Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Aug 20 2011 12:03 PM
I have a video from 2008 in which Ivan is showing Ben how to play the solo to (I think) Rogue Wave at the HB Pier.
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PolloGuitar
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Posts: 5124
San Francisco
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Posted on Aug 20 2011 12:30 PM
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surfcrazed
Joined: Jul 14, 2007
Posts: 125
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Posted on Aug 29 2011 02:06 PM
My copy arrived earlier today & I've been enjoying it since. First I tried it out on the car stereo (day off work, cruised around town allowing the locals a chance to enjoy some killer surf blaring out the car windows) and then on the home cd player where it may reside for awhile. Excellent stuff!
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Abe
Joined: Mar 12, 2008
Posts: 1237
Bay Area
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Posted on Aug 29 2011 11:26 PM
Glad your liking it. I hope you popped some ear drums, haha. Thanks for the comments.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Aug 30 2011 11:12 AM
This continues to kick my ass over and over again. I love this album!
Hard-hitting, fast, but with a strong sense of melody and dynamics. I love it! Did I say that already? I love it. Great job guys. I can't believe you hit it out of the park like this on your first real recording.
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MadScientist
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Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Aug 30 2011 11:21 AM
Brian wrote:
This continues to kick my ass over and over again. I
love this album!
Couldn't have said it better!! Just outstanding!
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Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2274
North Carolina
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Posted on Aug 30 2011 11:23 AM
Brian wrote:
This continues to kick my ass over and over again. I
love this album!
Hard-hitting, fast, but with a strong sense of melody
and dynamics. I love it! Did I say that already? I love
it. Great job guys. I can't believe you hit it out of
the park like this on your first real recording.
+1 !!!
And I know the 'beats raved about Ferenc's work, but it's worth repeating. This sounds huge with lots of definition on what could have easily been a wall of reverb mush. Really impressive. Great sounding album.
— Fady
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Abe
Joined: Mar 12, 2008
Posts: 1237
Bay Area
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Posted on Aug 30 2011 11:06 PM
Thanks fellas. Yes, a lot of credit goes to Ferenc. He did an excellent job with this release. It's basically his baby as well.
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wooza
Joined: Apr 24, 2006
Posts: 1618
Ithaca, NY
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Posted on Aug 30 2011 11:53 PM
Brian wrote:
Hard-hitting, fast, but with a strong sense of melody
and dynamics.
Blistering, maybe?
Thanks guys Really, I'm glad people are enjoying this silly little project so much. I just want people to hear it at all. Beyond that, my hope for this thing is that the average surf listener will give it a spin, look down into their pants, and say to themself: "where have my balls been this whole time?" Hopefully that's happened at least once.
Again, it can't be stressed enough how much Ferenc's help made this possible. We probably would never have recorded if he hadn't pushed us to do so, and we certainly wouldn't have done it well if he hadn't taken the lead on it. We owe you!
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DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 11077
Berkeley, CA
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Posted on Aug 31 2011 12:04 AM
wooza wrote:
Beyond that, my hope for this thing
is that the average surf listener will give it a spin,
look down into their pants, and say to themself: "where
have my balls been this whole time?"
Wait until your first winter in Ithaca, you'll be doing the same thing haha!
— Danny Snyder
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ElMonstroPorFavor
Joined: Sep 01, 2006
Posts: 2754
New Orleans, LA
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Posted on Sep 01 2011 08:03 AM
wooza wrote:
Brian wrote:
Hard-hitting, fast, but with a strong sense of
melody
and dynamics.
Blistering, maybe?
Thanks guys Really, I'm glad people are enjoying
this silly little project so much. I just want people
to hear it at all. Beyond that, my hope for this thing
is that the average surf listener will give it a spin,
look down into their pants, and say to themself: "where
have my balls been this whole time?" Hopefully that's
happened at least once.
hahaha well as a consumer of the ballsier surfs I'm not going to say I agree but I think it's a noble goal and this album's very capable of inspiring such thoughts. Great stuff
— Storm Surge of Reverb: Surf & Instro Radio
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IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
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Posted on Sep 01 2011 05:30 PM
wooza wrote:
Beyond that, my hope for this thing
is that the average surf listener will give it a spin,
look down into their pants, and say to themself: "where
have my balls been this whole time?"
LOL!! Funny guy! It is an astounding CD, and it indeed does make my balls feel bigger (a remarkable accomplishment given their already great... ahem...nevermind).
DannySnyder wrote:
Wait until your first winter in Ithaca, you'll be doing
the same thing haha!
HAHAHAHAHA!! OH, SNAP!!
