Steve is an idol of mine and I actually got to meet him - I listened to him a lot because he's all over the bass when he plays.". 1990s Vox 4x10 cab Thanks! There was one problem: hed never played bass. During the recording sessions for All Hope Is Gone, Paul had called Shawn to say he was too sick to come to the studio. There's a heavy difference in style between the two basses, that's for sure. Or any money to buy one. A Les Paul is easier to play than a Strat because a Les Paul has a far lower string tension compared to a Strat with the same gauge strings. The Gibson Les Paul Goldtop was on the cover of his album "Blue Guitar Hero". Did McCartney use flatwound strings on his Hofner bass from the very begnning or did use round wound on it at some point? I've tried that set but I couldn't hang with the .038 low E. Too loose. She has also written for the likes of Classic Rock, Prog, Rock Sound and Visit London amongst others, and was a regular presenter on the Metal Hammer Podcast. Why hide them, anyway? While it might seem unusual that I like Mountain and Deep Purple, considering the music Im known for playing, Captain is into the really obscure progressive rock stuff and has that in his playing. But it was seeing a nascent Slayer touring the merciless Hell Awaits that made the biggest impact on the young Paul Gray. According to his own words, these strings were used on his Les Paul during the recording of Wheels of Fire (1968). I have to find my place in Slipknot and stay away from just following the guitars, so I play along with what the drums are doing. The only way I can sum up Paul Gray is love. . He had a difficult and itinerant childhood, and his father died by suicide. Marc Bolan wouldve loved that! Paul is survived by his wife Brenna and their daughter October, who was born three months after his death. With Slipknot, my bass playing is a little more laid back and subdued, like I get spots where I get to do some stuff I guess, but it's hard to kind of like We have three drummers, there's a lot of low end, you know what I mean? Did I ever really think a friend was going to die? I always watch other bass players no matter what kind of band they're in, how long they've been playing for or if they're any good, because you can always learn something from someone else to add to your technique and make you play better. http://www.bassstringsonline.com/Hofner-Beatle-Bass-Strings_c_101.html, First New Bass Day in decades for me: Yamaha BB350F, Fun with a Squier Bass VI and a AB165 1968 Bassman setup -. Matrix VB800 Except for now I can afford drinks I can buy a few people drinks instead of having to bum money every day!, Corey vividly remembers getting the news of Pauls death. At one point, Paul drifted back to LA, but was persuaded back by Anders and Shawn. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). Ross Robinson, producer of the first two records, told NME: As a musician, he brought absolute integrity. I named all of them after the Captain, and I think maybe there will be a Captain Sensible pack at some point for the H9. Oh, and he didnt have a bass, either. Despite his use of D'Aquisto strings in the 1960's and 1970's, Paul has always preferred the D'Addario lighting (EJ16 phosphor bronze) on his acoustic guitars. But his music lives on, much like the band he was fundamental in creating. The bass fills he did, I really had to fucking rewind tapes and play them over and over to get it.". Aqua Marine. The 1980s were yet another decade that brought massive changes in music. Eleanor was promoted to the role of Editor at Metal Hammer magazine after over seven years with the company, having previously served as Deputy Editor and Features Editor. For me, it was an extremely emotional experience., When Paul was interviewed during the Vol. I was going to donate my Epi Viola, but after putting LaBella flats on it, I liked it too much. Though omitted from later reissues, the ninth track from the Slipknot debut still towers among their darkest moments: lyrically, thanks to a title inherited from a fictional story about a girl who had been kidnapped and buried alive, and sonically, with Paul dialling in a woolly bass tone containing virtually no treble frequencies. I still do the same shit, man. It was the first time the whole band had been in my house together and it was a very surreal moment There was this wall of anguish and silence just sitting on top of us and it was fucking gnarly., The band knew their friend had been suffering. How did the Australian singer die? Feb 21, 2015. Feb 11, 2014 #3. Seven years ago today, extreme metal music lost one of its most radiant beacons - Paul Gray of Slipknot. We spend a lot of time thinking about Paul, Shawn told us in 2018. Back in the late 1960s the bass player in my band (who was left-handed) purchased a Hofner. We got onstage and shocked the hell out of everybody. JavaScript