Schlong - Squatting On The Pot !
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08/05/2018 02:49PM
Schlong - Squatting On The Pot
Very Small Records 1991 12'' EP
SIDE A
01. Christidgerator
02. Bong Hit
03. Rats
04. The Trilogy ( My Head Don't Roll + The Stage + Waxy Yellow Buildup )
SIDE B
05. Rainy Days And Mondays (Carpenters)
06. Arsurfing (Ventures)
07. Shattered Life (Toto)
08. Sore Thumb
09. Human Nature (Michael Jackson)
Dave Mello - drums
Gavin MacArthur - guitar
Pat Mello - bass
Second release by Schlong, starting to get on topic for good now with lyrics covering a broad range of topics such as bong hits, boredom, earworms and more.
The wacky cover tunes already show their view on mainstream music and their idea of butchering art and making it all goofy.
A promise that forthcoming first album won't be disapointing in any way, but just you wait!
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Dave Mello: "We all loved Victims Family. They were our favorite band. They had put a really groovy jazzy twist on it, and made punk very musical and very harmonic and melodic and jazzy. With drums on the back beat.
We were also into John Zorn, this crazy jazz guy who was playing things for a couple seconds, playing grindcore, and all of a sudden RAAAURR! and then it would change to a jazz thing. Cartoonish, like Carl Stalling, Looney Tunes music. We wanted to sound like that. Like, what would annoy people the most?
We would play musical games. We’d change a beat where it shouldn’t be changed, and see if the other guy would catch on.
My brother Pat would play a reggae beat, and all of a sudden I’d just chop something up into a grindcore beat, or a Latin beat, in the middle on an odd time. We started writing songs a minute long. We couldn’t stand playing the same thing for long periods of time. We’d have 60 parts in a two-minute song. If it made us laugh, then do it.
If you have someone in the band who is the musical genius, it really helps. Gavin would learn things in a matter of seconds.
We gave him the Journey CD box set and locked him in his room with a banjo. Within four hours he was playing all the Journey songs on banjo. It was like, cool! Let’s start a bluegrass band! Which was Three Finger Spread."
Read full interview with other people too, and learn plenty o' cool shit about the band and more @GimmeSomethingBetter. NOW.
Gavin: "I feel like I keep getting better even now. Although when I was around 19 or 20, I started listening to too much Victims Family and jamming with Dave & Pat Mello , and my playing went from Journey & Ozzy Osbourne covers in the garage to Steely Dan & Sesame Street on meth. After a few years of heavy touring I started to feel very comfortable playing weird stuff. Of course I still love punking out the odd Journey or Ozzy cover.
(...) Seeing Ralph Spight from Victims Family play was a real eye opener. I was always into all kinds of music, but I LOVED punk energy, playing punk & metal is what it was all about. I saw Ralph play & was all “Huh? You mean you can play metal & punk & jazz AT THE SAME TIME??? YES! Fuck my world up, why don’t you?".
Read the 2013 full interview of guitarist Gavin and understand better his magic through his guitar experience @QRD ! NOW.
La deuxième production studio de Schlong commence vraiment à rentrer dans le sujet (façon de parler), avec ses sujets hautement philosophiques et ses reprises de standards ne laissant rien au hasard. Une image de marque qu'ils n'auront de cesse de peaufiner au cours des années suivantes.
Squatting On The Pot, c'est à la fois rester longtemps aux chiottes, mais aussi -par quelque subtil jeu de langage- squatter le joint: pratique assez répandue chez les fumeurs de mariejeanne.
On se rend dès lors compte que Schlong joue aussi bien avec la musique qu'avec les mots, un talent qui ne ternira jamais leur belle carrière, annonçant déjà un premier album haut en couleurs et qui nous laisse trépignant d'impatience.
"ça vient, ça vient!" me dit-on en cuisine, mais je n'ose imaginer de quoi il est question...
Voir le post précédent et suivre les liens fournis pour des infos plus constructives sur les inénarrables Schlong, je suis déjà parti!
Same Rip specs as usual, now damn you ugly little worm, you drove me cuckoo!
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