Blues For The Red Sun

[theoriginalmediaboy]

But a rose by any other nomanclature would sound as sweet?

[ThePariah1980]

You can call this music stoner or desert rock or whatever you like but for me it's just real,honest,pure rock n roll!

[mrazarona]

Even cobain himself said he didn't give a fuck what the lyrics said.

dont give a fuck....how can that be excellent

[interdit33]

@phishhed44

Can you explain why are you comparring Nirvana to a Stoner band ? It doesn't make any sense...

[ConiferTreez]

@interdit33 stoner band?

[interdit33]

@ConiferTreez

Stoner rock (or desert rock) is the kind of music played by kyuss. Loud and repetitive rhythmes. Nothing you can compare with grunge music. What's more, Dave Grohl was a huge fan of kyuss (that's why he played on the QOTSA album songs for the deaf).

Peace

[ConiferTreez]

@interdit33 they played blues rock

[TVismyopiate]

@interdit33 both are ultimately influenced by Sabbath, that's one connection.

[5249178]

well fuck you haters !!

i like nirvana but i love kyuss

[Sicman696]

@Defenseman619 Dude your a little prick fuck. Cobain was an excellent lyricist and musician and even if he wasn't, joking about suicide is not fuckin cool. Fuck you.

[ConiferTreez]

@Sicman696 kurt kobain was NOT an excellent lyricist, nor was he an excellent musician lol. He was a worthless sap that just happened to be in the right place at the right time. 

[TVismyopiate]

@Sicman696 I believe somewhere between the two - sap sometimes, good lyricist others, interesting musician (technically quite poor, but so am I and so's Ozzy Osbourne for example)

[dnlrsn9]

what a trip.

[love6ness4u2ube2]

@dnlrsn9  you think :)~

[love6ness4u2ube2]

6NESssssssssssssssss

[lovepuppet2469]

though i am old with wandering through hollow lands and hilly lands i will find out where she has gon and kiss her lips and take her hand and walk among long dappled grass and pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun would end in love in the end ... I M Y V V M L O L LoVe<3PuPpEt

[LaxxorBorocillicase]

Is this live or album version? Sounds very spacious and other sounds make it seem live. Amazing sound.

[JoePist0ne]

@LaxxorBorocillicase It's the album version. I agree, it should be on the Voyager record.

[mikexlong]

@Habaneroin shut up fool.  let the music relax you.

[WhiteNucklin]

i saw them open up for Faith No More in 1993 and was fucking captivated....to this day of the best live perfomences i've ever seen.

[Danlowe181st]

I've been listening to Kyuss way before anyone herd of them, they r just f#%#Kin groovin

[ch33kyfellow]

@Danlowe181st It's sad that I discovered them 2 years ago from a youtube video of a RARE interview with Maynard (Tool) briefly mentioning kyuss.

It's crazy how ahead of their time they sounded

[Danlowe181st]

@ch33kyfellow yeah i know they were ahead of their time. If you like kyuss try a listen to SLEEP and another band called Monster Magnet they are both good bands that have been around as long as Kyuss.

[WhiteNucklin]

@Danlowe181st I heard of them in 1993 When i saw them live for the first time.....at the Roseland Theater in Portland Or. opening act for Faith No More....So there.

[WhiteNucklin]

@Danlowe181st I heard of them in 1993 When i saw them live for the first time.....at the Roseland Theater in Portland Or. opening act for Faith No More....So there.

[YumYumYoMum]

@Jimlead Agreed bro.

[chiefdavidOK]

Your upload brought back good memories. When I moved to Palm Desert at the age of fifteen with my family the second friend I met was John Garcia about a year before he joined Kyuss with Josh Homme, Brant Bjork and Chris Cockrall. I was lucky to seem them multiple times before they were signed to a label.

[woddenn]

man.. that's the moon

[Logik426]

In the title of song: red sun, on the vid: red moon...;]

[pithoragar4]

its like Jimi Hendrix, wonderful

[mikexlong]

the only appropriate way to describe kyuss' music is "heavy sonic paradise". goes nice with a spliff some beer and some nachos, particularly on a summer evening.

[JunkieBYtheRIVER]

i love you, and our shared beliefs

support local bands!

