My first PENNYWISE experience! Bass Teacher REACTS to "GET A LIFE"
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
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➡️ While I missed out on punk rock growing up, hearing Pennywise felt very familiar considering I DID grow up on a healthy diet of thrash metal. Hearing "Get A Life" instantly transported me back to high school when I was first discovering Metallica and Slayer with the most defining trait being their extremely "singable" riffs! They quickly become earworms that last for weeks. This song featured some pummeling licks from bassist Randy Bradbury, and it was almost a masterclass in how to "stand out" as a bass player in such a riff-oriented composition. I discuss his groove variations, his refreshingly-warm bass tone, some music theory behind the chord progressions, an analysis of his bass solo, and much more! 🤘🏼🤡🤘🏼
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0:00 Intro
1:16 Reaction / Analysis
10:48 Final Thoughts
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Mark Michell is an internationally-touring and recording bass player known for his work with Scale the Summit, Tony MacAlpine, Tetrafusion, Watermox, and more. Michell is a published educator and author for Hal Leonard, the world's largest music publisher, and has taught bass clinics around the globe for many years. He founded Low End University in 2015, and has since enrolled over 2,500 students through his lessons program. Alongside his educational endeavors, he played on many Billboard-charting album releases and is sponsored by Jackson Basses, EMG Pickups, and Dunlop.
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I love how the 40 year old nostalgic ska/punk era dudes hijacked this man's channel.
I'm here for it 🤘
Facts😂
🙋♂️
Looks in the mirror...Check. Nailed it.
Hey bucko! I’m 38 😂😂😂
Full Circle. What a record.
Hopefully he does the full album review on Patreon!
Top 5 best skate punk albums of all time IMO.
My intro to punk was full circle!
Mine was actually their Self Titled, but every Pennywise album until Straight Ahead is my favorite. Straight Ahead and after started to lose it for me. Once Jim left, it was never the same.
@@phxdwn121 Bang on for me too. Self-Titled through Straight Ahead are great albums.
"What's up, we're Pennywise from Hermosa Beach, California!" - circle pit starts immediately
Are you ready???? Are you fucking ready??
HAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
pennywise definitely ticks that "reliving my teenage years" box for me
To all my friends, present past and beyond Especially those who weren't with us too long Life is the most precious thing you can lose While you were here, the fun was never ending
Laugh a minute was only the beginning Canton, Colvin, Nichols, Keith, Tony this one's for you
Warped Tour 2001 - PW, 311, Alien Ant Farm, and SUM 41 in their musical youth. The nostalgia is real! Love the reactions!
💯!!
@@DaVe3112013 at warped 2001 I may or may not have thrown those little snap fireworks from the grocery store at people with the bouncing souls
Still living here. Geriatric punk rocker here!
The whole “unknown road” album was my teenage soundtrack
Nothing was my anthem for many many years.
My favorite album of theirs too!
For awesome 90’s/00’s era punk bass I’d recommend Bouncing Souls
Bryan Kienlen is an absolute weapon, both rhythmically and musically.
Manthem, True Believers and Hopeless Romantic are some of their biggest tracks. Would highly recommend checking them out!
Yes!!! Apartment 5F or anything from Anchors would be good! Hopeless Romantic would be great too! Well really all the classics would be good as well.
For sure
Bouncing Souls would be rad! Quick Chek Girl in particular…
For me Bryan has the best " modern punk bass tone" .
In an interview he once said his tone comes from playing like an " Apeman" 🙈
Man, I got my first and only tattoo when I was in highschool, Pennywise logo. 22 years have passed and everybody said I'll change my tastes in music. They were wrong! Still listening day by day to punk, it's my diesel fuel. PS. You're great man! Cheers! ❤
Love that! Glad they were wrong!! 😉
at 52 my musical taste has definitely become more diverse, but I still listen to everything I grew up on the most. First time I saw PW was in 92 and I still listen to them on a regular basis. They always make it into my playlists.
My first but not only tattoo was the Pennywise logo. My first punk rock album that wasn't greenday/offspring/rancid or the older classics was Pennywise. I heard Dying to Know from the first Punk-O-Rama and I was hooked.
@@leftofpunk nice. I have the entire warped tour 2001 concert poster on my calf . Love it
Lmao I’m 18 and just got a punk in drublic tattoo , friends had the same concerns lol
Love that Randy B. is getting some credit! Such a wicked bassline to this song
Your channel is the best thing happening on RUclips right now! You are covering all the great bands that grew up listening to. For the record: Randy was Jason’s bass teacher.
