by Eduardo RivadaviaUnderground band utility man Joe Preston has accumulated an enviable collection of bass-playing credits over the years, from his early-'90s involvement with subsonic frequency pioneers Earth and their disciples of a decade later, Sunn 0))), to his stints with indie rock stalwarts the Melvins and, most recently, new millennium metal beasts High on Fire -- many of them carried off concurrently with his long-running solo project, Thrones. Begun in 1996, Thrones had Preston handling all instruments himself while traversing an eclectic musical terrain common to all his collaborative efforts cited above (and a few more, besides) over the span of a few albums and literally dozens of singles and one-off compilation entries. And that's where 2005's Day Late, Dollar Short enters the picture with positively heroic results, as it assembles these assorted odds and ends into a single, astonishing, and nerve-jarring 19-track exposition of an otherwise scattered seven-year career. The Suckling, 1994's