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Full Rig Info: https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/rig-rundown/umphreys-mcgee-2025Subscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTubeAxe-wielders Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss take us through their current gear garages.It's been just over 10 years since we had legendary South Bend, Indiana, jam band Umphrey's McGee on Rig Rundown, so when we saw that they were coming to play at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in early April, we figured it was time to reconnect.Guitarists Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss showed PG's John Bohlinger what pieces of kit they're digging these days, and how they orchestrate their incredibly broad range of sounds.Shop Umphrey's McGee Gear:G&L Comanche - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4GLBM9PRS McCarty - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dODqrMPRS Mark Tremonti Signature - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N9eYE7D'Addario XL Strings - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ba0NoMMXR Smart Gate - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyA9rjMXR Distortion III - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/19gKOaTC Electronic Flashback - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y2XqeGBoss PH-3 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vNko9NMorley Bad Horsie - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VxQj0aMorley 20/20 Bad Horsie Wah - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Z6meRQKeeley Compressor - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0drY9MXR Custom Badass Modified OD - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKaMP0MXR Timmy - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eKDKBgBoss OC-5 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/vNOonLBoss CE-5 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/GmB2ArMXR Phase 95 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LXm313Eventide H9 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/baQr0xBoss DD-20 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Wy9P0GCelestion 12″ Speakers - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RGLDE9Boss TU-3 - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jryA4M0:00 - XPND Pedalboard0:15 - Jake Cinninger Playing Intro1:08 - Subscribe to PG!1:23 - John Bohlinger Intro1:50 - Jake Cinninger's G&L Comanche3:30 - Jake Cinninger's Jake Blade Vibrato7:12 - Jake Cinninger on Working with G&L Guitars9:20 - Jake Cinninger's Strings, Tunings & Picks12:36 - Jake Cinninger's G&L S-50016:50 - Jake Cinninger's Schroeder & Oldfield Amps22:29 - Jake Cinninger's Pedalboard28:02 - John Bohlinger & XPND Pedalboard28:51 - Brendan Bayliss' PRS Mark Tremonti & McCarty Guitars31:46 - Brendan Bayliss' Mesa/Boogie & Oldfield Amps32:52 - Brendan Bayliss' Pedalboard43:01 - XPND Pedal Power Battery KitSubscribe to PG's Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribePGYouTubeWin Guitar Gear: https://bit.ly/GiveawaysPGDon't Miss a Rundown: http://bit.ly/RIgRundownENLMerch & Magazines: https://shop.premierguitar.comPG's Facebook: https://facebook.com/premierguitarPG's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/premierguitar/PG's Twitter: https://twitter.com/premierguitarPG's Threads: https://threads.net/@premierguitarPG's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@premierguitar[Brought to you by D'Addario XPND: https://ddari.io/xpnd.rr]© Copyright Gearhead Communications LLC, 2025#guitar #rigrundown #guitarist #guitarplayer #guitargear #umphreysmcgee #jamband

Episode 10 of "Buy That Guitar" features Chuck Mahar, of Mahar's Vintage Guitars. With host Ram Tuli, he digs into historic amp brands that deliver the same magic and tone as the most-coveted vintage Fenders and Marshalls, but can be found at a fraction of the cost - from Gibson, Ampeg, Vox, and Orange to Mesa-Boogie, Supro, DeArmond, and HiWatt. Links: https://maharsvintageguitars.com Sponsored By: The VG 2025 Price Guide https://store.vintageguitar.com/price-guide.html Subscribe to our "Overdrive" newsletter for the latest happenings at Vintage Guitar magazine: https://www.vintageguitar.com/overdrive Please feel free to reach out to Ram at Ram@VintageGuitar.com with any questions or comments you may have. Like, comment, and share this podcast!

In dieser Folge gucken wir uns schon einige Neuheiten von der NAMM 2025 an, wie das ToneX Cab, das Mooer GS1000, den kleinen Tube Amp Expander Core von Boss, Gitarren von Fender, LR Baggs und Harley Benton, den Rockman X100 und noch mehr. Wir haben in der neue Larkin Poe Album reingehört und natürlich feiern wir Alben Jubiläen. Diese Folge auf Youtube https://youtu.be/KCP2RUb-nGs 00:00:00 Intro und Begrüssung 00:01:00 John Sykes gestorben 00:02:10 Gonz Bandlos 00:03:05 Los Angeles Feuer 00:05:50 Papa Roach Konzertbericht 00:10:55 Ola Englund Konzertbericht 00:17:45 Randal Smith von Mesa Boogie gefeuert worden 00:21:25 Mary Spender Tour mit Verlust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9FyZcozdOE&t=659s 00:25:00 Bernd Kiltz Konzert jetzt auf Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mZHjYerO4s 00:26:40 Equipment News 01:05:20 Neue Musik – Larkin Poe – Bloom 01:08:10 Alben Jubiläen 01:25:15Verabschiedung und Outro https://www.facebook.com/gitarrenkram https://gitarrenkram.de https://gitarrenkram.de/gitarrenkram-unterstuetzen Unsere Musik auf Bandcamp https://silentmenband.bandcamp.com/releases

Cette semaine dans la 169e matinale, on parle du retour de la marque culte des années 90 Mesa Boogie, du produit Hercules qui a reçu l'award innovation au CES 2025 de Reloop qui sort une table de mixage Bluetooth et de Shure qui présente le MV7i, le premier microphone intelligent.

Vi pratar om hur arvet efter karismatiska grundare och designers förvaltas när de gott bort eller sålt sitt företag. Fölster går till botten i ämnet stringbenders. I veckans pryl spelar vi på Zuta Chorus. Veckans avsnitt: Dumble, Trainwreck, Soldano, Mesa-Boogie, Gustavsson, Baker, Tyler, VHT, Fryette, Gibson, JHS, Ross, Marshall, Bender by Björn, Hand Bender, Zuta.

Fredrik och Ulf pratar estetik, när utseendet är fantastiskt men man inte får till det av andra skäl. Fölster pratar om att stämma ned gitarren. I veckans pryl testar vi Boss SDE-3 Dual Digital Delay. I detta avsnitt: Gibson, Ciocks, Marshall, Hiwatt, Boss, UA, Kauer, Cornish, Strymon, Mesa-Boogie, Travis Bean, Kramer, Artstrong, Trainwreck, Dumble, Gjika, Mule, Fender,

The moment you've all been waiting for has finally arrived. That's right: Shred With Shifty is back, and your beloved host Chris Shiflett is kicking off season two of the podcast with a super-special episode. Shifty's Foo Fighters shredders-in-arms Dave Grohl and Pat Smear join him for this season premier that reveals some of the magic and maneuvering behind the Foos' triple-guitar attack. The three friends and bandmates start off with some history lessons, discussing their earliest influences and how they learned to play before covering Grohl's early days with Nirvana, Smear's time in the Germs, and Shiflett's invitation to join Foo Fighters—followed promptly by a trip to a guitar store to build out his arsenal, courtesy of Grohl's AmEx. (Plus, Dave tells how he conned his mother into buying his first distortion pedal.) The trio cover their current and historical favorite pieces of gear—like Dave's famed Gibson Trini Lopez, Mesa Boogie's Rectifier series, and Fender's all-tube, '90s-era Tone-Master amps—before getting into how they apply those tools in the studio between three players. “I think it took 15 to 20 years to figure out the recipe of what we do,” admits Grohl. Running through tunes like “Rope,” “Hey, Johnny Park!,” “La Dee Da,” and “A Matter of Time,” Shiflett, Grohl, and Smear demonstrate the evolution of the band's rhythmically unique and tonally tiered guitar arrangements. From Melvins-inspired drop-D slammers to delay-driven, polyrhythmic riffs, Grohl likens the band's 6-string components to the various elements of a drum beat. Once a drummer… Tune in for tons of hilarious stories (including Grohl's “worst tour ever”), fascinating tidbits, and Dave's guitar-store riff when he's trying a new axe. It might sound familiar. Full Video Episodes: http://volume.com/shifty  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1690423642 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4B8BSR0l78qwUKJ5gOGIWb iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-shred-with-shifty-116270551/ Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/podcast/shred-with-shifty/PC:1001071314 Follow Chris Shiflett: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrisshiflettmusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shifty71 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chris.shiflett Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisshiflett71 Website: http://www.chrisshiflettmusic.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5tv5SsSRqR7uLtpKZgcRrg?si=26kWS1v2RYaE4sS7KnHpag Producer: Jason Shadrick Executive Producers: Brady Sadler and Jake Brennan for Double Elvis Engineering support by Matt Tahaney and Matt Beaudion Video Editor: Addison Sauvan Graphic Design: Megan Pralle Special thanks to Chris Peterson, Greg Nacron, and the entire Volume.com crew.

Have you been thinking that gender bending is a phenomenon of the millennial and gen z generations? Oh what short memories we have! Rock artists have been playing with gender practically since the beginning of rock history. So gather the family for this awkward, fun and often hilarious look at how rockers have pushed the boundaries of gender over the decades.   Topics Discussed:   What we did this week: Loudini: Baghead, Jack Russell, Phil Donahue, Greg Kihn,  Loudini interviews Greg Kihn Randall Smith fired from Mesa-Boogie? COuld AI end up improving music?, Mark Hamill is insane, Acolyte cancelled, Mr. Pittsburgh: Lily:   Rock's Gender Benders Gender Bending Artists David Bowie Prince Michael Jackson Elton John Grace Jones Annie Lennox Gender bending songs Lola Dude Looks Like A Lady Walk on the Wild Side Lady Stardust Jet https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-unexpected-true-stories-behind-famous-gender-bending-songs   Gender bending scenes, movements, genres 70's Glam 80's androgynous  new wave acts 80s Glam (hair) Metal     New & Notable: Loudini: Geese; 2122 Mr Pittsburgh: Corey Glover's Universe; I am Lily: All I Know; Playin' with Fire

Fredrik och Ulf pratar om generationsskiftet som är på gång i gitarrvärlden. Fölster ger sig djupt in i delayets gyllene värd. I veckans pryl spelar vi på ett delay, Memory Lane från Diamond. I detta avsnitt: Mesa-Boogie, Gibson, Fender, Ron Ellis, Collings, Valley Arts, John McGuire, Soldano, Friedman, Divided by 13, Two-Rock, Jackson, Fulltone, Mythos, Benson, Stringjoy, Chase Bliss, JHS, Wampler, Keeley, Kingtone, Martin, Korg, Line 6, Analogman, Maestro, Electro-Harmonix, Eventide, Boss, Diamond, UA, Strymon.

Episode 115: Mesa Boogie's (Gibson) Future Without Randall Smith? Welcome to the Chairmen of the Boards Podcast! The ultimate pedalboard podcast with the foremost rig builders in the world: Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio), Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio), and Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects/The Rig Doctor). We've teamed up to democratize great tone and provide you with our best tricks, tips, resources and hacks so you can build the pedalboard of your dreams! //SPONSORS// The Guitar Sanctuary - https://theguitarsanctuary.com Neural DSP - https://neuraldsp.com (use discount code "chairmen" for 30% off) Mono - https://monocreators.com (use discount code "chairmen" for 10% off) Best-Tronics - https://btpa.com (use code "dachairs" for 10% off) //HOSTS// Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio) YT - ‪@GoodwoodAudio‬ IG - https://instagram.com/goodwoodaudio Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio) YT - ‪@omilionaudio‬ IG - https://instagram.com/omilionaudio Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects) YT - ‪@VertexEffectsInc‬ IG - https://instagram.com/vertexeffects //YOUTUBE// Watch COTB Podcast live: https://bit.ly/3VhbNea

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Sorry das die letzte Folge ausfiel, in dieser Folge gibt es die Erklärung. Ansonsten gucken wir uns wieder viele neue Gitarren an von PRS, Harley Benton und Mooer. Neue Verstärker gibt es auch von Mesa Boogie, Line 6, Hotone, Laney und Marshall. Wir sprechen auch über den neuen Marshall CEO und haben in neue und alte Musik reingehört. Viel Spaß! Diese Folge auf Youtube https://youtu.be/4i14imJ1XSo 00:00:00 Intro und Begrüssung 00:01:05 Warum fiel die letzte Folge aus 00:03:00 Ist das deutsche Guitar Magazin Pleite? 00:05:25 Gitarrenkram und Thomann Affiliate Links 00:07:42 Tonex ist kein Modeler 00:09:13 Gitarrenkram auf Konzertbesuch Regressiv Hypnosis 00:14:25 David Gilmour ohne Deutschland Konzerte? 00:18:05 Marshall hat einen neuen CEO 00:23:00 Equipment News 01:00:55 Neue Musik: Slash – Orgy Of The Damned 01:04:45 Black Country Communion – V 01:08:00 Wieder reingehört: Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis 01:15:20 Album Jubiläen 01:24:00 Verabschiedung und Outro https://www.facebook.com/gitarrenkram https://gitarrenkram.de https://gitarrenkram.de/gitarrenkram-unterstuetzen Unsere Musik auf Bandcamp https://silentmenband.bandcamp.com/releases

Vi pratar om “sanningar” och myter i gitarrvärlden som man ibland tar för givet. Fölster fördjupar sig i ämnet sag. I veckans pryl testar vi RingerBringer från Warm Audio. I detta avsnitt: Celestion, EV, Fane, Marshall, Fender, Two-Notes, Vox, Mesa-Boogie, Hiwatt, Reinhardt, Magnatone, Supro, Warm audo, UA.

“Will the next Tool album take more than 10,000 days?”That was an ongoing (and agonizing) joke for Tool fans that awaited the band's fifth album following the release of 2006's 10,000 Days. (A cruel clairvoyance of a title.) For those counting, when Fear Inoculum was finally delivered on August 30, 2019, it was just 4,868 days from their previous album. All crummy jokes aside, the anticipation of the album was real for a reason: the music. And the rhythmic cog of their constant contorting of depth and darkness is bassist Justin Chancellor.Sure, drummer Danny Carey is a living legend bashing everything his large frame can smash and crash. Adam Jones transforms his guitar into a Hans Zimmer production with varied textures, temperaments, and traits his tone expresses. During shows, singer and lyricist Maynard James Keenan prowls in the shadows adding to the band's musical mysticism. This triumvirate core dished out the punishing EP Opiate in 1992, and their 1993 debut full-length Undertow was more complex and calculated in its rage. But in 1995, when Justin Chancellor replaced Paul D'Amour on bass, Tool immediately expanded their dimensionality. The original three continued to dazzle and dumbfound listeners, but the addition of Chancellor and his pocket-minded role unlocked a collective vocabulary previously unspoken. Simply put, if Tool was an octopus, Chancellor was the head. The others could be momentarily independent tentacles exploring the melodic murkiness of their respective reaches, but when they needed to propel forward, Chancellor was steering. His lines are the base for the band's groove and attitude that became a focal point on subsequent releases with 1996's Ænima, 2001's Lateralus, 2006's 10,000 Days, and eventually 2019's Fear Inoculum. The former three went triple-platinum, while the latter three were No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (Ænima landed in the No. 2 spot.)If you ever catch yourself playing air guitar to Tool, you're probably mimicking Chancellor's parts. “Schism,” “The Pot,” “Forty Six & 2,” “H.,” “Fear Inoculum,” “Descending,” “The Grudge,” and plenty of others feature his buoyant bass riffs.Chancellor's tone has had a longstanding relationship with Wal basses, Gallien-Krueger amps, and Mesa/Boogie cabs. The evolving part of his rig has been his pedalboard. At this juncture of the band's run supporting Fear Inoculum, Chancellor's board is larger than his guitar-playing counterparts. Yet everything has a place and purpose. Some of it is duplicity, some of it is to avoid any required knob-turning during the show, and as we find out in the Rundown, some of it is just for fun. Grab a seat and get comfortable as Chancellor and his tech Pete Lewis walk PG's elated Chris Kies through his live setup.Brought to you by D'Addario: https://ddar.io/wykyk-rrand D'Addario XPND Pedalboard: https://www.daddario.com/XPNDRR

Fredrik och Ulf diskuterar vad som var intressant på årets mässa. Fölster har dykt ned i ämnet plektrum. I veckans pryl provar vi Silt Harmonic Tube Fuzz från Walrus Audio. I detta avsnitt: Fairfield, Gibson, Björk, Fender, Square Wave, Walrus Audio, Polly, Eventide, One Control, Yamaha, Line 6, Blue Box, Nordland, Folkesson, Nobels, PRS, Taylor, Neural, Friedman, Vox, Fulltone, Jackson Audio, Two-Rock, Divide by 13, Soldano, Badcat, Mooer, Revv, Mesa-Boogie, Two-Notes, Suhr, Hook, Matchless, Peavey, Metropoulos, Strandberg, Celestion, Gamechanger, RJM, Vemuran, UA, Gravity, Dunlop.

