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The 12 Days of Rock Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my sound man gave to me… a beer in a road case.
One of the Reasons Not to Become a Sound Engineer
Eight racks of lights were no fun either. To make things even worse the mixer, all 32 channels, weighed as much as the amp racks, but without the ability to carve it up and reassemble it at the top. Many four letter words later (aimed at the manager) and two gallons of sweat, we managed to push the 300 pound monster sideways up the stairs.
The Grumpy Old Sound Man on… Tape, DAWs, and PC-based Digital Workstations
Stephen A. – The Grumpy Old Sound Man himself
You as musicians will, without hesitation, drop a thousand dollars for a rig be it guitar, keys or drums, but it just baffles me when you will only spend a few dollars for your recording software. I don’t understand the rationale of that move.
Cheap Is As Cheap Does…
Buy a few if you can get them for around $50. I own seven.
Stephen A. – The Grumpy Old Sound Man himself
The Grumpy Old Sound Man on… Drummers
No, I am not going to put the mic on the side so you can hit it with a stick and ruin a $200 tom mic.
The Grumpy Old Sound Man on… Guitar Players
Let’s start with my favorite muszoid – the guitar players. Now don’t get me wrong I love the guitar, I own and play many. If I had a dollar for every guitar player that came up to me after making a board mix for the band and complained that, “there ain’t no guitar in the mix,” I would be living in Tahiti. Get a clue dude!
Spell Forest – Lucifer Rex II
Spell Forest – Lucifer Rex II: Celebrare a Furvum Luna in Martis Somber Music
Release Date: 2007
Track List:
1. As the Oracle Slowly Open
2. Claiming Through the Shadows (The Lowlight of Deception and Despair)
3. Celebrare a Furvum Luna in Martis
4. Blaspheming and Penetrating the Giving Birth Pig
5. Omne Goccia di Sanguis Pro Tuum
6. Majestuosun Hircus Furvus
7. Raped Cherub
8. My Flesh is the Portal
9. Benedictus Mortuus
10. Hymn to the Evil’s Glorifying
11. Dominus di Atrocitas
12. Filthness Kingdom
13. Infernalis Victoria
14. Preludium Mortis
15. Inspiring Will
16. Apogeum Tenebrae
Ghoul’s Splatterthrash Gets the Pit Moving
Ghoul – Splatterthrash
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Track Listing:
1. Into the Catacombs
2. As Your Casket Closes
3. Bury the Hatchet
4. Merde!
5. Cult of the Hunter
6. Mutant Mutilator
7. Psychoplasm
8. Splatterthrash
9. Gutbucket Blues
10. Rise, Killbot, Rise!!!
11. Life of the Living Dead
12. Baron Samedi
Celtic Frost – the Good, the Bad, the Way Ugly
Celtic Frost – Monotheist
Release Date: May 29, 2006
Track Listing:
1. Progeny
2. Ground
3. Dying God Coming into Human Flesh
4. Drown in Ashes
5. Os Abysmi Vel Daath
6. Temple of Depression
7. Obscured
8. Domain of Decay
9. Ain Alohim
10. Triptych: Totengott
11. Triptych: Synagoga Satanae
12. Triptych: Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale)
Skitzo on the Attack
…but I always felt the puking was what kept those bands from asking us to go on tour with them or promoting us when they got record deals. It was never stated to us that’s what it was, but that’s the conclusion we drew.