Dont gain the world to lose your soul wisdom is better than silver and gold...Robert Nesta Marley
http://www.reverbnation.com/slackmammoth?add_email=trueSLACK
MAMMOTH...A small connection nothing more......
This site is in part a dedication to the life & times of the late great front man for Slack Mammoth, Stephen Best 1969~2002 R.I.P.
Loosely formed in 1989 by squatting, bohemian, poet, musician, wheeling dealing, free floating tricksters, we were in our essence a jamming band and would prefer to jam out even when we played live. We loved the fact that, through spontanaeity, the audience and ourselves had absolutely no idea of what was going to happen next.
We used to rehearse at Ram studio, Dawley road in Hayes, between 7.00pm ~ 11.00pm. The couple that ran the studio knew us very well and being kindred spirits would leave us the padlocks to the studio so we could stay there all night, well we always did because we just couldn..t get enough of it !
At these sessions we would just jam,jam,jam,now theres a surprise. A lot of our mates were in bands as well at that time and the Slack Mammoth Ram jam studios were always an open house affair where everyone was more than welcome to turn up, plug in and jam out. Some jams were developed into some kind of loose themes and were always still adaptable and susceptible to change.
Titles were given to these jamming themes such as "Zonehenge" or "Deep Forest Green" etc. Live set lists would comprise of these sort of titles, or even as basic as, Jam in D or Jam in E, etc etc...Sometimes we would each take turns to start a jam,with set list titles such as, Matty starts jam,Sparx starts jam. With these anything could be started, from an echoed delayed guitar riff to a tribal drum rhythm or a simple drone on a keyboard.
I myself (Mattydread) the drummer for the Mammoth, distributor of vacant rooms and free food,would say that at least 90% of our live jamming sets were a success. This may of course been due to the fact that most of the audience,being hardcore biker/ hippie types had consumed vast quantities of sherbets of one description or another, either that or i had put too much amal nitrate into the smoke machine ! (only joking) ???
Sometimes our fellow musicians and partners in crime would help us out with some very nice lights and fx and on the whole a night of cosmic revelry was had by all. Now we did have some pretty bad gigs where it just weren..t happening , the energies weren..t right and it just wasn..t flowing. If you jam live than this has to be expected from time to time.
Songs were later formulated mainly by Stephen "Besty" Best and then when Hughie joined, in the winter of Slack Mammoths existence, songs became more prevalent then the jamming side of things. We taped almost everything we played, be it at first on rather primitive equipment, a tape deck with two microphone..s outta the back !!! We later saved some pennies and got a four track and then an eight track. Because of this,there is a huge amount of Slack Mammoth and solo effort recordings that have been digitally re~mastered and a huge amount that still haven..t, this is still work in progress. I am currently in the process of setting up a site where you will be able to download as many tracks as you want for free and who knows for the future...? a new line up for Slack Mammoth may still as yet be on the cards...PLAYING.............. LIVE JAMS OF COURSE !!!
Peace & One Love Eternal...
Mattydread / Slack Mammoth :~)
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.............Please be patient. We will be broadband by the 10th May and will have lots more Muzak from the world of Slack Mammoth....
....All our music & images are copyrighted.For now here's a track listing of who's playing and singing on these current tracks..
1.MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY.
Besty mitz Fitz ~Vocal & tambourine.
Matty dread~Drums.
Jon O hara~Bass.
Sparx~Guitar.
2.GODDESS.
Besty mitz Fitz ~Vocal,Guitars & Tambourine.
3.FADING MEMORY.
Besty mitz Fitz ~Vocal,Guitars & Tambourine.
Matty dread~Drums,Bass guitar & Hand claps.
4.WEIRD TURNZ PRO.
Besty mitz Fitz ~Vocal,Space echo guitar & Tambourine.
Matty dread~Drums & Spoken Words.
Sparx~Guitar.
Nik snixta~Bass guitar.
5.POOLS OF JOY.
Besty mitz Fitz ~Vocal & Lead Guitar.
Matty dread~Glissando guitar,Bass guitar & Cymbals.
Nik snixta~Acoustic Guitar Harmonics.
6.EARTH OF YOUR HEAVEN.
Besty mitz Fitz ~Vocal & Acoustic Guitar.
Graham Besty Best.~Percussion.Hope you enjoy...
To be continued....
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