Bass Singer REACTION & ANALYSIS - Geoff Castellucci | Sixteen Tons
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Sixteen tons, and whadya get? Another Pit Viper and deeper in depth (vocally). Hope you guys enjoyed my analysis of this absolute bass banger by Geoff -- I can't get enough of these covers and I know you feel the same 💥 ALSO, one of my Patrons kindly alerted me that this song is an ode to coal miners, not railway workers like I said in the video, and it originated with Tennessee Ernie Ford in the 50s -- historical context is extremely important, so feel free to point things like this out to me when I make a mistake!
You have a wonderful singing voice
Please react to "hoist the colors" by MALINDA, Bobby Bass, Lauren Paley and Colm Guinness :) ♥
So nice sir🙏❤
Ernie Ford's version is also a cover. It was written by Merle Travis and recorded in the late 1940s. Ford just had the big hit with it (and deservedly so).
The historical context of this song is as dark as a coal mine. The history involves the formation of the first truly powerful labor unions in the US, veritable slavery or indentured servitude, abysmal working conditions, Pinkertons, assassinations, extra-judicial murders... It's quite the sordid tale.
Geoff shows homage to TEF with the snapping. When TEF recorded the song they asked him what tempo he wanted to sing. So he started snapping his fingers.
He commented under the vid saying all the low notes were chest!👀, straight out viper. He also hits a brief F#1 on ‘Step a side’
10:15 someone dropped 16 tons down the mineshaft and now we have a flat miner
I'll see myself out
I was going to make this very pun, you beat me to it!!
4:26 I know a few people already pointed this out but these weren’t subs. It‘s a Bass instrument playing in the background.
Geoff did an amazing job with this, and it's awesome!!!
Although pickaxes are sometimes used by railroad crews, this song is about coal mining - #9 coal, which was used for heating.
I'm gonna keep this simple: Absolutely enjoying your reactions to the max. Perfect combination of sharing your knowledge, context of the song, and enthusiasm for what you do. Keep 'em coming. (Especially Pentatonix, please!)
I can sing a low A in chest but hearing you and Geoff singing it reminds me that I'm a bass-baritone. I have most of the range but certainly not the timbre. Respect!
I would LOVE to hear you do a cover or version of this yourself (please) 😁👌🤞👍
Love the ending!!!!❤❤
Love your reaction at the end where you pull back realizing he's about to go lower
Love the original love this. So so good
Tennessee Ernie Ford sang this back in the 50s , Not sure if he was the original but he made a bunch of money off of it. Ernie was a Bass
I'd probably avoid talking about "a flat miner" when discussing a mining song. :-P
Those low notes at the beginning weren't actually Geoff, they're a string backing track.
Geoff did a vocal bassline that doubles the standup bass; to thicken it up a touch.
@@johndeeregreen4592 Never once has Geoff said that, and there's no way he sang that line, because his F#1 chest doesn't sound anything like the double bass.
Hey I just ran across your channel can you react to type o negative song black no 1 - Live in rock am ring 2007? Peter Steele is a 6’8 scary bass vocalist that also plays bass guitar and he screams some times id like to see your reaction
what’s the background behind the whole pit viper thing? i’m lost 🤣
Jeff nailed it, G♯ - A♭ it's the same to me...
pls do oogie boogie song and high and dry
Oogie Boogie is coming on Monday 👻
Would you PLEASE react to Voiceplay: My mother told me. I have looked they your reactions and it’s not there 😞😞
HAVE YOU SEEN My mother told me cover by Tomi P?
I love all of your videos but do yourself a favor
Listen to this guy sing Big bad John
It blows this performance clean out of the water
Not railroad, Coal mine! 16 tons of coal...ya load 16 tons.
This song is about coal mining NOT railroad.....
Geoff's vocals in 'Oogie Boogie's Song' and 'Little Mermaid Medley', from his group Voiceplay, are very awesome. I think you'd enjoy them😄
Pretty sure he already saw the two
He's Oogie Boogie's Song range is just phenomenal
"he is literally a bass instrument" XDDDD Geoff isnt human I swear.
His version of blackbird is something else as well would love to see your reaction to it. His first video that was done kind of this way was bear necessities
Blackbird is what sold me on Geoff, and boosted me as a VP stan.
The E1 at the end of blackbird is crazy
Coal mining not railroad working. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
When Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded this song, the band leader asked him to snap the tempo for them. The snapping was so good it was incorporated into his whole rendition. It gave the song a signature sound that Geoff kept to great effect here. Ford was a baritone (with some bass range) when he recorded this song, and it made his career. His drinking and smoking, along with age, changed him to a bass- baritone. The song was written in 1946, so Ford's version, which made it famous, was also a cover.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was one of my absolute favorite singers in the early 60s. His version of Sixteen Tons will forever be my favorite.
