i have really been digging on the unsane album "scattered, smoothered, covered". i love it. the album blood run is really good to (fun fact, there is NO post EQ on the album, it is all soure -> pre -> comp -> tape). sounds good to me!
Talk about whatcha want, if it starts getting to Zen Disc level of bullshit (which it won't because we're all reasonable in here,) I'll just delete the threads... ya dig?
I couldn't get into Blood Run. It's good but what I really like about the old Unsane stuff, esp. Scattered, is it gives me this feeling like the whole thing could just go caterwauling out of control at any second, like they all just might just throw down their instruments and start beating the shit out of each other at some random moment. Blood Run has the same kind of sound but it just feels different.
Also, someone should refresh my memory on Dave Curran's bass rig... Love his tone.
frank, i think it is just an SVT turned up loud. i might be wrong?
everyone always says that chris spencer uses EMG pickups in his tele, but i don't think that's the case. also, it seems like sometimes he uses a rectifier, sometimes he uses a twin/super reverb and a distortion plus . . . sounds so badass though.
i like how VISCERAL it all is. it's like "yeah, i could get this angry and write this stuff".
Quote from: LogicalFrank on July 05, 2011, 01:48:33 PM
Also, someone should refresh my memory on Dave Curran's bass rig... Love his tone.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w-Lca7l2SGQ/TMHmELk9GqI/AAAAAAAAAI4/GLQc4Q2PFNw/s400/IMG_2247.JPG)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w-Lca7l2SGQ/TMHmD5MYrfI/AAAAAAAAAIw/o0F223SyEAw/s400/IMG_2252.JPG)
Plus an amp, sometimes an SVT or whatever and a rack compressor.
that's awesome hemi. that whole band is pretty ratty sounding.
i'm sure they are loud, i've yet to see them (damn shows in chicago that are during the week!)
Blood Run is one of my favorite albums by any band. Joel from TapeOp, who engineered the record, wrote a good short article about the recording process.
http://www.eqmag.com/article/i-miked-the/sep-05/12826 (http://www.eqmag.com/article/i-miked-the/sep-05/12826)
As for Dave's rig I know he uses a Fender Precision into an Ampeg SVT/810. The pedal board pic Hemi posted is from last year, I think he has used a big box Rat in the past.
(http://www.lacemusic.com/artists/images/Dave%20Curran.jpg)
That's not an SVT he's using there, maybe an SVT-Pro, or a GK or Glockenklang?
and he's using J-Bass Sensors, so I guess it's either a mod'd P or a J
i hope i'm as cool as chris spencer when i'm 40 something. how that guy can even speak after screaming for an hour a night for 23 years is beyond me.
Funny, because I've been listening to Unsane a bunch lately too. What a great band with great songs recorded in such a way that is able to often capture their live pummeling. I'm aslo a huge fan of the Visqueen album. The Last Man Standing is one of the heaviest songs ever made.
Have you guys checked out their Coextinction Records site? I almost started a thread about ot a little while ago, recognizing their unique approach to the "record label" concept. Good stuff om there.
http://www.coextinction.com/Artists.php?ArPg_Main.html
Talking about music here is a great idea. How about some links of said songs so I can check them out :)
Cheers
Last Man Standing is definitely a killer song.
Here Spook...
and...
Quote from: Jake on July 05, 2011, 05:02:10 PM
Funny, because I've been listening to Unsane a bunch lately too. What a great band with great songs recorded in such a way that is able to often capture their live pummeling. I'm aslo a huge fan of the Visqueen album. The Last Man Standing is one of the heaviest songs ever made.
Have you guys checked out their Coextinction Records site? I almost started a thread about ot a little while ago, recognizing their unique approach to the "record label" concept. Good stuff om there.
http://www.coextinction.com/Artists.php?ArPg_Main.html
visqueen is a great album. it has seriously made me re-think music and what is can/can't be. last man standing is great. i really enjoy d train off of blood run as well, i mean, any song that asserts "get on the fucking train" is ok by me!
Also a massive, massive fan of anything that is even peripheral Unsane -- JJ Pardise Players Club, Players Club, Cuthroats 9, and PIGS. Hell, even Made Out Of Babies is good stuff.
I got a lot of love for Unsane!
Friday night, just cracked a beer, Stereo cranked with Unsane. My usual start to the weekend.
I am so down with Unsane, after this thread.
one of the greatest bands ever..
Unsane...warms the heart.
Quote from: Corey Y on July 05, 2011, 05:28:14 PM
Last Man Standing is definitely a killer song.
Here Spook...
and...
Thanks :) I'm listening right now.
Been jamming Visqueen since yesterday.
Quote from: SunnO))) on July 06, 2011, 09:37:29 AM
Been jamming Visqueen since yesterday.
great album. even the artwork is so raw.
My friend James has been their main photog for many years. Took the photos for the artwork you're talking about. I too love this band mucho. have heard some good stories.
Don't forget one of Chris' newest projects. Celan
Quote from: RAGER on July 06, 2011, 11:33:14 AM
My friend James has been their main photog for many years. Took the photos for the artwork you're talking about. I too love this band mucho. have heard some good stories.
