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Maybe he was in the UK on a school trip..

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

There *was* that adorable red-headed 17 year old groupie in NYC, but his name wasn't Benjamin, it was J@r3d...

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Rebecchi?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Eh?

Sorry, I'm lost in a reverie here.

Maybe this is why being in a band is no fun any more. I don't get groupies any more. I can't remember the last time a cute red-headed boy asked me to sign his chest.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Pfff, I have never once had the merest suggestion of a groupie. All I ever got was ppl asking me things like "where did you get your mellotron samples from" and suchlike ;_;

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahahaha. Thats why Kate hasn't been in a prog band.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

*gags*

― vom, Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't just played in prog bands, Kerr.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, it helps with pedal groupies... I mean, they have such leading names.

17 Year Old Groupie (let's call him Benjamin): What kind of distortion pedal are you using? It sounds so cool...
Kate: Oh, would you like to come backstage and play with my Big Muff?
Benjamin: Ooh, sure. Would you care to adjust the knob of my Meatball?
Kate: Just be careful of the Electric Mistress...
Benjamin: Ooh, err, missus, etc.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The pedal is called a big muff pi, don't forget.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

La la la la la la laaaa...

Shit, I should set up some new users before I leave.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Right, off I go. To make a fool of myself on the television. Thank god it's all being recorded, and it's not live. Heh.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah-ha! This is where you've all got to! Your diabolical plan to rid yourselves of me has failed!

― mitya (mitya), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

So, still nothing?

I spent last night with a camera in my AREA. I've always wondered why they film the guitarist's picking hand, which does almost nothing and not the fretting hand.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha ha, an ACTUAL Freemason has just friended me on MySpace. Excellent!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh, I haven't actually allowed anybody to be my friend on myspace.

"Grr, go away! Don't wanna listen to yr crummy band!"

(That's via myspace links, so present company excepted naturally. I only got it to stop all those other MarkGrout's from nabbing it!)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What does it do?

http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0039xb5.jpg

I have no clue. I think might be a TARDIS control. I'm utterly and completely in love. I wanna marry that pedal.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

me doesn't rhyme with 0

― ken c, Friday, 1 September 2006 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but if you divide by zero, you get infinity - and that rhymes with me.

Kerr, what the heck is this Joanna Newsom thing you've sent me? A bit twee, but odd enough to intrigue.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

ROFL I just tried to register so I wouldn't have to type my details for every post and it led to a fifteen minute comedy of errors, in which I seem to have 'taken' my own name from myself. I miss real-ilx.

― g000blar (g00blar), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the way you try to imply that sort of thing didn't happen on ILX Classic.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah I have avoided registering - too much like acceptance :)

So kate, tell us more about the tv thing!

― Archel, Friday, 1 September 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate , You haven't heard of Joanna Newsome before?

My Warmer Milks lp came today. Woohoo!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard the name, but just assumed it was more of that wibbling neofolk crap like Devandra Beardface or whatever.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, it's nice, but I can't listen to more than about 10 minutes at a time without feeling like I've eaten a bit too much carrot cake and am about to get into sugarshock.

Weird, she looks a bit like my friend Frances.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

If shes twee then Mitya and FP should love her!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Something about her is intriguing. But equally, I find something about her is irritating, almost in that "ooh, look I'm a Kate Bush style pixie fairy girlchild" way.

I don't know. That's maybe a horribly sexist thing to say. (I mean no one ever calls the Animal Collective twee for the same kind of routine.) But that's what I mean by "twee" I guess.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Well her voice does make Lisa Simpson sounds grown up.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Her voice is nice in very small doses, but really annoying otherwise.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's the thing. One song is nice, a whole album is just too cloying.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(What do you make of that crazy spaceship pedal, Pash?)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

What is it, exactly (apart from an effect pedal of some sort, with a fancy mirror finish)?

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

It is Death By Audio, apparently.

(I don't think even Benjamin really knows what it does, exactly.)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Blargh, internet please stop being boring today. Bah. :-(

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Closest match on DbA's site in terms of panel knobbage is this:

http://www.killerrockandroll.com/deathbyaudio/soundwavebreakdown.html

I must admit, I've got my fill of fuzz/distortion boxes (turbo rat/rising sun/zakk wylde pedal) Phasers, now, on the other hand...

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's a custom pedal that they build specially for Benjamin. no one knows what it is!

I've got two distortion pedals and that's pretty much all I need. I need to get into the envelope filters and the harmonic generators now.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The few times I fancy playing with encvelope filter, I usually just run the preamped guitar signal into the back of this little roland monosynth I have, which has an envelope follower built in. One of these days, I'll pick up one of these:

http://www.blacet.com/IOfp.html

For my modular synth, though most likely I'll run other stuff through it. I have a real love for a nice clean guitar sound, Usually I just like to add leslie simulator or phaser, sometimes a little bit of chorus. All the more radical effects I have usually wind up getting drum machines or monosynths put through them.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The one deranged distrotion/radical pedal I fancied was the "rattle crow", from last gasp arts labs:

http://lalweb.com/rc/rc-e.html

Discontinued, unfortunately. Well, maybe not that unfortunately.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I saw one of those once on Denmark Street? Was too scared to try it.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, Archel - missed your post!

I've just blogged about the BBC filming thing and don't really feel like typing it all out again. Read about it here:

http://masonicboom.blogspot.com/

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ahem, Kerr! You're the one who seems to have bought the album. Pixieish, off-key harpists are too twee for me. Won't Southern Lord revoke your messageboard privileges if they find out?

Just out of curiosity, how were people supposed to know about this nu-ilx we are building here?

― mitya (mitya), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not Nu-ILX. It's just a sandbox for testing code, and we're just chatting to build up a database for them to experiment with. Honest.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

But castles made of sand melt into the sea eventualleee

― beanz-ii (beanz), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks k, should have checked your blog first anyway really! I do hope some kind soul puts your breakfast TV appearance on a video content hosting site like say, ooh, YouTube. Not that I wouldn't get up in time to watch it on the real telly, of course. If I had one.

― Archel, Friday, 1 September 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's not like I have one, either! It was quite funny, bandmates gossipping about various presenters with the crew, and I didn't have a clue who any of them were! Oh dear.

now I'm going to waste the rest of the afternoon on this minipops quiz. I thought I was doing terribly with 62 out of 95, but apparently no one in my office has got over 20!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, it's really been bugging me, what the b-side of the new TSM single sounds like. That riff... it's just *so* familiar. Early 80s synth tune.

I thought it was Talk Talk or Howard Jones but I was walking around the office singing it, and one of my colleagues is all "why are you singing Nik Kershaw?" God, it's almost exact.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you ever tried one of these:

http://www.redwitchanalogpedals.com/deluxemoonphaser.html

This is the pedal I fancy most at the moment.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never tried one, but I've seen them. Pretty!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone gone home?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 September 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm about to go down the pub.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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