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Post by ezzinomilonga on Oct 6, 2019 23:31:23 GMT -5
Some week ago i started this project on my career log, but i realized is the wrong place. I love golf..but music is by far most important for me. And on my career log every post about music would be lost between all the others. So i need a place where to talk ONLY about music. And this is the best possible place. For the little time i had to spend in these 2 weeks..and for a series of doubts i had about what order use to talk about groups/artists, i released only one post, about Deep Purple. I'll republish here as one of the next coming. The idea is to share something, using possibly (when is possible), some great live record and/or some song not too famous of every group/artist. This time i wish to start by a fantastic band, really important and seminal, in my life, although i discovered them just a dozen of years ago...definitely very late : KYUSSThis band is probably the most important and representative band of a movement called Desert Rock (and/or Stoner Rock), a movement born at the end of the 80's in California. Is hard to tell exactly who are the progenitors of this great genre, but for sure a very important band has been the Yawning Man. They were used to create sessions of music in the desert, open for all their friends, performing all day long as a continue jam sessions, with drugs and barbecues and beer...everything really relaxing. Really creative and "easy".. Almost all the future members of almost every most important Stoner Rock band was involved here, in some way. And so were John Garcia, Nick Oliveri, Brant Bjork and Josh Homme, all members of the Kyuss.
As a side note, is interesting to note how this jamming tradition is recovered and revamped by Josh Homme (future founder of The Queens of the Stone Age, one of my favourite band ever) with The Desert Sessions, in which a collective of musicians and friends stays for weeks in a place (Rancho de la Luna) jamming and recording. This experience produced 5 albums..but i'll talk later about this.
The main characteristic of the music of Kyuss, is the sound. Often is considered a sub-genre of metal, but i strongly disagree. The charachter of this music is absolutely definite and unique.They produces a wall of sound incredibly tough and compact, aggressive but caressing, at the same time. Is pretty clear from the first taste, how much the Black Sabbath's music inlfuenced their style, but the sounds of the Homme's guitar, with that distortion and echoes and a riverber constant, that is a trademark of the band, the bass with almost full gain and bass tones, the Garcia's voice and the riffs created by Homme (one of the greatest musicians of this era, for me), works together to create a spiderweb that simply will melt your brain, if you let them in.
They relased 4 albums and 2 EPs (one at the start..and one at the end of their experience as Kyuss, as a split album with The Queens of The Stone Age, the next creature of Homme).
Is hard to tell what is their best work, but what is clear is that in their last album "...And the Circus Leaves the Town", the level of their sound and music is sublime. Is not a case if the last track of this album, Spaceship Landing, is considered as the "Echoes" (one of the Pink Floyd's masterpieces) of the Stoner Rock. Personally, i agree. But that album is enterely, a masterpiece. Is one of those rare albums in which you can push the play button for the first track..being unable to find a single flaw until the end of the album. Everything is just how it should be.
As a final thought, their final line up, with :
John Garcia (Voice)
Josh Homme (Guitar)
Scott Reeder (Bass)
Alfredo Hernandez (Drums)
is by far the most impressive Stoner Rock line up ever. Reeder is one of the best modern bassist..and even if i love Nick Oliveri..is nothing comparable with the skills of this man. And Hernandez on drums..well..you can see it on the first video who is this guy (founder of the Yawning Man, anyway). And about the voice of Garcia or what guitarist is Homme (21 years old on the first video..simply crazy the level of his skills..the sound he developed so young..simply impossible. Listening the first video with eyes closed, is almost unbelievable he is the only guitarist on stage). I hope you'll enjoy it.
The first video is the entire show of the band at the Bizarre Festival of 1995. I decided to share it full, cause they performs greatly everyone of the 7 tracks. But in the video there is the chance to skip to every track.
This other video, instead, is about an unicuum in their repertory. A sweet and psychedelic ballad, named Space Cadet...totally mesmerizing. One of those songs that in some way a lot of people already knows, without being aware that is from Kyuss. A gift to the world. Sadly, i can't find a single decent live version..so i'll link the studio version.
