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The completion of my polytrog has led to noodling this bassline all week. Couldn't remember what it was. I kept thinking "it sounds like headhunters but it definitely isn't headhunters." The similar walk up to the downbeat kept crossing the wires in my head.

I had to play it for my drummer at rehearsal today who called it immediately. I'M THE ONE WHO OWNS THIS RECORD. Embarrassing.

 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
The completion of my polytrog has led to noodling this bassline all week. Couldn't remember what it was. I kept thinking "it sounds like headhunters but it definitely isn't headhunters." The similar walk up to the downbeat kept crossing the wires in my head.

I had to play it for my drummer at rehearsal today who called it immediately. I'M THE ONE WHO OWNS THIS RECORD. Embarrassing.

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That’s a great record!
 
Brutal Youth might be one of Elvis Costello's more unsung albums. I don't think it is mentioned too often in "favorites" lists but it's just fantastic from start to finish.

Nick Lowe played bass on half of this album because of the issues between Elvis and Bruce Thomas. This was the first time he got the Attractions together since Blood and Chocolate, (which they actually recorded as a live band playing at volume because it was the only way they'd be able to get it done in time before they killed each other) and these two albums in particular I think stand out because of all of the contention between them.

20% Amnesia is one of my favorites from the album. This also features Elvis on bass, which I always appreciate, even though Bruce Thomas is one of my favorite bassists of all time.




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Welp. Fell back down the Emo rabbit hole a few days ago and discovered this band: UNWELL.


I’m also digging Alex Melton’s reimaginings.

Here’s a blink-182ified version of The Sweetness:


And a “y’allternative” version of blink’s Rock Show:


Nostalgia is a bitch!

EDIT: P&W isn’t my scene anymore, but I thought this was hilarious / well done!

 
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Skerik's played a few shows in one of the clubs I used to mix in, I had those nights off and got to just enjoy the show. He's been in a lot of cool bands, are you hip to Crack Sabbath and/or McTuff? My buddy Damian Erskine has been playing with him for the last few years, I'd love to see that in a small-ish club.
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Mctuff rules. They actually played at my drummer's wedding, he's a big fan.

Before the wedding, I was chatting with one of the catering employees. I was like, "you're lucky, wedding bands usually suck. Mctuff is gonna git dooooown." Turns out he wasn't catering. I later saw him setting up the organ... it was Joe Doria. I'm just glad I wasn't talking shit.

I got to hang with Andy Coe and his band a bit when he opened for a pal up mine up in Seattle like 7 years ago. Also a stellar dude.

Is funny, I've never met Damian but we know a lot of the same folk. That dude can play.
 
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Mctuff rules. They actually played at my drummer's wedding, he's a big fan.

Before the wedding, I was chatting with one of the catering employees. I was like, "you're lucky, wedding bands usually suck. Mctuff is gonna git dooooown." Turns out he wasn't catering. I later saw him setting up the organ... it was Joe Doria. I'm just glad I wasn't talking shit.

I got to hang with Andy Coe and his band a bit when he opened for a pal up mine up in Seattle like 7 years ago. Also a stellar dude.

Is funny, I've never met Damian but we know a lot of the same folk. That dude can play.
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I’ve mixed several shows Damian played on and built a tube preamp for him a decade ago. Yeah, he can play for sure. As nice a guy as you will ever meet too, and so easy to work with.

My old bandmates in Seattle are tight with Andy Coe, thay guy is quite a player too!
 
Yeah, no joke. That night he played a set as Andy Coe Band and they played mostly acoustic arrangements of Grateful Dead tunes which they absolutely crushed but... not as much my thing as Mctuff and the like. I'll take Andy playing Jerry over Jerry any day.

Also, no hate. American Beauty is a great record.
 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
Yeah, no joke. That night he played a set as Andy Coe Band and they played mostly acoustic arrangements of Grateful Dead tunes which they absolutely crushed but... not as much my thing as Mctuff and the like. I'll take Andy playing Jerry over Jerry any day.

Also, no hate. American Beauty is a great record.
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He does a Dead cover thing on Monday nights at one of our old haunts in Seattle, or at least used to. Our band was a DeadHead/jam band oriented deal, but we took it somewhere completely else a lot of the time, with a lot edgier sound and broader song list than you’d typically see in that world. Pure anarchy at times too, which I loved.

We play a few Dead tunes at the Friday acoustic jam most weeks, I manage to stay entertained even though I was mostly over that music by the late 70s or so.
 
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