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But Opa-Loka is totally NEU! - you hear that, right?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, early Echo and the Bunnymen. Sorry, had to be said.

"Passing round the me-di-cuh-hun..."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Mother Sky (edit) from Cannibalism/Anthology then!

― Mark G, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and "Turtles have short legs" is Tago Mago for Kiddies Parties! Take That, Saint Etienne!

― Mark G, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I hear that.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Ed, I was in your manor today - was visiting the swanky office furniture showroom a couple of doors down from the pub. And what a fine day for subsequent pottering around Clerkenwell and lunching on the Green today was too. I bought a turquoise woollen hat from a charity shop as well. Not too keen on the lack of cashpoints though - or are they just invisible to me?

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Bottom, of leather lane, or in the garage on clerkenwell rd.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

And to think I was crawling around that area a week ago. (The Plan B offices are kinda small and tucked away.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh, thanks. I went to look at really nice scruffy freelance journalist desk space on Hatton Wall as well. Finally, I may escape my bedroom! They all seemed like a really nice bunch in there too.

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I mourn the demise of the bar in there.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and Dahling, we should do lunch.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? this is a fucked up version of Motorhead I've never heard before. Fiddles? I think the version I have is live.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA!!! One of Yes is playing what looks like... yes, in fact, it IS... an Octave Mandolin on the inside cover of the eponymous album. Excellent!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

It is only an octave mandolin if it is gdae tuning, it may well be a bouzouki of some sort.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrmm, it is listed as a "Vachalia" but closer inspection reveals Although long credited as a vachalia, around three decades later Howe discovered that the instrument concerned was not a vachalia at all, but a Portuguese guitar.

It sure looks like an octave mandolin, it has those distinctive double strings - but then again, the neck isn't quite as long as yours.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Could be a mandola, I could be some kind of 8 string guitar beast.

That version of Motorhead is the bestest one, I can't believe you haven't heard it?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

God, Rick Wakeman was pretty when he was younger, sigh...

Err... can't think if I have. I've heard the Motorhead version, a couple of live versions - is there one on the double album Doremi/In Search thing? (Even though the disc of In Search Of Space never came home from the Truck Festival - maybe it was an offering to the White Horse.)

It sounds like a mandolin - on the first movement of Your Move. (You can tell it's a good Prog album when songs have movements!)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

CAn I have a cookie?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Let me see...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I didn't get the cookie from pash, could you forward that.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I am contemplating where the LEAD might live.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I sent it again, Ed. I mistyped "zeroinetgrity" like an idiot.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Cookie on its way, this cookie is rather an aquired taste - Joe and I were torturing Frances at the last gig by singing it at her.

Be careful where you put the LEAD as it may fall through the floor!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

No sign of the pickup mandolin unless my upstairs neighbors signed for it. (they may of course be withholding if they saw me bring the amp in, I thing I'll be able to turn it all the way up to 0.11)

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually curious as to what a Mandolin would sound like, on the boost or overdrive or distortion or whatever Marshall call it of the LEAD turned up to 11. Maybe do it on Friday evening when there's so much noise about no one will notice.

(Did I paint the 11 on that one? I did on my former guitarist's Marshall. But then again, we were always mucking about with each others' amps - we turned our bassist's EARTH amp into a FART amp and he never noticed.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

note the significant decimal point.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I misread, yes, I will try it with boost on, and all knobbulation turn to the right, almost as a first go, but maybe with the cab disconnected and it inputting into the MOTU box.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! I did not notice the decimal point.

Ah, the bands that have used that amp. It was touring bitch for every KRS band ever from the Bangs to Slumber Party to the Gossip.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

If I dust it will I be removing anything significant?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think the dust may be holding the front screen together! It really needs a new front put on it - but I want a paisley one, of course. Be careful of what is in the back of the cab, though - at one point the fallen off knobs from the front were taped in there.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Even the fallen off knobs have a minor indie cleb story - they were knocked off by Dan Channel 6/Absentee!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also some casters on one of the short edges would be a good idea.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I did buy casters at one point! But they were too puny for the LEAD power and bent and buckled before I could get them fastened on! You have to get heavy duty rollers for amps.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

You know who this sounds like a job for. I still haven't broaced the subject of him building a cab for me.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

My type = shit today

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

If he didn't smoke so much pot, he would be my dream man. But if he didn't smoke so much pot, he would not be him. Sigh.