The thing I like most about his solo stuff is that he does his own backing vocals. It really showcases his insane range. He goes down in the bowels of the earth and then backing vocals that shoot up several octaves. He’s wonderful. Great production in this vid too. Another great reaction from you as well! 💪🔥😍
No subharmonics! He said in one of his other videos this is all chest.
Correct, there are no subharmonics in the main vocals. However, if you know what to listen for, you can hear he added a subharmonic, vocal bassline that doubles the standup bass note-for-note.
As a pianist, I so feel the comment “the keys of F sharp minor and A flat minor both suck.” 😂
One of my favorite base songs is Home Free’s cover of Hillbilly Bone. Tim is just super low the whole time and Adam Chance is killing the baseline for the whole song
No wonder this video has 5M+ views! 🔥🎶 Ok, you just stole my line as I was writing it! 🤣
Before this, he did the Headless Horseman, Blackbird, Bare Necessities, High and Dry. Feel free to analyze any or all of them!
Also, from VoicePlay, The Phantom of the Opera, Trapped, and so many more!
Thanks for this one, Peter!!
At least one million are mine....
This song was my introduction to Geoff and VoicePlay. That's a reason it's a favorite of mine.
This is the one that got me hooked and I fell down the Geoff and VoicePlay rabbit hole. I loved this song growing up when Tennessee Ernie Ford sang it on his show. Ernie would say "Bless your Pea Pickin Heart Geoff". Here I go showing my age again. lol
I like the "Gun Show" comment!
Same!
Same!
"What is he slamming that whole time?"
"Umm, its a pickaxe"
/starts hitting keys
"....Oh. Never mind then."
Geoff is amazing. I’d also recommend Dan Vasc who’s a rock style singer and the songs I’d recommend most is I’ll make a man out of you and toss a coin to your Witcher, then I’d also recommend the Tennors who wants to live forever. Also Jonathan Young Hellfire and be prepared. They’re not bass singers but still amazing.
PLEASE react to Avi Kaplan's "Change on the Rise" .... you'll love it!!!!
So fun fast for anyone listening to this song, there are no Subharmonics or Growls in this song… everything is pure chest so at 4:14 for example, those are chest notes 😳😳
Yeh thank you I was waiting for this.. I highly recommend Geoff Headless horseman
A thing I like about your reaction/analysis videos is that I can literally just sit here and watch a whole 17 minute video and not even realize that much time has passed. Like I'm never getting an urge to jump forward. You do a great job Peter.
Nice video react !! I like your point of vue about this Geoff's cover.
Did you ever hear his cover of " Oogie Boogie's Song" ? I really think you could enjoy it.
New sub here. As a guy with a speaking and singing voice that also firmly sits in the bass range (I wouldn't dare to refer to myself as an actual BASS singer, as I have NO training or experience singing professionally) I really dig your reactions and in-depth analysis. Consise, insightful, knowledgeable, and to the point. You have a perspective on other bass singers that, no intended offense to anyone at all, most of the reactors here on RUclips do not have.
I've got a suggestion for you, in case you haven't watched it already. Look up Geoff's cover of The Headless Horseman. 😉
Geoff is so cool. He's got an incredible voice, and makes me just a bit jealous as an amateur bass. Also I think it would be funny to see him interact with Matt Mercer
Great reaction, I'd love to see a reaction to VoicePlay My Mother Told Me and Trapped. Also Pentatonix Sound of Silence and Bohemian Rhapsody. I think you will enjoy Rains of Castamere and Toss a Coin by Dan Vasc. Also Hands of Gold & Rains of Castamere Peter Hollens.
Peter, so hilarious and wonderful to hear you humm in same notes Geoff is singing.....so perfect and love your allusions to Thurl Ravenscroft's work too...classy! more please
Now try 'Blackbird'. Multiple Geoffs and a piano. Fabulous
Geoff has a couple good drops in Saddle Up as well.
You should definitely react to Colm Mcguinness hoist the colours!
the F#1 subs in the backing aren’t Geoff, they’re a sample he found when making the backing mix. in terms of his singing, he’s said he didn’t use any subs in the song
Just learned of an old but good Tim Foust song.... which proves nobody on this earth should have the range he does... his cover of "I can't help falling in love with you"... is so crisp and smooth and beautiful it makes you want to cry
I'm digging the Jake Peralta-esque "Cool Cool Cool" at 10:24
This Bass after watching Geoff:
Imma call myself a baritone now.
I have always liked this song....being a bass lover....and Geoff completely does it justice....I love how it is arranged, and the video aspects...especially the camera shake when "they" hit the hammers. I thought it was impressive the first time I heard it, and then I found out that he did it all in chest voice......impressed even more. Love what you are doing...keep up the good work.....I love to hear your thoughts about these pieces.
