he really sounds like his father
Happy Friday!
New Gorillaz, with Peter Hook on bass.
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some interesting things on this record
and I realize I’m actually posting during an actual friday for real 
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LOL that initial tremolo picking is deceptive. Things pick up around 1:30 in a big way 
Skipped way ahead, “The Great Blackout” is glorious and “The Sixth Glare” is pretty solid straight up metal. “After the Thaw” kind of reminds me of Syberia.
“Convalescense” -> “The Great Blackout” is really nice. Kind of reminds me of the way you really need to listen to the songs on Rheia in pairs.
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don’t remember if I already posted this, I don’t think so but I can be wrong
Love Baroness
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Saw this band last year at Fortress Fest. They were excellent.
one for @joergkutter 
maybe a repost, 'don’t know. incredible composition, incredible interpretation.
love the piano line indeed … it’s not much about an instrument here, more about a musician. well all those guys are incredibly good but I love the feeling the piano guy has here. love also the guitar player with a very “fusion” line, he pushes the thing to an almost-post-rock level and it just works.
for me the climax starts just after 6:15
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holy f**k … posted that on the wrong thread 
how stupid can I be so, well, here is the right thing on the right thread, hopefully …
you can do a lot of nice things with a Jazz Bass and a Telecaster
Gonna show my age now.
In my formative days, there was some music that got me to consider bass guitar as an instrument to pick up to enjoy making music more than I did.
When I was an unsuspecting teenager with a guitar, Solution (a Dutch band) did this:
At about 5:10, the drums and bass settle down in a groove that acts as the propulsion for the music, and that was one of the maybe 3? 5? things that settled it for me. I wanted to be part of such an engine so very much, so I got myself a bass and started learning.
This may sound dated today. But to me, it’s still fresh and alive and kicking and very acute.
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Thanks, @terb! Yeah, I guess we might have had this one before - but, it’s a while ago and it certainly deserves a re-share 
Yes, Dean Brown plays fairly “dirty” in a fusion context, very very different from, say Pat Metheny, and even Mike Stern.
And Eldar was a child prodigy on the piano - he played super fast technical stuff with the top NYC musicians when he came from Russia as a 16-year old kid. Amazing chops, but you could question how “musical” it all was. Now, he has matured a lot… I guess these things just take time!
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Very nice, @peterhuppertz - hadn’t heard of that group before! Reminds me of stuff I heard in my “formative days” as well. And, yes, the ostinato drum/bass grooves propelling a piece (and, often, an extended solo) forward were a staple of the music from those days… ELP did it, King Crimson did it, Camel did it, Zappa did it, and many more…
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Some glorious noise in here, plus a rocking of a P-bass that should make you smile
Guy has flying fingers up there with the flyingest of us, and is in a touring band on a real label. Seems really good actually
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wow I love it @howard ! thanks !
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Yeah I need to check out more of their stuff, really like them so far!
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I’me binge-watching every video from them right now. that’s really the kind of stuff I like. wild.
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Love their mix of drone/gaze and hardcore/driven sound.
yeah also with a good amount of noise/garage rock
Totally. These guys would have fit right in at most venues I went to in college and are equally fresh sounding today. Kind of a timeless sound really
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