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(Por Tiempo Limitado) https://teespring.com/es/stores/biblioteca-del-metal-1 Tracklist: 0:00 Fight Fire With Fire 4:47 Blackened 11:26 Master Of Puppets 20:05 Metal Militia 25:16 Through The Never 29:23 One 37:07 The Four Horsemen 44:20 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 50:48 Trapped Under Ice 54:54 The Thing That Should Not Be 1:01:31 Holier Than Thou 1:05:22 Creeping Death 1:11:58 Disposable Heroes 1:20:15 Seek and Destroy 1:27:09 Ride The Lightning 1:33:47 Battery 1:39:04 The Call of Ktulu Metallica es una banda estadounidense,​ originaria de Los Ángeles, pero con base en San Francisco desde febrero de 1983. Fue fundada en 1981 en Los Ángeles por Lars Ulrich y James Hetfield, a los que se les unirían Dave Mustaine y Ron McGovney. Estos dos músicos fueron después sustituidos por el guitarrista Kirk Hammett y el bajista Cliff Burton respectivamente, Dave Mustaine fue despedido un año después de ingresar en la banda debido a su excesiva adicción al alcohol y su actitud violenta, siendo sustituido por Kirk Hammett (exguitarrista de Exodus). Ron renuncia a la banda debido al mal comportamiento de Dave Mustaine, el cual era violento y problemático cuando estaba bajo el efecto del alcohol. El colmo fue cuando Mustaine mojó el bajo de Ron con cerveza, él sin saberlo lo conectó, recibiendo una descarga eléctrica. Es entonces, tras contactar con Cliff Burton que la banda se traslada a San Francisco. (Cabe resaltar que Ron sabía que lo iban a despedir y sustituir por Cliff Burton). Por otra parte, el 27 de septiembre de 1986, fue la muerte de Cliff Burton en un accidente de autobús en Suecia, durante una de sus giras, esto provocó la entrada al grupo de Jason Newsted,​ quien, tras su abandono quince años más tarde, sería sustituido por el bajista actual, Robert Trujillo. Hasta la fecha, la banda ha editado 10 álbumes de estudio, siendo el último de estos Hardwired to Self Destruct el cual fue lanzado mundialmente el 18 de noviembre del 2016. Las ventas totales de Metallica superan los 120 millones,​ y se les considera parte de los cuatro grandes del thrash metal, junto con Megadeth, Slayer y Anthrax.​ Además, el grupo ha conseguido numerosos premios musicales, entre los que destacan nueve Grammys, dos premios otorgados por la cadena musical MTV, dos galardones de la Academia de Música Americana (American Music Awards) y dos premios de la revista Billboard, además de pertenecer desde el año 2009 al Salón de la fama del Rock​ y poseer una estrella en el Paseo de la Fama de la revista Kerrang! Se considera que la historia de Metallica comenzó en 1980 cuando el joven Lars Ulrich, originario de Gentofte, Dinamarca, se trasladó con su familia a Los Ángeles. Hijo del tenista profesional Torben Ulrich,​ Ulrich había desarrollado una enorme afición por el heavy metal durante los años 70, cuando la NWOBHM (Nueva Ola de Heavy Metal Británico) tenía gran auge en la escena underground europea. Con su traslado a Estados Unidos, planeado por su padre con el objetivo original de preparar una carrera dentro del tenis profesional, dicha afición de Ulrich se convertiría prácticamente en una obsesión, que se concentraba especialmente en grupos desconocidos de la nueva corriente inglesa. Su prioridad al llegar a Los Ángeles fue la de explotar su capacidad musical junto con otros jóvenes, lo que le llevó en 1981 a publicar un anuncio en la revista Recycler, en el que solicitaba un guitarrista para formar una banda con influencias de las bandas de la NWOBHM,​ concretamente sus bandas preferidas: Diamond Head, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden y Tygers of Pan Tang. El joven James Hetfield, hijo de un propietario de una compañía de camiones y de una cantante de ópera que educaron a sus hijos en la Ciencia Cristiana,​ respondió a su anuncio. Comenzaron a ensayar juntos y, aunque al principio a Hetfield no le convencía la forma de tocar de Ulrich,​ finalmente formaron una banda. La clave de esta unión fue el tema que tenía reservado por parte de su amigo Brian Slagel, fundador de la compañía discográfica, entonces recién creada, Metal Blade Records, en el primer recopilatorio que editaría el sello, titulado Metal Massacre.​ El nombre del grupo fue idea de un amigo de Lars llamado Ron Quintana,​ quien tenía "Metalmania" y "Metallica" como posibles nombres para un nuevo fanzine musical, aunque se inclinaba más por el segundo. A Ulrich le gustó tanto "Metallica" que rápidamente le recomendó (a Quintana) que llamara "Metalmania" al fanzine. Así, la banda de Ulrich y Hetfield tomó el nombre Metallica.​ Ulrich se trasladó al local que Hetfield poseía junto a su amigo Ron McGovney, el cual provenía de una familia acomodada que poseía numerosas propiedades. Hetfield le pidió a McGovney que tocara el bajo en la banda y se ofreció a enseñarle. Al contrario de lo que se rumoreaba, Ron no fue el diseñador del logotipo de la Metallica. En una entrevista de la banda concedida a la cadena ABC, el propio James Hetfiled, afirmó haberlo dibujado el a partir de un simple boceto.​ Tras incesantes intentos de conseguir un guitarrista solista influido por Motörhead y Iron Maiden, encontraron a Lloyd Grant, un joven guitarrista afroamericano con quien tocaron la primera demo de Metallica, titulada Hit the Lights (1981). Lloyd, que pensaba quedarse poco tiempo más en la banda, fue al poco tiempo sustituido por Dave Mustaine en la guitarra líder, completando así la primera formación de Metallica, ya que en Mustaine encontraron a la persona ideal para cerrar la formación. El primer paso fue la grabación del tema para la primera entrega de Metal Massacre. El elegido sería "Hit the Lights", tema que provenía de la anterior banda de Hetfield, Leather Charm, considerado uno de los primeros temas del thrash metal. El debut de Metallica en directo tendría lugar el 14 de marzo de 1982 en el club Radio City de Anaheim, en una actuación en la que la falta de experiencia sobre el escenario ocasionó serios problemas a la banda.​ Dos semanas más tarde tendrían la oportunidad de enmendar su error abriendo dos noches seguidas para los ingleses Saxon en el local Whiskey-A-Go-Go de Los Ángeles. Cabe decir que dentro del libreto del álbum de versiones que la banda realizó en 1998 titulado Garage Inc pueden encontrarse reproducidas las notas que el propio Ulrich tomó en aquel momento sobre la marcha de estos dos conciertos, incluyendo los setlists de ambas noches y las impresiones del batería sobre la marcha de las mismas. La decepción que ocasionó a la banda estos dos malos conciertos hizo que se replanteasen la contratación de un vocalista mientras Hetfield y Mustaine fuesen los dos guitarristas de la banda. Para ello se contrató a Sammy Dijon, exvocalista de la banda Ruthless, quien realizó algunas pruebas pero que no fue finalmente admitido en el seno del grupo, por lo que fue despedido. En abril de 1982 se contrató a otro guitarrista, Damien Phillips (de nombre real Brad Parker), para actuar como tal mientras Hetfield se concentraba delante del micrófono, pero también fue despedido después de su primera actuación con la banda debido a la negativa de Mustaine a que hubiese un tercer guitarrista. Posteriormente se barajaron varios cantantes, entre los cuales estaban John Bush, futuro vocalista de Armored Saint, y Jesse Cox de Tygers of Pan Tang. Ninguno fue admitido, motivo por el que Hetfield pasó a encargarse tanto de la segunda guitarra como de la voz desde aquel momento. En un ensayo realizado en la antigua escuela de Lars Ulrich, el vocalista fue Jeff Warner, del que se cuenta que no fue aceptado porque desafinaba demasiado. Con la edición de Metal Massacre en el mes de julio de 1982, el grupo, tras renegar de la versión de "Hit the Lights" aparecida en el mismo por encontrarse completamente desfasada de lo que constituía su nuevo sonido, decidió grabar su primer demo, titulado No Life 'til Leather, primera estrofa de la canción Hit the Lights. Siete temas formarían parte de este demo, entre los que se encuentra una versión mucho más potente y acelerada de "Hit the Lights". Con una agenda de conciertos cada vez más ajustada, Hetfield y Ulrich comenzaron a plantearse la sustitución de McGovney. Años después, este dijo en una entrevista que el resto de la banda le dejaba que se encargara de todo. Es en ese momento cuando empiezan a aparecer los problemas con Dave Mustaine, derivados de un carácter extremadamente violento unido al consumo extremo de alcohol y drogas.​ Conocedor de la necesidad de Metallica de reclutar un nuevo bajista, Brian Slagel recomienda a Lars y James la banda Trauma, que acababa de editar uno de sus temas en la segunda entrega de Metal Massacre. Hetfield y Ulrich quedarían totalmente impresionados con la destreza y presencia en el escenario de su bajista, Cliff Burton, ofreciéndole inmediatamente el entrar a formar parte de Metallica, lo cual sería inicialmente rechazado por Burton.​ Aún con McGovney en sus filas, grabarían el 29 de noviembre del mismo año (1982) un demo en directo en el The Waldorf de San Francisco, que recibiría el nombre de Live Metal Up Your Ass y en la que estrenarían el tema "Whiplash", inédito hasta entonces. El concierto tendría como teloneros a Exodus, cuyo guitarrista líder, un joven Kirk Hammett, causaría una gran impresión en James y Lars Ulrich, que ante los crecientes problemas con Mustaine comenzaron a considerarlo como un reemplazo perfecto. Poco tiempo después McGovney decidió dejar Metallica al oír que habían estado estableciendo contactos con Cliff Burton,​ para incorporarse a Phantasm, al contrario de la creencia popular de que fue despedido. Posteriormente declaró: "Nunca escuché 'Estás despedido' o algo así de parte de ellos. Yo renuncié, aunque es obvio que, aunque no hubiera renunciado, me iban a despedir de todas maneras". Al mismo tiempo, Cliff Burton, quien estaba teniendo problemas con Trauma debido a la dirección que el resto de los integrantes querían tomar con respecto a su música, decidió pasarse a las filas de Metallica. La única condición no negociable que puso el bajista fue que la banda se trasladase a San Francisco, donde los nuevos sonidos relacionados con el thrash comenzaban a generar una legión de seguidores que recibió el nombre de "Bay Area Bangers". En cualquier caso, Hetfield, Ulrich y Mustaine ya estaban pensando en mudarse a San Francisco, puesto que habían observado la energía y el entusiasmo de la escena thrash de esa ciudad, además de porque la escena de Los Ángeles estaba dominada por el cada vez más famoso glam metal, con bandas como Mötley Crüe, Dokken, Quiet Riot, Cinderella y Ratt. A principios de 1983, el mánager y promotor de conciertos Johnny Zazula (con la ayuda de su mujer) se puso en contacto con el grupo para ofrecerles un traslado a Nueva York, con la idea de organizar varios conciertos en la Costa Este y, si todo marchaba bien, grabar un álbum.​ Tras aceptar la oferta, Metallica inició el viaje el 1 de abril, y tras atravesar todo el país, fijaron su nuevo lugar de residencia en el Music Building de Nueva York, un edificio en el que cohabitaban con varias bandas de rock, entre las que se encontraba Anthrax, iniciando amistad y camaradería entre los dos grupos. A los diez días de su llegada a Nueva York, la situación con Mustaine se hizo insostenible, con lo que Hetfield y Ulrich sorprendieron a un Mustaine recién despierto para anunciarle que estaba fuera del grupo y que en un breve plazo salía el autobús que habían reservado para su vuelta a casa (posteriormente Dave fundaría Megadeth).​ Los integrantes ya estaban preparados para esto. Le pidieron a Zazula que se pusiese en contacto con el guitarrista de Exodus, Kirk Hammett, para unirse a la banda. Al principio, Kirk creía que la llamada de Zazula era una broma, pero finalmente aceptó.​ De forma simultánea a la expulsión de Dave, Kirk Hammett dejaba Exodus y se disponía a salir hacia Nueva York, llegando esa misma noche a altas horas de la madrugada. Alumno de Joe Satriani, Hammett introduciría un sonido más melódico, técnico y estilizado en Metallica, que se haría patente a partir del segundo álbum del grupo, puesto que el primero estaba compuesto en su totalidad en el momento de su entrada. El debut del nuevo guitarrista tendría lugar en el neoyorquino "Showplace" abriendo para The Rods. Tras un mes de ensayos, Metallica entraría finalmente el 10 de mayo en los "Music America Studios" para grabar su primer álbum.​ El tracklisting sería prácticamente igual que el de No Life 'til Leather, incluyendo como novedades el tema "Whiplash", ya aparecido en Live Metal Up Your Ass, y el solo de bajo que Burton solía ejecutar en los conciertos,​ bajo el nombre de "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth". Además, también se incluiría una versión remozada del tema "The Mechanix", añadiendo nuevos riffs y rebautizándola como "The Four Horsemen".​ La producción correría a cargo de Paul Curcio, propietario de los estudios e ingeniero residente. Su trabajo levantó suspicacias por parte del grupo debido a la diferencia de criterios con respecto al sonido del álbum que quería imprimirle la banda. Tras seis semanas, el primer trabajo de Metallica sería lanzado en el mes de julio bajo el nombre Kill 'em All. Dicho nombre (Mátalos a Todos) provenía de una frase de Cliff Burton a causa del enfado que produjo en el grupo la negativa de diversas distribuidoras de discos a comercializar el álbum con el título que el grupo quería darle, Metal Up Your Ass (Metal por el culo).​ Zazula, incapaz de encontrar una compañía discográfica interesada en publicar el disco, optó finalmente por la fundación de un sello propio, Megaforce Records. Se consiguió la cifra de 17.000 copias vendidas en las dos primeras semanas,​ y sobre todo, Kill 'em All contribuyó notablemente a extender la buena reputación de Metallica, recibiendo una avalancha de críticas favorables por parte de la prensa, que ya comenzaba a verlos como los iniciadores de una nueva corriente en el metal.​ Posteriormente, la cifra de copias vendidas del disco llegaría hasta las 300.000.​ Como forma de promoción, Zazula organizaría un tour conjunto con Raven, Quiet Riot y Y&T que los llevaría por todo Estados Unidos, constando de 35 fechas y bautizado como Kill 'em All For One Tour (el álbum que Raven se encontraba promocionando se llamaba All For One). Posteriormente, y tras varios conciertos en San Francisco, Nueva York y Boston, y prácticamente coincidiendo con la edición en Europa del sencillo "Jump in the Fire" por parte del sello Music for Nations, el 3 de febrero de 1984 se inició la gira europea Seven Dates of Hell, en la que se encargan de abrir para los ingleses Venom, teniendo como momento cumbre la participación en el Aardshock Festival en Países Bajos, tocando ante más de 5000 personas, la audiencia más grande que habían tenido hasta el momento.​ Terminada la gira, Metallica entraría el 20 de febrero en los Sweet Silence Studios de Copenhague para la grabación de su segundo álbum, recayendo todo el peso de la producción en el ingeniero residente Flemming Rasmussen,​ quien ya había trabajado anteriormente con bandas como Mercyful Fate y Rainbow y posteriormente con Sepultura, Danger Danger y Blind Guardian. El ajustado presupuesto del que Zazula disponía se convirtió en el principal problema durante la grabación del álbum, que transcurrió a un ritmo frenético durante menos de un mes, quedando finalizada el 14 de marzo, y viéndose solo interrumpida por el fallido tour Hell On Earth junto a The Rods y Exciter, finalmente cancelado por la escasa venta de entradas. A la considerable evolución mostrada en estos temas se unía el rumor latente de que el grupo estaba trabajando en una balada, lo que provocó cierta agitación dentro del sector más extremo de los fanáticos de la banda. Ride the Lightning, nombre que recibiría finalmente el álbum, supondría un gran cambio en el sonido de la banda, que se adentraba en terrenos mucho más melódicos. Las labores de composición contaron con la colaboración de Burton y Mustaine. También se confirmó el rumor la inclusión de una balada, que recibiría el título de "Fade to Black". Fue escrita por Hetfield inspirándose en el robo de equipo que la banda sufrió el 14 de enero de aquel mismo año (1984),.​ La primera aparición de la banda en los escenarios tras la grabación tendría lugar en dos sold-out en el londinense Marquee, tras lo cual se harían diversos conciertos en Alemania, Países Bajos y Bélgica. El momento más importante de este tour llegaría el 3 de agosto en el "Roseland" de Nueva York, donde tendrían un primer contacto con el sello Elektra Records, y en el que, tras el concierto, iniciarían las negociaciones con Peter Mensch y Cliff Burnstein de la agencia Q-Prime, la cual finalmente acabaría comprando el contrato de Metallica a Johnny Zazula. Probablemente es este hecho el que fomentaría las conversaciones de la banda con Elektra, que acabaría fichándolos el 12 de septiembre tras firmar un contrato en el que se otorgaba al grupo el control artístico absoluto sobre su carrera. El primer movimiento de Elektra tras reclutar a Metallica sería reeditar Ride the Lightning bajo su sello el 19 de noviembre, a la vez que Music for Nations, con la que Zazula tenía un acuerdo aún vigente tras el fichaje por Elektra, edita en Europa el sencillo "Creeping Death", que contendría la suite The Garage Days Re-visited, formada por las versiones "Am I Evil?" de Diamond Head y "Blitzkrieg" de la banda con el mismo nombre. A su vez, se inicia un nuevo tour europeo, esta vez coordinado por Q-Prime con Robert Allen como mánager de la gira, que dio comienzo en la francesa ciudad de Rusen el 16 de noviembre y finalizó en el London Lyceum de Londres el 20 de diciembre tras haber visitado Francia, Alemania, Dinamarca, Suecia, Suiza, Italia, Finlandia e Inglaterra con un enorme éxito de público. Finalizada la gira europea, y tras un descanso por Navidad, Metallica inició el 11 de enero de 1985 un tour por Estados Unidos y Canadá junto a Armored Saint, Helix y los W.A.S.P. de Blackie Lawless, con quienes la banda tuvo varios roces debido al supuesto ego de dicho frontman. Sería durante esta gira cuando la banda comienza a ser conocida como "Alcohólica" por sus excesos con el alcohol. A esto se uniría el cartel que colocaron en dicho autobús, "No se ría, señor. Su hija probablemente esté dentro", que daba una idea de la actitud desenfadada del grupo. Tras más de tres meses en la carretera, la gira tendría su final en el Starry Night Club de Portland. Pasados dos años de gira, volvieron a los Sweet Silence Studios. De allí surgió Master of Puppets, uno de los discos más alabados dentro del heavy metal,​ la canción principal homónima está considerada por muchos seguidores de la banda como la mejor de Metallica. El disco ha vendido hasta la fecha más de 7 millones de copias en todo el mundo, a pesar de que solo llegó en su día al puesto 29 del Billboard.​ La gira de presentación del disco comenzó en verano de 1986 con el guitarrista rítmico John Marshall, ya que Hetfield se había quebrado la muñeca en un accidente de skateboard.​​ En dicha gira, esta vez en Europa y con Hetfield recuperado, el autobús de la gira circulaba por las carreteras suecas a las 6:15 horas de la mañana del 27 de septiembre;​ Cliff se encontraba durmiendo en la litera asignada a Kirk Hammett (debido a que este último había perdido en una apuesta), y repentinamente el autobús volcó cerca del pueblo de Ljungby, mientras que Hammett, Ulrich y Hetfield no sufrieron daños físicos preocupantes, el autobús cayó sobre el cuerpo del bajista, tras salir despedido por la ventana, causándole la muerte de forma instantánea. Según el conductor, el autobús derrapó debido a las placas de hielo que había en la carretera, lo que ocasionó el vuelco; Hetfield, furioso por lo sucedido, intentó golpear al conductor, siendo detenido por sus compañeros. Posteriormente recorrió una distancia considerable de la carretera buscando las placas, pero no encontró nada. En el funeral de Burton, se escuchó el tema «Orion». Su muerte provocó la suspensión de la gira de la banda​ y la retirada de los tres miembros restantes para pensar al respecto de su futuro. Finalmente, y después de consultar a los familiares del fallecido bajista,​ decidieron continuar con la carrera musical de la banda, y reclutaron al bajista Jason Newsted de la banda Flotsam and Jetsam, en lugar de Cliff, puesto para el cual también optó Jeff Pilson entre más de 40 músicos.​ Al año siguiente la banda volvería a Europa para completar la gira con su nuevo bajista. En su primera actuación con Metallica, Newsted tocó un solo de bajo, lo que provocó un descontento entre los seguidores de la banda, quienes consideraron esto como una falta de respeto hacia Burton. En 1987 lanzarían un gran álbum de versiones de las bandas que les influyeron titulado Garage Days Re-Revisited para introducir a Newsted a los seguidores de la banda.​ El nombre proviene de las sesiones de grabación de dicho álbum en el garaje de Ulrich.​ Un año después lanzarían un nuevo disco, titulado ...And Justice for All. Es su álbum más oscuro, con un sonido dominado por ritmos de batería densos y muy acelerados, de gran complejidad. Pese a lo que podría parecer, es un trabajo menos melódico que sus predecesores, con un ambiente negativo, y unas letras más cercanas a la crítica social, política e incluso ecológica ("Blackened"). Destacan los temas "One" (canción con el primer videoclip grabado por la banda, recogiendo escenas de la película Johnny cogió su fusil;​ con este videoclip, la banda comenzó a ganar fama en el ámbito mainstream, "To Live Is to Die" (dedicado a Cliff Burton basándose en los bocetos de una canción que se encontraba componiendo en la que se oye un poema compuesto por el desaparecido bajista a pesar de ser un tema instrumental), "...And Justice for All" y "Blackened". Esta producción marcó un hito en el equipamiento de las guitarras de Metallica, ya que dejan sus full stacks valvulares Marshall, pasando a utilizar la Mesa Boogie, obteniendo un sonido mucho más agresivo.​ Algunas de las escasas críticas que recibió al disco se basan en, a pesar de la evolución, la poca calidad en la producción, señalando el "fino zumbido" de las guitarras, el "clickeo" de la batería, y el escaso volumen que tiene el bajo, el cual casi no se percibe siendo imposible de atisbar en muchos momentos. A pesar de estas características, el álbum ha vendido hasta la fecha más de 8 millones de copias,​ a pesar de tener una promoción casi nula sin ningún tipo de repercusión en canales de televisión como MTV.​ Gracias a este trabajo, Metallica recibe su primera nominación a los premios Grammy en 1989, en la categoría de Mejor Interpretación Vocal o Instrumental de Hard Rock/Metal. Contra todo pronóstico, el ganador del premio fue el álbum Crest of a Knave de Jethro Tull, quienes no acudieron a la gala. Lars Ulrich se referiría a ellos después de ganar el Grammy en 1992 en la misma categoría por el álbum homónimo de la formación: "Queremos dar las gracias a Jethro Tull por no haber sacado ningún disco este año".​ Su siguiente trabajo, llamado Metallica pero mejor conocido como The Black Album se publicó en 1991 y contó con la producción de Bob Rock, mejor conocido por su trabajo con Bon Jovi, Tankard y Mötley Crüe, entre otros. Con canciones como "Enter Sandman", "Holier Than Thou", "Sad But True", "The Unforgiven", "Don't Tread On Me", "Through the Never", "My Friend Of Misery", "The God That Failed", "The Struggle Within", "Of Wolf and Man", "Wherever I May Roam" y "Nothing Else Matters", vendió más de 500.000 copias en su primera semana en Estados Unidos, llegando al primer puesto en la lista del Billboard,​ en parte gracias a su carácter más comercial. Solo en aquel país, la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certificó catorce millones de copias vendidas desde su lanzamiento. El nombre popular del disco The Black Album (El álbum negro) proviene de la portada, que solo contiene el logo de Metallica en la esquina superior izquierda y el dibujo de una serpiente en la esquina inferior derecha, todo ello sobre un fondo negro. Hetfield explicó posteriormente esta composición y dijo que la banda quería que la gente se fijase en la música que contenía el álbum, y no en el simbolismo ni en el diseño artístico. La canción "Enter Sandman" ocupa el puesto #408 entre las 500 mejores canciones de todos los tiempos en la lista de Rolling Stone .​ Posteriormente, la banda realizó la gira Wherever We May Roam Tour, que duró dos años.​ Luego inició otra junto a Guns N' Roses. El 8 de agosto de 1992 en Montreal, Canadá, durante este tour, la actuación de Metallica terminó abruptamente debido a que, durante la canción "Fade To Black", un fuego artificial explotó debajo de James Hetfield provocándole graves quemaduras.​ Asimismo, una afección de garganta del vocalista Axl Rose no le permitió tocar a Guns N' Roses. La breve actuación de Metallica y la cancelación del show de Guns N' Roses provocaron la ira de los fanes, que causaron múltiples destrozos y en los incidentes hubo algunos heridos.​ En 1993, la banda editó el box set Live Shit: Binge and Purge, que contiene tres CD y dos conciertos en vídeo grabados en la Ciudad de México, en Seattle y en San Diego. Originalmente fue lanzado como una caja de cartulina como si fuera equipo de un tour. Aparte de los CD y los DVD, la caja contiene material adicional como un libro a color de setenta y cinco páginas. Su disco homónimo, conocido popularmente como The Black Album marcaría un punto de inflexión en la carrera musical de Metallica, y sus dos discos consecutivos titulados Load (1996) y ReLoad (1997), de estilos idénticos entre sí ya que estaban pensados para formar un mismo álbum doble,​ están totalmente dominados por un sonido que muchos antiguos seguidores consideraron como más comercial y muy suavizado con letras menos duras, más cercano al metal alternativo que triunfaba en aquella época.​ Quizás el cambio más llamativo para sus seguidores fue el cambio de imagen: se cortaron las melenas y cambiaron el fácilmente reconocible logotipo que identificaba a Metallica.​ Esto se vio también reflejado en el cambio de sello discográfico, ya que las relaciones entre Elektra Records y la banda finalizaron después de casi diez años cobrando solo un 14% de los beneficios netos de Metallica, aunque acabarían reanudando su contrato poco después.​ El éxito de ambos álbumes no fue tan contundente como el del álbum negro. Muchos adolescentes se convirtieron en seguidores de Metallica, al mismo tiempo que muchos de sus antiguos seguidores se veían en gran medida "traicionados" por la nueva dirección tomada por el grupo,​ lo que desde entonces lleva alimentando una gran polémica.​En los premios Grammy entraron por primera vez en la categoría Heavy Rock en vez de Heavy Metal, como ocurría antes del mencionado Load. Ese mismo año la banda finlandesa Apocalyptica debutó con su homenaje a Metallica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, que era básicamente un álbum con covers de Metallica tocados únicamente con violonchelos. En 1998, realizarían un nuevo trabajo similar a Garage Days Re-Visited titulado Garage Inc., aunque esta vez sería un álbum doble de versiones de temas de estilos bastante diversos que influyeron a la banda en su ya dilatada carrera. Mientras que el primer disco incluía versiones grabadas para el lanzamiento del álbum, el disco dos contenía íntegros el Garage Days Revisited proveniente del sencillo de "Creeping Death", y el Garage Days Re-revisited, además de varias versiones provenientes de caras B y un extracto del concierto de versiones de Motörhead que Metallica dio en el 50 cumpleaños de Lemmy Kilmister el 4 de diciembre de 1995 en el Whiskey-A-Go-Go. La versión "Holy Roller" de Nazareth y "Round and Round" de Ratt resultó ganador de un premio Grammy en la categoría de Mejor Interpretación de Heavy Metal en 2000. Al año siguiente (1999) grabarían en un concierto en directo, titulado S&M, en colaboración con la Orquesta Sinfónica de San Francisco, dirigida por Michael Kamen, quien había hecho los arreglos de orquesta para "Nothing Else Matters" en The Black Album. En este álbum doble se experimenta la mezcla entre música de canciones de Metallica con arreglos orquestales. Además, se presentarían dos nuevos temas especialmente compuestos para la ocasión, "No Leaf Clover" y "- Human", extrayéndose el primero de ellos como segundo sencillo del disco. En abril de 2000, Metallica demandó a Napster, la compañía creadora del programa homónimo que permitía el intercambio de música en formato MP3, por violación de los derechos de autor,​ pues una versión de la canción todavía en proceso para la película Misión imposible 2, "I Disappear", se escuchaba en la radio estadounidense. Dos semanas después, Dr. Dre también demandaba a la empresa. Napster ya había sido acusada por la RIAA en 1999 de violar leyes de propiedad intelectual y servir de asilo para la piratería musical en internet, además de que algunas universidades habían pedido prohibir el programa, pues disminuía la velocidad de sus redes. Para mayo de 2000, Napster bloqueó las contraseñas de más de 35 mil usuarios proporcionada por Ulrich y que habían obtenido canciones de Metallica.​ Chuck D., Helix, Motley Crue, Exumer y Courtney Love hablaron a favor de Napster y proclamaron la oportunidad que significaba para consumidores y artistas. Para Chuck D., Napster era una reacción, "el fenómeno musical más grande desde los Beatles", "la industria se ha ufanado en guiar a las audiencias; por primera vez los seguidores de la banda han tenido la tecnología antes que la industria". En su defensa, Napster alegó que servía solo como conducto de la información. En junio de ese año, la RIAA pidió eliminar de Napster todo el contenido perteneciente a las discográficas más importantes. En septiembre del mismo año, Metallica y Dr. Dre enviaron cartas a Harvard, Columbia y otras universidades para que restringieran el acceso al programa. En octubre, Dave Matthews Band se convirtió en el primer grupo en permitir la distribución de una canción vía Napster, con la venia de su compañía. La polémica cesaría en julio de 2001, al aplazar la banda todas las denuncias contra Napster alegando que estaba haciendo más mal que bien a la imagen del grupo.​ En 2001, el bajista Jason Newsted, quien anteriormente había tenido serias discusiones con los demás integrantes sobre sus proyectos fuera del grupo, abandonaría Metallica alegando desgaste físico y motivos personales.​ Poco tiempo después, en la controvertida entrevista realizada por Playboy​ por separado a todos los miembros de la banda varios meses antes, se descubriría que uno de los principales motivos de la marcha del bajista era la rotunda negativa de Hetfield a la publicación del disco de Echobrain, la banda alternativa de Newsted.​ Tras un largo proceso de selección en busca de sustituto, y en el que se barajaron músicos como Twiggy Ramirez, se contrataría a Robert Trujillo, quien había sido bajista de Suicidal Tendencies, Black Label Society y Ozzy Osbourne en sus actuaciones en directo. Cabe resaltar que Jason Newsted, tras dejar Metallica, perteneció durante un tiempo a la banda de Osbourne, en la que militaba Mike Inez, miembro de Alice in Chains y que también se rumoreó como sustituto.​ Este mismo año se crea la banda homenaje satírica, Beatallica, la cual fusiona la música de The Beatles y Metallica. Tuvieron un problema legal con Sony, poseedora de los derechos sobre el material de los Beatles, pero fueron ayudados por Lars Ulrich.​ Antes de la entrada de Trujillo, la banda había grabado el álbum St. Anger, con Bob Rock nuevamente en el puesto de productor. Este último toca el bajo debido a las dificultades para encontrar un nuevo bajista.​ Como peculiaridades del disco destaca la ausencia absoluta de solos de guitarra, y un sonido de la batería totalmente novedoso e igualmente polémico que radicaba en la caja, la cual tenía un armónico metálico en vez del de madera seca usado hasta entonces. El vídeo de la canción homónima del álbum fue grabado en la prisión de San Quintin.​Hubo otras muchas dificultades en la producción del álbum, debidos a motivos como el proceso de rehabilitación de Hetfield, que había comenzado a tener problemas con el alcohol después de un viaje a Siberia donde, según él, su única bebida era el vodka. En el 2004, se lanzaría el documental Some Kind of Monster, que narra la producción del St. Anger en medio de discusiones y problemas luego de la salida de Jason y de la rehabilitación de James Hetfield, de quien ya se conocía su pasión por el alcohol.​ En el documental hacen aparición Jason Newsted y su banda Echobrain (Lars y Kirk acuden a una de sus presentaciones, se dirigen hacia los camerinos y cuando llegan, Jason ya se había ido) y uno de sus primeros guitarristas del grupo, Dave Mustaine, quien charla con Lars acerca de temas como su estancia en Metallica y su carrera en Megadeth. Dentro del documental, el grupo se apoya de un terapeuta para resolver los problemas previamente mencionados. También se muestran los primeros momentos de Robert Trujillo como bajista de Metallica, incluyendo su audición para entrar al grupo.​ En el 2006, la banda realizó el tour Escape from the studio 06, en el que tocaron el disco Master of Puppets entero en conmemoración de su vigésimo aniversario. Durante este tour, la banda tocó dos nuevas canciones: "New Song (Death is not the End)" y "The Other New Song (Vultorous)".​Estas 2 canciones mencionadas fueron editadas y lanzadas en el álbum Death Magnetic (2008), siendo Death is not the End "The end of the line" y Vultorous "All Nightmare Long". El 4 de diciembre del 2006 fue lanzada una compilación de todos sus vídeos desde 1989 hasta 2004, titulada The Videos. Esta incluye todos sus vídeos desde "One" hasta "Some Kind of Monster" y, como bonus, las dos versiones del vídeo de "One", la versión teatral de "The Unforgiven" de once minutos, el tráiler del documental Some Kind of Monster y además, por primera vez en DVD, la introducción de 2 of One. También Kirk y James aparecieron en el programa Metalocalypse y la banda entera en Los Simpson, quienes además aparecerían en la película Get Thrashed. Un año más tarde, el grupo grabó la versión de Ennio Morricone "The Ecstacy of Gold", el cual apareció en el disco homenaje We All Love Ennio Morricone. Luego, en los meses de junio y julio realizaron la gira Sick Of The Studio 07. La banda comenzó a grabar el álbum Death Magnetic el 14 de marzo de 2007. Este cuenta con Rick Rubin como productor, reemplazando a Bob Rock, que había ocupado dicho puesto desde hace más de 15 años. El álbum es finalmente lanzado el 12 de septiembre de 2008. Se han establecido algunas citas para su gira en 2008, y anteriormente, participaron en el Electric Weekend de Getafe, siendo cabezas de cartel junto con Rage Against the Machine. Además, la banda participó en el álbum homenaje a Iron Maiden Maiden Heaven,​ interpretando la canción "Remember Tomorrow" junto a bandas como Avenged Sevenfold y Dokken. Metallica en la actualidad, ha vendido más de 100 millones de álbumes y posee una estrella en el paseo de la fama en Hollywood.​ La página oficial ha confirmado que el grupo ha ocupado un lugar en el Salón de la Fama del Rock,​ y que fue nominado en dos categorías (Rock Out y Headliner) en los MTV Europe Music Awards así como invitado para tocar en vivo dentro de Los Premios a la Música de Latinoamérica de MTV, los cuales se llevaron a cabo dentro del Auditorio de la Universidad de Guadalajara en Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.​ En septiembre del 2008 comienzan la gira mundial World Magnetic Tour, visitando países de Europa, América del Norte, América Central, América del Sur, Asia y Oceanía. Esta gira se extendió hasta noviembre del 2010, recaudando millones de dólares y congregando a millones de fanáticos alrededor de todo el mundo, no sin antes prometer James Hetfield que volverían. El 31 de octubre de 2011 lanzan el álbum conceptual Lulu con el cantante de Art Rock y rock alternativo Lou Reed, siendo percibido de mal gusto para muchos de los fanáticos de la banda.​ El 5 de diciembre de 2011 Metallica realizó 4 conciertos en San Francisco celebrando su trigésimo aniversario como grupo, invitando a artistas como Dave Mustaine, Jason Newsted, entre otros. Metallica anunció para finales del año 2011 que sacarían cuatro canciones inéditas pertenecientes a las grabaciones del disco Death Magnetic. En enero del 2012, después de haber anunciado las cuatro canciones inéditas de las grabaciones de Death Magnetic, se edita un EP titulado "Beyond Magnetic" el cual contiene las cuatro canciones inéditas anunciadas. Este EP en su salida recibió principalmente críticas favorables. El 7 de febrero de 2012, Metallica anunció que comenzaría un nuevo festival de música llamado Orion Music + More , que tuvo lugar los días 23 y 24 de junio de 2012 en Atlantic City. Metallica también confirmó que encabezaría el festival en ambos días y presentaría dos de sus álbumes más aclamados por la crítica en su totalidad: The Black Album en una noche y Ride the Lightning en la otra. En una entrevista de julio de 2012 con la estación de radio canadiense 99.3 The Fox , Ulrich dijo que Metallica no lanzaría su nuevo álbum hasta al menos principios de 2014. En noviembre de 2012, Metallica dejó Warner Bros. Records y lanzó un sello discográfico independiente, Blackened Recordings, que producirá los futuros lanzamientos de la banda. La banda ha adquirido los derechos de todos sus álbumes de estudio, que serán reeditados a través del nuevo sello. Los lanzamientos ennegrecidos se licenciarán a través de la subsidiaria de Warner, Rhino Entertainment en Norteamérica e internacionalmente a través de Universal Music. El 20 de septiembre de 2012, Metallica anunció a través de su sitio web oficial que en diciembre se lanzará un nuevo DVD que contiene imágenes de espectáculos que realizó en Quebec en 2009; los fanáticos tendrían la oportunidad de votar por dos setlists que aparecerían en el DVD. La película, titulada Quebec Magnetic , se estrenó en los Estados Unidos el 10 de diciembre de 2012. En agosto de 2013 se estrenó la película 3D Metallica: Through the Never​ que contó con la actuación de Dane DeHaan mientras que Nimród Antal la escribió y la dirigió. Fue publicada bajo el sello de Blackened Records. El 8 de diciembre de 2013 la banda realizó un concierto en la base argentina Carlini, para «concienciar sobre la importancia de la Antártida para el planeta». Hubo aproximadamente un centenar de asistentes, incluyendo personal de otras bases cercanas como Uruguay, Chile, Polonia, Corea del Sur, Rusia, Brasil y Alemania. Se siguió un riguroso protocolo sobre impacto ambiental y no se usaron amplificadores durante el recital, el público pudo escuchar a través de auriculares.​​​ Lars Ulrich en una entrevista hecha por Metal Hammer reveló que la banda planea lanzar un nuevo álbum para finales de 2016 o comienzos del 2017, sin especificar detalles, tan sólo diciendo que el nuevo material «...se siente pesado, enérgico, ruidoso, es veloz, es rock, una locura...».​ El álbum será vendido bajo el sello discográfico de la banda.​ El 20 de junio de 2014 Metallica lanzó su nuevo sencillo «Lords of Summer», el cual estrenaron el 16 de marzo durante una gira por Sudamérica en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia​ llamada "Metallica By Request", basada en la idea de que los mismos asistentes a los conciertos, meses antes del recital, reciben un código para votar en línea por las canciones que deseaban escuchar. La idea tuvo una gran acogida entre los seguidores de la banda, y la misma gira se extendió hacia América del Sur, Europa y Canadá, visitando por primera vez países como Ecuador y Paraguay, y presentándose dos veces en Buenos Aires, Argentina. El 18 de agosto de 2016, se dio a conocer el nombre del álbum de estudio llamado Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, el cual fue publicado el 18 de noviembre de 2016.​ Metallica anunció que viajarían a Estados Unidos en el verano de 2017 para el WorldWired Tour . La gira del estadio también incluye Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat y Gojira como actos de apoyo. El 7 de agosto de 2017, Metallica fue invitada nuevamente por los Gigantes de San Francisco para la quinta "Noche de Metallica" anual con Hammett y Hetfield interpretando el himno nacional. En enero de 2018, la banda anunció que volverían a emitir el EP $ 5.98: Garage Days Re-Revisited el 13 de abril para el Record Store Day , y la sexta "Noche Metallica" anual también se anunció unas semanas más tarde, esta vez en abril, con todos los ingresos destinados a la Fundación All Within My Hands, que la banda creó a fines de 2017. En febrero de 2018, la banda anunció un segundo conjunto de fechas de gira por América del Norte, la mayoría de las cuales no habían visitado en treinta años. En marzo de 2019, Metallica anunció que su WorldWired Tour continuaría en Australia y Nueva Zelanda en octubre con Slipknot y Ratt en apoyo. Más tarde ese mes, la banda anunció que actuaría en la gran inauguración del nuevo Chase Center de San Francisco con la Orquesta Sinfónica de San Francisco en septiembre para celebrar el vigésimo aniversario del álbum S&M. Los espectáculos conmemorativos, titulados S&M2, contarán con arreglos de los conciertos originales del S&M, así como nuevos arreglos para canciones grabadas desde entonces, y serán conducidos por el director Edwin Outwatery el director musical de la Sinfónica de San Francisco, Michael Tilson Thomas. En julio, la banda anunció que los espectáculos se proyectarían en más de 3000 teatros en todo el mundo el 9 de octubre, y las entradas saldrán a la venta en agosto. Más tarde ese mes, Metallica anunció un conjunto de fechas de gira sudamericana para abril de 2020 con Greta Van Fleet en apoyo. En una entrevista con la revista australiana The Music en de marzo de 2019, Robert Trujillo dijo que Metallica había comenzado a trabajar en nuevo material para su próximo álbum de estudio. "Estoy entusiasmado con el próximo disco porque creo que también será la culminación de los dos discos [anteriores] y otro viaje. No faltan ideas originales, esa es la belleza de estar en esta banda". Estimó que el álbum se lanzaría "mucho antes de lo que hicieron los dos anteriores. Esta vez creo que podremos saltar más rápido y saltar al estudio y comenzar a trabajar. Todos hemos prometido poner esto en marcha más temprano que tarde". En una entrevista con la revista australiana Mixdown al mes siguiente, Kirk Hammett dijo que la banda tenía planes tentativos para ingresar al estudio después de la conclusión de la WorldWired Tour. Dijo: "Estamos en nuestro tercer año desde Hardwired. Tal vez podamos enfocarnos un poco más e ir al estudio un poco antes". Después de no escribir nada en Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct, Hammett dijo sobre sus ideas para el nuevo álbum: "Tengo un montón de material. He compensado en exceso, así que estoy listo para ir en cualquier momento". A pesar de que en un principio Metallica tocaba thrash metal o a veces speed metal, especialmente en Kill'em All, a lo largo de los años se ha ido modificando su sonido, en especial en Metallica (The Black Album), en el que tomaron un sonido más mainstream.​ Sin embargo, el cambio más importante se da a partir de 1996, con la publicación de Load, en el que se puede oír un sonido mucho más arreglado y cercano al hard rock y al metal alternativo, además de poder apreciarse el claro cambio estético de la banda, mucho más pulcramente vestidos abandonando sus melenas y sus vaqueros rotos y desgastados.​Las influencias musicales del grupo se pueden apreciar en el disco de versiones Garage Days Re-Visited, donde versionan canciones de bandas como Diamond Head, posiblemente su mayor influencia, o The Misfits, aunque también hay que incluir dentro de sus influencias bandas como , Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Venom, Quiet Riot, Kix, Ratt, Nazareth, UFO, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Praying Mantis, Exodus, Accept, Kiss, Motörhead, Van Halen, Saxon , AC/DC, Mercyful Fate, entre otras.​​ Además Metallica ha influenciado a bandas como Apocalyptica,​ Vain​ Pantera,​Kreator, Ratt​ Machine Head,​ Death,​ Cannibal Corpse,​ Sepultura, Winger, ​ The Darkness,​ Slipknot,​ Korn,​ System of a Down,​ Dream Theater,​ As I Lay Dying,​ Avenged Sevenfold,​ Steelheart,​​ Trivium,​ Pretty Boy Floyd,​ Mastodon y Tesla​ Con la publicación del álbum Ride the Lightning, muchos seguidores de la banda quedaron desencantados por la balada "Fade to Black", ya que para los más extremos seguidores del género, las bandas de thrash metal no deberían componer canciones orientadas hacia el "mainstream" como es el caso de dicho tema; sin embargo, con la publicación del álbum homónimo de la banda, dicha polémica se recrudece debido al sonido más cercano al Heavy Metal que al Thrash Metal presente en el álbum, ya hasta entonces en los trabajos anteriores de la banda abundaba un sonido más rápido y frenético en la gran mayoría de los temas. El cambio de sonido del grupo vino de la mano de Bob Rock, el productor del disco, quien había trabajado anteriormente con bandas como Bon Jovi, Tankard o Mötley Crüe, todos ellos con una gran cantidad de discos vendidos a sus espaldas. A pesar de dicha polémica, este fue el trabajo más exitoso en ventas de la banda, con más de 7 millones de copias vendidas solo en EE. UU.,​ a pesar de que éstos seguidores los calificasen como "vendidos" por este hecho.​ Aún con Bob Rock en sus filas, el grupo graba Load y ReLoad, dos discos que presentan un sonido mucho más accesible al público en general, lo que acabó por romper las relaciones de los seguidores más intransigentes de la formación dado el carácter cercano al hard rock de ambos trabajos.​ Además, el hecho de que la banda encabezase festivales alternativos como Lollapalooza ayudó a que ganasen detractores.​ St. Anger proporcionaba un sonido mucho más duro bajo la producción nuevamente de Bob Rock, quien además toca el bajo debido a la dificultad de la banda por encontrar un bajista que supliese la marcha de Jason Newsted. Este álbum tampoco convenció a la mayoría de los seguidores de la banda debido a su orientación hacia el nu metal, a la escasez del virtuosismo de Kirk Hammett, quien no realiza ningún solo en todo el disco, y al sonido de la batería. Sin embargo, el álbum de 2008, Death Magnetic fue, en su mayoría, criticado positivamente debido a que este contiene una mayor influencia al Thrash Metal que cualquier otro álbum desde The Black Album. Dicha recepción volvió a repetirse con álbum de estudio llamado Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, el cual fue publicado el 18 de noviembre de 2016 y recibió elogios por parte de la crítica y fanes. Jason Newsted se introdujo en la banda como sustituto del fallecido Cliff Burton, idolatrado por los fanes, por lo que muchos de estos seguidores no vieron con buenos ojos la llegada de otro bajista al seno del grupo. Además, su manera de tocar fue criticada al ser comparada con el virtuosismo de Burton, ya que este último tocaba el bajo con los dedos en lugar de con una púa, como hacía Newsted. Después de su llegada, el grupo publicó ...And Justice for All, en el cual el sonido del bajo de Newsted resulta casi inaudible. En una ocasión, durante la gira de presentación de dicho trabajo, los restantes miembros del grupo arrojaron todos sus objetos personales por la ventana del hotel en el que se alojaban.​ Según sus propias declaraciones, Newsted explicó: "Era mi sueño hecho realidad. Si vas a llenar los zapatos de Cliff Burton, tienes que ser resistente".​ Este recibió numerosas críticas por ello, que recibió con paciencia hasta el año 2001, en el que decide abandonar la banda para ingresar en Voivod y, posteriormente, fundar su propio proyecto, que llamó Echobrain. Su sustituto fue Robert Trujillo, que añadió al grupo un sonido más duro al haber pertenecido a bandas de hardcore punk como Suicidal Tendencies o Infectious Grooves, aunque quizá el factor principal para la contratación de Trujillo fuese su estilo y capacidad de tocar el bajo, con los dedos al igual que Burton. James Hetfield diría en una entrevista que "sus dedos parecían púas, eran como los de Burton".​ En unas declaraciones posteriores a su salida de la banda, Newsted expuso: "Metallica tiene dos monstruos que controlan, y es muy difícil conseguir algo bueno en ese monopolio".​ La más famosa controversia en la carrera de la banda vino dada por el despido de Dave Mustaine, primer guitarrista del grupo y luego fundador de Megadeth, después de conductas violentas e irresponsables en el seno de la banda.​ En 1983, en Nueva York, Mustaine tiene una discusión con Hetfield y Ulrich cuando la banda iba a reunirse con el productor Jon Zazula. La banda ya harta de las adicciones de Mustaine lo sorprendieron recién levantado en la mañana diciendo que estaba fuera de la banda, siendo despedido y embarcado en un viaje de dos días hasta Los Ángeles, durante el cual decide fundar una nueva banda para vengarse de su despido. Declaró: "Después de ser despedido de Metallica, todo lo que recuerdo es que quería sangre, la suya. Quería ser más rápido que ellos".​ Poco antes de este, Mustaine tuvo varios problemas con Ron McGovney, primer bajista de Metallica, que acabaron con la marcha de este antes de la salida del guitarrista. En aquel momento, Mustaine provocaba todo tipo de contratiempos a los restantes miembros del grupo debido a su adicción al alcohol y a las drogas, con lo que fue despedido de Metallica, introduciendo ésta a Kirk Hammett. Las hostilidades entre Megadeth y Metallica duraron varios años. En una entrevista realizada a James Hetfield en 1999, este dijo: "No somos enemigos y no somos amigos, y creo que es mejor dejarlo así. Durante aquellos años todos estábamos borrachos y pasándolo bien, pero él lo llevó todo demasiado lejos. Era una persona realmente excesiva que tenía que llevarlo todo al límite, lo que incluía el alcohol y las drogas".​ Cuando la banda le pidió a Mustaine que apareciese una entrevista entre él y Lars Ulrich en el documental Some Kind of Monster de 2004, el guitarrista se negó a ello, pero Metallica incluyó dicha entrevista. Mustaine dijo que eso fue "la traición final", y ha abandonado la esperanza de grabar algo con los miembros de la banda. Sin embargo, en el festival de Sonisphere en 2010, Dave Mustaine se presentó en el escenario junto a Metallica, los músicos de Megadeth, Slayer y Anthrax para tocar una versión del tema de Diamond Head "Am I Evil?". Megadeth ha empezado a girar por el mundo con estas 3 bandas bajo el nombre "The Big 4". Pero hay que aclarar que Dave Mustaine dijo que en ese tiempo tenía una terapia por los problemas que sufría en el cuello y tenía que estar en reposo, Dave había rechazado la oportunidad de tocar junto a las demás bandas solo por los problemas, pero el mánager de Metallica lo llamó "m*ricón" lo cual le molestó y dijo que las terapias podían esperar, entonces le dijo al mánager que tocaría en ese festival. Y en 2011, Mustaine hizo varias apariciones especiales en los actos de Metallica cuando celebraban su 30 aniversario, donde Mustaine se abrazaba con los otros miembros y tocó temas como Phantom Lord, Jump in the Fire, Metal Militia y Seek & Destroy.​ Desde 2009 Metallica contribuye activamente en la investigación para el esclarecimiento del crimen de Morgan Harrington, una adolescente de 19 años, fan de la banda, que desapareció ese año durante el concierto que dieron en Charlottesville, Virginia. Su cuerpo fue encontrado meses después y su asesino aún no ha sido identificado. Dos días luego de la desaparición de Harrington, James Hetfield se puso en contacto con los padres de ella y ofreció su ayuda. Desde entonces, ha encabezado anuncios públicos y videos pidiendo testigos para el caso, y colaborado con el FBI en la búsqueda. Asimismo la banda en conjunto sumó US$50.000 a la recompensa, cifra que ascendió a $150.000, creó un fondo estudiantil de $50.000 en memoria de la fallecida, y donó $40.000 al fondo estudiantil del ala de medicina del Instituto Politécnico y Universidad Estatal de Virginia creado en honor a Morgan Harrington. Esta última suma provino de la venta especial de camisetas con la leyenda «Enter Sandman».​ En 2017, crearon la Fundación "All Within My Hands", la cual se dedica a crear comunidades sostenibles mediante el apoyo a la educación para habilitación laboral, la lucha contra el hambre, entre otros aspectos críticos. 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Fredrik har varit på bilsemester i Tyskland och passat på att besöka några av Europas coolaste gitarraffärer. Fölster gräver djupare i ämnet Stratocaster. I veckans pryl spelar vi på Echo Fix EF-P2 Spring Reverb Pedal. I detta avsnitt: Gibson, Fender, Echo Fix, Nacho, Toschcase, Gretsch, Vox, Mesa-Boogie, Valley Arts, Magnatone, Bigsby, Thorn, Roland.

