Guitar.Com - Meegs Rascon Interview (Coal Chamber) Part 1

[JaCoBGaLlOwAy1996]

whats the name of the thing he uses on his machine head at 4:13?

[elsantoshadow]

@JaCoBGaLlOwAy1996 hipshot

[safersephirothxXx]

what the hell do people think when they cute their hair like that

[TempestaRiggs]

I own two Ibanez vbt700 guitars, a black one and a white one and a 2003 Ibanez ic400. All of my guitars have ghs Heavyweight Boomers 11-14-18-36-52-70 tuned down to B. I had my black vbt700 restrung and I went into Guitar Center next door just to fuck around with a Messa Triple Rectifier and people were like, WHAT-THE-FUCK O_O I miss how heavy nu-metal was back in the 90's. I need to start a band u_u

[18266609]

holy fuck his string gauge is crazy

[narutohimself2007]

What's the name of his machine head that allows him to drop his guitar easy? I can't understand his ascent

[gnrboy]

@narutohimself2007 It's called a Hipshot.

[brucenatelee]

Nu metal gets a lot of hate, but wondering if it's possible to recreate it into what metalheads would accept more, primarily solos. I'm thinking of different popular musicians and singers in different combinations that metalheads already know to see if they would still like the music: Groove metal guitar, funk metal bass, grunge drums, spoken vocalist (not necessarily rapping).

[Jyotinanda108]

down tuned playing is so slack lazy, its not like a power chord is difficult

[loosifur]

yeah they can go to hell

[TheLaughingMan0603]

this is an example how a gothic mexican would look, fucking badass.

[mickthomsonify]

was that a schecter damien solo elite?

[MunterE]

@mickthomsonify That's a custom guitar made for him by BC Rich.

[MrMarkphillips132]

you are a sick individual meegs ur a mad scientist

[MrMarkphillips132]

meegs my boi i love guitarist that have the unique style i just have a thing for individual people

[BreakingGlass77]

he makes it seem like playing power chords is such an effort. haha although that thing that drops the low string one whole step is pretty cool.

[Crazymofoinamajikbox]

@BreakingGlass77 With strings like that. playing power chords IS an effort

[666jony666]

Does anyone know were i could buy 20 gauge strings?

[befrankis]

@666jony666 use a high b instead

[deceased94]

whats the thing he flicks at 4:17 ?

[meetmeinthealley]

@deceased94 He explained it as he did it. You can be tuned in lets say B on that string, and when you flip it, it drops to another tuning you set such as A. So you can go back and forth in 2 tunings rather than "tune" every time.

[deceased94]

@meetmeinthealley i am aware, but wtfs it called?

[meetmeinthealley]

@deceased94 Hipshot. Do a search for Hipshot D Tuner

[deceased94]

@meetmeinthealley cheers

[PiKlism]

His contacts are badass.

[Uhoh2012Productions]

I take that back... He is kinda retarded. Still one of my favorite guitarists. Just not the brightest crayon in the box.

[MrPropain]

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeth addict !!

[1093866629103]

yea daldalwooten u dumb ass, dont call meegs as retard, cuz u could never acheive what meegs has in your intire life

[daldalwooten]

he is a fucking retard...he has no idea of what music is and sucks at guitar. i will fight anyone who disagrees

[meetmeinthealley]

I disagree. Now what?

[evil0302]

Disagree too!

[Chrismelissa8]

@daldalwooten

How dare you say that when I caught you in bed with him last Friday night. He said you suck great cock!!

lolololololololol

[Uhoh2012Productions]

I'd beat your ass in real life. Just for being a douche and trying to fight everyone. Just cuz you don't like his sound, doesn't mean he sucks at guitar moron. And as someone who can play circles around you or any of your friends with a guitar, I think I'd know.

[Fake4x4]

just a genius!!!!!

I think he's one of the most genius guitar innovators in 90's metal beside Dino Cazares, Munky/Head and Wes Borland.

even if Meegs wasn't a virtuosistic guitar player he just invented a new way to play and conceive the guitar.

Of course he was inspired by Korn, but he started from that to create a more personal customized guitar style.

Just my favourite guitar player!! =)

[MindstormRecs]

@Fake4x4 Everybody you named is on the list of worst guitarists ever lol Wes Borland? Korn? This guy is struggling just to talk about what his guitar tech does for him lol. Go look up Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Greg Howe, and Allan Holdsworth and prepare to jizz. SERIOUSLY!

[Fake4x4]

@MindstormRecs

hahahahahahahahaha OMFG that's funny as hell cmooooooon keep some culture godfuckindamned!!!

