caligulamprey posted:

San Francisco ... went for a bathroom break, opened the door to see the entire bathroom covered in vomit

Toe Rag posted:

caligulamprey posted:

Mannnn, I heard San Francisco lost its luster when the Tech people started piling in, but the weird amount of hostility my partner and I came across all weekend was incredibly bizarre, including getting chased off by police in riot gear halfway through a screening of the new Avatar when my guy went for a bathroom break, opened the door to see the entire bathroom covered in vomit, turned around and immediately saw a manager talking to cops who stopped, turned and pointed at him. Instead of pointing out how he was spotless so it clearly wasn't him, my dude just ran away. And the frequent stink eye we got while walking around town the night of the Residents 50th after we bought a bunch of cheap womens' clothing to wear to the show? Come on. It's SF. It's not even high drag, we're just wearing nice looking suit stuff.

Anyway, The Residents promised something Once in a Lifetime for their 50th Anniversary and goddamn, they probably were right this time around. This one-off performance was quite the effort that pooled together a wild amount of talent including a four-piece dance troupe (dressed in all black with duck hats), the San Francisco Girls Chorus, A 30-piece A Cappella troupe and seemingly the entire student body of the San Francisco Music Conservatory. Probably around 70-100 performers all together? That's not even counting guest singers like Les Claypool, David J from Bauhaus and even someone like Pamela Zeibak who hasn't performed with or been on a Residents recording since '77.

Having an entire school's worth of performers and instruments is really what seals the deal: due to the nature of the album recordings, material always gets re-written/arranged for tours (which is an aspect I love), but having a full orchestra allowing them to perform the songs as recorded (often for the first time in 50 years) brings out the strength of the writing, even down to including the fumbling. For a band who has a fixation on tuned percussion, having an actual marimba for the performance was the real key to that show.

And shoutout to the dancers, who spent the entire time while the stage was being set up sweeping the floors before breaking into dance to let you know the show was going on the entire time. Good bit. I love when the lighting hit them just right they looked like a mass of writing limbs.





The real corker of the evening is after closing out the show with Nobody Laughs When they Leave off of Freak Show, the conductor who was right next to us immediately turned to my partner, shoved the conductor's notes in his hands, bowed and walked off. On top of that I managed to snag original artwork from Leigh Barbier commissioned for the show. There were only five different character drawings made for the entire show and I had to have Whitey. Oh yeah, and the ticket for the show. All of this poo poo is getting put under glass for the genuine relics they are:






Got some vinyl, too! This original recording of the first showing of God in Three Persons was for Kickstarter and they had a few leftovers:



Here's a couple more photos and then I'm off to bed 'cause we've been up for three days straight partying. Peace!

petit choux posted:

loving phenomenal. Just for my curiosity, do you know what they were playing, esp. the keyboardist?

CornHolio posted:

Yeah my Technics seems to work just fine. When I got it I immediately replaced the cartridge (which had never been replaced in 28 years) with a cheap Audio-Technica P-mount cartridge but my understanding has always been that that's really the limiting factor for this turntable so I've always wanted one with a more traditional mount.

But if this is the case, I might be in luck. I will need to investigate further.

The Insignia turntable came in today. Looks decent for a secondary turntable at the very least. Now to find a home for it, and maybe some bookshelf speakers.

CornHolio posted:

Sorry to keep bringing this up, but I don't know poo poo about poo poo and am trying to learn.

I set up my new turntable yesterday. Got some nice Edifier bookshelf speakers and honestly everything sounds great.

Part of setting up the turntable was attaching and then adjusting the counterbalance. This is something I have never done, as my Technics has a static tonearm. There are no adjustments to the counterbalance.

Do all of the P-mount cartridges have the same tracking force? Or, if I upgrade, do I need to find a cartridge that has the same tracking force as the one my turntable came with from the factory?

Long-term I'm trying to determine if I'm better off buying a nicer cartridge for the turntable I have, or saving up a bit more for a better turntable that would give me more options.

wa27 posted:

As far as I know, p-mount was supposed to remove all the guesswork of balancing a tonearm, so everything is balanced from the factory to the correct spec. If a cartridge is designed to use a higher/ lower tracking force, they just manufacture the cartridge to be heavier or lighter. So it should just be plug and play.

BigFactory posted:

Hell yeah. Looks amazing

caligulamprey posted:

Mannnn, I heard San Francisco lost its luster when the Tech people started piling in, but the weird amount of hostility my partner and I came across all weekend was incredibly bizarre, including getting chased off by police in riot gear halfway through a screening of the new Avatar when my guy went for a bathroom break, opened the door to see the entire bathroom covered in vomit, turned around and immediately saw a manager talking to cops who stopped, turned and pointed at him. Instead of pointing out how he was spotless so it clearly wasn't him, my dude just ran away. And the frequent stink eye we got while walking around town the night of the Residents 50th after we bought a bunch of cheap womens' clothing to wear to the show? Come on. It's SF. It's not even high drag, we're just wearing nice looking suit stuff.

