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

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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)

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

If you were applying for a job as a proctologist, it'd probably be a necessity.

― C J, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

in one of my former jobs somebody *did* ring me up to ask me the difference between an anoscope and a proctoscope....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the "stealin' my bucket!" gif never fails to make me laugh...

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/_2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

did you work for welch allyn or something?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost to GG!)

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Eating an ice cream:

http://www.angel.dk/specialoffer/hawkoffer01/HawkBWB_06.JPG

So cuet. I didn't think he ever ate between 1970 and about 1982.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, better not let Rumpie see that picture!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think I will lust after this:

http://www.swrsound.com/products/prod_images/swrsound/4460400010_xl.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why?
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Because Rumpie is phobic about people eating ice cream in the street!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6192_md.jpg

This is like my guitar, pretty much.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6192_md.jpg

pah! I was banned for some reason. Guess I'm back on now.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am just writing the job description for my nu-job. I also have to list some stuff I need to get started - so far I have put a Mac Book and a couple of training courses. I want to add 'hott ladies' and 'vintage 1965 Fender Jaguar' but I think I may have trouble getting them through.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Push your luck, go for Mac Book Pro.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

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