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Great song
unfortunately, I have lived exactly 6 yearsā¦before one of my breaks.
IDK if you know it or not, but that song is about their drummer, SMELLY (Eric Sundin) who had a problem, and Mike almost threw him out of the band before they recorded one of the albums, I think Punk in Drublic.
He got clean.
Years later, the other band members thought he got clean before the record, but Fat mike let him do the record first. The other members did not find this out until the book came out. It is a book, with 4 sections, each coming from one member of the band exclusively, talking to the author.
I have not read it, but seen alot of clips about it, and want to get it.
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LOL Thatās awesome, Fat Mike is a great dude for having the heart to let him stay. I like their laid back attitude about messing notes up live too. They just smile and shrug it off like itās no big deal.
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Oh, Fat Mike knows their limits well, and will say all the time āThats the band we wanted to beā (about RKL and Bad Religion) but we could never pull it off, they were just way too good of musicians. We couldnāt even pull it off, playing it live today, and thats after being a band for more then 30 years.
I love Fat Mike, he is a cross dressing, S&M submissive, bass playing, song writing, punk rock ass hole, and I love him. He is SMART as hell, and a great song writer who sticks to his roots, and is not afraid to be himself, no questions asked.
Examples are The Decline with Bazās orchestra (I posted a few weeks back so I wonāt post again), AND
he did a Punk Rock Musical called Home Street Home. He just got it playing in LA theaters when the Pandemic broke out, but it was getting rave reviews and getting sold out shows, with plans to Open in broadway in a few years.
Side Note, he says The Rockey Horror Picture Show and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (both musicals) are among is 5 most influential records
There is one version of Home Sweet Home on Youtube. I watched it, it was great. I believe he said the one on youtube was not a final version, it had gone thru some changes.
AND
it is also being made into a Prime Time TV show. A comedy / drama, but I think it is a 30 minute show, not a full hour.
Here is Home Street Home.
Keep in mind, he wrote it with help of his x-wife (Soma Snakeoil), and did all the music and song writing.
Home Sweet Home
The musical
But here is the soundtrack.
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With all the Frank Bello bass being boughtā¦
How bout a little Anthrax
Got the Time?
https://youtu.be/be7iNHw8QoQ
feat: PUBLIC ENEMY
Bring the Noise
https://youtu.be/kl1hgXfX5-U
I am the Man
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Bring The Noise is such a classic.
@T_dub You got me in the mood for Circle Jerks now. This live show came up and I surprised he still sounds basically as good as he did when he was young. Then heās like āI donāt smoke, I donāt drinkā so of course heās still got them vocal chords LOL
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Keith Morris? he was not straight edge AFAIK
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Of course, I am gonna watch this whole show now.
I got YouTube on the TV, showing the
RipCurl Rottnest Search LIVE from Western OZ
and
YouTube on the computer watching the Circle Jerksā¦ LOL
At least it will be a short set. HAHA
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I donāt think he is either, but he has a great voice still after all these years of touring.
He was just singing a song with those lyrics but maybe he doesnāt party to much after all because his voice does still sound great.
After drinking and smoking it degrades and you canāt replace the vocal chords like you can bass strings.
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Imagine if you could.
Yeah, he does sound the same. I donāt think he was a hardcore alcoholic / addict, but I donāt think he was straight edge either.
Better for our ears at least.
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Sometimes those worn voices just have character though.
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Eden Brent, one of my favorite young blues artists. You can hear her life in her voice.
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That would indeed be pretty cool. Yeah that was my point because his lyrics had sXe themes, or maybe he covered a song with straight edge lyrics from that set I linked.
Would make sense if he never went overboard, would definitely make his records sound much better especially later on in life.
Thatās very true but itās also the same gamble as puberty. Young pop stars sometimes lose their āmagicalā singing voice once it cracks at the first sight of vaginers.
Same with the singers that went overboard partying. One day voice just dips and you are shit out of luck on character. Sometimes it blows over alright, sometimes it even gets better. But the gamble is too big to take in my opinion.
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Iām starting to realize the guys who put music in front and took that seriously over partying had the right idea because their life and results speak for themselves later on in life where they still have the drive and energy to keep doing what theyāre doing because they eliminated unnecessary obstacles for themselves early on.
Like when a musician goes home after a show instead of visiting the after parties are the ones who really got their head in the game, Iām realizing.
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Too true. Have you ever heard a pre-teen Britney Spears? She had a great voice. Didnāt survive puberty.
I donāt disagree with what you say, just offering a counterpoint. And I say that as my favorite young singer is Suzuka Nakamoto, who is an extremely clean singer (whose voice survived adolescence). Here she contrasts with Oli Sykes, who felt the freedom to go extreme because of Suās clean vocals. Listen to the high note she holds - no wavering or vibratto. Such a talent.
When this song dropped I like many BMTH fans had thought Oli damaged his voice because he stopped doing metalcore vocals years ago. I was so pleasantly surprised, in a jaw dopping shock sort of way. Apparently it was all artistic choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyXvNkGQKc
Also a bass line I want to learn
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This came on Sirius when I was driving out to a clientās house this morning. Brought me back to college when we used to stalk (what was said to be) the lead singerās house in York, Pennsylvania. I was anything but sober back then, and not a bass player ā now Iām both and have no shame saying I got right home and spent about an hour learning most of the bass track. Because music has become my new party, I guess. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atWh5l_aUY8
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