UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Shall I give him your e-mail address?

I know that they are trying a new bassist this week, but he did ask me about you at the end of the evening.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hush about teeth, I've got a real toothache in my last baby tooth today, I know the thing is contemplating dropping out on me.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

You're more than 39?

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

x-post yes! I told you that on Saturday night. Would have talked to him then, but for unexpected utter drunkeness. (Never ever try to keep up drinking pints of bitter with Ed.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

O god my landlord is on the phone! He keeps on about Jefferson Airplane. I wish he'd just fix my internet.

― H-ari A-shurst, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Mumblin' Jim could be BIGGER THAN THE AIRPLANE...."

Sorry, Psych Out flashbacks there. Heh.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

(I've just broken the news to the P@yne sisX0rs that we've turned the band all prog in their absence.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

how did they take it.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know - they haven't responded. Trying to set up a get-together/rehearsal for Wed or Thurs. (I seem to recall those were the days you said were good with you?)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

yes both goo but would like to know which one soonish so I can plan for the other.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to the world of being in a band - waiting for other people to figure out their schedules so that you can get on with scheduling yours. :-(

I only sent the email an hour ago - if neither of them have replied with a preference by the end of the day, pick which one you'd prefer. I have little patience for the cat-herding aspects of being in a band.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Did Hari's band make it onto the ILX comp?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Got the email, Kate. Thanks.

It just proves that when Kate's are 36 they become HIPPIES!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, listen to Aftafglid and tell me that's not SPACEROCK.

I've been a hippie all my life.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Did Hari's band make it onto the ILX comp?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy on Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (31 minutes ago)

Subject to getting the track, yes.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's the hard part! His connection is useless!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

What were the previous comps like?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, stop me from looking wistfully at the Gretsch price list...

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, be mine...

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G5126_md.jpg

Or the super duper full price version...

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6129TAU_md.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

You wouldn't be happy with them....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I would be SOOOOOO happy with them.

I also need to look up how much a Rickenbacker bass is.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Never liked Rickies much

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

They look better than they sound, but I love the growl on them. Still, £1100, ouch. Look like there are some deals on eBay, but I'm not allowed to eBay.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I meant I don't like how they look, that's the most important thing in guitar/bass!

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Gretsches I like:
http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6199_md.jpg
http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6128TCG_md.jpg
http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6129T-1962_md.jpg

Terribly expensive, though.

What about one of these, eh:
http://www.jerryjonesguitars.com/_borders/Supreme.jpg

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I like ricky basses loads, I think they look great, though my favourite isn't the "classic" shape, it's the semi-hollow one mani used to play in the stone roses.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

this one, the 4005

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Rickenbacker basses are SOO cool looking! Come on! How can Peter Hook, Lemmy and, err Chris Squire be wrong?!?!?

That said, I'd probably plump for:

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/basses/0131800300_md.jpg

(this is all entirely theoretical, depending on joining a band that I would play bass for. If not, I'm going to get a 12-string or a hollowbody.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, effing DROOOOOL...

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/basses/1500060800_md.jpg

I love Fender VI's.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, look at this one,though - lovely custom job.

http://www.stthomasu.ca/~pmccorm/research/lemmy2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have been looking at acoustic amps, which, in the main seem to be brown , which can only be a good thing.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Now you're talking Bass VIs are great. We played with a band a while back who had one of those new Jaguar basses - they sounded great if you want a bright sound. If I was a bass player I'd get a Fender Jazz Bass I think.

Fr4ctured bassman has a big old Bruce Foxton style-Ricky as well as his Fender Precision, but it doesn't sound great to me - too rumbly and not agile enough.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think I am developping an unhealthy fixation on Lemmy. This worries me.

I love the way Rick basses look, but they do only really have *one sound* - they're not nearly as versatile as Fenders. I've been playing my shitty paisley bass which half the sparkley nail varnish has flaked off. It looks like shit, but honestly, I've never found another bass that sounded quite as good.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

What guitar is Hari playing?
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9066/meeditdq5.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I could have had a bass iv for very cheap years ago, before I knew what such things were. Actually, there used to be a music shop, long defunct, up the road from us that had LOADS of jaguars and jazzmasters in used, for next to nothing, before they became collectable. This was before I started playing guitar, and I wanted a Les Paul b/c Robert Fripp and Steve Hackett played them, I remember looking at the Jazzmasters with their funny controls & tremelo, and thinking they looked weird & cheap. What an idiot, feh.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait hahaha i can actually READ what he's playing. hahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hari has some weird Fender I don't recognise.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Where's Onimo these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Lemmy is an interesting character; fear not.

actually, Kate, far be it from me to lead you off yr own thread, normally, but Tuomas's one on why misspellings in English are funny (or not) on teh interweb is v fascinating.....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Lemmy's bass sound I believe is down to him stripping the stock pickups out of his rickenbacker and replacing them w/pickups from a Gibson thunderbird?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am liking this, purely based on the wood.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/amplifiers/2271000000_xl.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

It gave you wood?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, this is an acoustic amp, therefore it must be MADE OF WOOD, LIKE ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS!!

I thought you meant Acoustic brand amps, which are actually fantastic if you can find them. The old ones, at least. I used one of their cabs in a rehearsal studio for ages.

Aaah, Gibson Thunderbird - now *there* is a bass. My sisX0r used to play one of those.

There's all these photos of a young, cute, sparkly-eyed Lemmy on the Hawkwind reissues. Ah, crystal meth, what did it do to you?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

ARRRTGGH, SNOW!!!

I forgot to bring my precious seedlings in this morning.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

the pimple (is that the correct dermatological term?) on Lemmy's face is interesting.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

They're warts, not pimples. Proper warts. Like witches (and Spinal Tap) got. This is a man who actually managed to give himself Trenchfoot on a European tour through never changing his socks. They had to take him to hospital and cut them off surgically. That's taking being a DDB a bit too far. But still intriguing.

The office smells strangely like WEEEEEEEED!!! I have no idea why. Actually, I think someone may have sprayed some kind of plant smelling odour spray over the top of the owner's cigars. But still.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

That Tuomas thread encapsulates everything I hate about nu-nu-ILX - a bunch of assholes jumping on what could have been a very interesting thread simply because of their incomprehensible dislike for a personality.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i have good asshole-screening abilities. It is a pity, that I can't put that skill on my CV.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

You mean jess and ethan being dicks as usual?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

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