That’s high praise, truly - really appreciate you!
And, must’ve been somewhat special for Randy to carry the touch for him! Tragic stuff.
I will heartily disagree with NME calling Pennywise "pop punk", but they are definitely a great punk band.
Looking back, I see what you mean, haha! Zero pop punk vibes to me, but it was still a fun listen in the same type of way.
I always put Pennywise in the skate punk category.
Definitely not "pop punk".
No way is PW a pop punk band. They are melodic but they’re still hardcore in their sound. Hooky without being wanky
Pennywise is more SoCal skate punk. NOFX, Bad Religion, Guttermouth, the Vandals. Straight up punk but usually kinda bouncey & melodic.
Pennywise are just faster Bad Religion, and I say that with the highest praise for both bands.
BR is undoubtedly their biggest influence.
I've always considered Pennywise the better version of The Offspring. Unknown Road feels like a faster (and better) Ignition. Same with About Time and Smash.
Well damn it. Now I'm gonna hear that. LOL.
This doesn't sound that much faster than Suffer-era Bad Religion...
Also BR has a better vocalist, better melodies, and better lyrics
@@NinjaGaijinn It has such a great production Unknown road.
"Bro Hym Tribute" from this album (actually a re-recording of an earlier version) was written by former bassist Jason Thirsk and the re-recording was done in his honor. It is an amazing singalong song that still serves as the closing number for almost all of their shows.
Bro hym in the circle pit will live in my brain for ever
yeah gotta go with bro hym
I remembered it so well! Bro Hym st warped tour was the biggest pit I ever been in & seen!
he cannot miss bro hymn!
To me, Bro Hymn is the best punk song. For all our fallen brothers and sisters ✊
Pennywise is absolutely the 3-way intersection of thrash, hardcore, and pop punk. Great stuff.
I was a big Pennywise fan in high school. After graduating, I enlisted in the Air Force after being given less optimal options. Toward the end of basic training, we were allowed to shop at the commissary and I was excited to see a new Pennywise album. I bought it on cassette as I only had a Walkman and dug into it right away. It wasn't until Bro Hymn did the penny drop that I realized the bass player had died and what I was listening to was basically a funeral.
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@@LowEndUniversity you gotta do Bro Hymn at least listen it by yourself you cannot react to 90s punk without Ameican Jesus, Linoleum or Bro Hymn
Time to go skate! If only I could go back in time 25 years.. 😂
This is awesome. Pennywise is one of the bands I've listened to the most. Interestingly, after a long period of abstinence from punk music, I'm listening more and more again and enjoying this music even more (and differently).
Thank you for that!
Love it - thank you so much!
Hell yeah!!! One of my favorite bands. Bro Hymn definitely has their most recognizable bass riff. It's simple, but memorable. They do the song every concert as a tribute to Jason Thirsk.
"Same old Story" from About Time, I was 14, it was life changing. Smash from the offspring, Dookie, Punk in Drublic, Stranger than Fiction etc etc. 94/95 were good years.
btw, RUclips is flooded with "x teacher reacts" videos but yours are the only ones I watch through. Keep it up!
Still need to get to some of those! Definitely feel like 9/10 songs lately are from the mid 1990s, ha!
That’s so nice of you to say - means a lot! Glad to have you here, man! 🙏🏼
There's a great documentary called 'The Other F Word' based on Jim Lindberg's (PW Vocalist) book about being a father while being in a punk band. The documentary follows him through a tour and also features many other top punk stars talking about their experience as parents while being working, touring musicians.
that is a fantastic movie. the bits with lars from rancid, josh freese from the vandals (and now the foo fighters), and jim dyeing his hair, such good snapshots of their lives.
Absolutely a killer doc with excellent soundtrack. I haven't watched it in five years because I'm a dad now and I'm afraid I'll cry my eyes out 🤣
@@mikekristin7201 I cry at the same point every time, yet I still go back and rewatch it!
@@skapunker21 the bit with Lars and his kid walking to the playground is the cutest
Since about a month or so youve been reviewing the music that followed me all my life ! Thanks a lot for that !
My pleasure!
HECK YEAH. Love this song. This used to be my favorite record ever about 20 years ago and while it's not quite anymore, it's still one of my favorites. Especially like the lyrics on this album, particularly the bridge/breakdown/whatever on Get a Life.
I'm partial to About Time if we're talking Pwise records but Full Circle comes in a close second for me.
Yeah, that's my ranking as well.
My top 3 are the first 3, in reverse order. Then this one. The songs in About Time were the most relatable for me.
