Roller Derby Girls by Meantone

Unlike equal temperament, sharps and flats are not the same. Meantone uses 31 notes from this tuning. The meantone tuning is more natural and closer to just intonation (nature's tuning), with it's major thirds perfectly in tune and it's minor thirds extremely close. What makes this tuning even more unique is it's flat fifths at 697 cents as oppose to 702 cents in just intonation. The quest to be perfect, but not being able. The search for something better but not quite getting what you want. Isn't this what the blues is all about?

YOUNG BRETT: Plays bass drum, snare drum, high hat and splash. He doesn't have much time and is still confused about Meantone.

PORTLAND PHOENIX:REVIEW BY SAM PFIEFLE

Roller Derby Girls, Meantone

Meantone make the sort of music that doesn’t necessarily lend itself to hyper analysis, but the more I listen to this five-tune EP (and Meantone’s Original Graveyard Blues, from last year), the more fun it seems. It’s mean and dark in the way a guy in a gas mask might intuitively make music, but it’s not mean-spirited. Thus, when you’re told the Roller Derby Girls, “They crush your heart/They crush your very soul,” it’s easy to intuit that that’s a good thing. And, for music nerds, there’s something to Meantone’s fretless guitar, paired only with Young Brett’s drums (like Eggbot, Meantone is a guy and a band, both).

And the included video here is worth the purchase alone, with great footage of the Roller Girls (kind of like the Suicide Girls, in that they have lots of tats and are hot, but instead of getting naked, they punch other women while roller skating in a circle competitively) in action (including a brutal takedown with about 20 seconds left), some clips of Meantone and Young Brett carousing with some gals on the Geno’s stage, and, best of all, Meantone taking a mean clothesline (twice), dished out by roller girls. It’s a weird combination of cool and slapstick, but it’s a work of art in its own way.

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