Bruce Burns yeah great point. I think rock is better off in this era when it isn’t so mainstream. Now hip hop has their ridiculous preening Axl Rose types (not that there’s anything wrong with hip-hop) and bands like Elder and Mastodon are doing it for the love of the music. Rock is the new jazz. Less mainstream but more significant.

Listen to turbid north they are more metal than rock but they are amazing and in the same style as elder and mastodon

Ken oath

Rock and roll itself as a style is pretty dead, it left a lot of innovation, but it has moved on into metal and progressive rock. Rock and roll (Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Link Wray etc.) is now more in bands that do the whole revival thing, like 60s psychedelia, but it never really gets anywhere, and that's not bad, it's just different now, not better or worse, that's not how evolution works, it's just different. But in the context that is meant by "Rock is dead", that's nonsense, it's still very popular and innovating a lot, Queens of the Stone Age and Royal Blood, Arctic Monkeys etc. Are prime examples of this, Gojira, Lamb Of God are other examples. It's mainly just humans that can't accept that change happens and that their favourite bands growing up are no longer really relevant for the most part (Deep Purple is exempt from this, Metallica, Maiden etc.), just like many of this generation's bands won't be relevant in 50years, and that's fine, it will be nice to hear what is, if I live that long, or if music recording is even applicable then.

Rock now is about youtube kids throwing impossible tapping licks from their bedrooms. when you've been growing comfortably in your daddies home with all kind of first world privileges, there's no much message to deliver other than my PC doesn't run the latest AAA game in ultra mode. Yes, this sound so boomer, so what?

And they had to rush to squeeze the two they played in.

In the ramones concert is equivalent a 20 songs haha

Yeah, but every ELDER-song is 7 regular songs. Same principle as dog years. 😜

ehehehe

0:00 Dead Roots Stirring 11:46 Gemini Y’r welcome 🤘🏻

+upinmyglider yeah, that riff at 9:16 just kills me

thats what got me into elder right there

@@synus5300 x2

haha, me too :D

Gravedigger Smart choice... don't care what the band was, still a smart choice

@@yourrealdad9442 Plot twist, it was Opeth

+Clayton V Agreed..

It's alright in the mix, but his vocals are waaaaaaaaaaaay too loud.

The biggest problem is it's only one guitar. The recordings on the albums always feature two guitars. Since their latest record they have finally a second guitar player for concerts.

​@@TonyRedgrave1501 They never needed a rhythm guitar as most exceptional 3 pieces have a bass player who fills that role. The real problem is you guitar happy sycophants.

Dead Roots Stirring

Weedruid thank you

+Fuzz Preacher Well, it was their third show in Austin that week during SXSW and this show was on Sat night and there are only a bajillion other bands playing in Austin that night...

+Fuzz Preacher they are probably losing their minds after being assaulted with the hundreds of banjo toting pop bands, head explodes

+Mike Simmons like who? what was the line up

***** Well, its SXSW. There are 60+ venues with music on Fri and Sat night (4-6 bands each). I dont remember the big shows this past year. Unfortunately the stonerrock vibe isnt as strong during SXSW as it was a decade ago.

They have 2 now.

Jurij Udovč - Gemini - from the album Dead Roots Stirring

He wouldnt be wearing a shirt

exactly!

The masses mostly neither have the intellect or the capacity to handle this kind of spiritual mind journey of sound; so it's only meant for a smallish audience. Consider yourself blessed that you can comprehend this sound journey; whereas the masses, intoxicated by rap and pop that the corporate media feeds them, well....they cannot!

Joe, so good to hear you are back from the dead.

I love this band, but damn, you're pretentious.

Are you kidding me? That is EXACTLY where I want to hear a band like this (or any other band). The North Door is a great venue by the way. Good sound, good space, bartenders pour heavy, great taps. And you want to listen to Doppler warble while you wait in the piss line at a stadium drinking lukewarm Lite swill. Newb

Agreed.

the vocals would surely benefit from being lower in the mix...

Yeah in the studio recordings the vocals are way down

And I see why now hahahahaha

I don’t think his vocals are bad, per se, but yeah they were definitely way too loud in this performance. Honestly all the mixing seemed pretty off overall, bass was way too quiet and the guitar was barely breaking through. Still love Elder though 🤘