what a thunderous bass, melting
I don't have one, but this is the sound I'd like to make on a Gibson Thunderbird bass, so yeah. Fuzz bass is very mystical to me - it's a sound that is both reptilian and monumental. It disrupts the natural order as it makes the bottom rule the top - like a Saturnalia ... yeah, saturnalian fuzz bass. There are certain fuzz tones that still elude me, but I shall work up to them. They are inhuman tones.
Billl it's so absolute, that i am asking and trying feel...
oh, what an exit.
Yeah quite pleased with that 'exit' as you put it so well. Glad you stayed until the final credits!
I don't know what it means to be 'cut out' for *anything* - do you love sounds? Do you want to make sounds because the sounds you want to hear aren't being made by anyone else? Then you are 'cut out' for 'music'. I had a Tele briefly, and I foolishly sold at a shop where, as I was handing it over some one else was that very same moment buying it. It was set up so beautifully. It had replaced my hard tail Strat, which I had also sold. But in those days I couldn't hold on to anything. Making up for it now, so I might get a Tele one day soon. Strange, this Ibanez 8 string reminds me of a Tele, just in the robustness and perfection of its design
that "solo" is killing me!
You are right to put solo in parenthesis - the approach is collective here, with some parts now and again irrupting like this one, a frantic assault on an 8 string Ibanez - it is a killing machine
all meters pinned!
you don't know where the '1' is ... more disorientation!
don't know if i'm going up or coming back. space/time travel does that.
Yes, this track is very much concerned with dis-orientation, or not knowing your east from your west etc.
The cosmic crosstalk is phenomenal, good show sir.
The engine's timing throws a rod, but that was as it ever should have been!
Yes - I took a few rods out and mis-shaped some others!
Blow your speakers, mister metal!
They aren't half moving some air!
I have a new ax for this one - the white Ibanez 8 string in the track picture. This is an amazing thing to me - Ibanez have done something very special here - it's a 27" scale -
Yeah, my instinct was to go higher but you'd probably need a much shorter scale, like a mandolin - I think some old Baroque lutes had longer and shorter courses attached. But the 7 and 8 stringers always go lower into baritone territory. But this 8 string does have the feel of what I imagine a lute would be like [I hankered after a lute for years], and the low strings have that flap. But the long scale and extra wide neck give such a resonant mass; the whole thing is almost a perfected design that I would imagine in the future 8 strings might be the norm for electric!
Yea, at 25.5 the original 7 strings had an issue popping the high A, which was why they went with the lower tunings. I'm tempted to just do that anyway and accept it as price of admission. If I want to go lower, that's what the Bass VI is for is the thing.
The stairs down to the basement of the soul are deep.
This goes down to the sub-sub-basement ad infinitum!
Exploding in calculated collision under creation's watchful eye. Masterful Bill! - what you say is apposite about this piece. It is as I tag, an improvisation - and a free improvisation at that as always along Ornette's lines of 'no time, no changes', but those savage improvisations are than assembled and used to 'compose'. The rabid 8 string guitar outro is a case in point, with the 'composed' gong. And this is theme of the piece as you outline in so poetic language. It's the John Stevens Crowleyite contradiction: collective improv under Will.
Timid sails braving the molten lead ocean
Yes, the storm tossed Ark [which could be on the Ur-Ocean or in virgin space] is the prime symbol of the fragility of creation's second bite of the cherry
Language of Perfection! Fearless excellence!
Here the bass and drums issue a challenge to the Universe
Whoah! Launched!
lyrics
Blows of creation
As the cosmic smith useth hammer and anvil
To forge the savage sword,
So we too bellow, rage and ravage sound,
For good and for evil.
credits
from Amongst Wolves,
released March 12, 2017
Bill Boethius; 8 string guitar, 6 string guitar, 5 string bass & percussion.
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