Idk, they saw a lot of commercial success, they then proceeded to a crowd-funded album that earned well over the ask. They had amazing musicians perform with and record with them on their albums - playing with some of the most successful musicians in their sphere of influence - made it in time to go on MTV in some of the golden years that was left of that media corporation. The guys started Sheet Happens in collaboration of some Prog/rock/metal/etc. giants, and continue to do well as their primary source of income (relatively speaking). Their records, merch, and services often go sold out (up for debate considering how things are marked out of scarcity - however, still very impressive compared to their constitutes. I believe that they adore the persona of their roots (as seen in Palimpsest being their most recent LP record) - in their "Of Our Own Volition" series, the back and forth of commercial success with record labels put a sour taste in their mouth, quoting (17:30) "Labels are stupid or evil but just show that like well we give it a decade decade plus years and we have we've never really seen a royalty check or anything like that so maybe it's time to try a new way do we really need the whole infrastructure of a label and I think it was a unanimous no to me like they just didn't really provide any benefit and outside of a couple of friendships that I've made within that group I didn't think that I was doing anything other than sawing off a gangrenous limb" - which proceeded the crowdfunding campaign. The fans kept them afloat for sometime and continue to do so (again, relatively speaking), and to this day are working on new material with lives of their own. To this day, I listen to Rody's podcast and partake on the Patreon as a token of the many years and memories that they provided for myself and my friends. This is all not to gaslight your claim here as I see the enthusiasm and agree to some degree; however, at what point do they finally meet being properly "rated"? The life is about the journey rather than the fleeting conclusion that we hope for. The band has had an incredibly long shelf life and has stayed true to this day whilst retaining their identity (even through the changing of it's members). Many great bands came after who sought inspiration through PTH, which does age well for them while they continue to create. *I like to write, so, that explains this overtly long response.* Cheers,
Super clean cover. I miss this protest the hero so bad. Seen the guys play live multiple times but sadly most the original members have left. Arif was one insane bass player
@@ajwsings not live. I literally saw them like two months ago in Seattle, and it’s just the singer and guitar player. The dude has gone ball. I can’t remember his name. The other guitar player is just a studio guitar player now.
Oh my!!! I had no idea you were a fan of my favorite band ever... What an absolute treat this was and would love to see more protest related content! Bangin cover. Great sounding tone and bass. Love it!!!
I got to see Last Chance To Reason, Scale The Summit and Protest the Hero outside of Pittsburgh! What an amazing group of bands to see live! Thank you for the upload!
Damn I would have been so happy to see Last Chance to reason ! I love Mike lessard . One of my favourite vocalists. And protest the hero are amazing too. I'm not as big a scale the summit fan but I'm sure they would be amazing
WOW -- two videos in a row with new DINGWALLS..... The D-Roc tone is outstanding. Very authoritative. Yesterday's video with the combustion/NG sounded very much like your standard tone, thru your standard rig and plugins, but this D-Roc tone is very distinctive for you.
@climberguywhoboltssometimes I'm a guitar guy so this requires thought to appeal to the bass crowd. Please just be nothing off the first two records. I love them but post 90's propagandhi is next level.
Arif was just a complete madman/genius and you showcase that here brother🫡..just the fact that he played lead bass and wrote the lyrics for their two biggest albums shows you how special arif was..nothing was the same after he left😢
@@abdulmohsin23 100%, that’s why you hear a decline overall after fortress..both were concept albums with a story behind it. As much as I liked scurrilous it lacked some structure and the lyrics were all pretty much rody and maybe Luke if I’m not mistaken, but Arif was exhausted and was moving towards leaving the band and heading into other passion projects
The color scheme on that bass is just fantastic. That's the exact copper-orange color I've always envisioned for a luthier-made bass. I'll even save this video as reference for the future. That said: superb playing, as always!
you absolutely killed this! i saw pth with arif years and years ago, through their whole set he was making silly faces and generally acting so casually. it totally blew me away that he wasn't just able to play those bass parts, but to also make them look so easy
Ha! I hadn't played this in awhile, so I pulled out my guitar and played along while watching. Good call! That riff that ends the song is just the most satisfying thing to play.
