A puddle of pedals

[MechaGodzilla]

the brilliant Albini 20th anniversary In Utero mix, which is absolutely fantastic

This slipped by me somehow. Good stuff.

[Chankgeez]

Mmm.... maybe Nirvana were more directly an impersonation of The Replacements and Squirrel Bait.

That's maybe a little too reductive, Seance.

[Seance]

Mmm.... maybe Nirvana were more directly an impersonation of The Replacements and Squirrel Bait.

I'd be very surprised if they were inspired by Squirrel Bait, as they were completely unknown outside of Kentucky

Squirrel Bait opened for Husker Du and Bob Mould said in an interview in Spin magazine in 1985
that Squirrel Bait's record was as good as anything Husker Du had done. Steve Albini certainly knew
who Squirrel Bait were, and Nirvana certainly knew who Steve Albini was. I think Squirrel Bait was
written up in some NY publication like The Village Voice as well. So...
To my mind this indicates that they were at least partially known outside of Kentucky.
http://killingtechnology.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/squirrel-bait-interview-1987.pdf

The music of Nirvana is, to me, not the most interesting part of Nirvana. The interest is in the lyrics and the singing of Cobain.
The singing of Cobain seems to owe a lot to Squirrel Bait and The Replacements.

Kurt Cobain has admitted that he learned a lot from The Pixies. Does Nirvana sound like The Pixies? No. But they were heavily
influenced by their quiet/loud/quiet songwriting.

[Ugly Nora]

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[Seance]

Mmm.... maybe Nirvana were more directly an impersonation of The Replacements and Squirrel Bait.

That's maybe a little too reductive, Seance.

And what about that Kurt Cobain guy saying that Nirvana sounded like Black Sabbath playing The Knack?
Reductive? Or a little too reductive?

[Chankgeez]

Way too reductive?

[Seance]

I saw an interview or documentary or whatever with Dave Grohl and he flat out said they almost didn't release Smells Like Teen Spirit because they thought it sounded too much like the Pixies. That quiet loud thing right there.

Even a direct effort to sound like some specific other thing never creates an exact duplicate.
Smells Like Teen Spirit definitely has some Pixies dust in it. But Black Francis never wrote such
tightly woven enigmatic lyrics. He liked the double-entendre and the wordplay... but SLTS is
a more abstract poetic stab. And no one would mistake the "solos" on Nirvana songs for the
focused ferocity of Joey Santiago. Cobain mostly just mimicked the exact melody line for the
"solo". But... the melody lines are all great... so that became a stylistic tic particular to Nirvana.

[Seance]

:erm: Way too reductive?

That is how the secret sauce is made.

[Chankgeez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJ9w6SAcGQ

[Seance]

For those who like to click......

Liquid drip w/pedal-puddle
http://www.instagram.com/p/BfCYh_-D5Du/?taken-by=seanboke


Desk calendar animation w/ped-pud
http://www.instagram.com/p/BfCNkOJDvz-/?taken-by=seanboke

[sylnau]

Awsome!

[Seance]

Awsome!

Thanks!

[Seance]

Different visuals/same audio:

[Seance]

Once upon a time in 2012 for "guitar practice" I came up with a riff and then through the
pedestrian magic and slow accretion of a Boss Loop Station, I laid down some
improvised layers of noodles. For to make a sonic lasagna.

Fairly pedestrian pedal fare... paired with some visuals of frantic, frenetic puppy ZOOMS
and puppy FRAP (frenetic random activity periods). Cute dogs make the best puppy-demons.

Barber Dual UnLTD --> ProCo Rat (1993 vintage reissue) --> Boss FRV-1 --> Boss RC-3

[Seance]

Plugged in some stuff, pressed record and improvised some sounds:
http://soundcloud.com/caesarshift/soundtrack-runthrough



Pedals:

Boss RC-3
Montreal Assembly Your & You're
Drolo Stamme[n]
CooperFX Outward
Dr. Scientist BitQuest!
Montreal Assembly Count To 5
Boss RE-20