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Glad to see ikol on this one

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This thread should be like a thousand pages long or something!

Happy birthday you big perm

Looks like a good purchase.

When I have a little more in my savings account I've planned on picking up a vintage Japanese electric guitar (one of those no-name Teisco/Guyatone/etc. 60's funky things) and completely refurbishing it. I really have no experience, but it will be a fun project, and I've got a paint scheme I want to try out on it, hopefully it will all work out and I can do a stellar job on the instrument.

My feeling is that if a guitar is in okay shape after 30+ years, its probably going to play for a while longer. 3/4 size guitars are cool as well. I'd say you should take a look at it, and it might very well be worth a trip in to a guitar shop just to have them do any basic fixes that it needs, then shine it up/clean it, and you'll have a nice little guitar...with hopefully a nice sound.

Compression can be useful, but yeah, it does create a certain quality in the recording where things don't have as much of an individual sound in a mix--but where the whole mix "jumps" out at you more. In the case of most home recording situations I think a little touch of compression where things are a little hissy is preferable to having a stellar mix with subpar sound. Reverb is another things to be careful about (unless you're Steve Albini and hate it as a rule) but can really enhance the quality of a home recording and give it a little more "depth."

When it comes to hiss/noise, I know pro-tools has some really fantastic noise reduction software in it, but for people who can't use that, just carefully micing, making sure the room is quiet (particularly from odd sounds like computers, ventilation systems) and then just getting the mics as close to the source without clipping can do wonders. If you're getting noise in the sound transfer (ie. recording into a computer or something like that) there's a few things that can be done, but if you're serious about recording what you're doing it might be worth upgrading a soundcard or getting a better I/O system, the payback will be in clarity.

My current setup for most of what I've done has been through a rather cheap mic, though I like the sound I can get from it, or an SM-57/58 when I've borrowed some of those. This then goes into the Boss BR-8 that I got about 7 years ago, and then into my computer (can't remember the soundcard). I like the fidelity I get from this setup, given the relatively low-cost, but I'm definitely upgrading when I'm not in college any longer, and while here, I know that if I am ever trying to serious record an "album" of any sort I will take advantage of the pro-tools suite I have access to.

For those interested, my myspace has 3 recordings done in this fashion (from various years and various combos of instruments) and then 1 live recording through the same BR-8: Myspaced

I'd say the most essential Deerhoof album for me is "Apple O," Their three most recent albums are all equally good and full of merits, so pick whatever you want from there.

I like to own physical albums, so if I got an i-tunes gift card, I'd probably go around picking up weird oddball extras that aren't available, or at least aren't easily available in another format. Benefit compilations would be a good place to start.

I'm gonna wait.

 

But if Wilco streams it on their website before its release (surely they will....you think?)...I know I'd listen at least twice through.

I'm in this boat. I did the same for AGIB, it was cool, I got to watch everybody battle over Spiders for weeks and then when I heard it myself (also having not heard the earlier versions) I got to finally here what the fuss was all about.

The 20+ minute version of Sonic Youth's "Diamond Sea" can be pretty transcendent at times, though I don't know that everyone would consider that to be an 'epic' solo. The same can be said (at least in my mind) for Yo La Tengo's "Pass the Hatchet I think I'm Goodkind."

Even classic epic solos can be great phenomena, Hendrix I believe for the most part lives up to all his hype as a guitarist, and there are plenty more who can keep on cranking it out without being a yawn-fest. Skynyrd, I just don't like very much, but the first time I ever heard "Freebird" I thought it was pretty cool, though admittedly it's been all downhill from there.

I also listen to a fair bit of jazz, maybe that colors my opinion.

Like the signature says "Avenging Narwhal"

 

It's actually a toy you can get, frigging hillarious, comes with 4 tusks and 3 little cute animals to impale

Yeah, I pretty much got completely excited when that toy first was posted here, I still have yet to purchase...but will definitely be investing in its avenging powers soon

now they are healthy rats, no trans fat !!!!!!!

Hurray!

Ps. Nice avatar Darkstar!

 

Maybe I should come back for a visit ... hmmmm ... Sunday night show, followed by a nine-hour drive and work the next morning at 8 AM ... it's a no-brainer!

 

Is this in a newer building, or do they still have a coffeehouse beneath Quad?

It's still in Bob's below Quad so it should be sweet! But I'm thinking a nine hour drive is a little intense

Though there is at least one unannounced and not yet officially confirmed show that may well be worth the drive if you're a fan, PM for details.

