Pierre Von Mondragon

Nah, we're so retro we keep it strictly wax cylinders and 78's...distributed by pigeons. Only purebred Aberdonian pigeons mind. Thats why our laptop runs on my eponymous fuel (thats Peat, obviously)

Well we never even managed the last one, and one was at the Kinneff Beach Party (technically not in Aberdeen), with a clubby crowd and most people were mythically fukd, and the 1st one that week was Go North, not one to be sniffed at. We should have some new stuff next time we play. Hard to keep the right balance sometimes though

If he can drag himself from the questionable merits of working and drinking in RGU union too much

Logic, Logic and Logic

I use Logic 5 (last PC version) and it works a treat with a Delta 44 card Steve our bassist uses Cubase SX and an Audigy Wavelab 4 is king of editing software The beauty of Amplitube is that anything can be put through a guitar amp, orchestra's the lot. I hate digital evangelism nearly as much as I hate analogue Luddite rock purism, anything can be made any way, but I like my way best.

All of which is a bloodthirsty way of saying that you (yes) can get a free track by A.K.A. the Fox on the GoNorth CD apparently given away in 1UP, go get it coz it'll take us eons to be arsed sorting out downloads etc. Now wheres me hounds..

Alternatively, why not play a synth through a guitar amp, make a sound like the end of the world.

Its irrelevant who 'wins', and i'm sure whomsoever it is won't be pressurised into handing over OR keeping said dosh, and will do what they think is best. Nevertheless, right now I feel I qualify as a charity and 20 in the hipper would be handy for most playing i imagine. Certainly I would eat better for a few days. A good cause and all that but dont they speak english a lot in Sri Lanka anyway, as the ex-colony of Ceylon and all??? (inner voice of Devil's Advocate retreats)

G n R were SHITE after Appetite, like the fukn Dogs d'Amour on Elton John ego drugs, Its so easy was their best rant.

Big up Colin and his Biomechagnosis, I remember Glendevon Castle in 98

Argh pedant attack; Vain's first album was 'No Respect', Beat the Bullet was just the single. Oddly they haven't dated as badly as some of their contemporaries. I saw Faster Pussycat at the Barrowlands in 89 and they were damn good live. None of which is relevant so, in no order really 1-The Specials-More Specials 2-Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet (does anyone really underrate Exile?? its so obviously a pinnacle of human endeavour) 3-The Cult-Electric 4-DJ Shadow-The Private Press 5-One Dove-Morning Dove White (best scottish dub album ever) 6-Funkadelic-Lets take it to the stage 7-Rock City Angels-Young Mans Blues (played this today, like if G n R had an interesting musical heritage) 8-Spirit-12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus (don't knock it til u heard it) 9-Beastie Boys-Pauls Boutique ( to be fair people with a clue do seem to like it, its not so underrated now, also best album for clearing neds out of your house, it confuses them.) 10-Dr Octagon-Dr Octagon aka The Ecologyst. ( the best rhyming ever, also features the classic line; "looking for your frog, he's gone too, down the commode" in 'i'm Destructive' I like these top tens for opinionated fuckers like me.

Neville Staples was dead good at the Lemon Tree last year, even played 'Man at C & A'. Can't remember if Ghost Town came out before the 'More Specials' album, but 'I cant stand it' on said LP is even more proto "trip" hop (i always fukn HATED that label, there used to be a night at the Peli in the mid-90's on a Wed and they called it Dub Narcotic Jazz, much more aesthetically suitable. Rant over). In fact 'More Specials' is just one of the best albums made, just so Modern, perhaps more so now than it was; proto- loungecore, James Brown tributes, old school rock n soul workouts, nuclear paranoia and the proper version of International Jet Set. Most modern bands are dung by comparison.

Glad to see you joining in the general inanity Bowman. I'm always last to know when we are on. big up the massive etc P.S where the fuck can i get the relevant copy of Music Week, can't find it anywhere, is it biz only?

Roy Aitken just could not realise that he was shite EEEhhhh smiffy bottled it in 1991 Alex Miller??? I quite liked Ebbes style "Join the red Armee", funny as.

Never seen them live but the Brown Album is one of the best ever, that whole Lush/Re-Mind/Impact section is next level

Shows what I know at any given moment!

Dub gone Crazy was the first Tubby set I bought, it sounded like a whole new universe of possibilities. Lets not forget the late, great and militant as fuck- Peter Tosh "Let the rocks be melted, Jah Jah"

Fucks Sake if thats the case then Ratt shifted a shitload in the 80,s... altogether now... "Round and Round" etc. My own most dubious entry would be my liking for 70's (yes thats SEVENTIES) Heart, esp 'Little Queen' or 'Dog and Butterfly' (Jesus even the names make me cringe), Zep-esque and moody folky (no fishermen), 'Love Alive' is still one of the best tunes you could hear, and 'Mistral Wind' is epic. Is there a 12 step programme for this?

Its all rock n roll around here, and while I am partial to a wee bit of it, there is so much more to music. Having just got the new re-issue Lee Perry's 'Dub Triptych'-3 classic 70's dub albums in one package including the quasi mythical 'Blackboard Jungle Dub', and aware that there is sooo fukn much top quality stuff i've not heard yet, I want to see what other people think (all 3 of you) I'll start then My all time fave has to be Bunny Wailer 'Blackheart Man'-Deep, Soulful and some of the deepest roundest bass ever. The Congos 'Heart of the Congos'- Scratch production is next level, and that dudes falsetto is as good as Curtis Mayfield's. If there is a separate category for dub then its gotta be 'King Tubby meets the Rockers Uptown' as for individual tunes it varies too much from day to day, but todays fave is 'Cokane in my Brain' by Dillinger. or 'Funky Kingston' by Toots and the Maytals (Lemon Tree 1st July). Lets face it, if a measurement was taken for a country, whereby X is the number of great songs to come out of a country, was divided by Y the population of that country, then PER-HEAD OF POPULATION Jamaica is the musical centre of the world, certainly far more so than us Scots. Seen.

Au Contraire, for tis now AKA the Fox, last minute bizniz. They even give us drink (so i was told) woo HOOO

Truly someone responsible for more quality tunes than is fully comprehensible to the human mind, Surfin by Ernest Ranglin is probably my fave, but all that Jackie Mittoo organ stuff was top quality. RIP

Their first album 'Demolition' is a minor classic of its time.

Doh! Swift change to 'Bryter Later' then.

I Just got a Digitech RP 80 (89) and it sounds pretty damn good, and is so easy to program. Most of the factory patches are buried in a morass of reverb as usual, but the good points are. Amp modelling sounds good. 24 bit so not hissy Pitch-shifter and Tremolo sounds good Whammy bar prog that links to... ..Expression pedal assignable to most parameters Stopped me from feeding back so much. I'm sure that i could have got something else good as well though, such is the competition in the tech sector, look up sound on sound's website; sospubs.com or somesuch