This is Phototropic. Enough said.
As a last video, i'll share their testament. Spaceship Landing. Again..i can't find a decent quality live version
hoosierhoops24 Take a look at the first video, if you don't know this group and Josh Homme. Isn't an incredible guitarist? 
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Post by hoosierhoops24 on Oct 7, 2019 7:02:30 GMT -5
Some week ago i started this project on my career log, but i realized is the wrong place. I love golf..but music is by far most important for me. And on my career log every post about music would be lost between all the others. So i need a place where to talk ONLY about music. And this is the best possible place. For the little time i had to spend in these 2 weeks..and for a series of doubts i had about what order use to talk about groups/artists, i released only one post, about Deep Purple. I'll republish here as one of the next coming. The idea is to share something, using possibly (when is possible), some great live record and/or some song not too famous of every group/artist. This time i wish to start by a fantastic band, really important and seminal, in my life, although i discovered them just a dozen of years ago...definitely very late : KYUSSThis band is probably the most important and representative band of a movement called Desert Rock (and/or Stoner Rock), a movement born at the end of the 80's in California. Is hard to tell exactly who are the progenitors of this great genre, but for sure a very important band has been the Yawning Man. They were used to create sessions of music in the desert, open for all their friends, performing all day long as a continue jam sessions, with drugs and barbecues and beer...everything really relaxing. Really creative and "easy".. Almost all the future members of almost every most important Stoner Rock band was involved here, in some way. And so were John Garcia, Nick Oliveri, Brant Bjork and Josh Homme, all members of the Kyuss.
As a side note, is interesting to note how this jamming tradition is recovered and revamped by Josh Homme (future founder of The Queens of the Stone Age, one of my favourite band ever) with The Desert Sessions, in which a collective of musicians and friends stays for weeks in a place (Rancho de la Luna) jamming and recording. This experience produced 5 albums..but i'll talk later about this.
The main characteristic of the music of Kyuss, is the sound. Often is considered a sub-genre of metal, but i strongly disagree. The charachter of this music is absolutely definite and unique.They produces a wall of sound incredibly tough and compact, aggressive but caressing, at the same time. Is pretty clear from the first taste, how much the Black Sabbath's music inlfuenced their style, but the sounds of the Homme's guitar, with that distortion and echoes and a riverber constant, that is a trademark of the band, the bass with almost full gain and bass tones, the Garcia's voice and the riffs created by Homme (one of the greatest musicians of this era, for me), works together to create a spiderweb that simply will melt your brain, if you let them in.
They relased 4 albums and 2 EPs (one at the start..and one at the end of their experience as Kyuss, as a split album with The Queens of The Stone Age, the next creature of Homme).
Is hard to tell what is their best work, but what is clear is that in their last album "...And the Circus Leaves the Town", the level of their sound and music is sublime. Is not a case if the last track of this album, Spaceship Landing, is considered as the "Echoes" (one of the Pink Floyd's masterpieces) of the Stoner Rock. Personally, i agree. But that album is enterely, a masterpiece. Is one of those rare albums in which you can push the play button for the first track..being unable to find a single flaw until the end of the album. Everything is just how it should be.
As a final thought, their final line up, with :
John Garcia (Voice)
Josh Homme (Guitar)
Scott Reeder (Bass)
Alfredo Hernandez (Drums)
is by far the most impressive Stoner Rock line up ever. Reeder is one of the best modern bassist..and even if i love Nick Oliveri..is nothing comparable with the skills of this man. And Hernandez on drums..well..you can see it on the first video who is this guy (founder of the Yawning Man, anyway). And about the voice of Garcia or what guitarist is Homme (21 years old on the first video..simply crazy the level of his skills..the sound he developed so young..simply impossible. Listening the first video with eyes closed, is almost unbelievable he is the only guitarist on stage). I hope you'll enjoy it.
The first video is the entire show of the band at the Bizarre Festival of 1995. I decided to share it full, cause they performs greatly everyone of the 7 tracks. But in the video there is the chance to skip to every track.
