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Local H - As Good As Dead (1996)

Local H - "As Good As Dead" (1996)

ギターボーカルのScott Lucas率いるアメリカのユニット、Local Hの2ndアルバム。プロデュースはPixies、Throwing Musesなどでエンジニアを務め、Quicksand、Clutch、Fuelなどでプロデューサーとして活躍しているSteven Haiglerとバンドの共同によるもの。

グランジムーブメントを彷彿とさせるヘヴィなリフが主体でありながら、ポップな楽曲に仕上がっているのが特徴。またギターボーカルとドラムという最小限の編成(レコーディングではScottがベースを演奏、ライブではギターにベース用ピックアップを取り付けオクターバーを用いているが)ながら、それを感じさせない骨太なサウンドになっているところにソングライティングの巧みさが窺える。シングルカットされた"Bound for the Floor"/"High-Fiving MF"、"Eddie Vedder"、"Fritz's Corner"を筆頭にバラエティに富んだ作りになっており、飽きさせない作りになっている点も素晴らしい。

歌詞の一節"You go ahead as good as dead"がアルバムタイトルがなっている様に、やはりこの作品には名曲"Eddie Vedder"が欠かせない。Pearl Jamのフロントマンの名前をそのままタイトルにしているが、個人的解釈ではEddieへのアンチテーゼというよりかは、もし自分が彼の様な存在だったら？という苦悩を描いてるのではないだろうかと推測する。勿論アルバムとしてはパンキッシュな歌詞が続いているので、単純に彼への批判の曲かもしれないが、曲の醸し出す雰囲気はどこか物悲しさを感じさせる。

Local HもFailureなどと同じく個人的思入れに対して、世間的な評価が低いバンドである。初期のドラマーJoe Danielsは脱退してしまった("As Good As Dead"20周年ツアーでは一部復帰)が、現在もコンスタントに作品を出し続けており、どれも良作なのでぜひ聴いてみていただきたい。

個人的ベストトラックは8曲目の"Eddie Vedder"。

[workingclassaudio]

WCA #175 with Adam Muñoz

Working Class Audio #175 with Adam Muñoz!!!

Adam Muñoz has been an engineer in the Bay Area since 1991. Having joined the Fantasy Studios team as a full-time House Engineer in 2008 Adam has had the opportunity to engineer sessions for many local and national recording artists. Adam has worked with artists like Herbie Hancock, Dave Mathews, Marcus Miller, Snarky Puppy, Jason Moran, Lisa Fisher, Joanna Newsom, Ambrose Akinmusire, Bruce Cockburn, Jerry Granelli, Etienne Charles, Neal Schon, Animals As Leaders, Eric Gales, Tiffany Austin, The Marcus Shelby Orchestra, Bomba Estereo, Brad Mehldau, LaToya London, Carie Rodriguez, Rupa and the April Fishes, Rinde Eckert, Autopsy, Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Sean Paul, Lyle Lovett, Matt Nathanson, Six Pence None the Richer, Hank Williams III, Otis Redding and Vince Guaraldi.

Adam’s long-time relationship with Bill Frisell and producer Lee Townsend resulted in the 2015 AND 2016 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.

Adam came to Fantasy after many years as an independent engineer working out of some of the finest studios in the San Francisco and abroad.  As a staff engineer at Different Fur and Brilliant Studios, Adam worked on many notable sessions for artists like Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Sleep, Neurosis, Chris Isaak, Bonnie Raitt, The Cranberries, Paula Cole and on George Winston’s Grammy Award-winning project “Forest.” Adam has been fortunate to have worked along side many super talented producers and engineers including Andy Wallace, Matt Wallace, Howard Johnston, Billy Anderson, Frankie Blue, Karl Derfler, Marc Senasac, John Cuniberti, Judy Clapp, Mike Curb, Steven Haigler, Thom Wilson and more.

Adam's background also includes ADR/VO, Foley, lock-to-picture sessions and orchestral film scores.

Photo by Monica Jane Frisell 

About this Interview:

Adam joins me to talk about his journey starting out as a DJ examining the credits on the back of records to working as a house engineer at the world famous Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. We talk studio leadership, survival, dedication and the increasing difficulty of repeating his journey in todays recording world.  Enjoy! - Matt

Show notes and links:

Adam's site: http://www.adammunoz.com/

Fantasy Studios: http://fantasystudios.com/

Saul Zaentz Company: http://www.zaentz.com/

Check out this episode of Working Class Audio

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Colorado soccer spring recreation 2018: Date, time, schedule, the best way to watch, key gamers

Colorado has gone out of its method to mood expectations for Saturday’s occasion at Folsom Area. Actually, the Buffaloes are calling it a Spring Showcase this 12 months as an alternative of a Spring Recreation, and Colorado will conduct three extra practices subsequent week earlier than closing out spring ball.

Starting at 1 p.m. MT on Saturday, with tv protection on the Pac-12 Community, the Buffs will conduct an hour-long follow earlier than scrimmaging for roughly 50 minutes.

“We’ll be fairly vanilla on the market,” Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre stated. “We simply need to see us operate properly and be capable of deal with all of the completely different conditions and put them underneath various kinds of strain.”

Who to Watch:

Steven Montez — The earlier two years, Montez’s spring recreation efficiency left one thing to be desired. Youth is now not an excuse. Montez began all 12 video games in 2017 and is now one of the vital skilled quarterbacks within the Pac-12. Will Montez present extra consistency on Saturday? New quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper has been engaged on his footwork this spring.

