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well why not posted:I read his autobiography years ago. It’s basically him going back and forth between rehab, Pattie Boyd and NY for 20 years, then marrying a 22 year old at the end. I read it too, and obviously he can't remember anything important. The only insight we get is life with the new wife and buying a boat or something which takes up the final 1/3 of the book, possibly more. Recording Layla with Duane and all? ehhh who knows. Makes me think back to Peter Garrett's book, he recorded some great interesting music in the 80s with Midnight Oil, but those albums are lucky to get a paragraph or two. But land rights court cases from the Northern Territory or Tasmania? Whole chapters.
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I’m waiting for the other guy from Midnight Oil to write an autobiography, the one who started a micro bikini company
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Now I suddenly feel justified in never being able to get into Clapton's work. Though I wonder if his biography is like that because he don't remember poo poo through all the drugs. I don't have a source but supposedly he doesn't remember doing the eyesight to the blind scene in the movie version of Tommy because cocaine. Guess I got lucky with reading Roger Daltrey's autobiography, which was interesting, but is mostly his perspective of how events and poo poo went down and who did what in The Who and beyond, not so much about songs and the music itself. He does mention that he didn't really find his voice as a singer until Tommy, iirc.
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Nov 28, 2020 21:02
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Snowy posted:I’m waiting for the other guy from Midnight Oil to write an autobiography, the one who started a micro bikini company how do we sleep while our tits are sunburned
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Snowy posted:I’m waiting for the other guy from Midnight Oil to write an autobiography, the one who started a micro bikini company Wicked Weasel? edit: yep, that's the one
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Chrpno posted:I read it too, and obviously he can't remember anything important. The only insight we get is life with the new wife and buying a boat or something which takes up the final 1/3 of the book, possibly more. Recording Layla with Duane and all? ehhh who knows. Earlier this year, I went through Thomas Dolby's memoir and got kind of the same thing. Like, there's a bunch of good stuff about his recording days, but his last two albums of his original run get barely any play at all, the entire second half of the book is "how I became a venture capitalist techbro in the mid-90s" and his most recent album from 2011 or so, which I was hoping for some insight on, since it was his first new material in about twenty years...is literally in the last chapter of the book as the words "I recorded an album."
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Mad Dragon posted:Wicked Weasel? Aha! Which brings us around to one of my early stupid music poo poo moments, here's our Wicked Weasel man himself and I was like "what the hell is that fretboard he's poking at??" He's a real good bass player but looks like he's working hard on the Chapman stick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xAm7wqm18s
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darkwasthenight posted:The incident with his son was nothing to do with him, but he's still a shitbag. Large oof
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Chapman sticks are a reaction from bassists after they realised they could be easily replaced by the keyboardist'e left hand. Here's the guy from 80's King Crimson rocking one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Eoek8a500
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hexwren posted:Earlier this year, I went through Thomas Dolby's memoir and got kind of the same thing. Like, there's a bunch of good stuff about his recording days, but his last two albums of his original run get barely any play at all, the entire second half of the book is "how I became a venture capitalist techbro in the mid-90s" and his most recent album from 2011 or so, which I was hoping for some insight on, since it was his first new material in about twenty years...is literally in the last chapter of the book as the words "I recorded an album." On the other hand, it does have the anecdote where he fucks up waterskiing, gets a bunch of water up his rear end, and then his dad writes a poem about his being reamed by Poseidon. I'm not sure what more you could want in a celebrity memoir than that.
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OutOfPrint posted:Chapman sticks are a reaction from bassists after they realised they could be easily replaced by the keyboardist'e left hand. Here's the guy from 80's King Crimson rocking one: Tony Levin is an irreplaceable bassist who also happens to be a Chapman virtuoso. The link is that he's a loving weirdo.
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rickiep00h posted:Tony Levin is an irreplaceable bassist who also happens to be a Chapman virtuoso. The link is that he's a loving weirdo. I feel this statement could be easily altered to apply to all the members of King Crimson and I’m still deeply saddened my chance to see them back in June got cancelled due to COVID.
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rickiep00h posted:Chapman virtuoso Pretty funny username
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OutOfPrint posted:Chapman sticks are a reaction from bassists after they realised they could be easily replaced by the keyboardist'e left hand. Here's the guy from 80's King Crimson rocking one: I feel a little guilty that it made me think of this: https://youtu.be/JtvGR8UX1L0
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Elissimpark posted:I feel a little guilty that it made me think of this: It’s the same song? 
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No, Primus put it back on bass (6-string?) and made it a better song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQ2305fLeA Srsly though, the last time I saw a Chapman in the wild was about 10 years ago, a busker at the markets. Have they gone away for good?
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I feel like Chapman sticks were made for busking, like handpans. They seem impressive in person but nobody actually wants to listen to them in a song.
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OutOfPrint posted:Chapman sticks are a reaction from bassists after they realised they could be easily replaced by the keyboardist'e left hand. Here's the guy from 80's King Crimson rocking one: rickiep00h posted:Tony Levin is an irreplaceable bassist who also happens to be a Chapman virtuoso. The link is that he's a loving weirdo. Friday’s was a misshapen attempt at an ABC Saturday Night Live. They had great musical guests though. Snowy posted:I feel like Chapman sticks were made for busking, like handpans. They seem impressive in person but nobody actually wants to listen to them in a song. They’re like keytars with strings.