Steve Vai, Malmsteen and shit like that are 100% tecnique 0% personality, session men, just pure shit to me.

you may dislike their style but OBJECTIVELY Rascon, Borland, Shaffer, Welch and such guitar players are as innovative as kickassing musicians, this is reality STOP!!!

and now go to listen your gay cocksucking shredders and quit this page if you don't like it.

[MindstormRecs]

@Fake4x4 Don;t be butthurt because you can't play as well as those "sessions men" can haha. Idolizing shitty guitar players that no one talks about aside from the fans of the bands they're in doesn't make you the authority on talent. Kickassing musicians lol what are you 12?

[Fake4x4]

@MindstormRecs

poor kid hahahaha i'm so sad for you lame pussy i'm 25 fuckin years old and i'm music producer/teacher and musician...playing like your soloist idols takes just hours of practice, i can tell you as a teacher ;) so i'm not envy of your fag shredders, they can shred my dick..post a video of you performing even just one Wes Borland riff, cmon, i'd laugh my ass off....

[thebrt]

hell yeah this is sick !

[soupie]

what sort of guitar is that?!?

it looks like a cool tele. but its not.

[ChrisRy1983]

It's one of two "Meegs" custom models that BC Rich made for him (the other one was a Les Paul shape, similar to the "gothicised" Les Paul Studio he had in the first album era); there isn't a huge amount of information about it online but I know that he wanted it in that matte black finish and BC Rich messed up and originally painted it red. Look for the clip of CC playing Tyler's Song on the Mike Bullard show - that gives you a decent look at it.

[ericrichardriley]

Fernandes i think

[befrankis]

bc rich he says in part 2 :-)

[befrankis]

its bc rich custom

[astronomo1muerto]

believe it or not, he was an illegal alien when he was a teen. Born in Mexicali, Mexico.

[elvicholudo]

im from Mexicali!! it's a crappy town, really big but really poor , there is a lot of music there, a lot of bands

[sh1yne]

I don't get their classification as "Nu Metal". They definately had their own style.

I mean, fuck what was nu metal about Chamber Music?

I almost consider being labeled "Nu Metal" as basically being labeled as "We suck dick".

There's absolutely nothing "Nu Metal" about them.

It's funny nowadays I will go back and listen to them, completely simple music, instrumentally just about anyone could learn and play a Chamebr song, but they had something no band nowadays has, Idk what

[Hateeternal2009]

how about orginality and fucking talent......bands nowadays just blast beat growl breakdown 1 breakdown 2 breakdown 3 end of song....i miss the old days

[sh1yne]

They were original, they had something that can't be described or played anymore it seems, or atleast it's very hard to find, that's emotion.

I mean, I thought of Coal Chamber as a lot of things, but really talented never came to mind, they are one of my favorite bands of all time, but I don't think they were really that talented, they just did what they did well.

[dizzydreamaway]

@sh1yne Incidentally, the term "New Metal" was coined in a 1998 concert review...of a Coal Chamber concert. :) It's not the band's fault that the term evolved into something else.

[brucenatelee]

@dizzydreamaway I heard different origins, including that. I heard it was Slipknot, I heard it was after Korn's "Follow the Leader", I don't know.

[ozzypaolo]

que feo ese huevon!!!

[casperado666]

hahahah verdad xD

[brucenatelee]

I like their song Loco, but to be honest, I don't hear a lot about people born of different races that aren't Black and White. I read that Meegs is of Chinese and Mexican descent, which is different.

[Ladymoonluna]

he is

[brucenatelee]

Don't hear about different backgrounds like that. Pretty cool, to be honest. It's usually something and Black or something and White.

[Ladymoonluna]

yeah well i was wondering how the can the 'areebass' mexicana meets the east.its unique

[dizzydreamaway]

@brucenatelee It's a cute mix, no? :)

[brucenatelee]

@dizzydreamaway Can't say "cute" about another guy, but I do have a "thing" for racially ambiguous women, especially with a cosplay fetish. A hot ninja girl (kunoichi) one night, an Amazonian the next, and and African princess after that. Just... interesting how they could look like. Also, Pete Smear of Foo Fighters is 1/4 Afro American, 1/4 Native American (both his mom), and 1/2 German.

[DendrilopisXaggro]

@brucenatelee Chino Moreno its also mexican/chinese descent.

[MetalAnthony]

well if you grew up with n metal yu just dont get hrash and other shit metal

[KrentorPwnsyou]

thrash was there before nu metal and its technical much better , but coal chamber was an awesome band :)

[casperado666]

i started with nu metal, now I adore slayer, sepultura, dillinger escape plan, anal cunt, pig destroyer etc, but i still don't get the classic stuff like iron maiden, scorpions or any kind of power metal. led zeppelin and deep purple are kinda cool but they'Re not exactly metal, black sabbath, motorhead and judas priest have some nice songs but they're boring as hell , because of the monotonous song structures and drums.

