SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

Hey hey hey.

Alice in chains. I like you, sir.

birdwithteeth11 wrote: Not a whole lot. Tripping out to Tago Mago. Let me know what you think of Live in Tokyo, Luke. I'll probably get it eventually but it's not too high on the priority list because of the cost.

Will do. 39.25 total Felt horrible after I bought it, but I needed it to complete my collection.

Jury Duty tomorrow, ugh.

Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote: birdwithteeth11 wrote: Not a whole lot. Tripping out to Tago Mago. Let me know what you think of Live in Tokyo, Luke. I'll probably get it eventually but it's not too high on the priority list because of the cost. Will do. 39.25 total Felt horrible after I bought it, but I needed it to complete my collection. Jury Duty tomorrow, ugh.

Ugh, jury duty.  Well hopefully you don't get tied down in a 6-month murder trial or something like that. Unless you'd enjoy it of course.

Finally finished that stinkin' review. I almost forgot I'd even started it several months back.

Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote: Nice review David, been meaning to acquire that album for quite some time.

Not my favorite by Can, but still pretty damn good.

Man, I just cranked out a second review and now I'm finishing up a third one.  I guess I'm finally getting back into that kind of mood again.

In case you guys miss the Tech/Extreme thread, check this out.
I'm not sure if you guys ever noticed this, but listen to Esoteric Surgery from The Way Of All Flesh starting at 40 seconds back to back with the opening riff of Bleed and then listen also to Old Days Born Anew from Silhouettes (the band in question being Textures) at about the 4:45ish mark I think, somewhere between 4:30 and 5 minutes anyway I think.
It took me months to even notice it.

I'll check it out after I finish Opeth, Harry.

Speaking of which, I think I finished my last non-5 star Opeth review.

I was talking about the guitar parts actually, but yep, same bass drum pattern too.
Interestingly enough, I'm able to play that riff at the speed Gojira play it, but the speed at which Meshuggah does it feels like it will give me carpal tunnel syndrome when I try it.

It's interesting certainly, since there is a point where every single rhythmic pattern has probably been done before since that style of groove metal riffing has been around since the 90s.
I guess that's the point where you stop focusing on trying to create "original" riffs because you can't anymore and instead you start focusing on making great compositions, which to my mind is much more interesting than trying to go out of your way to make inventive riffs instead of composing well, because at the end of the day chances are that riff was used already, perhaps at a different speed or different tuning or whatever.


Edited by Petrovsk Mizinski - June 03 2009 at 00:05