NIИ and the Importance of Amazing Live Shows

Hello all, this is going to be a bit of a blog post.

One of my favourite groups, or perhaps composers, is Trent Reznor in the band Nine Inch Nails. They are by far one of the most superior live acts around – because of a certain degree of enthusiasm that they have of not cheating their audience. The fee for my floor seat for their show in Vancouver was a hefty $110. The best thing about the digital age is that I can take a look at what that live show looks like – and I know personally I will not be disappointed.

I remember that one day a few years ago, one of the fan made DVDs was put on the big screen for an afternoon in Vancouver at the Pacific Cinematique and I was there with an old friend and bandmate of mine. Little did I know what I was in for.

The concert was horribly long. And horribly beautiful. There was something bizarrely resonant within the entire performance with me – this was made by fans for a band, this entire lights show was the best in the world (at the time, and in my opinion) and nobody could top this. I was feeling awful afterwards knowing I would never see NIN on stage in my life.

And then they just had to come back and bring an epic lights show with them with masterfully precise musicians and an album. Needless to say, “Came Back Haunted” has been played literally over 1000 times on my iTunes since I pre-ordered the deluxe album.

The degree of seriousness and respect NIN has for its fans, as well as for its own integrity of making a proper live spectacle, is something to aspire to and idolize. And it will be for many years. See you down in front.

Writing Melodies on the Electric Guitar

I can’t stress how important this concept of melody writing is. I cannot stress enough how amazing it is to write a song in 5 minutes with this technique and then develop it into something more.

For the musicians out there, please check this out. It will greatly add to your repertoire and make rehearsing a lot more fun and immersive – something I don’t mention in the video.

All the best!

PS: IT WORKS FOR GUITAR SOLOS TOO

A New Cover?!

I have manifested an EPIC new cover of a favourite old Super Nintendo games theme tune. I can’t say much more about it. I could tell you that it’s hilariously epic. I could tell you that it gives me chills when I play certain parts of it. And I can tell you I hate alien space bugs and space pirates. But you would still not understand the vicious epic feeling of the song.

I will do a video accompanying it in the next day or so.

Excitement all up in this.

A Glorious view near Jasper, Alberta

Mountain of God

This is a photo I took on the way to Edmonton when AUROCH was off to play at WORDLESS INVOCATION FEST with the mighty DIRE OMEN, BEGRIME EXEMIOUS, and MITOCHONDRION. With special buddies in RITUAL NECROMANCY from Portland it was truly a delightful time.

Updated Site(s)…

So here we are! An updated site!

First things first, there is an Instagram feed on the right sidebar now, as well as some links to my Bandcamp page at the very top (see Featured Songs).

The next thing is the Bandcamp page itself:http://www.paulozzmusic.bandcamp.com/

I updated that and have a lot of other cool things going on too.. please be sure to check out the rest of the site as some of the updates will be ongoing.

Thank you for your support.

P.O