[vulgartheklown]

your an idiot

motorhead is god

suck a dick bitch

[casperado666]

u r entitled to your homopinion, u little ho

[Hateeternal2009]

jesus christ how old are you 3?

[metallicaowns83]

coal chamber is actually my favorite band right now.. but did you just call metallica waste? U BASTARD >:O

[JeffSpicoli62450]

You are a weaker pussy unless you can post something better!!! People that slam others but can't show them up are what weak pussies step on. Post it brother or you will get zero respect and Your life will do a nose dive, YOU HAVE CURSED YOURSELF !!!!

[dexfafara]

i dont have the time to post shit.

im just saying what i think

 is that a fucking problem

fucking which

[dizzydreamaway]

@jlcochran Guess that's why the band didn't last really long, and didn't get much recognition in comparison to others of the same era. (Deftones, Korn, and Linkin Park were all grouped into the same general category of music at the same time, and all received a lot more attention than Coal Chamber ever did)

[brucenatelee]

@dizzydreamaway And what's funny is that most nu metal bands either went along to something totally different or were never meant to be in that category. I think Coal Chamber tried to be grouped with gothic metal, just as Adema tried to be just hardrock. The only nu metal bands that I know left are Korn, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit (came back) and Nonpoint.

[dizzydreamaway]

@brucenatelee Yeah, just like every other "genre fad", all new bands that sounded even the tiniest bit like Korn got grouped into the same genre, even if they shouldn't have been. Meegs and Mikey's new band doesn't sound anything like CC. And Dez is still lost in obscurity, because even Devildriver had very minimal success after the Nu Metal fad had passed.

[elsantoshadow]

meegs is great i love him

[Spiyder11]

Dude. High five. mee too. XP

[gorillazgirl2006]

i want his babies

[Eric8542009]

I can't stand when groupies express how much they want a muscian's babies. Just enjoy the music.

[dtf96]

El Cu Cuy by Coal Chamber

[ultrapigman666]

The Shit

[magnacore11]

:O Oh look! It's Miguel!! Hello Miguel!

Cox Miguel!!

[Otzefreak]

he is an example for drugs ruining people...

look at him closely how stoned he is!

[bittmunch]

whats wrong with being stoned?

[PsychoRobotico]

nothing (Y)

[myelin8]

his riffs are pretty lazy and generic and he looks ridiculous sorry they were good at the time though

[elvicholudo]

CHICALON EL PERRO! i'm Proud to say he is from CHICALI

[nunlover]

he looks like shit

[TripCtulsa]

that little fucker caused dez to end coal chamber the night before their first headlining jegermeister tour show in okc in 02, there was a riot at the diamond ballroom over that, lol

fuck meegs, dez and rayna held that band together

[chitoz666]

coal chamber kicked ass...dude I used to dress like this dude when I was a teenager now that I look back on it man what the fuck was I think'n...

[ApoficTheory]

His work in Coal Chamber was genius. It's not that his work was hard. It's the effect and the creativity he put with them. he was a Smart/Creative guirtist, not a Complicated one.

[orezmusic]

@ApoficTheory That the reason 90,s bands were so good. They did'nt over complicate and they had groove and feel. Metal bands now try to be to clever. Just write a good tune and stop thinking, your shit if you cant play a million notes in a second.

[WizzardOfGlue]

what if it rains? will all the make up fall off?

[killafromthecold]

his guitar work in coal chamber was rather simple but he's a good guitarist and coal chamber kicked a lot of ass anyway

[CCXVIHandsBound]

His guitar work in Coal Chamber was fucking genius, that's for sure. I love his every riff

[Shot7times]

Dude, He Looks Completely Different Than What I Pictured

[wewiles]

playing for glass pinata

[1ElNumeroOne1]

love his hair,I should do it like that and im not kidding

[Alcohollicaa]

this guy was meth head and is now clean. none the less is a sick guitarist.

[SpardaKnight2]

wait,my mistake.........

[SpardaKnight2]

i think thats a parker guitar

[MetalAriel]

nope that's a b.c. rich custom

[thinkingjack]

his guitar looks like a fender telecaster custom, but i think thats when he switched from les pauls to BC RIch customs

and later for the last album went to yamaha

[olexy69]

he looks like a persian...nice...

[BreakingGlass77]

chinese & mexican

[ChimChimandChimaira]

Thats a badass guitar.

