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but i thought she used it at drakes on monday' date=' no?[/quote']
that's what i was thinking
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as long as you continue to find music that makes hair stand on the back of your neck, your eyes water and your smile broaden, music is alive and well. just now i'm listening to boys for pele by tori amos, and i really, really love it. is anything new or innovative? it is compared to what i've listening to for the past few years. but compared to her peers or predecessors?
this recent discussion about innovation is deeply personal and subjective in my opinion. everyone knows when they've written a good song, whether it's new and innovative or not. and that's something that people latch onto - a good song. i disagree with the notion that you have to be a great instrumentalist to write good songs or be innovative. but then i would say that, being a Jack Average of all trades.
all you need in order to be innovative is a passion for music, some emotion and personal sentiment and a lighter for the rulebook. not that it's too relevant, but if i was all alone on a desert island with loads of instruments and a nice little wooden dat-recorder, i wouldn't stop making music just because no-one was going to listen to it. hmm, that really wasn't relevant, i just wanted to say it.
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phew, they are just lyrics. for a moment there, i thought you were going all emo on us.
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wow, i've never seen one of those before. are they sliders on it, and do they fine tune the strings? where did you get it from? was it very expensive? it looks really interesting.
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Thanks for listening...
No guitar' date=' just autoharp, flute with live and sampled percussion sounds.[/quote']
what is an autoharp?
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that's really quite creepy. it sounds like it should be from a 70's horror movie or something. sounds a bit odd with lots of odd reverby sounding guitars/flutes/harps suddenly into such clean drums. like the intense start/end though.
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is this a slippy deadline, or truly hard and fast? this is the first time i've seen this thread.
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good 'een del
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Spellchecker is not a great alias Tom.
Did you forget to finish your sentence? Perhaps you required an extra " is a better one.". I am not a Tom. And I have witnesses.
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We've had a big argument about Gibsons before' date=' the only one i've played was a heavy sunburst Gibson thing and it weighed a ton, but apparently you get wussy 'studio' (??) guitars which are very lightweight.....
My favourite make is Peavey, i've played most of the mainstream guitar brands and my favourite was the V-Type - it's very lightweight, and has two brilliant sounding humbuckers, and the choice of a proper Floyd Rose or string-through body... Not only that but it feels smaller so it's easier to navigate around the fretboard, and to top it off it looks sexy, with its smooth and sharp edges....[/quote']
my les paul is the studio - the difference between it and the standard model is that the studio is still factory made, whilst the standard is hand made. but they still weigh a ton. i have, however, played an epiphone les paul which was literally about half the weight!
my les paul is about 9 years old though, so things may have changed nowadays.
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Mine is good ol' Gibson.
I have a Les-Paul Special and it fucking rocks. Sounds amazing on distorsion. Well comfy aswell and light as fuck.
Are you joking?!? They weigh a ton!!
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i'm sure you already knew this, but if you are just wanting to learn, i think captain tom's rent out the drum practice room for 6 quid an hour - that way you don't have the colossal noise and complaining neighbours at home, nor the initial cash outlay, and you've a better chance of avoiding the drummer jokes, at least for a little while.
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i thought drum'n'bass was going to emerge into the mainstream about 1996/7, when i heard earthling by david bowie, and goldie's face was plastered everywhere, thanks to a well know spat between him and keith flint. there are loads of music genres that are huge and sell a lot of records, but have no tv/radio publicity, house music is an example.
i think the difference is that in aberdeen we don't have any clubs, or we generally don't go to the clubs that play different genres of music. if you like a lot of house music or trance music, you'd probably actually enjoy a saturday night in drum - much as it amuses a lot of people here, i'm sure. i went to a club called fabric in north london a couple of years ago, and apart from almost choking on the entry fee, i couldn't help notice how similar it was to the palace - except it was for house/techno/trance music. it was a lot smarter than the palace, but it was just as dark, lots of smoke (from smoke machines) so that the atmosphere was really kind of strange. though the smoke was probably for the lasers they had swizzelling about from the roof. the bass in that place was incredible. anyway, the place was absolutely packed with around 1000 people, all happily drinking, taking pills and absolutely getting off on the music. i didn't hear one single song i recognised, so either the DJs were doing a lot of improvisation with other peoples tracks, or it was all just music from genres and sub-genres that i'd never even come close to hearing.
but that's london, there's something for everyone in london. the point i was trying to make was against mainstream being the sign of success or originality.
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That because you have no idea of how to listen to music. It's tragic. I feel for you. You're missing so much by being so limited. You're actually physically handicapped.
Without wishing to cause offence (whilst accepting that I probably will), couldn't the same be said of yourself? From what you say, you play covers of other people's songs for a living - the same old classic tunes, night after night. And it certainly seems to done you no harm - you seem to have made a sustainable living out of it. In regards to the music thogh, couldn't the same be said of your limitedness? I suppose it depends on whether we are talking about performing music, listening to music, writing music, or all three. Anyway, I didn't reply to have a go at you in particular, your point just stuck in my throat. so to speak.
with regards to the originality comment stripey made, it's something i spend a lot of time worrying about, and is the reason i've found writing music so hard over the last two years. i find myself becoming stricter on myself, discarding either riffs that sound like they could have been played by a band i know, or disregarding a song because it does, as has been said, fit into that classic rock mould.