is disabled. I went into the local music store and heard some guys talking about needing a bass player for their band, they did covers of Slayer and Metallica songs, So, not knowing anybody and wanting to meet people, I told them I could play bass even though I had never played one in my life. Yaamaha even produced a replica of Pauls guitar , the FJ681 "Paul Simon . It's been 10 years since we lost Slipknot bassist Paul Gray. It suits the Damned material better and cleans up nicer with the volume knob than a straight SG Standard, for some reason. On Slipknots off-time, Paul and Joey would hunker down to write in Pauls basement. Shawn speculated this had a detrimental effect on his mental wellbeing. Those Rickenbackers actually had built-in string mutes, as did Paul's later Fender Jazz. A fan of British blues-rock players like the Groundhogs Tony McPhee and Frees Paul Kossoff, and of Summer of Love psych-rock and the pomp of 60s orchestral pop music, the Captain has never relied merely on power chords and beeralthough those have often been a part of his recipe. Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by ; Before I Forget . Weve a few of these units and they all seem to have an unfortunate tendencyonce or twice a tour, perhapsto freeze mid-song. The two I mainly use are very different. Which isnt the end of the world, of course, but there seems to be no fix, according to chatter on gear forums anyway. Added by Bastien. Ampeg was also really great to me and I can't say anything bad about them. Aim for clarity and precision on the riffs. Slipknot is more dangerous now than ever and I have the fuel known as Paul Dedrick Gray in my blood, he said, even more fired up than usual. We made the tour and we were able to get out there, but by the end of it, he was so sad, there was a lot of fighting going on, remembered Shawn. If theyll go for that, then theres not much thats off limits Damned-wise apart from opera, that is. Im not a control freak and I want them to express themselves, and I wouldnt work with them if they werent great musiciansthats my criteria. The quiet lay heavy in the air, and seemed to stretch for miles. Proprietor Fifth Avenue Fret Shop. The studio has an excellent Fender Stratocaster that Captain used on at least three songs, for arpeggio things or anything that we needed a clearer sound on beyond the overdriven Gibson sound hes known for. Apart from a regular open-G blues tuning [Editors note: Check out Silly Kids Games on The Black Album for an example. Gibson SG 60s Tribute models with EverTune bridges How would you describe your playing style? I never took lessons or anything, I was always self-taught, listening to albums and just trying to figure stuff off of that.. The Ibanez PGB1 electric bass guitar is the choice of Slipknot's Paul Gray. What gear are you using live?Sensible: We have built up a collection of Marshall EL84 20/20 20-watt stereo power amps, which might even have warmed up Mrs. Thatchers cold heart if someone had thought of it! He played bass and guitar left-handed, and there was something about his muting, a weird sort of backwards quality. Everything he did, he did for everyone around him. It's definitely a different thing compared to if I was playing in a punk band with only one guitar player and I could fucking, y'know, noodle around and do lots of stuff. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), 2004), in a heartfelt tribute to his old bandmate, The inside story of Vol. And seeing as Eventide HQ was just across the Hudson, Tony V. invited Tony Agnello to the studio, where, despite working against the clock, everything stopped while we played around with some guitar effects or talent boosters according to Pinch. Joey also recalls laying down the drums for All Hope Is Gones Gehenna, while Paul wrote instinctively. Luckily it all seems to work most of the time anyway. You have to use D'Addario short scale bass strings, 080 for the 5th and 0.100 for the 6th It's not easy to do this because you have to have a bridge that you can hook the bass string to as they are a lot larger than a guitar string. After the third or fourth show I met somebody from Warwick and they sent me out a Corvette or some model and it was awesome. I was used to hearing the guitar in each song and the bass is there and you can hear it filling out the song, but I really had to listen to his parts. I use .009-.048 now and I was using .010-.052 before. 