Ulf och Fredrik pratar om en åkomma som många av oss lider av; Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Fölster har snöat in på ämnet Wha-Wha. I veckans pryl testar vi en pedal från Jäger som heter Thermonuclear. I veckans avsnitt: Mesa-Boogie, Ibanez, Music Man, Gallien Krueger, ADA, Gibson, Folkesson, Matchless, Marshall, Gretsch, Benson, Komet, Hamer, Nacho, Ronin, Björk, Nordin, Jakobsson, Chase Bliss, Westerlund, Neural, RAR, Banker, Kelley, Valley Arts, Jäger, Strymon, Vox, Roger Mayer, BBE, Vertex, Budda, Dunlop, Real Mc Coy, Castledine, Walrus Audio.

Vi har samlat in frågor från våra lyssnare som vi svarar på i detta avsnitt. Fölster pratar om mickar i serie eller parallell. I veckans pryl har vi en förstärkare från vårt grannland Finland; Skippers Amps Tornator. Detta avsnitt: Gibson, Mystic Amps, Boss, Schecter, Roland, Tom Anderson, Suhr, Valley Arts, PRS, Gretsch, Hermansson, Mesa Boogie, Marshall, Soldano, Trainwreck, Friedman, Cameron, Splawn, MXR EVH, Warmoth, Allparts, Neural DSP, Springer, Skippers Amps.

