Why Paul Bostaph didn’t play on Slayer’s Divine Intervention

  • Thread starter Thread starter nightlight
  • Start date Start date
I’ve seen Bostaph live with Forbidden, Slayer, Exodus and Testament. To give credit where credit is due, he is great when performing his own material. I just don’t like all the shortcuts and forced changes he makes to other’s drum parts. His best Slayer performance hands down, drum wise to me is on God Hates us All.
 
thegame said:
I’ve seen Bostaph live with Forbidden, Slayer, Exodus and Testament. To give credit where credit is due, he is great when performing his own material. I just don’t like all the shortcuts and forced changes he makes to other’s drum parts. His best Slayer performance hands down, drum wise to me is on God Hates us All.
Click to expand...
GHUA is my favorite Slayer albums. Love it front to back.
 
I'm not a drummer, but I've played with some monster drummers. My good friend since our teens plays in many thrash bands, including our thrash cover band H8TORADE. His name is Rob Alaniz. He plays in Evil Dead, Anger as Art, Noctuary, Winterthrall, has toured with Doro and others in Europe, USA, etc.... Anyway, I asked him his thoughts on the question of who played drums on DI. He firmly believed that Paul really did play the drums on DI. He's watched him from back stage many times.
 
Well, Jeff barely played on it. This is the first Slayer album he only played leads on. King did all rhythms as well as all rhythms on every following album as well. That's just one reason of many why I'm not fond of it. I like a few songs quite a bit but overall not so much.
 
thegame said:
Well, Jeff barely played on it. This is the first Slayer album he only played leads on. King did all rhythms as well as all rhythms on every following album as well. That's just one reason of many why I'm not fond of it. I like a few songs quite a bit but overall not so much.
Click to expand...
I get it . But man it really has the songs for me . Fast brutal mixed with grooves and enough melodies
 
thegame said:
Well, Jeff barely played on it. This is the first Slayer album he only played leads on. King did all rhythms as well as all rhythms on every following album as well. That's just one reason of many why I'm not fond of it. I like a few songs quite a bit but overall not so much.
Click to expand...
King just plays 16th notes. Should have let Gary write the past few albums. Jeff gone = end of good riffs.
 
just42dave said:
Dude that whole album gtr wise is exceptional!!!!!!!
Click to expand...
I can't speak highly enough about that album. Besides the obviously great stuff on there, it has lots of interesting dual guitar interplay. Not just typical, layered harmonies.
 
You know who else didn't play on this album, your mom.
 
I really, really don't like divine intervention.

I think slayer really needs the diversity of riffage that Jeff brought to the table. His style is much different than kerrys

IIRC Jeff only did leads on most of these bad 90s albums, and you can tell. The albums start seeming really samey.
 
Slayer live with Bostaph sounded good on the stuff that he originally played on, but the Dave-era material sounded off IMO.
 
Last edited:
chumbucket said:
Slayer live with Bostaph sounded good on the stuff that he originally played on but the Dave-era material sounded off IMO.
Click to expand...


They don’t play each others stuff very well, Dave trying to pull off Bostaphs parts are a total disaster
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top