Rob Karloff

I was playing a badly tuned guitar (not a good idea to come from the cold into the hot/sweaty!) for a whole ONE song while bleeding from the cheeks, neck and forearms. Like most Saturday nights, really....

Yes, Mr Eeeeleezeeeum did comment to me on Saturday night that the 'Goat would float my boat. Aherm.

You kept trying to sit on my knee, Danny... 8o

Well....

Your 8-track may only be able to record up to 4 tracks at once anyway, so check the manuals. If you're not fussed about fiddling with the drum mix or anything once recorded, then stick it all on 1 track. BUT, be aware that the "great" drum sound and mix can sound "not so great" by the time you've added everything else on top, and by that time you can't do much about it!

Oh yes, we've plenty copies left.

The new effort already sounds a big improvement on "Monster's Ruin".

We dragged our sorry corpses into the Fat Hippy establishment over the weekend, and have completed the drums, bass, rhythm guitars and main vox on all 8 tracks. Phewie! With the engineering expertise of Paul De Nero it's all sounding bitchin'.... Look for an August 13th release!

Originally posted by Jonny Lucifer:

...by The Misfits and Black Flag. Infact, can I use that in our bio?

Ask Eerie Von...! It's from the bio he wrote for the Misfits coffin box-set.

Many thanks to the leg! It was a short but really sweet appearence for me, thanks for making it happen. Same time next year...?!

Originally posted by Jonny Lucifer:

Oddly Rob, your signature describes exactly what we sound like....

What.... "Cock rock band being chased down Sunset Strip"?!

8o

If only Drakes really was a tardis. It would at least look a lot bigger on the inside than on the outside...

I read in the Lemon Tree mag that Starfall are on the "brink of national success", or words to that effect....

So does that mean Radio Luxembourg are back on the bill again...?

The 'mark would have looked/sounded ace up there. Did they get a good sized crowd?

Originally posted by nullmouse:

It's a bind working at the Uni, as far as I understand it none of the venue sound crew staff are actually paid - They're volunteers (I assume trained) from the student pool, pretty much. But the union will not let anyone else use the equipment aside from these people. It's a shame, as it does hamper a lot of gigs and having been a regular visitor to St A's I was quite excited about Rock Soc putting on gigs and brightening up the otherwise trendy scene.

For one reason or another it aint worked, obviously. Bugger.

Well, the singer/guitarist from the band that were trying to soundcheck ended up going behind the desk and checking them and us. The guys who were supposed to be doing it didn't seem to have much of a clue or ear for rock stuff, or weren't interested. Like I say, they were happy to piss about with the smoke machine, even killing all the stage power to the band in the process! They have a great stage, big light rig and seemingly large PA (seemed under-powered tho), but just don't have the people to make it all work right. Looking at the posters in the bar, they've had some R'n'R legends play over the years, and I bet they didn't have our problems. You could have some really sizeable bands and crowds in the place if you went about it well. Shame Dave Bradley didn't go to St Andrews!

Yeah, it's been almost a quarter of a year...!!

Can I get one...?

Originally posted by nullmouse:

The sound engineers and thos in venue one have nothing to do with the university's Rock Soc. The only thing Rock Soc may have had anything to do with may have been the money. Was a total agreed in advance?

Ah well, hence my "or at least" qualifier. I did not organise the gig, so I presume no total was agreed in advance, but when you think that it takes 20 of diesel to get you down and back, I wouldn't dream of paying any band that had travelled the distance that little. There was a band from Nottingham or somewhere like that, I hope they got some decent cash for their hike. Jenna was great about it all and fought to get us some extra above what they gave initially. I feel really sorry she ended up in such an awkward position, as she'd made them well aware of what our show is like, and we'd put on a solid show and the audience seemed to enjoy it. I'm just really fizzing that I took half a day off work and we put in the effort to put on a good show, only to have to encounter all that. Hell, I even let the guitarist of the first band use one of my amps, despite specifically saying in advance that this would not be an option (I like to help people out). We had a great time up until coming off stage and being told Ash had to leave (bar the soundcheck fiascos), and I guess I'm just a little pissed at what happened. They had decent numbers through the door for a Wednesday night, and it sucks when we can play small independant gigs, be paid a reasonable amount, and be warmly received, but a University establishment takes this approach. We've never damaged a venue or band's equipment with our show, and the powers that be had a whole 1/2 hour to grab Ash between songs and tell him to stop. Or, they could have just pulled the plug on us. In some ways, it's better than having provided the product and then being told you're not going to be renumerated much and have to leave because of it. Bah, I know Jenna worked hard to get us the slot and she's always been great to us, and it doubly sucks that she put in all that effort and ended up getting awkwardly placed between her society mates and us.

Yep, we were asked to leave after coming offstage. The ever helpful sound engineers (posh students who were more worried about getting their smoke hazer to work off the lighting desk than checking the bands) complained that Ghastly Ghoulmore has thrown "water" on the stage equipment. This was despite him standing forward of the monitors and throwing his blood and gore into the seated and ever polite audience. They then tried to fob us off with a mere 35, and after some discussion made it a nice round 40. All of this despite being made well aware of the legendary stage-show in advance! So, don't play there, folks. RockSoc sucks, or at least the monkeys they have as engineers do!

Panic over, our drummer has secured a copy from one of his film-obcessed Weegie friends. The guy even used to record Ceefax at night because he liked the Jazz music!

Because Satan wouldn't give Jonny any time off work, obviously.

We're recording our next EP imminently, and we need a sample from this film. Drop me a line if you can help!

Thanks

Originally posted by The Ghost Of Fudge:

i'll blacklist you, muthafrugga

You love our zombie rock sideshow too much to do that, ya douchebag!

Karloff are not a real band.... We're a dead band. Cracking open our coffins this Wednesday to shower the St. Andrews students in gore and music, though. Shocking!

Originally posted by daveofficer:

adam bomb and the gruesome deaths are a band me and chris were gonna form and may yet. playing a kinda danzig meets shellac type of warped rock. could be a blast. lots of rhythmic chops and ridiculous pinched harmonics.

Need another guitarist....?