mr.arrison wrote:I love Tar, but I think I already posted.
But, inquiring minds want to know:
-What kind of ride cymbal was used on Jackson and Clincher?
-How were the guitars recorded on Jackson? That's a thick assed guitar tone. Love it. Amps used? Mics?
-Did Tom actually fall off the stage at a show (I believe that Jawbox and Heroin also played this show) in Washington D.C. in the early 1990's?
- I Don't know exactly what kind of cymbal that was - it's on all Tar recordings - all the markings were unreadable when I bought it for $50 at Mel Elliot's Music Center. It's a Zildjian. It has those hammered marks in it, but I don't think it's a "RUDE." It has a fairly prominent bell, of course.
John's setup during the recording of the "Jackson" LP. The Fender Twin plus a Bassman, signals going into a speaker of unknown make. I don't remember how the Bassman got into the fray, or why the souped up speakers in the twin weren't used. Maybe Steve knows. Hard to argue with the results. That's a "lipstick" pickup from a Silvertone transplanted into the guitar that launched 1000 aluminum guitar fetishes. That's an original harmonic percolator on the floor. Always on.
Mark's setup during the recording of the "Jackson" LP. Beat up Hondo II strat - don't know about on Jackson, but eventually the only original part left on that guitar was the body. Hiwatt 25 combo amp. An insanely heavy EV speaker in there. That's a REAL TUBE pedal on the floor, but I think it only got used occasionally for the extra push off the cliff.
I'll let somebody else ID the microphones. Looks like they each got one of those ribbon ping pong paddle mics. Mark got an extra mic because he correctly answered the CRC trivia question that day which was "How many different pillows were used in the kick drum on the recently recorded Smashing Pumpkins record." Again, hard to argue with results.
A major component in the Tar guitar thing was hearing them together, the way the chords met and diverged, the bass usually handling the "riff". The guitars were always balanced one in the left speaker, one in the right, so you can hear how the guitars pretty much sound ridiculous unless you hear them combined. You get sort of a 3rd part and people have often assumed there are overdubs.
I don't recall Tom ever having fallen off stage, but we did play with Jawbox in a Church in the DC area in 1993.
