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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
KHChris is obviously on crack. With the exception of overdrive, every effect other than that is on for the whole song to color the tone of the guitar for the song. Either KHChris can't read or he doesn't know what overdrive is, because I mentioned that I turn it on and off, but he insists that I might only play with distorted guitars.
Maybe I'm trying to lead the punk kids who come to my shows and don't really know anything about post-punk, post-hardcore, shoegaze, and gothic rock into some good bands. Personally when I first get into a band, I look them up on allmusic or wikipedia. If it isn't immediately apparent to me where everything came from, and I can see what other bands have influenced them. Smalltime bands with myspace profiles don't really have wikipedia entries and allmusic entries. So I took a step back and thought about what bands it sort of sounded like, based off of all the 20+ spectral presence songs I have written and asked myself which influences were coming through and how. Also, people will ask me what my band sounds like. I got sort of tired of explaining to my friends what it sounds like, because a lot of people just don't get what I'm talking about.
You must thing Gang of Four is a terrible band then:
"I don't think they were particularly an influence. We were aware of all of that when we starting writing stuff. That first Television album was great and so was the first Talking Heads record. There's a shared interest in avoiding the rock-guitar cliché for sure. If you think of the first crop of punk stuff, it was all just tedious guitars cranked up through Marshalls. In the wake of the Damned and the Sex Pistols, it was heavy metal but faster and not as well played. Certainly Gang of Four, Television and Talking Heads weren't interested in going down that road at all. So there was a kind of sparseness about the guitar stuff, it was more staccato with space around it." - Andy Gill
My god, they compared themselves to Television and the Talking Heads! And they don't sound anything like those 2 bands! Liars!
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Do you really use wikipedia and allmusic to determine your choice in bands??? That sounds like something my parents would do to find music. If your band sounds like the Pixies, then why don't you put the songs that sound like The Pixies. Same goes for Big Black. I've been a huge Big Black fan for decades now, almost before you were even born, and I'm sorry, but your band does not sound ANYTHING like Big Black, so stop pretending or lying to people that you do sound like Big Black or even remotely close.
There's a difference between being "influenced" by a band and "sounding like" a band. Gang of Four maybe "influenced" by those bands, but they certainly don't say that they "sound" like those bands. Take an English class, dude. Also, I never said I didn't like Gang of Four. I think they're great and a huge influence on many bands today, even to !!!