Some real standouts on that album (Inquisition, etc).
I’ve been putting quality time in to Weapon today and it’s truly outstanding. In fact I think it’s going straight to my top 3. Very much a throwback to the Bites/Remission days in some ways; in other ways, it sounds a lot like '90s Front Line Assembly, and there’s some notable and unsurprising similarity to cEvin Key’s 2000s solo work. Just a really great album that’s a bit less grit and a bit more melodic than most post-Bites Puppy albums. Worlock would fit right in on this one, much more than it did on Rabies.
I love the absolutely quacky filter work he has going on this one:
And you can’t beat the story behind the album name; for a band like the Puppy, that’s just free advertising
So I’m trying to get something recorded this week-ish that I think you’ll really dig. I don’t trust myself to record it just yet, there’s a pinky roll through most of the core part of the bassline that I tend to be hit or miss with and I can’t really cheat and play it with my ring finger.
Not Puppy but one of their side projects. Very much more melodic than most of the post Bites Puppy stuff. I don’t really know where else the song would fit tbh. It’s kind of its own animal. It kinda fits on the album its on, only because the album is a collection of stuff that I’m not really sure where else it would fit (but it all works).
I really love Greater Wrong of the Right. Without any other qualifiers it’s in my top 3 albums they’ve ever done. I should spend more time with Weapon. I really dig it but I never seem to think to put that one on.
Edit: As far as memorable shows of theirs, I went and saw them touring for GWotR at the House of Blues in downtown Disney (Anaheim). Kevin put a GW Bush mask on at one point, and someone came out from backstage with a Dick Cheney mask on and pretended to behead Ogre. That was back when he was still doing the fake blood They were banned from playing there again after that.
Don’t know if I should post it, but I am listening to my own remix of “Bantam” by “my” park-punk-chick G.Goere. A lot!
Spotify:
What started as talking about music with ADHS punks in the park, then making a cover for BassBuzz, endet up in a remix, where I played bass, dissected the track and finally rebuild it, giving it some more tension….
That was an interesting experience, especially as the original producer did not really cooperate, while the singer pushed me to do it.
I learned a lot by doing this - and can advise everybody to do something like that at least once, as you need to analyze & rethink songs, which is great fun!
Two things were frustrating:
as the producer had “lost” the original assets, I had to rebuild the track by stem seperation from an MP3, which was not great for the quality. I did use several stem separation methods, to get the best stems for each instrument and vocals.
I wanted the timing of the vocals and the bass to be perfect. So I recut the vocals, to match the beat at least at the most important points, and quantisized the bass (thanks, @howard for the hints how to to that). Unfortunately my park-punk-chick wanted it to be imperfect, so I had to compromise and reintroduce sloppy timing.
So, funny story: last weekend I went to a local underground club where everybody present could have been my grandchildren. And what did they play? My very own remix! And people danced to it, yay! Also, it was nice to hear my bass LOUD through stage speakers.
I felt like a T-Rex, clapping his hands for the first time
Also funny: the remix artist (=me) is called “Dirty Park Cowboy”. People in the park call me “Park Cowboy”, so I used that name. The remix was supposed to be dirty. But somehow I became the “Dirty Park Cowboy”, leading to all kinds of questions by my girlfriend about the nature of the cooperation with my park-punk-chick. The picture did not help
I dig both versions. Nice job on the bass line and the remix! Hilarious AI bass guitar. 5 tuning machines. 4 strings to the fretting hand. 5 strings from the fretting hand to the plucking hand, then 4 strings to the bridge.
I sub’d her YT channel. I’m now her third subscriber! She disabled comments on both versions, so please pass this comment on to her.
Ich liebe deinen ersten Song. Mehr davon bitte! Ich bin hier dank des „Dirty Park Cowboy“.
DistroKids is a service that allows you to distribute your tracks to all kinds of platforms (Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Qobuz etc.) for a very low fee.
It’s quite interesting how easy it is to get music to your fans nowadays. I remember when friends in struggling bands in the 80s could not get a foot in the door in the music industry. Well, except when thy had a good looking female singer … or were ready to change there image substantially.
Don’t say that. I am not allowed to say “dirty” anymore by my girlfriend
Too much back story - but I’ve really never been interested in pop music. Jazz, Classical, World, Folk, A-Cappella etc. So here I am discovering an entire lifetime of genres plunking around on the bass and loving every minute of it.
There are a LOT of really great songs I love to play along with that I don’t actually love (The Lovecats?) and music that I can only listen to and play along with in a very certain mood (Rage Against the Machine?) but the stuff that’s on my playlist all the time is 70s funk. Who knew?
Right now Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke is the… “I’m going to play this someday!”
They were banned from playing there again after that.
