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Southern California’s “16” started in 1992 when founding members and longtime friends (since the age of 14,) guitarist Bobby Ferry, drummer Jason Corley and singer Cris Jerue (Cris Goebel at that time) needed a way to vent life’s frustrations. Ray Barbee, world famous skateboarder, suggested that his friend Benji could play bass, so the 4 started jamming anywhere they could, trying to put songs together and have a good time. Practices were drunken weeded-out nights of figuring out how to write songs and work their equipment as none of them had ever been in a band before. They wrote 4 songs and longtime friend “O,” (Olivelawn/Fluf,) suggested they record their songs and try and get some shows.
Not knowing anything about recording they went into a studio in Santa Ana, CA and recorded a 4 song demo tape that was never released. The band at this time was named “Fifteen”, chosen because Bobby, Cris and Jason all had 15 year old girlfriends while they themselves were in their early twenties. A few weeks later they learned from some punk magazine like “Flipside” or “Maximumrocknroll” that there was some shitty band already named “Fifteen,” so they did the next logical thing and increased the number by one to “16”. This was a great idea as Cris’ girl just had a birthday. The band kicked out Benji as he just could not hang with Bobby, Jason and Cris’ sarcasm, attitudes and large amount of chemical consumption. Another bass player, Greg Burkhart, was added and band recorded its first four songs that same year at Doubletime Studios and released the songs themselves as the “Doorprize” 2 X 7” with money Jason won in Las Vegas.
Not knowing anything about recording they went into a studio in Santa Ana, CA and recorded a 4 song demo tape that was never released. The band at this time was named “Fifteen”, chosen because Bobby, Cris and Jason all had 15 year old girlfriends while they themselves were in their early twenties. A few weeks later they learned from some punk magazine like “Flipside” or “Maximumrocknroll” that there was some shitty band already named “Fifteen,” so they did the next logical thing and increased the number by one to “16”. This was a great idea as Cris’ girl just had a birthday. The band kicked out Benji as he just could not hang with Bobby, Jason and Cris’ sarcasm, attitudes and large amount of chemical consumption. Another bass player, Greg Burkhart, was added and band recorded its first four songs that same year at Doubletime Studios and released the songs themselves as the “Doorprize” 2 X 7” with money Jason won in Las Vegas.
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Blaze of Incompetence
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blaze0007 wrote:
Ah crap, wrong band...
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Jimsonisolation wrote:
Yeah the vocals are like that on everything, maybe an acquired taste.
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NOHOPEFORHEROES wrote:
Superjoint Ritual is a funny comparison. 16 is awesome but SJR is a one-off.
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almightyjoey wrote:
I'll go and play in some traffic for you, then.
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Smirnon wrote:
Blaze of Incompetence is their best effort imo, Drop Out comes 2nd. but yeah, you can't get around the vocals on any album of theirs.
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becala wrote:
It's true, I am not a big fan of Helmet, though I frankly haven't tried listening to them since the mid-90s, so perhaps that assessment isn't fair. I really have not listened to any of 16's recorded stuff. Like I said, my experience with them was hearing okay riffs through not-the-best-sound, and then hearing the vocalist start up what I interpreted to be pansy pig-screams. When he said, "Whuuuaaaah, I fucked up again!" is about when we made our exit. BUT I think I will give an album a try based on the description of their actual music here. Especially since I'll be seeing them again in the spring at MDF. Jimsonisolation, got an album rec to start with?
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Jimsonisolation wrote:
Recent act? they've always been sludge, man some of you need to be hit by a truck.
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Jimsonisolation wrote:
That's great, but if you hate the vocals you're also hating Helmet.
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becala wrote:
Vocals caused me to leave the bar where they were playing 1/3rd of the way through their first song. This is only a matter of preference, I realize, but I'm just saying: I hated the vocals so much I LEFT THE BAR before Black Cobra played.
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namnatulco wrote:
V this is a correct interpretation.
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dormice wrote:
Vocals somehow remind of Hatebreed :/
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Lord_Krichian wrote:
ah blaze of incompetence still rules ;p so much energy on there
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almightyjoey wrote:
Yeah, but I think they're definitely got a more sludge thing going on now. When they were just starting out, I think they seemed more Hardcore Punk and stoner.
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matsodCrew wrote:
life sucks leave me alone!
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Wyzt wrote:
One of my favorite albums of the year, damn you guys are good.
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AntyM92 wrote:
These guys got me into sludge. ALL HAIL THE DOOMY RIFF
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Smirnon wrote:
haha yeah lol @ 16 being a recent act
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shitscud wrote:
@ Deput666: Superjoint Ritual? You've got to be fucking kidding. In no way is it at all the "redneck stomp" of that band. Pfft, fucking casual listeners. @ almightyjoey: "Recent"? Dude, they've been around for 17 years.
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yearfuture wrote:
Fuck this band.
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Grimgamer1 wrote:
good stuff
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16 "Throw in the Towel" September 8th, 2009 at Knockout
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