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OMG SO MUCH FUN

totally different beast to the other bike... very very very wobbly for about 2 minutes but it gets easier FAST. raised the handlebars before i started because i could see trouble coming. stopped halfway home to raise the seat a bit and it got easier again. i am gonna hafta become one of them bum-in-the-air cyclers, haha. ok, how am i gonna get used to my gears being by my KNEES? and there being 3 positions for your hands to be but only one of them has brakes? on a left turn i do every day on my way home i automatically squeezed my hands to brake as i turned (not a busy road and it's one-way anyway but there are often people in cars stopped in the middle of the road to chat/fight/gossip/flirt/buy drugz/whatever) and they closed on THIN AIR ARGH ARGH! there was nothing in the road but a cat so it was ok. (i did not run over the cat.) now i am making carrot soup and drinking wine.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to proper cycling.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

there are at least 4 positions on drop bars which is great for long rides as you can vary and save your back. I have a long back so spend as much time as possible leaning on the horns.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i wondered about the horns! they look like a good place to lean where the brakes are still, like, where they're meant to be (by your FINGERS). but pls explain this gears thing. every time i try to change gear my knee hits my hand out the way!

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Norman to thread?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't had downtube shifters in a long while, I have had bar ends on two bikes and the latest has shifter integrated with the break levers. Answer: you'll get used to it.

Anyone know if a bass can be set up with GDAE Mandolin/violin style tuning? I presume it's just a matter of string weights?

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Answer: you'll get used to it.

yeah, that's what i figured. am *really* looking forward to saturday now! where are we going again? i want to check for weather. to see if there will be any.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kent, I forget exactly where.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

You must take photos so I can enjoy it from a distance.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - any news from the Brixton venue yet?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Morning people.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

Emsk's cycling shenanigans sound huge fun!

― C J, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hello from belgium.

David K seems to have come up trumps for me. Should get pickup tamburlin this week.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for cycling!

Ed, I don't know about setting up a bass like that, but I presume you can if you find the right weight strings - you might be better with a tenor guitar (Danelectro do a lovely one) - it would be a v. v. v. good idea.

If you are enjoying KateKrautrockSampler, I will make you another volume with the longer songs on it. Perfect for driving, jah? Just remember to get off the autobahn when you get to Belgium and not keep going all the way to Dusseldorf.

Also, how is April for megalith visiting? FMM wants to do it some time near our birthdays.

And yes! ILX Festival confirmed at the Windmill. Excellent!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

::boucey bounce::

Damn, Dr. C must be in his job meeting thing.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Waaaah, aint' no more of this...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/420794184_15b14b08dc.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Megalith visiting sounds fun. Shame there aren't any decent megaliths at all near me, just unexcavated barrows.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh great - ILX gig is on. Thx Kate.

Job meeting part 1 is over and adjourned until later. Going well so far.

Kate - are you at all interested in playing bass for The Fallen Leaves? They are the bunch that are headlining on Saturday. They have had a few different ones over the years (including a couple of quite well-known people) and have a stand-in right now. They asked me if I knew anyone, and I thought of you. They don't play very often - it might be a fun part time gig. Just a thought.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yay to all of that, can we get you camping?

Do we take the small (free) volvo or hire something bigger?

Who wants to come?

I did some more research and it should be possible using the f# strings from a 5 string. I am having mandodobro bassbeast fantasies, but not till later this year.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Errr, maybe! Depends on what they sound like, natch. But I will find out on Saturday, no doubt. I would love to play bass again, I don't do it nearly enough.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

yes, I would camp for megaliths!

Arrggghhllllsnnnaarrrr, I know I'm a vegetarian and all, but I just really REALLY want to take a quick bite out of Benjamin's thighs here. It's not even sexual. I be HUNGRY.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/420792579_d83b7a00e4.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - garage-punk.

Guitar by R0b Simmons of the Subway Sect. Previous bass players include Paul Myers (Subway Sect), Phil K1ng (Lush, Felt, every creation band ever).

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Depends what end of Garage they pull towards. Garage-psych-freakbeat, god yes, in a heartbeat. They sound very very Nuggets-y from the name. Is there any band that Kill Phing hasn't been in? Hah. That seems quite promising, I love playing the basslines for that kind of stuff.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

They have a myspace. I think less psych - more beat. Maybe more Milkshakes-y and more punky. Straightahead, I think.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have looked at their website, and they look good, they look *fun* which is important - have downloaded a track and will listen to that. Whether I end up joining garage bands really comes down to how they feel about my paisley shirts. I'm nowhere near as mod as I used to be.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Great!