@@LowEndUniversityI’ve been wanting to suggest a protest the hero song for you but the comments are already flooded by the time I get here. The band ties in well with the punk theme lately given how they started!
please do any song off fortress that isnt bloodmeat! tbh its kinda overplayed and there are so many great songs, remember sequoia throne!? XD @@LowEndUniversity
Ahh a man of culture I see. Seriously after seeing you burn through so many songs on the daily I am really curious what your tastes are and you could not have picked a better band to express that to me! I had the pleasure of seeing these guys way back in 2007 and also recently last year on Halloween and both times got to meet the band members and get some cool stuff signed, truly one of my favorite bands of all time! KIller axe and cover!
Man, I got so hooked on their first 3 albums. The first album (maybe EP?) doesn’t get referenced as much, but I really like the weirdness on that one too.
Calculated Use of Sound? It also wasn't readily available for a long time. The band finally put it on streaming platforms a few years ago after giving it away to subs on Bandcamp during the Pacific Myth run, and it just got its first ever pressing on vinyl last month!
Hells. Effing. Ya, bro. Very nice. One of my all time favorite bands, Roddy is the absolute boss. I'm kinda old, 40, and I've owned a lot of basses. I've never subscribed to the tone wood kinda of argument. Between things like fresh or old strings, a couple of pedals, like the mxr compression and maybe a tube screamer, to a nice rig like an amped svt 4 pro, I've found that you can pretty much make any instrument sound a certain way and how you want it to sound. It's pretty universal. But, I gotta say, those dingwalls truly sound like nothing else. Even Warwick, or foderos, or whatever the hell Les claypool plays, dont really sound that unique to me. I can sound sound pretty damn close to any of that with my trusty Ibanez. Dingwall definitely has a sound. Cant mistake it for anything else. I love it. Maybe one day I'll be able to snag one. Phew. Sorry for ranting. Sick cover, sick song, sick band. Glad you're not sick anymore. Be well, homie. Thanks for the rad content. Also, StS still rules.
I remember seeing this band at The Rockit in Toronto, Rody swinging from the rafters above the stage, just belting it out! So good! (Edited to get the name right)
![Protest The Hero - "Bloodmeat" [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rhMfz4HrcEA/mqdefault.jpg)
Extremely underrated band!!
😂😂😂 there’s always one in every post “EXTREMELY UNDERRATED BAND”
I think they’re fairly rated to be honest and I really like them🎉
I honestly thought they would be as big as Polyphia right now!!
Really nice guys, played our local venue in the middle of nowhere for this album.
Criminally underrated
Idk, they saw a lot of commercial success, they then proceeded to a crowd-funded album that earned well over the ask. They had amazing musicians perform with and record with them on their albums - playing with some of the most successful musicians in their sphere of influence - made it in time to go on MTV in some of the golden years that was left of that media corporation. The guys started Sheet Happens in collaboration of some Prog/rock/metal/etc. giants, and continue to do well as their primary source of income (relatively speaking). Their records, merch, and services often go sold out (up for debate considering how things are marked out of scarcity - however, still very impressive compared to their constitutes.
I believe that they adore the persona of their roots (as seen in Palimpsest being their most recent LP record) - in their "Of Our Own Volition" series, the back and forth of commercial success with record labels put a sour taste in their mouth, quoting (17:30) "Labels are stupid or evil but just show that like well we give it a decade decade plus years and we have we've never really seen a royalty check or anything like that so maybe it's time to try a new way do we really need the whole infrastructure of a label and I think it was a unanimous no to me like they just didn't really provide any benefit and outside of a couple of friendships that I've made within that group I didn't think that I was doing anything other than sawing off a gangrenous limb" - which proceeded the crowdfunding campaign.