The boys are back and this time they're discussing the first long play in the Hip's discography, Up to Here.https://ratethispodcast.com/ghtthLive tracks featured in the episode:Blow at High Dough - Barrie ON 1990Everytime You Go - London ON 1989Transcript0:00:00 - Speaker 1We're now one episode into this grand experiment, and I'm not sure if we've learned anything concrete at this point. I think it's safe to say that the EP surprised Pete and Tim. Going into this, they were under the impression that the hip is a very special band with cultural significance, and the whole nine and Then their first foray into said music Gave them werewolf baby. Now, before you go sending me nasty emails, know that in my heart the EP has a charming place on the mantle. I wouldn't hide from the music on the EP, nor, however, what I seek it out. Now, though, we move on to a more honed and refined version of our bar band. from Kingston Up to here is a taste of the South, delivered on the backs of songs that have stood the test of time, Produced by a famed knob turner, Don Smith, who had previously worked with the likes of you, to the traveling willbaries and Keith Richards, to name just a few. At any rate, let's just say, the hip picked up what Don Smith was putting down, and together they birthed the classic. That's what I think anyway. What, though, will our friends Pete and Tim think of up to here on their first listen? Let's find out in this episode of getting hip to the hip. 0:01:25 - Speaker 2Long sliced brewery presents getting hip to the hip. 0:01:35 - Speaker 1Hey, it's JD here and welcome to getting hip to the hip, a tragically hip podcast. I'm here, as always, with my friends Pete and Tim, and I want to ask them right up front How are you doing, boys? 0:01:47 - Speaker 3Doing well, doing great. It's Monday, Monday morning in Portland and there's frost on the ground. 0:01:52 - Speaker 1Oh, Really not here. 0:01:54 - Speaker 3Yeah, Yeah, Oh, no, no. 0:01:57 - Speaker 5Molly is. it's Monday night in Malaga and You know it's a thunderstorm right now outside, so I hope my internet holds up, but It's getting chilly. man, We're definitely in the winter, That's for sure. 0:02:12 - Speaker 1Oh god, What does that mean? like 20 degrees. 0:02:16 - Speaker 5It's, it's 16 right now. You know that's. Oh I'm trying for you. 0:02:21 - Speaker 1What is it here right now? It's four. 0:02:25 - Speaker 5Oh god man, No thanks Geez. 0:02:31 - Speaker 1I'm a hardy Canadian, for four is good for this time of year, for is like your coat's unzipped and you're drinking a stout. 0:02:38 - Speaker 5I can't drink those stouts here. Let me tell you, man, I'm sticking a light beer, That's for sure. 0:02:43 - Speaker 1Oh, yeah, I'm, yeah I'm, I'm well into the stouts, That's for sure. So up to here, I believe it's recorded in Memphis. I'm gonna double check that right now. Yep, Memphis, Tennessee, and it's got that sort of muddy southern Field to it. you know it's like a well, It's like a well-worn in pickup truck. you know it's got some, it's got some mud on the sides, Really comfortable to drive. That's what this record is and it comes on the tail of their 87 EP. But in those two years the growth to me anyway seems Market. you know, like there is a market growth in terms of, you know the songwriting and the songwriting, The lyrics in particular. but the but the content, you know is is just a little more Worn in like a great pair of jeans. What do you guys think, Pete? Wow. 0:03:43 - Speaker 5Well, you said something in beginning of the Of your kickoff and it's really hard, because I wanted to make this note, because I know that you, there's probably some pretty hardcore hip fans listening to this. so, given the Yeah, given the fact that there's only a week to To listen to these, to really dig into them, you know, I'm just, Basically, on behalf of Tim and myself, begging for forgiveness. you know, don't send hate mail because it's, it's, It's tough, like it's. I know Tim is really a solid music connoisseur, Probably well more than I am, and you know No, but you know he's, he's pretty thoughtful, But, but, but I thought about it too. like, like bands that I really love, like God man, What would I, how, what would my reaction be for listening to two jokers Who never heard this before and have a week to listen to it? you know what? what would they? You know what I'm saying, Tim, Do you do? JD, Do you feel me like I? 0:04:49 - Speaker 1I feel like there's daggers toward us, you know first of all, Pete, at getting hip to the hip. calm is where you want to go with your complaints about. No, I'm kidding, but You got to think in terms of context. here everyone gets the conceit of the shell. people got this record, people got their hands on this record And they got to sit with it for a year before the next record came out. 0:05:15 - Speaker 5So yeah, yeah, you know, Just asking for forgiveness, but all in all, to what your your your. your point was JD, I mean I did. I know we're gonna go song by song, but I just want to say I I started off with this record. This is kind of the same way I did the other one, the last EP. first I started off on my computer, was not feeling it Pop the pop the earbuds in, went for a run with it, Really started to warm up to it and then I took it out in the car and and JD, you've been in my cars, You know that's got a premium audio sound system in it Yeah and oh man, Oh man, It is. I want to walk into a roadhouse somewhere in Memphis and this band's playing and just whoo, there's a lot of crunch man. Oh, I dig it. I got lots to say, but I'll send it over to Tim. 0:06:10 - Speaker 3Well, I had a similar Reflection. I was talking to my wife the other day and about the band and I Said or you know what if my favorite band was in a podcast, someone else was reviewing it, and What if they didn't like it? What if they loved it or what have you You know in either way? I thought, well, hopefully, if I, you know, if I'm an open-minded Pod listener to my favorite band, Hopefully it would be entertaining, Hopefully it'd be funny to hear these Two schmucks talking about what they think you know and with without much background at all. It's kind of like what I said last time without you know, ever trying a certain type of food. It's like, oh, my god, okay, Let's do this. but I am with this album. I, Yes, I started it in the car and it just seemed like really good road trip music. I totally concur with you, Pete, about it being in the boss, in the car Felt like road trip music, felt like, you know, I wanted to drive to go see a show or go see a show by them. Definitely worked in the car. listen to it at home a fair amount, I think. in general it feels, and no production value. definitely more polished Than the last album we listened to totally. yet You get very familiar, like the storytelling is still there, right? The song structures changed a little bit but like the. the DNA is definitely still there. Compared to the last album, Yeah, it's like pinnacle. 0:07:51 - Speaker 1Top perfection bar rock. Yeah, I heard, You know. 0:07:54 - Speaker 3George Thoreau, good like guitar. I just heard this bluesy rock and roll bar Kind of just awesome riffing and I you know, now that you mentioned it, Being in Memphis, I just absolutely heard some country Wow kind of rock and roll tones in there. Oh, that's big time, big time, Elvis, you know there's, There's definitely some of that in there, from Memphis for sure. more so, much more so than the last album. 0:08:25 - Speaker 1Interesting. So, experience wise, did you prefer this record to the last record or not? or where were you there? 0:08:34 - Speaker 3For me. I kind of likened the last record as a pizza with the works, like where is this going? kind of thing. Throw it all together and see what we get. and this one is for sure an evolution. So I would say, sure, I like it more. but it just to me also just feels like an evolution and I'm curious. I was describing it to a friend, and actually to my wife actually, and she was like it sounds like it's just going to get better And I said, well, I definitely hope so, As we listen. 0:09:11 - Speaker 1Yeah, well, I mean, that's what makes this interesting to me getting your first listens in on these records that were seminal to not only me but to a great swath of our country and places you know near and far. I am curious whether the evolution continues for you, And I think that that's going to be fascinating as we as we roll into things. So, Tim, thanks for that. Now, Pete, what have you got in terms of last questions or comments on this record, Or do you have any? Let me know. 0:09:55 - Speaker 5Oh, there was one question I was going to ask you to JD Diamond status. Yeah, So that's Canada's version of platinum, But I'm curious to know why they have that different status. when, for example, if you have the Stones or the Beatles who are from the UK, does the UK have a different? 0:10:21 - Speaker 1I don't know if they have a different one. I've never heard if they have a different one. I know that you guys have diamond, like America has diamond as well. 0:10:28 - Speaker 2It's 10 million copies. 0:10:29 - Speaker 1Yeah, it's 10 million copies. 0:10:31 - Speaker 2We do. 0:10:32 - Speaker 1It's 10 times what we have. So diamond in Canada is one million and platinum in Canada is 100,000. Okay, I see, And it jives out because America has roughly 10, 10 times the population. So, you know, 100,000 and a million. What's interesting, though, is the province of Quebec, which is, you know, I think, 11, 10 or 11 million people. they have artists that have, in the past, consistently hit platinum status, or diamond status, rather, with 100,000, pardon me, a million copies of a record, which is staggering, You know, when you figure, the rest of Canada has a difficult time putting together a million, a million sales in records. Now, this is all off the table, now that we don't sell records anymore, But back in the day, this was a, you know, a big marker of things. So, yeah, you have Quebec. that just is, you know, able to market themselves to. it's because they can put up stuff in French and they can, they can. you know they have access to that audience. 0:11:52 - Speaker 5That's crazy. Yeah, it was a lot of questions. 0:11:55 - Speaker 1What were you listening to in 89? Do you remember Either of you guys? 0:11:59 - Speaker 3Yes. 0:12:00 - Speaker 1Where are you at? 0:12:02 - Speaker 3I was senior in high school. 0:12:04 - Speaker 1Yeah. 0:12:05 - Speaker 3Yeah, it was everything from Southern California punk rock. Yeah, we had a lot of local punk rock going on and we had you know friends in punk rock bands But you know kind of flip the rock and roll coin. I was also listening to like, oh, a lot of new wave, Holy cow, a lot of new wave kind of influence for my sister And that's everything 80s new wave. And then also I was for a period there like a big fan of the cult. You know I like Epic Guitar. I don't always need it, but I like a band that has you know back bone drum bass, blah, blah. but I love a great guitar player And the hip has definitely some guitar going on. 0:12:54 - Speaker 5Yeah, 89. 89, I was. I was I'm a tad younger than you guys, but 89, it was coming out of like some late stage Steely Dan and and Huey Lewis sports was just, I mean, God damn Nice. I don't think there was a bigger album and we talked about that last week. you know some Huey Lewis vibes in there And then you know, I just feel like I went right into. you know Guns N' Roses and the Motley crew of that time before getting thrust into. you know 90s grunge, like everybody else did with Alice and Chains and and and you know Soundgarden and eventually Nirvana. 0:13:45 - Speaker 1I was a big Pearl Jam guy, That was kind of where I was at. Okay, Yeah, I was a Pearl Jam guy, and but that was later. That was, you know, into the 90s. Back in 89, when this came out, I was listening to hair metal. I was straight up listening to hair metal And I recalled, on the intro, the cold open of the first episode. you know, when I heard the hip for the first time and the impact that it made on me. you know, in spite of the, the garishness of the hair metal that I was listening to, there was something that I really liked about this pickup truck band from Kingston, And you know there's a lot to like on this record for sure. So what do you say? we get into it and attack this sucker track by track. Yeah, good to go, man, All right, So we kick off with Blow It High, Do Welcome back and welcome back to CFY's fourth annual Canada Day Festival for Canada's 123rd birthday. 0:14:54 - Speaker 4We're at very Ontario half the time of our lives. Believe me, this band is going to be very, very hot. We'd like you to listen now to Tragically Hip. He's a rapper like Tizorim, never like the stars To throw some passion, throws a passion in some. just bring him on. We're so close, the best that we get to listen now. But you can't look me in for the smile of your eyes. the further it's gone, the higher I go. And if I'm high I go, and if you blow the cry I go. Maybe I feel fine, I'm pretty, just genuine. It makes no sense. it makes no sense for a track to be unified And if I'm hip-sick you should leave it high. It was the strangest thing. I should move so fast, move so fast in the better way I pray Sometimes, the best that we get to listen. now you gotta remember the smile of your eyes. the further it's gone, the higher I go. And when you blow the cry, I go. Now that the speedway, the same evidence, the same. Well, I ain't no movie star but I can give it hand in a thing In the better way I pray Sometimes, the best that we get to listen. now you gotta remember the smile of your eyes. the further it's gone, the higher I go, And if I'm high, I go. Yeah, I'm gonna fly, I go, Gonna fly, I go, I fly. Now that the speedway. the same evidence, the same evidence. 0:19:25 - Speaker 3I mean to me that just crushed it. as the first song, It just hit the ground running, which I love. I'm really into checking out song orders and there was a while many, many, many years ago, I was hoping to be a fan of song three. There was a cadence to some albums that I really enjoyed and this song as a song one it was super good. This is kind of where I mentioned hearing guitar licks that you'd hear from George Thurgood or you know. it was very kind of smithereens, Tom Petty friendly in that way. Some of the lyrics like oh, what do I have? Don't get ahead of yourself. or faster it gets, the less you need to know. I love that line faster it gets, the less you need to know. It's like, just keep the momentum going, And that's also a song that was awesome in the car. 0:20:21 - Speaker 5Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, what a fucking banger of a first tune, The slide. I had the same thing. I very much got some Thurgood tunes or vibes in there, The way the song starts out, I think, with the drums and then a little crunch guitar, and then that in my notes I wrote down the layers, the way they layer the song into getting it, getting the ball rolling, and it just from no disrespect to the EP, but leaps and bounds, recording quality wise, just production, leaps and bounds. It was just. 0:21:00 - Speaker 2you tell me like well, this is going to be a fucking record. 0:21:07 - Speaker 5I was very excited from that first track, Absolutely All right, We'll stick with you and move into. 0:21:13 - Speaker 1I'll Believe in You or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight. 0:21:17 - Speaker 5Which it took me a minute to get the play on words there. I know I'm a bit dense, I'm a blonde, You can't see that for just you listeners out there, But the riff in there is just so catchy I think. at first I was like, oh, this is like a typical late 80s riff and I'll make that reference a couple of times for a few songs here. But the more I listened to it I was like I want to try to play that. I took out the guitar and I was like, oh, that's cool man, It's just cool, It's cool to play and it sounds cool And I can imagine playing it back in that time I mean, if I was alive in that time. it's just like I don't know. I'm sorry I'm trying hard time, particularly myself, but it's a really love that jam. 0:22:11 - Speaker 1We're not rock critics, so we're people who are telling it like it's Oh, yes, we are. Oh, I forgot, Put your quill away. What did you think of this one Lesser Bangs? 0:22:26 - Speaker 3Yeah, it's kind of a little bit of a similar feel. It was cranking in the car really well, I found myself I didn't know what to call it I was doing the chin back and forth to the cadence of the song. It was like kind of reminded myself. I was like I'm doing kind of the chicken thing right now. Just have this good tempo. The two minute mark around then is when Gord starts kind of talk singing, as he does sometimes, And then it moves into, as Pete mentioned, the big guitar riff. And I enjoy when the structure changes up a little bit. I think the last album I felt like there was more consistency and structure which made me lose my interest a little bit. So I like it when the tempo changes or there's like a build up, slow down, build up. you know This had a good speed to it. There's also definitely some country music influence in there. I mean, I could hear it right away. 0:23:34 - Speaker 1That's so interesting to me. I'd have to listen really hard to hear to find country in there. 0:23:41 - Speaker 3But if you listen to some, yeah, some old school kind of country and it just reminds me of, like, the era from when Elvis started to go a little more rock and roll, Like it. just it's very Memphis. It's definitely influenced by the region, I feel. 0:23:58 - Speaker 1All right. the next track on the record is another single from this record. It's probably one of the songs that if you do meet somebody that knows the Tragically Hip, they might know this song. 0:24:11 - Speaker 3Okay. 0:24:11 - Speaker 1It stands. you know it stood the test of time in their live set Throughout the nineties. it was a fertile place for them to play when they played it live. It was a fertile place for them to jam inside of and introduce or workshop new songs. So you'd get like a record two years down the road from a time that you saw them live and there'd be this worked out song. But you'd hear this rough you know this rough lyric phrase or a lick that maybe is familiar on a record two years down the road. It was such a cool little thing to hear them. you know, jam these songs out and you'd go see them. I would see them like multiple nights in a row and it would be different, Like it wasn't, like they were just fucking around and like it was spontaneous and it was very storytelling and yeah, So I'm talking way too much here. This is your show. New Orleans is sinking. 0:25:12 - Speaker 3Yeah. So you know, I'd love to hear a version of this song where they take it longer or they jam out it and or something like that. because first listen, you know the story is actually pretty doom and gloom sounding It's. you know it's kind of about maybe giving up, I don't know. It just felt like, you know, there was some dark, heavy thoughts in there and then it felt just as as a song on the album. it felt a little bit filler to me it was more staple. it was more regular hip. It just like had the typical structure I've heard thus far Wow. So I didn't think I loved it. That is fucking awesome. I like the idea of the song, but it just felt kind of like, okay, this is a, this is a song. three hip, hip song. 0:26:05 - Speaker 4No No. 0:26:07 - Speaker 1Oh wow, It'll be interesting to hear if this change. I hope so. 0:26:13 - Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. No, I want to hear, I want to hear more versions of it. 0:26:17 - Speaker 1Yeah, you should. 0:26:18 - Speaker 3Like I was saying, like it was songs have some, have some change or cadence change or an up and a down, and this just felt like, okay, this is song three. What are we going to do for four? Oh wow, Sorry, hip hip fans who have that as a moment, It's not mine yet. 0:26:36 - Speaker 5Well, I'm going to read from my notes to, but before I do, real quick, I got to say this song just by the title and the way that it started. I got this really weird feeling and I'm going to indulge me for just one moment with a story I remember when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Tim, you remember, I mean JD. I don't know if the news of it was as big in your neck of the woods as it was, Oh yeah. 0:27:05 - Speaker 1It was huge, It was huge. 0:27:07 - Speaker 5But the night the hurricane made, you know, landfall, so to speak. I remember listening to a guy. you may or may not have heard of him. He used to do some something called Freeform Radio. He's the godfather of Freeform Radio. His name is Jim Ladd, Nationally syndicated, but he's from LA, and I remember smoking weed on my patio there and he said ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be really bad. It was before like the hurricane even made landfall and this is going to be really bad. And he started. the song he played was When the Levy Breaks by Led Zeppelin And it was just really dark and haunting. So I got that same vibe when I started listening to this song and I was like, like Gord's fucking vocals on this are up into this song. from everything I've heard from the EP with the most extreme, in my opinion, just the most range, the most talent. Like if I was a record producer and I'd heard this as a demo, I'd be like sign this fucking band, this guy's off the charts. There's a mention of somebody named Colonel Tom in the song And I don't know who Colonel Tom is. JD, if you got a line on this, let me know. But my initial thought was go ahead, Tim or whoever knows. No, you tell us your initial thought. My initial thought was it was a David Bowie reference to Space Up, but I could be wrong. 0:28:49 - Speaker 3I just read two references. One was just, it was about the North versus the South. you know, some war back then, back then. But then I also read a reference said that it had to do with Elvis's manager, which made me think, okay, yeah, Colonel Tom Parker. So I think that's what it ties to in Memphis and all of that. 0:29:10 - Speaker 5That makes sense. 0:29:12 - Speaker 1Yeah they talk about. this is like Gord's first foray into writing most of the songs. He's handling most of the lyrics, but not all of the lyrics. And why am I saying this? Oh, because they talk about his notebook. He was notorious for having always having a notebook on him and just writing down phrases. And you know, like he would write full lyric, full lyrics or stanzas or whatever. But even if he heard something that he thought was cool, like a cool turn of phrase, he would write that down. So maybe it was even, you know, like Colonel Tom from Memphis, and that's literally the only thing that's relevant about that lyric is that one individual moment. You know it might not be the story of the rest of the song, you know. 0:29:59 - Speaker 3Sure Yeah. 0:30:01 - Speaker 1I don't know though. Yeah, Colonel Tom Parker. That's what I've always thought. 0:30:05 - Speaker 5Good, What a song, though, man? What a fucking song. I mean, it is just chock full of dirt, you know. 0:30:13 - Speaker 1It's a dirty song, right It's yeah. It is Dirty, Dirty, It's mighty yeah. 0:30:18 - Speaker 3You know it's, it's. I just thought it was also. yeah, I agree, I agree, I just yeah, let's just. 0:30:24 - Speaker 1There's other tracks that you like better. That's cool, That's totally cool. It's not. it's not on my top 10 list, So. 0:30:30 - Speaker 3I'd like to hear other versions of it maybe other live versions of it and see how they can do it Me too. 0:30:36 - Speaker 1It became a staple. for sure, It was a. it was a staple. 0:30:38 - Speaker 3Yeah, That's. that's exactly what my take of it was. 0:30:42 - Speaker 1Whereas the next song was not so much a staple Early on, it was, but it didn't live on in the set list for forever. but it's a great example of Gord, you know, sort of weaving a yarn here and telling a story and using actual Canadian history but giving it a unique spin. So you know, he's playing with things a little bit, but he's telling the story and then he makes it about his own family. What do you guys think of 38 years old? 0:31:14 - Speaker 4I've got my name in administration So People leave. don't have people left, nothing to feed. The last thing they wanna do is hang around here. Most of came from town from long French name, But one other dozen was a hometown shame. Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall, Been one seat empty, 80 years and all Freezing slow time, away from the world. He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl. He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl. Music. We're sitting on the table. heard the telephone ring. Father said he'd tell him if he saw anything Other type from the window in the middle of the night. Held back the curtains for my older brother, Mike. See, my sister got a ring. so a man got killed. Love for which prison man's buried on the bill. Folks spend back a normal when they close the case. They still stare at the shoes. in the past, our place, Music, Music, Music. My mother called. the horror finally ceased. He whispered yeah, for the time being, Natalie, No, but show the squad, come make a phone. Said let's go, Michael's son, we're taking you home. Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall, Been one seat empty, 18 years and all Freezing slow time, away from the world. He's 38 years old never kissed a girl. He's 38 years old never kissed a girl. He's 38 years old never kissed a girl. Music, Music, Music, Music. 0:35:03 - Speaker 5Music. It's crazy. so I ended up this above all songs. I ended up doing the most research on, Started researching the prison and there was a guy who was shot there years ago And his last name was Trudeau and I was like, was he related to the prime minister or what? Like all this weird miraculous rabbit hole that I went down. But getting back to the song, I got to be totally honest with you. So I know you guys feel me on this. when you look at like records during this time that came out, You'd have the first one or two to three songs will be just these fucking bangers. And then song four just you look in the structure of the record is going to bring it down a little bit. It's kind of like, okay, everybody relax. you think about it like even playing a live show. That's just the way that the records were made back in the day. And I start hearing that and I'm hearing this song come in with the guitar And I'm like, oh, this is man. those first three songs are fucking bangers. And I'm like, no, they're just going to be this fucking cheesy. yeah, just, you know, Give me some acoustic, a little bit of love, whatever. And I got to say this is probably my favorite song in the record And it took some evolution on my part because first I started digging in the lyrics And I was like you know there's rape prisoners, murder, like all this crazy shit, And I'm like what the fuck is going on here. And then you know ultimately just the song itself, like the melody and everything involved, Which is it's just. it's a I probably my favorite song in the record. Sorry to spoil your alert, but yeah, loved it. loved it. 0:37:00 - Speaker 1It gave the record legs. I think this is the fourth single from the record, Maybe the third or fourth single. So there were four singles on the record and I want to say this is the third, But it might have been the fourth, so gave it some legs as well. 0:37:13 - Speaker 3Favorite song. I'm just confirming 38 years old favorite song. 0:37:20 - Speaker 5On this record. Yeah, I just think it's really 38 years old. was it never been kissed, never made love? 0:37:31 - Speaker 3Yeah, all that, yeah, Never kissed a girl. 0:37:35 - Speaker 5Just, I don't know man, I feel like and this is crazy, I can't believe I'm going to say this And I'll probably be if you kick me off this podcast after what I'm about to say. I totally get it, But a lot of hip lyrics, especially this song about something historical. I really get some Gordon Lightfoot vibes from man. 0:38:02 - Speaker 1Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. 0:38:05 - Speaker 5You know same name, I guess, but you know, I don't, I just and that guy I fucking fucking loved Gordon Lightfoot. If you don't like it and you want to kick me off the podcast, be my guest, That's the hill I will die on. 0:38:16 - Speaker 3We'll keep you. I think I thought, okay, this is some more kind of dark, gloomy storytelling And I feel like I, you know, on an album, I don't need too much of that, I don't need a lot of that, and me personally. And I also thought, okay, if I'm at a hip show, Some dude next to me is like yelling for this song to be played. I think that's a little weird. like when would they play this song at a live show? It's just like, it's just a little much. you know, Maybe Gordon knew that in the future, true crime would be a thing. you know, podcasts and TV shows and everything. Because it just feels like I mean a song about rape and killing. It's just like how many times you need to hear that? I don't need to hear it very many times. So I thought it was super heavy and you know the same thing Like lyric just too much. Yeah, storytelling is just a lot. you know, maybe I'm too sensitive or something, But I was like, yeah, if I'm at this show with my girlfriend and some dude just keeps yelling to hear this song, we're gonna move. 0:39:24 - Speaker 1I've always said that the hip is really funny with their, because I came from the same school that Pete did With. you know especially heavy metal where it was like banger, banger, banger and then like ballad. Yeah, the ballads would be where you would slow dance and you would make out on the dance floor, you know, after you were head banging and stuff like that. And I just think the tragedy hip does the same thing. they do two slow songs or two ballads on every record, kind of thing ish. But the subject matter is never something that you would want to slow dance or make out to Like. it's always fucking heavy, heavy shit And really when you think about it it's like C, G, D, A minor on an acoustic guitar. you know it's like a three or four chord song that fits in the realm of those heavy metal ballads. But then you put that story about family over top of it and it's like Jesus Christ, this is unreal, Yeah, and you know it overall just comprises them into this epic band that can go there. 0:40:33 - Speaker 3Like not many bands even do something like that lyrically or with storytelling, you know. So, you know it's so. part of me was like, okay, what makes me feel uncomfortable about this? Because I appreciate the music and all the effort and creativity. you know, it's like it's because bands don't really do this often Sinister type storytelling. maybe I know a person or two who kind of fits this mold of a character a little bit to a degree. you know it's just like, wow, okay, What's the next song for me? 0:41:07 - Speaker 5The song when I heard the guitar start and I got to tell you JD I don't know if I told you this, I know I didn't mention this to you, Tim, But the very much got some, you know, with those, those that rock ballads and nothing else matters, vibes from Metallica. And growing up in Downey, where I was born, you know, James Hetfield went to my high school, so, like you, you if you weren't a Metallica fan like you, Or you could be excommunicated from the city. like everybody was Metallica fan Like you. just you just weren't not, you know, a Metallica fan. and getting to Tim's question about why or you, JD, you said why the hip never. I mean it's the eternal question why the hip never broke through. You know, here you got this ballad that everybody's expecting to like dance to at a concert or whatever. but then there's lyrics of, like you know, rape and murder and stuff like they did. they did went outside the box, And that's kind of cool, because not a lot of bands do that Exactly. And so like they sacrificed the ability of being, you know, the ability of of fame or whatever it may be, to have to be a fucking cool outside the box band. I don't know. that's my view. 0:42:36 - Speaker 3Well, there's some also, like I was trying to say, there's some artistic merit to it. you know if, if not, a lot of bands go, go there with something. I mean I mean at the same time, era, late 80s. it's not like Morrissey wasn't talking about doom and gloom with Smith or the Cure or something. I mean it was right there, right in there, but I don't know when it. for me it just hits differently when it's comprised of the sound formula that the hip have, and there he's just like letting the listener have it with this character, and it's just guitar driven rock and roll, it's just. 0:43:13 - Speaker 5It's like a preacher that's telling the congregation like, like he's saying some, some shit to the congregation that, hey, you may not like what you're about to hear, but you're going to fucking hear it whether you like it or not. 0:43:25 - Speaker 1Exactly, I don't know that's. 0:43:27 - Speaker 5does that make sense to you, Tim? 0:43:28 - Speaker 3I mean, that's kind of the way I'm going to provide for you, For sure, for sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not going to jump the gun, but I kind of had a similar, you know, mindset, feel from the next song. 0:43:41 - Speaker 1Well, let's go into it. she didn't know. I was going to say it's sort of dark too. you know it's couched in this blues, bass, lick sort of thing. you get a nice groove in the back with the bass and the drums, but then those lyrics come in and it's like man, yeah, this is some more broken hearted, dark shit. 0:44:10 - Speaker 3At the same time, it does have this groove to it. there's almost this like I don't want to say pop, but there's this, there's this beat to it that is a little bit different than the other songs. it's I don't know, it's it's Interesting. A little bit different but there's like yeah, yeah, exactly it, it, it. to me it ties a little bit more back to the overall feel, not conceptually with lyrics, but from blow it high to like there's a drive to it, there's a good. it embraced me more just musically in the song it's, it's, it feels like a good sing along, like I could hear the song on the radio driving across Canada. 0:44:51 - Speaker 1You do, I'm. I'm very curious why it wasn't a single it's perfect length for a single it's. it's three minutes and 30 seconds. you know it's, you're in, you're out. there's a nice bridge. you get a little bit of silliness. maybe the subject matter, I don't know, but 38 years old, was a single, so yeah. so what do you got? 0:45:12 - Speaker 5Well, I kind of, you know, just sticking with what Tim said, you know the amount of tragedy fitting with the name of the band involved in the lyrics. I really think, because a lot of the, a lot of the sound that that that Memphis, correct, it was recorded in Memphis. Yeah, that that vibe is just, it is consistent. I mean, I feel like if you asked me where do you think this record was recorded, Pete, I probably would have said Memphis, if I, if, like you, had a gun to my head and I had to guess, just because this the overall sound of it. And one thing I noticed really strangely and I don't know if you got this too, Tim JD, you may have noticed this listening to it so many more times, but moving from the end of this song into boots or hearts, there's a vinyl crackle. there's a tape crackle and and maybe the hardcore hip fans will get this. So at the end of she didn't know if the song ends with like a tape crackle and then the begin. it's something you don't, at least I didn't hear on any other songs. you hear a tape crackle at the beginning of boots or hearts. 0:46:39 - Speaker 3I heard it. 0:46:40 - Speaker 5I know you're talking about you know I'm talking about it, just I heard it. 0:46:44 - Speaker 3I heard it on my, on my sono speaker. I heard it and I went back and replayed it and stuck my ear over there. I was like what the hell is that sound? I mean, I'm familiar with what that sound is but yeah, I thought it was like coming from outside or something because it wasn't on any other tune and I was like right right. 0:47:03 - Speaker 1I think if you did it on more tunes it would take away from it, but to me it's. to me it's like just an accoutrement. that's like there to remind you that this is rustic, this is, you know, this is coming out on CD, but this should be, you know, like vinyl was. vinyl wasn't as popular in 1989 as cassettes and CDs were. CDs were really just emerging, but cassettes were like huge but it was still recorded on tape, I would imagine yes, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, for sure yeah so you add a little bit of that into it and it's like you know it makes it sound more like authentic. 0:47:41 - Speaker 3I don't know, that's just my, I mean back back then you know BC boys were doing some like needle-hitting the the disc sound to start off songs. or you know, back then people were take starting to take other sounds as the beginning of songs or even ending songs or whatever. so I think it kind of it fits, definitely fits for 1989 let's go to boots, baby there's a line in there. 0:48:06 - Speaker 5I don't know if there's one line in that song that gets me anybody. anybody want to throw a guess out there? I don't know. no, Tim. Gady, no, okay it's even babies raid raised by wolves. know the wind, he's just like what? 0:48:24 - Speaker 3yeah, man, dude, that was the second wolf, the second wolf reference earth song. right, you know for sure there's more to come imagine what it will. 0:48:36 - Speaker 1hardcore fan I'm not joking, there's more to come these f**king douchebags man this song to me it felt really long. 0:48:46 - Speaker 3that it was not long and it felt like a little more country than the last ones. definitely, you know boots or hearts come on. you know it's like okay, is this the crossover song to the south of the United States to get more fans? yeah, I just the lyrics was a single yeah, for sure, I can't imagine a single, but it was a single who was managing these guys at the time who were like we got it, we got it, we got, at least get the south, because if you get the southern belt of the US, that's like that could be a business, you know so yeah, when I heard the song, I was like, oh yeah, I get it. they were after something here and it seems very it's too much more country to me, so I just kept moving well, if you know, you also have to think too like. 0:49:35 - Speaker 5I don't know how long the recording process took for them, but if you're, you know you're Canadian boys. from where, what? which province are they from? JD? 0:49:45 - Speaker 1they're from Ontario, so they're from where I am, about two hours, about two hours east of where I live. they live in King. there, they came from Kingston okay, yeah, Kingston, that's right. 0:49:56 - Speaker 5so, if you know, maybe they, maybe they individually travel, but you're all there as a group of people, you're recording a record, it's your first full length studio album and you're spending time in Memphis, Tennessee. I mean, I see what you're saying, Tim. then maybe the manager, the the high rubs for maybe like, but guys, we got a, we got to do this. but also, you know, it's the same thing, as you know, that that culture takes a hold of you. you know you spend JD when you over in the UK for the pave tour for a while. how quickly did it? I mean, we don't say it in the United States, but how quick did it take you to say cheers instead of thanks? you know, yeah, yeah, it only takes a couple of days and then asking for the toilet. 0:50:46 - Speaker 1that's, that's the. that's the biggest thing for me. like I just thought, like it sounds so rude, like where's the hey man, where's the toilet? you know, it just sounds rude, but it's just what everybody says. yeah. 0:50:59 - Speaker 3I got it to say that really clear yeah. 0:51:04 - Speaker 5Tim, how long did it take you to say little symetheos when you were over here in Madrid? 0:51:08 - Speaker 4I mean, you know, I've traveled around yeah, yeah, yeah, not long it's a song called every time you go there, I got my hands, the numbers be up, my smile's right in my hands. Every time you go, every time you feel what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Well, down here, but I take two kids round the gas like no place. Say the thing is time when things start, The dance, the wilds of charity, no time to rise, to get afraid. They were pissing, pissing, playing a part. She's a lover, a man, a soul, a game of games, Say the door. I'll remain in the corner of your lips And I was made up of my smile. you're both a man. Every time you go, every time you feel what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me And it makes them feel. let me dance through the air to feel Love me, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. Well, I tell you, every time you go, what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Every time you go, every time you go, what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Oh gosh. 0:54:37 - Speaker 5Go ahead Tim please. 0:54:39 - Speaker 3I feel like this is just a total hip song. It's got good structure, has awesome drum, backbone beat. I like the chorus ad. Not all their songs have a strong chorus, So I like that aspect of it. It felt like maybe the last quarter of the song felt a little repetitive, like excessively repetitive, Like it just kept going a little bit. But I don't know, man In the Big Snake Pit, it's a song about taking risks, falling in love. What else about it? It's still kind of on the emotional high spectrum to me. But it's a good song. It's a oh. what did I have a note here about? Oh, the drawn out dramatic ending with the vibrato Just becoming a hallmark signature of some of the hip, And I'm just slowly accepting it as one of their things, Because it was really shocking to me on the first EP to hear excessive vibrato. It's like woo Yeah. 0:55:56 - Speaker 5Let's go. I gotta say, gentlemen, this is the only song on the record that literally my notes are. I just it's just nothing. I listened so many times I'm like what the fuck am I missing? And I don't know. It's one of those songs where maybe, hopefully, in a year or two years, and I listen to it and be like dude, yeah, there it is, But I just didn't. it couldn't, it was a sleep placebo, I just didn't do it. I don't know why. 0:56:34 - Speaker 3Well then you should talk about the next one, because I was similar with when the weight comes down. 0:56:41 - Speaker 5Okay, I really liked the structure of the song. I liked the tone of the guitar, One of the things this and well, another one I'll get into But I really think there's a lot of thought put into the guitar tone there. Maybe people I just think at that time people were really obsessed. There wasn't a lot of tricks you could do on things like Logic or Pro Tools or whatever. So whatever was coming out of that speaker was what was going to be on the tape. The guys were like dialing shit in, but the harmonies on when the weight comes down. I think there's talent there, but it just takes away from the meat of the song. If I would and there's other songs on this record where I love the harmonies, but for me that song just it just sounds like maybe just in age Well, I don't know 10 more years. 0:57:48 - Speaker 3I very few notes. I just thought, yeah, it's all right. I thought it was kind of heavy weight comes down, I don't know. 0:57:57 - Speaker 2I didn't. 0:57:58 - Speaker 3at that point I was yearning for something a little bit more different through the tracks which I think I got with the next song. 0:58:05 - Speaker 1Well, that's good, because you're starting to disappoint me here. 0:58:09 - Speaker 3Well, trickle down. I mean Gord's voice. he gets a little more adventurous with going low and high and high and low. There's a kind of a change at a minute and a half where the lyrics pause and you get some actual music, Like he's storytelling a lot through these songs. He's singing, getting to the chorus. The jam keeps going through many songs, but this one there's actually a pause with lyrics and you get some good. you get some good guitar There's like kind of these swing back into the lyrics with guitar. I don't know, I thought that was just better, a better composed song. You know the idea about it. you know being poor, being on welfare, waiting for the check. you know I think it's a song that probably was appealing or easily identifiable across Canada or the US at the time being down and out on your luck financially. I mean, who has not been able to identify with that? So to me it was a pretty great song. This was up there more. 0:59:27 - Speaker 5Well, I trickle down my notes. I wrote half on a paper, half on my phone. Again, guitar tone. I remember one of my first guitar teachers had a Mesa Boogie triple rectifier stack and this guy was obsessed with tone and just very similar like early 90s, late 80s, sort of hair bandy, but just that tone, just there. that's there in that song And this reminded me of like when I was listening to that song I pictured Patrick Swayze. do you know the line in Roadhouse when he goes always be nice till it's time not to be nice. I feel like like I just like I just got that vibe dude, This is a banger, Love it This takes. I feel like the last couple of songs dipped down a little bit for the record. It's a bit of a, of a valley, so to speak, And then it's like man, put your, put your boots on, man, we're going back uphill And this song takes me right back there. 1:00:38 - Speaker 4And I loved it. Love it Same. 1:00:40 - Speaker 2Loved it. 1:00:41 - Speaker 1Yeah. So now that we're uphill and our boots are on, we get. we get what could be. I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in The 11th track. the last track on this record is on my top 10. Okay, But I don't think it should have been the last track on the record. I think the last track on the record should be another midnight. 1:01:09 - Speaker 4Okay, So I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in. Okay, So I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in. So I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in. I think this was the last track on the record. And the mountains stand high. When the mountains stand high, Can't let us run wild For another midnight, For just another midnight. Perhaps we'll run our election day Pumping hands and kissing all the babies. Ain't no time for a shout of doubt. So maybe is there another way? Or where a storming catalach Racing for a roadblock in the distance, Flashin' by a lifetime in an instance. Can we take it back? Am I is dying? Am I is dying? And the river don't sleep? When the water runs cold And the calender burns And the story unfolds, And the mountains stand high. When the mountains stand high, Can't let us run wild For another midnight. Can we take it back? Can we take it back? Can we take it back? Can we take it back? And the mountains stand high. When the mountains stand high, Can't let us run wild For another midnight, For just another midnight, For just another midnight, For another midnight. 1:05:01 - Speaker 3I'm down. I think opiate it is a. it's just. It left me either wanting to take a break from the hip for a bit and listen to something else Or, like just it was, I was a little stumped. 1:05:14 - Speaker 1Too dark for you, I guess. Well, let's focus on, let's focus on another midnight first then. So where do you, where do you stand on that track? 1:05:27 - Speaker 3I overall yeah, I overall liked it. I don't have a whole lot of notes about it Overall liked it. You know, I thought it fit well in there. There was, as I kind of said about Every time you go, there was a better mix between verse and chorus. you know, with song structure, I love the one lighter that we're all, or we're a stolen Cadillac, Like you know. I'm going to use that. I love that. That just makes me feel the pain of, you know, escape or trying to be better, do better, I don't know. I thought it was a pretty solid track. 1:06:05 - Speaker 5It's funny that line stood out to you. I mean, I noticed it. I love this song, man. I actually would have put this song at the end to close the record too, And I'll give you my thoughts on opiated. but the line that stuck out to me the most was Burning like a cigarette long season. And then the chorus, the core. I don't know if you'd call it the chorus, You'd call it maybe the pre-chorus, because Oh My, He's Dying is the chorus, more or less. I don't know, I don't write songs, I'm not a musician and I don't play one on television. But and the river don't sleep when the rottar one runs cold, That entire stanza, if you will. I don't know if we're going to call it. is it's fucking dude? I mean, that's Grammy. shit, man, That's. Grammy shit, It comes together with the music. so well, I'm like man, that's one of the things that when I listen to this record, I'm like, yeah, why did that band not fucking peak in the US and all over the world? Because that's so good, It's so good. 1:07:19 - Speaker 3I mean, this could have been like a track three. It was just a great song, good momentum, and it just had the makeup for it. 1:07:30 - Speaker 1for me, Yeah, I would have made it a single, for sure. 1:07:33 - Speaker 5Yeah, totally. 1:07:35 - Speaker 1It's a little long 356, but you could probably trim it up a bit, But I wouldn't because it's perfect. But yeah, I think it's a great, I think it's fucking great And it's just making me think. Tim's reaction to this album as a whole at this point is making me come back to the fact that these guys at this point are like 23, 24 years old. This is some dark shit for young men to be documenting And it makes me wonder if that's a reflection of. you know they've been advanced since 84 in Canada. At this point they have a manager. you know they're booking things. They're not just, you know, driving around willy-nilly touring, They're doing full on tours that are planned out and they spent a fuck of a lot of time on the road, And in Canada that's that means driving all night, like to get from city to city. you know you're driving hours you're driving. you know it's like the last song we listen to, Like another midnight, like. I know it's not couched in that way in the song, but you could take it that way because to me, What I'm getting at here is this is a road record, This is a. this is their first record. This is, you know, the EP is almost like those first four Beatles records where they're playing cover songs. They're still doing their garage act, but this is this is it. This is life on the road and all the shit that comes with it. 1:09:20 - Speaker 3So mr Leiden, like that to me, says you know a lot about the songwriting style, But I'm wondering what you think of the songwriting so, yeah, I briefly, you know, looked into Gord songwriting, how he did it, and so much of it led me to believe that he was, or they were, meeting Band, meeting people on the road and hearing these you know tough stories and you know, just Putting those into song, Yeah, that's the only thing I could come up with. he wasn't sitting around To me Making up these stories like they were influenced by something, and that's how a lot of great writers and poets are. like David Berman, I think a lot of what he wrote was about people he connected with at bars, sitting around on a barstool, you know. 1:10:11 - Speaker 1Interesting. Yeah, I'm not sure. What are you thinking there, Pete? 1:10:17 - Speaker 5To be honest with you, I feel What you said, JD, about. you know the darkness for these people, this young, and you know I often think about. you. know the way and Tim can relate to this. JD, You cannot, because, just by virtue of where you were born, you know A lot of the way we view Canada is, you know, and to put it in just the most beautiful terms, It's Snow, it's bears, It's manitoba, It's maple syrup, It's mounted police, everything's jolly, you guys have health care and Everything's grand north of the border, on the roof of the US. you know, in the most simplest terms now, When I look at and in JD this, you and I have talked about funny things like, You know, the show trailer park boys, right, and yes, I'm making a big Canadian reference there, Right, as funny as that show is, Tim, I don't know if you've ever watched it It's not very plenty plenty. Well, you know, as funny as that show is and I love it to my boat, to the core of my bones That reality in Some parts of Canada, you know, we don't view parts of Canada as being like, You know, some really dark, dreary parts of Portland, where you're at, or me being from LA, or Long Beach to me, To be more specific, There are some dark ass parts of Long Beach and it's, you know, That has I don't know what Kingston's like, I don't know where these guys grew up, but I'd have to imagine, you know, being on the road and seeing, being exposed to different, different things had influenced their, their lyrical content to this, to make them go to this really dark place. and Maybe that's why, again, they didn't, they didn't break through to the States. But I think it's all for the better, because I think the art would have suffered had they, had they done so, You know, are they not? Yeah? 1:12:28 - Speaker 1Yeah, Yeah, I'm, I'm interested in that. I mean, definitely the specter of Milhaven lives large for a Kingston er growing up in the 70s, I have to imagine, But I don't know. but I like the idea of the amalgam of their you know roots Combined with all this time on the road, Accounting for that sort of songwriting style. you know what I'm saying. 1:13:00 - Speaker 3It's gotta be why they had a good following in Detroit, you know, Cleveland, New York, All that whole region, because that's like some tough living around there and I in this, this Band, I think resonates with so much of that, so much of that. 1:13:22 - Speaker 1Yeah Well, fellas, That's up to here. There's only one thing left to do in this episode, and And that is for you to pick your playlist song, your MVP of the album, if you will, And let us know what that is. so I don't know. I'm gonna close my eyes and point. 1:13:54 - Speaker 5What are you doing this to me, man? 1:13:56 - Speaker 3I'm just gonna go. yeah, I'll go blow it. I do. I is, that's, you know, like you said, Pete, a sister banger. it got me right, right at the right, at the opening of the gate. 1:14:07 - Speaker 1I wonder if that's where your your view of the album as a whole comes from then as well, or it's influenced by The idea that you know your favorite track is the first track. You know it should get better than that, right, like again, We're talking about song Structure here, not structure Sequencing. you know, like blow it oh is like the perfect song to Open a concert or open an album, but It's also tough to get bigger than that. 1:14:44 - Speaker 3True, I think it we start to with trickle down, or every time you go, definitely every time you go, it just has a A more singable single, you know, on the radio aspect to it. I think I'm just trying to, you know, find What resonates most with me with this band and where I'm gonna see them Stay at, I guess sort of thematically, and how they evolve, you know, and and how I wanted them I maybe subconsciously to evolve, especially on the production side of things that for some did it Gotcha. 1:15:23 - Speaker 1All right cool. How about you Pete? 1:15:27 - Speaker 5It's a tough draw. I mean blow at the high-doh or 30 years old. I mean flip a coin. 1:15:36 - Speaker 1Won't do it. I won't do it, No no, no, it's fine. 1:15:38 - Speaker 5Okay, so I'd say the first track to it, Just it. just. there's the thing that the reason why I'm saying that over 30 years old because I remember listening the first time 30 years old be like And I don't want this the person Who's listening this playlist to start listening and be like You know, I want them to like, just fucking love you, right, You know me, I want them So Holy. but yeah, blow at the high-doh. 1:16:11 - Speaker 1All right. Well, thanks so much for doing this again, fellas. We'll talk again soon, and and We'll keep on getting hip to the hip, Looking forward to it. Thanks, JD pick up your shit. 1:16:34 - Speaker 2Thanks for listening to getting hip to the hip. Please subscribe, share, rate and review the show at getting hip to the hipcom. Find us on Twitter and Instagram at getting hip pot and Join our Facebook group at Facebookcom slash groups slash fully and completely. 