Good stuff. Like most of that guy's videos, nothing necessarily new to a total music nerd but so articulate that it's interesting anyway.
Re: Which Kind of Metal?
112I hadn’t. Great interview. Pete’s always great. Side note that Handsome album is vastly better than anything Hamilton has done in the past 20 years. That said, the latest album Left is the closest Hamilton has go to progress post “Helmet” i.e. 2004 onwards. Annoyingly the short lived Ghandi project demos were actually interesting. Again, Hamilton cornered himself, but it probably paid the mortgage for the past two decades.M.H wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 5:47 amDunno if you saw this interview, I enjoyed it quite a bit:Gramsci wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:46 am Hamilton has been his own worst enemy creatively post Helmet. What he’s done since 2004 is basically a solo project. He leaned into the shitty metal bands Helmet influenced rather than the noise roots the band came from. I kind of wish he’d dropped the Helmet name and started something new, maybe with a different singer. I think he’s an incredibly talented guy that trapped himself in the aesthetic limitations of one project. But it’s probably paid the bills for the past 20 years.
I’ve spent some time with him over the years when he’s in London and from conversations he was initially really bitter how Helmet collapsed, particularly towards Stanier. He’s mellowed significantly over the years and clearly regrets the petty bickering over money that crashed the band.
Vibe I get is the band were somewhat disillusioned w/ the formulaic aspects of the band's sound and wanted more than drop d riffing in perpetuity, whereas Page seemed to be more biz oriented.
And f'sure, a discography of 2 halves, 100% should have changed the name after the rhythm section left. I think I'd struggle to scrape 1 record's worth of mediocre material together from the last 4 albums.
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Re: Which Kind of Metal?
113That song bears an uncomfortable similarity to the “Forget the Minions” by Karp and I find that both troubling and satisfying.numberthirty wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:30 pmlosthighway wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:56 amGlam metal is not really metal to me (I assume you mean Warrant and Poison), nu is not good, tell me more about groove metal. Really I'd add them but it kept deleting votes when I changed the options.
Jon