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Snowy posted:It’s the same song? No, just imagining the Rebirth of King Crimson Mark 2 with New Wave Oddessy.
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rickiep00h posted:Tony Levin is an irreplaceable bassist who also happens to be a Chapman virtuoso. The link is that he's a loving weirdo. His other hilariously weird but awesome bass thing is "funk fingers", which are basically just drum sticks taped to his index and middle fingers used for percussive slapping. The bassline on Sledgehammer is an absolute masterpiece.
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Kazinsal posted:
It's just the Seinfeld theme innit?
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This is all I can think of whenever I see a chapman stick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kIclA4yq4
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Chrpno posted:It's just the Seinfeld theme innit? Fun fact that I learned some time ago, but don't remember what program I saw it on: the bass on the Seinfeld theme is a keyboard sampler. It seems obvious after you know it, but for the longest time I thought all that was some white dude playing garbage bass. Instead it's some white dude playing garbage keys. Fitting for the whitest show ever.
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Semi-related to the musician memoirs discussion: My mom once took out a copy of Guitars from George & Leo: How Leo Fender and I Built G&L Guitars from the library for me. It was pretty fascinating to read about how Leo Fender founded and moved from company to company from the perspective of one of his closest friends and business partners; with that said, my brother and I were discussing the book, and he came up with the conclusion that "George Fullerton doesn't know how to write a book." I pretty much felt the same way on my second read through the book.
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There’s a pretty great twenty thousand hertz episode about the Seinfeld theme https://www.20k.org/episodes/seinfeld
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Fridays had Devo on multiple times before and after Whip It. SNL canceled Elvis Costello for playing Radio, Radio. Fridays was clearly the better show.
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Chrpno posted:It's just the Seinfeld theme innit? Sledgehammer is a fretless Musicman with a pick and an octave pedal, no slapping. Tony is a genius player with some goofy ideas and it's crazy how many records you'll have heard without realising he played session on: Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Warren Zevon, Alice Cooper, John Lennon, Carly Simon, Don McLean, Cher. I wonder if he ever tried to sell any of them on the stick/funk fingers sounds...
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So Boss finally announced the Waza HM-2 and the founder of Lone Wolf Audio, who has made their livelihood on selling a warmed-over, poorly-built HM-2 clone, is losing his loving mind on social media. His rant boils down to: “They don’t even care about Swedish metal!!!!! Buy mine!!!!” Lol
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:“They don’t even care about Swedish metal!!!!! Buy mine!!!!” Reading this in a Toki Wartooth voice and lol'in
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I vaguely recall him being canceled for some loving reason but I cant recall why. Prob just being a general prick. Not only is his pedal a copy of theirs, the name is a copy of famous album/sound so... massive spider fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Nov 29, 2020 |
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lol at the person who makes clones of a pedal that literally hundreds of other people also clone getting angry about that
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He's a notorious prick. Has an ongoing thing with Pedalboards of Doom where he antagonises their membership after being banned for charging into any thread about HM-2s, but he's also notorious for personal call-outs of critics or anyone who complains about his lovely wiring techniques. Doxxing and threatening anyone who builds HM-2 clones plus casual homophobia in DMs too - he seems to think he has some kind of monopoly on modded HM-2 circuits.
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The waza pedals aren’t limited editions are they?
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I really like Clapton, even into his absolutely unexciting but pleasant modern "old man playing blues and jazz stuff." He's undoubtedly racist, even if only in the "regular" capacity of an old white guy, though he's Britishly racist so its entirely reasonable that he could be close to and a genuine friend to exceptional musical black Americans while hating the particular minorities and immigrants in England. He seems like he'd be an awful person to be around and I've mostly skirted by on how he didn't publicly talk about anything anymore. I guess that's over now.
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That's about where I am too. I still like Lay Down Sally but I don't support anyone calling anyone else wogs or whatever.
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Snowy posted:The waza pedals aren’t limited editions are they? I don’t think they are and I welcome the en-fuckening of Joe’s business. Speaking of trolls/chuds: 
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:I don’t think they are and I welcome the en-fuckening of Joe’s business. Ah yes, the republican's dream situation. Constantly being stomped on.
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rickiep00h posted:Fun fact that I learned some time ago, but don't remember what program I saw it on: the bass on the Seinfeld theme is a keyboard sampler. It seems obvious after you know it, but for the longest time I thought all that was some white dude playing garbage bass. Instead it's some white dude playing garbage keys. it wasn't immediately obvious that it sounds like the funk bass preset on a cheap casio?
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The Muppets On PCP posted:it wasn't immediately obvious that it sounds like the funk bass preset on a cheap casio? Between hating the show in general and the fact that I only ever watched it on pre-2000 TVs with lovely pre-2000 TV speakers, it was pretty hard for my then-untrained ear, yes. But also, this is a thing some people don't know, and so I thought I'd share since it seemed relevant. 
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I know the Seinfeld sounds are pretty cheesy, but I appreciate the music more when I found out the guy played a new "score" for every single episode, all 180 of them. I wonder if that's been done on any other show in the modern era? Maybe Letterman or something.
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