Sleep rehearse "Dopesmoker" at Roadburn

A jet-lagged Sleep practice for the next night's headlining slot on the main stage at Roadburn.
Shot at 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands on Friday, April 13th, 2012, by tinnitus photography for prefixmag.com
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[@thathandleistakentrythisone]

Legend has it before Sleep rehearsed in that space, the walls were white.

[@chuckofalltrades]

Hahahahahahaha

[@JeniOnly]

Gnarly!

[@REDBEARDBLACKTEETH]

Awesome comment! Made my day.

[@russl9029]

So where the drums...

[@frozynsummer645]

😂😅

[@MrCrepozoid666]

Most Epiq setlist ever: 1.Dopesmoker

[@ZweiAmigos]

true facts

[@urmumsbaps]

It's taken 11 years but I think I can top this: 1.Dopesmoker 2.Dopesmoker

[@Space_pulse]

Got the 666th like on this comment! 🤘😈👍

[@jimbo30]

Ok now don't touch it@@Space_pulse

[@marijuanian]

trueeee

[@heterosapiensapien]

I saw them live for Scion. I have never witnessed a heavier band in my life. Every bass note Al hit sent quakes through my body. I became a vibration during their set. It was amazing

[@shillian4770]

That was a legendary festival, all the heaviest bands played there.

[@jakemoore2113]

Great comment brother 💜

[@JohnStonebraker]

They rehearsing at Castle Wolfenstein?

[@theworstguitarever1470]

John Stonebraker It’d be nice to use those Amps as weapons lol

[@YouCanCallMeXoe]

Castle Reefenstein.

[@johnnyluna7824]

"achtung!"

[@umuligpipe]

GUTEN TAG!

[@monkeyliver1986]

Fucking nerds

[@thestonedabbot9551]

plays three-note riffs at 20bpm for an hour still listens to Rush

[@mr.bluesky4130]

Billy Bloomer hey man, sometimes all you need is three notes and fuckload of overdubs and you produce one of the greatest doom metal albums of all time.

[@roy_for_real2674]

yeah, but a fucking complicated three notes

[@roy_for_real2674]

I mean the timings are complicated and there are these little steps out of the notes and come on, it's not just this

[@roy_for_real2674]

I know, I know, I just wanted to explain it's not simple

[@timturk1899]

You can learn much from Neil Peart and his lightning fast drumming/timing. Playing slower, gives more space, and power, to the sound, yet relies on the same techniques Peart used/uses. Same coin, different sides. Hard to play fast and tight! Incredibly hard to play slow, and tight!! I just heard of them.. Poor man's Melvins! IMHO!

[@NocolasLive]

I think the difficulty lies in knowing where u are in the song. Especially an hour long song like dopesmoker.

[@mrgoat3774]

Nick de Aquino Harasz and especially when you’re stoned.

[@tyretear1263]

nah, each riff repeats 4 times and riffs have A/B variations so when you are at the second B variation you know next riff is coming, also bass does octave/blues scale fills before riff changes

[@trentkraemer7109]

I love the drum beat so much and I can’t explain why

[@vrea77]

Everything works together

[@Megamaniac610]

"A jet-lagged Sleep." So would you say Sleep was...sleepy?

[@unhoymatrimony3024]

"jet-lagged smokers." I would say they're probably... Dopesmokers

[@coleydennis1824]

Matt’s like every member of Sabbath but in one guy.😂

[@topophil]

This song is a gift to mankind.

[@jakemoore2113]

💜

[@chuckofalltrades]

Simple things in life make me happy, like seeing the drummer of a band called Sleep wearing the tee of a band named Rush.

[@thefitchemist2123]

My two all time favorite bands are Rush and Sleep. Here we have a video where Sleep is rehearsing Dopesmoker while the drummer is wearing a Rush shirt. I’ll let you the reader work on the physics of the epicness that exists in this video for me.

[@chrishay744]

When your bass player has a bigger pedalboard than you

[@aniquinstark4347]

Matt basically uses physical shit instead of a bunch of different pedals. Stacking a ton of amps, ect. He also frequently uses a 12 string with the octave strings removed on the 3 low strings, and the high strings being doubled instead of octave pairs. Basically his high strings sound like a chorus without a chorus.

[@TheDemocrab]

@@aniquinstark4347 aiight that convinced me on a 12 string

[@commander591]

@@aniquinstark4347 didnt know i need one until now.

[@Viper505repiV1]

@@aniquinstark4347 sorry for the random bump but Matt Pike has a 9 string. Not a 12 string with the 3 extra strings removed from the bottom 3 strings. You are right about the top 3 being doubled up and giving it a chorus effect. First Act does make (made?) 6, 9, and 12 string versions of the guitar he has though. But they're very hard to come by and last one I saw for sale was about $4k.

