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william wrote:my bloody valentine often play the same rhythm parts, and what happens is you have an orgasm. true story.

dead on for sure.

DuoSonicBoy wrote:Listen to the first 2 Television albums

I've just downloaded these for the hell of it based on this post...

Never really been inspired to listen to Television previously but so far it's been a pleasant experience.

Good. Work. Sir.

The band I'm in has three dudes playing guitar, and it works pretty well. The singer plays mostly rhythm stuff with an occasional lead (mostly doing kind of the Fender clean thing with a few effects), the other guitarist is just straight-up Les Paul+Marshall, and I'm the dick with a bunch of pedals and a slide and an E-Bow.

Unless you're trying to do the whole two-guys-leaning-on-each-others-back-playing-harmony-solos thing, you should be able to work with your own sound to make it distinct enough to be heard in its own space, and let the other guy do his thing too.

i thought of another band with alot of guitars and guitar interaction: Chavez.

they were really great, too bad they broke up. think they may have played a reunion show recently.

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all their stuff was good. check em out.

joshua wrote:there's another band called the cribs that is a 3 piece, so just guitar/bass/drums, and it suits their music perfect, but now apparently johnny marr of the smiths has joined, and i am at an absolute loss as to how they are going to sort that out; not only is an entirely unnecessary second guitar introduced, but johnny marr of all guitarists?

YESSS! I have been saying this since he joined! He has ruined The Cribs! The 3 brothers from Wakefield are now a normal 4 piece band

DanHeron wrote:

joshua wrote:there's another band called the cribs that is a 3 piece, so just guitar/bass/drums, and it suits their music perfect, but now apparently johnny marr of the smiths has joined, and i am at an absolute loss as to how they are going to sort that out; not only is an entirely unnecessary second guitar introduced, but johnny marr of all guitarists?

YESSS! I have been saying this since he joined! He has ruined The Cribs! The 3 brothers from Wakefield are now a normal 4 piece band

they must be really good if johnny marr ruined them by playing with them.


"man, my electronic act was really great until that aphex guy showed up and started reprogramming my drum machines..."

i think the real key is to experiment with two bass players.

william wrote:

DanHeron wrote:

joshua wrote:there's another band called the cribs that is a 3 piece, so just guitar/bass/drums, and it suits their music perfect, but now apparently johnny marr of the smiths has joined, and i am at an absolute loss as to how they are going to sort that out; not only is an entirely unnecessary second guitar introduced, but johnny marr of all guitarists?

YESSS! I have been saying this since he joined! He has ruined The Cribs! The 3 brothers from Wakefield are now a normal 4 piece band

they must be really good if johnny marr ruined them by playing with them.


"man, my electronic act was really great until that aphex guy showed up and started reprogramming my drum machines..."

It wasn't really Johnny Marr who ruined them, it was just having a 4th member - it could have been anyone. They were 3 brothers and their music fitted the 3 piece setup perfectly. They didnt need a new member, kind of ruined it. Also, they are quite young and Jonny Marr isn't - it just doesnt work. In my opinion anyway.

I'm more disappointed in Marr for joining them.

BobArsecake wrote:I'm more disappointed in Marr for joining them.

Yeah, it's a shame.

arctic fucking monkeys
lead guy just plays little diddlies and sings while you BRING THE ROCK!

i see. that all makes sense.


wasnt it johnny marr that joined modest mouse for a time? wtf?

serfx wrote:i think the real key is to experiment with two bass players.

Cop Shoot Cop
Lead Bass and Rhythm Bass. Fucking awesome.

william wrote:i see. that all makes sense.


wasnt it johnny marr that joined modest mouse for a time? wtf?

Yeah he is still in Modest Mouse.

DanHeron wrote:

william wrote:i see. that all makes sense.


wasnt it johnny marr that joined modest mouse for a time? wtf?

Yeah he is still in Modest Mouse.

that makes no sense to me. and it didnt improve their sound at all, to me.


reminds me of when david pajo and matt sweeney (of chavez, see above) joined zwan, only to be drowned out by billy corgans overwhelming ego/musical stylings. why were they even in that band?


without billy corgan, zwan couldve been INCREDIBLE.

Haze wrote:arctic fucking monkeys
lead guy just plays little diddlies and sings while you BRING THE ROCK!

They're awful. They get nothing like enough of a sound to qualify having two guitarists either.

Don't like 2 guitars in one band, would prefer a keyboard. Have loved plenty of 2 guitar bands, but never enjoyed trying to hammer out that dynamic personally. Especially when one of them just twiddles knobs on his pedalboard the whole show and then dubs himself resident "texturalist". Fuck off and buy a synth already, you no-talent assclown.

serfx wrote:i think the real key is to experiment with two bass players.

pre

mclusky

monkeyboy


yes

delta 5. two female bass players.

paul_ wrote:Don't like 2 guitars in one band, would prefer a keyboard. Have loved plenty of 2 guitar bands, but never enjoyed trying to hammer out that dynamic personally. Especially when one of them just twiddles knobs on his pedalboard the whole show and then dubs himself resident "texturalist". Fuck off and buy a synth already, you no-talent assclown.

this is an interesting observation. ive never really thought about it this way, but it does happen like this alot, it seems.