Entertainment: Interview with Danny M and Joey of Dead Skin Mask

Interview with Danny M and Joey of Dead Skin Mask

Written by Javier Escandoza

Javier Hey guys. Saw you Friday at Bonds 007. Nice job! (4/29/2005)

DannyM Cool! I'm glad you liked repparttar show.

Javier Do you play 10 times faster than Slayer all repparttar 137469 time, or just Friday? Wow!!

DannyM No, not all repparttar 137470 time. When I practice at home I play along with repparttar 137471 CD at Slayer speed. When we get together as a band, yes.... we always play repparttar 137472 music faster. I doubt that we play it 10X faster, LOL!

Javier I did not think "Sex, Murder, Art" or "War Ensemble" could EVER be played faster than when Paul(Bostaph) was in Slayer. Well, you guys showed me it IS possible!!

Danny Slayer music is a beautiful thing. I love repparttar 137473 energy, speed, aggression and chaos that I feel coming out repparttar 137474 speakers at a Slayer concert. Hell, I can even feel it when I have any Slayer CD in my stereo. Playing Slayers music at repparttar 137475 speeds we play at is very satisfying and addictive.

Javier Joey, you are repparttar 137476 youngest in Dead Skin Mask. Have you been a Slayer fan all your life, or at least a good part of it?

Joey Well yeah, most of my life. When I was in Jr. High, my friend let me borrow Diabolus in Musica and I just thought it was and still is repparttar 137477 greatest music I've ever heard. They had a sound like no other band had that was so dark.

Javier Have trouble getting into repparttar 137478 clubs you play at?

Joey No, We haven't had any trouble YET with my age getting in repparttar 137479 way of a gig.

Javier What "gear" are you using?

DannyM My main guitar is a ESP Custom Shop Jeff Hanneman. Its repparttar 137480 old style guitar with repparttar 137481 a Kahler trem, SLAYER inlay at repparttar 137482 12th fret. Its loaded with EMG 85's and has an EMG SPC installed. Its tuned to E flat and stringed with 10's. Yes, in my opinion, it is better than any Standard Series ESP guitar. It is better than any other guitar that I have ever owned or played! My back up guitar is an ESP/LTD Jeff Hanneman JH-600. Its repparttar 137483 one that was banned and has repparttar 137484 'S & Key' inlays. There are only 48 of these guitars in repparttar 137485 world. I went thru many amps looking for my tone. Being in this band I also needed an amp that could nail Slayers tone and vibe. I use a Marshall JCM 800 2203X. It has SED Winged C EL34 power tubes and I put GT-12AX7-C pre amp tubes in V1 and V2. I put a Mesa SPAX7-A in repparttar 137486 V3 position. I push repparttar 137487 amp with a stock SD-1. My cab, as you already know, is a ENGL Vintage Pro 4x12. That gear is repparttar 137488 core of my sound. I get an amazingly authentic Slayer sound and vibe with that set up. I do not use any FX for my main Slayer tone. It’s all in repparttar 137489 amp, guitar and my fingers. I do use a POD XT LIVE to add a bit of effects (delay + reverb) and a slight volume boost for leads. My signal chain looks like this: Guitar -> SD-1 -> Marshall 2203X -> Pod XT Live in FX loop for Lead guitar effects -> ENGL Pro 4x12.

We Came! We Saw! We Smiled! Las Vegas Philharmonic

Written by Robert LaGrone

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Greek gods! Beasts and birds! Shenanigans! Peace offerings! Toga parties! Tonight’s performance by repparttar Las Vegas Philharmonic, titled “A World in Harmony,” was a veritable fun-house of images. I’ll try to limit my use of exclamation points.

The overture to The Thieving Magpie, by Gioacchino Rossini, can be described in one word: mischief. A maid is accused of stealing a silver spoon from her master’s house and is sentenced to death. Well, it is opera — but fortunately not repparttar 137391 tragic kind, in which half repparttar 137392 characters die and repparttar 137393 other half wish they could. Eventually repparttar 137394 culprit is found to be repparttar 137395 bird named in repparttar 137396 title, and repparttar 137397 woman is exonerated. No word on whether repparttar 137398 magpie lives, though.

Nothing focuses repparttar 137399 mind like an imminent deadline. The opera premiered in Milan on May 31, 1817, and Rossini later said, “I wrote repparttar 137400 overture to The Thieving Magpie on repparttar 137401 day of its opening, in repparttar 137402 theatre itself where I was imprisoned by repparttar 137403 director and under repparttar 137404 surveillance of four stage hands who were instructed to throw my original text through repparttar 137405 window, page by page, to repparttar 137406 copyists waiting below… In default of pages, they were ordered to throw me out of repparttar 137407 window.” Both repparttar 137408 overture and repparttar 137409 overall opera were big hits that night, and repparttar 137410 stage hands needed to manhandle only repparttar 137411 scene props.

Speaking of working under pressure, Sergei Prokofiev composed his Violin Concerto No. 2 just before returning to live in repparttar 137412 USSR in 1936. Stalin’s government wasn’t fond of avant-garde experimentation in music, and Russian composers weren’t fond of gulags. The concerto takes repparttar 137413 standard three-movement form, contained no wild cadenzas for repparttar 137414 soloist, and was “regarded by some as a musical olive branch to repparttar 137415 Soviet regime,” according to LV Phil Associate Conductor Dr. Richard McGee.

Award-winning guest violinist Chee-Yun took center stage for this concerto. Her arm pumped like a machine through rapid arpeggios in repparttar 137416 energetic first movement.

The solo part was oddly separate from repparttar 137417 orchestral accompaniment. The relaxed second movement sounded more integrated and had a pleasant walking tempo. The allegro third movement had tricky ¾ rhythms that were often hard to follow. The finale contained a bit of unexpected percussion by castanets, bass drum, and muted cymbals. The end came unexpectedly, with Chee-Yun fiddling rapidly right to repparttar 137418 last staccato note. Both soloist and orchestra performed beautifully, but this concerto contains no melodies that will get stuck in your head like a Roger Miller tune. At intermission most of us were still humming Rossini.

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