That was an amazing tour

you fucking kidding me? i saw them live and they totally pulled off every last fucking note.

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kneel (April 27, 2009)

i should have specified, its not necessarily the studio trick...

its the perfect harmonic vocals. it kills me.

i am too old for this crap

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spoon_of_grimbo (April 27, 2009)

ah fair enough. personally i'm a sucker for guitar and vocal harmonies, so this band is like a giant harmo-gasm for me.

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nickbaldauf (April 28, 2009)

Dude,
I'm up there in years as well and I can dig the style of AWS. They are one of the better 5th generation punk bands.
I think that I remember seeing another band with harmonic vocals, back in the day. They called themselves Bad Religion.. or something. Since vocal harmony isn't among the criterion for good punk music, I doubt that they have met much success over the years.

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vaginalinferno (April 28, 2009)

loooove those harmonies

yeah because they sound so different live, it's obvious they rely on studio magic

If auto-tune is the only thing that prevents you from listening to these guys, go see them live first. They are tight and energetic, which is more than you can say about a lot of bands that play much simpler music. If you appreciate their live show, you'll probably worry a little less about how polished their records are.

i like how those offspring dudes haven't turned it into some pussy label like epitaph so they can keep making lots of money. say what you want about the band, but i give them credit for this label.

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Dante3000 (rich) (April 27, 2009)

What? I feel really stupid because I can't tell if this is a joke. I'll admit that Nitro isn't a trend hopping cash cow, I even like a lot of their bands but it also hasn't done shit to promote a lot of them. It just seems ridiculous that a band as talented and ambitious as AWS is only as big as they are.

I dunno, maybe they're too busy holding parties for Dexter's dogs to promote bands.
-Dante

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jeffernator (April 28, 2009)

i was being serious! yeah, the promotion is shit no doubt, but the bands on the label are good.

oh, shit. wow, thats crazy. i dont know what id do if I saw somebody get stabbed.

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mikexdude (April 27, 2009)

I wouldn't say he got stabbed, actually, he got his neck sliced open; blood everywhere. He's okay, thank god. I'm a little shaken up by the whole thing. I really take this stuff very hard -- I am an emotional person.

When the kid was on the ground in his own blood, the asshole punched him in the head -- it was so loud. The kid who did it fled the school and hasn't been found. That goes beyond the point of beating someone up, that's psychotic.

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lostandclowned (April 27, 2009)

See: "The Wire" Season 1, Episode 6. That's pain.

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ffwoodycooks (April 27, 2009)

it also has the safeguard of being able to acknowledge that it's fiction. i dont think it's comparable, to be honest.

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lostandclowned (April 27, 2009)

"think" is the keyword there.

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thatsyouth (April 27, 2009)

Fuck dude. That's terrible.

Yeah there a couple months ago there was a stabbing at my old high school. I guess I got out of there just in time

the crazy shit that happens to orgers day in day out. sorry that happened. that is really lame.

thats awful dude, sorry to hear

Exact opposite of my opinion.

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ffwoodycooks (April 27, 2009)

Really? i thought it was kinda cool that they made that their band name. maybe its just because im a movie nerd.

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chrisss (April 27, 2009)

I think it's a great name, although everytime I hear the scream in a movie now I'm immediately pulled out of it.

Protools is just a recording program, you cant get mad at a band for using protools

Being in the studio world myself, it's silly when somebody blames a bands polished sound on ProTools. It's just a piece of software that's used as a multitrack recorder. Sure, it's able to host such RTAS Plug-ins as Autotune and Melodyne and whatnot, but ProTools itself does not do anything magical to a bands sound. Try recording your band into Tools, I guarantee you that you will sound just as bad as you had hoped to sound.

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LooseKanonYankee (April 28, 2009)

my band and I have affectionately given melodyne a nick-name

Cyberdyne

I think I can see that by your username.

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Diver (April 27, 2009)

Haha and now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure most of my usernames on other websites are AWS song titles too.

Yeah back when he was in The Fullblast, I'd pretty much focus on watching him anytime they played. He's pretty unreal.

"Bottles" by The Swellers.

EP, fuck that, full length better be happening soon