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Title: That's Grammy shit!Welcome to this episode where we dive deep into The Tragically Hip's album, Up To Here. Join us as we discuss the band's growth, refinement, and southern rock influences that make this album a memorable piece in their repertoire. We'll also explore the impact of producer Don Smith and the impact this record had on our friends Pete and Tim.In this episode, we examine standout tracks like "When The Weight Comes Down," as well as the storytelling prowess of Gord Downie in songs like "Trickle Down". We'll also delve into the possible connections between The Tragically Hip and heavy metal bands like Metallica.Join Pete and JD as they share their thoughts on the darkness found in different parts of Canada and how it influenced The Hip's music. Don't miss this exciting journey into the world of The Tragically Hip!https://ratethispodcast.com/ghtthChapters:- (0:00:00) - Getting Hip to the Hip- (0:10:52) - Tragically Hip Album Review- (0:27:13) - Analyzing Two Songs- (0:40:10) - Tragic Hip Music Storytelling- (0:52:59) - Review of the Tragically Hip's Album- (1:06:56) - Canadian Band's Dark Songwriting AnalysisKeywords: The Tragically Hip, Up To Here, southern rock, Don Smith, album review, Gord Downie, storytelling, Metallica, Canada, music influencesLive tracks featured in the episode:Blow at High Dough - Barrie ON 1990Everytime You Go - London ON 1989Transcript0:00:00 - Speaker 1We're now one episode into this grand experiment, and I'm not sure if we've learned anything concrete at this point. I think it's safe to say that the EP surprised Pete and Tim. Going into this, they were under the impression that the hip is a very special band with cultural significance, and the whole nine and Then their first foray into said music Gave them werewolf baby. Now, before you go sending me nasty emails, know that in my heart the EP has a charming place on the mantle. I wouldn't hide from the music on the EP, nor, however, what I seek it out. Now, though, we move on to a more honed and refined version of our bar band. from Kingston Up to here is a taste of the South, delivered on the backs of songs that have stood the test of time, Produced by a famed knob turner, Don Smith, who had previously worked with the likes of you, to the traveling willbaries and Keith Richards, to name just a few. At any rate, let's just say, the hip picked up what Don Smith was putting down, and together they birthed the classic. That's what I think anyway. What, though, will our friends Pete and Tim think of up to here on their first listen? Let's find out in this episode of getting hip to the hip. 0:01:25 - Speaker 2Long sliced brewery presents getting hip to the hip. 0:01:35 - Speaker 1Hey, it's JD here and welcome to getting hip to the hip, a tragically hip podcast. I'm here, as always, with my friends Pete and Tim, and I want to ask them right up front How are you doing, boys? 0:01:47 - Speaker 3Doing well, doing great. It's Monday, Monday morning in Portland and there's frost on the ground. 0:01:52 - Speaker 1Oh, Really not here. 0:01:54 - Speaker 3Yeah, Yeah, Oh, no, no. 0:01:57 - Speaker 5Molly is. it's Monday night in Malaga and You know it's a thunderstorm right now outside, so I hope my internet holds up, but It's getting chilly. man, We're definitely in the winter, That's for sure. 0:02:12 - Speaker 1Oh god, What does that mean? like 20 degrees. 0:02:16 - Speaker 5It's, it's 16 right now. You know that's. Oh I'm trying for you. 0:02:21 - Speaker 1What is it here right now? It's four. 0:02:25 - Speaker 5Oh god man, No thanks Geez. 0:02:31 - Speaker 1I'm a hardy Canadian, for four is good for this time of year, for is like your coat's unzipped and you're drinking a stout. 0:02:38 - Speaker 5I can't drink those stouts here. Let me tell you, man, I'm sticking a light beer, That's for sure. 0:02:43 - Speaker 1Oh, yeah, I'm, yeah I'm, I'm well into the stouts, That's for sure. So up to here, I believe it's recorded in Memphis. I'm gonna double check that right now. Yep, Memphis, Tennessee, and it's got that sort of muddy southern Field to it. you know it's like a well, It's like a well-worn in pickup truck. you know it's got some, it's got some mud on the sides, Really comfortable to drive. That's what this record is and it comes on the tail of their 87 EP. But in those two years the growth to me anyway seems Market. you know, like there is a market growth in terms of, you know the songwriting and the songwriting, The lyrics in particular. but the but the content, you know is is just a little more Worn in like a great pair of jeans. What do you guys think, Pete? Wow. 0:03:43 - Speaker 5Well, you said something in beginning of the Of your kickoff and it's really hard, because I wanted to make this note, because I know that you, there's probably some pretty hardcore hip fans listening to this. so, given the Yeah, given the fact that there's only a week to To listen to these, to really dig into them, you know, I'm just, Basically, on behalf of Tim and myself, begging for forgiveness. you know, don't send hate mail because it's, it's, It's tough, like it's. I know Tim is really a solid music connoisseur, Probably well more than I am, and you know No, but you know he's, he's pretty thoughtful, But, but, but I thought about it too. like, like bands that I really love, like God man, What would I, how, what would my reaction be for listening to two jokers Who never heard this before and have a week to listen to it? you know what? what would they? You know what I'm saying, Tim, Do you do? JD, Do you feel me like I? 0:04:49 - Speaker 1I feel like there's daggers toward us, you know first of all, Pete, at getting hip to the hip. calm is where you want to go with your complaints about. No, I'm kidding, but You got to think in terms of context. here everyone gets the conceit of the shell. people got this record, people got their hands on this record And they got to sit with it for a year before the next record came out. 0:05:15 - Speaker 5So yeah, yeah, you know, Just asking for forgiveness, but all in all, to what your your your. your point was JD, I mean I did. I know we're gonna go song by song, but I just want to say I I started off with this record. This is kind of the same way I did the other one, the last EP. first I started off on my computer, was not feeling it Pop the pop the earbuds in, went for a run with it, Really started to warm up to it and then I took it out in the car and and JD, you've been in my cars, You know that's got a premium audio sound system in it Yeah and oh man, Oh man, It is. I want to walk into a roadhouse somewhere in Memphis and this band's playing and just whoo, there's a lot of crunch man. Oh, I dig it. I got lots to say, but I'll send it over to Tim. 0:06:10 - Speaker 3Well, I had a similar Reflection. I was talking to my wife the other day and about the band and I Said or you know what if my favorite band was in a podcast, someone else was reviewing it, and What if they didn't like it? What if they loved it or what have you You know in either way? I thought, well, hopefully, if I, you know, if I'm an open-minded Pod listener to my favorite band, Hopefully it would be entertaining, Hopefully it'd be funny to hear these Two schmucks talking about what they think you know and with without much background at all. It's kind of like what I said last time without you know, ever trying a certain type of food. It's like, oh, my god, okay, Let's do this. but I am with this album. I, Yes, I started it in the car and it just seemed like really good road trip music. I totally concur with you, Pete, about it being in the boss, in the car Felt like road trip music, felt like, you know, I wanted to drive to go see a show or go see a show by them. Definitely worked in the car. listen to it at home a fair amount, I think. in general it feels, and no production value. definitely more polished Than the last album we listened to totally. yet You get very familiar, like the storytelling is still there, right? The song structures changed a little bit but like the. the DNA is definitely still there. Compared to the last album, Yeah, it's like pinnacle. 0:07:51 - Speaker 1Top perfection bar rock. Yeah, I heard, You know. 0:07:54 - Speaker 3George Thoreau, good like guitar. I just heard this bluesy rock and roll bar Kind of just awesome riffing and I you know, now that you mentioned it, Being in Memphis, I just absolutely heard some country Wow kind of rock and roll tones in there. Oh, that's big time, big time, Elvis, you know there's, There's definitely some of that in there, from Memphis for sure. more so, much more so than the last album. 0:08:25 - Speaker 1Interesting. So, experience wise, did you prefer this record to the last record or not? or where were you there? 0:08:34 - Speaker 3For me. I kind of likened the last record as a pizza with the works, like where is this going? kind of thing. Throw it all together and see what we get. and this one is for sure an evolution. So I would say, sure, I like it more. but it just to me also just feels like an evolution and I'm curious. I was describing it to a friend, and actually to my wife actually, and she was like it sounds like it's just going to get better And I said, well, I definitely hope so, As we listen. 0:09:11 - Speaker 1Yeah, well, I mean, that's what makes this interesting to me getting your first listens in on these records that were seminal to not only me but to a great swath of our country and places you know near and far. I am curious whether the evolution continues for you, And I think that that's going to be fascinating as we as we roll into things. So, Tim, thanks for that. Now, Pete, what have you got in terms of last questions or comments on this record, Or do you have any? Let me know. 0:09:55 - Speaker 5Oh, there was one question I was going to ask you to JD Diamond status. Yeah, So that's Canada's version of platinum, But I'm curious to know why they have that different status. when, for example, if you have the Stones or the Beatles who are from the UK, does the UK have a different? 0:10:21 - Speaker 1I don't know if they have a different one. I've never heard if they have a different one. I know that you guys have diamond, like America has diamond as well. 0:10:28 - Speaker 2It's 10 million copies. 0:10:29 - Speaker 1Yeah, it's 10 million copies. 0:10:31 - Speaker 2We do. 0:10:32 - Speaker 1It's 10 times what we have. So diamond in Canada is one million and platinum in Canada is 100,000. Okay, I see, And it jives out because America has roughly 10, 10 times the population. So, you know, 100,000 and a million. What's interesting, though, is the province of Quebec, which is, you know, I think, 11, 10 or 11 million people. they have artists that have, in the past, consistently hit platinum status, or diamond status, rather, with 100,000, pardon me, a million copies of a record, which is staggering, You know, when you figure, the rest of Canada has a difficult time putting together a million, a million sales in records. Now, this is all off the table, now that we don't sell records anymore, But back in the day, this was a, you know, a big marker of things. So, yeah, you have Quebec. that just is, you know, able to market themselves to. it's because they can put up stuff in French and they can, they can. you know they have access to that audience. 0:11:52 - Speaker 5That's crazy. Yeah, it was a lot of questions. 0:11:55 - Speaker 1What were you listening to in 89? Do you remember Either of you guys? 0:11:59 - Speaker 3Yes. 0:12:00 - Speaker 1Where are you at? 0:12:02 - Speaker 3I was senior in high school. 0:12:04 - Speaker 1Yeah. 0:12:05 - Speaker 3Yeah, it was everything from Southern California punk rock. Yeah, we had a lot of local punk rock going on and we had you know friends in punk rock bands But you know kind of flip the rock and roll coin. I was also listening to like, oh, a lot of new wave, Holy cow, a lot of new wave kind of influence for my sister And that's everything 80s new wave. And then also I was for a period there like a big fan of the cult. You know I like Epic Guitar. I don't always need it, but I like a band that has you know back bone drum bass, blah, blah. but I love a great guitar player And the hip has definitely some guitar going on. 0:12:54 - Speaker 5Yeah, 89. 89, I was. I was I'm a tad younger than you guys, but 89, it was coming out of like some late stage Steely Dan and and Huey Lewis sports was just, I mean, God damn Nice. I don't think there was a bigger album and we talked about that last week. you know some Huey Lewis vibes in there And then you know, I just feel like I went right into. you know Guns N' Roses and the Motley crew of that time before getting thrust into. you know 90s grunge, like everybody else did with Alice and Chains and and and you know Soundgarden and eventually Nirvana. 0:13:45 - Speaker 1I was a big Pearl Jam guy, That was kind of where I was at. Okay, Yeah, I was a Pearl Jam guy, and but that was later. That was, you know, into the 90s. Back in 89, when this came out, I was listening to hair metal. I was straight up listening to hair metal And I recalled, on the intro, the cold open of the first episode. you know, when I heard the hip for the first time and the impact that it made on me. you know, in spite of the, the garishness of the hair metal that I was listening to, there was something that I really liked about this pickup truck band from Kingston, And you know there's a lot to like on this record for sure. So what do you say? we get into it and attack this sucker track by track. Yeah, good to go, man, All right, So we kick off with Blow It High, Do Welcome back and welcome back to CFY's fourth annual Canada Day Festival for Canada's 123rd birthday. 0:14:54 - Speaker 4We're at very Ontario half the time of our lives. Believe me, this band is going to be very, very hot. We'd like you to listen now to Tragically Hip. He's a rapper like Tizorim, never like the stars To throw some passion, throws a passion in some. just bring him on. We're so close, the best that we get to listen now. But you can't look me in for the smile of your eyes. the further it's gone, the higher I go. And if I'm high I go, and if you blow the cry I go. Maybe I feel fine, I'm pretty, just genuine. It makes no sense. it makes no sense for a track to be unified And if I'm hip-sick you should leave it high. It was the strangest thing. I should move so fast, move so fast in the better way I pray Sometimes, the best that we get to listen. now you gotta remember the smile of your eyes. the further it's gone, the higher I go. And when you blow the cry, I go. Now that the speedway, the same evidence, the same. Well, I ain't no movie star but I can give it hand in a thing In the better way I pray Sometimes, the best that we get to listen. now you gotta remember the smile of your eyes. the further it's gone, the higher I go, And if I'm high, I go. Yeah, I'm gonna fly, I go, Gonna fly, I go, I fly. Now that the speedway. the same evidence, the same evidence. 0:19:25 - Speaker 3I mean to me that just crushed it. as the first song, It just hit the ground running, which I love. I'm really into checking out song orders and there was a while many, many, many years ago, I was hoping to be a fan of song three. There was a cadence to some albums that I really enjoyed and this song as a song one it was super good. This is kind of where I mentioned hearing guitar licks that you'd hear from George Thurgood or you know. it was very kind of smithereens, Tom Petty friendly in that way. Some of the lyrics like oh, what do I have? Don't get ahead of yourself. or faster it gets, the less you need to know. I love that line faster it gets, the less you need to know. It's like, just keep the momentum going, And that's also a song that was awesome in the car. 0:20:21 - Speaker 5Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, what a fucking banger of a first tune, The slide. I had the same thing. I very much got some Thurgood tunes or vibes in there, The way the song starts out, I think, with the drums and then a little crunch guitar, and then that in my notes I wrote down the layers, the way they layer the song into getting it, getting the ball rolling, and it just from no disrespect to the EP, but leaps and bounds, recording quality wise, just production, leaps and bounds. It was just. 0:21:00 - Speaker 2you tell me like well, this is going to be a fucking record. 0:21:07 - Speaker 5I was very excited from that first track, Absolutely All right, We'll stick with you and move into. 0:21:13 - Speaker 1I'll Believe in You or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight. 0:21:17 - Speaker 5Which it took me a minute to get the play on words there. I know I'm a bit dense, I'm a blonde, You can't see that for just you listeners out there, But the riff in there is just so catchy I think. at first I was like, oh, this is like a typical late 80s riff and I'll make that reference a couple of times for a few songs here. But the more I listened to it I was like I want to try to play that. I took out the guitar and I was like, oh, that's cool man, It's just cool, It's cool to play and it sounds cool And I can imagine playing it back in that time I mean, if I was alive in that time. it's just like I don't know. I'm sorry I'm trying hard time, particularly myself, but it's a really love that jam. 0:22:11 - Speaker 1We're not rock critics, so we're people who are telling it like it's Oh, yes, we are. Oh, I forgot, Put your quill away. What did you think of this one Lesser Bangs? 0:22:26 - Speaker 3Yeah, it's kind of a little bit of a similar feel. It was cranking in the car really well, I found myself I didn't know what to call it I was doing the chin back and forth to the cadence of the song. It was like kind of reminded myself. I was like I'm doing kind of the chicken thing right now. Just have this good tempo. The two minute mark around then is when Gord starts kind of talk singing, as he does sometimes, And then it moves into, as Pete mentioned, the big guitar riff. And I enjoy when the structure changes up a little bit. I think the last album I felt like there was more consistency and structure which made me lose my interest a little bit. So I like it when the tempo changes or there's like a build up, slow down, build up. you know This had a good speed to it. There's also definitely some country music influence in there. I mean, I could hear it right away. 0:23:34 - Speaker 1That's so interesting to me. I'd have to listen really hard to hear to find country in there. 0:23:41 - Speaker 3But if you listen to some, yeah, some old school kind of country and it just reminds me of, like, the era from when Elvis started to go a little more rock and roll, Like it. just it's very Memphis. It's definitely influenced by the region, I feel. 0:23:58 - Speaker 1All right. the next track on the record is another single from this record. It's probably one of the songs that if you do meet somebody that knows the Tragically Hip, they might know this song. 0:24:11 - Speaker 3Okay. 0:24:11 - Speaker 1It stands. you know it stood the test of time in their live set Throughout the nineties. it was a fertile place for them to play when they played it live. It was a fertile place for them to jam inside of and introduce or workshop new songs. So you'd get like a record two years down the road from a time that you saw them live and there'd be this worked out song. But you'd hear this rough you know this rough lyric phrase or a lick that maybe is familiar on a record two years down the road. It was such a cool little thing to hear them. you know, jam these songs out and you'd go see them. I would see them like multiple nights in a row and it would be different, Like it wasn't, like they were just fucking around and like it was spontaneous and it was very storytelling and yeah, So I'm talking way too much here. This is your show. New Orleans is sinking. 0:25:12 - Speaker 3Yeah. So you know, I'd love to hear a version of this song where they take it longer or they jam out it and or something like that. because first listen, you know the story is actually pretty doom and gloom sounding It's. you know it's kind of about maybe giving up, I don't know. It just felt like, you know, there was some dark, heavy thoughts in there and then it felt just as as a song on the album. it felt a little bit filler to me it was more staple. it was more regular hip. It just like had the typical structure I've heard thus far Wow. So I didn't think I loved it. That is fucking awesome. I like the idea of the song, but it just felt kind of like, okay, this is a, this is a song. three hip, hip song. 0:26:05 - Speaker 4No No. 0:26:07 - Speaker 1Oh wow, It'll be interesting to hear if this change. I hope so. 0:26:13 - Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. No, I want to hear, I want to hear more versions of it. 0:26:17 - Speaker 1Yeah, you should. 0:26:18 - Speaker 3Like I was saying, like it was songs have some, have some change or cadence change or an up and a down, and this just felt like, okay, this is song three. What are we going to do for four? Oh wow, Sorry, hip hip fans who have that as a moment, It's not mine yet. 0:26:36 - Speaker 5Well, I'm going to read from my notes to, but before I do, real quick, I got to say this song just by the title and the way that it started. I got this really weird feeling and I'm going to indulge me for just one moment with a story I remember when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Tim, you remember, I mean JD. I don't know if the news of it was as big in your neck of the woods as it was, Oh yeah. 0:27:05 - Speaker 1It was huge, It was huge. 0:27:07 - Speaker 5But the night the hurricane made, you know, landfall, so to speak. I remember listening to a guy. you may or may not have heard of him. He used to do some something called Freeform Radio. He's the godfather of Freeform Radio. His name is Jim Ladd, Nationally syndicated, but he's from LA, and I remember smoking weed on my patio there and he said ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be really bad. It was before like the hurricane even made landfall and this is going to be really bad. And he started. the song he played was When the Levy Breaks by Led Zeppelin And it was just really dark and haunting. So I got that same vibe when I started listening to this song and I was like, like Gord's fucking vocals on this are up into this song. from everything I've heard from the EP with the most extreme, in my opinion, just the most range, the most talent. Like if I was a record producer and I'd heard this as a demo, I'd be like sign this fucking band, this guy's off the charts. There's a mention of somebody named Colonel Tom in the song And I don't know who Colonel Tom is. JD, if you got a line on this, let me know. But my initial thought was go ahead, Tim or whoever knows. No, you tell us your initial thought. My initial thought was it was a David Bowie reference to Space Up, but I could be wrong. 0:28:49 - Speaker 3I just read two references. One was just, it was about the North versus the South. you know, some war back then, back then. But then I also read a reference said that it had to do with Elvis's manager, which made me think, okay, yeah, Colonel Tom Parker. So I think that's what it ties to in Memphis and all of that. 0:29:10 - Speaker 5That makes sense. 0:29:12 - Speaker 1Yeah they talk about. this is like Gord's first foray into writing most of the songs. He's handling most of the lyrics, but not all of the lyrics. And why am I saying this? Oh, because they talk about his notebook. He was notorious for having always having a notebook on him and just writing down phrases. And you know, like he would write full lyric, full lyrics or stanzas or whatever. But even if he heard something that he thought was cool, like a cool turn of phrase, he would write that down. So maybe it was even, you know, like Colonel Tom from Memphis, and that's literally the only thing that's relevant about that lyric is that one individual moment. You know it might not be the story of the rest of the song, you know. 0:29:59 - Speaker 3Sure Yeah. 0:30:01 - Speaker 1I don't know though. Yeah, Colonel Tom Parker. That's what I've always thought. 0:30:05 - Speaker 5Good, What a song, though, man? What a fucking song. I mean, it is just chock full of dirt, you know. 0:30:13 - Speaker 1It's a dirty song, right It's yeah. It is Dirty, Dirty, It's mighty yeah. 0:30:18 - Speaker 3You know it's, it's. I just thought it was also. yeah, I agree, I agree, I just yeah, let's just. 0:30:24 - Speaker 1There's other tracks that you like better. That's cool, That's totally cool. It's not. it's not on my top 10 list, So. 0:30:30 - Speaker 3I'd like to hear other versions of it maybe other live versions of it and see how they can do it Me too. 0:30:36 - Speaker 1It became a staple. for sure, It was a. it was a staple. 0:30:38 - Speaker 3Yeah, That's. that's exactly what my take of it was. 0:30:42 - Speaker 1Whereas the next song was not so much a staple Early on, it was, but it didn't live on in the set list for forever. but it's a great example of Gord, you know, sort of weaving a yarn here and telling a story and using actual Canadian history but giving it a unique spin. So you know, he's playing with things a little bit, but he's telling the story and then he makes it about his own family. What do you guys think of 38 years old? 0:31:14 - Speaker 4I've got my name in administration So People leave. don't have people left, nothing to feed. The last thing they wanna do is hang around here. Most of came from town from long French name, But one other dozen was a hometown shame. Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall, Been one seat empty, 80 years and all Freezing slow time, away from the world. He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl. He's 38 years old, never kissed a girl. Music. We're sitting on the table. heard the telephone ring. Father said he'd tell him if he saw anything Other type from the window in the middle of the night. Held back the curtains for my older brother, Mike. See, my sister got a ring. so a man got killed. Love for which prison man's buried on the bill. Folks spend back a normal when they close the case. They still stare at the shoes. in the past, our place, Music, Music, Music. My mother called. the horror finally ceased. He whispered yeah, for the time being, Natalie, No, but show the squad, come make a phone. Said let's go, Michael's son, we're taking you home. Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall, Been one seat empty, 18 years and all Freezing slow time, away from the world. He's 38 years old never kissed a girl. He's 38 years old never kissed a girl. He's 38 years old never kissed a girl. Music, Music, Music, Music. 0:35:03 - Speaker 5Music. It's crazy. so I ended up this above all songs. I ended up doing the most research on, Started researching the prison and there was a guy who was shot there years ago And his last name was Trudeau and I was like, was he related to the prime minister or what? Like all this weird miraculous rabbit hole that I went down. But getting back to the song, I got to be totally honest with you. So I know you guys feel me on this. when you look at like records during this time that came out, You'd have the first one or two to three songs will be just these fucking bangers. And then song four just you look in the structure of the record is going to bring it down a little bit. It's kind of like, okay, everybody relax. you think about it like even playing a live show. That's just the way that the records were made back in the day. And I start hearing that and I'm hearing this song come in with the guitar And I'm like, oh, this is man. those first three songs are fucking bangers. And I'm like, no, they're just going to be this fucking cheesy. yeah, just, you know, Give me some acoustic, a little bit of love, whatever. And I got to say this is probably my favorite song in the record And it took some evolution on my part because first I started digging in the lyrics And I was like you know there's rape prisoners, murder, like all this crazy shit, And I'm like what the fuck is going on here. And then you know ultimately just the song itself, like the melody and everything involved, Which is it's just. it's a I probably my favorite song in the record. Sorry to spoil your alert, but yeah, loved it. loved it. 0:37:00 - Speaker 1It gave the record legs. I think this is the fourth single from the record, Maybe the third or fourth single. So there were four singles on the record and I want to say this is the third, But it might have been the fourth, so gave it some legs as well. 0:37:13 - Speaker 3Favorite song. I'm just confirming 38 years old favorite song. 0:37:20 - Speaker 5On this record. Yeah, I just think it's really 38 years old. was it never been kissed, never made love? 0:37:31 - Speaker 3Yeah, all that, yeah, Never kissed a girl. 0:37:35 - Speaker 5Just, I don't know man, I feel like and this is crazy, I can't believe I'm going to say this And I'll probably be if you kick me off this podcast after what I'm about to say. I totally get it, But a lot of hip lyrics, especially this song about something historical. I really get some Gordon Lightfoot vibes from man. 0:38:02 - Speaker 1Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. 0:38:05 - Speaker 5You know same name, I guess, but you know, I don't, I just and that guy I fucking fucking loved Gordon Lightfoot. If you don't like it and you want to kick me off the podcast, be my guest, That's the hill I will die on. 0:38:16 - Speaker 3We'll keep you. I think I thought, okay, this is some more kind of dark, gloomy storytelling And I feel like I, you know, on an album, I don't need too much of that, I don't need a lot of that, and me personally. And I also thought, okay, if I'm at a hip show, Some dude next to me is like yelling for this song to be played. I think that's a little weird. like when would they play this song at a live show? It's just like, it's just a little much. you know, Maybe Gordon knew that in the future, true crime would be a thing. you know, podcasts and TV shows and everything. Because it just feels like I mean a song about rape and killing. It's just like how many times you need to hear that? I don't need to hear it very many times. So I thought it was super heavy and you know the same thing Like lyric just too much. Yeah, storytelling is just a lot. you know, maybe I'm too sensitive or something, But I was like, yeah, if I'm at this show with my girlfriend and some dude just keeps yelling to hear this song, we're gonna move. 0:39:24 - Speaker 1I've always said that the hip is really funny with their, because I came from the same school that Pete did With. you know especially heavy metal where it was like banger, banger, banger and then like ballad. Yeah, the ballads would be where you would slow dance and you would make out on the dance floor, you know, after you were head banging and stuff like that. And I just think the tragedy hip does the same thing. they do two slow songs or two ballads on every record, kind of thing ish. But the subject matter is never something that you would want to slow dance or make out to Like. it's always fucking heavy, heavy shit And really when you think about it it's like C, G, D, A minor on an acoustic guitar. you know it's like a three or four chord song that fits in the realm of those heavy metal ballads. But then you put that story about family over top of it and it's like Jesus Christ, this is unreal, Yeah, and you know it overall just comprises them into this epic band that can go there. 0:40:33 - Speaker 3Like not many bands even do something like that lyrically or with storytelling, you know. So, you know it's so. part of me was like, okay, what makes me feel uncomfortable about this? Because I appreciate the music and all the effort and creativity. you know, it's like it's because bands don't really do this often Sinister type storytelling. maybe I know a person or two who kind of fits this mold of a character a little bit to a degree. you know it's just like, wow, okay, What's the next song for me? 0:41:07 - Speaker 5The song when I heard the guitar start and I got to tell you JD I don't know if I told you this, I know I didn't mention this to you, Tim, But the very much got some, you know, with those, those that rock ballads and nothing else matters, vibes from Metallica. And growing up in Downey, where I was born, you know, James Hetfield went to my high school, so, like you, you if you weren't a Metallica fan like you, Or you could be excommunicated from the city. like everybody was Metallica fan Like you. just you just weren't not, you know, a Metallica fan. and getting to Tim's question about why or you, JD, you said why the hip never. I mean it's the eternal question why the hip never broke through. You know, here you got this ballad that everybody's expecting to like dance to at a concert or whatever. but then there's lyrics of, like you know, rape and murder and stuff like they did. they did went outside the box, And that's kind of cool, because not a lot of bands do that Exactly. And so like they sacrificed the ability of being, you know, the ability of of fame or whatever it may be, to have to be a fucking cool outside the box band. I don't know. that's my view. 0:42:36 - Speaker 3Well, there's some also, like I was trying to say, there's some artistic merit to it. you know if, if not, a lot of bands go, go there with something. I mean I mean at the same time, era, late 80s. it's not like Morrissey wasn't talking about doom and gloom with Smith or the Cure or something. I mean it was right there, right in there, but I don't know when it. for me it just hits differently when it's comprised of the sound formula that the hip have, and there he's just like letting the listener have it with this character, and it's just guitar driven rock and roll, it's just. 0:43:13 - Speaker 5It's like a preacher that's telling the congregation like, like he's saying some, some shit to the congregation that, hey, you may not like what you're about to hear, but you're going to fucking hear it whether you like it or not. 0:43:25 - Speaker 1Exactly, I don't know that's. 0:43:27 - Speaker 5does that make sense to you, Tim? 0:43:28 - Speaker 3I mean, that's kind of the way I'm going to provide for you, For sure, for sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not going to jump the gun, but I kind of had a similar, you know, mindset, feel from the next song. 0:43:41 - Speaker 1Well, let's go into it. she didn't know. I was going to say it's sort of dark too. you know it's couched in this blues, bass, lick sort of thing. you get a nice groove in the back with the bass and the drums, but then those lyrics come in and it's like man, yeah, this is some more broken hearted, dark shit. 0:44:10 - Speaker 3At the same time, it does have this groove to it. there's almost this like I don't want to say pop, but there's this, there's this beat to it that is a little bit different than the other songs. it's I don't know, it's it's Interesting. A little bit different but there's like yeah, yeah, exactly it, it, it. to me it ties a little bit more back to the overall feel, not conceptually with lyrics, but from blow it high to like there's a drive to it, there's a good. it embraced me more just musically in the song it's, it's, it feels like a good sing along, like I could hear the song on the radio driving across Canada. 0:44:51 - Speaker 1You do, I'm. I'm very curious why it wasn't a single it's perfect length for a single it's. it's three minutes and 30 seconds. you know it's, you're in, you're out. there's a nice bridge. you get a little bit of silliness. maybe the subject matter, I don't know, but 38 years old, was a single, so yeah. so what do you got? 0:45:12 - Speaker 5Well, I kind of, you know, just sticking with what Tim said, you know the amount of tragedy fitting with the name of the band involved in the lyrics. I really think, because a lot of the, a lot of the sound that that that Memphis, correct, it was recorded in Memphis. Yeah, that that vibe is just, it is consistent. I mean, I feel like if you asked me where do you think this record was recorded, Pete, I probably would have said Memphis, if I, if, like you, had a gun to my head and I had to guess, just because this the overall sound of it. And one thing I noticed really strangely and I don't know if you got this too, Tim JD, you may have noticed this listening to it so many more times, but moving from the end of this song into boots or hearts, there's a vinyl crackle. there's a tape crackle and and maybe the hardcore hip fans will get this. So at the end of she didn't know if the song ends with like a tape crackle and then the begin. it's something you don't, at least I didn't hear on any other songs. you hear a tape crackle at the beginning of boots or hearts. 0:46:39 - Speaker 3I heard it. 0:46:40 - Speaker 5I know you're talking about you know I'm talking about it, just I heard it. 0:46:44 - Speaker 3I heard it on my, on my sono speaker. I heard it and I went back and replayed it and stuck my ear over there. I was like what the hell is that sound? I mean, I'm familiar with what that sound is but yeah, I thought it was like coming from outside or something because it wasn't on any other tune and I was like right right. 0:47:03 - Speaker 1I think if you did it on more tunes it would take away from it, but to me it's. to me it's like just an accoutrement. that's like there to remind you that this is rustic, this is, you know, this is coming out on CD, but this should be, you know, like vinyl was. vinyl wasn't as popular in 1989 as cassettes and CDs were. CDs were really just emerging, but cassettes were like huge but it was still recorded on tape, I would imagine yes, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, for sure yeah so you add a little bit of that into it and it's like you know it makes it sound more like authentic. 0:47:41 - Speaker 3I don't know, that's just my, I mean back back then you know BC boys were doing some like needle-hitting the the disc sound to start off songs. or you know, back then people were take starting to take other sounds as the beginning of songs or even ending songs or whatever. so I think it kind of it fits, definitely fits for 1989 let's go to boots, baby there's a line in there. 0:48:06 - Speaker 5I don't know if there's one line in that song that gets me anybody. anybody want to throw a guess out there? I don't know. no, Tim. Gady, no, okay it's even babies raid raised by wolves. know the wind, he's just like what? 0:48:24 - Speaker 3yeah, man, dude, that was the second wolf, the second wolf reference earth song. right, you know for sure there's more to come imagine what it will. 0:48:36 - Speaker 1hardcore fan I'm not joking, there's more to come these f**king douchebags man this song to me it felt really long. 0:48:46 - Speaker 3that it was not long and it felt like a little more country than the last ones. definitely, you know boots or hearts come on. you know it's like okay, is this the crossover song to the south of the United States to get more fans? yeah, I just the lyrics was a single yeah, for sure, I can't imagine a single, but it was a single who was managing these guys at the time who were like we got it, we got it, we got, at least get the south, because if you get the southern belt of the US, that's like that could be a business, you know so yeah, when I heard the song, I was like, oh yeah, I get it. they were after something here and it seems very it's too much more country to me, so I just kept moving well, if you know, you also have to think too like. 0:49:35 - Speaker 5I don't know how long the recording process took for them, but if you're, you know you're Canadian boys. from where, what? which province are they from? JD? 0:49:45 - Speaker 1they're from Ontario, so they're from where I am, about two hours, about two hours east of where I live. they live in King. there, they came from Kingston okay, yeah, Kingston, that's right. 0:49:56 - Speaker 5so, if you know, maybe they, maybe they individually travel, but you're all there as a group of people, you're recording a record, it's your first full length studio album and you're spending time in Memphis, Tennessee. I mean, I see what you're saying, Tim. then maybe the manager, the the high rubs for maybe like, but guys, we got a, we got to do this. but also, you know, it's the same thing, as you know, that that culture takes a hold of you. you know you spend JD when you over in the UK for the pave tour for a while. how quickly did it? I mean, we don't say it in the United States, but how quick did it take you to say cheers instead of thanks? you know, yeah, yeah, it only takes a couple of days and then asking for the toilet. 0:50:46 - Speaker 1that's, that's the. that's the biggest thing for me. like I just thought, like it sounds so rude, like where's the hey man, where's the toilet? you know, it just sounds rude, but it's just what everybody says. yeah. 0:50:59 - Speaker 3I got it to say that really clear yeah. 0:51:04 - Speaker 5Tim, how long did it take you to say little symetheos when you were over here in Madrid? 0:51:08 - Speaker 4I mean, you know, I've traveled around yeah, yeah, yeah, not long it's a song called every time you go there, I got my hands, the numbers be up, my smile's right in my hands. Every time you go, every time you feel what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Well, down here, but I take two kids round the gas like no place. Say the thing is time when things start, The dance, the wilds of charity, no time to rise, to get afraid. They were pissing, pissing, playing a part. She's a lover, a man, a soul, a game of games, Say the door. I'll remain in the corner of your lips And I was made up of my smile. you're both a man. Every time you go, every time you feel what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me And it makes them feel. let me dance through the air to feel Love me, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. Well, I tell you, every time you go, what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Every time you go, every time you go, what I see. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Every time you go, heart and eye feel me. Oh gosh. 0:54:37 - Speaker 5Go ahead Tim please. 0:54:39 - Speaker 3I feel like this is just a total hip song. It's got good structure, has awesome drum, backbone beat. I like the chorus ad. Not all their songs have a strong chorus, So I like that aspect of it. It felt like maybe the last quarter of the song felt a little repetitive, like excessively repetitive, Like it just kept going a little bit. But I don't know, man In the Big Snake Pit, it's a song about taking risks, falling in love. What else about it? It's still kind of on the emotional high spectrum to me. But it's a good song. It's a oh. what did I have a note here about? Oh, the drawn out dramatic ending with the vibrato Just becoming a hallmark signature of some of the hip, And I'm just slowly accepting it as one of their things, Because it was really shocking to me on the first EP to hear excessive vibrato. It's like woo Yeah. 0:55:56 - Speaker 5Let's go. I gotta say, gentlemen, this is the only song on the record that literally my notes are. I just it's just nothing. I listened so many times I'm like what the fuck am I missing? And I don't know. It's one of those songs where maybe, hopefully, in a year or two years, and I listen to it and be like dude, yeah, there it is, But I just didn't. it couldn't, it was a sleep placebo, I just didn't do it. I don't know why. 0:56:34 - Speaker 3Well then you should talk about the next one, because I was similar with when the weight comes down. 0:56:41 - Speaker 5Okay, I really liked the structure of the song. I liked the tone of the guitar, One of the things this and well, another one I'll get into But I really think there's a lot of thought put into the guitar tone there. Maybe people I just think at that time people were really obsessed. There wasn't a lot of tricks you could do on things like Logic or Pro Tools or whatever. So whatever was coming out of that speaker was what was going to be on the tape. The guys were like dialing shit in, but the harmonies on when the weight comes down. I think there's talent there, but it just takes away from the meat of the song. If I would and there's other songs on this record where I love the harmonies, but for me that song just it just sounds like maybe just in age Well, I don't know 10 more years. 0:57:48 - Speaker 3I very few notes. I just thought, yeah, it's all right. I thought it was kind of heavy weight comes down, I don't know. 0:57:57 - Speaker 2I didn't. 0:57:58 - Speaker 3at that point I was yearning for something a little bit more different through the tracks which I think I got with the next song. 0:58:05 - Speaker 1Well, that's good, because you're starting to disappoint me here. 0:58:09 - Speaker 3Well, trickle down. I mean Gord's voice. he gets a little more adventurous with going low and high and high and low. There's a kind of a change at a minute and a half where the lyrics pause and you get some actual music, Like he's storytelling a lot through these songs. He's singing, getting to the chorus. The jam keeps going through many songs, but this one there's actually a pause with lyrics and you get some good. you get some good guitar There's like kind of these swing back into the lyrics with guitar. I don't know, I thought that was just better, a better composed song. You know the idea about it. you know being poor, being on welfare, waiting for the check. you know I think it's a song that probably was appealing or easily identifiable across Canada or the US at the time being down and out on your luck financially. I mean, who has not been able to identify with that? So to me it was a pretty great song. This was up there more. 0:59:27 - Speaker 5Well, I trickle down my notes. I wrote half on a paper, half on my phone. Again, guitar tone. I remember one of my first guitar teachers had a Mesa Boogie triple rectifier stack and this guy was obsessed with tone and just very similar like early 90s, late 80s, sort of hair bandy, but just that tone, just there. that's there in that song And this reminded me of like when I was listening to that song I pictured Patrick Swayze. do you know the line in Roadhouse when he goes always be nice till it's time not to be nice. I feel like like I just like I just got that vibe dude, This is a banger, Love it This takes. I feel like the last couple of songs dipped down a little bit for the record. It's a bit of a, of a valley, so to speak, And then it's like man, put your, put your boots on, man, we're going back uphill And this song takes me right back there. 1:00:38 - Speaker 4And I loved it. Love it Same. 1:00:40 - Speaker 2Loved it. 1:00:41 - Speaker 1Yeah. So now that we're uphill and our boots are on, we get. we get what could be. I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in The 11th track. the last track on this record is on my top 10. Okay, But I don't think it should have been the last track on the record. I think the last track on the record should be another midnight. 1:01:09 - Speaker 4Okay, So I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in. Okay, So I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in. So I'm going to tip my hand here and I'm sorry to tip my hand before you guys get to weigh in. I think this was the last track on the record. And the mountains stand high. When the mountains stand high, Can't let us run wild For another midnight, For just another midnight. Perhaps we'll run our election day Pumping hands and kissing all the babies. Ain't no time for a shout of doubt. So maybe is there another way? Or where a storming catalach Racing for a roadblock in the distance, Flashin' by a lifetime in an instance. Can we take it back? Am I is dying? Am I is dying? And the river don't sleep? When the water runs cold And the calender burns And the story unfolds, And the mountains stand high. When the mountains stand high, Can't let us run wild For another midnight. Can we take it back? Can we take it back? Can we take it back? Can we take it back? And the mountains stand high. When the mountains stand high, Can't let us run wild For another midnight, For just another midnight, For just another midnight, For another midnight. 1:05:01 - Speaker 3I'm down. I think opiate it is a. it's just. It left me either wanting to take a break from the hip for a bit and listen to something else Or, like just it was, I was a little stumped. 1:05:14 - Speaker 1Too dark for you, I guess. Well, let's focus on, let's focus on another midnight first then. So where do you, where do you stand on that track? 1:05:27 - Speaker 3I overall yeah, I overall liked it. I don't have a whole lot of notes about it Overall liked it. You know, I thought it fit well in there. There was, as I kind of said about Every time you go, there was a better mix between verse and chorus. you know, with song structure, I love the one lighter that we're all, or we're a stolen Cadillac, Like you know. I'm going to use that. I love that. That just makes me feel the pain of, you know, escape or trying to be better, do better, I don't know. I thought it was a pretty solid track. 1:06:05 - Speaker 5It's funny that line stood out to you. I mean, I noticed it. I love this song, man. I actually would have put this song at the end to close the record too, And I'll give you my thoughts on opiated. but the line that stuck out to me the most was Burning like a cigarette long season. And then the chorus, the core. I don't know if you'd call it the chorus, You'd call it maybe the pre-chorus, because Oh My, He's Dying is the chorus, more or less. I don't know, I don't write songs, I'm not a musician and I don't play one on television. But and the river don't sleep when the rottar one runs cold, That entire stanza, if you will. I don't know if we're going to call it. is it's fucking dude? I mean, that's Grammy. shit, man, That's. Grammy shit, It comes together with the music. so well, I'm like man, that's one of the things that when I listen to this record, I'm like, yeah, why did that band not fucking peak in the US and all over the world? Because that's so good, It's so good. 1:07:19 - Speaker 3I mean, this could have been like a track three. It was just a great song, good momentum, and it just had the makeup for it. 1:07:30 - Speaker 1for me, Yeah, I would have made it a single, for sure. 1:07:33 - Speaker 5Yeah, totally. 1:07:35 - Speaker 1It's a little long 356, but you could probably trim it up a bit, But I wouldn't because it's perfect. But yeah, I think it's a great, I think it's fucking great And it's just making me think. Tim's reaction to this album as a whole at this point is making me come back to the fact that these guys at this point are like 23, 24 years old. This is some dark shit for young men to be documenting And it makes me wonder if that's a reflection of. you know they've been advanced since 84 in Canada. At this point they have a manager. you know they're booking things. They're not just, you know, driving around willy-nilly touring, They're doing full on tours that are planned out and they spent a fuck of a lot of time on the road, And in Canada that's that means driving all night, like to get from city to city. you know you're driving hours you're driving. you know it's like the last song we listen to, Like another midnight, like. I know it's not couched in that way in the song, but you could take it that way because to me, What I'm getting at here is this is a road record, This is a. this is their first record. This is, you know, the EP is almost like those first four Beatles records where they're playing cover songs. They're still doing their garage act, but this is this is it. This is life on the road and all the shit that comes with it. 1:09:20 - Speaker 3So mr Leiden, like that to me, says you know a lot about the songwriting style, But I'm wondering what you think of the songwriting so, yeah, I briefly, you know, looked into Gord songwriting, how he did it, and so much of it led me to believe that he was, or they were, meeting Band, meeting people on the road and hearing these you know tough stories and you know, just Putting those into song, Yeah, that's the only thing I could come up with. he wasn't sitting around To me Making up these stories like they were influenced by something, and that's how a lot of great writers and poets are. like David Berman, I think a lot of what he wrote was about people he connected with at bars, sitting around on a barstool, you know. 1:10:11 - Speaker 1Interesting. Yeah, I'm not sure. What are you thinking there, Pete? 1:10:17 - Speaker 5To be honest with you, I feel What you said, JD, about. you know the darkness for these people, this young, and you know I often think about. you. know the way and Tim can relate to this. JD, You cannot, because, just by virtue of where you were born, you know A lot of the way we view Canada is, you know, and to put it in just the most beautiful terms, It's Snow, it's bears, It's manitoba, It's maple syrup, It's mounted police, everything's jolly, you guys have health care and Everything's grand north of the border, on the roof of the US. you know, in the most simplest terms now, When I look at and in JD this, you and I have talked about funny things like, You know, the show trailer park boys, right, and yes, I'm making a big Canadian reference there, Right, as funny as that show is, Tim, I don't know if you've ever watched it It's not very plenty plenty. Well, you know, as funny as that show is and I love it to my boat, to the core of my bones That reality in Some parts of Canada, you know, we don't view parts of Canada as being like, You know, some really dark, dreary parts of Portland, where you're at, or me being from LA, or Long Beach to me, To be more specific, There are some dark ass parts of Long Beach and it's, you know, That has I don't know what Kingston's like, I don't know where these guys grew up, but I'd have to imagine, you know, being on the road and seeing, being exposed to different, different things had influenced their, their lyrical content to this, to make them go to this really dark place. and Maybe that's why, again, they didn't, they didn't break through to the States. But I think it's all for the better, because I think the art would have suffered had they, had they done so, You know, are they not? Yeah? 1:12:28 - Speaker 1Yeah, Yeah, I'm, I'm interested in that. I mean, definitely the specter of Milhaven lives large for a Kingston er growing up in the 70s, I have to imagine, But I don't know. but I like the idea of the amalgam of their you know roots Combined with all this time on the road, Accounting for that sort of songwriting style. you know what I'm saying. 1:13:00 - Speaker 3It's gotta be why they had a good following in Detroit, you know, Cleveland, New York, All that whole region, because that's like some tough living around there and I in this, this Band, I think resonates with so much of that, so much of that. 1:13:22 - Speaker 1Yeah Well, fellas, That's up to here. There's only one thing left to do in this episode, and And that is for you to pick your playlist song, your MVP of the album, if you will, And let us know what that is. so I don't know. I'm gonna close my eyes and point. 1:13:54 - Speaker 5What are you doing this to me, man? 1:13:56 - Speaker 3I'm just gonna go. yeah, I'll go blow it. I do. I is, that's, you know, like you said, Pete, a sister banger. it got me right, right at the right, at the opening of the gate. 1:14:07 - Speaker 1I wonder if that's where your your view of the album as a whole comes from then as well, or it's influenced by The idea that you know your favorite track is the first track. You know it should get better than that, right, like again, We're talking about song Structure here, not structure Sequencing. you know, like blow it oh is like the perfect song to Open a concert or open an album, but It's also tough to get bigger than that. 1:14:44 - Speaker 3True, I think it we start to with trickle down, or every time you go, definitely every time you go, it just has a A more singable single, you know, on the radio aspect to it. I think I'm just trying to, you know, find What resonates most with me with this band and where I'm gonna see them Stay at, I guess sort of thematically, and how they evolve, you know, and and how I wanted them I maybe subconsciously to evolve, especially on the production side of things that for some did it Gotcha. 1:15:23 - Speaker 1All right cool. How about you Pete? 1:15:27 - Speaker 5It's a tough draw. I mean blow at the high-doh or 30 years old. I mean flip a coin. 1:15:36 - Speaker 1Won't do it. I won't do it, No no, no, it's fine. 1:15:38 - Speaker 5Okay, so I'd say the first track to it, Just it. just. there's the thing that the reason why I'm saying that over 30 years old because I remember listening the first time 30 years old be like And I don't want this the person Who's listening this playlist to start listening and be like You know, I want them to like, just fucking love you, right, You know me, I want them So Holy. but yeah, blow at the high-doh. 1:16:11 - Speaker 1All right. Well, thanks so much for doing this again, fellas. We'll talk again soon, and and We'll keep on getting hip to the hip, Looking forward to it. Thanks, JD pick up your shit. 1:16:34 - Speaker 2Thanks for listening to getting hip to the hip. Please subscribe, share, rate and review the show at getting hip to the hipcom. Find us on Twitter and Instagram at getting hip pot and Join our Facebook group at Facebookcom slash groups slash fully and completely. 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Cette semaine Red Led vous parle d'un contrôleur qui sait presque tout faire et qui s'appelle Reliq, de Mesa Boogie qui dévoile les amplis Mark VII, de la nouvelle pédale de delay granulaire de chez Walrus, de l'Opus Quad de chez Pioneer et on annonce les gagnants du concours de la 100e Matinale.