Great reaction!!
So when are we going to hear more from The Bass Gang?? 😎
No, this isn’t a song about railroads. It’s a song about coal mining.
Really enjoy your view from the basement, so to speak. Love the song and you added to my understanding. Just a note. "Sixteen Tons" is a song about coal mining, not Railroads. You might be thinking about "The ballad of John Henry." He was "a steal driving man" trying to compete with a steam powered sledge.
I think the mayday cover by homefree is so good because you get to hear the great top range of Tim and the surprising low range of Adam. Worth the listen.
Guy, with this song, it has to be A flat miner. 😄
A bit too tutorial for me. But best of luck! 👍🏻
I think when someone can make an excellent composition simply it goes to show just how skilled they are at composing, which I think is one of Geoff's greatest strengths (despite his incredible voice haha). Virtually any competent composer can make something at least moderately interesting with enough layers of stuff, but Geoff has proven time and again that he's able to keep you into it no matter what level of complexity he uses.
For some trivia, this song was originally done by Merle Travis based on a letter he received from his brother who wrote "you load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt", who was a coal miner. Tennessee Ernie Ford then did what is probably the most iconic version of the song. My family comes from coal mining way back into the 19th century, it was a very hard - and often very short - life. They had to world hours upon hours of back breaking labor just to afford food, breathing in toxic fumes and dust that would make sure many of them didn't live too long. Fortunately, it's a life that a very small amount of people now have to worry about, but it's nice to think about them now and then, since they suffer and die to keep the lights on.
In a biography I read a long time ago that Merle Travis had been asked to record a folk song album by Capitol records. Travis denied knowing any Kentucky folk songs. Capitol A&R just said: "Write some." When he recorded these songs, Merle gave a spoken introduction to the songs, giving them the aura of being old traditional songs. The first recording is here on RUclips: ruclips.net/video/mgHCm9Qjv4I/видео.html
If I commented on all your videos I’d never get anything else accomplished during the day! I’m a music lover, and I love the “science” you share in your breakdowns of the music videos you “react to”/review. Keep ‘em comin’!
Ab minor: 7 flats. G# minor: 5 sharps. You can always tell which is easier to write because incidentals in enharmonic keys always add up to 12. Also, making it minor: subtract 3 (where sharps are positive numbers and flats are negative). Ab is 4 flats, so minor is 7 flats. G is one sharp; so G minor is 2 flats.
I remember Tennessee Ernie Ford singing it back in the early 60s. I'm pretty sure he did it in a higher key. Geoff is the beast! Oh, 16 tons of #9 coal it's a coal mining song. Still simple and still amazing. Great reaction!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do voice play Oogie Boogie. If love to see what u have to say on that for sure!!!
U should react to just sing by voice play
Have you checked out him in Ooggie Boogies Man he goes really low at the end
Great reaction. What I love so much about this is his effortless drop to the low notes in the middle of a line, without hesitation, like he’s not even trying, but it’s difficult to do.
Your reaction at the end is priceless! 😂🎉❤ Love your videos, Peter.
They have the same ⌚!!
Can you react to Dimash Quadibergen "Olympico". ? I'd like your analysis of his bass voice.
Love your quality analyses! For more Geoff awesomeness, I highly recommend VoicePlay's "Carry on Wayward Son" for his baseline: ruclips.net/video/evG28VVz4dY/видео.html AND his drop at 1:56 on their cover of Imagine Dragons' "Warriors" is ridiculous: ruclips.net/video/DNh6_XubM2A/видео.html
I feel like a soprano when he sings
Geoff said that everything in this song is in chest voice!!!
that's cap, no jk, except for the background subs
@@nightmared4103 There weren’t any subs in the background, it was actually a bass instrument, not his voice haha
@@OceanMan88, there are subharmonics doubling the standup bass. It's not easy to hear, but when you play bass and are a bass singer, it becomes obvious what is going on. However, no, there are no subharmonics used in the main vocals; that part is true.
@@johndeeregreen4592 I definitely hear something like that, but I want to trust Geoff when he says he used chest voice only for this song :)
@@OceanMan88, and some THICK chest notes I wish I could hit. His weight at G#1 is what mine is at B1... and I normally have the lowest voice in the room, lol.
I would love to see your reaction to Geoff doing Blackbird
Blackbird is another one to listen to. And Country roads, different but pretty sensational. Really enjoy your reaction, especially as they are knowledgeable, as regard the voice anyway. But this is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in mines in Kentucky,, and the fact that everything they bought was from the comany's own store, and to which they were constantly in debt to. "Another day older and deeper in debt" came from a letter written by Travis's brother John. Another line came from their father, a coal miner, who would say: "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store.