CPL593H posted:

The blu-ray has a beautiful restoration but Neil Young decided to recut the film and also removed about 2/3 of the Hey Hey My My scene which is the best part of the movie. If you want to see the original cut you're going to have to watch an old VHS transfer. The full version of that sequence is on youtube at least.

RubberLuffy posted:

Got my copies of I Hate Myself's Ten Songs although it's technically eleven on this release (standard black) and Origami Angel's Gami Gang (looks like a cool beach ball)

Boinks posted:

Found this for $1.

joylessdivision posted:

I'd love to know what you think because an album of all Moog poo poo sounds like exactly the kind of weird electronic poo poo I'd be into

Mister Kingdom posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYdCR335_-c

Mister Kingdom posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYdCR335_-c

joylessdivision posted:

Fun fact: I'm pretty sure I killed any chance I had at a second date with a cute goth girl one time because I told her I prefered Peter Murphy's solo work to Bauhaus.

petit choux posted:

I have no son (tears beard)

caligulamprey posted:

Return of the Living Dead is bar none the best band-based soundtrack and every act on it is worth checking out.

joylessdivision posted:

I respect Bauhaus and his work with them, I just prefer his solo work.

joylessdivision posted:

I'd love to know what you think because an album of all Moog poo poo sounds like exactly the kind of weird electronic poo poo I'd be into

Boinks posted:

It's pretty trippy. Plays around with stereo a bit, I need to listen again with headphones and maybe an edible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYdCR335_-c

marjorie posted:

E: To contribute some vinyl content, here are my recent acquisitions:

Cloks posted:

that is a nice slipmat

marjorie posted:

And a Christmas gift from a guy I'm seeing now who doesn't suck (this one has Another Saturday Night, joylessdivision!):

BigFactory posted:

I’ve been listening to Sam Cooke a ton this week. Vinyl thread validates

joylessdivision posted:

Hell yeah Sam Cooke fans in the vinyl thread

RubberLuffy posted:

Got my copies of I Hate Myself's Ten Songs although it's technically eleven on this release (standard black) and Origami Angel's Gami Gang (looks like a cool beach ball)

BigFactory posted:

I’ve been listening to Sam Cooke a ton this week. Vinyl thread validates

petit choux posted:

Yeah, I fell down the rabbit hole once again of surfing ebay vinyl for records like this late at night. I have since learned there are several more like this I'd like to find, but I'd like to also pay a dollar for them. This one sounds really, really good for one of these though .

BigFactory posted:

BigFactory posted:

So this one is really good, I think. I like it a lot more than the last. A couple shippable songs and Stewart has a reverb-y vocal treatment on a few that I don’t really like (although it works well on one too), but overall very solid. The Stevie song is probably my favorite on the whole record, which I never thought I’d say.

Dale Shaw for McSweeney's[i posted:

All Songs By the Other Guy[/i]

Contains the songs:

“Pretty Happy Lovely”

“Happy Lovely Lady”

“Lovely, Pretty, Happy”

“Happy, Lovely, Pretty, Happy”

“Love to Love Happiness”

“I Am the Deathbringer (My Confession)”

marjorie posted:

I was on a second or third date with this older metal\goth musician and Bauhaus came up on my mix I was playing for us; he took the opportunity to tell me the story of how he was introduced to them by a couple of super hot witches (his words) and how they were all over him at some party. For some reason I went out with him a few more times, but realized his favourite topic of conversation was reliving his heyday and how many girls were totally into him all the time, but trying to play down like he never really cared about them...I should've taken the Bauhaus clue and peaced out then.

Who knew Bauhaus were such harbingers of failed relationships.

E: To contribute some vinyl content, here are my recent acquisitions:







And a Christmas gift from a guy I'm seeing now who doesn't suck (this one has Another Saturday Night, joylessdivision!):

pwn posted:

In other news, that Jeepster order from Black Friday came in last week. BBC Sessions is a (now late) xmas gift for a friend, and because it didn't come with an obi despite Jeepster's outdated page saying it would, and because I have undiagnosed mental problems, i painted a bootleg strip this week



The real strip from my US pressing doesn't have Storytelling represented, as Matador couldn't license it for whatever reason, probably because of snippets from the film that are in it (I remember their PR person lying* on FB back in 2014 and saying they never released it on vinyl originally, which is super weird as I own a Matador pressing of it ) but it was part of the UK Brilliant Career series, as evidenced by these photos from ebay



Anyway a few more detail shots, so you can really take in that line work and lettering



Final assembly.




It certainly is a sham, though I doubt it'll be going for a grand


_{*a pr person, lying?? quelle surprise!}