International cool guy Matt Maiellaro (Aqua Teen co-creator, co-writer, voice of Err/Markula/Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future) shreds the podcast with his amazing voice. We get into who Matt and Dave Willis initially wanted on Plantasm, the long-promised Death Fighter, Space Ghost showing up in the original Rabbot episode, and the exciting future of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Other topics discussed include Matt's time playing with blood on Hellraiser III, his upcoming film Pastacolypse, the power of Tubi, Metalocalypse, learning guitar on a crappy acoustic, and buying a $5,000 Mesa Boogie amp head and cabinet combo with your boss's credit card.   References: • Watch AquaDonk Side Pieces Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zjN9sP6vw&list=PLQl8zBB7bPvJAB_ak87ztVoPiKUxZr47x • Watch Phantasm Free: https://tubitv.com/movies/505785/phantasm-remastered • Matt's Comic Knowbodys: https://amzn.to/3Blx3Hp (affiliate link)   ★ Support The Show + Get Extra Episodes • Patreon: patreon.com/dancingisforbidden   ★ Amazon Affiliate Links - Support The Podcast At No Extra Cost! • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm 4K: https://amzn.to/3Svy2ea • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm BluRay: https://amzn.to/3dLcKKS • Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm Digital: https://amzn.to/3t8cqtv • Baffler Meal 20 Disc DVD Box Set: https://amzn.to/3fmznWf   Timestamps: [00:00:00] - Intro [00:02:36] - Plantasm [00:16:50] - AquaDonk Side Pieces [00:19:55] - ATHF Questions [00:55:04] - Fan Questions [01:01:09] - Matt's Other Endeavors [01:17:32] - Matt's Favorite Things [01:20:33] - Outro   Contacts:  Leave a voice message: speakpipe.com/dancingisforbidden Discord: https://discord.gg/NpjSXPECw6 Instagram: @AquaTeenPod Twitter: @AquaTeenPod Email: DancingIsForbiddenPod@gmail.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9yseLj27npIZlEnM8ooBaQ Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5gFb5eAYH3nyF3DZ5jwhQ Website: dancingisforbidden.com Twitch: twitch.tv/ronnieneeley

