Randomly Crap Out Your Opinions Thread

[a21schizoidman]

Urge...to kill you...and steal your tickets....rising....

its at the Porter County Fair, and Alright_Computer gets BOC/Alice Cooper in August

[Ultimatum]

On the topic of A_C, congrats on the battle submission.

[instantdeath999]

I'm usually good at picking things out of music, but I find the two things that give me trouble are

1. Bass pedal hits. I usually can only pick them up if they sound obnoxious.

2. When two or more guitars are used, determining which one is rhythm and which one is lead, and during twin solo's determining who is playing what.

[LegendofRock3021]

I'm usually good at picking things out of music, but I find the two things that give me trouble are

1. Bass pedal hits. I usually can only pick them up if they sound obnoxious.

2. When two or more guitars are used, determining which one is rhythm and which one is lead, and during twin solo's determining who is playing what.

Yeah, it complicates things further when you're listening to a band that has twin lead guitar with alternating solos or Lynyrd Skynyrd's 3 lead guitarists along with rhythm. It can be tough figuring out who's playing which part and be confusing at times.

[Onslaught_fei]

Few. I'm not going insane.
Though it would be cool for me to somehow get leaks years in advance.

But you can with FUTURE FUSION METAL!

[Onslaught_fei]

I'm usually good at picking things out of music, but I find the two things that give me trouble are

1. Bass pedal hits. I usually can only pick them up if they sound obnoxious.

2. When two or more guitars are used, determining which one is rhythm and which one is lead, and during twin solo's determining who is playing what.

1) Good production will get a clean thud for bass drums. Ive heard bad production (mostly in alternative or hard rock even) where its under mixxed and drowned out by hihats, snares, or what have you.

2) Lead and rhythm will sometimes be layered on top of each other for verses or chorus or whatever for a song but lead guitar usually is tuned lighter and carries the melody. Some bands may both be utilizing rhythm and no lead at all as is the case with many songs that are chord driven and some bands like priest will have both guitars carrying seperate melodies at times. Look at Cliff Burton era Metallica basslines. Often he played what would technically be considered lead bass guitar because he was carrying a melody instead of a rhythm (fade to black, orion, anathesia, etc...) But yeah it can be really really hard to tell whos exactly playing what and when. Even so, bands like Opeth and Megadeth record guitar parts in segments, seperately from the vocalist and oftentimes not the person who will be playing the part live.

[Insane3]

i'm a pretty huge antony fan, but can't really get into this one. i think "i am a bird now" is near flawless, though.

Yeah well right now I'm too much into the Crying Light to care about I am a Bird Now lol.

[instantdeath999]

I'm definitely in the minority on this one, but I feel that The Doors "LA Woman" is a much weaker album than "Morrison Hotel", particularly Morrisons performance (not to say it is bad at all, just not as strong as his previous performances. His little "harmonica solo" was very interesting as well).

Not to say I don't thoroughly enjoy both, though.

1) Good production will get a clean thud for bass drums. Ive heard bad production (mostly in alternative or hard rock even) where its under mixxed and drowned out by hihats, snares, or what have you.

2) Lead and rhythm will sometimes be layered on top of each other for verses or chorus or whatever for a song but lead guitar usually is tuned lighter and carries the melody. Some bands may both be utilizing rhythm and no lead at all as is the case with many songs that are chord driven and some bands like priest will have both guitars carrying seperate melodies at times. Look at Cliff Burton era Metallica basslines. Often he played what would technically be considered lead bass guitar because he was carrying a melody instead of a rhythm (fade to black, orion, anathesia, etc...) But yeah it can be really really hard to tell whos exactly playing what and when. Even so, bands like Opeth and Megadeth record guitar parts in segments, seperately from the vocalist and oftentimes not the person who will be playing the part live.

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I figured that very often a rhythm and lead guitarist will play similar, or even identical, parts on top of each other. Of course, I can only imagine it's difficult to keep exact timing with the other, considering if either guitarist makes a mistake, it messes up the entire section.

[a21schizoidman]

forums are acting up again....

[Runesmith]

2. When two or more guitars are used, determining which one is rhythm and which one is lead, and during twin solo's determining who is playing what.

This can be difficult, especially when I'm listening to Thin Lizzy. Some bands who record in stereo feed each guitar into different outputs, though, which makes it a bit easier to isolate the instruments. I know MCR (this is the best example I could come up with) have the rhythm guitar playing on one headphone or speaker while the lead guitar is on the other.