Any love for Peter Steele?

[YouMa]

I'm more into nude jazz/funk/soul/rare groove etc. A metal mate forced me listen to some Type O Negative. Have to admit this is probably the first rock bass player i really liked apart from John Paul Jones and the usual crowd. Shame the guy died he seemed like a decent bloke judging by the interviews i have watched. I thought their cover of Cinnamon Girl was better than Neil Youngs.

Edited December 7, 2022 by YouMa

[Bassassin]

I was a big Peter Steele/Type O fan, absolutely gutted when he died. Fantastic band, saw them a good few times & they were a big influence on the gothy aspect of the band I was in in the early '00s. IMO Peter's huge overdriven tone defined their sound as much as his vocals did.

 

And they wrote the best Christmas song:

 

[madshadows]

Absolutely love the Type O Negative albums, Peter Steele passing away was a total tragedy, great singer, player and songwriter, Bloody Kisses and October Rust are my favourite TON albums  

 

John 😎 

[Dood]

October Rust for me, I was a little late to the party but that album is great.

[MacDaddy]

10 hours ago, YouMa said:

I'm more into nude jazz/funk/soul/rare groove etc. A metal mate forced me listen to some Type O Negative. Have to admit this is probably the first rock bass player i really liked apart from John Paul Jones and the usual crowd. Shame the guy died he seemed like a decent bloke judging by the interviews i have watched. I thought their cover of Cinnamon Girl was better than Neil Youngs.

 

"nude jazz" ? 😳

[fretmeister]

What is nude jazz?

 

I'm wondering if that is what I've been playing in my house for all this time!

[Bolo]

Carnivore was a much MUCH better initiative than Type-o. Brutally honest.

[YouMa]

Nude Jazz was just a joke from Viz. Lol. I do like jazz though.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

I adore Type O Negative. In my miserable teenage years I was all about World Coming Down but I now realise the lush romanticism of October Rust is just perfection.

 

Peter Steele is one of those immediately identifiable players, a unique style and tone. It probably wouldn't work anywhere else but for TON it's perfect.

 

I'm so happy I got to see them live.

[Bassassin]

20 hours ago, Bolo said:

Carnivore was a much MUCH better initiative than Type-o. Brutally honest.

 Carnivore were great fun. All the time you appreciate Peter's tongue was wedged firmly in his cheek.

 

In fairness the same is true of a lot of Type O material.

[ubit]

I agree that their version of Cinnamon girl is better than Neil Youngs. I have played it to death. I love them and have all of their material.

A pale Horse called death are worth a listen too.

[SteveXFR]

I love a bit of Type O Negative. A great place to start a long and dark journey to the underbelly of metal 

[Skybone]

I never "got" Type O, loads of my friends loved them, but they never clicked for me.

[ARGH]

Still the only Band and musician that looked and sounded EXACTLY as I thought they would in the flesh,live.

 

Pete's 'Sizzle' sound (as he called it) was from him customizing his cabs with loads of bullet tweeters