This other video, instead, is about an unicuum in their repertory. A sweet and psychedelic ballad, named Space Cadet...totally mesmerizing. One of those songs that in some way a lot of people already knows, without being aware that is from Kyuss. A gift to the world. Sadly, i can't find a single decent live version..so i'll link the studio version.
This is Phototropic. Enough said.
As a last video, i'll share their testament. Spaceship Landing. Again..i can't find a decent quality live version
hoosierhoops24 Take a look at the first video, if you don't know this group and Josh Homme. Isn't an incredible guitarist?
Ezzino, I'm not familiar with this band but I check them out sometime this week when I have a few minutes. Thanks for sharing! |
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Post by hoosierhoops24 on Oct 30, 2019 18:07:17 GMT -5
Ezzino, I finally got around to listening to the band you mentioned and have to admit that the guitar player is quite good.
Regarding my own project, yes it's a solo venture. I've never been part of a formal band. I've always been able to sing and as a teenager I taught myself to play guitar. In college I had a friend that also played guitar and sang and we started performing together as a duo. When I first moved to Dallas after college, I played a few solo gigs and continued to write songs for my own pleasure. Fast forward a few years and I continue to write. As far as how I record, I use a DAW called Studio One by Presonus and also a Presonus audio interface for my computer. I use a program called EZ Drummer 2 for creating drums/percussion and then start adding guitar tracks from there through the audio interface. I'm really only a rhythm guitarist at best, so the guitar tracks are nothing special. I know how to play bass a little as well, but I sold my Yamaha bass several years ago so I use a program called Modo Bass to create a backing track for that. I also can play the piano a little bit so I have a MIDI keyboard that I use to create those tracks when needed as well as any other instruments that I want to add. I'm honestly really into writing lyrics and that's a big focus of what I do. I just try to put it all together in a cohesive way that hopefully sounds good. Anyway, that's kind of what I'm doing.
By the way, you mentioned that you have some tracks from a previous band you were in. I would enjoy hearing that sometime.
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Oct 31, 2019 6:12:20 GMT -5
hoosierhoops24 is quite interesting. You know..Years ago I've been involved in a drum'n bass project with a friend (to be honest I dislike almost totally the genre, but he wanted some help so I just tried). We used a software named "Reason". I tell you this cause this tool could be really interesting for your needs. In short, is a software that simulate not only a recording studio, but also a lot (and I mean A LOT) of machineries actually existing...and every possible instrument. You can select a mixer to use, with various channels (if I remember well max 24 or 32). Then you can connect the machineries you need to use. You can also tweak the cables to obtain infinite combos of sounds and effects. Is complicated to use, seriously. But is a tool that, if you have the knowledge to do it, could allows you to recreate..for example..a philharmonic orchestra!! The only limit is your talent and what you know about music. Also there are things to download, named "refills", that are high quality samples of every possible instrument. Impressive quality. If you want to play music by yourself, this thing is a beast. And is also the best I know. Honestly i don't use it anymore by years, so I don't know how it is now. I know only that it still exists and that..is quite expensive..if you should to buy it. I had a cracked version, but it was in a dead and gone PC..and I never tried to have it again. About the chance to share our tracks, is possible to do. I need just to remember the name of the dropbox username I share with my ex-band mates. I need just to ask to him, cause honestly I don't remember it anymore  But i have these tracks on my mp3 reader, so actually I had no more need to open dropbox. And if you are interested, I could simply share with you a folder on my actual dropbox and we could put stuff on it.
