As mentioned in my last W.C. playthrough video description I thought I was done with / had already posted all #Whitechapel playthrough's, but stumbled across a few more! I absolutely completely forgot that I even filmed this one (& the last one, which I'll post sometime in the next couple weeks, too).

This must've been around... 2017/2018, I think? I think I forgot about it b/c, technically, I wasn't playing with them yet. When I first started talking to them about coming on board as their live drummer, they asked me to record a video of a new / unreleased song from their upcoming album (which, at the time, was 'The Valley'). They sent me 'When A Demon Defiles A Witch" my YouTube video for which was filmed the same week as this one. They already knew that I could play a lot of their material, as I'd done covers before, & played in other bands with similar drumming styles. But I think they just wanted to see something newer. Oh &, for the record: This was all way, waaaay before there was any talk of me becoming a fulltime member. That was much later, & obviously didn't work out. Lol. Initially though, I was brought on strictly as a hiredgun. At ANY rate me being me, & wanting to show them how serious I was about wanting the gig, I decided to take a bit more initiative & record 3 or 4 additional songs from older albums (in addition to the newer one, "W.A.D.D.A.W.", they'd sent me), & then send them ALL to them at once. & THIS cover, "The Saw Is The Law", was one of those videos!

Flash forward a bit, & I'm actually playing with them now. We decided to post up the W.A.D.D.A.W. video, simply b/c it was a much newer song, & this one for Saw (along with one other) kinda fell by the wayside, & I forgot about them completely. That is, until I stumbled upon it again a monthorso back!

Honestly I absolutely loved playing this live... I mean, I'm not originally from the deep south (LOL), but idk... I felt a lot of pride to be playing with W.C., & felt good about representing them. This being one of their (if not THE) biggest songs, & being kind of a nod to where they're from, it always made me proud to play it. Plus, it's a banger . I miss a lot of aspects about playing with W.C. stumbling across this video reminded me of that. But hey, that's life sometimes! Still thankful for the good experiences & times I had with em'! So, with THAT, I hope you enjoy it!

Oh &, last thing / funny side note: It was also weird for me to watch this again when I found it b/c when I actually started playing live with them, I ended up changing how I played certain parts for this song (kinda just happened naturally over time). So to see it played this way the way I originally learned it, which was very close to the original / album version was kinda cool.

Alrighty... KIT SPECS ! Let's see if I can remember everything I used for this...

#Tama Starclassic B/B

10x7
12x8
14x12
16x14
20x16
14x7 John Tempesta Signature

#Meinl Cymbals (from left to right, if sitting behind the kit)

18" Pure Alloy China
18" Byzance Brilliant Medium Crash
14" Byzance Traditional Medium HiHats
10" Byzance Brilliant Splash
10" MB20 Rock Splash
13" Byzance Brilliant Medium HiHats
19" Byzance Brilliant Medium / Thin Crash
20" MB20 Heavy Bell Ride
18" Pure Alloy China
16"/13" Stack (which, if memory serves, was made up of a 16" Classics Custom Trash Crash on top, & the bottom part of a 13" Byzance Traditional Medium HiHat on the bottom)

#EVANS Drumheads

Toms Clear EC2's (batter), Clear G1's (reso)
Snare Coated ST (batter)...(I think!), Snare Side 300 (reso)
Kick Coated UV2EQ4 (batter), not sure what I had on the reso... Lol!

& clearly, I was still playing my Trick Peadls back then!

& the mix was actually done by Anup Sastry (thx good buddy! ). This was also before I got any album stems from the band, so the backing audio is actually just a filtered / EQ'ed version of the album file, that I then slipedited a bit here & there so it wouldn't flam with my performance.

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As always, thanks for watching & stay tuned for more! Got one more of these older W.C. videos to post, & then I'll be posting some newer content (as well as some tooootally new stuff... a snare build video, perhaps! ).