1974 Rickenbacker 4001, Amps The lead guitar breaks on Evil Spirits sound very in-the-moment, but also precisely mapped.Sensible: They are pretty much first takes. thats corey's stone sour. Together with Joey, and guitarists/previous collaborators Donnie Steele and Josh Brainard, they founded a heavily percussive band that debuted as Meld in late 1995, before changing its name to Slipknot. Works 23; All; Songs written by Paul Gray [US1] Original songs. After the bassist's family attempted to stage another intervention over his drug use, Gray left home on May 22, 2010, and . Lots of discussion about this all over this board. A subscription makes a thoughtful gift for both family and friends. ], my chum [singer-songwriter] Martin Newell showed me a couple of his own tunings that, although a bit off the wall, have an infectious jangle thats particularly inspiring when it comes to 60s Beatles/Monkees kind of tunes. as for basses, I think Paul generally used flats on his Hofner and Rick, not sure about the Jazz bass he may have used later on (and no idea about the Fender 6 stringer that John and George sometimes used) tjmicsak Member Messages 5,690 Mar 24, 2010 #4 You can hear them on the older stuff. The first 5 strings often stayed the same string gauge throughout his career. The founding bassists untimely passing remains one of metals most heartbreaking tragedies, Slipknots loyal legions left no choice but to ponder the prodigious creations his mind would have gone on to conceive. Although fans knew Paul as part of the nine, he had a low public profile, rarely speaking to the media. We chart much-missed bassist Paul Gray's 10 greatest tracks for the Knot, The only way I can sum up Paul Gray is love, said Corey Taylor in a tearful emergency conference held the day after his bandmate has passed. And how about you, personally? Did he have any interesting methods for capturing the powerful guitar sound on Evil Spirits? Heavy gauge picks. . MusicRadar is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. So I begged my mum for a guitar, and she finally got me one. 19 years ago Wow, I'm getting old! Bunch of new American psychos just dropped. Paul, who cofounded Slipknot in 1995 with drummer Joey Jordison and percussionist Shawn Crahan, was found dead at age 38 in an Urbandale, Iowa hotel room in May 2010. I go to the same fucking bar and hang out with the same fucking people, so I really havent changed that much. As a standing tribute to the late Paul Gray, TG presents this never-before published interview with the Slipknot bassist. So I was like, I've moved to Iowa, I don't know anybody, so maybe I should jump in and say I play bass and try to meet some people? Originally posted by volumefiend. Prior to joining Metal Hammer, El spent three years as Production Editor at Kerrang! It's worked for me So far anyway! Did you ever take lessons in bass guitar? Cliff Burton was awesome and since we were doing Metallica covers, I really had to sit down and learn Cliff's parts because he was all over the place. In the early days the Beatles would steal piano strings to put on the bass. Although Slipknot's Paul Gray was known to many simply as . 1977 Rickenbacker 4001 Lurking in the back of the studio was this really, really old Ampeg, which the guy said was handwired. I was cutting myself with a razor, bleeding all over the place. It was hard to comprehend. Let your thoughts out and dont let anyone stop you from what you feel and what you think! So now Ive got his blood boiling in my veins. Paul had previously dabbled in a band in Minneapolis called F.O.R., toured with Kyuss offshoot Unida, recorded with rockers Reggie And The Full Effect, and was poised to go out with metal super- group Hail!. Although not as light as some other guys on this . They gave me a full deal and they treated me really good, which was great because we had no money at that time and I couldn't afford anything. But in the beginning, after we got our record deal, I went to Warwick actually. Theres a massive range of guitar ideas in the Damneds discography, from straight-ahead punk stuff to psych-rock. Given an exclusive listen to the second full-length in the months ahead of release, Kerrang! Their string of hits included Stimulation and I Could Make You Love Me. Captains songs are Gods gift because theyre so melodic. Punk rock has morphed, been bastardized, revitalized, and analyzed infinitely since becoming a defined movement in the late 70s. HiddenCharms said: I don't know if this is true, but I remember reading that Duane Allman and Jimi Hendrix used Fender Rock'n'Roll Strings guaged 10-38. Captain is the primo guitarist in my book.We both share a love of pop songs. When we started the band I felt it, right when we started it, and it still feels the same. "I started with Ampeg but now I'm with Peavey. I loved guys like Jim Lea from Slade, who was doing more like lead bass and drove all those fantastic Slade songs. This prompted Jim to write the opening line of Til We Die: My friends are all hurting., There was a real fear that he wasnt doing well, said Shawn. I was just, I gotta get a real guitar and actually do it. Seeing them up there and the red lights and the smoke and it was all evil, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Warwick was an awesome company but they were a small company and it was more difficult to get stuff on the road if I needed it. What gear was important to making the new album? 