django49 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadroller Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 On 1/20/2020 at 10:42 AM, Steve Haynie said: Odd time signatures in popular songs that you never really noticed are explained here.   Watched the first. Listened to a Cheap Trick album today and this jumped out at me from a song. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 I think getting those odd times to work unnoticeably is largely about the drummer. My first band wrote a lot in 7 and 5 and even had a few polyrhythms here and there. Folks never noticed because our drummer had such fluid cymbal and snare work that his patterns never seemed to be "interrupted" by the 1 coming somewhere you didn't expect. A lot of folks who'd watch us said they never noticed this or that song was in 7/8 or 5/4 until they tried to bob their head to it.  He left for a few months, and replacing him was hell. We even had the "best" drummer in our local rock circle in Murfreesboro come audition, and we went from sounding like a balls out rock band to Rush. Dude never could play an odd time without making it feel odd. Thankfully, our original drummer moved back to Nashville and stayed until the band finally fell apart a couple of years later. Love or hate this song, you have to admit that's a pretty smooth 7/8.   2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 Hamer Vector sighting.  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 6:09 PM, LucSulla said: I think getting those odd times to work unnoticeably is largely about the drummer. My first band wrote a lot in 7 and 5 and even had a few polyrhythms here and there. Folks never noticed because our drummer had such fluid cymbal and snare work that his patterns never seemed to be "interrupted" by the 1 coming somewhere you didn't expect. A lot of folks who'd watch us said they never noticed this or that song was in 7/8 or 5/4 until they tried to bob their head to it.  He left for a few months, and replacing him was hell. We even had the "best" drummer in our local rock circle in Murfreesboro come audition, and we went from sounding like a balls out rock band to Rush. Dude never could play an odd time without making it feel odd. Thankfully, our original drummer moved back to Nashville and stayed until the band finally fell apart a couple of years later. Love or hate this song, you have to admit that's a pretty smooth 7/8.   Concur. That is smooth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 3 hours ago, LordsoftheJungle said: I dont know who those other people are but I like Ted,,,, even if he's a little nutty. Is one of them Alex Van Halen? 😂 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 The guy in the cap has to be Mike Love of the Beach Boys. A douche at its baggiest. Akin to Hartley Peavey, the 5th Mt. Douchemore head. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alantig Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Second from the left is Mr. Simmons, I believe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGale Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 I look at these types of projects in the same way I do the space program in that what was learned doing one thing changed how we did things across many different industries. But ffs this thing is hideous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Man Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Gretsch did it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadroller Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) Remind me of Jim Backlund designs: Edited February 2, 2020 by Toadroller 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Don'tcha hate it when imagination and and ambition outpace ability? 😑 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LucSulla Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 I listened to Ride the Lightening and Kill Em All in the gym today and thought, the downfall of Metallica didn't start with Cliff getting killed. It started when they discovered Mesas.  Yes, heretical, I know. Maybe I'm just too much of an old school thrash head, but I like how raw the boosted Marshalls sound on those first two vs. the scooped Mesa think that started on MOP. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerteddybear Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Here you go - for you tuning freaks: 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudshark Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 (edited) You may be cool, but you'll never be cool as BB King, John Lee Hooker, and Willie Dixon sitting by the pool in fine ass suits cool. Edited February 13, 2020 by mudshark 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 7 hours ago, killerteddybear said: Here you go - for you tuning freaks: I am waiting on a customer to show up, so I had time to look this thing up. Tronad is an Indian manufacturer. The Mohan Veena is played like a steel guitar. You would think the slide would bang into the tuners and the posts in the fretboard.  2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 And for a real tuning nightmare, just add a Bigsby. Not gonna lie, though - I'd love to try one. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
django49 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 I'm now in the 24 fret club. And anyone who sincerely believes all the money is lower has never played in a band where you have to do arpeggiated harmonies with a horn line and sometimes end up actually having to get up there to get things to work properly. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGale Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Here's something you don't see every day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 The Jackson Guitars Facebook group is weird. Most of those guys over there would rather own 10 low end, Chinese Jacksons than one really good MIJ or USA. Then they freak out when they find out they have a twisted neck or something like that.  Then again, they just slap EMGs in everything as soon as they buy it, so I'm not sure sonically it would make any difference anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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