The fans kept them afloat for sometime and continue to do so (again, relatively speaking), and to this day are working on new material with lives of their own. To this day, I listen to Rody's podcast and partake on the Patreon as a token of the many years and memories that they provided for myself and my friends.
This is all not to gaslight your claim here as I see the enthusiasm and agree to some degree; however, at what point do they finally meet being properly "rated"? The life is about the journey rather than the fleeting conclusion that we hope for. The band has had an incredibly long shelf life and has stayed true to this day whilst retaining their identity (even through the changing of it's members).
Many great bands came after who sought inspiration through PTH, which does age well for them while they continue to create.
*I like to write, so, that explains this overtly long response.*
Cheers,
Super clean cover. I miss this protest the hero so bad. Seen the guys play live multiple times but sadly most the original members have left. Arif was one insane bass player
the fat guy is just as good tho!
Nah, the singer and OG guitar players are still there. Just the bassist and drummer changed.
@@ajwsings not live. I literally saw them like two months ago in Seattle, and it’s just the singer and guitar player. The dude has gone ball. I can’t remember his name. The other guitar player is just a studio guitar player now.
@@ronthorn3 yeah
Oh my!!! I had no idea you were a fan of my favorite band ever... What an absolute treat this was and would love to see more protest related content!
Bangin cover. Great sounding tone and bass. Love it!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😉
Mad respect. This song is not easy!
Finally someone who gets the end of the tapping section right!
Well done.
Slick dude...nice friggen Ding too 🤘
Thanks so much Aaron!
Damn, Mark! You nailed each an every note!! 🔥🤘🏾
Thanks for the kind words! 🙏🏼 - it was a definite challenge 😬
I got to see Last Chance To Reason, Scale The Summit and Protest the Hero outside of Pittsburgh! What an amazing group of bands to see live! Thank you for the upload!
Rad!!!
Damn I would have been so happy to see Last Chance to reason ! I love Mike lessard . One of my favourite vocalists. And protest the hero are amazing too. I'm not as big a scale the summit fan but I'm sure they would be amazing
arif mirabdolbaghi and pth so underrated
Unreal!! I seen these opening for Lorna Shore just a few months ago and man their bassist could PLAY! Killed it man keep em coming!
We love hank now
WOW -- two videos in a row with new DINGWALLS..... The D-Roc tone is outstanding. Very authoritative. Yesterday's video with the combustion/NG sounded very much like your standard tone, thru your standard rig and plugins, but this D-Roc tone is very distinctive for you.
subbed just cause of this. PtH has been one of my favorite's since high school and I wish more react channels would give them the love they deserve.
Thank you so much!!!
Now you really need to do a propagandhi reaction video. Propagandhi was a big inspiration on PTH! This is so cool
The Reign of Unending Terror is all about them
Yes, propagandhi deep dive request here!
definitely need this
Agree! what would be a good song for the bass you think. Night Letters? Duplicate Keys?
@climberguywhoboltssometimes I'm a guitar guy so this requires thought to appeal to the bass crowd. Please just be nothing off the first two records. I love them but post 90's propagandhi is next level.
Absolutely excellent, this was the first PTH song I ever heard and I was immediately hooked
This was the first song of PTH’s that I heard and it completely blew me away.
Arif was just a complete madman/genius and you showcase that here brother🫡..just the fact that he played lead bass and wrote the lyrics for their two biggest albums shows you how special arif was..nothing was the same after he left😢
Wow...did he really wrote kezia and fotress?
@@abdulmohsin23 100%, that’s why you hear a decline overall after fortress..both were concept albums with a story behind it. As much as I liked scurrilous it lacked some structure and the lyrics were all pretty much rody and maybe Luke if I’m not mistaken, but Arif was exhausted and was moving towards leaving the band and heading into other passion projects
@@markmazz111 didn't know about this... Thanks dude
Absolutely beautiful cover.
Thank you very much!
That little thing at the end of the tapping part, sheesh. great job.
Such a banger song and you slayed it! Love your bass, too! Such a sick color!
I requested this a long time ago. Glad to see it!
