Soldiers Take Half (1 Viewer)

[fenix]

In this months edition of Rhythm Magazine, a drummers magazine, they had an interview with the drummer from the future kings of spain and they asked him:

"What is the best drum performance you have ever witnessed?"

and he said

"I went to a gig in Dublin and there was a band called Soldiers Take Half - only kids, but their drummer was unbelievable! Relentless and so precise. The kit was falling apart and didnt have a mic, but that didn't stop him. An unbelievable talent that i was privileged to see in this dingy pub. Hope he's still playing."

If you want to see it for yourself you can always buy it or just go into tower records and read it.

 

[mc moley]

thats pretty cool. shame that he didnt see kendo when he was playing with us! he he he

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

edit - it was actually the singer that told me that he thought soldiers take half were deadly.

andrew

 

[damien]

"the kit was falling apart"
"dingy pub"
i love it, he can't resist throwing the digs in one way or another..

big deal though, we all know theres loads of really amazing musicians in the "underground" or whatever in ireland, people way more talented and inventive than what passes for rock stars these days..

 

[Alan Remorse]

future kings of spain are the most godawful live band i've ever seen.

still though, big up the underground... etc...

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

in fairness, your opinions on music are completely moot after "slanted and enchanted is terrible - they couldn't even play their instruments" - so you may as well stop branding every other band 'the worst band you've ever seen' (i thought that was the thrills anyway?)

andrew

 

[Alan Remorse]

eh? ive never seen the thrills. perhaps your confusing this with the worst band i've ever heard. along with the stooges like.

 

[jmlcomp]

i thought the reason why slanted and enchanted is so good is because it sounds like they can't play their instruments...
and alan come on...the stooges....you better be having a joke boyo.....!baggyyyy

 

[Alan Remorse]

yes it was a joke... just me and andrew sharing a little homoerotic hostility...

 

[Alan Remorse]

PS: archers of loaf were miles better than pavement anyway

 

[needtokill]

"the kit was falling apart"
"dingy pub"
i love it, he can't resist throwing the digs in one way or another..

I know Brian pretty well, and I doubt any of that was meant as "throwing digs" .
Don't be such a dick damo.

 

[Stephen]

In fairness have to aggree with Jamie here.
I think he was talking about that gig in the lower deck awhile back (soilders with serpents and someone else) and I think the drumkit that was used that night was shit (sorry to whomever owns it). And the lower deck is a "dingy pub". I'm surprised he didn't mention the stench of piss that usually abounds down there.
Brian is a great guy and as a drummer I love he's "everyone should only be allowed play with hi-hats and a snare" proposition so that drummers can learn how to play before they get there hands on all those crazy crashes and all that fancy shit to mask the fact they can't play very well.

 

[Corm]

He shoulda seen him with Scared Shitless.


It's still a load of bollocks that Scared Shitles never recorded their songs, they should do a demo just to document it.

 

[mc moley]

they have a whole ep's worth of stuff recorded just before they split up, they just never put it out.

 

[Corm]

They should put out a tape of it...maybe do a split tape if we can get it together to record the unrecorded Scientific Bong songs sometime?

 

[D0njo]

that'd be great, how'd we get those songs recorded though...? i was actually playing one of the new songs about half and hour ago, thinking it was a shame we had never recorded it...

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

i have a dictaphone recording of around half of one of the new scientific bong songs..but i'm pretty sure that tape is lost along with the cat o'nine tails shit.
re: alan 'i was only joking' - ha you say that a lot. nobody thought it was a joke at the time. just admit it man, you don't know anything about music and when you try and lay down yer own opinions you get it wrong beyond all belief! nah just buzzin..or yam i?

donal - waht horror soundtracks?

agree with stephen/jamie - the lower deck is a dingy bar and that drum kit isn't exactly some serious DW shit..

the new mastodon album is amazing. anywan want to go hunt for the white whale with me?

andrew

 

[damien]

guess what i said came out the wrong way; i was merely "attempting" to comment on the way these music mainstream mags jizz themselves over "the hottest new acts" and pay no attention whatsoever to the "dingy" gigs...

fair enough though lads, i know when i've jumped beyond a conclusion or two..

 

[Corm]

Here Fogey Bear, have you heard that band Zombi? They pretty much admit that they're a total rip-off of Goblin but who cares.

Youse should record the music in Kilcoole and I'll do the vocals over the phone from prison like Dr.J -cooool. No, I'll just do the vocals whenever I can? I'd like to have it, even if we never put it out, just not to forget it all, some of the newer songs were way better. But it would be legend to make it a split tape with the Shitless.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

yeah cormo - started a thread about zombi on the bauld general forum about a hundred years ago. really dig what i've heard. there's a noise guy called (or was called) Zombi (or Zombie? or Xombie? maybe all 3) who i dig too.
one of the guys from Sigh has a 'soundtracks' band that i haven't heard yet...seems to be a similar goblin vibe but maybe doomier. they say they have some ancient drum made out of a human skull which they had to smuggle out of tibet. who doesn't? posers.

andrew