Rob Karloff

I haven't seen any of you recently. I think you're all part of a plot by the Countryside Alliance.

So the commonsense in moving out of Bulgaria to somewhere that the pay is decent escapes the mind of a person with IQ of 200.....? o_O

It's the furry fuckin viking boots that girls have taken en-masse to wearing recently that piss me off most. They look good on a Scandic girl in -10C snow and ice conditions, not on some UK bint trudging around in the rain.

Even Karloff got themselves around' date=' and in a tour bus no less! I'm sure they can tell you all sorts of things I don't claim to know about. There's also Aly Gray who worked with The Score and put them all over the blumin' country.

Again however, this is gonna come down to who you want to reach, The Score were a more mainstream indie-type band, Jonny worked with a niche' Rockabilly act called Pyscho A-Go-Go, and Karloff are a horror punk band.

In general, the more mainstream you are, the bigger the audiences you can get and perhaps the easier it is to get dates. (Don't hold me to that) The more alternative you are, the more willing others are to help you out above and beyond the call of duty.[/quote']

Yeah, we do pretty good. It's largely by reputation though, and having the releases on Fat Hippy has been a big part of that. Those CDs from that much berated local effort label get further afield than most naysayers would believe, and from that comes gig bookings. We have a reputation for putting on a good show, and being good at it, and that translates into interest from promoters both near and far away. I actually disagree a little with what you say here, in that I think it's easier to be sucessful and build a reputation if you're more of a "niche" band. People will come out and see a horror punk band like ourselves even if they know nothing about us, because it's quite a rare thing these days. If you're in a heavy metal or pop-punk band then I think people are less likely to be curious or have the motivation because they can see those kind of acts pretty much anytime. Even being a shithot band in these cases is not good enough, it's a problem of saturation really. You have to be able to offer people more than just some songs performed well if you want them to turn out in a town where they've never heard of you before.

Not a big Hank fan meself, but like Hank Williams III a lot. If you get his "Lovesick, Broke & Drifting" CD, you see in the liner notes he's wearing a Misfits Fiend Club t-shirt... And he plays bass for Superjoint Ritual!

I'm with Jonny here... They were all a bunch of up-themselves wankers.

Met them at the Fudge aftershow in Dr Drakes where they insisted on playing some acoustic set and making arses of themselves. Really can't find anything worthwhile to say about my encounter with them.

See also the very snazzy live photos from the Lemon Tree taken by myself in the hairy-assed-one's gallery...

that's such a low blow not cool' date=' not cool at all [/quote']

Well, I fight dirrrrty!

What dastardly plan could I use on Psydoll tho?? Maybe a Playstation and Pro Evo 4...

boys' date=' stop being silly.

I WOULD WIN

end of story. [/quote']

I'd take a camera, you'd hide from it, I'd win.

Candy. From. A. Baby.

I quite think a victory might come my way thanks to a schoolboy error in Rob perhaps flirting too much allowing me to sneak up behind him a la Repo Man and roll him up for the win - if you can't feel your arm and leg combo then you might just think you're falling over

Maybe you should manufacture Karloff dolls so that Al-B can collect the set and abuse the Rob Karloff one leaving you free to sup a pint in peace!

You didn't see the Rob Monster doll that I got presented with at the gig?! Maybe I should give it to Al-B....

And you think I'd let someone like you get behind me...?

From that i get..

"oh my god' date=' i can't believe anyone in the wasteland will be able to read this

my best example of my superior leet skills"

am i right? do i win a prize? [/quote']

QUICK! GET THIS GIRL SOME THERAPY, STAT!!!

He winnae be happy!

Is he ever?!

I think his quote in the fanzine was "charity shop suit that probably cost all of 5 with a blatent self-promoting slogan inked on the back", which is pretty close, but I think it cost 50p, actually. There was also a reasonable photo of Dan Atom and my good self, having annointed Dan's forehead copiously with fake blood, which he then complained was hurting his eyes as it ran in.

hahahahah you're on' date=' and you knows i'll win [/quote']

Dream on missy.

There's a vat of blood involved, and I fight dirrrrrty.

I caught a bit of this I think while hopping my 5 pleb channels... Some woman complaining about how her daughter repeatedly told her to fuck off, binge drank and she was scared she would assault her. 15 year old called Alex I think it was?