[stopthrm]

@JunkieBYtheRIVER SUPPORT HOUSE HARKONNEN!

[Schnallt]

amazing. a few of my friends are starting dtoner rock bands....they need to listen to kyuss :)

[Saighton]

@Schnallt man, a few of your friends decided to start stoner rock bands and HAVEN'T listen to Kyuss before? I wish I was them, it's like losing your aural virginity. Well, maybe not that mind-blowing, but it might simply depend on how good your weed is, 'cos the music ain't letting a damn thing down.

[the0extremos]

@tadlipole33 thumbs down because you hurt my feelings T_T

[masta00archer]

wtf..?!

[parabola235]

@tadlipole33 excuse me? papa roach and a7x...

you suck

[phishhed44]

Nirvana sux compared to this.

[schmendriks]

@phishhed44 thats the thing, why the fuck would you compaire nirvana to this?

bananas arent apples , sometimes i like an apple for what an apple is, and sometimes i want a fucking banana because a bananA is different than an apple.

now does that mean the banana is better or worse?

get it? GET IT?

[phishhed44]

@schmendriks so stick a banana up your ass. I meant your dum-azz.

[Saighton]

@schmendriks I dig your trip man, but I think what your man's point was is that Kyuss = zero money, zero hype (at least from themselves) whereas despite best intentions, Nirvana became a band that people knowing rather little about music (myself in 1993 for example, but not only me) get into. Nirvana aren't bad really, but Kyuss get into a different level completely. I mean they're 1/5 of the best bands of their genre, if not THE best, and there's better bands than Nirvana in the grunge genre.

[ConiferTreez]

@Saighton lol grunge? both bands are just rock music

[ConiferTreez]

@Saighton Kyuss is a ROCK band, that is their genre.

[TVismyopiate]

@ConiferTreez Semantics is important to you? Stoner Rock' is recognised as a genre (call it a sub-genre of 'rock' which is a sub-genre of 'pop' if you like, we could waste time all day on that tangent and for what??) Kyuss are the finest or at least amongst the ~5 most eminent bands in that genre. If you had to pick them as one of the best 'rock' (not just 'stoner rock') they'd hold their own immensely well, so what was your point in the first place? John Garcia smokes weed at last check, too.

[ConiferTreez]

@TVismyopiate "sub-genre"??? The term was coined in a conference room at Roadrunner Records offices. It's just a marketing term, and a very poor one at that.

[TVismyopiate]

@ConiferTreez Does the word 'stoner' offend you or something? Personally I find smoking weed to this music is the best thing to do with it after dancing with a sexy girl, but they're not mutally-exclusive, either. Stoners listen to 'stoner' rock, and make it, too. What's the problem?

[ConiferTreez]

@TVismyopiate No, it does not offend me. It's a ridiculous term, this music is SO much more than that.

[phantasmphan]

@TVismyopiate back in my dad's day the term "rock & roll" covered everything not country, blues, jazz or bluegrass. I think it shoiuld go back to those days. Hard rock, stoner rock & heavy metal have put a stigma on music. Good tunes is good tunes

[TVismyopiate]

@phantasmphan Stigma, what are you on about? You mean dividing everything into separate genres and terms is divisive between people and causes a stigma against one or the other genre? I don't know anyone who avoids those genres due to this, unless they most likely wouldn't like the sound anyway. Their loss, end of story!

[dfftw]

@phishhed44

how can you even compare them? totally different genres

[yovioleatuzorramadre]

@dfftw being different or not, nirvana will be always a gay band compared to Kyuss

[dfftw]

@yovioleatuzorramadre

define a gay band

[busook725]

@phishhed44 you sux

[HumblePie76]

@phishhed44 Nirvanan always sucked. Grunge sucks.

[Defenseman619]

@HumblePie76 true. Cobain pulling the trigger was the best thing to happen to music in the last 20 years.

[Pelleman666]

@HumblePie76 you're just narrow-minded.. Guessing you're american

[TheDouchesupreme]

@Pelleman666 do you know what irony is ? guessing someone is an American because they're narrow minded...noooo that's not narrow minded itself is it ? rhetorical question buddy.

