The Jam Room Unsane thread (F yes!)

[justinhedrick]

Great band and great guys. Dave is one of the funniest coolest people you'd ever wanna meet.
I saw em not long ago performing all of Scattered. Dave mentioned that he was doing sound for the melvins tour, this was last august.
We occasionally used a rehearsal studio that they would use in brooklyn and one night they were in the room before we were, practicing songs off Scattered. When they were done destroying the place and I walked into the room, I looked at the 57 mic on the stand and it was still dripping huge globs of drool from it. i gotta say its tough to practice after listening to a band like that rehearse, even after swappng out the drooling mic. They are also really nice and supportive to other local bands, we did alot of shows with em  which they helped us get on the bill for. The best times tho were the loft parties they played. Holy crap. Free Unsane show in your buddys brooklyn apartment = heaven. Their music is heavy as hell, wild , seems on the brnk of disaster, but its so tight and controlled and efficient too and most importantly and what i like about the band alot....it has GROOVE...the songs fucking swing. You cant exactly dance to it, more like punch someones face in in time to the music haha...but theres a STRONG groove thats not present in alot of heavy music.

Early unsane was quite a trip also. Charlie was an insane partier, and Pete Shore ...way ahead of his time on bass, a pioneer.
The band would just let their mics and guitars feedback in between songs. SO loud. One of the 3 loudest shows Ive been too (Metallica and Jusitce tour and Dino Jr holding the other two spots).

Scattered was recorded in Minneapolis suposedly during a severe winter. They said they were pretty much locked inside with their labelmates the Cows for weeks...haha. that musta been something.

Heres a better Celan song/video.

thats pretty cool that they are nice guys. chris seems pretty intense! 

[Chovie D]

Chris IS intense.  
Last time i saw him I asked him what amp he was using cause it looked like a fender super pro, and i had only seen him using mesa rectumfriers and marshalls. I think he said it was something he  built and stuck in that cab or that he had modded a fender or something. icant recall.
It was strange to hear his typical Unsane tone coming from a fender combo amp enclosure.

I mostly talked to Dave and Vinnie tho.
Dave used to run sound at a place i would frequent and we'd sit in the booth and do one-ies all night.

One time it was the fourth of july in brooklyn and I heard this ungodly rumble thru the open window of my apartment. I hoped on my bike and followed the noise for 10 blocks where i ended up at the brooklyn brewery and saw that Dave was standing on a stage setup on a flatbed truck outside the brewery testing his bass rig out for the show that afternoon. You could hear that shit for miles.

Im not into tats but Vinnie owned a tat shop down the street from me. least i think he owned it?

anywa Great fucking band. true champs.

[Jake]

I won't directly post the link, but if one was to simply type "celan halo" into Google, they would be able to experience the studio versions of the songs.

[justinhedrick]

nice. nice.

[dogfood]

My friend James has been their main photog for many years.  Took the photos for the artwork you're talking about.  I too love this band mucho.  have heard some good stories.

Don't forget one of Chris' newest projects.  Celan

great fucking music...not to get all GD but what's with the young gay hitler drummer vibe I'm gett'n?!  san fran...

[Chovie D]

I think Celan is based in berlin. I thought the drummer was one of the cooler visual aspects of the band.

[justinhedrick]

yeah, they are based in europe, aren't they?

i think the whole visual of the band is awesome. the guy playing the piano has a really weird set of cabs (i want to say like old vertical pa stacks?). it looks like they could have just come from a roundtable book discussion and got on stage and rocked.