Really good.

Rules! I just want to add one thing:people-including Mark Prindle who SHOULD(?)-know better talk about Ted Falconis guitar playing as random noises even while praising the band. Chalk it up to me playing my fave Cecil Taylor more than possibly healthy over the past 25 years but I don't hear it like that at all; no, I hear *patterns* and basic variations of those rather than noise. Granted, said patterns may be based more on "area of guitar" or certain rhythm/sound combos than scales/chords but still...

How do *yall* experience his guitar, like what do you hear? Just noise/randomness??

jakethesnake wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:17 pm Rules! I just want to add one thing:people-including Mark Prindle who SHOULD(?)-know better talk about Ted Falconis guitar playing as random noises even while praising the band. Chalk it up to me playing my fave Cecil Taylor more than possibly healthy over the past 25 years but I don't hear it like that at all; no, I hear *patterns* and basic variations of those rather than noise. Granted, said patterns may be based more on "area of guitar" or certain rhythm/sound combos than scales/chords but still...

How do *yall* experience his guitar, like what do you hear? Just noise/randomness??

I honestly don't understand how he gets that guitar sound. He is playing distinct notes/chords at times, like on "I Saw You Shine." But other times it's just this wash of sound. Is it the way it's recorded (overdubs)? Regardless, I really like it. Reminds me of Arto Lindsay's playing in DNA.

Falconi guitar approximation: Two amps, one merely very overdriven, one w/distortion. Play a bunch of chords somewhat sloppily but in a pattern. But only play certain note clusters w/in each of those chords. Like say, only a handful of strings w/in the chord, followed by a handful of different strings, then the full chord. Do that at random. Restrict most of your strumming to upstrokes. That part is important. Also, randomly move your strum to the neck or down at the bridge rather than by the pickups. Bend the notes abruptly on rare occasions, followed by open strumming. Feed back a ton while playing.

It's something like picking apart the chords w/in a riff, but in an expressionistic, semi-random manner. Even though you're still loosely following the riff.

Generic is a great record. There's just this catchiness to their relentless dirge, and the lyrics are unintentionally uplifting and cathartic.

Reality breakdown wrote: Sat Dec 25, 2021 8:40 pm Flipper with David Yow was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

Same here. Saw them with Yow and Watt in Hamburg. Just fantastic. Yow gave me the mic for Sex Bomb. What a moment.