{"id":546,"date":"2009-08-28T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T03:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2009-08-31T23:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:45:58","slug":"the-trans-megetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"The Trans Megetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 2px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/TransMegetti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><em>Rent A Rocket<\/em> 7&#8243;<br \/>\nArt Monk Construction, 1996<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shocking how little attention I pay to singing. Most people hear a song and seem to only hear the words, but I only catch fragments of verse and I usually hear &#8217;em wrong anyway. Truth is, I&#8217;d just as soon have the vocals buried deep in the mix since there are bands I can&#8217;t listen to because I can&#8217;t get past an annoying vocalist or insipid lyrics. And more often than not, these overmixed crappy vocal tracks diminish the power of the music. The Trans Megetti&#8217;s Mark Tesi, however, has some of the best sing-shout punk vocals you&#8217;ll hear anywhere. They&#8217;re forceful but not overbearing, and they perfectly fit the band&#8217;s razor sharp power punk. Mix <strong>Hot Snakes<\/strong>\u2019 punchy guitar work with <strong>Gray Matter<\/strong> vocalist Geoff Turner\u2019s unwavering wail, and you&#8217;ll get a sense of where this New Jersey powerhouse is coming from. They released a couple solid albums after this 7&#8243; on the Art Monk and Gern Blandsten labels, but this raging debut record is easily my favorite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/TransMegetti-RentARocket.mp3\">The Trans Megetti &#8211; &#8220;Rent A Rocket&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/TransMegetti-Mercitron.mp3\">The Trans Megetti &#8211; &#8220;Mercitron&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/TransMegetti-YesICanRead.mp3\">The Trans Megetti &#8211; &#8220;Yes, I Can Read&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rent A Rocket 7&#8243; Art Monk Construction, 1996 It&#8217;s shocking how little attention I pay to singing. Most people hear a song and seem to only hear the words, but I only catch fragments of verse and I usually hear &#8217;em wrong anyway. Truth is, I&#8217;d just as soon have the vocals buried deep in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[91,92,89,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}