Pop evil, hell yeah!!!!!
mantis
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What's amazing is these guys have been around for a few years now and I didn't know anything about them until my best friend told me about them.
Basically how this got started is I have been playing my guitars a lot more lately. I'm not in a band anymore, nor do I make a ton of time to play but recently the Guitar bug i'll call it bit the **** out of me and I can't stop obsessing over it.
I just re tubed my amp (Krank Revolution 1 2 x 12 combo) with brand new Sovtech 5881 / 6L6 WGC power amp tubes and Electro Harmonic 12AX7 pre amp tubes. It's a 100 watt head and it's elfin badass. It has the cleans of a Fender Twin and the drive of a Peavy 5150 which for me is a killer combo.
My best friend has been in bands for decades including 3 of mine. He was just asked by a Bass player to create a newer metal style band like Pop Evil. He told me about this adventure and asked if I listen to them. I told him I never heard of them and he said I would love them. So he pulled up one of their songs " Dance with the Devil" on Spotify and I was hooked. I actually went home and learned it. It's a pretty easy song to learn with a few quirky ways of doing things. I'm a old 80's metal Style guitarist ( I'm a combination of George Lynch, James Hattfield and Jimi Hendrick) but I have adapted my style more to the newer style like Shadows Fall and now Pop evil.
This very band also inspired me to re consider my stand on not playing in another band. I'm a bit off the path to be good enough to play in a band as I don't practice no where near enough but I'm changing that right now. I'm also planing on going back to guitar lessons to get all polished up, fix a few things and further my knowledge of music theory which by the way is like rocket science , to me anyway as I always felt music theory was very hard. Playing the guitar is pretty natural for me as I can pick things up pretty quickly but when it comes to reading music and remembering all those keys and the notes with in them. Circle of 5th blah blah blah I go blank after a while. I just enjoy rocking out by myself but Pop Evil just hit a chord inside me and now I'm on a mission.
Whats even cooler is the fact that my Best friends Old guitar player from his last band Angry VicK is also a teacher. He is also a Grad of MIT of Music who graduated with my last Guitar Teacher. He is one amazing guitarist and far better then I ever was. He knows theory like my old guitar teacher did and I thought he was a Idiot Savant. One thing I really like about this dude is he can listen to a song he never heard before and with in minute be able to play the entire sound and damn near nail the guitar lead the first try. Thats crazy as most of the time it takes me hours if not weeks to learn songs especially if I never even heard it before.
Basically how this got started is I have been playing my guitars a lot more lately. I'm not in a band anymore, nor do I make a ton of time to play but recently the Guitar bug i'll call it bit the **** out of me and I can't stop obsessing over it.
I just re tubed my amp (Krank Revolution 1 2 x 12 combo) with brand new Sovtech 5881 / 6L6 WGC power amp tubes and Electro Harmonic 12AX7 pre amp tubes. It's a 100 watt head and it's elfin badass. It has the cleans of a Fender Twin and the drive of a Peavy 5150 which for me is a killer combo.
My best friend has been in bands for decades including 3 of mine. He was just asked by a Bass player to create a newer metal style band like Pop Evil. He told me about this adventure and asked if I listen to them. I told him I never heard of them and he said I would love them. So he pulled up one of their songs " Dance with the Devil" on Spotify and I was hooked. I actually went home and learned it. It's a pretty easy song to learn with a few quirky ways of doing things. I'm a old 80's metal Style guitarist ( I'm a combination of George Lynch, James Hattfield and Jimi Hendrick) but I have adapted my style more to the newer style like Shadows Fall and now Pop evil.
This very band also inspired me to re consider my stand on not playing in another band. I'm a bit off the path to be good enough to play in a band as I don't practice no where near enough but I'm changing that right now. I'm also planing on going back to guitar lessons to get all polished up, fix a few things and further my knowledge of music theory which by the way is like rocket science , to me anyway as I always felt music theory was very hard. Playing the guitar is pretty natural for me as I can pick things up pretty quickly but when it comes to reading music and remembering all those keys and the notes with in them. Circle of 5th blah blah blah I go blank after a while. I just enjoy rocking out by myself but Pop Evil just hit a chord inside me and now I'm on a mission.
Whats even cooler is the fact that my Best friends Old guitar player from his last band Angry VicK is also a teacher. He is also a Grad of MIT of Music who graduated with my last Guitar Teacher. He is one amazing guitarist and far better then I ever was. He knows theory like my old guitar teacher did and I thought he was a Idiot Savant. One thing I really like about this dude is he can listen to a song he never heard before and with in minute be able to play the entire sound and damn near nail the guitar lead the first try. Thats crazy as most of the time it takes me hours if not weeks to learn songs especially if I never even heard it before.
Dan
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
My personal quest is to save to world of bad audio, one thread at a time.
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ROCK ON DAN! RoCK oN!
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I have been listening to them for a few years now, I like their style, they are from Detroit and IMO Kick ****!!
Have you heard George Lynch's new Band KXM? Check em out, the drummer from Korn, and the bass player/lead vocalist from Kings X.. I think you will like them as well..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cD40-CJljas
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This Video from Pop Evil is awesome!! I love the energy, I just just think they should have had Nikki Sixx in it and not Mick Mars, the poor guy looks like the walking dead..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOvZojUJto
Edit: the chic is smokin hott!!Polk Audio SDA 2.3tl Fully Hot Rodded. 😎
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I have been listening to them for a few years now, I like their style, they are from Detroit and IMO Kick ****!!
Have you heard George Lynch's new Band KXM? Check em out, the drummer from Korn, and the bass player/lead vocalist from Kings X.. I think you will like them as well..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cD40-CJljas
Enjoy Dan..[/QUOTE
George Lynch is my favorite guitarist of all time. This is musically awesome but I don't like the singer. he should sing backups and they should have hired a real singer. Someone with a much better front man voice. Dude isn't bad , to me just seems like a back up singer not a front man.Dan
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LOL he sure does , he could star in the walking dead and not need anything , he's cool just the way he is LOL.This Video from Pop Evil is awesome!! I love the energy, I just just think they should have had Nikki Sixx in it and not Mick Mars, the poor guy looks like the walking dead..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFOvZojUJto
Edit: the chic is smokin hott!!
Yeah man Pop Evil seems to be bringing back some fun and Hot Chic Energy, love it.Dan
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Check out a song called Divide , it's badass. Honestly just about every single song they wrote so far has been awesome.ROCK ON DAN! RoCK oN!
I'm going to have to look them up now.Dan
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Saw them open up for Tesla in Mpls about 5 years ago. Met them and bought a cd from them. Never heard of them before that night.Pioneer Elite VSX-53, Polk RT800i fronts, Polk CS400i center, FX500i surround, Velodyne sub
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I listen to about 7 songs from the onyx LP on Spotify while surfing, I finally realized I was liking their sound so I bought the "Onyx" CD.2 ch- Polk CRS+ * Vincent SA-31MK Preamp * Vincent Sp-331 Amp * Marantz SA8005 SACD * Project Xperience Classic TT * Sumiko Blue Point #2 MC cartridge
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