[@homelessathome]

@@aniquinstark4347 only applies to the High on Fire stuff where he also doing vocal duties, his Sleep pedalboard is pretty long to say the least 🙃

[@johnnynbk]

Played the entire album straight when i was DJ at whpk chicago 2010 or so. That was fun.

[@zampanoelegy7946]

You got away with it!?

[@johnnynbk]

completely, late show.@@zampanoelegy7946

[@m_r2215]

We used to play this on 420 on our doom and sludge specialty show at my college Station, wsou.

[@jakemoore2113]

Hahahhaa unreal

[@totomgs]

The amps must actually be as loud as the drums, but when you record with a simple camera in such a room, the drums get over everything.

[@czgibson3086]

How do they remember it? These long riffs take some serious memorisation, and you wouldn't have thought stoners could manage it!

[@SJRIX405]

It was sleeps biggest song

[@czgibson3086]

@@SJRIX405 Yes of course. Biggest in every sense. Matt Pike says memorising and recording it was one of the hardest things he's ever done in his life.

[@Walshyyy420]

Yeah especially with all the small nuances and slight variations in the riff.

[@gimmigimmigimmi]

they wrote it.

[@Alalu]

Riff charts used at the writing for each section throughout the song & then individual learned and put together. Google the riff chart and you’ll see the sections (Hotel Room/Cultivator/Morris) 🤘🏼

[@gimmigimmigimmi]

why did cameraman stop filming just a moment before the voice begins? i wanted to hear "DROOOOOOOOP OUT OF LIFEEEEEE WITH BOOOOONG IN HAAAAAND"

[@danielainsworth4092]

+gimmigimmigimmi fuck yeah, i did too

[@Therealbackslabbath]

gimmigimmigimmi Follow the 💨 to the riff filled land

[@herbsmanherbs]

*Ian Hand

[@warrrmayhem]

dude, seriously, go see them live. it is fucking mind blowing, really. nevermind this rehearsal, like jason (the drummer) has already said in the comments, they were not in the best shape at that moment:) and he is an amazing drummer, he fits perfectly, the guy really knows how Sleep needs to sound.

[@JaredCaprio]

*Insert joke about Matt wearing a shirt*

[@godhandvoid9795]

Can you imagine sitting in that room taking dabs

[@doomlordz5570]

Didn't recognize matt with that shirt on

[@PawelSorinsky]

Matt has an amazing sixpack, but it's hidden under his bear like manifestation.

[@GeckoDeLimon]

You sure that's a six pack, and not a pony keg?

[@Lavabug]

it must've been REALLY cold

[@Koffling]

His t-shirts bend light around him like Predator.

[@docmonger2228]

Fucken boreing intro set the pace for the rest of the song👎🏻

[@Rootdown45941]

I love how small his drum set is

[@Jam-J-Rambo]

Why did this finish just as it was about to get even better.... DRRROOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.......... OOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT........

[@MurryFBM]

OF LIFEEEE WITH BOONNNNNNNNNNGGG IIIIIIIIIINNN HAAAAAAAAANNNDD

[@Yungdoomydude]

HOLY SH*T IS MATT PIKE WEARING A SHIRT?!?!?

[@Swi55Milk]

+casvandalist lol that is the first thing I thought seeing this after having seen them live

[@marcokalle2452]

😂😂😂

[@antondillet466]

No, it's his new Tattoo...

[@NeilTheHippy]

🤣🤣🤣

[@s2khawk]

this song always makes me wish for the return of the Druids to Earth

[@Noga36]

anybody else notice the picture of Max Cavalera behind Matt?

[@Beelzebud]

Man just when it's getting ready to take off it ends...

[@Geofly93]

drummers confusion for the first 25 seconds....priceless

[@ElFimpo]

Mike is king at the riffs....

[@VitorDuzarte]

Matt is using Marshall's and Soldanos right now. Love those amps, but the Matamp Green is amazing.

[@JonKankpaceKendrick]

All the youtube people who dont understand Sleep, or the mighty dopesmoker, make me love this so much more :)

[@PeteyC_AZ]

This is how the universe was formed.

[@YannickTMessiah]

That moment you realize just how great Chris Hakius really is :o

[@chucknorris843]

That's not chris

[@YannickTMessiah]

@@chucknorris843 It's Jason Roeder, from Neurosis, right? It's been a while since I made that comment, but I think that what I meant was either that Hakius is a genius for coming up with the drum part for this song, or that he is just too good at what he does and couldn't be easily replicated, even by a good drummer. I'm pretty sure I've meant both of these.

[@chucknorris843]

@@YannickTMessiah yessir!