3: (The Subliminal Verses) landed a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, It looked pretty violent. Captain Sensible: In the late 60s, this amazing bunch of blues guitarists appeared on the U.K. scene at the same time I started going to gigs: Paul Kossoff, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Mick Abrahams, Peter Green, Jimmy Page. 1996 Fender Custom Shop Bonnie Raitt Signature Stratocaster (Atomic Studios) 3: (The Subliminal Verses)), a beautifully unnerving departure for the band, setting quiet, sinister tension against wretched release. I figured that it couldn't be that different to playing guitar, but later on I found out it's a totally different thing. Eddie Van Halen. There was, however, a lot more to the man than extreme noise Paul cited names like Flea and Bootsy Collins alongside more audible influences such as Cliff Burton and Steve Harris, describing the latter as an idol for his ability to play all over the bass and leave no fret untouched. I think it was made in February, which was just a month or two after they stopped doing the toaster pickups. Paul Dedrick Gray Born April 8, 1972 Died May 24, 2010 Country United States IPI 00344172381 21 works Affiliation ASCAP Member of Slipknot Bass (1995-2010) Meta. They put together the spine-tingling Vermillion (for Vol. I went down and played with them. And what about tunings, do you experiment when you're writing? Technical Editor Bass Gear Magazine. As Slipknot put it in Skeptic, The world will never see another crazy motherfucker like you. This was thanks in no small part to his abilities. Doing that actually made me fall in love with bass guitar and thats why I became a bass player., Paul was my biggest influence when he came into the band, recalled Anders Colsefni, Vexxs drummer. They are EADGBD for songs in A and EADGAD for D. Paul, what basses did you use on Evil Spirits? That evening, the eight remaining members of the Knot, aided by early bandmember/stand-in bassist Donnie Steele, provided their own loud tribute. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). They also sound totally different. It makes pedals sound great, so my live setup, which was formerly my travel rig, but sounded so good it became the main one, is a Dunlop wah into the TC Nova System through a Marshall EL84 20/20 and a Marshall 4x12. I think it was made in February, which was just a month or two after they stopped doing the toaster pickups. Its complexity is countered by the open-string drone that dramatically brings everything to a close the guitar and bass amps ringing out together in a hellish orchestra of earth-shaking noise. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. I was writing lyrics when Paul and Joey played this to me, Corey told Kerrang! They were the first company to give me a deal and Warwick basses are great - I'll never talk crap about Warwick because they're amazing basses and an amazing company too and super great guys. It allows you to throw things into the set on the flyjust call out a key and hell have a go at it. Stretching-wise, I started off on guitar so my stretching is kinda good for playing and noodling, but on bass if you can actually stretch from the 1st fret to the 5th fret then you have got some freaking long fingers - I can barely do that! Bassist Paul, aka The Pig, aka #2, appeared in a black uniform, steadily headbanging and riffing while chaos erupted around him. I will miss him with every fibre of my heart, as will everybody at this table and everyone who knew him he was the best of us.. So all those prominent bass players really caught my ear and I thought it was so great, because it was such an important part of the song. It's weird but I love the bassline in Van Halen's 'Running With The Devil' in open fucking E. Now, I appreciate any player who can lay down a solid bass groove, like Cliff Williams from AC/DC. Heres how it works. Unsurprisingly, Evil Spirits sounds very much like a continuation of the sonic tack the group were on at that point in their career. Kill. Aug 24, 2009. Guitars Those killer riffs on Surfacing, which switch from propulsive to filthy, came from his death metal project, Body Pit. We recorded at Atomic Sound in Brooklyn, which is a beautiful studio with a lovely, big wooden live room. Captain, what was it like working with Visconti from a guitarists perspective? There had been a headline-generating arrest for drugs and drink-driving in 2003, sobriety, relapses and recent treatment for addiction. On July 10, at 2pm, thousands of Sonisphere-goers joined together in a two-minute silence for #2. To make it worth your while, you must consider how much sugar was added to their . Most of the patches we used for the H9 were custom made by myself. What gear was integral to creating