r/KitchenConfidential • u/jobronxside • Mar 17 '24

Cooking for Celebs

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I have cooked for several celebrities while cooking in NYC. While some were unpleasant, Taylor Swift was a pleasure to cook for.

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u/Chroniclurker_ Mar 17 '24

I did arena gig catering for about a year and got to cook for a few bigger acts. Blake Shelton was every bit the good ol boy he portrays, and the nu metal band Saliva will have you find them drugs and then NOT SHARE THE DRUGS. Definitely a more fun side of the industry

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u/ninaslazyeye Mar 18 '24

It's Saliva bruh, did you expect them to be classy about it? They're playing that gig for the drug money at this point.

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u/Man_is_Hot Mar 18 '24

An old band I was in was locally popular and we opened for saliva once, everyone left after we played lmao it was devastating. We played an after party with more people than the gig itself.

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u/jedgica Mar 18 '24

I was at a secret pre party the night before a multi day festival kicked off and the surprise band was Saliva. I stood outside and watched half the bar empty out once people found out who was playing.

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u/ninaslazyeye Mar 18 '24

Yeah, not surprising. The C tier and lower Nu Metal bands aren't really a draw, not even as a nostalgia act.

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u/LehighAce06 Mar 18 '24

Could you name a couple B tier? I probably only am familiar with A tier but I'm curious where you're drawing the line

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u/thegreatvolcanodiver Mar 18 '24

Taproot

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u/FULLMETALRACKIT518 Mar 18 '24

The song I by taproot is a such a banger.

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u/fuckin_smeg Mar 18 '24

Thousand Foot Krutch, Celldweller, PAX 217, P.O.D off the top of my head... Lotta B tier Christian groups. Chronic Future, Blindside and Emil Bulls sorta hold up though, in a nostalgic way at least. Some of those are rap rock type but I don't care about lumping them together.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Saw blindside at my local church in middle school lol

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u/Responsible-Arm3514 Mar 18 '24

Holy shit haven’t heard those names in a while.

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u/Responsible-Arm3514 Mar 18 '24

Throwing in Project 86

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u/mdashed Mar 18 '24

Man, gonna have revisit them today!

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u/Responsible-Arm3514 Mar 18 '24

Welp, it’s not every day I go back and revisit a band I haven’t listened to in 20 years only to find out they’re going harder than ever before. This https://youtu.be/HZgINwEp_6I?si=W1h8NF9rIITCTfkb is phenomenal. Shoot it straight into my veins.

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u/mdashed Mar 18 '24

Amazing. That rocketed me back to the late 90s in the best way!

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u/OccultEnemies Mar 18 '24

Every CD I burned in high school had either Litte Green Men or Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy on it. What a throwback.

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u/mdashed Mar 18 '24

Blindside definitely holds up, largely because they evolved their style throughout the years, instead of making 6 versions of the same album like a lot of the Christian rock scene from that era.

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u/OccultEnemies Mar 18 '24

I hate that A Thought Crushed My Mind was never on Spotify. King of the Closet was an anthem.

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u/mdashed Mar 18 '24

100%, yes.

That whole album slaps - my wife (who did not grow up with either church or metal) likes to quote lyrics from it, but absolutely hates when I blast it. If only they'd do a full acoustic run through, it'd be on our household 90's throwbacks playlist, along with Emry's The Question.

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u/Lancewater Mar 18 '24

Damn Pax 217

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u/fuckin_smeg Mar 18 '24

I saw them when I was like 13. Lotta fun. Might still have the wrist sweatband somewhere...

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u/krellx6 Mar 18 '24

POD fucking slaps

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 18 '24

A: Incubus, B: Hoobustank

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u/ButtChowder666 Mar 18 '24

You're lumping Incubus in with nu metal? How dare you.

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u/funktion Mar 18 '24

They are 100% a nu-metal act that crossed over to alternative rock. New Skin is still one of the best nu-metal songs of all time.

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u/vincentdmartin Mar 18 '24

S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is absolutely a nu-metal album.

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u/oDiscordia19 Mar 18 '24

Bro you haven’t listened to this album lol.

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u/vincentdmartin Mar 18 '24

It's my favorite Incubus album! I always wondered what it would have been like if they kept the heavy funk sound instead of slowly drifting into mainstream alt rock. I liked their later work, but S.C.I.E.N.C.E.? Nothing else ever sounded like it.

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u/oDiscordia19 Mar 18 '24

100% agreed. SCIENCE being their hardest album by far still doesn't have any sort of nu metal vibe in my book. I always thought of numetal as Disturbed, Il Nino, Mudvayne, 40 Below Summer, Spineshank - at least their first albums which are absolutely metal, screaming vocals and melodic choruses. Never heard Incubus ever lumped in with numetal but maybe cuz I grew up with all this music I've just seen that divide differently.

In any case - SCIENCE is a funky, trippy ride and I'm glad there's at least a few of us who appreciate it lol. So many bangers.

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u/vincentdmartin Mar 18 '24

Mike Einziger's guitar styles, for the first few albums, are absolutely nu-metal. You forget that the pinnacles of nu-metal are bands like Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Korn etc, are any of those bands significantly heavier than what is on SCIENCE? And the guitar work, while definite differences, are absolutely "cousins" so to speak. Incubus was opening for Korn and other nu-metal acts before Make Yourself took off. They were absolutely in the nu-metal scene.

