![]() Trevor and Trey made new demos to even be able to learn the stuff. “We had one week of rehearsal but I had to work on the material for five months. Having Scott there holding down the fort with the riffing, you just couldn’t have a more solid foundation Trey Spruance But then it turned into seven shows… three in LA, two in San Francisco and then two in New York. ![]() We had plans to make the album and figured it would be worth playing a show to tighten our belts before hitting the studio. Scott: “It was going to be just a small club gig initially. Preparing for the live shows must have been intense, to say the least… There’s one punk riff that’s just so perfect, I absolutely love that one.” “ Sudden Death has a couple of riffs that Patton wrote, every once in a while he’d write something that was so good you’d feel like you’d heard it before. I always thought it was idiotic, weaving a bunch of disparate ideas together but no man. “When I relearned Bungle Grind, which is one I wrote, it was a lot smarter than I remembered it to be. It’s up there with Bonded By Blood and all the classic metal from that era… in my opinion. Trey: “I think the opening riff from Raping Your Mind that Trevor wrote is just a classic. What are your favorite guitar moments on the new album? “I also love the fact they hardly did anything, they made three records within nine years and there’s been nothing for two decades. It felt like they were just showing off at points, being such insane musicians operating at levels other people couldn’t even as teenagers. ![]() “They’ve never sounded like anything else going on at the time – you could call it thrash metal, death metal, funk or ska – but it’s everything. Their music just moves me and feels completely original. Scott: “I just love the fact that when they decided to bring Mr. But this time, it’s a full-on guitar assault!” You don’t recognize the song from the guitar parts. “They’re part of a larger whole but a bit weird on their own. Bungle music from a guitar perspective, there’s not really one song where you can go, ‘Hey, play that riff!’ Sometimes people ask me to play one and none of them are really that interesting… Trey: “It’s funny, if you think about all the other Mr. I love the fact they hardly did anything, they made three records within nine years and there’s been nothing for two decades. Here the two guitarists at the helm of the assault on the new recordings talk us through the devastating tones and finger-twisting riffs…Ĭongratulations on completing what’s undoubtedly the most guitar-heavy Mr. I’m not afraid to say we made the best thrash album of 1986 that nobody ever heard!” ![]() “Whereas now we’ve made a record with brutal guitar tones and Dave Lombardo on drums, with Mike screaming his balls off. “There’s a lovely noisiness and fun to the original demo, that’s what made me like it in the first place but it’s not something I could turn on all the time and listen to. That’s something I was not used to at all and a big learning curve for me… “It was the arrangements that were the hard parts, these seven-and-a-half minute tracks with over 90 changes. I was familiar with the style of it all, that was very much in my wheelhouse. “My initial reaction when joining was the realization that this would be a Mount Everest-sized mountain of work to learn. “No offense to Trevor and his little four-track in 1986, but we were able to do this demo properly,” laughs the thrash pioneer. Naturally, it was an instant no-brainer – though he’d be the first to admit he knew he had his work cut out for him… SONG: Summer Breeze ARTIST: Seals & Crofts ALBUM: Summer Breeze YEAR: 1972 TUNING: Standard (E A D G) TIME SIGNATURE: 4/4 TABBED: by Seanmo for BigBassTabs.For Anthrax’s founding guitarist Scott Ian, getting the call to join one of his favorite bands was equally as surprising.
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