good day to you one and all it is I
Justin Hawkins and this is Justin
Hawkins Rides Again now I'm delighted to
react to something that I've never even
heard of before there's a band called
Dog star and they did a song called
breach which came out a month ago um and
some of you guys have told me to react
to it um I'm going to do exactly that
after I've sung the theme tune for you
can't say fair and that kind of again
I've just woken up this is how I do
stuff now just in Walkins Rides
Again again
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yes yeah so dogstar is an American
alternative rock band from Los Angeles
uh in California that's America um they
were initially active from the mid90s to
the early u0s during which time the band
found moderate success but garnered
significant media attention due to the
band's basist being Hollywood actor
Keanu Reeves oh my God and the drummer
is actor Robert mailhouse and they
officially reformed in 2023 in May um
band originally called themselves small
feal matter before settling on dogstar
after mail housee found the name in the
book sexus written by Henry Miller it
reminds me of dog manstar which was the
second suede album there's some Bowie
stuff with dog Star as well isn't there
um anyway um dogstar had several opening
acts that went on to become notable such
as rancid and Weezer um the latter's
first gig was opening for dogstar I
didn't know that
again
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F SHP good thing about FP is it gives
you an opportunity to
go when you're
pedaling you could do that if you felt
like
it you all you oh dear time don't mean
nothing here reaps looks more
like a bass player than any bass player
I've ever met apart from Frankie pan
from the
darkness you got to be tall like that um
to be a proper based player I think um
what is he 190 cm probably something
like
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that but he's keeping it
simple oh
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yeah
well I expected there to be more use of
an
e butth they're using the D instead it's
quite startling startling uh turn of
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events was at the drama doing some vocal
fry there whilst playing I'm just going
back to 31
seconds or is he's kind of whispering
with a load of distortion on his voice
it's hard to say see
me
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I really light drumming style isn't it
for this kind of uh
um it's actually got a bit of the hives
Vibe about it it's such a tight sort of
um tight and precise style of drumming
which you know when you hear this kind
of Punky stuff you always think it's
going to be swishy swishy um high hats
and you know lots of to pendy stuff
going on in the drums to add excitement
but that's not what they're doing here
they're keeping it
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tight he not hitting them very hard at
all and then they Ed the high hat
opening to add a bit of Dynamics for the
chorus
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part now what base is it that Keanu R
plays okay so that is a I think that's a
fender Jazz base isn't it but this isn't
Jazz oh no this is not
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Jazz ah there's an
here okay so the passing e happens in
this section
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here so that's the heaviest part of it
really cuz I think that's when kananu
hits the open e and it gives it that
sort of um beefy moment what is this
probably like a this is probably the
bridge
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right there it
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is it has a a bit of uh what's it called
um Queens of the Stone age Vibe actually
hasn't it I mean even aesthetically I
would
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say sometimes you look at KI Rubes and
you think when he's wearing like a a
cool Blazer like that you always wonder
are there sleeves on the shirt that's
underneath it or is it like a muscle
shirt I think it's not very
scooped um wife beater if it is
that but yeah these are the questions
that obviously all of us um go through
all of our minds when we see
this I mean it's so high isn't
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it there a sort of almost dissonant
guitar part
there does something like
that
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really cool bit pixieish
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that the Les pull there to get nerdy
about gear for a second it
looks I mean it's got The Binding of
what looks like a a lespol custom a
really delicious sort of mled red finish
to it but the but the inlays are
trapezoid Which suggests that it's um
leso standard as opposed to a
custom and it's so new like it's hardly
been played that
thing and the same with um keanu's base
there it looks like a brand new one
they've just gone to the music store and
picked up their new instruments to do
the video maybe they just borrowed them
for the
day but check out that he's right up
there in the dusty end you don't see
bass players doing that unless they're
in uh Ned's Atomic Dustbin there's a
cultural reference for you guys use the
comment section below if you remember
that
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band didn't didn't that Skip Beat I
think that's kind of something that was
repurposed by 90s bands from like
certain type of 60s music it's back now
30 years later every 30
years comes
back
wow
yeah if you like the hives and if you
like uh Neds Atomic Dustbin if you're
fond of the Pixies if you like um the E
uh Queens of the Stone Age then there's
probably going to be something in this
dog star number that that you like I
mean I enjoyed it it's simple it's tight
never really gets out of second gear but
it's still kind of exciting in a in a in
a cool way um yeah good stuff I think
what do let use the comment section let
me know what you think just hains Rides
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