Yeah dude. The first day he started, I had them playing in the back room, because somebody had mentioned it and I wanted to see if it was true. Totally is true. He laughed about then we talked about the music industry for about 15 minutes. It's kind of funny to hear what he has to say about the mid 90's scene.
"Law of Ruins" is a goddamn masterpiece. "Half Control" is right up there too. "Paranormalized" is pretty fucking sick too. This band just rules altogether.
Ruins is alright imo(Bad Aptitude rocks hard!), but Exposure and Paranormalized are their masterpieces. I used to drive around at night in my dad's white boat of a van, take hydrocodone, sip on rum and coke, and just be in the zone listenin' to Paranormalized. Coke and Mirrors..does it get smoother/darker than that?
John MacLean, who played guitar in the band back then, was a proud Travis Bean user. Not sure what amps he used, but that signature sound comes mostly from that aluminum neck.
I never really got it. My band was social friends with them, and we shared a practice space with them in the early 90s, which worked out great for us, because they were always touring. Still scratching my head.
Thanks for the reply. I had never heard of those guitars before. I did on search on Travis Bean and a picture of Jerry Garcia using one popped up. I love that cold, electric sound they make on this song.
Alien Soundtracks! Half-Machine Lip Moves! YES!! But I like to think 6FS and Chrome are two separate entities. Chrome is more chopped and screwed prog-meets-acid-punk, where Six Finger is more polished, dark post-punk(which I guess is usually dark anyways). But then Six Finger has this creepy, coked out business men who secretly do black-ops in black face sort of vibe. I dunno..is there "light" post-punk?? Latter day Wire, maybe?
wow... what a rarity! a cool group doing new wave in the fuckin 90s! I was searching for this sound but I did only find some industrial eggs that time.
@SuperMario16bit I saw Brainiac 3 times between '92 and '95. Great onstage, yet I only owned one 7inch by them-need to get a full length still. I read that the guy who ran Grass (Brainiac's 1st label) wound up working for the majors and signed Creed (the shitty one not Helios).
@xTheOxx you seem to know alot about them. never got to hear them... back in the time (1993) a lot fo articles were written about them. is it true they covered erasure???
@Jauly The were in a class of their own. Of their contemporaries, only Arab on Radar could possibly compare. All of their LPs from the original line-up are essential listening. My personal fave is Law of Ruins. The latest one, with the semi-reunited band, is a bit of a disappointment.
@v1switch The weird thing is that I read that the guy who signed Creed was in one of the bands on the Grass roster. I can't remember what the name of that band was but this guy was dropping names like Nation Of Ulysses and Ornette Coleman I believe. I thought it was really bizarre that someone who knew that much about music would be involved in signing perhaps the worst music ever imaginable.