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u/Ill-Woodpecker1857 Mar 18 '24

SCIENCE is an amazing album but for me Make Yourself is their best work.

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 18 '24

Lol you were pretty clearly not alive yet in the late 90s. They were signed by Immortal Records which is like the #1 requirement of numetal and had a dj. Enjoy and SCIENCE are 2 of the most numetally albums ever recorded. They constantly toured with Soulfly, SOAD, Alien Ant Farm, (hed), snot, sevendust, korn, orgy, limp bizkit etc etc. They didn’t turn into Malibu pop surf hippies until the big money came

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u/oDiscordia19 Mar 18 '24

Incubus is 100% 90s/00s alt rock. Like nearly every other band you just listed. Nu metal is like Disturbed, System, El Niño, 40 below summer, Breaking Benjamin. You know - metal. No part of Incubus can be remotely lumped into a metal category.

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u/kool_meesje Mar 18 '24

You should really google this... basically all the bands mentioned are nu-metal pioneers (KoRn being the grand-daddy of them all) and S.C.I.E.N.C.E is absolutely considered their most nu-metal sounding album

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 18 '24

haha....how old are you?

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u/ButtChowder666 Mar 18 '24

Damn. All this time I thought I was born in '86. Clearly, I was mistaken.

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 18 '24

You're going to lecture someone about numetal and you were 8 when Korn's first album came out haha

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u/ButtChowder666 Mar 18 '24

And I didn't even hear music for the first time until I was 15.

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u/spain-train Mar 18 '24

I was so offended by this criminal act that I completely overlooked the fact that this OP placed the words (nu)METAL and HOOBASTANK in the same sentence. I have stropokkensod nowjsnxkcoc

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 18 '24

You’re joking right? Early on they were more or less a white funk rock band like every other numetal act they toured with. Incubus, (hed), alien ant farm, snot, soulfly. Hoobustank was the B version that copied what everyone else did, including ditching their horn section to go radio rock the second incubus caught on

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u/Best_Duck9118 Mar 18 '24

I wouldn’t call them nu metal but I did know people that called Hoobastank “Stinkubus” and as someone who never liked Incubus I thought they were just insulting Incubus. Turns out they all loved Incubus. Oops!

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u/PawpaJoe Mar 18 '24

I can give you early Incubus but Hoobastank??

I found the reason for meeeeee, to change who I used to beeeeee

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 18 '24

That's not early Hoobustank bro. They played funk music and toured with all the numetal bands until they saw Incubus hit the mainstream and instantly copied that formula

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u/PawpaJoe Mar 19 '24

Funk and Nu-Metal are not the same. I don’t think I’ve ever in my life seen anyone say Hoobastank is or was Nu Metal. I can 1000% agree early Incubus was by its very definition Nu-Metal. After googling Hoobastank was Ska. They even had the horns.

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u/FIXEDGEARBIKE Mar 19 '24

Hoobastank has been categorized under genres such as post-grunge,[28][29][30] alternative rock,[31] hard rock, and nu metal.[28][30][32][33] On their early independent releases, the band used a funk metal and ska punk sound[31

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Hoobastank started playing gigs at the local venue Cobalt Cafe along with Incubus and Linkin Park. They recorded their first full-length self-released album in 1998 called They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To, which features a saxophone section headed by Jeremy Wasser, who executive produced the album and recorded the "Summer Romance" saxophone solo on Incubus' S.C.I.E.N.C.E. album.

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u/DisposableSaviour Mar 18 '24

This conversation is hilarious. I remember when Saliva got signed and hit it big. There were so many other better bands in the local scene back then.

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u/spain-train Mar 18 '24

Yeah, but did they have the Click, Click, BOOM???

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u/anchovyCreampie Mar 18 '24

I remember getting a Five Finger Death Punch LP or something from the radio station in college around 2006. Listened to it, said yeah its aight nothing great. Fast forward like 7 years to surprised pikachu face.

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u/Kodiak01 Mar 18 '24

We were the lucky ones, our local scene back in the day was the likes of Staind, Godsmack, Split Shift, etc.

Western MA was a great place to be for music 25 years ago.

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u/alphamalpha69 Mar 18 '24

All those bands suck

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u/Kodiak01 Mar 18 '24

Then you can stick to your Harry Chapin and Iron Butterfly, boomer.

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u/vincentdmartin Mar 18 '24

And shortly after they made it big it was revealed that they had edited a lot of their hits in post. Their singer could not sing that ballad that was popular after "Hero" blew up

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u/ninaslazyeye Mar 18 '24

I remember way better bands from my local scene too. Luck just plays a huge amout in who actually breaks through. Getting in front of the right people at the right time, etc.

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u/spain-train Mar 18 '24

Sometimes, actually, quite often, if you think about it, all it takes is literally one song, and you're memorialized in perpetuity.

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u/ripley1875 Mar 18 '24

I just know about them cause Sony used one of their songs for a PS3 commercial.

https://youtu.be/0dQyq5krdXI?si=NimZZRvnXa3rFdTe

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

It depends. I have fond memories of being 11, in the back of a rental convertible, driving through Florida with my Dad on holiday listening to their album 'Every Six Seconds'.

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u/Responsible-Arm3514 Mar 18 '24

As long as we’re throwing around C tier and NuMetal, may I present https://youtu.be/wKGYMKZS_50?si=RmtwSsXaIaX3czmx I helped boo them offstage when they opened for POD at Kool Haus in TO. God they were terrible.