Rollins Band - Disconnect (All Instrument Cover w/ Vox)

Here's a cover of Disconnect, the lead track and second single from 1994's Rollins Band album, Weight! Weight was a real breakout record when it came out propelled by the lead single, Liar. Those who made it past the novelty of the lead single (or were already fans particularly form the previous record The End of Silence) discovered Weight is a record loaded with angular lead guitar lines, groovey and dissonant yet aggressive bass lines, and some knockout tight drumming. Disconnect, the 2nd single (which I never heard on the radio!) is a great example of this with a fat blues bassline on the verses accompanying two octave drones on guitar, followed by a chorus with an atonal bassline accompanying a lead guitar that suggests harmonic minor, all glued together by heavy drum grooves and introspective vocals.
For tracking, the approach was to double track guitars for the verses, and then add a 2nd set of double tracked guitars for the choruses and bridges to better create sonic separation between the verses and everything else. Bass was tracked with a more aggressive grit than my usual bass tone, even adding a fuzz over the guitar leads. Speaking of which, the polyrhythmic guitar part at the end of each bridge, despite being clearly picked on the record, I had to tap because I couldn't get my left hand around playing it in one position at tempo. Quite the slippery guitar part!
This record is a long time favorite of mine, and it was a blast learning all the parts to this song, a very well constructed track!
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[@WildMonkDrumcovers]

Well played my man!! Love your video's 🤘

[@thesosomusician]

Cheers! I've been having a blast putting them together, the channel is a great excuse to learn songs I've always wanted to but never got around to

[@WildMonkDrumcovers]

@@thesosomusician haha i know that feeling al to well👌 Its a good excuse te do the things you love and improve every time🤘 Rock on my friend

[@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers]

Always liked Mr. Rollins a lot (especially his spoken word tours or w/e), but never really got into Black Flag, for some reason. Rollins band was awesome though imho. Guitar/bass sounded awesome, and I thought your vocals in the verses sounded cool too man! Nice job.

[@thesosomusician]

Cheers! Same here, Black Flag is a bit to punk rock at its core for me (although you still hear things in their songs that you wouldn't hear on most punk records), but Rollins Band (particularly that Weight and Come In and Burn lineup and a bit with The End of Silence) has a definite jazz and metal edge to them. If you like those eras of Rollins Band, there's not alot of bands that did something similar. Rollins vox are easier to pull off from a pitch stand point, but not from a charisma stand point! The fun thing I've really been observing from doing vocals is how extremely crucial particular vocalists are to certain bands, especially from the pre-autotune/quantize everything era. There's definitely certain uncapturable uniqueness to some vocalists, the best you can do is hang on for the ride!

[@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers]

@@thesosomusician he does have a lot of charisma, that's true lol. I enjoyed the cover all the same though! Great job imho.