Mother Man - Atheist (Bass and Drums Only)

Something I thought would be unique and really shows Tony Choy and Steve Flynn's skill. I'll put up the song Mother Man later.

The bass and drum tracks from the song Mother Man, from Atheist's album Unquestionable Presence released in 1991 by Death Records, re-issued by Relapse Records in 2005. Copyrighted by Atheist & Death/Relapse Records.

Bass Guitar: Tony Choy
Drums: Steve Flynn

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Atheist
• Unquestionable
• Presence
• technical
• death
• metal
• jazz
• Mother
• Man
• bass
• track
• Roger
• Patterson
• Steve
• Flynn
• Tony
• Choy
• drum

[anyrock22]

Hey man upload more songs with the drums and bass it good for learning the songs

[Steve128967]

@anyrock22 I don't really know any off-hand, the reason this exists is because it was included in the reissue of Unquestionable Presence... I know Human by Death has been reissued and there's drum + bass tracks for a few of the songs though.

[slipknotkingg]

No it's not, it's Tony Choy. Patterson wrote all the bass lines for the album, but died before recording. Patterson's work, but Choy's playing.

[Steve128967]

I think it may be a demo, which would have had Patterson playing, as the Unquestionable Presence re-release had a bunch of demos which I'm pretty sure had Patterson playing, as they were before the album's recording(?) Again, I'm not completely sure.

[beastatlay]

Believe me, this is absolutely not Roger Patterson, it is Tony Choy. Listen to the demos properly - the difference in power between the two is huge. Patterson's sound and playing style was enormous.

[Hammerdown1000]

I thought it was great! Most of all when you have a piece like this you have to have a really great engineer to track it right. I love the stereo spread on the recording and the EQ. The mic placement and type of mic was right on. You could hear every harmonic note and every clean Bell-ish hit on the cymbals and tuning on the drums which are often hidden if the track wasn't recoded right. What does all of what I said mean. You could hear everything that the bass player and drummer put out th

[antonio610]

@beastatlay Damn right. Roger Patterson is the only case in music that I know of where a guy would be a legend if he HADN'T died.

[cooliovasquez]

@beastatlay also tony choy has always had the worst tone settings ive ever heard for metal bass

[sthxdnn1]

@beastatlay choy is EXTREMELY sloppy..lol



[beastatlay]

@MikeHawk4all

No, I have the album here in front of me. Inside it says "Line up on tracks 9-15 is Kelly Shaefer - Lead Vocals/Lead Guitar, Roger Patterson - Bass (etc)". Tracks 9-15 is listed on the back cover as "Pre-Production Demo 8/90 featuring Roger Patterson". This is track 16 and, along with 17 (rhythm tracks), features Tony Choy.

Look, it doesn't even sound like Roger. It's too trebly, lacks that bouncy, bassy tone and, most importantly, simply doesn't have his attack and power.

[sthxdnn1]

@slipknotkingg actually patterson was alive for the demo recordings. i have them.they came with the deluxe version of this album

[YiannisMetallas96]

i love the death metal bass!!!!!!!!

[joeyunleashed13]

@kingofbishop thanks mate. im usually good at finding time signitures, but i would've never figured that one out :D