chris h

You realise if Dan dies now it's all your fault?

yeah, it's not our prettiest moment you cunt.

was just looking at the website at www.lonelyduck.co.uk for the compilation Cd they're making, and couldn't help noticing you guys looked a little off colour in your photo

I don't think stacks (by which i think you mean speaker cabinets, as you already have an amp?) are measured in terms of wattage. the amp has a wattage, the cabinet will be measured in terms of size and number of speakers, e.g. 4 x 12. crikey. I think a guy called craig might be along in a moment to clarify the situation.

for bass i usually have a sort of parabola (if that's what you call it) going form highish bass, down to middle then up again to treble, if you see what i mean. then i bugger about with the controls on the bass to get the right tone. still, i've never managed to totally convince myself that i know what i'm doing!

yeah, just what i was gonna ask! what new sorcery is this, mmm? my tuppence worth: don't buy a multi effects unit, ever. especially not anything made by zoom, they are just horrible. Tuning pedals are, i beieve, essential, but to be honest that's cos i'm not perhaps the most 'musical' of people. I find things like dropping a bass to D on stage, with one guitarist doing the same, the drummer fucking around, all the booing in the background etc is just bloody useless. much easier to just stand on your pedal and watch the comforting wee lights guide you home! as for bass distortion, i never used it before, but have started using it recently really sparingly, just to beef up the heavy bits at the end of songs, under solos and stuff like that. I've seen some bassists use it eery time the guitars go heavy, and it can be a bit too much. For what its worth i use a Snarling Dog guitar pedal. It makes a hellish racket, and its got a dog on the front whose eyes light up red when you switch it on. That's what's important to me.

that's true, i've been in a few bands in my younger days when the 'bassist' was just one of our other mates who wasn't in a band who we got to mang the root notes and they usually just about blagged it. that's quite a lame approach though, really. i started out playing guitar for years befor i picked up a bass, and naively assumed it would be a simple task. the feel is actually so different that it takes a while to adjust and get a decent sound and not sound like a guitarist naively pratting about on bass. once you start, it's up to you how much you want to refine your style. i don't go in for all that slappy pop nonsense, but like to wander about from the roots a bit just to give things more texture. bass can be more fun, too, cos if you want to you can just play it simple and mess around while the guitarist tries to hop between all his pedals and deal with solos and stuff. i dunno, i love playing both, and drums. you have to develop your own technique on each instrument and there's nothing worse than a novice bassist picking up the instrument and playing lead guitar style on it, creating this hideous squelchy sound. anyway, here's my favourite bass story for those of you who missed it last time: the bassist form the damned turns up to record a radio one session. the surprised engineer says 'you play bass with two strings?' 'yeah' he replies, 'it's in case one of them breaks!'

really? direct from epiphone you mean? bloody scales music!

well, i got an epiphone and the concensus seemed to be that they don't come with gig bags. i asked how much a case would be in my local music shop and they said i'd have to get a proper gibson one, for 150 (!) or get one custom made. let me know if you ever find one, cos i'm sick of the shit getting knocked out of my 'bird!

apologies for the language! was getting a little frustrated yesterday, craig's been holding back my priviledges lately...

spoke to the rest of the band when? cocksucker but yeah, we can do it..

fuck off

saturdays, so we can play! hooray! * sips coco *

stop being nice to them, you coco sipping pussy! deadloss are blacklisted forever! RAAAR!

let's just say he should have stuck to tea and biscuits

i think you should blacklist your entire band, and come and join deadenstereo for some coco and readers wives

yes, you heard. if any band is man enough and wonderful enough to step into the breach we'd greatly appreciate it. apparently both incidents were out of the bands hands, but quite frankly i'm fucking sick of shit like this happening. apologies if this falls under the category of cross posting, as jon put a similar message on aubl, but really, we are in a bit of a pickle. anyone that still wants to come along and check us out, your support would be greatly appreciated. needless to say we'll drop the door price if we don't get anyone else to play. word.

is it just me, or does this sentence make no sense?

i told you, he sold it for drugs.

ian simpson. oh yes.

cool, thanks for that. right, about the drums, you're actually the second person to point that out. haven't actually noticed myself, apart from maybe the roll going into the solo, but we have a new drummer now anyway who plays it quite differently. the two songs were indeed produced in different studios; NME in Split Level and Storyteller in Chambers (both in edinburgh). The guy that did the Chambers recording actually said that he thought NME was too muddy! I am of the opinion that he's a bit of a twat to be honest. Chambers was more expensive, less friendly and inferior. as for your opinion on the music, that's up to you of course i don't get the american thing to be honest. to me the singing totally avoids that whiny yank accent that so many local bands go for. i must tell jon (the singer) about the crowded house comparison though. he'd be delighted. i didn't write the lyrics but to me they are more artistically interesting than the standard nihilistic rock rant. musically i guess it borrows a bit from the old quiet loud college rock thing, i dunno. we've always been careful to avoid americanisms, apart from our guitarist who sometimes wears a lynrd skynrd t-shirt on stage. but he's a little silly. well, if i get onto a computer with an mp3 player i'll have a listen to your stuff and let you know what i think chris

good grief craig, exclaimed the appalled english student, go get some fresh air for christ sake! now lets leave these nice peoples message board alone for a while...

these 'craig' guys are bad news!

oh dear! er, could someone give one of us a ring and confirm this? our craig will be very upset. you wont like him when he's angry..

i think the other band are fife based grunge metallers stigma, and there's talk of an american touring band. 'twill be tremendous, by my reckoning. crazy dancing foreigners, pure rock mayhem (!), and free beer for the bands* but can the backpackers PA cope? and will deadenstereo's new drummer be ready on time? we shall see... * with the exception of our craig, who's banned from drinking before playing. and after for that matter