Ep37: BARONESS!!!!

“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.