Why was I not informed about this band?
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This band is great. This kind of stuff gets me really excited. These are the days that I wait for where a band falls into my lap that is just fucking incredible. And I can only say, why now? Because this should have been a no brainer. I should have found this in my sleep long ago. Zach Hill is the goddamn drummer, it makes no sense that this would fly under my radar...until now. Now I am going to devour as much as I can of Hella. I burned a copy of Hold Your Horse Is to annoy the hell out of my girlfriend in the car. She cannot stand this type of noise, so her discomfort will be giving me a deviant sort of glee, which is going to be just great. I wanted to find a decent enough song to post with this drawing I had made, and I think this fits nicely. I was literally floored in disbelief when I unsuspectingly started up this album last night. Do you hear that drumming? That is some drumming right there. Busy does not adequately describe it.
And what about that name, for something so aurally brillant, a misnomer? Deen Freelon tries to make sense of it in Stylus Magazine, paraphrased:
If you're reading this sentence, congratulations on not judging this band by its, ah, unorthodox name. Common knowledge as it is that around 99.44% of all band names suck outright; this Sacramento duo's moniker is particularly egregious due to its 'fraternal' associations. Never having heard the word 'hella' before I started college, I quickly associated it with the Greek-housed jackasses who obnoxiously appropriated it with 'extremely' or 'absolutely.' Add that to the spot-on South Park episode where Cartman abuses the term ad nauseam and you've got a piece of linguistic offal I'd never want to associate with anything remotely interesting. But the band's boneheaded name belies the spastic insanity contained within, ensuring Hella will never have to share a bill with similarily named boneheads like Endo, Dope, or Orgy.
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Comments (9)
Busy drumming in the best of ways, for sure. Drummers too often are nall but forgotten. Judging from this song, Hella is great. A band I was definitely explore. And if this pisses off anybody, it's got to be their problem. Thanks for the info-packed post, only I have a question: The write up says, "duo"...who plays what? Zach Hill on drums, but who's the other? Who's on guitar? Yeah, this is the kind of music that got me in a band in the first place!
And which picture is yours?
Great post. Thanks,MSS.
this band is a banner band for math rock! wiki tells me Spencer Seim is the guitarist. they started as a duo, now they have a 3 more members. but the song i posted is from that first duo period of the band. i hope this doesn't piss anyone off, all in good fun right?! definitely inspiring music, this type of sound must be such hard work to get it all nailed down, not to mention crazy inherit talent. none of which i have or have the patience for, i am not afraid to say!
the lower drawing is the original, and the top drawing is after some photoshopping
thanks for reading klyde
Yeah, that's some crazy editing! I think your first piece of art is nice and I can definitely appreciate it (having done a million of my own)--but then a guy adds a little photoshop this and then some photoshop that, and it's a whole new experience! Two (or more) pieces out of one! That top picture is really cool. Don't you hate the way, with colored pencils, you get all the tiny lines? I've played with cross-hatching (et al), but nothing satisfies me. Really I like working with oil sticks (cray pas?) and your old fashioned crayons. (As if you even asked, ha.) Couple years back I did a show where, being frustrated with much of what I'd been doing 2-dimensionally, I scanned anything that would fit (and some that didn't quite) onto my laptop and started fiddling via photoshop. Great fun, and I received pretty good reviews. Good music and good art--can't go wrong in my book.
And thanks for the info.
Yeah, this is the shit right here. Haven't heard these guys, but this is the kind of stuff I'm always on the lookout for. I hear Don Caballeron, Turing Machine, and Hosemobile all wrapped up into this thing. Thanks for this--I will definitely be on the lookout for this one!
Turing machine and hosemobile?, are these hints and suggestions, cause I am all about more stuff that sounds like this! thanks groon
I know I've posted about both of those before. Hold on:
The Hosemobile: http://mog.com/Groon/blog/74856 (The artist lounge for these guys is just under "Hosemobile" and is empty, so I'm not sure where this post landed.
Turing Machine: I think you actually listened to and commented on these guys before in a postI made about driving music at http://mog.com/Groon/blog/169050. But check 'em out again!
They are both solid and awesome.
apparantly that mixwit thing ain't working now. At least not on my pc. So I'll do a repost of some turing machine when I get a chance in the next couple of days. Trust me, you'll dig.
oh duh, yea, i did like that song, just one of those bands i never got much further into checking out, shame on me, i'll give it a solid now and get back to you on my thoughts, cheers chuck!
We withhold stuff from you all the time, sorry you found out about this one mwuahahha!
HEY! My boyfriend does that to me, too, although with another type of music I cannot stand. Sadists, the lot of you (although I do it to him, too....it's fun, I have to admit).
That's one HELLA of a drumming, my friend ;) And brilliant artwork.