Dark Matter: Official Album Thread

[Arthur Morgan]

Wait, could Ed not play the WFS riff?

He got about 80%?of it

It must be Watt's riff on the record, then. If they went with Ed's similar riff from way back in the day he'd know it 100%.

Watt must have written the bridge to Insignificance too, then. It took him like 6 years to get that one right.

Well, I don't know if you play guitar, but if you do, think about a simple riff you've carried around for years and then being asked to play it on the spot. It's very intuitive.

Yeah it doesn’t mean Ed was lying. He just was on the spot and I was holding my breathe for him

[Arthur Morgan]

Stone talking.


Beginning of band the Alive riff

[Arthur Morgan]

Ed talking about his life in San Diego before PJ

[Arthur Morgan]

Stone talking about playing rhythm guitar. Stone started playing guitar on whim later than Mike.

Looks for most simple way to play parts. He really wants to be a drummer

Talking about Led Zep influence

[FlatSideofaDog]

Wait, could Ed not play the WFS riff?

He got about 80%?of it

It must be Watt's riff on the record, then. If they went with Ed's similar riff from way back in the day he'd know it 100%.

Watt must have written the bridge to Insignificance too, then. It took him like 6 years to get that one right.

Well, I don't know if you play guitar, but if you do, think about a simple riff you've carried around for years and then being asked to play it on the spot. It's very intuitive.

Yeah it doesn’t mean Ed was lying. He just was on the spot and I was holding my breathe for him

No, I don't think he's lying at all. What I'm getting at is: if the two riffs are similar but not the exact same, which riff is on the record? Ed's or Watt's? Stone said the song was 'Andrew's baby', which gives me the impression the recorded riff is Watt's. And if the recorded riff s not intuitive to Ed, that's another consideration.

[lecherouslittlestump]

I remember a Chris Cornell interview on Stern when the first question was like "so is Eddie Vedder an asshole?"

[Arthur Morgan]

Jeff being introduced.

Howard asks about fretless bass

[Fattie_Vedder]

Has anyone posted this? The album is dedicated to Po.

That's apparently Aubrey "Po" Powell of Hipgnosis who designed album covers for, among others, Pink Floyd, UFO, and Led Zeppelin, including Presence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipgnosis

Thank you! I was wondering about what it meant

Same, I just saw that yesterday when my cd arrived.

[Arthur Morgan]

Wait, could Ed not play the WFS riff?

He got about 80%?of it

It must be Watt's riff on the record, then. If they went with Ed's similar riff from way back in the day he'd know it 100%.

Watt must have written the bridge to Insignificance too, then. It took him like 6 years to get that one right.

Well, I don't know if you play guitar, but if you do, think about a simple riff you've carried around for years and then being asked to play it on the spot. It's very intuitive.

Yeah it doesn’t mean Ed was lying. He just was on the spot and I was holding my breathe for him

No, I don't think he's lying at all. What I'm getting at is: if the two riffs are similar but not the exact same, which riff is on the record? Ed's or Watt's? Stone said the song was 'Andrew's baby', which gives me the impression the recorded riff is Watt's. And if the recorded riff s not intuitive to Ed, that's another consideration.

Watt and Ed are now on record saying they put the two riffs together

[oneway23]

Jeff's a huge Japan fan...awesome.
Richard Barbieri of Porcupine Tree

[WaitingForBluey]

Well, I don't know if you play guitar, but if you do, think about a simple riff you've carried around for years and then being asked to play it on the spot. It's very intuitive.

I dunno about this... it takes me about 2 weeks to completely forget something I've worked months on

Add in having to memorize a catalog of 200+ songs
The fact that this song was recorded over a year ago
Plus the fact that he didn't even the play the final guitar part on the recording
And that does not surprise me one bit

Now, if Stone forgot how to play it (or admitted that he never learned how to play it) then I'd be pretty concerned

[Arthur Morgan]

Jeff took piano lessons from 1st to 7th grade

Helps him with bass playing

[VinylGuy]

I remember a Chris Cornell interview on Stern when the first question was like "so is Eddie Vedder an asshole?"

haha yeah i remember that! howard was really sour for a long time with Eddie because he wouldnt give an interview.

[Arthur Morgan]

Talking about Ramones and Sting as a bass player

[Arthur Morgan]

Matt being introduced

Talking about being in a KISS cover band when 14 yrs old

[Arthur Morgan]

Saw KISS do sound check back in 70’s.

Wore costumes, brought their KISS cover band photo album. Got photo with Ace F

A few months later they got cease and desist order from the cover band. Because they named band KISS. Never changed name, lol

[oneway23]

bunch of 14 year olds got a cease and desist from Kiss LOL
Of course they did

[E.H. Ruddock]

bunch of 14 year olds got a cease and desist from Kiss LOL
Of course they did

That is a hilarious story

[dad]

bunch of 14 year olds got a cease and desist from Kiss LOL
Of course they did

gene simmons is the worst.

[oneway23]

Stoney 100 takes of Evenflow
2 parts different tempos
Dave Krusen girl giving birth
Sorry...no chance...not committed? LOL