How Sleep Created Dopesmoker
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INFO: Sleep is an American doom metal / stoner rock trio from San Jose, California. The band has often been talked about as one of the more influential bands in those genres in addition to acts like Kyuss, High on Fire and Om. They were founded in 1990 then broke up by the end of the decade but got back together in 2009 and have been active ever since. Now what makes Sleep such a unique band to a lot of fans is their 1999 released third album Jerusalem and the altered and slightly more popular version of this album known as Dopesmoker released in 2003. It’s an album consisting of one song lasting over 50 minutes. Some versions lasting over an hour. On top of that, the song is also quite monotonous. Guitarist Matt Pike repeats the same notes and melodic patterns over and over. When i describe it it might come off as boring. So why is this album regarded as a stoner rock cornerstone? That’s the question i’ll answer in this video.
I dont think this guy is into Sleep…
Its funny i didnt know this band till i started printing their shirts.
you have a white dot in your fucking face dude!
That white dot on 1:58 and further on really irritates me.
thanks for the recommendation on that documentary!
gonna watch it rn
high af
literally just listening to sleep and I see this in my feed.
*Mentions* *Metal* Shows Van Halen as example
A Sleep video without the mention of Black Sabbath? WOW!
MAKE A VIDEO ON BILLY TRAILER AND THE SUNNY DEEZ!!!
Im a Huge stoner my self ..i smoke almost ewery day i just gotta check this band !
The cover is probably Dune inspired
funnily enough, i ran my fastest ever 10km while listening to Dopesmoker, which…..blew my mind
You should make a video on The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
I don’t think this guy burns!!!
Is it just me or does it seem this guy isn’t really into it as much as he should be? Like, you’re talking about a holy record here, one of the pinnacles of music, how are you being so normie about it
MAKE A VIDEO ON BILLY TRAILER AND THE SUNNY DEEZ
I just listened to the thing in its entirety today, and a couple hours later this is in my recommended. Thanks, Youtube.
Yo is it just me or is there a tiny white dot on the screen over homeboys forehead?
Jerusalem was the working title hence why it had different parts and then final product was called Dopesmoker which originally had the crazy looking horse on the front. The newer artwork with the gas masks are actually bongs/vaporizers you wear on the back and the mask is the hit piece. They are worn by the Hasheashians/lungsmen (presumably). They are monks transporting bails of weed across the holy land i.e. Jerusalem.
OM next
i find it awesome that in any photo you have of Al playing bass, he’s always got some sort of Rickenbacker. You’ll see him with some odd ones, like his custom 4004, the 4002 shown in the video, there’s even an Instagram post of him with a 4005/8!
Dopesmoker cover looks like something out of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the book series
The cover is reminiscent of the Scifi book of Dune on the desert planet Arrakis
>same melodic pattern over and over
Why does everyone say Dopesmoker is the same riff on repeat, did you guys never listen to it? There are about 10 different riffs and 3 long solo sections, if you made the riffs 8 secs long instead of 2 minutes you’d get a pretty orthodox stoner metal song.
Do you have to show your face?
funny that one songs is 5 times longer than a video telling me about the song.
I don’t like it when people call Weed dope. Weed is not dope. Heroin is dope. Weed is weed.
By smoking Dope
lemme save you some time, they plugged in a bunch of fuzz pedals and smoked dope
Dopesmoker sucks. Riffs aren’t good, not clever, not original, lyrics suck, singing sucks, production sucks. Guitar tones are alright but still not very unique.
Your gay stop
Napoleon Dynamite’s brother Kip talks about a Sleep album
so this guy has never smoked?
Aw, yeah. My kind of video *Starts joint*
it did NOT take 4 years to make that song, They got kicked off their label when they heard the recording and it took 4 years to get it out. Matt was not smoking weed at the time. The band had not even been together 4 years when the song was recorded. Im not sure where you got your information? The song was created in the studio and is a product of the studio.
2:46 It’s important to realise Dopesmoker is NOT the same melodic pattern all the way through. While the note C does appear much more often than any other note, there are easily enough riffs in the song to fill an album and keep it interesting. They even printed a list of the named riffs on the vinyl inner sleeve.
I think they got into legal issues with the name Jerusalem,since there’s been a band (shitty) with that name since -75
THE WEEDIaN mmmmmmMMMMmmmMM
They smoked dope. Duh.
"To me, it looks like something middle Eastern combined with something sci-fi…" It’s fucking Sand People, man. You know, Tusken Raiders from Star Wars? They were based on Afghani Bedouins.
I am a fan!
We all know that this is the longest song on everyone phones.
Wypierdalaj z tym gównem
That shit is boring, don’t understand the hype
2 minutes of self advertising at the start ….
The Accüsed Melvins Buzzoven Asbestosdeath
2 minutes patreon intro? FCK off
Dune is key here. That look is inspired by the fremen stillsuit
Peeps should also check out the Premier Guitar video on their kit.
How to doom metal:
1: vintage style guitar
2: drop tune enough to be low but not djent low
3: 90 bpm *max*
4: 1 note per beat, 2 beats *max* . 4 notes if you want to write thrash doom