Don't forget one of Chris' newest projects. Celan
celan is cool, but i can't find any cd's in america. something about legal issues?
anyway, now that you have lifted the lid on stories, you MUST revel us with some.
Sorry to tease but a little too close to home. 8)
Great band and great guys. Dave is one of the funniest coolest people you'd ever wanna meet.
I saw em not long ago performing all of Scattered. Dave mentioned that he was doing sound for the melvins tour, this was last august.
We occasionally used a rehearsal studio that they would use in brooklyn and one night they were in the room before we were, practicing songs off Scattered. When they were done destroying the place and I walked into the room, I looked at the 57 mic on the stand and it was still dripping huge globs of drool from it. i gotta say its tough to practice after listening to a band like that rehearse, even after swappng out the drooling mic. They are also really nice and supportive to other local bands, we did alot of shows with em which they helped us get on the bill for. The best times tho were the loft parties they played. Holy crap. Free Unsane show in your buddys brooklyn apartment = heaven. Their music is heavy as hell, wild , seems on the brnk of disaster, but its so tight and controlled and efficient too and most importantly and what i like about the band alot....it has GROOVE...the songs fucking swing. You cant exactly dance to it, more like punch someones face in in time to the music haha...but theres a STRONG groove thats not present in alot of heavy music.
Early unsane was quite a trip also. Charlie was an insane partier, and Pete Shore ...way ahead of his time on bass, a pioneer.
The band would just let their mics and guitars feedback in between songs. SO loud. One of the 3 loudest shows Ive been too (Metallica and Jusitce tour and Dino Jr holding the other two spots).
Scattered was recorded in Minneapolis suposedly during a severe winter. They said they were pretty much locked inside with their labelmates the Cows for weeks...haha. that musta been something.
Heres a better Celan song/video.
Quote from: Chovie D on July 06, 2011, 04:31:07 PM
Great band and great guys. Dave is one of the funniest coolest people you'd ever wanna meet.
I saw em not long ago performing all of Scattered. Dave mentioned that he was doing sound for the melvins tour, this was last august.
We occasionally used a rehearsal studio that they would use in brooklyn and one night they were in the room before we were, practicing songs off Scattered. When they were done destroying the place and I walked into the room, I looked at the 57 mic on the stand and it was still dripping huge globs of drool from it. i gotta say its tough to practice after listening to a band like that rehearse, even after swappng out the drooling mic. They are also really nice and supportive to other local bands, we did alot of shows with em which they helped us get on the bill for. The best times tho were the loft parties they played. Holy crap. Free Unsane show in your buddys brooklyn apartment = heaven. Their music is heavy as hell, wild , seems on the brnk of disaster, but its so tight and controlled and efficient too and most importantly and what i like about the band alot....it has GROOVE...the songs fucking swing. You cant exactly dance to it, more like punch someones face in in time to the music haha...but theres a STRONG groove thats not present in alot of heavy music.
Early unsane was quite a trip also. Charlie was an insane partier, and Pete Shore ...way ahead of his time on bass, a pioneer.
The band would just let their mics and guitars feedback in between songs. SO loud. One of the 3 loudest shows Ive been too (Metallica and Jusitce tour and Dino Jr holding the other two spots).
Scattered was recorded in Minneapolis suposedly during a severe winter. They said they were pretty much locked inside with their labelmates the Cows for weeks...haha. that musta been something.
Heres a better Celan song/video.
thats pretty cool that they are nice guys. chris seems pretty intense!
Chris IS intense. :D
Last time i saw him I asked him what amp he was using cause it looked like a fender super pro, and i had only seen him using mesa rectumfriers and marshalls. I think he said it was something he built and stuck in that cab or that he had modded a fender or something. icant recall.
It was strange to hear his typical Unsane tone coming from a fender combo amp enclosure.
I mostly talked to Dave and Vinnie tho.
Dave used to run sound at a place i would frequent and we'd sit in the booth and do one-ies all night.
One time it was the fourth of july in brooklyn and I heard this ungodly rumble thru the open window of my apartment. I hoped on my bike and followed the noise for 10 blocks where i ended up at the brooklyn brewery and saw that Dave was standing on a stage setup on a flatbed truck outside the brewery testing his bass rig out for the show that afternoon. You could hear that shit for miles.
Im not into tats but Vinnie owned a tat shop down the street from me. least i think he owned it?
anywa Great fucking band. true champs.
I won't directly post the link, but if one was to simply type "celan halo" into Google, they would be able to experience the studio versions of the songs.
nice. nice.
Quote from: RAGER on July 06, 2011, 11:33:14 AM
My friend James has been their main photog for many years. Took the photos for the artwork you're talking about. I too love this band mucho. have heard some good stories.
Don't forget one of Chris' newest projects. Celan
great fucking music...not to get all GD but what's with the young gay hitler drummer vibe I'm gett'n?! san fran...
I think Celan is based in berlin. I thought the drummer was one of the cooler visual aspects of the band.
yeah, they are based in europe, aren't they?
i think the whole visual of the band is awesome. the guy playing the piano has a really weird set of cabs (i want to say like old vertical pa stacks?). it looks like they could have just come from a roundtable book discussion and got on stage and rocked.