Monster Mastodon

[Life Eats Life]

Random trivia- this song was written about Brent’s friend, Toes, who passed away.

Caught an interview with him recently (they don’t publicize them anymore) where they asked how they wrote this one and Brent said he was noodling on it backstage when Brann, the drummer, told him he was digging it and had some vocal ideas and bam, a Mastodon song was born.

The more I learn about how these guys write the more stoked I am with them. It’s very much 4 dudes on the exact same page, even if they all use different words to fill the pages. The last couple albums have been mostly Bill and Brann writing the bulk of material with Brent just kinda doing his thing over the top, but by the time it’s done everyone is so woven into a song you can’t tell who wrote what, as where a band like Lamb Of God, if it’s a bluesy kinda riff, Mark wrote it, if it’s a straight metal riff, Willie wrote it.

For real man.
The drummer is UNREAL good.
The way he can pull stops & crazy starts is nutz man.
Him & the drummer in Gojira are so unbelievably good, you forget they’re back there in the heart of it until you listen a few times.
Y’all know how I feel about the “Animal” Hinds.
-I had his back when he was loaded beyond biblicals’ at the Orange demonstration..
That guy can play like a M’f’er,
-if you’re in a band with him,
like Joe Perry-HE’S the lead guitar player in the band.
Most don’t realize, to be the main gunslinger dude,it comes at a hefty nightly price up there.

How can you not respect them?
They’ve persevered on through doing their own thing and their music is quite hard to comprehend or get thru until you give them some faithful listens..
-you’re like damn..these dudes are bad asses..pulling that off for as long as they have.
Viking filth’bags…there’s hope even if alll that’s left if filth.

These guys helped me through some extremely dark times.
Particularly this song.
So much depth in pain & the morbid appetite..
I keep saying’ it and I even told Tim Pierce,
the legend,
“We need chsracter’s man”
we need dudes up there, otherwise Tim..,.
-it’s a Bugera”.
I’m waiting on his response btw

If there’s one band that inspires me to never give up bring myself through my music regardless of what individuals think..
-it’s Mastadon

 

[MirrorProfiles]

I don't think Brendan ever Produced a Soundgarden album that I know of, did he?

Their best work was Terry Date and Michael Beinhorn, as I recall.

Yeah he just mixed Superunknown. Beinhorn produced. Jason Corsaro engineered IIRC.

 

[Life Eats Life]

And everyone knows Brendan's best work.

“Down On Me” is a kick ass song

 

[la szum]

 

[DrewJD82]

I’d pick some bangers from O’Brien’s catalog but I don’t feel like writing a list of 100 albums.

 

[la szum]

Haha! Man, I thought you could get away with joking around here.

I guess just not when it comes to Brendan O'Brien and Jackyl. Got it! My bad.

I do think one of Brendan's greatest gifts is his production style caters to the artist
and not the other way around. He seems to let bands have their style and sound
without the heavy handed approach of being too stylistic a producer.

 

[Stone]

And everyone knows Brendan's best work.

Hair Metal Meets Southern Rock

Hair Metal Meets the Blues --->

 

[DrewJD82]

Cool interview with Brent while he was doing a recent Fein With A Face tour in a van. He’s got a signature Gretsch coming out.



Also talks about his distaste for working with Gibson quite a bit.

Edit- I posted this before they started talking about Eric Johnson and Brent looked like someone asked him to try a bite of pickled pig taint. Not sure we can be friends, Brent.

 

[Life Eats Life]

This is hilarious.
You can tell he has seasoned experience
with the cops

 

[la szum]

Haha! He'd be dishing out some "tone violations" around here.


As deep and serious (and life-affirming!) as their lyrics and concepts are, they have such a
great sense of humour. For me, great humour and having a lot of spirit are synonymous
in life.

Didn't they do a silly series of cooking shows/skits, too??

 

[la szum]

Youtube algorithm won't play anything but Mastodon here.

Not a problem. Not asking for help.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Youtube algorithm won't play anything but Mastodon here.

Not a problem. Not asking for help.