Drum Teacher Reacts: JASON ROEDER | SLEEP - “Dragonaut” live at Regency Ballroom (2016)

[@AFortifiedBatcave]

More people appreciating Sleep is always a good thing. At Giza deserves a listen.

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

Thanks for the tip!

[@neven100sic]

At Giza is an OM song, which is a band Al Cisneros founded after Sleep broke up and Matt Pike founded High on Fire. Check out all those bands, they're awesome. And if you would merge OM and High on Fire you would get Sleep, which is fascinating to me because it's other way around in most other cases.

[@NonEuclideanTacoCannon]

Man Sleep is great. "Sabbath worship" is indeed a genre in itself

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

Nothing wrong with worshipping the grand masters of the genre

[@jovan9989]

Super underrated, not only a sleep drummer but also one and only drummer for sonic behemoth that Neurosis was.

[@DDubyah17]

I absolutely love this - it's all about feel. And they're playing with the tempo as another tool in the box to convey a particular feel.

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

100%

[@jpetersen]

I really like this song. The whole album and its origin story is a tale of its own. Sleep is one very special gem out there, if you're into Sabbath like music. Also, the drumming on the original album is phenomenal and part of what's sparked my interest in this instrument. Glad someone requested it and that you liked it. 😄

[@reeceojackson]

Brooo the drumming on sleep volume one is out of this worlddddd that whole album is my favourite doom genre music i just have that album on repeat its jus sooo heavy the riffs and the drums have jus never been the same after that album nothing is like it

[@BallisticMystic]

Sleep are incredible. Speaking of not being a top 40 song, they got in a lot of heat with their record company when they presnted their second album, dopesmoker which was a single song which was over an hour long. They were forced to break it up and shorten it, but the full album was released as intended in 2003, eight years after it's original recording.

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

One hour song!!! LOVE IT

[@mattigator600]

4/20 is soon , have a listening party for that one 😊

[@peroskarstorholm4196]

Yea, the label had it remixed and edited down from 63 to 58 minutes 😂

[@oldmatevb]

The edited version for released 3 yrs after in 1999 titles “Jerusalem” they later recorded it better and how they wanted which got released in 2003 that was titled “Dopesmoker”. It’s a bit longer

[@jason_roeder]

A more microscopic take: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKCYZGyiec6GZ80

[@kervernes5472]

Hell yeah more Sleep videos!

[@jamescooper-hope6930]

Locust Star by Neurosis @ Ozzfest is worth checking out. Through Silver in Blood. An epic, beautiful, crushing, arduous journey of an album. Jasons finest work imo.

[@ricolync]

This one got me to Neurosis back in 00's

[@pillarhood471]

Wow, please yes

[@barryismygod]

He also provided drums for the midnight riders tracks for left 4 dead 2

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Cool, some stoner doom. Sleep are legends. Om, an incredible band formed by the former rhythm section from Sleep, are also well worth checking out. \m/

[@Nebuloid1]

Flight Of The Eagle...

[@Wendelvendel]

Oh wow Sleep! Now that's unexpected. Very cool Andrew! Also,. electric wizard are in this style and really greay and slow and jammed. Would love if you had a look at em

[@PaulArnold-z1o]

I think I just found a new rabbit hole to go down - first thing that caught me was the Geezer influenced bass feel😊

[@SomerankeroffYT]

What was great about Sleep is once they’d parted ways Matt & Al formed their own bands (High on Fire & Om respectively) they came back together & you can what they brought to the band separately BUT also how time in those bands developed and can be heard in the comeback album they released in 2018 (Marijanauts Theme is a great example of Jason’s own drumming approach btw) Also you’re right on the money with the band not being interested in commercial appeal, as infamously demonstrated via their, um… output to London Records (just look up Dopesmoker lol)

[@mattigator600]

Al has been a lot more chill since certain state laws were passed in the past decade 😊

[@SomerankeroffYT]

@@mattigator600can it translate to new albums though? Because I’m dying to hear new music from OM!

[@LoganardoDVinci]

Neurosis is THE GOAT 🙌 and Roeder is the most under-appreciated drummer I know of.

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

Good call!

