The Making of Saloon | A Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
- We started writing "Saloon" in the spring of 2012. We wanted to capture something that was chaotic and unique but still had integrity and replay value. We were so young then (Dawson 20, Kyle 18, Tj 18, Parker 14) that trying to find our own sound was an extremely uphill battle. We were all trying to discover our own identities at that point, let alone write something that was true to ourselves. We scrapped dozens of songs over the course of 4-6 months and locked in a date to go to Canada to record in a really nice studio. When we arrived, we only had 30-40% of the record done, and it soon became clear that this record wasn't going to be finished there. In hindsight, I don't know how anyone would allow our unprepared asses to stay there. It's pretty embarrassing how immature we all were back then.
After 3 weeks in Canada, we headed back home to Idaho and took it upon ourselves to finish the album. Dawson dove headfirst into learning everything there is to know about production, sound design, mixing, etc., and the next 6-8 months became a whirlwind of making mistakes, writer's block, scrapping songs, dealing with broken gear, and everything you could think of that muddies up the completion of an album. We still look back and have no idea how we actually made it work. In Dawson's words, he describes it as this:
"Saloon was the dumbest, most nonsensical, train wreck of an album. We literally had no idea what we were doing, the most immature young adults that you could run into at any bowling alley on a Saturday night. We all look back and cringe. The whole process of making this record is like watching your 4-year-old play soccer and seeing them score on their own team."
HOWEVER, somehow it managed to be a magical and hilarious mess of beautiful art...and I wouldn't take it back for anything."
So glad you found this doc. This album is so good. You guys rule.
Awesome
Ignore the view count! I love this, just been busy with work
God I wish I could have bought Dawson a soldering iron and gave TJ my cheap squire bass back then… Kyle and occasionally Parker went to a small group at Mimi Allred’s house with me at that time. Everyone goes through insecurities around those ages, but look at you guys now!
Huge blessing and inspiration you guys have been to me and music. Btw… Kyle is so hot right now!
Its an amazing fucken album!!! Handamde tho....? ABSOLUTE MASTERY!!!
Great video, fantastic album, amazing band. Thanks for sharing your recording process.
Just hearing your solo vox, you are such a sick singer man.
Great documentary fellas! I remember when this was all rolling out and how much of a fan I was. One of my first "chaotic" heavy bands and its cool to the see the more in depth bts.
I am really impressed with your youtube channel and your outstanding video. I appreciate your video content here, sorry I don't usually write in comments section but I think you deserve this complement.. Thanks and stay safe 🌺🌸🌼🌹🌷🌻
crazy that this album has been out so long. i love experimenting with music. i loved seeing your process. great work all around. glad to see you guys still kicking around!
This was really fun! Saloon is one of my all time favorite albums, and likely will be for the rest of my life. It has this amazing fusion of styles and uniqueness to it that really speaks to me. Same with Handmade. Saloon really has a unique, Western metal feel to it that I've never gotten from anything else.
Sidenote: I grew up in Dillon MT (right next to Bannack where ya'll filmed the awesome Saloon video). When I saw that video for the first time, I about died from shock at seeing little old Bannack in a music video!
Thats amazing! That place was so cool! We want to go back some day
This is my favourite album, super happy you share with us this documentary! 🤘
Thanks so much! It was roller-coaster for sure!
@@TheOnGoingConcept You guys reached argentina here
I went to see Hotel Books at a church in Rural NC years ago. And i walked out of that show a bonofied The Ongoing Concept fan.
My friends have been very patient with me and my tangents when i show them my TOC flow chart, which points to as many song references to other tracks as i could find. Thanks so much for rewarding your long time listers and fans time and time again.
Thats amazing! Thanks putting your friends through that lol! You should join our discord if you want to chat with like minded TOC fans;)