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nothing to do with the ISP that used to reside at eskobar's old premises then

Certain venues, between them , owed the GCG circa 1000.

I'm not a charity so I stopped when any profit I'd made had been eaten up by costs.

Can't we name and shame them now?

Are people still interested in the concept of a website only granite city guide? The thing that seemed to let it down in the past was that most promoters and/or bands couldn't be bothered to put their gigs in the calendar.

i could be bothered putting up some new backend technology behind the site again if an html/javascript person could be bothered coming up with some ideas for design templates.

edit: although the calendar on a-m.com actually looks quite good and useful these days

I take it you meant lower. No, don't think I have but that's probably because most amps can't handle 2 ohms loads.

my old marshall vba400 had a 2ohm or 4ohm selector switch. it was phat, though.

If it's a tele style and not just a fender tele you are after, consider the G&L Asat guitars.

Try your hand offering to organise a courier. I sold a Marshall VBA bass stack weight around 80kg and had it delivered to somewhere in Englandshire for about 60 including VAT. If you give them the dimensions, they will give you a quote.

I find things sell better on ebay if you help people organise the delivery.

I used M&H Carriers.

i think a lot of the problem with moshulu is not so much the club, but the people that go.

we all grow up and we begin to like slightly different things, and whilst we still poignantly cling to our desire to drink in what some would once call an unorthodox or alternative establishment. at the same time however, we also like more ambient conventional venues with their convenience. peoples' tastes change.

as for the music issue, well i see it as this: you have a golden period in your life musically when much of the music you love is played at clubs, and after that, you just appreciate hearing songs you love when they are seldom played. when i first started going to the palace in 96/97 that was my golden period, marilyn manson, nine inch nails, RATM, the prodigy, and if you were lucky some tool! then i began to complain about all the ska music they played, then i began to complain about all the limp bizkit they played (once they played 7 limp bizkit songs in a night, fuckers). you always need a minimum of 2 or 3 tracks you like to be played i think but if you don't get that then a night begins to lose its appeal.

the money issue is a tricky one. i appreciate why the ask a door charge when they are only open a few nights a week, although i always took offence when they raised the door charge on christmas eve, halloween, etc. etc. it seems hard to believe we used to get pints for a pound - and if i were still in aberdeen and going to a club, i'd prefer one that i didn' pay for if the drinks cost the same, obviously. one of the main reasons we went to palace/moshulu was that the door charge was balanced by the discounted drinks cost.

i kind of gave up on moshulu in the end, these days i prefer standing in a bar talking to people till the end of the night than getting a sore ear from people spitting and shouting in my ear and a hoarse throat from speaking above the volume of the music. if i want penetrating music i will go to snafu these days. better music, venue and sound system

Roland TD-12K (GAK)

i once played one of these (and also the TD-20k) at the turnkey shop in london. it sounds absolutely amazing. it is staggering how it responds to the different ways you hit the mesh heads. the hi hat was amazing too. unfortunately they are bloody expensive.

i still have my signals by semaphore 8 tracker that i got a couple of years ago, and i still listen to it - it's dead good. will any of that stuff be part of the new band, like blue planet?

like the new track, it has a similar ADHD feel to the first tomahawk album, never a bad thing.

just on the idea of the kill switch, you might want to consider using a push button switch (push to break), you also get these at maplins, about 1. i think they are easier and more fun to use (put one in my friend's tokai tele).

I know this only relates to traditional band style setups i.e vocals/guitar/bass/drums and not electronica sort of stuff, but thats always been artificial in that the music isnt being physically played as much as its just been arranged.

just wanted to say, this isn't universally true across the board. if you've ever watched LCD soundsystem live or on youtube, you'll know that they take a very live approach to their shows. i saw them at the lemon tree as part of the rescheduled triptych thing, they were breathtaking.

also anders trentemoeller (a big electronic artist/remixer) takes his show on the road as a live band - he DJs and 'arranges' as you described it quite well! but he also has a live drummer and guitarist.

this thread is a bit of an eye-opener. to me (apart from a handful of posters who know who they are) it seems like most people in this thread are viewing this new software development through blinkered guitar rock/pop/indie eyes.

the video just describes and demonstrates the technology in a paradigm we can all understand - i.e. taking a basic instrument making a chording sound and splitting the constituent notes. it is supposed to inspire us, to make us think, "well if it can do that, then i could use it to do this, that, this and that...."

it is telling that the "purists" think if it is altered/played/instrumented by software, then it is somehow of less quality or calibre than traditionally tracked music. that tells me that these people do not have an understanding (as opposed to an appreciation, not required) of electronic music or even realise that artists they like have been dependent on these kinds of new technology for years.

for the last 13 or 14 years bjork has been working with programmers and producers that deliberately give her synthetic noises and themes in her music, that are completely inorganic. the same with madonna, especially ray of light or music.

i suppose i find it sad that the broadest spectrum of thought from many people on this thread is that this software "at best" can be used to "fix" bad performances, instead of considering that it could be used to enhance or make unique an already well played performance from an organic instrument, or even taking atmospheric or urban landscape noises and dissecting them using this tool.

Maybe, if you can find them, it's the A-Team that you need.

the link doesn't work outside the UK (well not in canada anyway)

that is nuts, ace

this is north scotland - news, entertainment, jobs, homes and cars

couple this with the fact that 1/5 of your council tax payments go towards paying council pensions

i had an iaudio x5 hard drive based player for 2 years which is good for multi format playback but battery life significantly dropped after 2 years.

if i was going to get another player i would get the 16gb flasg based iaudio 7 - 60 hours continous playback! that is hard to beat!

by the way has anyone heard of deadmau5:

MySpace.com - deadmau5 - Toronto, CA - Other / Electronica - www.myspace.com/deadmau5

I am really liking his tunes. Hopefully going to see him in Vancouver in May!!

He is also playing Glasgow on April 5th

Because they are authoritarian thought controllers, patently unaware of the huge seam of weed liberalism that runs through Islam, he should have played Morocco instead. Groove was daft for chancing it, but what else are you going to do in Dubai, soak up the high culture!? or watch the cospicuous. planet killing consumption, and breathe the airborne hydrocarbons in deeply, whilst contemplating climate collapse.

Its now on my international shit list along with Sweden and Singapore. (see these countries tremble in fear and awe!!)

Actually, don't get me started on this shite, I could go on indefinitely.

daftie! sweden's ace! except for the neds.

Antares Autotune ATR1-A on sale still, due to time waster! looking for 200 quid ono - comes with PSU and manual and as much bubble wrap as you can handle.

have recently listened to a lot of

trentemoeller

underworld

slam

alex smoke

booka shade

the field

motor (esp. klunk - best opener ever, black powder)

recently got the trentemoeller chronicles, it is super tastic. can't beat a bit of darko from booka shade's movements either.

does anyone remember the stevenson motor's from inverurie rap that used to be on northsound in the 1990's? i thought that was funny.

well i just listened to the tunes on myspace and it didn't sound very nu-metal to me

for what its worth i think this stuff is not bad for coming out of aberdeen, i am far from a metalhead though. reminds me a bit of a cross between misery loves co. and unjust

then make me an offer before 2nd feb, when i leave!

you could try CLS or Atmosphere Light & Sound