Argh I need to be putting things on the BigStick to take home and listen to, but I'm forgetting eveyrthing I have to do this weekend? 1) Finish mixing a Shimura Curves song for ILX comp. 2) Put individual tracks of Elektrickometheorie onto a disc 3) Remix G00blar song 4) Write Plan B articles! Gah! I'm not going to have time to go out tomorrow! Too much to do!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

This version of Uncle Sams on Mars - fuck yeah!

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what Kate decided to write for Plan B in the end?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

It won't let me vote for jazz twice.

Curses!

― H-ari A-shurst, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Hari! Any sign of your internet connection being fixed?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Not yet.

Hopefully Tiscali will go into the business of divine intervention.

― H-ari A-shurst, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Why Hari, it's been a bit. And you missed me in the UK once again!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Argh! Curses.

I have returned to the fold. Are you going to make the journey for the ILXfest Ned? I'm hoping to persuade Kate to allow me and my motley reprobate band to have some stage time.

― H-ari A-shurst, Saturday, 17 March 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

You should ask emsk if you can play Truck with Shimura Curves!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Pickup Mando has arrived. I have no time to plug it in and strum, but I am excited. I need to find the appropriate moment to turn everything up to eleven and make big noise.

― Ed, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome! Pics?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow, I need to get to Dr C.

― Ed, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Various Artists - Psychedelic Phinland - Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974

wo of our favorite words! (Though we normally spell Phinland, Finland.) The current Finnish psych
phenomenon -- Avarus, Kemialliset Ystavat, Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Kiila, etc. etc. is of course a major AQ obsession. As is vintage psych from, well, heck just about anywhere, but certainly Scandinavia. So this double-disc compilation, subtitled "Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974" has got us all excited. There's 29 tracks from almost as many artists, a fantastic trip into the early daze of the Finnish freak-scene. Perhaps another good subtitle would have been: "When Drugs Came To Finland". There's even a few songs about marijuana to set the mood, starting off disc one. But Psychedelic Phinland is just as political, and parodic, and perverse as it is potheaded. There's plenty of Flower Power pop and/or fuzzed-out blues rock, but you'll also find jazz-damaged prog and mystic folk, revolutionary theatre and electronic insanity. There's so much here, we can't mention it all, but look out for heavy psych jammers Baby Grandmothers, "rocking lavatory anarchists" Suomen Talvisota 1939-40, and progrock pioneers Wigwam... then there's there's Eastern-inflected psych-folk from Pekka Streng and the Yippie ranting of Markku Uto...
And then on disc two things get REALLY weird. Yeah this one's even further out, crossing over a bit into "Arktinen Hysteria" territory (you maybe remember, that great collection of early Finnish avant-weirdness from a while back, also released by Love Records). It starts off innocently enough with our new favorite band(name), Those Lovely Hula Hands. Really, that's their name, and they included several 13 and 14 year old sisters playing violins and recorders, singing gently amidst tape-recorded bird-twitter... a song about Tarzan! Then we hear from Pekka Airaksinen and also his band The Sperm, doing extended feedback and tape music experiments. We remember The Sperm from that Arktinen comp and had wanted to hear more. Later on, there's some wonderfully primitive, ceremonial hippy jamming, particularly from a band called Sikiot, who have a krautrockish vibe like Siloah or Amon Duul. And there's plenty more, some other names of note on these cds include J.O. Mallander, Charlies, Topmost, Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int, Apollo, Blues Section, Hector & Oscar, and Kruunuhaan Dynamo...
All of this is pretty much totally obscure, in fact a lot of it consists of previously unissued archival recordings from the vaults of Finland's Love label and other sources... A true labor of Love. Comes with a twenty page, full color cd booklet with English-language notes on each track and tons of cool old photos and graphics.

Who wants cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Damned stoners.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

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