[kj] Everman

[Brendan]

Yeah true that, at least he's been there done that. Shame about the last
choice though. And in terms of heavy metal, there's plenty of Nirvana and
especially Soundgarden that I'd classify as metal leaning, both of them
hit me harder than most of that tinny shit metal from the 80s with the
piss-weak drumming, production, high pitched screaming, boring homogenous
guitar work, and retarded 14-year old boy's fantasy themes. Oh and the
horror props and artwork.

Songs like Limo Wreck and Lithium blow all that shit out of the water.
Would have to put Alice in Chains right up there too. I often have
arguments with friends about which one of the three was "harder". Of
course it's Soundgarden, as my doctorate will one day prove... ;)

There are a lot of techniques and themes that, to me, make a song
"harder", as we were talking about in terms of KJ recently e.g. Exorcism,
other than the stock standard metal, high tempo, cookie monster (or
ridiculously high pitched) vocals, trebbly guitar solo crap. Such as
slowing everything down to a sludgly pace (Sabbath, Soundgarden), tension
and release (Nirvana), counterpoint / harmony (Alice in Chains), low fi
(Kyuss), rhythm-driven (Tool, Soundgarden, Rage) etc.

My .02 worth.





> my last attempt to see if my posts get through, before i go crying to Rob,

>

> Evermans in the US Army now!

> last heard of in Iraq!

> Nirvana>soundgarden>invade Iraq:  thats an interesting life by anyones

> standards!

>

>

> On 17/09/2007, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

>>

>> Yeah he got into some Soundgarden music videos, even though he never

>> wrote

>> or recorded anything with them. Didn't fit in, wasn't weird enough, and

>> couldn't play in 14/19 ;).

>>

>> Ben Shepherd had a similar pedigree in some respects, he was 'in'

>> Nirvana

>> before Soundgarden, toured with them but never played, he was on the

>> bench

>> so to speak, as a backup bassist. Suppose it was in case Novoselic did

>> something stupid like throwing a bass into the air and it landing on his

>> head. Actually i think it was also because he was friends with

>> Kurt...they

>> were both weirdos. Not sure which one moreso.

>>

>> PS: Alex, that 2nd Hater CD is good value, another eclectix mix like the

>> first but more of a surfer kind of theme, if you can give it a theme...

>>

>> > Yeah, Jason Everman was sort've the ultimate Grunge Also-Ran. The

>> > Pete Best of Grunge, if you will.

>> >

>> > Alex in NYC

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> > On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Change wrote:

>> >

>> >>

>> >> --- Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

>> >>

>> >>>

>> >>> Yeah, it was. I saw them a week or so later at the

>> >>> (much bigger) New

>> >>> Ritz, but at L'Amour, it was amazing. VoiVod still

>> >>> had Blacky in the

>> >>> rank, Soundgarden had Jason Evermore (I think that

>> >>> was his name) on

>> >>> bass.

>> >>>

>> >>> Alex in NYC

>> >>

>> >> Jason Everman

>> >> Also pictured on the cover of "Bleach" by Nirvana

>> >> although he didn't play on the album.

>> >>

>> >> INTERZONE

>> >> http://www.augustineleudar.110mb.com/Interzone.htm

>> >>

>> >> RTX, Kristin Hersh, Githead, Shellac, Michael Gira & the Dirty

>> >> Three interviewed here:

>> >> http://www.perfectsoundforever.com

>> >>

>> >> Polysics interviewed here:

>> >> http://www.cultcargo.net

>> >>

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