Fields and Pier by Avriel & the sequoias is a great show of Avi's range. Definitely worth checking out.
Definitely!
I love the timbre of Avi's voice.
Agreed, love all his songs, but the tone on time match with the cello slays me...not to mention the beautiful violins in the background. Love it
@@nikkibanning176 that's the part that snagged me.
@@baybreeze82 😁we have good taste lol
Geoff has made this better than the original and any other version, in my estimation.
You should most definitely react to Oogie Boogie's Song by Voiceplay!!!
You and Geoff together in a nice Arrangment. I think is a real Deal.
18M views and 12,051 comments as of this moment, June 28, 2024. Still collecting views, and reactors are still discovering it.
oogie boogie song.... lowest note i have ever heard out of Geoff.
All due respect, Geoff Castellucci says he's a baritone with a bass range. I know it's illogical, but I think he might be technically right, with his upper range being what it is
He can claim to be whatever he wants, but him claiming to be a baritone simply because he can also sing baritone is like Babe Ruth claiming to be a pitcher who could hit a little.
@@chrisd7047 That's not true at all. He claims to be a baritone because that's where he is most comfortable singing. Vocal classification is about more than just range, too. Based on range alone, you could say that he's a tenor even. He's able to sing a half step below Tenor C (so, a B4) in chest voice. No "true bass" can chest that high. He knows infinitely more about his voice than anyone else ever will, so I think he's the most qualified to classify himself.
@@Adam1984_ The guy's incredible any way it's sliced. Nothing I said is meant to detract from his abilities. A range like his sort of defies classification.
But I stand by what I said. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... The thing that makes people seek him out to listen to is his ability to sing very low. In 1916, Ruth won 23 games as a pitcher, with 323 innings pitched, 170 strikeouts, and a 1.75 ERA. He was a VERY good pitcher for the Red Sox...
But that's not what people remember him for. It's the 714 home runs, mostly for the Yankees. Geoff may be able to sing a brilliant baritone, and even tenor, but it isn't what people pay him to do and it isn't what he'll be remembered for. It isn't even how he labeled his cover video. I believe it says "low bass cover," not "super low baritone cover."
You're free to disagree, of course, and I'm certain you will. I'm content to call a spade a spade and be done with it.
@@chrisd7047 I think he's more Shohei Ohtahni than Ruth. But either way, I want to be in the park every second they're on the field.
@@KorvidRavenscraft Ohtani is a beast. That is one impressive dude.
It annoys me that I can actually hit most of the low notes here, but it just doesn't sound anyway near as good as when Geoff does them. Or even objectively any good.
It's in the timbre I think.
Oh, and lots of training and great technique perhaps... 🙄🙄🙄
Good mic and great audio edition.
Also can you react to Pentatonix "Mr. Grinch"
You can see one his vocal strategies for low range extension quite clearly at 9:55 on the line "step aside." Castellucci is able to drop his larynx into an unusually low position, which creates more vertical space and bass resonance in the pharynx. The Italians call this the "vomitare reflex" because it what happens when you throw up: your larynx drops and your pharynx dilates to make room for the vomitus coming up. This is a mostly subconscious muscular reflex, but some singers manage to bring it under conscious control.
I believe it’s coal mining. May I have him under my Christmas, please Santa ?
You should listen to Geoff do Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John".
How about doing one on Blackbird, and Tennessee Whiskey and one on Monster Mash?
It is a coal mining song by Merle Travis, why he is holding a pickaxe it is in fact full of ex;plicit references to digging coal. Not one word about railroads in that song.
I think Geoff is paying tribute to Tennessee Ernie Ford and not to Thurl Ravenscroft. He snaps his fingers like Ernie and that “Bless My Soul” is also an Ernie trademark. ruclips.net/video/Joo90ZWrUkU/видео.html
It's more coal miner than railway worker. Not that both workers have not been used and abused.
The only thing better than 1 Geoff in a wife beater tank is 4 Geoffs in wife beater tanks. Oh, and he sounds very good too. 😜
"I like singing the low notes, it's fun" Sure, fun for you, but I try to sing a low note and it sounds a lot like someone is strangling Elmo
Please react to Stray Kids God's Menu!!
It was coal miners not railroad but close enough 🤣🤣
Thank you so much for your detailed reaction to this song. Please consider reacting to Tennessee Ernie Ford performing this song. I grew up listening to Mr. Ford, Jimmy Dean and Johnny Cash. I would love to hear your reaction to men that I listened to when I was young.
you should react to the oogie boogy song acapella cover by VoicePlay
I'm interested in seeing your reaction to Dimash. Love is Like a Dream and also Stranger performances have very low octaves. BTW I could listen to your voice all day, love your reactions!🔥🔥