Heavy metal or glam band material

[Michael H Geimer]

I wonder who's using more hairspray ... Rick Skaggs, or Sebastian Bach?

[jlb]

Don't forget Sam Bush's headbanging prowess.

And Chris Thile, well...that's just too easy...

[Michael H Geimer]

" And Chris Thile, well...that's just too easy... "

Of course, I get the joke, but closer to the topic ...

Isn't the original Pavement version of Spit on a Stranger fairly heavy? I like NC take on the song. Well done in my eyes ... but it's not very Bluegrass.

- Benig

[jlb]

Gotta admit I'm a dinosaur..my knowledge of hard rock dies in the 90s. Don't know who Pavement is, and I'm not sure I know any of NC's song titles.

[fangsdaddy]

i wouldn't call pavement a "hard rock band". they're more of a college/slacker/indie rock band. has anyone tried sabbath on the mando? one of the nice touches in "school of rock" for me was when jack black gives the first electric guitar lesson to the kid & shows him "iron man."

here's a question that's related. heck, perhaps it should be a whole new thread. i'm a recovering punk rocker. since then, i've been playing traditional musics for the last 10 years or so on guitar. i've been playing mandolin a little less than a year. i'm in a new playing situation where i'm asked to play rock mando. chopping doesn't really work. what techniques, particularly right hand, do you guys use to rock?

thanks
sam

[pklima]

I don't know about Sabbath on mandolin, but Sabbath on mandocello is great! The fifths tuning and extra low range lend themselves well to true metal. My troll guitar is a doubleneck electric guitar with one neck in guitar tuning and the other with five strings tuned CGDAE. I almost invariably choose the latter for heavy stuff.

If you're playing with a drummer and he didn't forget his snare, chopping is redundant. Lots of other stuff will work, though. I hope Niles weighs in...

[Michael H Geimer]

" they're more of a college/slacker/indie rock band. has anyone tried sabbath on the mando? "

Yea ... It'd pretty hard for me to defend Pavement in the face of Sabbath.

How about Cinderella tunes? Remember them? #Keiffer Rocked.. I am sure many tunes off the long cold winter cd would grass just right.

I think there is a mando previously owned by him for sale at Gruhns.

[ira]

fangsdaddy- 2 finger/open chords, double stops, bends, slides, hammer and pull. tremolo slide up the neck on one string or 2, and throw a little reverb if you are amp'd. you can also use the chop on the 1-3 beat for a reggae like or brush on the drums effect.

Has anybody tried to Grass the tune "No Rain" by Blind Melon??

[mandopete]

I think you would need the "bee suit" for that one!

Mandopete... Your right.. I need a Bee suit and that Rigel yellow jacket mando.. I would Rock!!! All hail for those about to Rock.. We salute you!

[Trip]

with standup bass, fiddle, mando, and guitar,we do a cool version of Pipeline.....the old Dick Dale surf tune(check out my website for a live version, and you can stream it or download it)....and also Jimi Hendrix- Little Wing instrumental, Van Morrison- Moondance, Skynyrd- Simple man, mutiple Pink Floyd tunes, some Moe, some Widespread Panic, lots of Dead....oh yea we play bluegrass too

StrangerStringBand

[Christian McKee]

My old band used to do Walk Don't Run (Ventures surf tune) with mandolin and guitar alternating on the melody parts... #Surf is always fun and easy. #Crank and volume, and you can play a great Paranoid pretty easily. #I also heartily recommend the Boss OC-3 for lower notes in this sort of situation. #Battle it out with your bassist for TOTAL DOMINATION

Taboot, Taboot,

Christian

[Kirby161]

I was playing hotel california by using the chords for it on OLGA and applying a forward roll to it. It sounds just like the original!
a good'n, grasses well too.

[mad dawg]

I forget who did it, but I once heard a CD by a Bluegrass band with a bunch of ACDC songs.

[London Al]

If were havin a good gig , my band sometimes has a great audience sing along with T REX's "Hot love". It's a lovely choppin rythm and you dont need any soloing, just the whole bar goin' Na na na nanana naaaarr......

[Kirby161]

I forget who did it, but I once heard a CD by a Bluegrass band with a bunch of ACDC songs.

I believe the name of that band was "Hayseed Dixie" (or something that sounded like ACDC)
they were a fun band but they tended to slow down the songs too much to make them more grassy.

[levin4now]

Listening to some RUSH this morning, and wondered if anyone could pull off the lead lick to "Spirit of Radio". I think that would be pretty sweet.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

There was a band called FM that had a guy who called himself "Nash the Slash" who played mandolin and violin through a stack of Marshall amps. I have an album of theirs somewhere (yes, an actual vinyl record) and I remember it being pretty cool.

[Joel Glassman]

Rodeohead (Radiohead)
http://www.hardnphirm.com/rodeohead.html

[Christian McKee]

You know, it just occured to me that nobody's brought up Alex Gregory's music as part of this thread yet. Strange... There's info about him on emando.com, and I've found various places to listen to samples of his playing. Pretty schweet stuff, for those of us that miss Van Halen...

Christian