I had the honour of meeting alex webster at a cannibal corpse gig in manchester in around 2004, they all came out and met everybody out the back and it was awesome, we talked about awesome horror movies and stuff for about 15 mins lol, then they all posed for photos with various people, really really great bunch of guys!
A point Alex made on resonance is key. Brass gives you the loudest/brightest tone unplugged, if your contact points (bridge and nut) are both brass your going to have a well resonating instrument. Funny story, I ruined a 2010 special edition tele putting a brass nut in it to counteract my brass bridge. It was a great sounding/playing guitar but having just recently built a guitar all but the neck (stolen from my first guitar) I decided I had the skills to add a nut. Problem was the previous nut had a round bottom, and the one I bought was flat so I fucked up the filing. I dug in too far, and not wide enough, the nut sat in place fine, and had a good action, sounded great with brass on brass, but the nut wasn't made right. The G string slot wasn't cut deep enough, whenever you bended your string popped out. Luckily I traded this once awesome guitar to my friend who plays chordy kind of songs without bending for a jackson Dave Elefson prototype bass he didn't use, and I've been playing bass for 3 years before this, and guitar for 5 before that so all worked out. It's not the worse butchering of a guitar I've seen but the guitar was so new you could say it was "butchered at birth"... OK I'll shut up now.
9:27 lol George is just like : "what?!.....stfu..........don't blame me........my foot caught it didn't have muh glasses.......ACCIDENT!!" then goes through and shuts the door to continue playing warcraft \m/
Pat O'brien is the most metal dude ever, period. Why? Because, whenever he plays one of his BC Rich Vs, he's got double amount of nuts! Other pair in the groin, other in the headstock! Metal!
My top 5 Death Metal bands 1: Death 2: Cannibal Corpse 3: Amon Amarth 4: Obituary 5: Carcass Honorable mentions are Dethklok, Deicide, Vader, Dying Fetus, etc.
I wonder if Barrett has tried Kahler tremolos before. In my own experience, Kahlers are a total godsend when it comes to tremolos. Nowhere near the same amount of maintenance found in Floyd Roses.
How could anyone not be gear-obsessed? I bought the flagship of my collection, a mint condition Gibson Les Paul Custom (Natural finish) from the original owner for $400and just ran from there. My 1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe has the most perfect Cherry Sunburst finish I've ever seen; flawless red-to-yellow gradation. A Gibson Roy Smeck Radio Grande Hawaiian steel acoustic which I picked up with original case at a house sale for only $40 is now appraised at around $20,000. Gotta love the gear.
I'm the same way with my basses...If it doesn't resonate well enough naturally, it won't resonate well plugged in...The more tinny and harsher the sound when you smack all the strings like he does there the better, because once it's plugged in and wattage is added, you add punch and low end...Add that to an already wooly sounding bass and you've got clarity issues off the bat. :-/
Just watched that now oddly and noticed the tape there also, and then he explained it. Wow, I never knew this...The hell I've recorded many times and never thought of that...Think I'll give it a shot next time. :-)