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Post by hoosierhoops24 on Oct 31, 2019 7:12:24 GMT -5
hoosierhoops24 is quite interesting. You know..Years ago I've been involved in a drum'n bass project with a friend (to be honest I dislike almost totally the genre, but he wanted some help so I just tried). We used a software named "Reason". I tell you this cause this tool could be really interesting for your needs. In short, is a software that simulate not only a recording studio, but also a lot (and I mean A LOT) of machineries actually existing...and every possible instrument. You can select a mixer to use, with various channels (if I remember well max 24 or 32). Then you can connect the machineries you need to use. You can also tweak the cables to obtain infinite combos of sounds and effects. Is complicated to use, seriously. But is a tool that, if you have the knowledge to do it, could allows you to recreate..for example..a philharmonic orchestra!! The only limit is your talent and what you know about music. Also there are things to download, named "refills", that are high quality samples of every possible instrument. Impressive quality. If you want to play music by yourself, this thing is a beast. And is also the best I know. Honestly i don't use it anymore by years, so I don't know how it is now. I know only that it still exists and that..is quite expensive..if you should to buy it. I had a cracked version, but it was in a dead and gone PC..and I never tried to have it again. About the chance to share our tracks, is possible to do. I need just to remember the name of the dropbox username I share with my ex-band mates. I need just to ask to him, cause honestly I don't remember it anymore But i have these tracks on my mp3 reader, so actually I had no more need to open dropbox. And if you are interested, I could simply share with you a folder on my actual dropbox and we could put stuff on it. Thanks for the reply. I know of Reason but have never used it. It's still around and judging from what I read online, seems to be popular. I believe that it does basically the same thing that Studio One does for me. What you refer to as "refills" are the same thing as what we call "plugins" over here, giving you the ability to create all kinds of sounds, effects and instruments. I don't know how Reason compares to Studio One but I will check it out for sure. Anything that helps me with my project is worth looking at. Thank you so much for the recommendation. As far sharing music tracks, I would enjoy doing that some day. |
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Post by LKeet6 on Jan 3, 2020 15:59:40 GMT -5
As you know Vinny, electronic music is my thing, but listen to plenty of rock/indie/folk too.
I love Queens of the stone age! And I had a little dabble with kyuss a few years ago, really good.
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Jan 27, 2020 11:18:51 GMT -5
As you know Vinny, electronic music is my thing, but listen to plenty of rock/indie/folk too. I love Queens of the stone age! And I had a little dabble with kyuss a few years ago, really good. hi mate!! i returned after a pair of months of forced "inactivity" (at the end of November i leaved suddenly my home and my pc to change town for work and, more or less in the same days, windows 10 stopped any kind of support for my old Nokia phone, resulting for some reason in a crash everytime i tried to use internet on that phone, so i renounced). Now i have a new phone (an Android. Bill Gates can suck my..well, nevermind..) and i hope also to be able again, soon, to restart to play, to work on the lists, to Ranger course, to write shamelessly my usual posts with not a reasonable end...and, of course, to write about music on this page You're ok? Everything is fine? |
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Post by lions67 on Jan 27, 2020 12:25:54 GMT -5
It’s all about Pink Floyd.
There is none better.
Lots of great music and artists, but Floyd stands alone.
