Highlights include Freak On A Leash featuring Amy Lee, who is spectacular in the song, especially in the bridge. The rest of the songs, however, reflect good song choices, and when executed, show that they have been well thought out. The other song that was a mistake on this concert was Creep, a Radiohead cover, since it contains nothing special and is marred by Jon’s whiny voice (especially when he goes into the high “Run!” of the song). The rest of the song picks up… and grows on you after a couple of listens but still… just no. Why glaringly? Because it’s not pulled off well in the opener. A very large set of percussion instruments used see them going into a very salsa style and it becomes glaringly apparent in the first song itself: Blind. The first thing that one notices while listening to the “new versions” of the songs is the whole latino thing they have going. It’s very apparent here that their modus operandi was to a large extent a direct progression from See You…, namely to keep the songs dark when going soft, one has to make them haunting, more melodic and atmospheric and load the low frequency end of the orchestra (which is what Wagner did to make his music dark) which is very apparent from the list of orchestral instruments added to the KoRn ensemble. So how did this incredibly diverse, large (for an unplugged thing since it’s supposed to be an intimate experience) orchestra work out for the band? Surprisingly well, actually. In addition to this they ended up adding several percussion kits. His creative mind added four celli, two basses, two cimbassos, two bass /contrabass trombonists, a saw player (that’s right… A bowed saw…), a glass harmonica player, choir bells, and a six person taiko ensemble to the KoRn lineup.
#Make me bad korn unplugged how to
At this point some smart a** within the band think tank must have got a “rad idea” and said “I know… let’s change the arrangements on the songs completely!.” and then suddenly shut up not knowing how to go about executing said “rad idea”.Įnter close friend, film composer and producer Richard Gibbs (Queen of the Damned, Dr. After all, their songs are known for the brutal sonic assault of the twin seven stringed Ibys. I’m sure it gave the band their fare share of them too. Then they announced Unplugged and everyone just got confused.Īdmittedly, it gave me a headache when I tried to think of how they would pull off stripped down versions of their songs.
See You… also saw them experimenting with sonic dynamics, softening up to give more haunting melodies to perpetuate their “dark” sound and it worked. While still trying to keep the whole angry thing going, it’s very apparent that they are, in a way, maturing with their musical styling sounding more restrained with each album. Several chart topping albums and a roller coaster career ride later, the band starts to look like it’s, well… growing up. Nu-metal was born and thus far it has survived. But as it so often happens in life (being stranger than fiction and all), it happened. Fathers of Nu-metal stand! Who would have guessed back in 1994 that a band with a whiny croaker as their vocalist, two sludgy down-tuned seven string guitar wielding axe-men, a bassist who slaps away his five string like there is no tomorrow and a drummer going back to the use of acoustic drums after the electronic drum frenzy of the 80s and early 90s would have helped break a perennially boot-legged form of music still reeling from the death of glam and the waning of thrash and heavy sonic assaults into the mainstream? I don’t think many saw that coming.
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