My outfit will be suitably cheap, mouldy and bloody, much like last year... hehehe

How can this be so? ?(

Ripped part of me hand off in some farm machinery aged 9, destroying lots of nerves in the process, smashed up me legs 3 years ago while at a race meeting, wrecked some nerves in there too. Al-B takes great pleasure in giving my leg horsie-bites and generally bashing it about in wonder at the lack of pain reception.... Its nice I can keep him happy so

Power spikes from the supply? Could you not cure that possible cause of fault by using some sort of power supply with a regulator/conditioner? Apprently they also make plugging into venues electricity supply safer as well...I know Neil Young uses some form of regulator so he gets 120v at 50hz <or some figures close to that> every time he plays.

Maybe, but I am mainly hypothesising. It may be nothing to do with any spikes or surges, maybe just shitty made transformers! Sadly there are not that many manufacturers of these components these days. It's never been the mains transformer, always the output transformer which takes the amplified signal and ramps it up for output to drive your speakers. But, its conceivable that a small variation in mains input becomes something out of tolerance by the time it is fed to the OPT. As it happens, I'm liking the JCM800 much better in terms of tone and sound, and have had not an inkling of a problem with it. But interestingly, it has the much fabled Drake transformers fitted to it, and these seem to be the mecca in terms of transformers for older Marshall amps.

You read it here first - Rob just challenged me to a wrestling bout in the 'old country' stylee.

I decree it shall be a vat of blood match!

Bring

It

On

You do realise that I have no feeling in one arm and one leg?? And an exceptional pain tolerance? And that I'm pretty large and strong, and have the use of several nerve pinches taught by a prison warder uncle?

i'm yet to form an opinion on wrestling because i've never watched it' date=' ever. not through a choice of not watching, it's just never came up, maybe one day.. [/quote']

Well, if you like a bunch of half-naked big men in over-tight shorts embracing each other and bouncing up on down on each other a lot, then it's maybe your thing!!

Tut tut tut sir. I used to think you were a jolly intelligent man but evidently you've become a name-dropping sissy as of late!

Eat my shorts, Adamski

I agree, what's the point in the Wrestling stuff? It's predictable and un-exciting. And not real.

But, I do like the Undertaker. Mostly because I met him, the Rock and Kane in Dallas a couple of years ago at a dragrace (WWF sponsored 2 cars then), and he was a super-cool guy and we bullshitted for ages.

Other than that, wrestling is baws, min.

Cheers Chris' date=' hopefully something wonderful will develop.

Did you like the Early(ish) twenties bit?

I don't think 25 is classed as early 20's.

PS you may receive an 'interesting' phone call from Marcus at some point soon.[/quote']

Its a crime that you're the same age as me Elwood, but that you look younger and I look much much older

I think its all those graphite' date=' titanium hoofer doofer mods the gets the ladies going [/quote']

Ah Hog, if only that were the case....

Ladies, don't be backwards in coming forwards, eh?

I have heard a few people talk about the transformer aspect' date=' but the majoityu don't. So those sorta things may or may not happen, the risk would be the same with many tube amps. These amps are more than loud enough for what I will be using them for... so 50W with Cab is fine for me.

I think im deifnitely edging towards the DSL50...[/quote']

I think the transformer problems are down to the quality of these parts rather than an inherrant Marshall design fault. I believe that modern transformers are made to such a fine tolerance that they no longer have any over-engineering like older units, and are made with inferior quality of materials. I think that they are unable to cope with power spikes that may occur because of this, hence they fuse. For that reason, I would spend the extra money needed for a DSL100 instead and then pull 2 of the power valves like I have done on my 2203. What you have then is a 50W power amp with essentially over-sized transformers. If you pull 2 valves, then pull either the outermost two or inner most two. You also need to use an impedance of HALF of your actual speaker load, so for a 16 ohm cab then you use an 8 ohm selection on the amp in this case. If you don't do this, then you won't have compensated for the missing valves and will be mis-matched. Which is very very bad!

True....

The gleeful grin... and "jazz hand" motions get me every time

Well' date=' the team photog had spent the entire season trying to catch me on camera with me steadfastedly refusing to pose in any way (hate having me pic taken). It was the last run of the last race, so I thought I'd finally relent. Little did she know, but if she'd waited another two minutes she could have had a photo of me struggling to get into the car to steer it back to the pits and getting stuck (I'm too tall for the car). Fool...

This is a much "cooler" photo of me in "action".. :

[img']http://www.smax.co.uk/img/04_gardermoen_10.jpg