TERA MELOS - "Live in Salt Lake City"

[FollowersofDamu]

Who is better, this guy or Thomas Erak from The Fall of Troy?

[TheSolarCompromise]

leave a path for the waiters, guys

[jamescracksthesky]

damn i remember watching this video ages ago when i first got into them. totally different sound now, but still great stuff.

[DJforrest1234]

sick tuner shot

[FANKANable]

sounds perfect 

[flip8687]

what's the song called ?

[whilwheaton]

@flip8687 last smile for jaron

[superarchmegalon]

@flip8687 Last Smile for Jaron from Complex Full of Phantoms

[Bunters196]

@flip8687 shite

[deathkampdrone]

is that a skinny aphex-logo on NR's axe? im not too surprised though :)

[s0nictr0nic]

ahh last smile for Jaron  :')

[PTrainin]

I went on after these guys. WORST ACT TO FOLLOW EVER!

[yoznfroogurt]

haha i love how he threw his guitar and tuned it back

[SolvingOurKreation]

HOLY FUCK!! nice sound :)

[choganskateboarding]

What kind of guitar does this guy play? Great band by the way!

[tresojos]

@choganskateboarding he built it

[pixID4]

anybody know what venue this was at?

[drumdude101]

@pixID4 could be the urban lounge?

[babybrutal123]

This is in standard tuning. Most of their songs are in different keys, but revolve around The Key of Awesome.

[alexander9213]

@tokyorose999 should be standard

[zackxjklol]

@tokyorose999 there is no 'particular' tuning.

Most of their songs are in a completely different tune.

[tokyorose999]

@zackxjklol that's a cool story bro, i said "majority" yeah i guess your right, not even 2 songs in the same tuning i bet, what was i thinking

[tunes2313]

woah.

[xgeneralzimx]

I'm attempting to tab this out by ear, and I always consult this video to try and figure out how he plays certain parts. I always think the video will make it easier. I am always horribly wrong. Damn you Nick Reinhart and your fancy fingers!

[olimann900]

I like it way more without the vocals

[HumblePie76]

Fags.

[PRC1972]

Love the Aphex logo on the guitar too haha

[Jake0973]

That was amazing! What song is this??

[Lee192w]

@Jake0973 Last Smile for Jaron! :D

[mushroomcloud46]

4:57 he realized his hand almost caught fire

[ParkerBlitz]

someone should tell me what guitar he's using!



[markley90]

still trying to figure out harmonic bends. this guy does them like they are nothing lol

[ImQuittingTheCult]

@markley90 He's using one of his digitech whammy's to do them, He was using a whammy 2 and 4 last time i saw them.

[AodhanHayter]

@markley90 If you're talking about the softer part (1:55) were he bends dives the pitch of the harmonics, he's using a Boss PS-3 or PS-5 which you can see to the left of the red Digitech Whammy when you bends down to fiddle with some knobs at (3:54)

[aksmar18]

Flying Luttenbachers, Hella, Yowie, Tera Melos, Behold the Arctopus, The Fall of Troy, By the en of Tonight (not in any specific order)

[konradharla]

harmonics part is just fucking beautiful

[escuece]

what guitar is that?

if you know what guitars does nick use...

which guitar is better for tapping??

[ImQuittingTheCult]

@escuece its a kramer

[frankie1833]

@ImQuittingTheCult nah its a peavey tracer

[ImQuittingTheCult]

@c3789 Is this too complex for you to consider a real song?

[teganyavo]

1:25-1:35 is the best 10 seconds in music

[Peerez67]

What guitar is he using? is it an Ibanez?

[BlckHlScts]

Loving the Aphex Twin sticker.

[primetime653]

I liked jeff worms' leads ALOT

[tunes2313]

I lol'd at the tags xD

Also, Nick is god at harmonics.

[WhoIsChrisonfire]

All the times ive watched this, ive never noticed Nick wearing that Broncos shirt. Love that shit.