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Post by LKeet6 on Jan 27, 2020 12:28:57 GMT -5
As you know Vinny, electronic music is my thing, but listen to plenty of rock/indie/folk too. I love Queens of the stone age! And I had a little dabble with kyuss a few years ago, really good. hi mate!! i returned after a pair of months of forced "inactivity" (at the end of November i leaved suddenly my home and my pc to change town for work and, more or less in the same days, windows 10 stopped any kind of support for my old Nokia phone, resulting for some reason in a crash everytime i tried to use internet on that phone, so i renounced). Now i have a new phone (an Android. Bill Gates can suck my..well, nevermind..) and i hope also to be able again, soon, to restart to play, to work on the lists, to Ranger course, to write shamelessly my usual posts with not a reasonable end...and, of course, to write about music on this page You're ok? Everything is fine? Vinny! I've wondered about you! Good to see you back and see that you're fine  I am good. What about this terrible news from the NBA world  |
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Jan 27, 2020 19:25:24 GMT -5
hi mate!! i returned after a pair of months of forced "inactivity" (at the end of November i leaved suddenly my home and my pc to change town for work and, more or less in the same days, windows 10 stopped any kind of support for my old Nokia phone, resulting for some reason in a crash everytime i tried to use internet on that phone, so i renounced). Now i have a new phone (an Android. Bill Gates can suck my..well, nevermind..) and i hope also to be able again, soon, to restart to play, to work on the lists, to Ranger course, to write shamelessly my usual posts with not a reasonable end...and, of course, to write about music on this page You're ok? Everything is fine? Vinny! I've wondered about you! Good to see you back and see that you're fine I am good. What about this terrible news from the NBA world i don't know..it looks just like an awful joke. And i don't feel this cause Kobe was one of the greatest players who ever played The Game, really gifted, a true fighter, a symbol of what a sportsman can/should be in terms of talent, discipline, desire to win and ability to dominate rivals and teammates enough to become, in some way, too much respected to be simply loved or hated..i mean, is obvious that even a champ can die young, i know it. I suppose my surprise is endless simply cause when you see someone who release that kind of..i have not a good or smart word, but i could say "magnetism" maybe..it seems like if he can fool also the death. And to realize that this thought is everytime untrue, is always shocking. Anyway..i already know that when the shock will be a bit less, i'll feel what i feel everytime a great artist dies : as a man, every artist dies, soon or later..but his art always survive. And it will survive forever, at least until someone will remember it... and will be inspired by that art. |
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Post by lessthanbread on Jan 27, 2020 19:39:52 GMT -5
Oh my gosh he lives!!
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Jan 28, 2020 0:56:40 GMT -5
bad weed (almost) never dies glad to see you you're fine? |
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Post by LKeet6 on Jan 28, 2020 3:21:09 GMT -5
Vinny! I've wondered about you! Good to see you back and see that you're fine I am good. What about this terrible news from the NBA world i don't know..it looks just like an awful joke. And i don't feel this cause Kobe was one of the greatest players who ever played The Game, really gifted, a true fighter, a symbol of what a sportsman can/should be in terms of talent, discipline, desire to win and ability to dominate rivals and teammates enough to become, in some way, too much respected to be simply loved or hated..i mean, is obvious that even a champ can die young, i know it. I suppose my surprise is endless simply cause when you see someone who release that kind of..i have not a good or smart word, but i could say "magnetism" maybe..it seems like if he can fool also the death. And to realize that this thought is everytime untrue, is always shocking. Anyway..i already know that when the shock will be a bit less, i'll feel what i feel everytime a great artist dies : as a man, every artist dies, soon or later..but his art always survive. And it will survive forever, at least until someone will remember it... and will be inspired by that art. I didn't like Kobe coz he used to just jack up shots (not my style) and all the hype surrounding him, but I think I really just focussed on that, and forgot what an incredible competitor he was and his amazing defence. You look at his legacy by seeing how people have reacted to this. The whole league is devastated. Young players like trae young who said Kobe had talked to them, former team mates and opponents who said how amazing it was to play with/against him, all his team US teammates, and coaches like doc rivers and pop who lost to him so many times and they are crying on TV. It's too much man. And for them to lose his basketball obsessed daughter, who he was coaching up, as well, it's just f'ing horrible and so so sad. It's really affected me a lot. Basketball is a closer community than something like "soccer," and it's gonna take a long time for everyone to get over this. |
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Jan 28, 2020 3:37:26 GMT -5
LKeet6 i see what you mean about his game. Honestly i never understood if i really like him as a player or not. I should say not, i know it, for what i love about Basket. But my favorite all time player is still Allen Iverson, so... I told you. Some man has the "power" to transcend his work, results, errors, the idea of win or lose, for me. And he did it. Maybe the best possibile example about this kind of "transcendence" is Malcolm X, for me. If i look to him and his life with a cold eye, he was a criminal first, then a puppet in the hand of not so good people..and all this for the majority of his life. But reading his autobiography is impossibile to don't love and respect him, for me. I know it could sound as not a so good example, but is the best and easiest i can find. Anyway..Kobe's legacy will survive. Death can't do anything about this.
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