the guitar tones on the album? He brought the knowledge and the enthusiasm, and he was the most social of all the people on the metal scene. Dunlop wah Permutations! I knew the guitar lines and could have jammed those, but the bass parts were totally different and I was like, Fuck! I had to go back and listen to them. Pauls final album, 2008s All Hope Is Gone, shot to No.1 in eight countries. With Slipknot, my bass playing is a little more laidback and subdued. We may earn a commission on any affiliated purchases. Who wants to go onstage with an unblemished guitar slung round their neck? There was nothing funny going on with the studio desk: everything was flat. However, it is generally believed that he typically uses roundwound strings on his bass, with a gauge somewhere in the range of 45-60. Freddie used .010, .011, and .012 on his top strings and light to medium strings on the bass (wound) strings. I thought it was the coolest thing ever., By the age of 16, Paul was living in an apartment with his friends Frank and Chris, jamming Danzig songs in the living room under the moniker Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. We have three drummers, theres a lot of low end, do you know what I mean? Basses "You know, the first one I bought was a Charvel, a weird reddish purple Charvel It was not that great a bass. While testifying in court against her late husband's physician, Brenna Gray revealed that Paul actually suffered a relapse around 2008 and later spent the last weeks of his life fighting a losing battle against his demons. The 15-minute epic that closes the Knots second album showcased a very different side to Pauls playing, more '90s rock than extreme metal in feel sharing similarities with the kind of lines heard in bands like Tool and Pearl Jam. Gray has been in and out of the bandmostly outsince 1984.Photo by Tony Woolliscroft. Added by Bastien. Not being able to predict what kind of music wed deliver mustve pissed off the record labels, because things never lasted long before us being shown the door. On Octobers behalf, the Gray family sued pain relief specialist Dr. Daniel Baldi and his former employers, alleging Paul hadnt been properly monitored during his drug addiction treatment. He will never be forgotten. So I went over and said, 'Dude, I play bass' even though I didn't have a bass guitar and never picked one up. Gray: I used the 1980 Ric that I used on TheBlack Album, but the one that ended up on most of the tracks was my very early '74. Although the Captain was stationed on bass for the Damneds first few recordings, he emerged on the groups third album, 1979s Machine Gun Etiquette, as a dexterous and melodic guitarist with a knack for penning killer hooks that draw on a surprisingly vast range of influences. and four years as Production Editor and Deputy Editor at Bizarre. I loved anything with a galloping bass line that challenged the listener beyond widdly guitar stuff or a bloke shrieking his head off. For a taste of Th Nine at their absolute world-commanding heaviest, the opening 25 seconds of People = Shit will be hard to beat. He never returned home. As far as opening gambits go, the first musical track on Slipknots debut is as good as it gets. It was as simple as that. The Des Moines scene was thriving, as Americas corn belt misfits ploughed their frustrations into thrash, death metal and rock at clubs like the Runway. Bath As a comparison, I recenly picked up a Johnson Viola bass to donate to my daughter's school auction. A true athlete when it comes to traversing the fretboard of a Rickenbacker bass, Grays lead bass style and the way his playing seamlessly weaves with the Captains is a massive part of Evil Spirits musical bedrock. "It's a little bit of both, like on songs like 'Wait And Bleed' I'll use my fingers But then there's songs like 'Sulfur' or 'People = Shit' that have grind parts where you need the attack of a pick. He turned up to rehearsal with a right-handed bass borrowed from his brothers friend, Frankensteind into a left-handed one, and played the regular guitar parts on it. He wrote the kind of music with Joey that made me want to put my face through glass, he said. So I switched the strings on it and it kind of looked OK, like a left-handed bass if they'd put the knobs on the top. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Of course, when younger I may have felt slightly different. The great thing about those basses is that theyre so individual to how you want them to sound. 