[Pelleman666]

@TheDouchesupreme Who cares? I don't think that all americans are narrow minded... but as it turns out, this guy IS american...so at least I guessed right.

It's boring to only stick with ONE thing throughout life and never taste anything else, but if you do try it and don't like it, don't complain about it just because you don't think it's good. It's rude to other people.

that's at least what I think..

And I was just in a bad mood when writing that, so I can apologize.

thnx

[r7sheaks]

@phishhed44 that compairison is even more insulting...

just like when someone compairs "Nirvana" too Alice in Chains...Seattle is the only thing they have in common, and that includes all the herion and scene...

[wannabeeebee]

Nirvana's "All Apologies" has a very similar guitar tone & riff to this, but this was released first in 1992. Nirvana's song came out in 1993.

[ConiferTreez]

no it doesnt. this song is a Legendary Classic. that nirvana song you mentioned is TRASH, & has ZERO in common with this blissfully incredible song.

[parabola235]

@ConiferTreez its not trash at all, but your right it has nothing common with this song

[rabbitspliff]

what on earth does that mean? [cakes fruiting, coming up...]???

[soldier312]

hell yeah :D

[TheMK27]

cubensis or semilanceata?

[marktams]

is that the sun its the moon

[shminiganz]

i use light stings tuned full step down me

[crowbarftw]

Blue Cheer and Kyuss fucking rule!

[Weedbrothas]

washbehindyourears your another word for dumb-fuck.

Stoner music incorperates psychedelic riffs with heavy bassline and is more hardrock if anything. Its anything but emo. Go take a shower with your toaster and go fuck a hamster.

[shminiganz]

yerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrr

[yutubecop]

badass beethoven would have sounded like this.

[tuckthomas]

All this talk of heavier strings - I always struggle going lower than D with regulars - would 12s be better for downing to Kyuss C? very time I go down with regulars it sounds shite and they knock out of tune real easy! Would heavier strings prevent this? great song too man!

Kyuss really are the best band ever!

[nobbyarny]

Yeah man 12's should be sound

[Matsimaker]

josh uses the heavies ones out there. erm if you use skinny top heavy bottom it would have good sounds on the low strings and u can still play fast licks with the skinny top. u could also try to use strings for a 7 string guitar...just to make it ultra heavy but i don´t know if that works. if ti works plz tell me:D

[0Mexicola0]

lol noobfuck don't speak if u don't know what the fuck you're talkin about

[ilballodisanvito]

but this is the moon lol

[sudofan]

i wish i made a movie so i could use all kyuss songs on the soundtrack. it would kickass. in fact i think i will make a movie and use all kyuss songs on the soundtrack. im a genius for thinkin of it

[smkpaolo]

really man i'd want it too

[soldier312]

omg... please don´t say that again without any knowledge of.... anything...

[ConiferTreez]

KYUSS is American Rock N' Roll, pure & simple. A very natural & organic, nature-friendly variety of it.

[soldier312]

what a nice description

[sketchywilliams]

Right on bro, very earthy and lucid. Especially this track.

[ConiferTreez]

this is not emo

[hazybasementmusic]

Kyuss will be missed. Great band.

[atens]

Yeah, hazybasementmusic!! :(

[metalhead3092]

This was such a great album. Kyuss has got to be one if not THE greatest stoner rock bands ever.

[grodisbollis4]

Really atmospheric video man!

Makes me wanna fall onto my back under a desert sundown.

[Sothiel]

fucking mighty ending riff

[hitchersynx]

best band ever

[shippa92]

best song ever

[projectiongibbo]

best fucking band full stop

[ledgm108]

fuck yeah. been looking for this for a long time.

[marc1067]

they used thicker gauge strings so they could tune to B..plus this album FUCKING ROCKS!!!

[BitchinnShoes07]

why cant you tune to b with regular strings?

[marc1067]

the thinner the less tone,plus they would really sound dullish..

[BitchinnShoes07]

...*scratches head*

[Inutero98541]

I'll explain it in simpe terms bro.

The strings are to thin to get the required bass out of them without them being wibbly and wobbly.

If you wanna tune down to drop b with regular strings you would need to raise your bridge a good inch.

