on mon sep 20, 2004 @ 11:18 pm gnangle wrote:Sometimes its difficult to tell whether its an insult or a compliment. Either way it makes me uncomfortable.I remember going out and buying the Neutrino album because someone said they sounded like shellac..then Carl was into the comparison-greg

then after exactly 364 days, 23 hours and 33 minutes on tue sep 20, 2005 @ 10:51 pm gnangle wrote:Tell me about it, we had to hide from steve CONSTANTLY! when he recorded our final and last album together, it was kind of a drag. But the shame was too great for us to bear! The audacity of inspiration , i'll tell ya!

toomanyhelicopters wrote:

buzzsaw wrote:gotta disagree with you mr. advocate for his devilness.....
so many coincidences= shellac cover band.
you even unearthed another one. they named a song after a watch company. shellac has " a watch song." yikes now I am really afraid.
its all int the bread and butter sir.

okay, so wait, now you're telling me that since my KGB watch was made by a Russian watch manufacturer, that now I'm only allowed to be in cover bands?!?! WTF! well at least i'll go with a band that's already done and pick Unwound.

something else that kinda plays into it, to me, is awareness of what they're doing. if they're going for a Shellac-type sound, i think that works in their favor. how many bands would say "i want our *sound* to be like ACDC", and especially with a band like that, if you're writing for that genre, you're bound to have similar riffs, too. cause that's the genre. i guess maybe Shellac is officially an entire genre at this point? surely there's a ton of folks out there who idolize them to the point of wanting to be similar. kinda like Fugazi-inspired bands. or TLJ-inspired bands. it bugs me a little when people listen to Haymarket Riot, for example, and their opinion of that band is "it sounds just like Fugazi". no it doesn't. their riffs structures are pretty different, to me. the stuff the guitars do may sound similar because of the type of interplay, but i still think they do it quite differently than Fugazi. they're doing *their* thing, and yeah, it's post-Fugazi for sure, but still, i think saying they "sound just like Fugazi" does them a serious injustice and downplays what they do. maybe Technician has crossed some generally-agreed-upon-yet-still-subjective line, where it's just too much. but like i say, i hear other bands in there, too, that predate Shellac.

one last thing... do their riffs sound like exact copies of specific Shellac songs? or is it just the *sound*?

okay, yeah, fine, i submit. [devil's advocate/off]

using the harmonic percolator! if it wasn't for the total obscurity of that pedal outside of Steve's using it, i could seriously work this angle so much better!

full point wrote:Wow. This has turned into quite a read!!

I will also chime in here with a "not crap" vote for Technician. However, this stuff is EXTREMELY shellac-like. That's not easy but it's not ingenious either.

Also, just using a Percolator pedal does not make one shellac-like. Using a percolator and a TB does throw it into the cover-band arena though, imo.

I think Gnangle deserves a huge Salut for chiming in here.

I have to admit I'm interested to see what these guys will do next.

ipitcher wrote:I do have a Percolator clone, but I don't use it all the time. It's a fuzz pedal -- big deal.

kerble wrote:you guys sound like Shellac.

buzzsaw wrote:

kerble wrote:you guys sound like Shellac.