[UFLunderground]

i think meegs is a beast guitar player but i think that, he can play better than he ever showed on record , i think that hes gotten even better since then also.

[psychoticghoulscout]

"no that can't be it, what the hell am i talking about?"....lol

[AngelSHARKgirl]

he's sexy!! he is sooo similar to Billy Martin from GC

[Set30]

lol

[UFLunderground]

meggs i fucking kool , i love meggs

[UFLunderground]

sorry i spelled his name megg not meegs

[rachellily232]

Meegs is so Cute my Favorite Gothic guy ever.

[TheGayRobertanton]

gothic daddy

gothic daddy

gothic daddy

gothic daddy

gothic daddy

[poolofmushygoo]

meegs is so cute..i wish he'd take out those contacts so i can see his pretty eyes..he sounds so funny trying to sound intelligent while (drunk)? (high)? he's a cutie

[BillCosbyWantstoKill]

he is fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[poolofmushygoo]

me thinks meegs is a little buzzzzed...feeelin haaappy..

[FraterO]

heheee buzziiin ;)

[FraterO]

heheee buzziiin ;)

[IcanSpellMyname]

meegs is a fagg!!

[7danimoisty]

yeah he does looks like one

[cabalofdemons]

Bwahahahhahahahahah!! One string!! Ahahaha

[magnacore11]

Dez is the only guy I've ever heard...I had no idea Meegs sounded like THIS...in 11 freaking years lol

he sounds a little like manson

[mynameiskellie]

i love his lisp

[Kainkrup]

what it's the tune that he use on his guitar? I can't understand it!

[DendrilopisXaggro]

He uses B tuning (B,E,A,D,F#,B. for six string guitars).

[syphonicisgod]

in the begining it sounds like korn's "No Place to Hide" intro

[Indestructible333]

yea they was called "korn chamber" by thousands of fans cause theyre playstyle was so much like korn

[gredangeo]

hehe, after watching this, I kinda feel better about myself, I think I know more theory than this guy! excellent riffs I might add, which is good enough.

[Petteriks]

great. He seems like a nice guy though he bahaves like hes done substances. I really like the tragedy and Bradley riffs - making a guitar sound like a synth is art to me. I like all this wack stuff.

[HatedMisfit]

i never knew, that was a dude.

[dougydarkangel]

Hahahahaha, i actualy liked this band till i saw this, he has no fucking clue what he is talking about, i know about as much about guitar playing as he does and im a drummer

[Slipkn0tt]

I know a lot about drums... but I play guitar... It does not matter how much you know but how you actualy do it... And second you dont need to be "god" to play neo-metal.. :)

[kayle1976]

more like meegs and mikey and a massive amount of drugs, what a waste of talent.

[nechomanson]

y este material esta disponible en dvd?

[DendrilopisXaggro]

creo que no, yo lo baje del ares :)

[nechomanson]

Esto es un documental de la banda no?

Y del ares que suerte.

un saludo

[tallulah96]

its wierd listening to him talk. ive only seen him on videos and in magazines so ive never heard his voice. i wish there was an interview with rayna and nadja too, and mikey.

[derekdiego17]

wow hes really good. :)

12/10

[AngelaRose04]

He shouldn't insult himself...he's a freakin genius!!!!

[koerok]

My kind of guitar playing style but how the fuck did he put an 072. string on his guitar i tried to put 0.54 on mine and i didnt fit

[judgy2]

He obviously had to file the space for the string on the NUT on his guitar to fit it.

[tapanja]

everyone who insult Meegs shall burn in hell! you bitch ass motherfuckers! he`s a great guitarist!

[gorechild666]

I have to agree that he is a great guitarist but it is his fault coal chamber broke up

[EVILKUD]

Suposse you know that cos you played with them yeah? Right.......

[gorechild666]

no he started a fight with Dez and fucked everything up cuz hes fucking dumb

[EVILKUD]

No he isnt, I think you mean innovator not dumb

[dizzydreamaway]

It's not his fault. It was Dez. Dez was an asshole and fired Mikey, and then basically didn't care to find a new drummer because he had already started Devildriver and didn't carea bout CC anymore.

[Ladymoonluna]

i see..

[mynameiskellie]

respect

[karbetal]

everyone who thinks drugs r cool, just look at this shit, anyway i always liked that guitar

[HelloVikizm]

Id love his cock in my mouth

[brutalfistfuck]

k...

[fisherfisher1993]

what about mine?

[Clumsynaveed]

What an idiot.

Meegs lay off the drink/drugs.

[EVILKUD]

Prooves how much you know you dumb ass

[Dude619]

lol i <3 meegs