

This one seems like a waste of Ice T, and similarly how Carcass can sound like Jeff Walker reading from a medical text book, this sounds like Mega-Dave just reading from Janes Armaments; the military fetishism is a bit hard going

I'd have assumed that a management buy-out would be on the cards, but looking at the years service of the other folks listed in the statement, they're probably not too far from retirement too.

22 hours ago, bartelby said:

As a slight contrast to DLR. Now listening to Wormrot:

 

 

I really liked the new Wormrot, a bit of a departure in sound to their previous work but very good nonetheless.

Will be interested to see what their new vocalist brings when they find someone

Just now, mike257 said:

 

There's a hell of a lot of incidences of crucial bits of kit going missing or getting delayed on flights at the moment with the state of the airports at the mo, so wouldn't be at all surprised if that's had something to do with it!  One band recently had 14 items of their fly pack go missing at Heathrow, and a tech friend of mine has just flown to America with a touring party and none of the backline made it to the other end, nor did his personal luggage!

Yes, I hadn't considered that, quite likely the case

It's also quite possible it was the other way round and the headlining bassist was borrowing one from the support

Touché Amoré in Brighton last night, brilliantly fun gig, they're a superb live band and the frontman really knows how to work the audience.

It felt great to be at the front, in the pit and singing along, even if I did get told off by security for stage diving.

As an interesting aside for this forum, the bass player for the principal support band used not just the headliner's bass amp (which was a rental I think), but his bass as well which I don't think I've seen before

Metallica for the Shattered Justice tour would be the big one

Guy Pratt's chair for Pink Floyd's Pulse set too

Playing a tiny bar show with no barrier for The Dillinger Escape Plan would be astonishing

Akercocke playing The Goat Of Mendes in full at Damnation Festival last year would have been an amazing show to play too

Let's talk about this album art, as it's a real stinker.

It's almost as bad as the art from Dance Of Death. Not quite, but almost

Just bought a ticket to see Touché Amoré in Brighton next week, not seen them before so looking forward to it

New track from Megadeth out today, with Steve DiGiorgio on bass, I'm really liking this one

The artwork is god-awful, but the song's good

There's a channel I really enjoy called Lost In Vegas, where two hip-hop fans listen to and react to metal bands.

They seem like they're genuinely enjoying it (or not) and one of guys often has quite insightful comments about the lyrics, worth a look it you like that sort of thing

This is one of my favourite albums -  beautiful, instrumental, cinematic post-rock from Australia.

Each of the songs is inspired by a failed journey, which is a tribute to their singer who committed suicide between their debut and this record

They're playing at Damnation festival in November for their first show in the UK and I can't wait

Yesterday's holiday listening was

Frank Turner - Tapedeck Heart (acoustic punk)
Aara - Tirade II: Hemera (black metal)
Sisyphean - Colours Of Faith (black metal)
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum (post-hardcore/space-rock/grunge)

Don't worry folks, I'm back to work on Monday