Topic: The Music Thread

@Metonymy Thats def in my top 5 for fave guitar tones in-studio. My fave guitar tone in-studio is from an album that was solid to me at the time, but doesn't even sniff my faves and I'm not real high on the band. I like choice songs. But I just can't deny dialed in guitar tone. But bro, Whitesnake, self titled album their 7th studio album, aka the 1987 album. With still of the night, here i go again etc. Man the F'in guitar tone on the song Still of the night is as mighty as it gets. Just IMO of course. Those amps growl so freakin hard on that record, that the riffs themselves on that song aren't really all out metal, but the guitar tone growl's so angry that the song sounds Heavy as F. Esp in the intro. Its brief and just two chords, they let the 2nd chord sustain for a bit. When the 2nd chord is sustaining that tone and growl is so F'in mean. Its Murderers of all murderers mean!

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@Metonymy The F'ing growl man!!!

@StitchJones So awesome, man! I don’t know if you’re familiar with ‘Billy Talent’ at all, but Ian D’sa (probably my favourite guitarist) does some amazing things with tones, pushing his strat to the limits.

@Metonymy I just checked out Sleepwave, I've heard 'Through the Looking-glass' before and never once made that connection. It's probably because I heard their music but never watched their videos. I think it's because there's a band called Dire Straits and I thought their music was so good. I perhaps had feelings for the vocalist's voice it was smooth like butter in Sultans of Swing. Then one day I decided to look and he looked nothing like I expected. It's not the best reason but I found it easier to focus on the lyrics/language than get distracted by the visual, except for Roy Khan. He is something else, then he quit Kamelot. His reason was the insomnia from touring, which I one hundred percent understand. The last I heard he found God/Christ but if I remember correctly it's more like he believes in God but not organized religion.

I sort of found God and by extension maybe Christ last year. I'm not even sure how, I don't attend church or anything like that. I just decided that maybe I better pray before bed and then did it. It might sound silly but 'Dear God if you are up there, can you help me sleep tonight? thanks' actually helps. Then I decided to try some music related to God/etc and some of it stuck. No one told me to, it just happened one day. That's why I stopped listening to bands like Kreator and I'd seen them live so many times. I sort of pushed a lot of Norwegian Black Metal off to the side too because psychologically it didn't seem to be a good fit and we were moving them off the roster anyway. Then I think I'd listened to so much Flyleaf that Spotify said 'here try this' and it was all God/Christian type music. It was kind of peaceful, I saw my mood lift and decided that 'well maybe there's something to this'. I don't know about the distribution side of that genre I've only ever worked with the Rock/Metal side. It does make sense that there would be a kind of push or funding by certain groups. It's a little tricky because the music is sometimes very good but once I run the lyrics through my mind and fully grasp the music it seems to be very 'give yourself one hundred percent to God' but my mind already says 'give yourself one hundred percent to your Partner' so maybe God can have the Soul side and He can have the rest.

I just can't deny that when I did find and listen to that music it helped, like Ravix said sometimes things in life aren't perfect and music gets you through. It came into my life at the exact point I needed it, maybe that's how God/Christ works too.

This is the song that stood out the most. I just saw it as 'hey he's right Christ did come and something changed'. I'm torn because 'every song I'll sing for you' okay but 'if you get married will you sing a song for your wife?' it's just hard to understand wanting to give everything to Christ/God, I can't imagine Christ/God would want you to give everything to him, but I'm not religious so I don't know. I just heard some of those lyrics and unlike most English songs I didn't have to stop and make that translation, it was right there, automatic. I can deny a lot of things but not that song and not that moment and I still pray at bedtime to this day, something good happened.

I mentioned Billy Talent tonight to Ravix. A gamer in Canada introduced them to me, as soon as I saw that hair I knew it was Billy Talent. Rusted by The Rain and Afraid of Heights (both versions) are some of my favorites of theirs.

@Ravix I've heard Tiger's Jaw somewhere before but can't place them, the pizza reminded me. It's weird how you are finding these Essex bands, I haven't listened to Alakaline Trio in so long. I'll share my favorite of theirs it's from Crimson and the Underworld Evolution soundtrack.