Meshuggah: Coming to an El stop near you
Good morning!
The perfect way to start a day.
The El was ridiculously packed this morning, and as I crammed into the middle of the second car I was able to over hear a dude listening to something very loud on his iPod. It instantly caught my attention as something I’ve heard before, and definitely not the usual of what one overhears on the El in the morning.
One or two stops later all I could really catch from it over the sound of the tracks and newspapers ruffling was some frenetic down tuned guitar chug and a consistent hit on the high hat. Another stop on my way to downtown, I finally caught it: this dude’s playing Meshuggah’s “Bleed” at ear deafening volume. You could probably hear it in the whole car. Which is awesome.
Anyway, that made my morning ride in to work all the better. All I usually hear on a typical morning pumping out of some jock’s headset on the North side is some techno garbage or Lil’ Wayne…
