Spiritual Eclipse
New Metal Member
Galactic Backwards Movements and Manipulation in Time have some of your best guitar work on them, easily.
There's no guitar solo in "Father of Hate;" about which part are you speaking?
The reason we don't have big guitar solos that "stick out" is because I honestly think it's uncalled for and borders on cheesy. Bands like Dream Theater do it because Petrucci is the only guitarist and they sometimes have that "jam-band" sort of feel when everyone can just go all out. Suspyre's music is entirely about composition and production of a lasting musical product. There isn't much room for a solo like that. Solos are cool sometimes, but a lot of the time they seem tangential and distracting to the idea of the piece. I just think solos fit better in a jazz and blues environment. And when your song is already 7 minutes long and there's no solo, adding one can just make it tiring.
Though, I do love all the solos Rich and I have done (or else we wouldn't have done them, heh). One I really like is in "Manipulation in Time;" I got a Holdsworth fusion kind of feel by playing very legato and using lots of whole-tone passages and augmented arpeggios. There's a lot of interesting guitar tricks we did on "A Great Divide" solo-wise about which I keep forgetting.
As I'm working on planning the new album now, we have about 10 more minutes until the CD is full. So, maybe you'll get a piece that is more guitar-solo oriented, at your request.
There's no guitar solo in "Father of Hate;" about which part are you speaking?
The reason we don't have big guitar solos that "stick out" is because I honestly think it's uncalled for and borders on cheesy. Bands like Dream Theater do it because Petrucci is the only guitarist and they sometimes have that "jam-band" sort of feel when everyone can just go all out. Suspyre's music is entirely about composition and production of a lasting musical product. There isn't much room for a solo like that. Solos are cool sometimes, but a lot of the time they seem tangential and distracting to the idea of the piece. I just think solos fit better in a jazz and blues environment. And when your song is already 7 minutes long and there's no solo, adding one can just make it tiring.
Though, I do love all the solos Rich and I have done (or else we wouldn't have done them, heh). One I really like is in "Manipulation in Time;" I got a Holdsworth fusion kind of feel by playing very legato and using lots of whole-tone passages and augmented arpeggios. There's a lot of interesting guitar tricks we did on "A Great Divide" solo-wise about which I keep forgetting.
As I'm working on planning the new album now, we have about 10 more minutes until the CD is full. So, maybe you'll get a piece that is more guitar-solo oriented, at your request.
Haha, that is so badass. Even if you're joking around with that last sentence, just to hear that is badass. I do understand what you mean when you say that the music doesn't really..have the space for a guitar solo or whatever, or it just wouldn't fit sometimes, but like, I always noticed that every band I love has at least one kickass guitar solo, and I figured with the amazing gift you guys have with music, you would probably write one of the most epic, mindblowing solos if you really wanted to try to make one happen. Sometimes it doesn't even need to be really technical to be really good. Heh. And yeah, it's cheesy, but everyone needs to do something lighthearted like that once in a while.
I'm always curious to know where music comes from. What I mean is, do you sit with your guitar (or piano, or accordian) and just mess around and stumble onto something that could work as a song? Or maybe you are walking through Wal Mart and some random notes pop into your head that seem like the beginning of a new song? I guess every musician is inspired in their own little way......
Not being a musician makes if very hard for me to fathom where all the new ideas come from, let alone the complexity of the arrangements. I was listening to A Great Divide a little yesterday and The Silvery Image today, and I actually felt as though I was hearing everything for the first time. Again. So many tiny nuances to the music, so many parts to miss the first 10 times listening only to hear it on the 11th try.
I guess I am just rambling a little. I've been in a funk lately so brain functionality is not high on my priority list right now.
I'm always curious to know where music comes from. What I mean is, do you sit with your guitar (or piano, or accordian) and just mess around and stumble onto something that could work as a song? Or maybe you are walking through Wal Mart and some random notes pop into your head that seem like the beginning of a new song? I guess every musician is inspired in their own little way......
Not being a musician makes if very hard for me to fathom where all the new ideas come from, let alone the complexity of the arrangements. I was listening to A Great Divide a little yesterday and The Silvery Image today, and I actually felt as though I was hearing everything for the first time. Again. So many tiny nuances to the music, so many parts to miss the first 10 times listening only to hear it on the 11th try.
I guess I am just rambling a little. I've been in a funk lately so brain functionality is not high on my priority list right now.
. Well...alteration of the ivory had one harmony part that wasn't in the chord structure that he let go because it sounded so good...however it was funny to watch him wince everytime it came up because he knew it wasn't the right harmony (I made it up the harmony...so blah to you Gregg...haha).
Playing live it must be near impossible to get everything just right, so do you ever get annoyed (for lack of a better word) at the imperfections that crop up in a live setting?
Haha...I remember that part. You sang a G# over a part that was pretty much just an E Phrygian riff, which hinted at the A Gypsy scale, which is cool, but that G# was so close to a Gnatural that it just sounded weird. But, when you just listen through it it managed to work itself out. Sometimes "mistakes" like that sound awesome.
In case you were wondering what that really loud noise was, it was just my head exploding.
Jumping in for another little tidbit of input. haha
You guys need to do another show with The Green Evening Requiem. They opened at the show I saw you guys at, and I got their demo afterwards and they really kick ass. Atlantis In Winter is one of the most incredible songs I've ever heard. >_> Them, Crimson Roots, you guys, oh yes. @_@
But I really think that it would be cool if Clay's screams(See Apex, Blood and Passion, etc) were used more. It's not quite harsh vocals but it sounds really cool and when he does it, especially in Blood and Passion, it's one of those spine-chilling moments.