Josh Young
Bands
Biography
From the Dead Sea Souls website:
I didn't start playing guitar until college, and since then I have been more intrigued with it being used as an atmospheric instrument than I have been with it being used for traditional rhythm and lead purposes. To me, the fuzz, feedback, and dissonant noise of a Thurston Moore, J. Mascis, or Adam Franklin add so much more personality and texture to a song than your standard flashy solos do.
I started playing with a friend's beat up and undersized acoustic that was often missing two, three, or even four strings at once. I would practice bar chords and strumming along to the crazy rhythms of bands like Slayer. Eventually, I progressed to real chords, and when I bought my first guitar and amp, I practiced with more frequency, eventually expanding my sound with the purchase of a delay pedal. With the right settings, I found that it was possible to make some very cool sounds, not to mention cover up my mistakes.
In 1992, I met up with a fellow student who was into the same kind of music I was, and we would get together at a friend's place in the basement and have improvised noise jams that sometimes contained some hidden gems. That student would soon leave school and gain some degree of underground fame as Athens, Georgia's finest DIY sensation, Hiro Noodles. It was in jamming with him that I discovered the thrill of musical chemistry that can only come from being in a band.
In leading a fairly normal life out of college, the band fascination left me for a while. But the music bug returned, and I started making my own music again in early 2002 and posted it on mp3.com. This led to me being contacted by Michael Raphael for a project he was trying to put together. That's where the current story ends, though expect many more stories and songs to start rolling from this partnership soon.
I started playing with a friend's beat up and undersized acoustic that was often missing two, three, or even four strings at once. I would practice bar chords and strumming along to the crazy rhythms of bands like Slayer. Eventually, I progressed to real chords, and when I bought my first guitar and amp, I practiced with more frequency, eventually expanding my sound with the purchase of a delay pedal. With the right settings, I found that it was possible to make some very cool sounds, not to mention cover up my mistakes.
In 1992, I met up with a fellow student who was into the same kind of music I was, and we would get together at a friend's place in the basement and have improvised noise jams that sometimes contained some hidden gems. That student would soon leave school and gain some degree of underground fame as Athens, Georgia's finest DIY sensation, Hiro Noodles. It was in jamming with him that I discovered the thrill of musical chemistry that can only come from being in a band.
In leading a fairly normal life out of college, the band fascination left me for a while. But the music bug returned, and I started making my own music again in early 2002 and posted it on mp3.com. This led to me being contacted by Michael Raphael for a project he was trying to put together. That's where the current story ends, though expect many more stories and songs to start rolling from this partnership soon.