Buckner is in the middle of a long string of dates with a backing band called Six Parts Seven.

 

I'm really curious to hear how these shows have been...it's been a long time that Buckner's toured with more than one accompanying musician.

 

Anyone checked out a show?

 

Here's his dates:

Sun Feb 25th 2007 Grinnell, IA @ Grinnell College

Seeing as he is playing our small on campus coffee house, I can't imagine I would miss it. I'll get back to you Sunday

No one has seriously answered my question...

Honestly I checked out a couple other band related boards when I wanted to get a copy of the Collin Meloy Morrissey EP, and later when the news about Jim O'Rourke leaving Sonic Youth came around. I don't know, the boards were okay, but they were just pretty scattered and full of junk a lot of the time, and definitely didn't have a good sense of community.

This place is the greatest. No joke at all.

Congrats and good birthing vibes

I think their point is, it doesn't matter what the price is if everybody is stealing the music. They don't make any money that way.

I get what you're saying, but I just don't know that everyone is stealing the music. I mean obviously there are tons of people downloading and its clear their profits have been going down, but they are still cashing in big on a lot of album sales regardless. I just feel like at some point they just need to suck it up and accept a certain margin of loss from downloads and just concentrate on better ways to actually encourage people to buy their package.

It used to be that Grinnell had a particularly good internal network (with its own search service) for sharing music/videos. This was particularly nice for checking out albums before I bought them, or just watching a cartoon or something after class (before Youtube really became a phenomenon at all). But then last year they reorganized the campus network to prevent spam from assaulting computers and now we're in "clusters" that can't share outside of basically our dorm group, so that basically died. Pretty much any external bittorrent client here won't function after they found some people who were eating up lots of bandwidth. Oh well, I don't really download music at all, haven't since the old days of Napster and dial-up internet.

Frankly the RIAA are a bunch of f*cks, but that's nothing new. No matter what they do in terms of litigation with colleges/individuals/whatever they really aren't going to stop downloading ever. Digital Rights Management is a whole other stupid plan on their parts, but really I can't see them succeeding. The internet just makes it too easy for people to sidestep whatever new regulations they've made. There are always new loopholes to exploit. And really people could always go old school and just rip albums from each other.

I'm sure it's profitable for them to go after people, but really I don't see why record companies don't just harness the whole process, use it as a way of promoting stuff, and look for alternative streams of revenue and putting more incentives towards consumers for dishing out for the actual product. They could also...gasp...heaven forbid, lower prices, take a short term cut in profits and lure people back to buying the still immensely profitable CD, and then work on technology to make that more cost-effective for themselves to maintain their (high) bottom line.

I just don't see the big fuss, inevitably the 4 record companies that are the RIAA (and own pretty much any major label under that) control 75% of the market, that's enough to do what they want and set prices regardless of downloads.

Yeah...yeah...I'd love to show up, but school and all, and I think I may be running a concert that night.

However, if any of this VC partying madness in Chicago goes down in the summer, I'm all in. Chicago is not such a far drive from Grinnell...and it's nice to get out of the boonies sometimes

I would guess that it will be a lot like A Ghost is Born with a number of the Wilco members listed as the songwriters on each song. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a Stirrat/Tweedy piece either.

i was sad to see that this was a NEWS story. this isn't news.

 

that said, i don't get why people get so bent over shaved heads. i kept mine that way for several years and my wife shaved hers bald at least twice in the time we've been together. it's not a big anything at all.

To quote Frank Zappa, "who cares if hair is long or short or sprayed or partly gray we know that hair ain't where its at"

I've had long hair for who knows how long, so shaving my head would be pretty surprising to people. I got 6 inches cut off around thanksgiving (it was still down past my chin) and people were definitely noticing that. But really, who cares, its only hair

Maybe I should shave it, just to freak some people out.

Last I heard Wilco is producing, Jim O'Rourke is mixing the album.

Not the Big Parm/Chicken Parmesean/Ction sex change thread I was expecting.

...the genie also thought I was a girl

To which I say ... Reallllllllly? All seven continents? Who are the poor fuckheads who'll be headlining the Antarctica stage?

I'd play Antarctica if someone was paying to get me there and back. True story. Wouldn't even ask for a tour bus either, but some heating would be nice...playing outside in that cold has to be hell on instruments though