Anyone who has seen
\nThis Is Spinal Tap<\/i> at least once will undoubtedly remember
\nthe live performance of “Big Bottom”. What made this song unique
\nwasn’t the use of guitars – especially since none were used.
\nInstead, the song featured three bass guitars along with keyboards
\nand drummer-of-the-moment, an effect which had surprisingly amazing
\nresults musically.<\/p>\n
With that concept in mind, enter New York-based Burn Guitars and
\ntheir self-titled four-song demo. Does the effect of three bass
\nplayers and a drummer have the same effect? Sadly, the answer is
\nno… but it’s not from the band’s lack of trying.<\/p>\n
Bassist\/vocalist Papabois, bassist Dr. Bitz, bassist Scott
\nRedeeming and drummer G-spot make up this experimental group, who
\nfreely admit they’re pushing sonic limits while having some fun
\nmusically. And you can hear in these songs that there is a spirit
\nof irreverence that permeates this project, not unlike the work of
\nPrimus, 24-7 Spyz or Limbomaniacs. Tracks like “Old Ways New” and
\n“Sleeve” show that there is merit to the three-bass attack, and
\nthat if anyone is going to succeed with this format, it’s going to
\nbe Burn Guitars.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, their gimmick also shows its limitations –
\nnamely, the failure to develop a solid melody, especially on
\n“Shoat”. At times, it almost sounds like all three bassists are
\nplaying the same line – and while it does make the notes ring out,
\nit also stifles the tune. I’d have preferred to hear each bass
\ntrying something different with the melody to develop the songs –
\nhey, a
\nfictional<\/i> band was able to do that.<\/p>\n
Does this mean that Burn Guitars failed in their project?
\nAbsolutely not – but first attempts in any experiment rarely yield
\nthe optimal result.
\nBurn Guitars<\/i> shows that there’s merit in continuing the
\nexperiments… but until then, back to the lab, Dr.
\nFrankenstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6543],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-36981","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-burn-guitars","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36981"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36981"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}