Schadenfreude wrote:rocker654 wrote:Haven't heard any in 12 years. Did I miss something?
I heard a rumor that Mike worked on the digital graphics of Lord of the Rings.
The rumor was true, Mike worked at ESC for a few years. He was the head visual graphics dude for all of the LOTR movies and also on the Matrix sequels.
He got sick of it and quit though and does music for films now among other things. Also his house recently burned down
Schadenfreude wrote:They released a record relatively recently called "Unlistenable". My cousin basically ganked my copy the day I bought it and I only heard it once. I believe the premise of this album was either:
a.) Early instrumental only demos for the next SPBT record after "Scars...", songs in their earliest infancy.
or
b.) Bored recollections by the band for the good ol' days in which the members sent each other tracks to record over each other and make music by mail.
In any case, my recollection of that one listen is that it was very noisy, very instrumental, and relatively unfocused. Nothing like any SPBT release ever before.
Unlistenable is great!
It was called Unlistenable by the major they were on, because it was literally the finished record... even the stuff they recorded in the garage.
There are some damn amazing songs on there: "Black eye fixer", "hot water into steam" and "Action man theme" come to mind...
as well as THREE Cars covers (?!?)
The fidelity varies from borderline to "fookin' horrible", but it's a damn fine record.
I love SPBT dearly, and seeing them play at Beyond the Pale a few years back was a super rad experience, just as fresh... if not more as thety were back then.
The door isn't closed on them coming back together again too.
Personally i'd love to see them put something out on Ipecac (Patton is a huge fan) and come back "for real"
sleepkid wrote:I heard them do a fantastic version of "Surrender" by Cheap Trick.
There's a great story about one time when they played with Faith No More (they went on tour with them), there was one show where they just played their cover of Paranoid by Black Sabbath and Surrender by Cheap Trick over and over again alternating... since they knew the crowd was going to despise them anyway for not being Mike Patton.
Absolutley hilarious!
apparantly there was some dude standing up near the front at that show just flipping them off with both fingers the entire time.
genius!
Wernehm_Zackariaah wrote:Yeah... to my knowledge, they never used digital samplers per se. They used tape recorders with all of the sound elements in order. You can even hear on their records, when the foot pedal is released, the tape sound slowing down and decreasing in pitch suddenly. It's amazing to think that with the difficulty of music they had to play, both Dale and Mike singing, that they could also do the tape blurbs. On top of that, Mike would be jumping around on stage and getting all crazy. He's a complete shredder on guitar.
Yeah oldschool analog tape decks... with #3 dictation pedal switches from Radio Shack to activate on and off... that's what gives it that swooshing noise. I know because I ripped it off in Replicator for years before the damn things became too hard to find and we went digital.
and if you haven't seen it:
http://steelpolebathtub.com/
is great!
-C.