Amazing cover! Canadian band on a Canadian bass, I like it 😎
I didn’t think about that!! 😍
Jesus, you slayed that. Bravo.
Dude that Dingwall sound freakin BOSS, and you did a great job on this.
Wow! I haven't ever realised how busy the bass gets in this song, great playing
Bro, I just heard this song for the first time on Spotify today. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! This bang is disgustingly sick!!!
Sick playing! Love this band.
Appreciate you!
just constant bangers from you! Between this and Less Than Jake, can't wait for more covers!
Oh dear god…just when I thought your content couldn’t get any better you go and drop this!? 🥹 Amazing! PTH GOAT
😇
Thanks for the introduction to some new music...and that bass.....WOW looks awesome and really like that tone
This album is amazing. Always loved that bass tapping part.
You absolutely killed this dude! One of my favorite PTH songs
Great choice for a cover, I was gutted when Arif left the band love his style. That tone!
Hell yeah man. Love this song I don't even think i've seen you do any covers. Good stuff.
OMG I grew up on protest the hero. I was at the show in newfoundland they wrote mist about years ago. Amazing cover man!
whoa.. lets get more of these plzzzz
Nice ! I have been loving this song for a long time but I did not realize how cool the bass was !
On Fire Man 🤘
Yes! I forgot about this band
The color scheme on that bass is just fantastic. That's the exact copper-orange color I've always envisioned for a luthier-made bass. I'll even save this video as reference for the future. That said: superb playing, as always!
Thank you! I agree, I love matte finishes in general. Just so clean and elegant looking.
Woah! I just now learned about them, im in., Damn good.
Saw this and I couldn’t have clicked on it any faster! My god, this was beautiful!
Thank you so much!!
you absolutely killed this! i saw pth with arif years and years ago, through their whole set he was making silly faces and generally acting so casually. it totally blew me away that he wasn't just able to play those bass parts, but to also make them look so easy
Killer work!
Jesus H Christ this is insane work. Love the video and love your content. Keep up the good work champ
Aw, thanks friend, appreciate the kind words!
My favorite tune by them! Incredible video
Thank you! Protest the hero is one of my all time favorites
You gotta react to the Toy Dolls - Sod the Neighbors
Found you bcuz of the Primus reactions, subbed bcuz you’re a Protest The hero fan.
Aw, thanks so much! Appreciate you!
Damn, Arif would have to be so very proud.
Such a cool song , and band
No way; what a wondrous surprise - again! Love these guys!
I would love to see a breakdown of one of their newer songs!
Nice work! What a collection of masterful riffs, played by a master
Thank you kindly!
Whoa... Did you go from 0 to multiple Dingwalls?
😎
I aspire to this level of bass skill…on a side note, that’s a beautiful D-Roc
Ha! I hadn't played this in awhile, so I pulled out my guitar and played along while watching. Good call! That riff that ends the song is just the most satisfying thing to play.
Ha! Nice! Yes, I crack up every time playing it. It’s just so perfect with that bass drop.
Arif is such a sick player/songwriter. Killer cover!
Beautiful playing.
Bro you shred!!
Amazing tone and playthrough!
Yesssss, finally. One of my favorite bands, hopefully your doing g a full review/reaction.
Should I? I thought about it...obviously would be more of an analysis / breakdown. If enough people would be interested, I can!
@@LowEndUniversity Please do one! Arif was a beast player!
@@LowEndUniversityI’ve been wanting to suggest a protest the hero song for you but the comments are already flooded by the time I get here. The band ties in well with the punk theme lately given how they started!
@@LowEndUniversity Definitely do a full breakdown. That would rule!
please do any song off fortress that isnt bloodmeat! tbh its kinda overplayed and there are so many great songs, remember sequoia throne!? XD @@LowEndUniversity
That bass is sick!! Damn cool
These were pretty young when they wrote this, incredible talent!