This is truly an amazing accomplishment for a debut CD, guys. I congratulate you! I think you were blessed by a great deal of inspiration on this CD on top of your significant talents and playing abilities. The one thing that I think demonstrates that beyond a shadow of a doubt is the breakdown in Karabasan, where you pause only to have the lead guitar play one of the coolest ascending lines I've ever heard, leading the band right back into the song. That's not the sort of a thing you can ever learn to write. That's just pure inspiration and pure creativity. It gives me the shivers every time. That songs is just pure adrenaline, anyway, one of the most energetic surf songs ever! Love it sooo much!
Love all the other ones, too (well, I'm not completely crazy about Dark March - who is that by, anyway?). Hagbelly reminds me of Satan's Pilgrims playing El Caliph by my own little band. It sounds like what that song would sound like played by a band that can actually groove. Love the ska-nkiness of Janky Jank (very Treblemakers-like!), and the 'chorus' part (the chromaticly descending line) is again just one of those purely inspirational things. Love the super-dark vibe as well as the drum solo in Obey, and especially how the song comes out of the drum solo with that marching snare beat - again, pure inspiration! And excellent control and understanding of dynamics. Oh yeah, and I love the short descending line out of The Saracen - thanks! I'm honored. Gooch in Space is a wonderful continuation of the Journey-To-The-Stars/Third-Star-To-The-Left type of space/surf song, and it works completely - a great album opener, too.
Honestly, I find myself frequently dissolving into giggles as I listen to this CD, due to just being amazed how good it is. And I mean everything about the CD: the production, the songwriting, the sounds, the musicianship. I don't know how you guys got so good so young - I wish I was! And Ferenc, THANK YOU for the significant role you had in making this CD happen! All surf music fans owe you a great debt of gratitude.
So, in conclusion, yes, it's a decent CD. I like it. I very much hope we'll be seeing much more from the Deadbeats in the future.
— Ivan
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Abe
Joined: Mar 12, 2008
Posts: 1237
Bay Area
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Posted on Sep 02 2011 12:59 AM
Thanks for the review Ivan. Im glad your enjoying this EP of ours. BTW, "Dark March" is by John Cacavas. Attached below is the only version available, never heard the original. Also, I think that we where really tight as a band because we would basically get together almost every Saturday afternoon and rehearse. This was over a span of 3 & 1/2 years, haha!
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Abe
Joined: Mar 12, 2008
Posts: 1237
Bay Area
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Posted on Sep 02 2011 12:59 AM
Opps! Here's the video.
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wooza
Joined: Apr 24, 2006
Posts: 1618
Ithaca, NY
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Posted on Sep 13 2011 07:47 AM
I'm bringing this back from the... ahem... dead.
Check it out... Five star review by Phil Dirt!
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Abe
Joined: Mar 12, 2008
Posts: 1237
Bay Area
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Posted on Sep 13 2011 08:23 AM
Nuh uh, we got 5 Red Bubbles.
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CaptainSpringfield
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 4387
Under the Sun
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Posted on Sep 13 2011 04:04 PM
Nice! Doesn't really give an indication of what it actually sounds like, but like that's a surprise.
— That was excessively violent and completely unnecessary. I loved it.
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25696
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Sep 13 2011 04:20 PM
Actually I think he did a fair description of what they sound like.
But what do I know.
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wooza
Joined: Apr 24, 2006
Posts: 1618
Ithaca, NY
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Posted on Sep 13 2011 07:29 PM
CaptainSpringfield wrote:
Nice! Doesn't really give an indication of what it
actually sounds like, but like that's a surprise. 
Agreed. But with words like stunning, power, dangerous, ferocious, monster, dark, ominous (and even fun) thrown around... I'll take it.
Warren I'm curious to hear what you thought of it. Let's break in that concept of an honest review that was coined months ago.
Also, I have to say thank you (!!!) to Ivan! Really, I'm SO glad you liked it this much. You were pretty astute in noticing many of the similarities between these songs and others. This whole disc is full of guess-which-song-they-ripped-off-for-that-part moments :lol:, with that Saracen lick in Obey being one of them. Oh and the drum roll opening to Karabasan: it's a pretty minor detail, but Desert Drums starts off the same. That was Jonathan's subtle nod to Dane!
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IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
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Posted on Sep 13 2011 07:49 PM
Ha! Missed that one, Ben, but now I totally hear it! Well, all I can say is that it's a true honor to be ripped off by y'all! I've done it plenty of times myself, so I guess the circle of life goes on...
Hey, hope you're diggin' grad school! Now go study!
— Ivan
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