The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment Give meaning to your life or distract you from it for a while

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 08-19-2019, 12:40 AM   #586
lumberjim
I can hear my ears
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
We waited 13 years for this album. A few weeks sounds fine.

I'll be here
__________________
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan
lumberjim is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-20-2019, 04:26 PM   #587
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
That song is very, very Tool.

I like. Like a lot of Tool's stuff.

I could've ID'd it as Tool right when the drums came in.
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-21-2019, 11:35 AM   #588
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
I'm waiting for a good time to zone out and focus on listening to this with nobody else in the room.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-27-2019, 09:16 PM   #589
lumberjim
I can hear my ears
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
How about now?
__________________
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan
lumberjim is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-27-2019, 10:38 PM   #590
monster
I hear them call the tide
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
Posts: 30,852
This needs to go the fuck away. There's a woman called Sylvia at pottery this semester. Every time I think about pottery....

__________________
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart
monster is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-28-2019, 03:25 PM   #591
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
One of my buddy's favorite songs...
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-30-2019, 03:00 PM   #592
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
Speaking of snares doing their job, ...
Wanna get your dick knocked off by a snare drum, listen to the album version of the Eagles-- I Can't Tell You Why. ( can't find a copy on YouTube )

That snare drum sounds like it will move your woofer cone.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-30-2019, 03:12 PM   #593
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
A little digging and people seem to think Don Henley was using a Ludwig 402 Supraphonic. That's a 14" x 6.5" in chrome-plated aluminum.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-30-2019, 08:24 PM   #594
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
Listening now on Spotify, it's a remaster but the sound is still pretty huge.

It makes the song feel like it's dragging a little. We have to wait for the decay to move along
Undertoad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-31-2019, 03:25 AM   #595
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
I watched a video about professional sounding back beats needing to have high velocity at the tip of the stick. Which means on a slow track like this, you have to massively delay executing the strike, because you'll be whipping the stick into the snare to get the high velocity needed for a back that has conviction. It's almost like ballet, the movements you do with your body to get your stick in the right place at the right time. I'm a big fan of "dancing" behind the kit.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-31-2019, 03:29 AM   #596
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
And yes, Lumber Jim, the Tool track was a real trip to listen to. It's all about a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence that paints a mental picture. Hearing the track for the first time I didn't know where they were going when an instrument began the first phase of a new part coming in, but then once the momentum built up it made perfect sense. And I wondered, is this what listening to this band was always like? I just don't remember hearing a Tool song that I didn't already know where the parts were going.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-31-2019, 10:10 AM   #597
lumberjim
I can hear my ears
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 25,571
They always have seemed to creep up on me too. I'm liking it more and more. The hooks are more subtle on this new album... But they're there.
__________________
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan
lumberjim is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-31-2019, 01:04 PM   #598
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flint View Post
...a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence...
Layers. On top of layers.

That describes Tool, overall, pretty well.

This last album uses a lot of track time to build some of those layers. Tool has (or seems to have) always had long tracks, but I was still a little surprised at how long these tracks are. And the number of long tracks.
__________________


These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.
Gravdigr is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-06-2019, 04:29 PM   #599
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
Quote:
Originally Posted by lumberjim View Post
They always have seemed to creep up on me too. .
You know how some songs have a cool intro that is, like conceptually disconnected from the real beginning of the song, and when the song comes in it's unexpected, because the 1 isn't where you thought it was going to be, or something?

I think Tool tries to do that over and over and over, the whole song. You never know what's coming up, it's unexpected every time.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-10-2019, 06:45 PM   #600
Flint
Snowflake
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
Here's a song where all the chords and important stuff in the intro and chorus section happens directly on the 1 (count ONE two-three, ONE two-three). It's a "symphony in 1" where the harmonies between the guitar chords and bass notes is strong enough to carry everything. The second half of the song d i s i n t e g r a t e s for two minutes.

Like all my favorite albums, this was their last one before breaking up.



Quote:
Are you weary of the lengthening days?
Do you secretly wish for November's rain,
and the harvest moon to wane in the sky?
There is nothing in this world more bitter than spring...

And I wrote you this letter
'cause the clothes were hung on the line,
and the crows flew out of the field and up into the sky...
I'm lying here in the station,
stretching out on the tracks
are all the possible places that I might arrive.

There is nothing in this world more bitter than love,
in all those long days of June.
Bring me the long brown grass, now that it's dry...
There is nothing in this world more bitter than spring.
__________________
******************
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio
Flint is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:41 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.