But I suggest you just buy Zakk Wylde custom gauge strings and throw them on a dean razorback. That's my set up and it sounds fucking GODLY.. And go buy yourself a nice crate practice amp, a marhsall stack, and an rp 250. You'll be set for life.

[ACDC666SatrianiVai]

AND the transition/intonation will go way out, so altho u myt b in tune on the lower frets, ul b all out wen u go higha...... not gud

[KenConLock]

Kyuss is in the key of C not B.

[ConiferTreez]

hell yeah, those kids didn't know, nor did they care what they were doing or what anyone else thought

[Kalberto]

it might be the case, though i seriously doubt it, the way i've see he play green machine f ex points to C-tuning.

[MoTTTTT]

nah its C standard queens and kyuss use it

[Kalberto]

agreed

[ConiferTreez]

actually, not on 'BLUES FOR THE RED SUN'. No one will ever know what the true tuning was on that album. They didn't know how to tune, they just tuned around Josh, with Nick tuning extra low.

It wasn't until Scott Reeder came along and realized that these kids created a masterpiece without even knowing how to tune properly. Scott realized that the closest thing he could get to Nick's basstone was an extremely low C.

[Kalberto]

what do you mean by drop C? drop C as in dropped D or that the guitar is tuned in C?

[jrmvm]

I remember I always linked this song with travels all around the fkng world. And then, once i was in New Zealand hitchiking and i got a lift with a guy who was listening precisely this song. It was fkng amazing and i won't forget it in my hole life man.

long life to kyuss

[ConiferTreez]

Notice at the beginning, Olivieri is way off. Reeder would've nailed that.

I always wonder what BFTRS would've been like if Reeder had been on it and what '...Circus' would've been like had Brant been drumming.

[Kalberto]

People like you annoy me. How is Oliveri Waaaaay Off at the beginning? It's an excellent intro, moron.

How would BFTRS be if Reeder played on it? very easy, it wouldn't have been BFTRS. And btw, Alfredo is doing a helluva job on Circus.

[ConiferTreez]

How is he way off?

If you can't hear it, you're tone deaf.

I'm not saying it's a negative thing. If anything, that innocent ignorance is what 'Blues For The Red Sun' the Classic that it will always be. Those kids didn't know how to tune (not that they gave a fuck) and they didn't know a damn thing about writing music, but they pulled one of the greatest Rock albums of all-time out of their ass.

TUNE DOWN AND TURN UP, always the recipe for success.

[Kalberto]

"those kids didn't know how to tune?"

haha, that must be some of the dumbest comments on youtube ALLTIME...

of course they knew how to tune, do you think Chris Goss did it for them? Personally I think they knew very much what music they were writing, and i think it is kinda rude for you to imply that they were some kind of headless chickens that just played music.

oh yeah, they way you wrote it came across as a neagtive thing and now you try to squirm out of it.

[ConiferTreez]

What the fuck are you talking about, buddy?

KYUSS was about getting drunk, getting in fights, taking acid, having sex, rocking the fuck out with their friends.

They were just punk kids. They tuned to what THEY felt was right. Chris didn't do anything for them except make their sound come out right on record.

It was pure magic. I was there, believe me, it was like the second-coming of Sabbath.

[Kalberto]

so you imply that it's incidental that almost all of their songs is tuned in C?

mayhaps they were punk kids, but the music i hear in BFTRS isn't just a bunch of mindless punks playing random music, that is for sure.

[ConiferTreez]

"mindless" punks, they were not

full of themselves, they were

And the they never tuned to anything in particular.

C is the closest thing you can get to KYUSS.

[Kalberto]

A: do you play guitar? if yes, go to B

B: have you played along to any Kyuss records? if yes, you should know that they are tuned in somthing in particular-> C

[Veroaza]

This video make me think of my vacantion in turkey..There was a guy who gave me this band and name of this album (?)...

[chandraharini]

the simplicity of the beats masks their sheer class n brilliance! n I always say Kyuss has some of the best bass tones ever! thanks for the montage mate!

[JoePist0ne]

thank you! I agree, the atmosphere of the music is so involving you can taste the dust...

[Saighton]

@JoePist0ne tastes nicer than dust, dude... unless you mean skuff from some properly-good chronic and then we'd be talking something!

[Tonguesilver]

great video!

great music!