more recently i've been playing a lot more keyboard/piano/synth and it's certainly helped me move away from the guitar / rock paradigm of music. i don't think there's anything wrong with the guitar / rock paradigm, but trying to write music for such a genre is futile if all you ever do is start by playing riffs on your guitar, because you lose sight of the song. or so i've found. it's too tempting to simply play guitar all the way through a song, which can often limit what other instruments in the track can do.
i don't think there's anything wrong with programs like reason, the only reason i don't use them is because my <cartmanVoice>fragile little mind</cartmanVoice> doesn't like dealing with the complexity. however, i absolutely love softsynths and sf2 files that open a midi keyboard to vast arrays of high quality sounding instruments, and drum machines too - because for most people, recording a real drumkit properly is prohibitively expensive.
music is there to be adored and wondered at, let's not preach about it, because we'll only look silly and wrong. i do think everyone should strive to be as original as they can be, but there are hundreds of different ways to being original, and they needn't be electronic, just as they needn't be purist guitar rock.
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are they that band with the couple of grungey looking schoolgirls singing up front? i'm sure i saw them on kerrange tv a couple of years ago or something, and couldn't believe how bad they were, and that someone paid for them to record stuff like that. it was really cringeworthy, like seeing smells like teen spirit on stars in their eyes... oh shit, that actually happened, didn't it.
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i don't think that link is correct.
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bit of a difference between a common nomenclature' date=' which doesn't have any real resonance, and one which has something of a tragic local connection non?
I have no reason to doubt that you were unaware of the name issue.[/quote']
Yeah, I must admit when they first found those animal bones in the river, thinking it was those of Mr H's I thought, wow, bit close to the bone - but then, that was the first I'd ever heard of Harry Dalgarno.
I can see the tragedy for the family losing a relative. But in joking of death (which is a long held and treasured pastime of human culture), where does one draw the line? How offended would you be if they named their band the Richey Manics? Or one of ten thousand other names of missing people in the UK? It's personally touching locally, to the family, but who gives anywhere else? Sure, the point is obviously to provoke controversy and discussion, but if you can't talk openly about death, then you can't talk at all.
Still, can't help but feel sorry for the family. Not knowing is worse than the seemingly worst fate of all.
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anyone got a copy of stroud's engineering mathematics book lying around that they don't need anymore? i'll pay a fair price or swap for something interesting.
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that's understandable, because it's certainly difficult to get started with. i'm just glad i've worked out how to use all this stuff so that i don't need windows anymore. no more dual booting, no more activation woes, blah blah. must get round to reclaiming those unused fat32 partitions...
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CLS often have a bunch of spares that they sell for around 50 quid, usually sm57s, don't know if they do sm58s for sale. speak to ian about it.
i got an sm58 off ebay for about 60 quid about 18 months ago.
ebay is a good place to buy if you are on a budget, because there's so many for sale that many just get ignored and never get high bids.
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Suprisingly impressive results there! (and a neat tune aswell) What app are you using to put it all together?
alas' date=' i can't take credit for the tune, it's a cover of 'cornflake girl' by tori amos that i'm working on.
it was all recorded in ardour ([url']www.ardour.org). it's the multi tracking HDR program that is quite pro-tools alike. the hardest thing about audio in linux is getting started and working it all out. so much of it isn't explained for novices, like a crucial program called alsa-patch-bay that links midi devices to programs that take midi input. it's very simple and incredibly efficient to use once you do know what you're doing though.
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ok, here's part of that track i've been doing in linux:
in case anyone is interested, this is what the track contains:
drums - from the drum machine, hydrogen
piano - from a softsynth (qsynth) using a soundfont file
guitar - live, through wah-wah, then big muff, then desk for signal boosting
synth - from zynaddsubfx (either default presets or a downloaded one)
synth verse - from a softsynth (qsynth) through a wah-wah pedal
the tracks were each recorded live, track at a time, except for the drums. there's a little delay on both the piano and the guitar, and also eq on both; boosting highs on the piano, cutting highs on the guitar.
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Well, at least with Gentoo you can review the source before/as/after it is built; the problem with compiling everything individually outwith the package management system (purely in relation to the audio software spoken about) is that they have a lot of specific options to enable that aren't default, i.e. JACK, ALSA, realtime support, etc.
I'm a big fan of WindowMaker too (it's GnuStep at least...) , I've started using it at work now because KDE's xinerama support is all over the shop. And it always makes me laugh when people use my computer not realising the sloppy focus settings, and say, "What the fuck's wrong with your mouse?"...
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slackware was the second one i used, after redhat (4) in 1997. slackware used to actually be a lot more user friendly than redhat at the time.
Gentoo is great though - it's a lot like slackware, it just has brilliant package management (based on the bsd ports system) and builds everything from source. it's not so great if you are not on broadband though. the important thing is that Gentoo automates the whole software download and build process, meaning that getting the latest update of audio software isn't a big pain in the rumplestiltskin. With Gentoo you can take as much or as little as you like, which is what really appeals to me about it. I have a couple of servers dotted around places that are running Gentoo, and it makes them so much easier to remotely administer and update. It's the way forward.
I find Slackware and a lot of its users to be quite a purist bunch, not elitist but definitely minimalist techs. Gentoo users by generalised profile are just people who want their machine to do exactly what they want with the best compromise of usability alongside performance. Sure, you can run kde 3.2.2 or gnome 2.6 and all the toys with it, but you can also run a minimalist install using blackbox or windomaker (which i use for audio stuff).
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