Ahh a man of culture I see. Seriously after seeing you burn through so many songs on the daily I am really curious what your tastes are and you could not have picked a better band to express that to me! I had the pleasure of seeing these guys way back in 2007 and also recently last year on Halloween and both times got to meet the band members and get some cool stuff signed, truly one of my favorite bands of all time!
KIller axe and cover!
That bass tone was meaty AF.
protest the hero c,est la vie. great song
That was sick as hell! 🤘
Killed it!!
That's pretty good mang
Reminds me of mathcore, you should definitely analyse 43% Burnt by The Dillinger Escape Plan, absolute madness from every member.
I've been waiting for dillinger or converge reactions but if he listens to this then he must know the former.
Man, I got so hooked on their first 3 albums. The first album (maybe EP?) doesn’t get referenced as much, but I really like the weirdness on that one too.
Calculated Use of Sound? It also wasn't readily available for a long time. The band finally put it on streaming platforms a few years ago after giving it away to subs on Bandcamp during the Pacific Myth run, and it just got its first ever pressing on vinyl last month!
I love it the cover series you're doing! Two of my favorite bands back to back! You do a streetlight manifesto cover and you'll be three for three.
Love PTH thanks for that
I still break my neck on that breakdown every time I hear it. \m/
Love that Dingwall.....👍
Love Protest! Great cover.
Oh my... that was elf's badass my Brotha-O-Bass \m/.
I'll subscribe just because this cover!
Saw your reaction to The Who Won’t Get Fooled Again. Here is John Entwistle’s isolated bass from that performance.
That was wicked.
SICK
Perfection!
That’s a beautiful bass.
What in the bricks are those pickups?! Dope playing and beautiful bass wow.
Thank you! They are the in-house pickups also made by Dingwall. Very different from what I’m used to, and it’s been fun learning their nuances.
Nice!
Hells. Effing. Ya, bro. Very nice. One of my all time favorite bands, Roddy is the absolute boss. I'm kinda old, 40, and I've owned a lot of basses. I've never subscribed to the tone wood kinda of argument. Between things like fresh or old strings, a couple of pedals, like the mxr compression and maybe a tube screamer, to a nice rig like an amped svt 4 pro, I've found that you can pretty much make any instrument sound a certain way and how you want it to sound. It's pretty universal. But, I gotta say, those dingwalls truly sound like nothing else. Even Warwick, or foderos, or whatever the hell Les claypool plays, dont really sound that unique to me. I can sound sound pretty damn close to any of that with my trusty Ibanez. Dingwall definitely has a sound. Cant mistake it for anything else. I love it. Maybe one day I'll be able to snag one. Phew. Sorry for ranting. Sick cover, sick song, sick band. Glad you're not sick anymore. Be well, homie. Thanks for the rad content. Also, StS still rules.
Fuckin A man!!! Great to see you play a whole track😮. I forgot how great that band is
That fast stuff reminds me of the "tech punk" band's like A Wilhelm Scream, there is a whole group of those band in the Punk scene
that fuckin rocked
I got them, they hit my house in Newfoundland. I washed them for yah. This bass line was insane ... I'll have to learn a song by them or this one .
Nailed it, sweet cover. I'm here for any PTH cover. Or BTBAM😉
Dude. Sick
You, my good sir, are a FUCKING BEAST! This cover kick so much ass, I won't be able to sit down this week-end!
OMG I didn’t know you could actually PLAY the bass too!!!! Lol!! Sounds awesome!
lollllllllllllllllllllll
😂😂😂
He just likes to hold it while he does reactions, and shows off his perfect pitch while figuring out the bass parts on the spot 😂
@@sahamal_savu 😂🤘
Impressive 👌
Thank you! Cheers!
I remember seeing this band at The Rockit in Toronto, Rody swinging from the rafters above the stage, just belting it out! So good! (Edited to get the name right)
*Rody
@@TheMFYeti dang it! Much apologies! Thanks for correcting! That was These Colors Don’t Run days.
Wow 😮👌
You should Pearl Jam Rearview mirror!!!!
not my jaw on the floor for four minute straight
Alright!! You win the internet for today.