The tone. Good lord the tone in this era. The bass, the guitars, the singing, the drums. Just amazing. Like the 60s jam bands but just so much heavier and more groovier.
I watched this the first time I tripped on acid. I totally zoned out and got lost in the music. Once I thought it was almost over, I thought about how great it was, only to realize I was only three minutes into the song.
Kyuss was so fucking great. Those 1st 3 albums were mind blowing. Still listening to them. And nobody ever brings up that Josh was only 14 when Kyuss formed.
@@robrowboski3057 not sure if it would’ve made any difference but he swapped out the tailpiece on all of them, with this sunburst one getting a different bridge and being converted to string through body, and the black one having a more traditional LP-style bridge and tailpiece 🤷♂️
Also pretty sure it’s the fact that he’s stopped using his Ampeg and Tube Works heads and instead started using custom build and Peavey solid state heads instead, and to my ears at least, more recent performances sound like he’s gone for more conventional settings on his amp, while in the early days he would max out the mids both on the amp and via at least one EQ pedal (a GE-7 was seen on his pedalboard around this time, and he definitely used a Maestro MPF-1 in the studio, but could be using a custom built clone live as they’re pretty rare and fragile pedals to gig with, even back then)
I've seen them three times in 2017/2018. They were not nearly as good as any of the shows I watch on RU-vid from '05 and earlier, not that I was there. I'd kill to have seen this show or any show in '02.
