Nick Johnston is touring with Mastodon

[DrewJD82]

Side note but are they running a silent stage? They are the last band I thought would do that! So odd not seeing stacks of amps.

Still amps and cabs, they just keep them behind the stage, probably to give the vocal mics as much clarity as possible. Those dudes do a LOT more actual singing than they used to!

I love Nick Johnston. Great player. But not a good match.

Do you know who is a far better match? Kim Thayil. Love his solo in this song.

Kim definitely has the “I’m just going for it” vibe, absolutely, but that’s kinda all he’s got going on with his solos, where Brent could at least have a beginning and end with the ‘going for it’ in the middle areas.

 

[DrewJD82]

I mentioned this in another thread, but I was feeling a bit guilty for talking as much shit as I did about Nick in the band. To call myself out a bit with my 'put up or shut up' insistence, I posted a backing track for one of the tunes Nick's been getting beat up about so anyone could contribute their own take on it. The conditions were 'Mastodon calls you up at lunctime and says "Hey, we want you to play onstage for one song with us toight, you can do whatever you want in the solo and if it rocks you can join the band!"

I gave myself 3 takes and called it good on the last one. Anything I did after would have started sounding written.

And lasers fucking rule.