Alex Fontenot — The Buffs will add Travon McMillian as a graduate switch from Virginia Tech this summer time. Within the meantime, Fontenot has been profiting from additional reps at operating again. The redshirt freshman has a powerful mixture of dimension and pace. If Fontenot can enhance in go safety, it is going to be arduous to maintain him off the sphere going ahead.

Aaron Haigler – After failing to reside as much as expectations in 2017, Haigler and his fellow offensive linemen will attempt to make an announcement on Saturday. Haigler has moved from the fitting aspect of the offensive line and is now the front-runner to interchange Jeromy Irwin because the Buffaloes’ beginning left sort out. In keeping with the Buffs’ coaches, Haigler has lastly adjusted properly to the burden he added final low season.

Mustafa Johnson — When assembly with the media this week, new defensive position coach Kwahn Drake talked about Johnson first when speaking about his group. A junior faculty switch, Johnson has solely been in Boulder for 2 months and has already labored his means as much as the first-team protection. Johnson’s dimension and flexibility have allowed him to follow in any respect three positions on Colorado’s defensive position.

Chris Miller – The Buffs return two cornerbacks with recreation expertise in Dante Wigley and Trey Udoffia, however Miller has been turning heads this spring and will steal a beginning gig. A redshirt freshman who selected the Buffs over 16 different packages throughout his recruitment, together with Notre Dame and Texas, Miller is arguably Colorado’s most athletic defensive again.

Colorado additionally has a redshirt senior who might go off on Saturday. It has been a protracted street to middle stage for this former blue-chip recruit.

So what are the main storylines headed into Colorado’s spring recreation? And what redshirt senior shocks Buffalo soccer? Go to BuffStampede now for the newest insider protection of Colorado’s spring recreation, and see whose collegiate profession may very well be finished, all from a group of veteran Colorado reporters.

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The Reason hits its stride on the long road to success

Adam White, vocalist and guitarist for The Reason, describes his band as “honest and hardworking” – but that doesn’t mean success has come easy. Lineup changes, legal red tape and management woes have littered the way since they formed in 2003. The latest album Fools – produced by Steven Haigler (Pixies, Brand New, Quicksand) – has turned the tide, however, garnering critical acclaim and top five rock radio success with the single, The Longest Highway Home. En route to Quebec with bandmates James Nelan (keyboards, vocals, guitar), Michael Caputo (guitar), Ronson Armstrong, (bass, vocals) and Steve Kiely (drums, percussion), White is appreciative of the Hamilton quintet’s most recent accomplishments, noting, “This is what we love to do the most.”

Lots of people start bands, but few enjoy even moderate success – how is The Reason different?

A lot of bands don’t want to deal with the negative stuff, but we’ve never given up when things got tough: member changes; management stuff; legal issues with old labels; tours where we’ve lost out on thousands of dollars. Now – thankfully – it’s starting to get better.

How did you come to work with Steven Haigler on Fools?

We sent our music to him and told him: ‘We’d love to work with you; we love your stuff’ and he got back to us saying, ‘Yeah, I like your stuff too.’ So we flew him out to Hamilton and had a little jam session to show him the songs. He was very vocal about how the band should sound on record: exactly like we sound live. We’ve never been able to achieve that before and ultimately, that may have been what deterred us in the beginning. This time, we captured exactly who we are.

Do you learn more about yourself when you’re in the studio?

For sure. In the studio everything is under a microscope. You can work really hard to try and perfect everything or you can choose to embrace the little mistakes: if you go off-key, it’s okay because it might still sound cool – or if you screw up a drum fill it could wind up being a golden moment on the record.

Is this the record you’re most proud of?

Oh yeah. With the others, we’d get them done and be all excited, then two weeks later we couldn’t listen to them anymore. For this one – and we recorded it over two years ago now – I can still put it on and feel like there is nothing I want to change about it. We did everything right.

What do you credit for that?

It’s being comfortable together after doing this for such a long and not really having anything to lose. We’ve made many mistakes that we’ve been able to learn from, and we just wanted to make the best record we could. Warner gave us some money to record in North Carolina for a month: we were away from home, the cell phones were off and we were focused on just making the album.

A lot of doors must open when you have a top 5 rock radio hit.

Absolutely. Our booking agent has been booking us since 2004 and he called us about a month ago saying, ‘This is the first time where I haven’t had to go out and look for shows for you guys – we’re getting calls everyday from people wanting you to play.’ We’re finally at the point where we’re turning stuff down.

You’ve got Edgefest coming up – is it your first one?

We played the side stage in 2005 and it went pretty well. We’re on the main stage this time and it’ll sound a lot different. The festival is a pretty big deal – it’s the highest profile gig we’ve ever played – so just getting booked means even more opportunities for us.

Describe your live show.

We devote our whole day to it. It’s not about the bus or the hotel we’re sleeping at, or the beer on the ride. For us, the whole day just culminates in the 45 minutes that we’re up on that stage. When we finally get to do it, we put it all out there.

You mentioned having made mistakes. Are you a better off because of them?

This record wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t go through everything that we did, you know? I feel like we know who we are and we know how everything works. I’m not glad that we made mistakes but it’s shaped who we are… so I feel cool about it.

Fools is available online and in stores now. To learn more about The Reason and to view their official video for The Longest Highway Home, visit www.thereasonmusic.com.