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Hello everyone. I went to a great gig last night and ended up playing (two notes) with Quack Quack. Yay!

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, almost did!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but which two notes, emily?

(We are partial to G and D around these parts.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, you know, I think it might have been G and D. One of them was D. I do like a D.

My favourite chord is F#minor.

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

D min, Amin, Gmaj, Amin7

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

don't forget the C, we like that too.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

F#m is a lovely chord. I haven't used it lately, though!

We've been experimenting a bit with C, though, as apparently it's easy to play on a mandolin. And throwing in a bit of Bflat to make a C7 or something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lunch over. I need to get my head down and do some proper hard coding. Oh, how boring. Ah well, I'll put Easter Everywhere on the headphones and everything will be OK.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

E! Motorik folks!!!!!!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

E is too difficult to sing in! Just where my range cuts out at the top and breaks between head and chest at the bottom. Always drop E songs (heh) down to D.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like 7ths. They confuse me. I do kind of *know* how to play a 7, but I always have to check that I'm doing it right, and then it still sounds bum.

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

(that's our excuse every time we do a slightly dischordant harmony - I mean, we specialise in bum harmonies, but one that is actually noticably odd - we're hitting the 7th, maaaan! Actually, on "I'm Not Afraid" the 7th sounds quite good, though.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I love those Neil Young chords, I don't know how you describe, like an F with an open (top) E, and the C with the added, uhhhhhhhhh, hold on....

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

The C with the added... D I think?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, is that a Ninth?

Ninths and Sixths are, like, the most post-rock of all chords.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm prolly describing it wrong, it's not weird or nuthin'

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's total Neil Young

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Like Pete Townshend with his Sus4!!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Well, a perfect octave is an Eighth, so one up from that is a Ninth. C -> D (provided you put it up in the octave above, otherwise it would be a horribly dischordant 2nd) - it's not weird, it's just used a lot in post-rock.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

It has a kind of drone quality

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Taking requests for friday cookies..

hey all

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

E! Motorik folks!!!!!!

Tom D.

E drone, the hawkwind chord, is awesome, it's true.

Amin7 is great on clean guitar & sounds good after a Dmin. It's just a basic Amin shape, but you don't fret the G string. (anyone who makes joke abt "g string" gets permabanned haha j/k)

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

... that's another Neil Young favourite

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

I should drop D-tune (heh) my guitar so I can play the Hawkwind drone in a key I can actually sing in.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Like the Velvets and Metallica!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Fuckin' zappa obsessives. God.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

(not refering to anything on ilx here...)

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

"well you're not a fan, you won't understand it..."

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

What jokes about titties are you not understanding?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Early Zappa was awesome.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, it's not that. It's the "great classical composer of the 20th century" thing. WTF. TS "the yellow shark" & "perfect stranger" vs the entire works of, say messaien, prokifiev and shostakovich.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

he had his moments.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's total bollocks

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Let me take ya to the empty place in mah FIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRE ENNNNNNN-GINNNNNNNNNE!!!!

God, one more team's targets down, 14 to go. I've got it down so it's not so painful, but my god, it's tedious and time-consuming.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

kerr i did get yr mail about hari's band - i saw one of the people i need to talk to about it last night but we were at a gig and couldn't talk much bc the band came on and we are respectful but he said he's gonna call me today. if he doesn't i'll call him sunday/monday.

PLEASE STOP RAINING KTHXBYE.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i am trying to resurrect pleasant crush on officeboy but he is not being very obliging.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Emsk! Hari is getting new internet today so he should be able to get online more and chat on the Cooler/ILX !

I can't do anything about the rain i'm afraid. It's nice and sunny here again.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, we need to find Emsk a new crush. This is one of the problems with riding a cycle to work, you do not get crushes on hott commuters on yr train. And the only person you seem to run into repeatedly is Boris Johnson and he is MIIIIIINNNNNE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, but you do get to exchange conspiratorial smiles and winks with other cyclists. er. that's not quite the same, is it.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk I just sent you another webmail ( I don't have your email address)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats to the new Shimura Curve (for the day)!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Christ I forgot how much people post here... As usual I will post completely outside the flow.

I haven't met a new person in ages and ages and ages, so no real spring crushes, although there is one girl in the office -- there's always one isn't there -- who clearly has the "magnetic" personality, at least for me. But things are reasonably arms-length around here, as far as I can tell.

My well-timed London trip is at risk -- stupid me didn't really process that Friday and Monday are HOLIDAYS in the western world, and therefore me planning a business trip around them is kind of... stupid. My own fault (as usual) for not organizing quickly enough to get in BEFORE the holiday. (That said, the whole Poptimism thing was vaguely weird last time, while subsconsciously I feel that I was somehow to blame for SCmk3 imploding.)

I will decide to be bummed about this on Monday.

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bummed by who?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Who invited Ricky Gervais on to the thread?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get my coat.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dada I think you should do a best scottish band poll on ilm!
Then we all vote sensational alex harvey band!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Either them or the Whistlebinkies

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Omigod, someone just came around with the THIRD lot of cookies (actually chocolatey kind, not ILX kind) today. This is already on top of the carrot cake.

And yeah, Mitya, it was all your fault! Hurrah, we can blame you, and not the awful sound man, and the fact that we all HAAAAATED each other by that point, much better, yes.

But more of an excuse to have an extra long weekend if you do your work on the Thursday or Tuesday, no?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Go do it man!

On an unrelated note I am listening to His Name Is Alive.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Which album, Kerr? And more important, is my sisX0r Dare on it?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

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