Episode 106: No special guests, but plenty of amp questions answered and some recipes!  Some of the topics discussed:  1:01 It's good to be anxious 3:59 Our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/vintageamps 4:18 Any interest in a Seattle amp swap meet / hang on December 31? Message me at podcast@fretboardjournal.com. 4:49 Deluxe's TAVA-tribute El Pato-Tone 9-volt practice amp: Now available in the green El Pato can! (Reverb link) 7:51 Music recommendation: Thee Sinseers (NPR Tiny Desk concert link); The "5" Royales (YouTube link) 9:23 How is amp output affected by adding speakers? 12:39 Impedance vs resistance, revisited; phaser analysis; chicken curry 17:27 The Soursound transformers episode (link); when does the speaker deep dive happen?; amps with hybrid circuits; harpist Emily Hopkins (YouTube link), 8417 tubes 27:38 Netflix's new documentary, 'Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall' 30:45 Harp player Paul Oscher; Jontavious Willis' interview with Oscher on the Diddie Wah Diddie podcast (link) 33:34 Tips on extending wiring; a Western Electric Slice 37:06 Safe long-term storage of vintage amps; a Falcon discovered in the trunk of a car 40:23 What's the simplest tube reverb circuit? the Boss FRV-1 '63 Fender Reverb pedal, vintage Premier 90 Reverb tanks 45:38 'The How & Why of Guitar Tube Amps' by Gar Gillies (order: http://www.garnetamps.com/order_b.htm) 50:57 Now you have a third salad dressing 51:31 Is the speaker switch I made safe to use? Grits with smoked gouda 1:00:07 Buying a second-hand Mesa Boogie amp 1:04:02 What's the CSA Thermal Protector on a Fender Musicmaster Bass amp? 1:06:52 An Australian Philips PA conversion that won't stop popping and crackling; cathode resistors and plate load resistors 1:09:17 Three Marshall Super Lead heads, one that has ghosting; filter capacitance 1:18:35 Soup with kale and white beans 1:21:01 Yank magazine; a fancy tube tester (and a Heathkit signal generator) still available at Skip's; Rabbit Hole bourbon (link); Sherwood (British TV show); see Skip at the Marin Guitar Show (January 2023, link) This week's episode is sponsored by Calton Cases, Amplified Parts and Grez Guitars. You can also use the discount code FRET10 to save 10% off your Izotope purchase. Support us on Patreon.com for added content and the occasional surprise and don't forget to get a subscription to the Fretboard Journal (link). Digital subscriptions start at just $30. There's a giant index page for nearly all the former topics we've discussed in our first 100 episodes found here.  Submit your amp questions, recipes and life hacks to the podcast via podcast@fretboardjournal.com and don't forget to share the show with friends on social media. 