[@chucknorris843]

I wonder what Chris is up to nowadays. I know after Sleep he became a monk or some shit

[@BIGBADNEWS]

@@chucknorris843that was Justin marler and he left in the asbestosdeath/volume 1 days

[@rileycox993]

the Rush shirt makes me happy.

[@matthewhanimov676]

me too

[@narlus]

Nipple, unfortunately there was no board mix or anything like that for audio, just the simple mono on-board mic of my camera. so consider this a drum-heavy mix.

[@earthamps]

holy shit! matt is playing guitar with a shirt on!!

[@lazylion420]

tfw a Marshall stack is just your little practice amp... before you step out from behind the Great Wall of Orange

[@ThatAnnoyingStepdad]

Absolute masterpiece of a track this

[@GONZOM1]

they need their green amps back from hank III

[@Minotauro_di_Chieti]

That ride, that damned ride!!!

[@tomarik]

This was fucking awesome. Please do more of these.

[@RudeDudeVooDoo]

Just looked at your channel and whats a girl like you doing in a place like this? seriously. Though, it is fucking awesome that you enjoy sleep. Check out Tuber. Not like stoner or doom but something pretty awesome.

[@Antdevamp]

When I turn it on, I turn on the trees, and rip it for 29 minutes. Cops drive up and just listen in shock, like, "What is it?"

[@LeoValen9]

This sounds like they are jamming in my garage, but why only 8 minutes of it???

[@BigShrdr]

i need more of this

[@SeanRetta-rc9pq]

The only song where you can skip ahead a week and the drums haven't kicked in yet. Fucking love sleep!

[@Kotsowotso]

Who's that guy in the black shirt? He a back up guitarist or something?

[@C0nnie]

almost sounds like a different song on Marshall amps wtf

[@naoexistimos777]

C0nnie i think is more about the quality of the recording.

[@18JR78]

lotusflowerdeathstar That’s part of it but the real difference is the Marshall amp, they always sound so thin for this style.

[@notryan1502]

I was thinking the exact same thing Those green amps don’t fuck around

[@juanvaldez5422]

a literal wizard matamp greens and orange amps

[@Count_Apollyon5]

I think he just using the MARSHALL power section ..

[@dhenriquezmedia]

I never thought i'd get to see this.Awesome1

[@CaseyChristopher]

Was mostly in jest my good man, Thanks for making the video at all. ;)

[@robertherberg9595]

Chubby. Weed, success, beer, and pizza, and time. It's all good.

[@pl33]

wow..catchy and i can dance to it..

[@orkandbt]

Your drumming sounds perfect to me man, oh and nice rush shirt!

[@dischargedarrowgetback4322]

The picture on Dopesmoker's jacket resembled that of Roger Dean, who was in charge of the art side of Yes.

[@hookerwithapenis2168]

Matt pike with a shirt?! I have seen everything. I can die now

[@lydaalvarez123]

Wow! More of this?

[@19weedy86]

I wanna see them live, where, when, I've got to go!? Austria

[@PlayTimeTV]

Super quality video

[@riothood]

I wonder that's that black pedal that Al is using, and grey one too

[@zirconencrustedtweezers]

Haha people always give me shit for wearing ear foams to metal shows... look at Roeder plugging them up before they start to jam.

[@heru-tehutire1329]

Austin Eddington-Howe You're doing the right thing! Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend of the Who wish that they had.They've lost like 85% of their hearing during their career. The Who was in Guiness Book of World Records for a couple of consecutive years in 74' and 75' (I think) as loudest concert band.

[@zirconencrustedtweezers]

Yea. Whenever I play or go to a show, I'm stuck with ringing the rest of the next day. I just got sick of it.

[@zirconencrustedtweezers]

***** Yea, it is better to plug them up to keep your ears alive to hear another day.

[@ks-zc1jh]

WHAT?!? Huh?!?

[@skatterpro]

I've heard that many techs actually set up the sound specifically to sound good through plugs. Definitely the smartest choice.

[@keaganoconnor5277]

NICE RUSH SHIRT LIL BOY!

[@4JtheKing]

This was shot on my birthday :D

[@dryerofdoom]

Ugh the drums sound so good

[@phantomlord91]

Wow... Matt with a shirt?

[@-Project-bp4kd]

Cold guitar Riff

[@italocarvalho1030]

My favourite guitar player.

[@Clawforbycicle]

anyone know what kind of cymbals are those? Paiste Giant Beat?

[@doomon2160]

Max Cavalera photo behind Matt,cool

[@spenlaub]

Wish they played the whole thing live

[@sanjuro787]

the bassist have a pedalboard and the guitarrist havent,epic

[@TheMetalAllfather]

The father, the son, *THE HOLY RIFF!*

[@TheMegadeth350]

No Green amps??