[ChuckNorrisIs1337]

What is the effect the guitarist starts using at 1:57 ? its most obvious 2:23 / 2:25. I assume he's manipulating it with the expression pedal - sounds like some sort of portamento effect. I know that I'll realise what it is as soon as somebody says it, and feel like an idiot >.<

[devinigh89]

@ChuckNorrisIs1337 digitech whammy i believe 

[melowws]

@ChuckNorrisIs1337 it's a digitech whammy pedal set to one octave down.

[TheLiesette]

last smile for jaron.

[nlo13]

LAST SMILE.

[barrotty]

who is the guy in the blue shirt with a guitar? I thought nick was only guitarist?

[anikin112]

@barrotty That was their old guitarist I think his name was Worms.

[magicalpoopy]

@barrotty Jeff Worms

[pixiesmachine]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOO

That's how that made me feel

[waffles032]

Last Smile For Jaron! <3

[diamondeggplant]

I love how people started clapping at 4:45 and the guys were just like "NOPE" MEEDLEMEEDLEMEEDLE i fucking love them

[alk3skibafan]

@diamondeggplant hahaha that's was my favorite part too! :)

[jacobtheguitarfreak]

The Willy Wonka intro part was fucking awesome

[harktheherald]

wow shut the fuck up about modest mouse

[TheLiesette]

@harktheherald wow what? it had a modest mouse feel.

[brentj18]

they dont even gotta say a work

[vikingwizardeyes2121]

I wanna know what pedal he's using from 2:40 to about 3:14. The whole harmonic bending and modest-mousey stuff. (No one's stealing from each other).

[555WORM]

@vikingwizardeyes2121 its a digitech whammy. not a "super wah thing" like that dick that put up that "drum cover" of party with tina said.

[vikingwizardeyes2121]

sick. thanks!

[melowws]

I love the tags for this ha!

[LunarstormMedia]

its called Last Smile For Jaron.

the album is called Complex full of Phantoms, it was also released on a comp that sargent house put out on record store day last year? yep. happy hunting.

[darkenedelegy22]

im just getting into tera melos, they kick asss, im confused with the description, what is the name of this song?

[libertyspikes666]

they should release a live dvd........all say I!

[blakeimming]

I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[riotonkanada]

@libertyspikes666

They did, one from Parabolica Jam, which is in Japan. But you can buy the DVD here.

[anthonysjb]

woah.

imm so confused after seeing this video.

i thought there was only 3 guys in this band. and someone said it was worms but i thought he used to be the lead and he quit and nick took his spot.

can someone help me out?

[iwazused]

self titled album was a 4 man band.

on "drugs" worms quit/left (wutever) and nick is now the lead player. 3 man band.

old drummer vince left (the one in this video) and was replaced by john wardy. (i butchered his last name i think)

[MegalonsRevenge]

john clardy.

[riotonkanada]

@iwazused

It's John Clardy.

[djconstella]

last smile for jaron.

[frankie1833]

its a peavey tracer or something close...you can't really see it but i think worms is playing a yellow one too

[MegalonsRevenge]

peavey tracer fer sure. nick said so on a forum.

[Archcecil]

what guitar is nick using?

ive looked all on the forum and cant find a reference to this one.

cheers

[jackthenash]

hah! aphex sticker! cool

[someblackguythatdied]

is he using a whammy pedal to make the sounds at 2:03 to 3:17?

i need to know this

[MegalonsRevenge]

yeah hes using the digitech whammy IV. yer screen name thing is awesome by the way.

[someblackguythatdied]

thanks man, very much appreciated :)

i like your screen name too

[jaja4408]

Yes.

[bpa619]

Yes of course. It's a super wah thing, i believe, as opposed to a 'whammy pedal.'

That particular guitar part also happens to be ripped off of a strikingly similar section in modest mouse's "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine".