Vi diskuterar om vad som är en modern klassiker och vilken gitarrutrustning som passar in på beskrivningen. Fulltone är ämnet i veckans Fölster. I veckans pryl har vi provat vi en ny spännande produkt från Himmelstrutz: 8 Amplifier. I detta avsnitt: PRS, Duesenberg, Roland, Peavey, Mesa-Boogie, Fender, Ibanez, Marshall, Soldano, Novo, Suhr, Greer, Eventide, Benson, Line 6, Xotic, Fulltone, Nobels, Nordland, Vemuran, Chase Bliss, MXR, Strymon, Hudson, Hologram, BJF, Himmelstrutz.

Steve Fister

Russ Hewitt- Chasing Horizons

Vi diskuterar hur man kan se på utrustnings värde kontra användning. Att splitta humbuckers? Fölster funderar. I veckans pryl pratar vi om kablar från Backlineverket. I detta avsnitt: Gibson, Fender, Jim Kelley, Trainwreck, Dumble, Charvel, Ibanez, Jackson, Gustavsson, Gretsch, PRS, Backlineverket, Ronin, Schecter, Tokai, Squire, Burny, ESP, Rockman, ADA, Mesa-Boogie, Komet, Peavey, Seymour Duncan, MotorAve, Suhr, 

Too Slim & The Taildraggers New Live disc "Brace Yourself"

Vi pratar om det legendariska förstärkarmärket Soldano Custom Amplification. I veckans Fölster får vi höra om low gain overdrives. Ampete Engineerings Switching Systems är ämnet i veckans pryl. I detta avsnitt: Soldano, Insulander, Peavey, Mesa-Boogie, Jet City, Yamaha, Friedman, Greer amps, Synergy, Crowther, Analogman, Benson, Fairfield, One Control, Durham Electronics, Xotic, Nordland, Ampete Engineering, Milkman, Collings. 

Danne träffar gitarristen Kent Kroon och pratar om Jan Akkerman, Favorit Les Paul gitarrer och Mesa Boogie förstärkare. Mycket Nöje! Stort tack till alla som supportar oss via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32426577 och Swish: 1236293344

Billboard Chart Topping Jazz Guitarist Tim Bowman

Vi pratar om Sveriges grand old man inom förstärkar-moddning; Tommy Folkesson. Fölster sätter tänderna i en riktigt cool Tele från Nacho Guitars. I veckans pryl har Fredrik och Ulf testat Thiele-lådor från Mesa-Boogie. I detta avsnitt: Folkesson, Marshall, Fender, Friedman, Nacho Guitars, Music Man, Dumble, Mesa-Boogie, GVCG, Electro-Voice, Celestion.

We go back in time to look at our favorite APP before Etsy. The early days of REVERB. Get your gear on!

Vi diskuterar ämnet replikor, hyllningar och rena förfalskningar. Ämnet effektloopar är något Fölster har grävt djupare i. I veckans pryl har Fredrik och Ulf provat en multipedal som ger mersmak. I detta avsnitt: Gibson Fender, Max, Derrig, Keebler, Chibson, Ian Anderson,   Gil Ayan, Bartlett, Gustavsson, Banker, PRS, Suhr, Xotic, Hamer, Chase Bliss, Novo, Friedman, Dumble, Vox, Marshall, Naylor, Mesa Boogie, Mad Professor, Two-Rock, Mystic Blues, Walrus.

Wir haben 4 unserer Gitarrenboxen im Studio aufgestellt und über einen Friedman BE 50 Deluxe miteinander clean und verzerrt verglichen. Darunter eine Bogner 2x12 large mit Celestion Vintage, eine 1x12 Mesa Boogie Thiele mit Celestion NEO Creamback, eine Bogner 1x12 Shiva mit einem Austin Speaker Works KTS 70 und eine 2x10 Mesa Boogie mit Celestion Gold Alnico Speakern. Abgenommen wurden die Boxen jeweils mit einem Shure SM 57 in einen Focusrite Preamp. Als Gitarre kam eine Gibson CS 356 mit Lollar Imperial Humbuckern zum Einsatz. ✅ Als Newsletter Abonnent bekommst Du immer automatisch die neuesten Zusatzmaterialien: Einfach auf unserer Website ► https://www.supergain.de für unseren Newsletter anmelden und schon ist es unterwegs! Du möchtest alle Zusatzmaterialen zu unseren Sendungen? ✅ WERDE PATRON AUF PATREON ► https://www.patreon.com/supergain ✅ UNSERE SUPERGAIN ONLINE KURSE: Blues Improvisation Vol. 1, Gypsy Jazz Basics - Begleitung, Fusion in the style of Robben Ford, und mehr: ► https://onlinekurse.supergain.de ✅ UNSERE SUPERGAIN WORKSHOPS ► https://www.supergain.de/workshops/ ✅ UNSERE SUPERGAIN FACEBOOK GRUPPE ► https://www.facebook.com/groups/super... ✅ UNSER EQUIPMENT ► Die Deeflexx https://www.thomann.de/de/deeflexx_h1... Hinweis: Wir empfehlen nur Equipment, das wir auch selbst verwenden. Dies ist ein Thomann Affiliate Link, bei dem wir einen kleinen Prozentsatz bekommen. Für Dich entstehen keine zusätzlichen Kosten. #egitarre #gitarrelernen #gitarrenunterricht Enrico Coromines Michael Vochezer

Latin Jazz Guitarist and Author of "Contemporary Latin Jazz Guitar" Neff Irizary joins us.

Brand President Cesar Gueikian discusses Gibson Brands' 2021 acquisition of well-known guitar amp manufacturer Mesa/Boogie, as well as how he is helping to move Gibson forward by identifying its purpose.

LaSalle Gabriel is a Grammy & Stellar award-winning music producer, songwriter, & world class guitarist with 18 Top 40 songs & 7 #1 singles on his resume. As a producer, songwriter, & arranger Gabriel holds chart positions in over 300 issues of Billboard Magazine, including 70 consecutive weeks in the Top 40 on 5 Billboard charts, simultaneously. Gabriel was the original guitarist of Sounds of Blackness from 1990-1998, on Perspective/A&M Records, & has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, L.A. Times, Billboard, Finance & Commerce, Detroit Weekly, Radio & Records, & The Pioneer Press. Gabriel has worked for Jamie Foxx, Charlie Wilson, Anita Baker, TLC, Barry White, Dallas Austin, Prince, DJ-Quik, The Gap Band, Johnny Gill, Karyn White, Ann Nesby, Sheila-E, Color Me Badd, Vesta Williams, Lo-Key, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Chante' Moore, Carl Carlton, & Framework. Gabriel is a product endorsee for Gibson, Mesa Boogie, Carvin, & Peavey Guitars & joined the elite circle of B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, & George Benson when AKAI announced the launch of the LaSalle Gabriel Signature Series Guitar in Europe & Asia. Gabriel produced two songs on the #1 Billboard Blues Album from 2018 by Malina Moye "Bad As I Wanna Be" (WCE/ SONY). Gabriel wrote & produced "A Little Rough" which peaked at #29 on the Billboard Singles Chart & the Hendrix remake "Foxy Lady", both tracks were recorded at the historic Capital Records Studios L.A. In the early 90s, Gabriel released his first single “The Room” on his first record label, Framework. The 12-inch single sold over one million units worldwide, launching Gabriel's music career overnight. Gabriel's 2nd start-up record label Studio Lexicon drew immediate success with Nashville artist Dean Justin whose 6 song EP ‘Carry the Flag' sold over 200,000 CDs from Gabriel's modest 1500sf recording studio in the heart of Minneapolis. ‘Carry the Flag' debuted on the Billboard Gabriel worked as a songwriter for NBC's ‘Days of our Lives'. His 46 television appearances include The Tonight Show, Soul Train, The Kennedy Center, Arsenio Hall, MTV, & BET. These are achievements are among many others which Gabriel has achieved in the music, entertainment, and business fields.

Vi pratar rör och det aktuella ämnet om tillgång och efterfrågan. Fölster tar sig an ämnet 50's wiring. I veckans pryl pratar vi om en pedal som har fått Fredrik att spela mer gitarr. I detta avsnitt: Wester Electric, Electro-Harmonix, Mullard, Sovtek, JJ, Shuguang, Tung-Sol, Tungsram, Grove Tubes, TAD, Mesa-Boogie, Matchless, Rivera, BJFE, Quilter, Boss, Trainwreck, Insulander, Benson, Smart Belle, BluGuitar, Montys, Walrus Audio, Strymon.

Fredrik och Ulf pratar om en mycket viktig del i utrustningskedjan. Fölster har gått djupare in i ett tillbehör som som gör det lättare för gitarrister att sova om nätterna. I veckans pryl pratar Fredrik om en fantastisk idé för de som vill hyra instrument. I detta avsnitt: Celestion, Eminence, EV, JBL, Fane, Jensen, Oxford, Marshall, Fender, Hiwatt, Diesel, Mesa-Boogie, Sound Side, Mckenzie, Benson, Dunlop, Schaller, Insulander, Suhr, UA, Two-Notes, Peavey, Rickenbacker, Grolsch, PlayGear. 

Pure Salem Guitars starts off 2022 with a new line of amazing guitars

Vi summerar det gångna året med det sista avsnittet för 2021. Vad har varit våra toppgrejer under året? Vad är det för händelser som påverkat oss? Ångrar vi något? Veckans pryl blir naturligtvis istället årets pryl för var och en. I detta avsnitt: Gibson, Mesa Boogie, Ronin, PRS, Chase Bliss, Westerberg, Lexicon, Frank Brothers, Sola Sound, Suhr, Asher, Collings, Marshall, Mastery, Electro Harmonix, Celestion, EV, JBL, Gustavsson, Gretsch.

Top 20 of 21. The best guitar records that kept us coming back for more!

Iván Carranza is freelance musician and teacher, he is also is the host of the Youtube Channel “Ivanbassist”, in which he presents product demos, reviews and tutorials for the bass-playing-community. Iván proudly uses gear by Mesa Boogie, G&L, Dingwall Guitars, Tech 21 NYC, Darkglass Electronics, among others. “ Check out Iván at these links ► https://www.youtube.com/user/IvanBassist ► https://www.instagram.com/ivanbassist/ Support the Podcast ► Paypal me link - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/henstepmusic ► Buy me a coffee - https://ko-fi.com/stephenmcgrathbass ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stephenmcgrathbass ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/stephenmcgrathbass ► Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/stephenmcgrathbass

Bill Myers Inspires  A Black American Living Abroad at this time when political unrest, a pandemic, and racial tensions are raging in America. How do other nations perceive America's racial challenges? Do other countries have their own issues with racism and injustice towards black people to sort out? JAMES BRADLEY JR. At the age of three, JBJ's musical talents were being realized by his parents as they saw him retrieving pots and pans from the kitchen cabinet to perform on. Because they were performing musicians, they were able to give James support and teaching. James Bradley, Jr. was a child-drumming prodigy and at the age of four he was recognized as the world's youngest professional drummer. Appearing on major television shows in the sixties such as "I've Got A Secret", "Steve Allen", "Jack Benny", "Art LinkLetter", "Nat King Cole", "Hollywood Palace", and many others. And then a contract with Paramount Pictures, where JBJ played a part in the movie "Cool Hand Luke". Developing from a Jazz and Blues background James began playing straight ahead Jazz with his mother in his very early teens. He completed his first National Tour in 1976 with Deniece Williams while still in high school. JBJ then traveled with the great Chuck Mangione from 1977 to 1981 boasting many gold records like the hit song "Feel So Good". After a short break in 1982 JBJ was doing musical workshops and clinics. James went on to create the group Urban Gypsy where he fussed Rock and Funk. Then he toured with R&B superstar Anita Baker 1986-87, legendary Pianist Joe Sample 1987-1988, and with R&B great Vocalist Jeffrey Osborne 1988-1989. In the nineties JBJ hooked up with alternative rockers Mary's Danish, The Go Go's Gina Shock, The Beastie Boys, The JBJ Exp, Slash, Crazy Town and many others. Known internationally as the drummer for the multi- platinum rock band "CRAZY TOWN" (1999 to 2003), As the drummer in CRAZY TOWN, JBJ played on one full length albums for release on Columbia records. With the release of their third single "Butterfly", off the album "The Gift of Game", CRAZY TOWN grabbed the number one slot on the billboard top 200 and managed to go number one in countries all over the world. With gold and platinum records from the United States, Canada, and Germany. JBJ reached a status rarely achieved among recording artists. JBJ also had endorsed deals with companies like Puma, Hurley, Adidas, Homeboy Couture, Mesa Boogie, Randall, Dean Markley and Line-6. JBJ are now playing and recording with his own band the Rock/Punk band KILL YOUR DARLINGZ . ~ More About Bill Myers Inspires ~  Emmy Award-winning actor Bill Myers is an accomplished actor, jazz musician, filmmaker, writer, educator, and speaker. As a bi-racial man who is both black and white, Bill leverages his background, talents, and voice through creativity, compassion, and connection as activism for social justice to focus on uniting the divide and compelling change. In a civic leadership capacity, he has served as President of the African American Jazz Caucus in NYC, member of the Indianapolis Cultural Development Committee, and served as President of the Indianapolis Downtown Optimist Club. In addition to his Emmy Award, Bill has received many awards and notable commissions for his work including being commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to create an original work for Dr. Martin Luther King Day entitled “The Music, Martin & Me.” Bill Myers seeks to encourage, enlighten, and empower others through the power of entertainment to affect social justice. You can find him at his website Billmyersinspires.com, Bill Myers Inspires on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/billmyersinspires/, Twitter https://twitter.com/bmyersinspires1, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/billmyersinspires/  , or via email billmyersinspires@gmail.com. To get more of Bill Myers Inspires, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/bill-myers-inspires/