Did you grow up listening to early Black Flag? If you did I can understand that. The association between happiness and music is pretty damn strong, and if that music suddenly stops being the music you associate with said strong emotion, or if the music just starts sucking balls, that can have a powerful effect on you, sure. For me, there is only one band that I look down upon. The memories I have listening to them and going to their shows, to this day I still cherish them. But the music this band is playing now is so far removed from that—and it sucks from any point of view—that I just don't care about them any more. I would have preferred it if they called it quits.humancertainty wrote:Black Flag is dead to me. There are probably other bands, but that's the only one that jumps to my mind in my pre-caffeinated state. Wait, Metallica, too.AngryGoldfish wrote:That's a bit extreme. I don't think there are any bands I loved that are now 'dead to me'. The Hunter may have sucked, but everyone makes dodgy albums. Shit happens. I can understand disliking the newer stuff, but Blood Mountain is only a little bit more polished than Leviathan, slightly less raw, and maybe a little more progressive. You can't expect every album to sound the same. Blood Mountain was an incredibly intelligent record, and those that say it's not heavy or crazy enough... Bladecatcher? I think Leviathan is just as good, but I personally prefer Blood Mountain because it was the first album of theirs that I truly digested. That was one of the most played records in my collection. Crack the Skye was just as good as well, but I thought they struggled to perform the songs live. The vocal harmonies and all the complexities just couldn't be replicated properly. They bit off a little more than they could chew, but it was phenomenal on CD, IMO. I get why some don't like CtS and The Hunter, and I understand why others don't like Remission, but I don't understand the hate for Blood Mountain.
Never been a Mastodon fan. Nice enough guys. The demo was OK, I suppose.
Unrelated to all of that, I got an iPad.
For all of you that are already well initiated in the Cult of Mac, what apps should I get? Particularly music/recording stuff. I have picked up Garageband, Animoog, iMS-20, Modular and DM-1 so far. Mostly want to get a better recording app. And a sampling app.
Or maybe P90 rails?Ancient Astronaught wrote:P-90's are the best style of pickup for chord clarity under high gain, love em. I've recently started using rail pickups though and I'm really impressed by them, they seem to be more full range than normal pickups with amazing crunch and clarity. Rail HB in the bridge with a p-90 in the neck would make me one happy camper.chillerthanmost wrote:I'm a huge fan of playing heavy with single coils. I mainly use P90's but I'd rock a jazzy, a tele, and for a short while I was rocking a strat. I never play humbuckers anymore. Most of them sound dull and somewhat scooped to me at times. I did like the 57's in my Gibson when I had that, though. But I'm just a sucker for P90's now. Next I want a jazzmaster with telecaster routing/pickups.
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