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schroeder
VoivodFan
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posted June 01, 2002 05:50
HOLY SHIT...I am now listening to "I Smash The Void" and can hear why and how this band influenced VOIVOD. This is GREAT MUSIC. I had heard of HOLOCAUST many years ago, but I had never listened to anything by them until now.Looks like I have some cds to track down and buy Thanks for the post Blacky...keep 'em coming. I love getting my ears opened to new bands, especially those as good as Holocaust. It will be interesting to see what other groups were an influence! NP:"FUNDAMENTALIST" damn, I hear the Voivod sound (and many others) coming thru this song. I just finished listening to the last song I downloaded from MP3.com and was blown away, especially by the fact it took me this long to really find out about a band this good! I hear so many bands that were influenced by this group. RAGE (from Germany) sound A LOT like them.
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blacky
VoivodFan
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posted June 30, 2002 00:54
Ok, I’ll try not to jump the gun here and go chronologically. (Each member of Voivod had their favorites, but I'm just trying to show the band’s influences.) So I named Holocaust, we played also some Judas Priest, some Venom and Motorhead, Pistols and GBH. Obviously some of those band were more influential than others, for instance Motorhead. I think everybody in the band was really into them, Piggy pretty much played every single Motorhead song as if he was Eddie (and very well), Away learned to play drum over Motorhead records, and me, man, Lemmy was God for me, how could I ever play that good (bad) ? Funny that I say that, but I think it is at that turning point that we started dropping the so call good bands and started looking at the bad guys as influences. It wasn't that black and white, but it sure was fun to think it was. At that time in Jonquiere, there were two bands, the good guys and the bad guys. We managed to fill the second slot, pretty much all the way. In regards of Venom, I personally couldn’t listen to them after we opened for them in NY in 1986(?), they were simply mediocre and very pretentious. But up until then they were ok, “Bursting out” was a good song to cover, lots of blank space to fill in which is always a good thing when you still at that learning stage. I personally learn my first song from a Judas Priest record, then AC/DC, I had no other choice. Piggy taught me a few trick, like how to tune your turntable instead of your guitar, using the pitch, that way you could go easy on the strings at $25 per set so why not. One thing, by doing that you have to choose which tuning to stick with, like for instance tuning at 440, I could play Judas, AC/DC, Iron Maiden (which I wasn’t really good at), but not Motorhead, they tune lower so I had to speed up the turntable, so playing Ace of Spade faster was very good practice... When the band got together we decide that we would tune like Motorhead, it just sounded BAD (Boosting Animosity Drastically, ). From that era another obscure band that we liked a lot and also covered for a while was Tank, especially the first album “Filth Hounds” produced by Fast Eddie. Our favorite song was “Struck By Lightning.” If you don’t know it go find the record right away, you’ll see what I mean. They had a very unique sound, pretty much in the same vein as Motorhead. http://www.angelfire.com/dc/tank/filth.htm[ June 30, 2002: Message edited by: blacky ]
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