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And now for something completely different. These reactors are fun, clever-Brit style. They don’t interrupt the song (Disciple), so you can skip forward as much as you like, although they do smile or chuckle at the same places I would.

8-1/2 minutes.

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Solamente 2-1/2 minutos, y’all!

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Unseen wrote:

Speaking of Vivek Ramaswamy, his campaign died in one interview by Mehdi Hasan.

Do you believe that enough people trying to listen to that mess of overlapping dialog could actually understand most of the questions and answers? Vivek does that all the time, and I wonder if fast talking while looking more confident than a used car salesman might actually prove to be an effective campaign strategy.

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So I skimmed through that guy’s videos about his sculptures and other projects honoring TW or its individual players, and you’re right, “weird” is the word for him. I hope he doesn’t take his “love” for them any farther than inside his house. Something unusual’s in his head.

I don’t have fatherly thoughts for TW members, and I feel I can learn more from them more than I could ever teach them. I don’t even have an urge to sound wise for them, as they seem to have their shit together ten times more than I did at their age. I appreciate their positive attitudes off stage, and their aggressive but emotive attitude on stage. Me, looking up to their skill levels is a no brainer, and it’s their humble-at-street-level presence that strikes me as “preternatural”, compared to a lot of other celebs. I don’t even feel wise compared to my own daughters.

Celebrity status can do strange things to some people, and that’s probably what I worry about most when I see rising stars. I’m not worried this way about TW, as they seem so well grounded and have so much close support. But there’s another rising star, Ellen with the EllenPlaysBass channel, seems to have the same potential as TW, even at only 11yo. Thanks to her father, a professional guitarist who’s taken her love for the bass and tutored her to a level high enough to get attention, tips, and play-along gigs with Victor Wooten, Steve Vai, and others.

Her family’s Armenian, and she’s fully fluent in that language. I love when they leave Armenian dialogs in during their recorded training sessions.

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This should become an interesting states’ rights vs their political parties’ issue. I haven’t researched the possibilities yet, but I wonder if the only meaningful judgement in constitutionality might come from SCOTUS. While Trump hasn’t been convicted, what powers DO a state’s executive branch have over political party behaviors?

Isn’t such power only in the hands of each state’s legislature? And if/when other states take up the same issue, might SCOTUS want to jump in ASAP? This should exacerbate each state’s internal political party standoffs.

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Unseen wrote:

BTW, who IS this guy? He’s more obsessed with The Warning than PopeBeanie and me. He does reactions, portraits, and with his own little trio he does covers of their songs. Gee…I thought I was weird.

LOL thanks for watching him, so I don’t have to! There are a lot of other strange youtube presenters. I think some of them are just finding themselves, even when they’re oldsters. Did you notice if TW’s his only obsession?

The popness of MTV and especially their showing off their self-selected mass audience for audio-visual effect makes me cringe. So many lemmings out there. I really hope Lava Records or the publisher didn’t push them into that show, just to burn brighter.

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I’m not a big fan of Dany’s half blonde/half red hair or their sexed up outfits, but I guess that’s how you present yourself at an awards show. I hope they go back to wearing street clothes in their live shows. It’s been one of the refreshing things about them.

I kinda agree with you on some of that, but since I sometimes mocked the way some celebs doll themselves up when my daughters were young, I made it a point to my older daughter who’s a performer that there’s nothing wrong at all with dolling up that for a performance, and it can be fun. What’s most important is that she’s still herself even when playing a part or a role, and can comfortably come back to earth, or “street” like you say.

In fact, my first thought about Pau’s outfit in the interview was “Hey, OK, it’s a W!”.

I only mock people now when they’re obviously pushing their act/performance/appearance at the expense of others, e.g. Trump, et al, even at the inevitable expense of the lemmings that look up to those self-serving dicks.

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Unseen wrote:

[Beato] has a bazillion followers. For him to devote a segment to them would greatly boost their careers.

