Email Correspondence With Eric Wood of Man is the Bastard fame

[platypus_youth]

Zach: I was wondering what kind of bass equipment you used in Pissed Happy Children/Man is the Bastard

Eric Wood: Some things friend are better not known. Some things need to be sacred - why would I want you to get MY sound. I worked forever to get MY signature sound. You should do the same. Much respect to you.

Zach: Point taken and completely

Comments

[japanesefallout]

Kind of a dick response, but I can understand where the guy is coming from.

[platypus_youth]

i think it's pretty sweet, there are a lot of bands coming up now that would love to bite his style and wanna sound like mitb. I think he sincerely respects my maturity because i didn't prod him any further about it nor did i think of him as a dick

[japanesefallout]

Yeah, I completely see what you're saying and where he's coming from.

[backwardspecies]

that is completely what i would expect him to say.
very insane you got to talk with him though.

[platypus_youth]

yeah i was kind of expecting a similar response. It'd probably be a bitch for him to explain too, i think he had barnes build him amps and shit

[fex82]

wow what the fuck he thinks really highly of himself

[backwardspecies]

i'm pretty positive he's a large reason behind mitb's break up.

[platypus_youth]

i think he is the "him" when beattie talks about "him sitting on nearly finished recordings" i'd like to meet him, if the dudes from the locust think he's a total weirdo or "still wacked out on the freak sauce" as the dude put it then he must be a pretty strange feller, or an interesting one at least