"This whole project fucking sucks!"

My (ex) drummer.

We got called "bludgeoning and over-blown", but I took it as a complement.

Gramsci wrote:We got called "bludgeoning and over-blown", but I took it as a complement.

Nobody ever wrote "It's like a cross between Helmet and a Xerox machine set on 'Helmet'"?!?!?

February 2005:

"Poet - John Heeley followed, this time he decided to show us a different mask to the one we recognise as his poignent hard hitting work. With a satirical flare, he told us he was tired of reading his own work, and told us there were copies available and he would come back after a couple of beers. Very odd instructions from a performance poet, but he has a point."

toomanyhelicopters wrote:

Gramsci wrote:We got called "bludgeoning and over-blown", but I took it as a complement.

Nobody ever wrote "It's like a cross between Helmet and a Xerox machine set on 'Helmet'"?!?!?

GROAN3D!

toomanyhelicopters wrote:

Gramsci wrote:We got called "bludgeoning and over-blown", but I took it as a complement.

Nobody ever wrote "It's like a cross between Helmet and a Xerox machine set on 'Helmet'"?!?!?

I know, it was a total rip-off. That's an old band. Owning a TB500 has change my playing a lot. I mostly play clean with a lot more single notes.

But I have to tell ya, playing massive stop-start dropped D riffs and wall of noise choruses is super fucking fun.

Anyway, as far as bands that ripped of Helmet, at least we actually sounded like Helmet.

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Nobody ever wrote "It's like a cross between Helmet and a Xerox machine set on 'Helmet'"?!?!?

Ha!

But then again...

playing massive stop-start dropped D riffs and wall of noise choruses is super fucking fun.

It certainly is!

I have never been reviewed so I can't add anything here. Plenty of friends & family have told me that the noise I makes sucks shit though - does that count?

In the only band competition my group ever participated in, a guy from the Scorpions was in the jury. In his report, he accused us of lacking "stage presence". This word has stuck with us ever since. Whenever we had practise, and hit the bar afterwards, if somebody asks us how it went, we´ll say: "We think we´ve improved drastically on our stage presence".

That gig by the way was supercool. Angus Young was in the crowd. We felt like fucking schoolchildren going out there. Or at least I did.

sunlore wrote:

That gig by the way was supercool. Angus Young was in the crowd. We felt like fucking schoolchildren going out there. Or at least I did.

That does't even come close to how fucking nervous I was playing before the Melvins...

The worst review of one particular band I played in was often delivered by audiences around the country.

Dead silence, between songs.

Not chatter, not heckling, no exhales of disgust.

Silence.


(This experience set taught me the joys of deliberate audience heckling-unto-confusion, wherein band inside-jokes are spoken loudly and clearly into the microphones.)


The best review of this band during this particular phase (until we started playing with other more like-minded groups) was:

"wow.......there's a lot of........stuff.......going on in your songs."



In retrospect, I highly cherish both sets of reactions.