Beato and TW have “met”, at least once online, and I’ll bet they’re not ignoring each other. IMO, it would work just as well for both of them if (say) they had a two or three hour interview some day after TW’s skyrocket slows down a little, when a Beato Bump could add its boost. Maybe even include his kids on this kind of musical relationship. In any case, he must realize how historic this rise is, right?

And if, like you say, they’re already planning for and maybe even working on their next album…

Hands up, everybody… this one’s only a minute long. It’s a stage-eye view, and you should check out the size of the crowd. From one UK venue on their first ever European tour, near-end of June (I think). Maybe those cameras front of stage are recording a pro version of the concerts there.

 

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Here is an pro musician analyzing the girls doing Evolve in their opening for The Foo Fighters. He’s hearing them for the first time.

I saw that one and appreciated it some weeks ago, before I started tagging the reviews I like best. Now, for every new reviewer I find, and they’re still growing quickly in number, I search for their first TW review, and decide from that if I want to watch their next review, then the next one. Only about a third of them make it to the third review that I feel might be worth watching. I plan to start a youtube channel on other topics, and if it’s not too much work for me, I’m wondering if me, reviewing the reviewers, might be interesting to anyone who just wants short overviews of how the “most informed” (IMO) reviewers can constructively analyze great music.

The easiest way to summarize what a channel has on a specific topic is to 1) click on the channel’s name that’s below a video’s title; 2) on the row near the top where it says HOME, VIDEO, and so on, click on the right-most button (a greater than symbol) until you can click on the magnifying glass. Put a word or term in there like “ale sings” or whatever, without the quotes, and hit Enter.

That youtube search can still suck, like when it doesn’t have any more matches it will just keep giving you irrelevant links. It also seems imperfect at times in other ways. Like Google search when it’s sloppy, just to make people click more links.

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Seems like a two-guy blog here but it feels like documenting significant rock history. Amongst perhaps a hundred TW reviewers I found another producer/multi-instrument musician to learn from. Here he touches on TW’s Enter Sandman cover from their teen-hood to the pro video to Teatro in just under 14 minutes.

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Unseen wrote:

I’m pretty sure that’s fairly difficult to master.

It is like she has two brains, and she’s been pulling it off for years. It amazes other drummers. She’s also responsible for running software on a laptop (near to her but is often not easy to see) that triggers the click track that other players hear, some backing tracks, and that she’s even programmed to change Dany’s pedal in case Dany has difficulty normally stomping on her guitar pedal(s) with her foot. Pau also starts the videos in the background. She says it took her a year to make it all work the way she wanted.

You linked to the Teatro live Revenant video months ago, but I’m only recently listening to it, many times. It’s my favorite of Pau’s singing, now, as I’m hearing incredibly beautiful harmonies that are not that easy to hear on a casual listen. TW’s mixes consistently underplay some of their most awesome skills, which for me, gives those songs extra life when I re-listen. It took two or three competent reviewers to school me on how great Revenant live is. I still can’t place who sings which part in some of the harmonies, but it’s really nice to recognize when Ale sings.

The extra guitarist sitting in on that piece is playing a Mexican Bajo Quinto, which gives the melodies special character. It’s a ten string guitar, strung as five pairs, kind of like a standard twelve string guitar, which adds a kind of shimmer and resonance.  The lowest note pair on the Quinto (meaning “five” in Spanish) are an octave apart, like playing two keys, twelve keys apart. Ditto for the next two higher-note pairs of strings, while the highest-note pairs of string are exact duplicates, like high-note stings on a mandolin.

Those subtle differences that an audience might not even hear add a ton of great tone in the perfect recording, even with some audience audible in the background. (Although the wolf whistle from one fan irritates the hell out of me every time. I notice that it makes only the lamest reviewers smile, and I’ve watched maybe eight or ten reviews of Revenant now.) Some reviewers tear up on this song, even men.

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Unseen wrote:

Not all reactions to The Warning are abject genuflections. Not that he pans The Warning, but he doesn’t feel they are quite as important as the members of The Warning Army think they are.