Oh yeah, About Time & Straight Ahead are 1/2 for me
Society and Bro Hymn off this album were two of the first songs I ever learned on my Bass almost 26 years ago.
Man, Pennywise is and always will be my favourite band :D Been loving all the punk coming from this channel recently, it is the reason I subscribed!
Means a lot, Matt! Really appreciate you!
You’ve done Descendents, time to give some love to ALL. World’s on Heroin, Cause (from the live album) or Honey Peeps are all winners.
I actually told the folks on Patreon that this entire time, I had never heard of ALL. I dug through my old music library on a hard drive, and found an Untitled track that turned out to be "Honey Peeps" by ALL. I just sat in confusion for like 3 minutes because I thought it was a Less Than Jake track for 20 years now. I can sing every lyric to it, it's so funny. Highly considering just doing a bass cover of it on here, because I remember it being way too difficult for me trying to learn it at 15. Little did I know, I've been hearing Karl's playing for over half of my life...but just that one song at the time!
@@LowEndUniversity All is so damn good. Breaking Things has Karl doing some great bass galloping. “Original Me”, “Right”, “Stick”…such good songs of that album. “Million Bucks” on Pummel. I like the albums where Chad is the lead singer 🤷🏻♂️
That song still gets stuck in my head . Cuz the world is ha
@@LowEndUniversity i love that. that made me smile. music magic!
@LowEndUniversity 😆 🤣 at first, I was thinking you're out of your mind, but I can kinda excuse it... 😆
F@ck Authority might be my favorite Pennywise song.
YES as someone who has been listening to Thrash for almost all my life and just recently started getting into Punk aswell, Pennywise is definitely my favorite band so far!! Good Riddance are quite similar, definitely another band you should review at some point🤘🏻🔥
Your videos are great! It is like showing your best friend all of your favourite songs, and he loves them all! Thanks for doing this!!!
So glad you've gotten to Pennywise!
(I would've gone with Broken, but this works 😁)
Fishbone - Bonin' in the Boneyard
Rollins Band - Grip
Bonin in the Boneyard is a must.
This whole album is a must…every song is choice.
First CD I ever bought was Pennywise's "About time". Oh jeez that's almost 30 years ago 🥹 Thanks for the inspiration for what music to play, haven't heard them since ages. Had one of those moments where I couldn't figure out what I was up for 😂
You’ve now heard every Pennywise song ever written
That is not true, they have quite a diverse style of music, especially in their later years.
Haha, this is my favourite Pennywise song and i didn't think anyone else really rocked with it so its great to see a comprehensive breakdown on the track!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Warped Tour '99 : Pennywise came on after Fenix*TX . The fun part was seeing the slower-moving fenix fans still around when Pennywise started. They were NOT prepared for the crowd's intensity many got caught in a quite raucus pit that formed. Hope they were ok lol.
SoCal skate punk had so many killer melodies both instrumentally and vocally. And every instrument got to show off! Underrated genre.
I know you're not a drum channel but this album has some great drumming on it. Fight till you die is insane
Man, I'm gonna have to go and listen to the album again aren't I? That album always moved me.
Always amazing with better and better songs each episode... got goosebumps by hearing Pennywise and such other punk bands... thank you again for this! SO COOL....SO COOL....
Appreciate you!!
Pennywise will be in Dallas October 1st..with the dropkick Murphys...
You can hear way more bass on Pennywise sings “Perfect People” & “Bro Hym”
GOOD RIDDANCE could also be interesting for you. goes more in the direction of hardcore punk.
Pennywise is one of the best live bands I have ever seen, regardless of the lineup. When Zoli took Jim's place before Jim came back, both shows are phenomenal. Highly recommend their live performances. They sound very close to the albums.
Pennywise is tops, and I owe a lot to ‘em. People are often times down on them for various reasons, but for me, they were the music (and words) I needed at 16 and as well into my 40s.
Unknown Road and S/T in particular will always be in my rotation.
Low End University continues to evolve into the Punk Appreciation Society!
Played with Pennywise a few years ago, a proper good bunch of lads.
I re-discovered my love for Pennywise with the release of their "Never Gonna Die" album.
I´ve been loving your punk rock journey through bass, it reminds me when I was living it back in the day, when you are so exited to know so many new bands and albums, and people around you keep telling you, "if you liked that band wait 'til you hear so and so..." I love your channel, specially the punk rock stuff
Thanks so much! I relate to that so much in high school but with metal / prog. It was right as social media was really blossoming and it quickly became so easy to discover new music. It was almost like you wanted to one-up your friends with cool new bands. Cheers!