[@Baiaii]

So do Al use a Ampeg Portaflex 500 or 800 as head/top in this clip?

[@sandmann7685]

is that chris's kit? if so anyone know what model? if not anyone know what type of kit chris used? thanks

[@g10v4n3_]

quem sabe faz ao vivo, muita qualidade no som da banda

[@Malegys]

Just doesn't have the same effect without Chris Hakius's hypnotic precision & reality-transcending groove.

[@M43STR0_dnb]

IMO their current drummer does a really good job emulating Hakius

[@MethSloth]

Jason rules. I've never understood people like you that need to shit on someone just to praise someone else.

[@Malegys]

@@MethSloth that's hardly "shitting" on someone, when merely expressing a preference for a former member. are you one of those utopian snowflakes by any chance?

[@robertsmithers9059]

They need to rehearse this? I would think it's indelibly ingrained in their beings.

[@thomascarmichael6659]

+Robert Smith Always need to rehearse. Always.

[@jakeherington7237]

Thomas Carmichael unless you’re Lars

[@naoexistimos777]

@@jakeherington7237 well, he still needs, he just doesn't. That's why it sound like he didn't

[@QCCTL]

Can barely hear Al.

[@joshgallman1]

SO GOOD

[@BulletmanDoom]

The beast awakens once more

[@jmanitowabi]

That Marshall may sound good in its own way but man you can really tell the difference between the Marshall and the Green amp.

[@Paddyboy]

Yeah it sounds like Lemmy is playing Dopesmoker 🤣

[@FarfilicusStarship]

So bizarre that the drums cut through the guitars THAT much

[@SuperLeonard55]

Does anyone knows what is the cymbals set up?

[@OneTrueVikingbard]

This should be the rehearsal of the first 8 minutes of Dopesmoker

[@_rchives_rchived]

i love how youtubes suggestions are documentarys on social disorders, an emma goldman. somehow they suit these amazing musicians

[@lockyp204]

Hold that riff, just going to put my washing on...I'll meet you at the intro in 10 mins

[@VHToff0li]

Om + High on Fire = Sleep Is like putting Exodia together

[@gonkdroid2539]

More like Sleep : 2 = High on Fire and Om since Sleep was there before both of them

[@Mp57navy]

@@gonkdroid2539 Joke's on you 2, they're the same band. Matt Pike is in all 3.

[@Thommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm]

@@Mp57navy matt pike doest play in om

[@simonelse1150]

Can someone tell me is it three 22" paiste crashes?

[@fbwqmyxd6j]

at least this guys intro give the other guys time to chop up and change the bong water.

[@shaffera17]

man Matt and Al are puttin on some pounds! Now their even HEAVIER!

[@fuzzfiend]

this was recorded 10 years ago, and I'm barely questioning why Matt Pike is using a marshall lmao

[@jerry71ify]

I think he should keep practicing that intro....and it might not be long enough

[@zlickDude]

jerry71ify hahaa oh my god yes.

[@pedrocuello4986]

Como pueden haber tres personas que no les gusta este temazzzzo, SLEEP es la mejor banda que ha existido, ojala pudieran venir a Chile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rodrigorivera4679]

Que venga om por ultimo ctm :'(

[@clydeg4274]

How do they know they’re done?

[@awrygargoyle]

As jetlagging as they could be the end result at the gig was nothing sort of glorious and pummeling

[@smg66]

this is rad!

[@nomadichobo5161]

Matt was coming in a little light until bout halfway then it was glorious!

[@AnwayPramanik]

In jam rooms, often the percussions dominate all other instruments. So that's why it sounded a little low to us. Matt's probably got in-ear monitors here, I'm watching this in Low Quality so i can't really make out.

[@jetaimemina]

@@AnwayPramanik lol "Matt Pike" and "in-ear monitors" in the same sentence

[@DaisyHead666]

@@jetaimeminaHe did say in the most recent rig rundown video that he doesnt wear earplugs lol. not the brightest idea but.. oh well, its Matt Pike. He’s the riff god for a reason.

[@kooo0]

thinking the exact same thing the past years...and now as a guitar player even though i can technically play arpeggios and stuff ,i enjoy playing music that can actually mean something to me or any1 really ,despite its technical difficulty.....

[@1fatherwinter]

anyone know why haikus isnt doin th sleep reunion?

[@BulletmanDoom]

Are the walls green from all the weed?

[@naoexistimos777]

Ians surname Yes. This is actually their third take on Dopesmoker that day. When they arrived walls were white

[@branededd]

where is the bong at?

[@kellymoon3406]

Still got it!