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The Bear Jew

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About The Bear Jew

  • Birthday 12/18/1970

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    God Of Thunder
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    rock and/or roll
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    Philadelphia,PA,UNITED STATES
  1. So my band put out a live album. It's free on Bandcamp. You can pay for it if you want, but you can also just download it and pay nothing. Relevance here... Mr. Dave is kind of awesome at bass. Riff Occult: Live
  2. Sounds about right. Our reviews reflect a similar response. Decibel Magazine Heavy Planet Sludgelord Etc, etc. For people who like the sensation of the true, old-school Godzilla stomping a mud hole in the wack-ass, lame new-school Godzilla's ass (with a feeling), we're a pretty solid bet.
  3. Right on. If you listen while you work out, you are virtually guaranteed to be the most buff dude in the place, but you may get the munchies very shortly after listening, so... be advised.
  4. Hey Eddie, The improv is kind of minimal for us--we don't add verses or extend solos, but some of the stuff that happens in the solo sections is subject to immediate interpretation. We generally keep those bits in a similar vein from performance to performance, but we're loose enough to roll with it. If you like what you saw the the video clip, you can get a whole album here: Orbital Rites. It's a free download. We've got some new stuff recorded for an upcoming EP we're doing with a small label in our area, but that's not due out for a while.
  5. Thanks, guys--glad you dug it a bit. Eddie, those two songs are about 95% arranged, but we leave room for improv during the freakouts. And Jeremy, I guess the f-bombs are kind of subtle.
  6. It's interesting that you interpreted that list as things that might be offensive. I thought I was mentioning the highlights... And thanks for mentioning the white square on the ceiling. I hadn't paid any attention to it before, but now it's all I can see.
  7. About two weeks ago, a friend got this video from one of my band's local performances for another friend's birthday. This is a long clip, and it features some bass feedback, a theremin freakout, the "f" word, cowbell and both bass and guitar wah. [video:youtube]
  8. Taint Punch. You know that's the best name, and you're a total fool if you don't use it.
  9. Yes, Angelina has one of those, as does Steve-O (of Jackass fame. Very interesting stuff. I don't think I want one of those. Seriously, it's not THAT painful, but trust me when I say that it's best to be totally sober, well-fed and rested before you get inked. The reason is simple--you will bleed a good deal, and your body doesn't like that too much. It's like willfully scraping off a whole bunch of skin... sort of like the results of falling off of a bicycle on concrete without the suprise of the falling part... and the bruising from hitting the ground. But the results are the same--a big-ass wound. When your body experiences a major upset like that, it tends to want to shut down to deal with it, so the first thing it does is make you conk out. If you're well-fed and sugared-up, you're much less likely to pass out. But if you've been drinking (or haven't eaten), your system is weakened, and you're extra susceptible to fainting. Years ago, I took a buddy of mine to get his first ink--a lion of Judah on his arm--and he was nervous, so he had a few drinks beforehand. And he didn't eat. Now, this dude was about 6'6" tall, and a power forward for Temple University's basketball team. Needless to say, the guy was built like a brick wall. He sat down to get inked and got about 1/4 of the way into this smallish tattoo, and he started sweating like mad and getting light-headed. The artist stopped, and I was standing next to this giant dude, holding him up and asking what he had done before the session to put him in such a condition... he said, "I have no idea--I only had two beers." The artist had me go next door to the mini-mart to get him a bottle of Coke and some tasty cakes. I brought them back, he ate and drank and, after a break, things continued without event. And that was a smallish tatt--all told it was maybe 45 minutes of work. On the flip side, when I took my my ex to get a portrait tattoo done on her upper arm (her WHOLE upper arm!), we had a big breakfast and brought snacks to the shop for the session. She sat for three hours and had breaks from time to time and never got light-headed once.
  10. Yikes. thts to fnny. I thnk itl be fn to strt skpng ltrs in my wrds frm nw on. Kidding. Tattoos are ok. They're not a huge deal to most folks anymore. I have a few. It used to matter more to me--getting more, who had what, etc. These days, I'm just not really impressed with them one way or another. One of my exes had a lot of ink--her whole chest was a Japanese scene with Koi and water and she had ink on her arms and legs. It was... nothing big to me. It didn't make her any less or more sexy or appealing to me. I didn't really notice the tattoos when I met her, believe it or not. Of course, all of her friends were covered with tatts. I ran with that whole scene for a while. People are people... they can look different, but people are people. Ink is a life commitment, that's for sure. Some of her friends had what we called "career-ender" tatts--on their hands, face or neck. Anyone who had that kind of ink was most likely self-employed (tattoo industry, fashion industry, store owners, or music industry, go-go dancers, etc,) and wasn't particularly interested in getting a job outside of those worlds. As for the actual tattoo process... yeah, it hurts. That color doesn't get under your skin by kittens licking you after eating multi-flavored popsicles, ya know? But it's not unbearable. Feels like someone giving you a bad sunburn in an isolated area... if that makes sense. If you ever consider getting a tatt, remember: 1. Don't show up drunk or even slightly lit. You'll move around too much and bleed like crazy. 2. Have something to eat beforehand. You need to have your blood sugar raised a little bit and have plenty of nourishment because the tattooing process causes trauma to your body, and if you don't eat, you are very likely to pass out in a cold sweat. I've seen BIG dudes drop like a load of concrete because they didn't have the foresight to drink a bottle of orange juice and eat a Hershey bar before they sat down to get inked. 3. Don't get something stupid tattooed on you--someone's name (unless it's a blood family member like your mom, dad or kid, etc), a band logo or some dumb-ass tribal mess. 4. If you're a woman, please don't get the damn tramp stamp--that tattoo at the base of your spine/top of the butt crack every stripper gets. It's so played out. 5. Think about what you want to get put on your body for the rest of your life. Please don't get Animal from The Muppet Show, the Tazmanian Devil, Yosimite Sam or Tweety Bird. You'll really regret those. Seriously. 6. A cheap tattoo isn't good, and a good tattoo isn't cheap. Remember that. On a related note, I have noticed that many "White Pride" skinheads have swastickas and burning crosses tattooed on visible parts of their bodies... I think this is a GREAT idea because I always know that they're idiots before I even have to deal with them.
  11. Tried it last night... it sounded like crap. We decided to double-track with different mics instead.
  12. Cool. Thanks, Miles... One other question: I'm thinking of taking this output direct to the board and miking the cabinet as well. Will I run into phasing issues if I mix these two signals? I guessing that since the recording output isn't very dynamic, it might be neat to see what happens if I get both of these things happening at once.
  13. OK... Here's a question: I have a Marshall JCM 900 100-watt head, and I'm going to a session tonight. I was checking out the back panel of the head last night, and I noticed that it has an output marked "Recording Compensated Out." Never used it before, but I've been thinking of giving it a shot. I'm guessing that I could probably take a signal directly from this output into the board... and mix it with the sound of my miked cabinet, right? Or would I need a DI for this? Any thoughts/suggestions?
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