though i like tool better, deerhoof is not crap

Not crap... I like 'em a lot...

kerble wrote:the aRticle with them in the current TapeOp is fantastic.

do read it.

Is it as good as the one about Interpol?

That one lost me a lot of respect for Tape Op. Especially the part where the members of Interpol talk about Sam's ass. This is the level of intellect I expected from this crappy Joy Division cover band, but I expect better from Tape Op. Falling for this 80s revival in such a sorry way is simply pathetic.

The Larry Fast interview was great. BTW, I saw him play keys for the Tony Levin band a little while back.

yut wrote:

kerble wrote:the aRticle with them in the current TapeOp is fantastic.

do read it.

Is it as good as the one about Interpol?

haha. I don't know. I must've missed that one. It's a great discussion on their process of making records and how they just do it at home with some line 6 pods and samplers and poor protools skills (this is being reductive, but not by that much). I don't know, I felt inspired by their creativity, considering that those songs are mostly studio constructs patched together and eventually into this destructive live show.

the bass in "Milk Man" is an ESG sample played on a keyboard. wtf?

really great stuff.

kerble wrote:I don't know, I felt inspired by their creativity, considering that those songs are mostly studio constructs patched together and eventually into this destructive live show.

I haven't read the TapeOp article, but I don't think they normally use the method of patching together studio constructs.

They did it for "Milk Man" and I know that "Reveille" has a lot of patched-together stuff on it. "Green Cosmos" too.

Other than that, I think they write songs and record them live.

I am in total agreement that they are creative and inspiring.

Angus Jung wrote:

kerble wrote:I don't know, I felt inspired by their creativity, considering that those songs are mostly studio constructs patched together and eventually into this destructive live show.

I haven't read the TapeOp article, but I don't think they normally use the method of patching together studio constructs.

They did it for "Milk Man" and I know that "Reveille" has a lot of patched-together stuff on it. "Green Cosmos" too.

Other than that, I think they write songs and record them live.

I am in total agreement that they are creative and inspiring.

yes, thanks for the clear up. the interview focuses most on Milk Man and the Runners Four. the Holdypaws, the Man the Girl the King (is that the title?) and HalfBird stuff was done on a four-track that was fed back into itself a bunch of times to add things. One was done in a studio.

Anyway, I think that the most impressive part about the most recent records is that they don't sound like they were chopped and assembled and manipulated to death. It was just a lot of time and care put into it and it "feels" like a band playing in a room, even if it isn't.


so cool.

CRAP! This thread is so old I can't remember if I've voted crap already.


Crappy.

That is so good.

I love this band. New album soon.

new song on their myspace:

http://myspace.com/deerhoof