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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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THE BROTHERS MILLER -- THE POWER OF THE RIFF LIVES THROUGH THEM.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "Arise!"-era Rob "The Baron" Miller (bass/vocals) and Chris "Stig" Miller (guitar) of UK crust punk band AMEBIX, c. 1985. 📸: Jenny Plaits.

Q: "You had a comparatively clean guitar sound back in the day, especially on "Arise!" – many bands hid behind distortion but you seemed happy to rein back the gain and rely on brute power and riffing accuracy. Today, guitarists can agonise for an eternity over their "guitar tones." I kind of dread to ask this, but – was it intentional, or were you just making the best use of the equipment you had?"

STIG: "Put it this way we didn’t have the time money nor inclination to worry about things like that too much... guitar tones... "Is it loud? Does it feel good to play? Great! Let's record!” I cant even remember what amp I used."

Sources: Pinterest (3x) and https://oldmansmettle.com/2019/11/06/stig-miller-amebix-talks-the-old-days-new-projects-and-raising-energy-through-the-riff.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 8 months

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"WE STARTED IN 1978 TO COMBAT BOREDOM ON THE DOLE AND BECAUSE WE FELT THERE WAS A PLACE FOR THINKING MAN'S ROCK IN THE MUSIC SCENE."

NOTE: The link has the entire interview transcribed if you don't feel like squinting your eyes half to death.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a nigh hilarious interview with guitarist & co-foundernof AMEBIX, Stig C. Miller, interview from the second issue of "Oo-er" UK fanzine back in 1988.

OVERVIEW: "AMEBIX was a band cloaked with mystery for a long time. Formed as “The Band With No Name” around 1978 in the South West of England, AMEBIX was originally based around the brothers Rob and “Stig” Miller.

Transcending the boundaries of both punk and metal — before disbanding in 1987 — the band has released two albums (“Arise!” and “Monolith”), a handful of 7″ singles and leaving a huge legacy for the generations to come.

Despite the post-apocalyptic, dark and morbid imagery of their music and artwork, AMEBIX have been first and foremost punk-rockers with a gritty sense of humour. Their interviews for various punk fanzines were all hilarious to the point of satire. For your pleasure, here’s an interview with AMEBIX from "Ooer" fanzine #2 back in 1988. Answers by Christian Miller aka Stig/Stig da Pig."

--DIY CONSPIRACY, "AMEBIX: Life is Quite Dull, Really," re-published by DIYC in April, 2014

Source: https://diyconspiracy.net/amebix-interview-1988.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 8 months

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THE BROTHERS MILLER -- PURVEYORS & PROGENITORS OF ENGLISH HEAVY PUNK.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on brothers Rob "The Baron" Miller (bassist/vocalist) and Stig C. Miller of UK crust punk band AMEBIX, c. 1984, during their "No Sanctuary" era.

Source: www.picuki.com/profile/fortbraggmagazine.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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"THE AMEBIX SOUND IS TOO METAL FOR THE PUNKS, THEIR UNAPPROACHABLE APPEARANCE IN LEATHER AND CARTRIDGE BELTS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on English crust punk band AMEBIX, performing live at the Novi Rock festival in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, c. 1987. Stig in Hampton Row, Bath, UK, and the rest of the band, c. 1986. 📸: ❓

"The band itself does not allow itself to be taken over by the political or the sound agenda of the anarcho scene. Their strongest political motive is that of self-determination. It's just not lectured from the stage, it becomes the driving spirit of their increasingly powerful sound and metaphor-heavy lyrics. When we recently asked Rob Miller whether he agreed with the assessment of AMEBIX as the most apolitical of the political bands of the time, he only replied: "I am honored by this assessment." You sit between the chairs. The AMEBIX sound is too metal for the punks, their unapproachable appearance in leather and cartridge belts seems suspicious to the anarchos. The metallers, on the other hand, probably don't even know that AMEBIX even exists. Asked about the ambivalence towards the scene, Rob explains:

“It had a lot to do with our past. We grew up in the country, we were far from city life. We were concerned with the autonomy of the individual, with freedom also in a literal, spatial sense. I started, getting suspicious and claustrophobic when I met people who drew boundaries.”

-- VICE, "Death is Not a Solution,” AMEBIX Provide the Hymns to Their Own Resurrection,“ by Andrew Richter, c. November 2011

Source: www.vice.com/de/article/ex7pen/tod-ist-keine-losung-0000039-v7n11.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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PRE-DISCHARGE USAGE: SEE NOTHING -- HEAR NOTHING -- SAY NOTHING.

^NOTE: Yeah, I know the order isn't "HNSNSN," but you all get the idea, I'm sure.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a beyond solid gold shot of extremely early-ass AMEBIX (proto-AMEBIX?) -- L to R: Norman, Rob, & Stig, somewhere in Callington, Cornwall, England, c. 1980 -- FUCK ME, THEY LOOK LIKE LITTLE KIDS HERE!! Little kids on their way to making a most glorious racket that would cement their rightful place in the annals of extreme music history forevermore, that is. 📸: ❓

PROTO-AMEBIX, c. 1980: "They are school friends and the first to join the steadily rotating membership carousel of what later became AMEBIX. The whole thing is happening at the time of the beginning of Thatcherism, in a time of rising unemployment and widening social gaps, the Cold War is just getting icier again. A good social breeding ground for oppositional subcultures.

It was the time when CRASS not only developed a politically determined alternative to the cultural establishment, but also to the spiral of exploitation of industrially exploited punk rock in the country's squats. It's the birth of anarcho-punk. Rob manages to make Crass aware of his band. The track "University Challenged" from the first Amebix demo lands on the first "Bullshit Detector" compilation by Crass Records.

At this point, the band shares a relaxed relationship with musical expertise with the anarcho-punk movement, without having to justify their amateurish noise with political motives. Rob, who goes by the name of The Baron or Aphid, and Chris, who goes by the name of Stig, later like to tell the anecdote that they didn't even know what the pegs on the guitar's head were used for.

UntilUntil they became familiar with the practice of tuning, the sonic results of their shows were, shall we say, shaky. Not without pride they assure that with their first 20 gigs they earned the reputation of being the worst band in a radius of 25 miles."

-- VICE, "Death is Not a Solution," AMEBIX Provide the Hymns to Their Own Resurrection," by Andrew Richter, c. November 2011

Source: www.vice.com/de/article/ex7pen/tod-ist-keine-losung-0000039-v7n11.

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