[MegalonsRevenge]

pretty sure its a digitech whammy 4.

[bpa619]

Actually it's Teeth Like God's Shoeshine.

lol... wow.

[MegalonsRevenge]

i meant what he was using for the wah effects....

[bpa619]

... why do you care?

ROFL wow.

[MegalonsRevenge]

you seemed curious about what he was using, so i figured i'd let you know. sorry.

[Colenelly]

did you realize that this song was written before "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine". It sure seems like Modest Mouse, a great band, stole that from him, or no one stole anything.

[bpa619]

So lemme get this straight.  The song, "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine" was on the album, "The Lonesome Crowded West" which was released by the band Modest Mouse in 1997... and therefore could have been written as early as 1995.

You're saying, however, that this song, that is, "Last Smile For Jaron" was written by Tera Melos before 1997... when they were all (around) 14 years old, and that they didn't steal the particular part in question because they wrote it then.

Wow.

[Colenelly]

oh fucking sick, I just learned Modest Mouse is from a town not an hour from my own. I had no idea. You're right though. I didn't know Modest Mouse existed before "The Moon". I only like "Good News" anyway. But I still doubt Tera Melos stole the part. That doesn't seem their style. Because it's not.

[plasticworld]

This is seriously problaby one of the most epic songs I've ever heard on my life.

[CaleRiverDavis]

haha the clapping at 4:44

[wtfirtreee]

fucking sweet

[mcf2004]

agreed, opening for them was incredible.

[hooplypooply]

Yeaaaah right!

[betabel78]

if i could see them live

once just once dammit

[mrmojorisin571]

I opened for these guys once...one of the best gigs of my life. Fun guys.

[monkeygaard]

okay i see the digitech whammy. i've got that i see the tuner pedal. uh i see the line 6 delay thingie i still need to get that umm i see another pedal in the middle i think that may be a volume pedal idk (i'm not very familiar with a lot of pedals) i can't make out anything else i think he has a boss delay pedal too

[UPH0R14]

DL4 :D

(want...)

[moggieman10]

got...is good...get.

[wowjosef]

^^^^^ prime

[MegalonsRevenge]

theres a forum that says everything he has. just use a search engine.

[antonplanets]

I like apples, sometimes theyre green, sometimes theyre not.

[pimpsauce57]

Sweeeeeeeet video. I can't hear Worms, but it's still Nice.

[VFoVendetta]

Is that an Aphex Twin sticker on his guitar?

[gearedtowardssalad]

Yes.

[loketron]

i think it is an aphex twin sticker! my drummer has that on his bass drum

[gearedtowardssalad]

Nick's said somewhere that he's an Aphex Twin fan.

[ericryanmcgehee]

willie wonka?

[desse56]

MY EARS CRYES!!!

I don´t hear a FUCKIN note in the whole song!!!

[edtheemo]

stop hearing

and start listening...

[captainsmasho]

yeah the cam audio is terrible

[hisvorpalswords]

holy fucking fuckbags!

[Colenelly]

He uses amped kramers and i mean AMPED.

[boomtown5]

Peavey Tracer

[dainjh]

what kind of guitar is he using?

[moggieman10]

ibanez/jackson??? not really sure.

[AWilliams7878]

that's jackson headstock

[moggieman10]

i was close then.

[blackoutvendera]

I'm pretty sure it's a Kramer.

[dainjh]

yeah thats what i was kinda thinkin

thanks! =]

[JorgeAnaya000]

What song is this?

[rkullberg]

It's an early version of Last Smile for Jaron, on the album Complex Full of Phantoms.

[antonplanets]

I like apples, sometimes theyre green, sometimes theyre not.

[MegalonsRevenge]

oh.

[shizzle31]

yeah they have thoguth abotu vocals, thats why nick does them.

[k10007]

look at that sweet spiderman chord!!! 1:54-!:57 :D

[tghooker]

i wonder if they ever thought about adding a vocalist

[MegalonsRevenge]

yeah they did at first, but they just didnt find anyone they liked enough so they went without one. nick actually sings in a lot of the songs.

