Mose Varty-Seppanen wrote:Maybe if Drag City ever resolve the dispute with the Homestead folks perhaps they might consider including Rode Hard and Put Up Wet in that reissue.
Please, Just for me? My vinyl is spanked.

Picked up a mint copy of Rode Hard and Put Up Wet today for $25. It had never been opened. :swoon:

Anyone here know what guitar, amp and distortion effects (if any) Grubbs used in Bastro? I love that guitar sound.

NOT CRAP.

there's a video on the Antlers CD- I think he's playing a pink Schecter Strat thing with a bridge humbucker through some type of Marshall... Let me find the CD and verify this..

Bundy Brown, If I recall is playing a Music Man Stingray bass. Don't remember the amplifier though..

I'm pretty sure when I saw them he was playing a stock-looking (yellow?) strat into a Marshall, although as I saw them in the UK his amp may have been hired. It didn't sound like there were pedals involved; if there were then they were set to 'subtle'.

Bumping this because I'm listening to them this morning and they are making me happy.

I wonder if David plays this stuff for his students at Brooklyn College or wherever he teaches around here.

This band, without a doubt, will always be one of my favorites. I was blown away the first time I heard "Sing the Troubled Beast." I still listen to their records on a regular basis. I especially enjoy John McEntire's extremely creative yet sometimes flawed drumming.

Jon

bigc wrote:Anyone here know what guitar, amp and distortion effects (if any) Grubbs used in Bastro? I love that guitar sound.

NOT CRAP.

I saw them in Kansas City in '90. If I recall correctly, Grubbs was playing a Fender something or other through a Mesa Boogie.

They were thee gud shite.

The guitar playing and tone on Diablo Guapo are the very definition of FACEMELTING.
Rarely topped in the world of rock.
But did Grubbs shoot his wad too soon?
In any event, Bastro always was and always will be a giant can of NOT CRAP.

Bastro and Live Skull are my favourite of the bands that were on Homestead.

Grubbs's guitar playing incorporated feedback, "pinch"/"artificial" harmonics, oblique and alternate picking, string-skipping; none of this used in a fussy, "technical" shredding style; it was a form of attack.

The bass fits in perfectly I think and is an often unheralded part of Bastro's sound.

The drumming speaks for itself.

The vocals are very appropriate and although the lyrics are of questionable quality, the song titles are perfect.

I like that loose axis of Bastro, Bitch Magnet and Codeine.

Not Crap.

Probably the best of the Louisville bands. Saw them several times and they always amazed.