Warr metal

[GaryOpenhill]

More gossip:
Have you guys seen the new model from Warr guitars?
The design is obviously eye catching, but i think maybe the pu's are the most interesting about this.

http://www.warrguitars.com/metal_series/

[Nightmare Music]

this is coming from a metal guy...

i don't think i like it. it's too much. i might like it more if it was in a different color.

that said though, i'm not generally a big fan of "metal" shaped guitars. i like the BC Rich Bitch, and the Jackson Warrior/Ibanez Xiphos, but usually when you get into these wild shapes to me it makes that image seem forced

i think i'd like the one in the photo a lot more if the finger board was darker, and if it wasn't ALL black, maybe if the hardware was chrome of something.


i guess for someone looking for that styling though, it can't be beaten by anything stick or megatar has out there

[PhoBucket]

No knobs? I always picture Warr's with like 8 knobs and 4 switches. I have no real objection to the body shape, but I'm probably not the target audience for the METAL series.

I also don't understand their description of the difference in pickup sound, but again, that's probably because I don't listen to enough metal know the difference between thrash distortion and thick distortion. Still, I'd like to hear them.

[GaryOpenhill]

oh, no knobs. I didn't even notice that! Thats very interesting.
But, all this knoblessness could be Colin Marston special wish, this being his guitar.

[lactose]

IMHO, playing metal on a normal guitar requires a few different techniques that normal music. Palm muting is very critical, harmonics add a nice flavor, and the bridge pickup is what I use 90% of the time.

I have yet to figure out how to play metal type stuff on a tapper without it sounding like an uncontrolled sloppy mess. So I am surprised to see there is a market for a heavy metal tapper.

Moving from guitar to tapper, we trade off precise control of the string for the ability to play more notes.

[Tom Drinkwater]

That's cool. The pickups look alot like the Carvin pickups that have 11 pole pieces. Just under an aluminum cover. Interesting shape, I'd love to hear Colin tearin' it up on this one. This seems a little boring though after following the build off threads.

[GaryOpenhill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTraKml6Krs

[jamsire]

Originally posted by GaryOpenhill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTraKml6Krs

ok:confused:

The energy was insane! Wow!

That guy must be taller than me - and I'm big. That Warr Metal suits him perfect. Lot of hair - think it mutes the strings from time to time?

5 stars from me.

[GaryOpenhill]

If they are trying to get ppl to love and hate their music at the same time, they do an awsome job! I love and hate it! Very confusing!

but i'd buy their cd any time over any cd with arnold schoenberg.

[Nightmare Music]

the sound and the video didn't match up :(

i really dig these guys. i haven't been listening to a ton of metal these days, but just today threw on some Behold the Arctopus and Indricothere. good stuff.

they really are a great live band as well. if you get the chance it's worth it. most tech-metal bands look like statues when they play but these guys really get into it

[GaryOpenhill]

Originally posted by Nightmare Music


they really are a great live band as well. if you get the chance it's worth it. most tech-metal bands look like statues when they play but these guys really get into it

I was just thinking about that after i saw a Zappa plays Zappa show on tv just now, it ended 10 mins ago. Some of the music is actually quite similar to these math-metal-guys. Young Dweezil Zappa doesnt quite own the stage presence that his father did and he doesnt hardly move even in the most wild soloing, and that made the music and his own solos seem flat and dead, even if they were techniquly brilliant. It was really appareant that there is such a thing as "soul" in music, and the lack of it.
Pink Floyd pulled off rocking while not moving, but then again they had lots of other things going on on stage that people could watch!
Flying pigs and such.
(it was a wonderful day for rock and roll when they lost one 40 foot helium filled pig, and it was later that day spotted by the commercial airline pilots at 40.000 feet height. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled because a....well, a huge pig..... flew through the path of aircraft,....)

anyways....what was we talking about?