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"Rockette Morton takes off again into the wind! What do you run on Rockette Morton? (say: 'beans')."

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"I run on laser beans."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim,
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
Fast and bulbous!
That's right The Mascara Snake, fast and boulbous. Also, a tin teardrop.
Bulbous, also tapered.

You need a fly's eye to see it,
Aaron

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

hpencil has alan licht's email address.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

TIM,

WHAT THE HELL HAS CHRIS WOO BEEN UP TO??!?!?!?!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I think he's more interested in doing photography. He's had a couple of shows here recently. There was supposed to be a third issue of Titanium Expose, but I wouldn't imagine that it's going to happen. I don't know if he's doing any music writing right now.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

If you talk to him, tell him hello from a fan in SF!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Word.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Tim,

Haha, I just read the SMiLE thread... Dude, that is what's called the OLD ILM PROTECTION PROGRAM. Good riddance, yet they all lurk anyway. Even here too.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Thx, g!.

Btw, I talked to Chris Woo last week and I gave him your greeting. He was trying to figure out who you were. Did you ever play in Physics?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, no but I saw one of their first shows!

Chris posted a little bit on sp0ckm0rgu3 last week coincidentally enough, I hadn't seem him on there before that.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Tim, are you a good guitarist? How would you describe your style?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmm, I think I have some capacity. I practiced scales a lot for a while when I was an undergrad studying music.

I guess what I'm interested most in doing is playing raunchy rhythm guitar, but with a clean tube amp sound like, say, Velvet Underground/Pretty Things/Yardbirds/early Captain Beefheart/etc. Soloing, I'm interested in doing more abstract things like, say, Yardbirds era Beck/Page, but sometimes I just go for doing more melodic stuff, trying to maintain high energy (with fuzztone or without). A lot of the Nephews stuff was garage oriented, but with a heavier overdrive sound.

I played a lot of the fuzztone parts in the Music Machine.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

What about your guitar playing, g!?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

well i'm not very good (and habitually out of practice) but i've been doing lots of country blues style finger picking... claw handshape and double thumb picking... a lot of open G. electric stuff, i've been listening to play a lot of soo young park's stuff in bitch magnet and seam, and treyops and justin's stuff in pitchblende... i think those guys probably shaped my guitar consciousness more than anyone else.

Can you play the "Over Under Upside Down"/"Happenings..." stuff from the later live Yardbirds? Intense!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if I quite UNDERSTAND how Beck does the phrasing on something like the riff in "Over Under Sideways Down" or how that descending chromatic rhythm guitar line in "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" was done! And I can't improvise as well as those guys.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, sorry for muffling up the titles... that's great stuff. i went through a phase of attempting to play that style combined with stuff like beefheart's "moonlight on vermont" and "owed t'alex", and realized that clawhammer was doing it better than i ever could.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I also like some of the Turkish guys a lot like Erkin Koray and Baris Manco.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you like Bola Sete?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

oh man, that riff to "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" is so gnarly.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never heard Bola Sete.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

despite our differences concerning paul mccartney, can we please still be cyber-chums?

sincerely,
jack "the butter knife" cole

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

HOLLA

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Tim, did you ever go to any "TGs"??????~?~?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What was your favorite one?

GET ONE TRITON

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 March 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah...occasionally. I remember a Mojo Nixon one. There was an SST fest on the gym steps once--had to have been before you started, though, gygax, I would imagine. Firehose and Screaming Trees and Lawndale and I can't remember who else.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

― kippax lad, ls? (gareth), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, it's not my problem if you people still haven't digested "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." I have. Okay? Thanks.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

OHMIGOD I JUST DISCOVERED THIS GENRE OF MUSIC CALLED "THE POST PUNK!" IT IS SO COOL!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

did you shit it out or regurgitate it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I AM post-punk, mothafucka.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, i was just jokin' on your "digested" bit. such a weird thing to say about music.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

You seem to get hung up on words. "Digested" = I've listened to it a lot and understood what all is going on on the record. Like I needed to explain that to you.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

you don't need to explain it! i know wtf it means, touchy-touchy-dude! and gee, who would think someone who likes to write and edit (and has been paid to do both things) would be hung up on words?

"you musicians sure seem to care a lot about music!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"i can't understand all these silly film majors, they only talk about movies!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Regarding your hang-up: it was a QUICK way of saying that I've listened to the record a lot already and have understood what is going on on the record, okay?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i hate it when mom and dad fight. when someone call social services?

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

tim i think it's your hang up because i was just making a joke! it really wasn't a big deal at all.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

But I was joking with you about your hangup!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

didn't seem like it, i read it as you being pissed off at me as always. sorry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I'M SORRY TOO!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

THATS WHAT THE NZ BRD IS ALL ABOUT.

BROS.

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

they have BROSEPHS in New Zealand?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.lorinrowan.com/Maddox-Bros-poster-web.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

-- kippax lad, ls? (...), March 4th, 2005.

Ironically, I was just listening to an old Rough Trade compilation album called Wanna Buy a Bridge this morning. I thought to put it on initially because I wanted to listen to the TV Personalities doing "Part Time Punks." The fantastic "Read About Seymour" comes on after it. Even more ironically, I realized that one of the things that's cool about Franz Ferdinand is that they really kind of sound like "Read About Seymour." And before anyone gets all up in arms about me saying this, let me add that yes, of course, Franz Ferdinand are not as ballistic as the Swell Maps and their lyrics aren't as cool.

So maybe, ironically, those of you who hate Franz Ferdinand do so because you're just not all that partial to the "Read About Seymour" spirit?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Tim,

Have you ever pretended to like a piece of music? Ironically or unironically?

Love,
gygax!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think so. What's an example of someone doing this?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

hey tim,
sealed copy of XCIII....worth $11 + shipping?....really like to hear it...but not sure if its worth it.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude, no. Go to musicweb.com. Pretty sure they have it for $4.99!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, dude, if your order with them is over $25, free shipping.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I see....thanks tim.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

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i like everything until green. i could never listen to green or anything after it though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, chronic town/murmur/reckoning. preferably on vinyl, i would think.

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...

what's the last SD show you went to?

have you been to himalayan cuisine?

― the late great, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link

six years pass...

Hola Tim,

I was listening to a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man for undisclosed reasons that 2 members of the band refused to talk about.

A quick perusal of the LA Times site circa 1990 mentions that The Pulltoys singer Scott Ireland broke his neck during a video shoot. NSM singer Rosebud was romantically involved with Scott but no idea why those dudes would refuse to mention anything about this accident on the podcast 25 years later.

Do you have the scoop?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link

"... a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man BROKE UP for undisclosed reasons ..."

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

HÜSKER PÖLL: Warehouse - Songs and Stories

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Hope you are okay, Tim, wondering why you never appear on the Emitt Rhodes thread.

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

pouring 1 out for all the -bertos this week

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jul/30/matriarch-robertos-taco-shop-dies/

― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link

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