I hate to see a thread get ignored. While I wouldn't call myself a King's X fan, I do remember hearing their songs and thinking it was a really cool mix of big meaty guitar sounds with lush harmonies on top.
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Posts: 155 | Location: USA | Registered: September 23, 2003
holy crap, you guys just got alot cooler!!!!!!!!!!
I have seen them live about 7 times and even went through a phase where me and some buddies put together a band and did an entire kings x set (although a little week i must say) I have met ty a couple of times and he is about the coolest guy in the world. His vibrato is cooler to look at then jennifer aniston's arse
just had to pipe up hehe
Posts: 289 | Location: ILL-ANNOY | Registered: May 05, 2003
I've seen them 2 times (around 93') in a med-sized club and to this day, of all the amazing musicians I've seen and met, those shows STILL top my list of being the finest, most entertaining musicial performance. I wasn't sure if they could pull all the vocal harmonies off live, but I assure you, they WHOOPED arse--it was BEYOND amazing!! Turtle, Dogman & Earcandy are both good--go check out Gretchen Goes to Nebraska--it will change your life!!!! I'm glad they are still around, I really like their earlier stuff, still makes my head spin!!
"Give me a Kendrick and a chain saw and....wait, what was I talking about?"
just saw them on their 10 year anniversary tour and he was using his new yamaha guitars with duncans, wilkinson bridges into a pod pro into a boogie power amp, and he had the MM4 with expression pedal sitting on the floor with an expression pedal and the FB4 running the POD pro.........he also had a rackmounted rectifier head in the rack, but it wasnt even turned on.........two yamaha cabs, and two rectifier cabs........and his hands.........what a frikin pimp......his vibrato is just about second to none.... Doug had a rack full of stuff but he was using the Yamaha modeling preamp that Ty supposedly endorses in there a GT preamp, and sitting on top was a Traynor head into two or three SVT cabs. Their harmonies..........right on it was killing me how they could do all those polyrhthmic figures and sing harmonies at the same time. I think each of them have 4 halves to each of their brains
Posts: 289 | Location: ILL-ANNOY | Registered: May 05, 2003
Very cool - I saw them in Providence during the Dogman tour - I think that was the Dual Rec / Zion phase.
Fave albums - I gotta say I think they lost it in later years. Self titled would be my #1 followed close by FHL and then Gretchen. Dogman and OOTSP tied next, then everything else. I don't even own anything after Ear Candy. I've got some demos of them doing here comes the sun when they were called "The Edge" - very, very cool.
"Poor soul, he was just too high strung... I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear."
Posts: 2114 | Location: Somerset, MA USA | Registered: January 17, 2002
I first heard them on Headbangers ball around '88. It was the video to "Over my Head" I was blown away mostly by the sould in Dougs voice. I bought "Kings X" and "Gretchen goes to Nebraska" I have loved those guys ever since.
Songs like Don't Believe It, Prisoner, World Around Me, etc... I wish I could write tunes like that!
The only thing I never cared for was Ty's singing voice. He is great during the harmonies, but I can't stand when he sings lead. ____________ Lawrence D.
best band in the world no doubt....i had a ty sig yamaha it was WAYYYY too light didnt feel like a guitar....i have all the X albums and i stand by Dogman as my favorite
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