This was his first review, where he seemed to me to be way overgeneralizing based only on one performance. He could have humbly cut his explanations and serious hand-on-chin pontifications in half, deferring strong judgements until at least one more review. I didn’t read previous comments he cited that led him to do this review, but he seemed anxious up front to downplay commenter’s hype, which I might have downplayed myself because I’m definitely suspicious of hype before I can judge for myself.

Regard another criticism he has about TW fan comments to him, I wouldn’t consider fans mentioning “classical training during childhood” as a kind of hype. To me, it’s historical background which helps explain how the band was able to progress. (My older daughter was classically trained, and has played in and managed a money earning band in L.A. for years. She wouldn’t have hit that level without early, dedicated training.) I’m just saying, that’s not hype, it’s history.

I had already seen a different review from this guy, who felt obligated to review a second song after reading disappointed commenters to his review of Animosity. He seemed surprised that people considered his review as disparaging. Even though he seemed disparaging to me, which I’ve only very rarely seen from other first time reviewers, my habit now is to give such reviewers a second chance! I’ve seen no musically experienced, and knowledgeable reviewers so far that aren’t very impressed by at least their second review. I also love reviewers’ face changes (like wide eyes and jaw drops) during the same moments as other reviewers, and the same moments that I personally experience.

IMO, his second review shows progress in understanding the band’s strengths. While one of his last comments (paraphrased) “I just wish the band’s fans would quit overselling them” is telling. I think he over-emphasizes his personal taste in musical styles while considering less other people’s tastes. I.e. I like technical and intellectual criticisms, but not when pushed to an extent that’s intentionally naïve about other opinions and experience. I might watch his third review whenever it happens, but not if it looks as long in minutes as his first two, because of how he spent so much time emphasizing his personal tastes. (I don’t remember some things he just got wrong in his analyses, but he lost a few points points with me on them.)

Did this guy even smile at all in his first review? At least he smiled a lot more in his second review. 🙂 One of The Warning’s selling points, IMO, is how much fun they have performing. Of course, several other reviews have pointing this out, too.

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Another late night. But I learned more technically and musically from this guy (see below), again. I noticed months ago and really appreciated subtle “bends” in Dany’s guitar riff in Narcisista, which was also consistent in each performance. Out of several reactors I’ve watched, the reactor below is the first one who’s pointed out that subtle bend. Observations of subtle stuff like this tell me he knows what he’s talking about, and I can keep learning from him.

Unseen wrote:

Big news for The Warning: They will be featured during this year’s MTV Awards!

Nice.

I don’t understand yet why Rick Beato’s not made a video on TW, yet. But he played judge on someone else’s show that featured a fan remix contest on one of The Warning’s songs, plus the band hung around for part of the show to listen in, so I know he’s familiar with them. That’s when I learned how important record producer David Bendeth has been to them. David said that he likes to strictly control the production, but in the case of TW he had to listen to everything they insisted on. (Beato has interviewed David Bendeth. While at the same time, he pushed them to accomplish things they didn’t at first believe they could.

Reaction Video, to Pau, lead singing up front on Narcisista

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Unseen wrote:

That’s all the humor I need.

No Mr. Bean? How about Peter Sellers as a detective?

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Thanks, that’s the most I’ve learned about them in an hour piece.

I struggle to hear more from Ale, and this confirms how she’s adjusted so well to her older sisters talking over her so much! I’ve been there myself, often just giving up, but I never see Ale giving up. She keeps looking up to her older sisters, while deferring to them. I’m speculating now that she also intentionally defers most of the lead singing to them, too.

I personally appreciate much more when other musicians/performers are asking the questions and can interact more at each other’s level.

 

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A lot of people feel different things during a reaction, so I’ve picked one that I’m guessing most people can appreciate.

Side-note, very few reviewers point out that the intro to this song, also replayed a few times in the song, is in 7/8 time, which is unusual. If you want to learn to follow it, count the beats one through seven, four times. Other songs in 7/8 Led Zeppelin’s The Ocean, Foo Fighter’s Times Like These, Pink Floyd’s Money, and others.

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