[@amosc768]

By far and away! And I don't understand it

[@jkf9167]

I recall seeing the cover of their first album back in the 90s, and my recollection is that on the packaging, they thanked Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, and no one else.

[@coconutfleetsleeper5717]

Hehe, I remember (through all the haze) the first time I heard the "dopesmoker" album back then, I was reading a record catalogue at the time, something cheap, Inc and paper like delerium records used to be. My roommate just got back from the record store and put his daily spoils on the player while I packed the bong. -it was great❤😂

[@carlomercorio1250]

Their album Dopesmoker consisted of one massive 63-minute track. Check out the story of the making of Dopesmoker - it's on KZbin

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

Sounds interesting

[@thommysaraceno2862]

I was there - That set was transformative

[@TheDeadStretch]

"Playing along with a lot of backing tracks." No yousee, what Sleep does is the play with a LOT of backing AMPS! So many amps. Though not as much as Sunn O)))...

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Sunn O))) have all the amps.

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

BACKING AMPS!!!!

[@meanmetalmike666]

Andrew when are you gonna do some Uriah Heep

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

Sounds good

[@Jose-zm1wt]

Actually Al took his bass picking technique from Geezer Butler. Geezer kinda took it from John Entwistle and other late 60's rock bass players, as it was somewhat popular to pluck relatively near the neck back then (you can see clips of Jack Bruce, John Paul Jones etc doing something simililar). It gives you a very snapy sound with a lot of treble which sort of acts like a volume boost, geezer did it basically to be able to hear himself live, because of tony's very loud amps and Bill Ward's drumming.

[@mattigator600]

I think you pick the bass up on the neck because you saw Geezer Butler do it. I don't know why he did it 😂 it does give different sounds (some metal guys are picking at the far end, on the bridge of the guitar) and maybe he likes having his arm at that position. I've also seen guys wear the bass extremely low (Church of Misery 🤟) and couldn't really reach the strings in any other place😂

[@lungfulldrummer8921]

If you dig this check out goatsnake some time.

[@pillarhood471]

Oh baby, they rule

[@donnelson6694]

Very cool. Filthy but cool.

[@AndrewRooneyDrums]

filthy alright

[@neven100sic]

Every riff in this song is a Sabbath ripoff, and I don't mean in a bad way, more like a homage.

[@basher5107]

Yeah this is a complete thievery of Sabbath,liked the swing part in the beginning but this isn’t new so it’s boring to me but every generation needs its hero’s

[@gratuitousfootnote1183]

They wrote this song when they were teenagers... so teenagers are expected to start out with a completely blank slate? That is not realistic. Sabbath started out as a blues band - was that thievery too? If you want to see a better example of shameless "thievery" , maybe listen to the Orchid song No One Makes a Sound. For my taste, THAT is a band that really didn't add anything new to the style.

[@basher5107]

@@gratuitousfootnote1183 you have no idea how exhilarating it is to make something out of thin air and have it affect people deeply,original music and the studio are a completely different vibe than playing covers in a bar. Sure as a young person paying your dues is important,I played in bars that were empty/we were the house band for open mic nights I’ve played in front of thousands and it’s no different I wanted to record more than play out but again paying your dues is part of the process

[@gratuitousfootnote1183]

@@basher5107 I respect your opinion, but I would argue that nobody makes anything out of thin air - it doesn't work that way. There's always some kind of lineage or traditional backdrop. I agree though, when there is only one or two bands in a song's lineage, then it becomes boring or a kind of thievery.

[@basher5107]

@@gratuitousfootnote1183 I was speaking of creating music from scratch,not just playing out,The studio always motivates me from the time you and the rest of the band flesh it out,do a quickie demo recording, iron out the kinks and then book time at a real studio. I have walked in cold for performance only and I’ll do whatever a producer or engineer want me to play I’ll do a run through one time and then hit the red button That can be a challenge from time to time,depends on the genre. Keep on playing!

[@ElAche7]

Matt Pike has stated before Sleep is a stoner jam band. To watch his heaviest riffs video is to listen to a master of the axe. Thank you for this my friend. Next, Dopesmoker, and Giza Butler in which Jason is featured. (Giza)