We'll start with a moment of intellect from South Park:
After feeling enlightened I'd like to share my favorite non-metal video:
I can't find my source right now, but I remember reading somewhere that Kanye West was the original writer for that song, but he passed it on to Trey Parker when his label claimed it was too short.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Cool Shit for the Day
Van Halen got their big start opening for a 70s metal band in LA named Sorcery
Sound Familiar?
Pretty innovative for the 70s eh?
Check Out Sorcery Here
Sound Familiar?
Pretty innovative for the 70s eh?
Check Out Sorcery Here
Weekly Shredder's Rig - George Lynch in Under Lock and Key
The tone!!!
Lynch's Rig Would Be As Follows:
From the producer himself:
"We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the MCI 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a UREI 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there."
Assuming certain gaps in this explanation, let's break it down how we would normally:
4 Heads: 2 Marshalls and 2 Laneys for different sections of the EQ
I assume the "Plexi" head was his famed Modified Plexi.
Cabs: I assume Genz-Benz, correct me if I'm wrong
Boss Chorus Pedal
UREI 530 EQ Post Mic
and...FOSTEK 4 TRACK OVERDRIVEN!!! I think this may be bullshit...can't confirm it though.
It's also commonly known that Lynch would use an Ibanez Tube Screamer to push the preamp of his Marshall for many leads.
Lynch's Rig Would Be As Follows:
From the producer himself:
"We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the MCI 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a UREI 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there."
Assuming certain gaps in this explanation, let's break it down how we would normally:
4 Heads: 2 Marshalls and 2 Laneys for different sections of the EQ
I assume the "Plexi" head was his famed Modified Plexi.
Cabs: I assume Genz-Benz, correct me if I'm wrong
Boss Chorus Pedal
UREI 530 EQ Post Mic
and...FOSTEK 4 TRACK OVERDRIVEN!!! I think this may be bullshit...can't confirm it though.
It's also commonly known that Lynch would use an Ibanez Tube Screamer to push the preamp of his Marshall for many leads.
Weekly Writer's Pick - Dokken
My pick of the week this week would have to be:
Dokken's Under Lock and Key
Lynch sounds and plays amazing. Vocals are catchy. Riffs are clever and good. Lynch tone = Amazing!
I've been listening to this CD for about a year now and it still hasn't gotten old.
Under Lock and Key
Dokken's Under Lock and Key
Lynch sounds and plays amazing. Vocals are catchy. Riffs are clever and good. Lynch tone = Amazing!
I've been listening to this CD for about a year now and it still hasn't gotten old.
Under Lock and Key
The Best Metal of the 80s and The Best Metal of Today Competition
We all see these dumbass lists posted by big magazines with authors that seemingly know nothing at all about what they're talking about...so why not have a user related vote based upon the comments of our readers? We'll post 365 different bands for each category in a year, which should cover most bases for consideration.
If you like the band we post is the best so far of the year, simply comment: THEY ROCK HARD \m/
Limit yourself to one vote per band please, or we'll delete it. It helps alleviate mistakes in counting at the end of the year if you don't use all caps for the rest of your posts.
Rock On
We'll be listing the leader here after this week
Metal Band of the Day (modern) - Dirty Penny
Favorite Album - Take It Sleazy
Favorite Track - Midnight Ride
Key Member(s) - Rhythm Guitar Player
Cool Point - Despite not sounding good, they peaked at #38 in the classic rock billboard charts in 2008
Best Solo - Maybe Runnin' Wild, they could do with a real lead guitar player
Do They Do It Well? - Yes and No. Their New Album SUCKS, but their debut was a very cool Motley Crue rip-off with a slight Def Leppard influence. It seems like with the new one they caved into the dweeb criticism about sounding like Motley Crue and tried to stray away from the original sound. They ended up sounding like the Crues latest failure instead, with a more modern thick detuned sound and less catchy choruses.
Fashion (1 to 10) - 8, these guys know the fashion
Comments
Off of Take It Sleezey - I had to note that Black 'n' Blue SUCKS and Acoustic version of Sleeze Disease? Come on guys, what the fuck were you thinking? Harmonica, bad vocals, and a lead guitar player that has no idea what he's doing? If I didn't have so much hope for you, I would've laughed. The Acoustic version of Sleeze Disease...the non-acoustic version sucked enough, your singer is HORRIBLE and while obviously influenced by the Crue, can't do it quite as well...why the hell would you do an ACOUSTIC VERSION? You make your fans suffer through that shit twice? They're obviously very twisted...
The rest of the CD was boring with a couple cool parts. They would not have been notable in the 80s, but today they're amongst few that sound decent while doing it. Their singer could use some real voice lessons, they should seek a lead guitar player because their leads suck and aren't even remotely interesting, but their rhythms are good and tone is way better on their debut than newest CD.
The latest "Young and Reckless"...wow. You dropped the ball here guys. What the fuck were you thinking? The vocals were DRASTICALLY improved on this CD, but everything else was 10x worse. You were smart with the chorus in "If I Were You I'd Hate Me Too", it's catchy...but the guitars were AWFUL. Tone sucked, rhythms were uninventive and sounded like the same bullshit that's been around turning more douche bags in our (mine and Dirty Penny's) generation than any genre since the hippies. Tough out the critics guys, don't cave in. Oh and remember GET A LEAD GUITAR PLAYER, YOUR LEADS ARE HORRIBLE!!! You can't be an 80s style metal band with a bad lead guitar player.
Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Check Out Take It Sleezy Here
Favorite Track - Midnight Ride
Key Member(s) - Rhythm Guitar Player
Cool Point - Despite not sounding good, they peaked at #38 in the classic rock billboard charts in 2008
Best Solo - Maybe Runnin' Wild, they could do with a real lead guitar player
Do They Do It Well? - Yes and No. Their New Album SUCKS, but their debut was a very cool Motley Crue rip-off with a slight Def Leppard influence. It seems like with the new one they caved into the dweeb criticism about sounding like Motley Crue and tried to stray away from the original sound. They ended up sounding like the Crues latest failure instead, with a more modern thick detuned sound and less catchy choruses.
Fashion (1 to 10) - 8, these guys know the fashion
Comments
Off of Take It Sleezey - I had to note that Black 'n' Blue SUCKS and Acoustic version of Sleeze Disease? Come on guys, what the fuck were you thinking? Harmonica, bad vocals, and a lead guitar player that has no idea what he's doing? If I didn't have so much hope for you, I would've laughed. The Acoustic version of Sleeze Disease...the non-acoustic version sucked enough, your singer is HORRIBLE and while obviously influenced by the Crue, can't do it quite as well...why the hell would you do an ACOUSTIC VERSION? You make your fans suffer through that shit twice? They're obviously very twisted...
The rest of the CD was boring with a couple cool parts. They would not have been notable in the 80s, but today they're amongst few that sound decent while doing it. Their singer could use some real voice lessons, they should seek a lead guitar player because their leads suck and aren't even remotely interesting, but their rhythms are good and tone is way better on their debut than newest CD.
The latest "Young and Reckless"...wow. You dropped the ball here guys. What the fuck were you thinking? The vocals were DRASTICALLY improved on this CD, but everything else was 10x worse. You were smart with the chorus in "If I Were You I'd Hate Me Too", it's catchy...but the guitars were AWFUL. Tone sucked, rhythms were uninventive and sounded like the same bullshit that's been around turning more douche bags in our (mine and Dirty Penny's) generation than any genre since the hippies. Tough out the critics guys, don't cave in. Oh and remember GET A LEAD GUITAR PLAYER, YOUR LEADS ARE HORRIBLE!!! You can't be an 80s style metal band with a bad lead guitar player.
Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Check Out Take It Sleezy Here
Metal Band of the Day (from the 80s) - Judas Priest
Favorite Album - Defenders of the Faith
Favorite Track - Rock Hard Ride Free
Key Member(s) - Everybody
Cool Point - Iron Maiden opened for Judas Priest in their 1980 "British Steel" tour
Best Solo - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
Fashion (1 to 10) - Despite the fact that it's not my favorite pop metal style, they paved the way for Metal S&M Fashion - 9
Comments
Whoo boy! This goes down as one of my all-time favorite albums ever created. It doesn't get boring and you can listen to it straight through. It's hard to top this. The guitar tone was at its peak before it sounded light digital garbage in their later 80s stuff, Rob Halford was at his peak, Glen Tipton RIPPED IT UP on every solo with beautiful Marshall JCM 800 tone, and each song gets you going or moves you.
This album brings me back to when I lived in St. Louis and would drive home at night on the deserted city streets with heavy levels of Urban Decay and the atmosphere was always cold. Good tough guy music.
Judas Priest is a band that paved the way for metal and made metal just that, unquestionably metal. Their initial albums make me think of an ok (or bad) rock band with some metal songs mixed in, but coming to think of it, one of my all-time favorite Priest songs is Victim of Changes which was released in 1976! That's a badass song for 76.
Judas Priest made metal something of a heavy respectable force and will always be remember as one of the greatest bands of the 80s (and even today).
Remember to say THEY ROCK HARD \m/ in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Check Out Defenders of the Faith Here
Favorite Track - Rock Hard Ride Free
Key Member(s) - Everybody
Cool Point - Iron Maiden opened for Judas Priest in their 1980 "British Steel" tour
Best Solo - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
Fashion (1 to 10) - Despite the fact that it's not my favorite pop metal style, they paved the way for Metal S&M Fashion - 9
Comments
Whoo boy! This goes down as one of my all-time favorite albums ever created. It doesn't get boring and you can listen to it straight through. It's hard to top this. The guitar tone was at its peak before it sounded light digital garbage in their later 80s stuff, Rob Halford was at his peak, Glen Tipton RIPPED IT UP on every solo with beautiful Marshall JCM 800 tone, and each song gets you going or moves you.
This album brings me back to when I lived in St. Louis and would drive home at night on the deserted city streets with heavy levels of Urban Decay and the atmosphere was always cold. Good tough guy music.
Judas Priest is a band that paved the way for metal and made metal just that, unquestionably metal. Their initial albums make me think of an ok (or bad) rock band with some metal songs mixed in, but coming to think of it, one of my all-time favorite Priest songs is Victim of Changes which was released in 1976! That's a badass song for 76.
Judas Priest made metal something of a heavy respectable force and will always be remember as one of the greatest bands of the 80s (and even today).
Remember to say THEY ROCK HARD \m/ in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Check Out Defenders of the Faith Here
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