[GotSoulDoubt]

Last Smile For Jaron, right?

[xjamesyx]

this is honestly the best song theyve written

[bigt0530]

this band sucks!! i like bands like creed and nickelback

[masterohumans]

The sad thing is that i cant tell if your kidding or not.

[amm2911]

hahah neither can i

[2405852007]

note the Aphex Twin sign at his guitar

[bigman1225]

This band is REVOLUTIONARY.

[stevenconnor08]

what effect was that from around :32-:35?

[timothyownage]

it sounds like its just clean guitar with a lot of reverb

[blackandpink17]

it was just some very fast delay and deep reverb

[AcF0life]

what kinda pedal gives that glitch effect??

[melosmtd]

delay pedal

[nickgattman]

i was there, what a year! too many fall of troy hang out sessions can rot your brain.

[JESSISTHEBOMBLIKETIC]

Ohhh your lucky. ):

[melosmtd]

i have 50,000 of the views for this video. LMAONAISE.

[Crunkaholic]

this shit is bananas.

[Xero1ne]

o hay, an aphex twin sticker. :3

[foxhold9]

is this a specific song there playing?

[brainfart2000]

last smile for jaron

[IHAVEAGECKO]

and who is that guy wayy in teh back?

[merastelo]

jeff worms?

[IHAVEAGECKO]

at 1:09 where does the pick come from?

[wowguy6]

He simply summoned it by will because he's just THAT good.

[UPH0R14]

he slides it under the strings when he taps

at the end of the guitar

[jlaw666]

I could be wrong but I think he holds onto the pick with his ring and pinky finger when he taps, I've watched that part over and over trying to see him get it from somewhere on the guitar but I can't find it so he probably does what i said, maybe not though...

[UPH0R14]

hmm

i see what you mean

but in some cases i've seen him stick it up under the pick guard or at the end of the neck

[IHAVEAGECKO]

sorry me and a friend share this account. i jus noticed this comment back.

hahaaa thats fucking great. simply summoned it. hahaaaa

[andrew12398]

Every time I hear him play I want to kill myself knowing I'll probably never have that kind of talent lol.

But it's worth it, Tera Melos is orgasmic.

[Killthemusic45]

it's a Robin guitar isn't it?

[merastelo]

nope peavey destiny

i think.

[UPH0R14]

that is a beautiful neck nick has there on his guitar....

[merastelo]

worms guitar looks so kewll.

[merastelo]

I want to see the new drummer john in action(:

[Griffo2001]

lol @ people assuming tapping is for show. battleatbosworth put it right. many of the greats did and still do it.

[bjn5150]

seriously.

i could care less how many thumbs down my comment will get from u people,

but this band is shit.

like seriously.

dont lie to yourself and say this is worth listening to.

it is shit.

random shitty ass shit!

[ailbubble]

Their live stuff isn't exactly best quality, but look up their studio stuff. It's much more "under control" except for Melody 8 (half an hour of this, basically)

[battleatbosworth]

just cuase you dont understand it lol

try listening to the studio recording of this song (last smile for jaron) and tell me its "random shitty ass shit"

[Louiestyx]

please stop tapping its obnoxious, its like playing behind your head....

[soccerfreak4263]

i read in an interview that his "two hand tapping mumbo jumbo" isn't for show, he said it's because his fingers don't move as fast as he wants them to.

[battleatbosworth]

nobodys hands could move fast enough to pick multiple nots at the same time on oposite sides of the neck.

[glitterkittens]

well two handed tapping is faster than one handed tapping i assume... and anyhow he can shred as exhibited by the plethora of songs that they record.

[sabergun]

That's ridicolous, playing behind your head adds no musical element to it, it's stagemanship. If you think everytime a guitarist taps it is only for show then you need help