Real Screamo gear

[lordgalvar]

Racebannon is screamo? I guess you learn something new everyday? I always kinda lumped them in with the no-wave/noise bands going at the time. Put out some good stuff though.

Over classification is lame.

[casecandy]

Over classification is lame.

Would never argue otherwise.

[odontophobia]

dropping into this thread for City of Caterpillar.
also to say that I too have played with Loma Prieta since there seems to be a common denominator. :P

when i played with them Ampeg v4 and Science were the amps of choice. both guitarists used OCDs at the time.

[daseb]

yeah for me looking back on it nearly 20 years (jesus) later it's more about particular eras and distinguishing the good from the crap. Which was fitting because so much of this music was a reaction to whatever else was around at the time.

[Mark of the Beast]

Btw...If anyone has gear info on City of Caterpillar, Ten Grand, Off Minor, Four Hundred Years, Stop It!, Sleepytime trio,...I'd appreciate it

They may not all fit the screamo definition, but since they were a big deal for me through my late '20s and I'm going through somewhat of a revival, and since I also REALLY want to get involved in a new band with a similar vibe...I'd like to know if just something jcm 800-esque and a tele will get me there.

Judging on clips and shows I seen, the gear choices are all over the place. All kinds of amps, teles, sg's, les pauls, ricks, cheapo thrift store gear,....

Kinda Seems comforting that gear isn't the biggest concerns if I can come up with a handful of decent tunes...

That's what I remember of the era even though I don't know any of those bands. Pedals were kinda seen as cheesy around most scenes in southern california except for some of the no-wave/noise guys (they used a lot of music man, kustom, and sunn stuff), metal (they were all using mesa/boogie, multi-fx, and rack setups), and some indie rockers. Rats and mt-2's (and boss overdrives/distortions) were around a lot...seem to remember some people using dod death metal pedals. Don't ever remember seeing HM-2's around at all. Everybody else just used whatever high gain amp they could get their hands on whenever I saw bands come through in that era. A lot of carvin, some marshall (cost prohibitive), sovtek, peavey, fender (again, cost), etc. I do remember a few dudes playing through rack setups (and I know a lot of bass players did at the time).

I remember Ian MacKaye talking about purposefully limiting his self to a SG into a Marshall so he could explore all the different sounds he could get out of a simple set up. That's a pretty early punk philosophy. Fugazi was such a starting point for the Gravity Records bands(and probably the Level Plane stuff too) so I could see how that would be influential (combined with only being able to afford cheap gear).

*note: Guy did use 2 or 3 pedals

[tremolo3]

HOLY FUCK DUDE. My old band played this show. I was in Unless, we shared a drummer with Loma Prieta. Anyway, back at the time of that show Loma was a three piece, 2 guitars and drums. One of the guitarists and the drummer are still in the band.

lol, I think I played with you guys and Loma Prieta as well in the same show here in tj

[lordgalvar]

Small world, eh? Kinda neat.

[John Matrix]

HOLY FUCK DUDE. My old band played this show. I was in Unless, we shared a drummer with Loma Prieta. Anyway, back at the time of that show Loma was a three piece, 2 guitars and drums. One of the guitarists and the drummer are still in the band.

lol, I think I played with you guys and Loma Prieta as well in the same show here in tj

Man, that is crazy. What band did you play in?

[tremolo3]

Walle.
lol, I know...

[whiskey_face]

I discovered breach today. I think theyre hardcore? Idk. Theyre pretty solid. Ive never gotten into hardcore

[Strange Tales]

Stop it: whatever was cheapest. At the end one dude had a strat with one pickup/volume knob and the other a SG. Adams live bass tone was cheap basses (olp, epi thunderbird) into various acoustic heads that he would crank until they blew up then just buy another one into an acoustic 4x15 that I think Parker from cough now owns. Bass tone on the record was apparently line 6?! The bass sound on that record is to die for.

I thought the bass player was using a 370 when Self Made Maps came around and was using that for good? I can't imagine someone actually being able to blow a 370 up.

[BoatRich]

I discovered breach today. I think theyre hardcore? Idk. Theyre pretty solid. Ive never gotten into hardcore

Check out Majority Rule.

Speaking of Majority Rule, how have they not gotten mentioned yet? That band is so fucking good. I was listening to the split with pageninetynine on the way to work this morning. There's lots of tasteful use of delay, and even a reverse delay on "My Version of Paris"

[D.o.S.]

Fucking Hot Cross. I have been arguing with Space Ritual about the merits of Hot Cross for like three years now.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I discovered breach today. I think theyre hardcore? Idk. Theyre pretty solid. Ive never gotten into hardcore

Check out Majority Rule.

Speaking of Majority Rule, how have they not gotten mentioned yet? That band is so fucking good. I was listening to the split with pageninetynine on the way to work this morning. There's lots of tasteful use of delay, and even a reverse delay on "My Version of Paris"

Duuuude. Majority Rule was absolutely the shit. That is the band that got me into pedals and gear. The drummer was a fucking beast and the bassist and guitarist were mind blowing and played off each other perfectly. GUH i miss that band, a couple years ago there was a facebook page trying to convince them all to get back together since all of them were playing music again and living in the DC area, soooooo wish they would have done it.

This album is mind blowing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVRBD5Lucs[/youtube]

Now that you've brought them up I've gotta throw these guys (Crispus Attucks) out there too:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3v7QLdxvCc[/youtube]

I was at that show and it was fucking mind blowing and saddening all at the same time. That was THE DC VENUE back in the day.

Here's some better audio of them:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAjG5zUaNw[/youtube]

and since I'm just naming off old DC Skramz bands.... the often overlooked but never un-appreciated Damnation AD:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxCyW1tW6t4[/youtube]

[BoatRich]

DAMNATION AD IS SO FUCKING GOOD. DC IS SO FUCKING GOOD WHY DO PEOPLE HATE IT HERE WE MAKE SUCH COOL SHIT