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The Melvins have a new album out called Pinkus Abortion Clinic...yea :>)

 

Even tho I dont frequent this forum like I used 2, I just wanted to say thanx to U who keep this thread goin. I get to hear all the good stuff with digging thru all the fodder. Much 'presh

 

this MM guy is insane. What band was he in? gOOgin now

 

good morning all

 

its just fun goofy fun!

 

Old, but still amazing how you fit those tonal and atonal instruments together. Definitely best cover for maestro Bowie
The best from 6:45 <3

 

The lead in this song.....especially at the 51:25 mark. Also, the bass player plays all upstrokes

 

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Killer

 

It is important to read the text under the video.

“Ease With The Breeze” was written by Mark O’Connor at age 16, and first appeared on his recording at age 17 entitled “On the Rampage.” There is no reverb, eq or compression on this recording. The microphone is Mark’s old AKG C-24 and the guitar is Mark’s Martin D-28 Herringbone with 20 year-old strings. The thing that strikes me the most about this old guitar of mine is that it took me a lifetime to begin to discover all of its secrets. Those discoveries perhaps include putting my guitar playing aside for 20 years, until this year. All of these twists and turns, could have been a window of opportunity opening. After playing for a while this year, I ultimately realized I had been averting my own voice on the instrument, because I never thought I was as good of a guitarist as I was when I was 17 (when I wrote and recorded this same tune). Another thing that strikes me about this episode in returning to the guitar I once played professionally, is the incredible sound that this old guitar has, and with strings left on it from 20 years ago. I never changed the strings from the day I quit the guitar in 1998. I recorded my piece “Flailing” on the Herringbone Martin in 1997, toured the album “Midnight on the Water” that year on a new Heiden guitar as I never took my Martin out on the road. The “bone” and its strings, survived 10 years of San Diego, 10 years of New York City, and the first year in Charlotte where It took it off the wall and began playing it last winter for the first time again. The strings did see some playing in addition to the recording back in 1997 and my playing them for 8 months in 2017. During the 20 years in between, many guitar players coming over to my house to visit, got the Herringbone off the wall for some time to play it including my son Forrest. I always enjoyed it because it deserved to be played of course. So over 20 years, it saw a lot of hands. The guitar is a freak of nature guitar and everything really associated with it really. What you can see on the video and the close-up shots, is the bridge is completely split into. There is hardly any way possible for those guitar strings to even stay in tune, yet they do. The bridge is cracked with a ¼ gap where the strings are inserted into the guitar by the bridge pins! I had just noticed that when Joe Smart pointed it out to me last month. Since I had not changed the strings, I had not noticed. I am trying to figure out who should repair it all right now. The guitar is an anomaly! -Mark O'Connor (filmed October 20th, 2017, Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC)

 

 

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