I actually had fun with Band #1 yesterday. We did 4 trax for the album in the studio. Two were my songs, which obv featured lots of guitar from moi and NO keybds. The real surprise was when they decided that we were going to do an old song, that I didn't really know, I came up with extra guitar parts on the spot and they really liked them. Guitarist #1 is not always the easiest to fit in with as he tends to go for a loud Gibson-style crunch which doesn't always leave much room. But he was playing his Epiphone 335 yesterday, which fits a lot better with the Tele. I am actually looking forward to Saturday now!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Nice!

We looked at a couple studios yesterday for recording, maybe have one we can use--it's one drawback is a v. small live room--it'd be hella cramped with all four of us and a drumkit in there.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

V. small live room? How on earth are you going to maintain sound separation under those circumstances? Or is that the point - that any overdubs will be minimal, so it doesn't matter?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy clever soundproofed cabinets where the amps live.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

I am dubious. I mean, if the amps live in soundproofed cabinets, isn't the sound going to be crazy muffled? Or is it recorded direct, and fed through your cans?

I know so little about recording live, all at once together in a room. I don't think I've ever really done it. Certainly not in years. (this was to the detriment of some recordings, I definitely think.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the amps live in cabinets, but are miked there. Apperently they are not muffled. This is then run through the headphones so we can all play along with the drummer whilst he is recording. Or something.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that sounds interesting. You could sell the ladies on the idea of hott sweaty boys all locked in closets, recording, or, erm, something.

SPRING JUST END ALREADY, OK?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, my colleagues have all gone out for a pub lunch. Maybe I should have gone. But they never have any decent vegetarian food there. Bah. So I'm stuck at work with cumberland pie.

Mmmmmm, pie.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

PIE

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? I just googled cumberland pie to find out what was in it, and it took me to a page which showed me people talking about pie for about ten seconds before just freaking out and going to a blank screen telling me that IE was rubbish and I should download Firefox. Like, WTF? That shit pisses me off. It's one thing to say that your page is optimised for certain browsers, but quite another to completely ban others. I mean, I don't have any fucking choice in what browser I use. Fucker.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

hello! crazy-ass ride in this morning! i heart my nu-bike. i need to give it a name. the last one was ariadne, a girl, wayward lover of dionysius/bacchus. this one is def a boy - goes where it wants, when it wants, as fast as it wants. oh god i need to take a picture so i can dribble over it even when i'm not riding.

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

x-post Yeah we record the basic track pretty much live, no baffles or anything. It's too sterile otherwise. Also yesterday I was still watching the other guitarist's hand to follow one of the songs that I didn't know, so it's good to be close by and in sight. We have cans on, as the singer is in a separate room. The engineer seems to be pretty good about minimizing bleed just by mic choice and placement. We did have a problem with a couple of stray guitar notes that had got onto one of the drum tracks yesterday, but we managed to zap it in software.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey we mention CUMBERLAND SAUSAGES in the track 'The Shocking Price of Bread'.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

this one is def a boy - goes where it wants, when it wants, as fast as it wants.

Peter Fonda in Wild Angels!!! "We wanna be free, to do what we wanna do, we wanna be free to ride our MACHINES without being HASSLED by THE MAN!!!"

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

My cumberland pie was lovely. But there was not enough of it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, i like your thinking. it's not a peter though. and it can't be a fonda, too many other connotations, i would have to explain it to myself all the time. hmm... hey, you should SEE it first. DROOL.

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I lost ILX for about half an hour! I thought I was done for! everything went dark in here!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

The ilx on port 8080 has been flickery update your bookmarks with the port 80 version.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have any port bookmarked, it just assigns itself.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

You know, since I stopped eating massive curries, I've had a massive resurgance of the after-lunch crankies.

I wonder if there's something in curry which is calming, or if it's the sheer volume of carbohydrates. I'm not even that hungry today, just cranky.

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

rowr carrot soup, i am king of carrot soup

i restrained myself from going down to the carpark after eating it just to perv over the bicycle

went to evans to look at bags where they have helpfully placed all the rackbags ON THE WALL WHERE YOU CAN'T REACH THEM grrr

the nice boy was very nice but anyway evans are the evil empire in waiting

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

Actually, you know what's making me cranky? It's the constant smell of cooking meat from the pub below.

:-(

God, I cannot wait until we move to the new office. We might actually have temperature control there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

And my office is NOISY today. Bah. Everyone is gathered around my desk for various reasons nothing to do with me.

And the new bloke (to replace the Finn, who I actually liked, who is leaving) is into FOOTIE and is shouting over my head at my other colleague who sits next to me about some fucking football thing. SHOOT ME NOW. THIS IS MY IDEA OF HELL.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I said the F-WORD. This is how fucked off I am by this whole development. They're so loud that even playing music doesn't drown them out. How can I work in these conditions?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

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