That dude so gets it. If you get what's going there you'll be right next to him doing the same thing & embracing / enjoying some great shit happening. Haha
This has to be one of my favorite videos on the internet. Spencer's collared tank top, the flower guitar, Zach going apeshit, the two girls awkwardly headbobbing behind Spencer, all the unenthusiastic camermen, and of course, afro glasses bro with the front backpack jamming out by Zach.
Polyrhythm and thrashing together at its best. Zach Hill sounds like Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali together, on speed! The guitarist is awesome! These guys are technical with a thrashing groove.
zach's cymbal stack from this era is like a fuckin eldritch horror beyond human comprehension. what kind of madman creates such an infernal machine. sounds great!
I fucking miss live Hella performances. I took my cousin who was a musician like me, but more had more of a commercial style of making music. I was just interested in seeing new ideas & what I haven't heard before. I think being experimental is a stage that any musician who wants to be different should go through & stick around until they find their own concentrated well defined idea & sound. My cousin was all about the Incubus, Weezer, your basic alternative rock comfort zone. He didn't get what Hella was doing at all, haha. He got a head ache & said never again.
maskseverywhere holy shit, can't believe you have got the same profile pic as me, you must be thinking the same as well and thinking you were the only person cool enough haha, i noticed you had a 'dopethrone' pic in your background as well, i was recently listening to that, crazy. we must be the only ppl on youtube with this pic perhaps and met on here
sometimes I wonder if theres something wrong with my head. Because...I feel that this music really makes me feel relaxed in a weird way even though its so claustrophobic and spastic.
There's a comforting progression that takes place. I don't get to write code much these days, but when I do, it's usually to Hella. Gets me in the zone for concentrating.
Hella music It´s like listen God at the fucking moment of universal creation.Explosions and colours in my head!They dominate the chaos...they reinvent the music and how to play their instruments.hella is a legendary band.who can play like them?nobody.It´s like see jimmy hendrix at first time in the 60`s.INCREDIBLE
+CULTmk My two cents: Even from a non-fanboy standpoint, most of their albums sound very different. "No 666" had a six person band, keyboards, and vocals. Their first album was a split between the two members of the band with chiptune-ish/glitch sounds, especially on Hill's half of the record. "Bitches Ain't Shit" had keyboards and noisiness, tracks with no drums and/or guitar. I think they get written off because most people aren't interested in the intensity, I'd argue that they have no less variety (if not far more variety) than most bands do but their style is just way more in-your-face so it SEEMS like less variety. Also, I can see fans writing it off because of how big Zach Hill is now and his approach to music now. This video is from way back when Hella was much less known in comparison. No matter what, these guys did it right.
@@cn1506 Another reason why they're written off may be that the production on many of the records besides Hold Your Horse Is isn't that great. A lot of their other recordings are much more harsh and cluttered making them less accessible.
im deeply grateful for the digital reproduction of this performance and for how we're all able to experience even a fraction the same euphoria that must've filled that room, even after commenting 5 years ago this still hits pretty hard for me. thank you Spencer Seim and Zach Hill, your music got me through some pretty tough times. Best of luck to you guys wherever you are
Really pleased by my personal story arc of loving hella before death grips then seeing DG start and Zack get the credit and attention as an artist he truly deserves
Been a long time since I first reunited with my cousins after graduating from a crazed and insane high school (where i was introduced to Death Grips which led me to getting to know Zach Hill and his aggressive drumming history).