2,977 1,264. The previous day hed passed away from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, at just 38 years old. "I always experiment and go with whatever the song requires. As Paul got to know his new instrument, he developed a strong attachment. The blueprint Paul helped draw up for Slipknot shines through its bludgeoning riffs, and even through the energy of latest album We Are Not Your Kind. It required the heaviest gauge top string he could find in order to hold the notes well enough to record. People say they eat into frets, but Ive never found that to be the case, and I change them every night when Im on tour. When asked, three albums in, if this is what he imagined being a rock star would be like, he humbly replied, I dont really consider myself a rock star, but obviously I guess I am. "I took a few bass lessons to learn slap and pop techniques, because once I really got into bass I started listening to everything - not just metal and rock. Before his teenage years had even begun, his two greatest musical revelations had arrived in the form of Suicidal Tendencies 1983 debut and, not long after, experiencing Slayer live in the flesh. [Editors note: Thats Andrew Pinching, the Damneds drummer.] I used to use those gray Hercos for years, even in Thin Lizzy. Recorded at Download 2009, Paul talked to TG about his solid playing style, his reason for being a bass player and his tips for making you play better. Later he sometimes used strings wrapped with black nylon to get more of a thumping sound. "I was listening in on their conversation, eavesdropping, they were talking about doing covers of Slayer and Metallica - all these songs that I knew how to play on guitar. One has a clanky sound and one has much more growl. BA1 1UA. I made Paul punch in a lot, but a lot of it comes with modifying parts and changing things to be something a little different without changing their overall feel or what theyre trying to say as players. Rock n roll needs its rough edges. Jun 1, 2002. If you listen to Pauls note choices on Vermilion, he was all over the shop and it sounded great I wanted to try things like that.. When I tried out I constantly turned myself down or turned the tone knob down by accident. Through gigging, they met future members of Slipknot: Shawn Crahan in Heads On The Wall, Jim Root in Atomic Opera, Joey Jordison in Modifidious. We have a tendency towards being first-takers together. BA1 1UA. Onstage, as it filled with sweat and snot and spit, he cut a forbidding, expressionless figure, often bent double as he sunk down into those low-end notes. Call us at 800-449-9128. What Strings Did Gary Moore Use? What was your philosophy about shaping the tones for this album? Recorded at Download 2009, Paul talked to TG about his solid playing style, his reason for being a bass player and his tips for making you play better. 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For nylon strings Chet and I both used D'Addario Pro-Art, although both of us at times have used LaBella 500p Professional concert & recording strings. But the time was right. Or why not treat yourself? He was everything that was wonderful about this band and about this group of people. It couldve also been our disgraceful behavior, but who really knows? Whats your dual playing relationship like? There were three mics on it: one on the speakers, one three feet back, and one six feet back, and a little bit of DI. Ibanez and Peavey have somebody everywhere.". What gauge is the low E string? As the date drew near, it was clear Shawn was ready to go all out. He had something going on in his mind, and I was like, OK, I need to back off I cant touch this. And if you listen to that song, you can tell that theres heartfelt pain in that., Shawn had never intended to join a metal band, but got sucked into the promise of what he could create with someone as talented as Paul. Some of it I tap out, some of it is more simple, and some of it I have to follow the guitars and do runs and leads and stuff like that. Eventides Tony Agnello is a big fan of the Damned and brought some secret prototypes to Atomic Sound for the Captain to use, but Im sworn to absolute secrecy about what they are and do. And thats what hes left behind for us, is absolute love.. Largely penned by Paul and Shawn Clown Crahan before the band had formed, the song was originally titled Slipknot though the group ended up using the name for one of their first shows. Grays recorded output with the Damned includes two of the bands most revered and musically fibrous albums, Strawberries (1982) and The Black Album (1980). (Image credit: John McMurtrie) "Yesterday we lost our brother, and the world seems a little smaller because of it," began Corey Taylor. It took me 15 years to figure out that all they were really playing was the pentatonic scale with some extra notes chucked in! String gauge. What is it about them that you like so much?Gray: I was very much drawn to Rickenbacker sounds, to the point where Id listen to the radio as a kid and was always trying to figure out if it was a Rickenbacker I was hearing. In December 2010, they announced they would headline 2011s Sonisphere to honour the legacy of their fallen friend.
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