FINALLY!!!!!!! Please do Bro Hymn, iconic punk song with sick bass lines! Pennywise has been in my workout soundtrack since teenage years! Cannot go wrong with! I'm stoked that you did it!
I started watching you when you picked up punk and now I stop by for each video. Being 44, youre definitely hitting a lot of the stuff from my youth. Id love to see you branch out to some of the rockabilly, psychobilly, horrorbilly etc. Tiger Army, Stray Cats, Misfits, etc etc
I can vividly recall putting this disc in my Sony Shockwave Discman and skating to school. Love this album !
Was yours blue or red
@@mikekristin7201 blue , I also had a yellow one way back
Great choice! So cool to see your enthusiasm for the stuff that shaped a lot of our lives. Cheers homey.
It's crazy how many bands and albums i think of as classics are ones that so many people never even heard of.
And it's weird hearing someone call pennywise pop punk they were one of the heavier, faster bands of that era and really defined pure punk to me in that era
"Bro Hymn" is one of my favorite basslines to play.
Well now you have to do Bros Hymn.
I remember reading an interview around the time this album came out and they were talking about how hard it was to find a bass player... Not because their stuff is overly complicated but just because they play so fast.
My favorite band! So pumped you found them!
Thanks for it, I was expecting this review. This bass line is very intense.
You bet!
I met this album almost 20 years ago... so nostalgic! and I still listening pennywise in my car.
They has many other songs with nice bass line.
Great video.
This album is the only one inside the punk rock world that truly broke all the rules and it really stood out in terms of musicality, extended notes and yeah, the vocals are quite familiar, but that thrash energy these guys power up, ohhhh man, that's something that not all bands would dare to do, much less in '97 with such commercial records.
Thank you so much for this bro.
I've always felt that Thrash was well played Punk with solos. Love them both. Great video.
That’s actually a perfect way to describe it!!
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Guitars, for sure. The punk drums and vocals are different tho. Propagandhi is the one punk band I can think of whose drums sound more like thrash.
Thrash, Crossover, and Hardcore are basically the same recipe with different ingredient ratios.
3 parts metal
1 part punk =Thrash
1 part metal
1 part punk = Crossover
3 parts punk
1 part metal = Hardcore
Thrash started out as a mixture of NWOBHM and British punk so kind of.
FWIW there was plenty of badly-played thrash at the time (I'm old) but we don't remember it now luckily!
I love Pennywise. One of the most underrated bands. Their whole discography is solid. Pop punk?
I love your tone so much. It so great.
love this band. seen em a bunch, can shout aling to all their old records. great lyrics too.
Amazing band. Never heard of them until this video. Now I’m hooked.
i forget which bands youve already covered but id like to see you cover bad religion and or the offspring.. im not sure which songs would showcase their bass players best but maybe some of ur viewers who are more bass savvy can reply to this comment❤
This guys speaks my life. Grew up on Metal/Thrash and bands like Pennywise turned me more towards punk rock music. The punk style thrash has such a different feel than the old school thrash of Metallica, Anthrax.
PW is such a great band
Pennywise and StrungOut. Greatest skate/thrash punk bands ever.
Randy B actually recorded Unknown Road so technically that was his first PW album
Best pennywise album !! Saw Them last year playing it live from start to finish what a night it was
Full Album live would be so siiick!
@@andychinaloy8013 it was insane they played 2 Nights in a row the 1st Night they played about Times and the 2nd Night they played full circle.
Good morning, Mark! Keep up the great videos!
Thank you, friend! I love that you're here every time! 🙏🏼
No Pennywise without Bad Religion!
Highly suggest Bad Religion soon if you're going through the greats of Punk Rock, Jay Bentley is a great bassist and great dude. Better off Dead and Turn on the Light are probably the best examples of his skills.
Pumped this album full volume on the way to go surf so many times!!!! Check out the song "bro hymn", a tribute song for Jason Thirsk.
This band got me into punk rock. Great band
Oh you hit a personal favorite. Randy and Jason were no slouch. And yeah, Pennywise are definitely drawing a lot from thrash. Lots of cues from Suicidal Tendencies, and also a some New York Hardcore, like Agnostic Front and Sick of it All.
Shoutout to Byron for the ridiculous drums!! 🤘🏻
I’ve played bass all my life. Randy has been super influential in my own personal bass work.
my absolute favorite band
My Favourite all time band glad you are doing a review
OH SHIT HERE WE GO! YESSSSSSS>>>>>>>>>>🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
my fav band ever cheers mate 🎉
All of us wanted to be Pennywise when I was 17 and in a punk band. It totally made sense because we were raised on Megadeath and Metallica in our early teens formative years.
