What the fuck are the eggs??

[jealousy]

Agh!!! Help meeeeeeeee.....!!

 

[Jim LotFP]

Like maraccas...

 

[tenebrose]

Ay, basically...
it's a plastic ball the shape of an egg, filled with little plastic beads. You use it, as stated, like the maraccas, to keep the beat.
Are these a Swedish (or maybe Scandinavian) phenomenon? I've never spoken to anyone outside the country who's been aware of what they are... and here, well, we always used them in music class... all through grade school.

 

[jealousy]

Well, now that you guys mention them I know what they are... but

Where are they used? And why? And why 3 and not just one? How can one person use 3? And why would they want too? And why do they need a guest musician to shake some plastic eggs around? Agh!

 

[Heliologue]

and where on blackwater park are they played?

 

[justus x]

Heh, you guys are thinking about this one way too hard.

 

[tenebrose]

Jealousy... there was some guy recording at the studio, who happened to be there, and got to play them. The band thought he should be credited, and was duely, so... or at least that's what I read somewhere. Sheesh, I'm not even a big Opeth fan. Isn't this sad?

 

[HoserHellspawn]

and they appeared somewhere on "Bleak", apparently... I'm not sure when, exactly, but I've never really looked hard for it. I read about it either in an interview with Mikael somewhere, or perhaps on his session diary on the Opeth official site.

 

[Russell]

You can get them in the UK! U can even get them with a plectrum attatched! Where are they supposed 2 b?

 

[svenske kocken]

They appear about 2:40 in Bleak, that mellow part before Micke sings "Plunging towards bereavement faster yet / Clearing thougts, my mind it is set". Listen carefully and you´ll hear it.

 

[benny]

Yeah there they are, I had been listening for the eggs for quite some time never found it.

 

[Demonspell]

I thought they were in the midsection of Bleak, where you can hear some weird rhythm...

 

[Advent]

I heard them! cool..I thought it was a hi-hat or something. Opeth just keep getting better.

Kevin Carey

 

[Villain]

Yeah, there they are. But the question remains, how can one person use three of them? He has one of them in his mouth?

-Villain (confused)

 

[tenebrose]

It's possible to hold two of them in one hand. They wont go at different beats, but it's possible. Are you sure all three of them were recorded at the same time and why does anyone actually care?

 

[Villain]

Originally posted by tenebrose
It's possible to hold two of them in one hand. They wont go at different beats, but it's possible. Are you sure all three of them were recorded at the same time and why does anyone actually care?

If the three eggs were recorded at different times, why didn't he use only one? Was he thinking that "Yeah, THIS YELLOW EGG fits these two seconds better than this RED ONE; and then I'll switch to the GREEN ONE"?

And why do we care? Well, it's better to care than to be careless, isn't it.

-Villain

 

[Demonspell]

Because we Opethians have a disturbingly sharp eye for minute detail, which explains all the production/musical error threads, none of which I recognized before reading about them here...and I consider myself a trained listener just because I can instantly recognize a chord progression and follow it having never heard the song before.

 

[Orchid]

As far as I remember, the eggs (the instruments) aren't as big as the "real eggs" and thus a grown-up with large enough palms could hold three eggs in one hand (or, there might be eggs of different sizes).

On a second thought, think of it as a hi-hat. One or two eggs in the other hand keeping a steady beat and the other hand adding some notes in between. I never liked the eggs back in school.

Oh yeah, Villain - More eggs -> fuller sound.

 

[justHerb]

The "eggs" that I've seen are plastic and full of silica beads. The effect is rather stunning in that the sound has the ability to cut through almost anything else being played at the time. We used them in a Jazz Big Band and those things would cut right through the entire horn section at full blare. An obvious choice for Opeth you might say.