“They have so many ideas; they complete them all, it’s never boring, and it all goes down easy. I have no idea how they do it.”
We begin our series on Rob’s all time favorite band… Baroness.
00:00 intro
00:42 voices are weird, figuring out how to do metal vocals back in the day
20:22 Learning technique from music videos is a bad idea, the standard of precision is so much higher today, and the rising popularity of extreme precise music
40:10 Old man shit and some leftist antiracist stuff
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47:46 How each of us got into Baroness
1:01:27 Allen Bickle’s drumming is top shelf incredible, there’s always interesting things happening, John uses lyrics like colors in an abstract palette.
1:10:54 Clutch wordsmithery compared to Baroness, and doom metal
1:19:34 The EPS
1:42:54 Black Sabbath digression and ripping on Queens of the Stone Age
1:53:01 Red first impressions
1:55:57 Andy Sneap, Judas Priest harmony digression
2:02:12 shoutout to the shaker in Rays on Pinion, and a percussion/cowbell digression
2:11:57 THE VOICE and they’re mastery of completing ideas while always being interesting
2:20:38 Comparing Baroness to Zeppelin, Punk, and Metal.
2:29:53 Wailing Wintry Wind and Teeth of a Cogwheel
2:39:30 Teeth of a cogwheel
2:45:21 Summary… This music feels woven, not built.
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