GREAT choice of song and another great analysis!
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When you say punk with a thrash sound you are now starting to venture into the hardcore punk area. If you like the thrash style of punk look into Suicidal tendencies. I think you need to check out Dag Nasty
Thanks for the suggestion!!
@LowEndUniversity
Pennywise is skate punk or melodic hardcore (the two often went hand in hand), but there is a thrash metal connection.
Thrash metal was influenced by US Hardcore/Punk and UK D-Beat and Street Punk. Uk bands like a early Discharge, early the exloited, gbh or for the US styles early Bad Brains, misfits, minor threat, etc. Though there are lesser known way more extreme bands throughout the 80s, like United mutation, Cyanamid and Siege.
Hardcore was also sometimes called "thrash" before thrash metal was, especially the faster or more extreme kind (now called fastcore/thrashcore).
Anywho, these hardcore bands their interest in fast extreme sounds meant they quickly often went on to play "crossover thrash", hardcore related thrash metal. Inthe UK they instead mixed crust punk (anarcho punk+heavy metl) with hardcore, d-beat(came from anarcho punk), and thrash or death metal to give "stenchcore". The influence of theash metal on hardcore is quite immense in general. Take the New York Hardcore "Heavy Hardcore" sound focusing more on the heavier/slower extremer side of hardcore + the heavier slower parts of thrash metal.
Early on, skate punk was a term used for a buncha skater culture hardcore and crossover bands like JFA or Suicidal Tendencies. That and the influence of melodic hardcore like bad religion and pop punkof the descendents (both starting as just hardcore) paved the way to 90s skate punk like NOFX or 88 fingers louie.
Bands like Propagandhi mixed it with thrash metal more directly to give that technical skate punk sound. Thats how we got bands like A Wilhelm Scream.
You can hear plenty of thrash metal influenced riffs in skate punk as a result, but we cant forget thrash metal was also inflhenced by hardcore ofc.
When I listen to something like the song terrorize ny gang green(before they went crossover), to me that"thrash" feels like the punk equivelent to thrash metal. Then a band like cryptic slaughter feels like a mix of that punk thrash and thrash metal while leaning to hardcores mentality/approach.
REST IN PEACE JASON
FULL CIRCLE - COMPLETE ALBUM
THIS ONE IS FOR YOU
Best music reaction channel on RUclips by far. More PW please!🤘🤙
That’s super kind of you! I’ll circle back soon!
Bro you gotta do Jeff Rosenstock - Festival Song... He is a king among the DIY punk/indie scene and this song has a good bassline too. Definitely a must-add to your punk renaissance!
When i played drums for the punk rock girls. PW was one of the first big names we opened for.. so nostalgic..
Do Raised Fist (ignoring the guidelines) - Breaking me Up
or Refused (The Shape of Punk to Come) - summerholidays vs punkroutine *great driving dirty bass on both tracks!!!
Great video of a classic. Another great breakdown. See ya next time.
Much appreciated!! See you soon!
love Bro Hymn. from this classic album.
Yes! Thank you for this one!
You're so welcome!
I forgot how amazing this album was. Thanks!
Full circle was the first album I got obsessed with when I was 10. Tony Hawk pro skater 1 with full circle playing in the background lol.
You should check out Anti-Flag. Chris writes some of the most catchy and hookiest bass lines. Andy also wrote some intense lines before he left!
Bro you’ve got to review the band Mineral, the song is called Slower of their 1997 album “The power of failing”. I’m telling you this song won’t let you down. It’s incredible!! Keep up the great vids man! 🍻
Punky Brüster's Cooked on Phonics, is pretty good too :D
Would love you to check out the Offspring-bad habit. Its such a badass song that opens with a baseline that has never left my head
You should check out "Ignite" next. Great music, and technically probably the best vocalist punk has ever seen. He sang with Pennywise for a while too, while Jim was taking a break. "Bleeding" or "Fear is our tradition" would be my picks.
I'd also like to see your reaction to BoySetsFire - Rookie. Not as significant band as Pennywise or Ignite, but that song is a banger with a pretty sweet bass line.
11:12 Wow! Didn’t know you did Propagandhi on Patreon. You just got yourself a patron
I sure did! It blew my mind - still listen to tracks from that frequently. So good. Thanks for considering joining - the support for the channel means so much! 🙏🏼