Ghost of Electricity

did a bit of listening and looking for this and would only go so far as to say it may indeed be the prunes and custard- but it's hard to tell as there does seem to be a rhodes or some other keys doubling the part. I do think i hear some ring-modulationy thing going on in there though, in the same way that the p& c has some ring-modulatory thing to go with the overdrive. Am I making any sense at all? Anyway, i haven't seen a new pic of Jeff's board in a while. Anyone have one? And finally, welcome to VC (from a fellow newbie)

Charles Manson? (Damaged? unquestionably. Shut in? well, locked up... Cult? obviously. Musician? Wanted to be.)

you beat me to Nigel, moe

forgive the ignorance.. is this when you plug into both channels of your amp simultaneously? i've just never heard this term before.

Oh, ship won't you please come in!

No, not necessarily. But when used as crutches, yes, they can. (oops, ain't i guilty of this myself sometimes?)

Some women are drop dead gorgeous when you lay eyes on them, but when you try talking to them they suddenly don't look so good. Other women you don't notice at first but after a conversation you realize "hey!" Of course there are the ones who don't look so good and just get worse when they start talking, and ever so rarely there are the ones that you do notice and when engaged in conversation get even better. Records are more or less the same way, and the ones that belong in this fourth group are the ones we take with us, the ones we don't actually need because we can press "play" in our he

I guess I'm not original in that "Rain" was the first to pop into my head too.

looks pretty yummy. what kind of pickups are those?

I think he sign papers to formalize his nominees for cabinet positions but i seem to remember reading a rumor that he was going to sign some presidential decrees to having to do with some of the no-brainers like stem cell research

I'll say it too: FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

i love the name of this thread - it should be an album title, cover done by H.A. Rey

so i've never played a lap steel before but i'm thinking about breaking the ice with one of the cheap models i've seen on ebay. The SX looks most enticing. anyone tried it or any of the others out there?

I've read lots of reviews by people who swear by the BBE sonic stomp, and while from what i've seen it works better on bass it might be something that interests you moss. youtube has plenty of demos.

most of it has already been said, but i also wanted to ask about the type of guitar. Hollowbodies or semi-hollowbodies can give a bit of depth too. And tweaking the right amount of reverb can help.

Atta boy, mfwahl! I think you've got it about right- not imitating but mucking about and finding your own way. I'd love to hear a clip of that.

also check out IATTBYH- i seem to remember a bit with Jay taking an electric screwdriver or egg beater or milk foamer to the guitar strings at one point.

For an nterview with Jim O'Rourke talking about some of the strange YHF sounds click here

R.E.M. "Life's Rich Pageant" --I don't want toadmit to you what i had listenex to before that. Velvet Underground and Nico- I heard this and the world seemed to be a bigger place full of possibilities. And then there's this from an old blog of mine: About 20 years ago, just after my older brother got his drivers license, we got permission to take the 78 Brown Caprice Classic my father had bought from his father out for a ride on condition that we had it back by three oclock on the dot, no exceptions, ifs ands or buts. And while we wanted to make the most out of this new, strange fr

if you ask me to dream, i'll dream

my band: Glenn Kotche - Drums, etc Brian Ritchie - Bass Chet Atkins - Guitar Bela Fleck - Banjo Dick Dale - Guitar Horn Section: Miles Davis - trumpet Charlie Parker - saxophone [taking applications for trombone] side project band: Ken Coomer - drums Max Johnston - banjo, fiddle, mandolin Jay Bennett - guitar, keys Leroy Bach - guiat, keys Brian Henneman - guitar which means i guess i have to learn to play bass

I think the last Uncle Tupelo (Anodyne) would be a good one- including the breakup of the band

for music: Beatles "Revolution" R.E.M. "The end of the world as we know it " Rolling Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" The Jayhawks "Take me with you (when you go)" Beck "Loser" for first lines: Bob Dylan "Queen Jane Approximately," (etc.) Son Volt "Tear-Stained Eye"

Galaxie 500 Spacemen 3 Half Japanese (do fractions count?)

if you drive to work, take a different route. Or better yet walk. If you like your peanut butter creamy, buy chunky. if you write on guitar, try plunking some notes on the piano. call up someone you've lost touch with. get up and hour earlier. grow a moustache. listen to chinese traditional music. cross the tracks. go buy a short you don't like and then wear it. change your level of personal hygeine. perform random acts of kindness to complete strangers. experiment with paper clips. buy a goldfish. play games with salt. seek and destroy your routines. establish new ones and then dest