Lord Sausage

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1427212692' post='2727287'] I was a big Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok, Penderecki, Messiaen, Varese fan in my twenties and thirties but now I find myself very critical of classical music...( by that I mean [i]music featuring orchestras or large ensembles[/i] ) which is what 'classical' music really means. I haven't been to a Prom in decades. Most orchestral film soundtracks appall me these days: they are stuffed full of dreadful cliches and re-hashed, recycled themes and dull chord progressions. I know this sounds grumpy but I don't think it's any better than any other type of music. [/quote] I think you are bang on in terms of orchestral film music. It's like they have just heard Holst Planet suite and Stravinsky's Rite of Sping and lifted bits for their own works. Ocassionally Danny Elfman might do something a bit different, he isn't afraid of modal stuff. However, Classical music (which is the wrong term as that's the mozart, beethoven period, I say Art music) still gets written. Whilst at Uni in the early noughties i was into and studied Contemporary Art music. I was very much into Minimalism. Obviously they has been a lot of bollocks written but Phillip Glass and John Adams have wrote some interesting pieces. John Tavener too.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1427449458' post='2730426'] Mindfullness is marmite. It was rolled out locally as a training event and some think it is the answer to everything whilst others think it is a load of old b*ll*cks. Bit like rap I guess. [/quote] Ha ha, I can get down with this. Also with the yin and yang thing there must be an argument for being unfit, use of drink and drugs etc. Thinking about it some of the very best musicians were wreckheads! I'll stay on that side. You know, just to keep balance. I'll be the yang to the yin. Plus it's a bit easier, less sweating! I don't actually play upright either! so that makes it even easier!

I have made my decisions and voted! All good though!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1427447600' post='2730396'] Made In Japan was one of the first rock cassettes ( ) I ever heard (a friend had it when we went on holiday) and I love it but Machine head is right up there alongside it. But I have to say, the one ! go back to again and again, even now that I am a Jazz nazi, is 'Burn', one of the best rock anthems in the canon. (Rainbow Rising remains a favourite as well, for Airey and Powell as much as the rest) [/quote]Go to agree with that, i love Burn. There are some right tunes on it. Burn, Might Just take life, You fool no one, Lay down stay down. https://youtu.be/a58295TocB8 https://youtu.be/vXTopchIrNY

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1427390762' post='2729851'] Tommy Bolin anyone? 'ducks' [/quote]I actually like Bolin, maybe not the live album. plus his solo album is great!

to be honest i don't mind a bit of finger pain. It's tendon pain i dislike!

Phrase's or terms I dislike are We've ran out of booze! We've ran out of drugs! Now you have to pay her!

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1427095146' post='2725591'] I used to have one of those. Not one of 'those' you understand; mine was the full sized version (345 - that one is a 325). Bought in 1973 for £95 - they weren't that highly thought of at the time. Sold in 1990 for £1000. Dread to think what it might be worth now (made in 1964). I can turn this into a much longer story if anybody wants me to... [/quote]ha ha. Bravo sir!

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1426967974' post='2724291'] [i]"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth"[/i] - Marcus Aurelius [/quote]and that's a fact!

Ok so i said i wasn't gonna do this anymore but I have. I assume the pic is New York, if not ah well. New york evokes jazz, brass and grooves for me so I've knocked something together that i would be listening to in a taxi driving through New York. Here it is https://soundcloud.com/dreaded-ted/new-yoik

Or maybe it's xilldx seeking his revenge!

Or maybe it is Lowender!

I think we have a new Lowender! Remember him!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1426863325' post='2722885'] So pretty good then? [/quote] No. Ancient, obsolete and dusty!

Mythical Ethical Icicle Tricycle!

The Burd Turglars

we wrote a song about the standard of PA's in rehearsal rooms. It was called "Betamax PA"

The guitarist in my band runs a rehearsal/recording studio. This is the second one he has owned. His first one was full of good gear, had good rooms etc. he even had a cleaner who cleaned all the rooms. He set it up like this as he was fed up with sh*tty rehearsal spaces with sh*tty gear that he rehearsed in with bands. However, he quickly realised why. People treat your gear like sh*t. Bands not knowing hoe to use equipment properly. Blowing speakers channels, drum kits etc. He shut down that studio and opened a more modest one with more modest gear. Saved loads of money constantly getting stuff repaired and saved on rent.

[quote name='grumpyguts' timestamp='1426806493' post='2722322'] <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="left: -1000px; top: 8px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute;">&nbsp;</div> [/quote] I find this really enlightening!

When you do 'west end' stuff, I find the score is just for rehearsal purposes really. You get it in advance so it's a quick way to learn the material. On the gig it's just a guide really. You don't, well I don't, just sit there reading it and playing. You more or less know it at that point.

I am an absolute f***ing genius and modest to a fault!

God knows. I've never measured it in my life! I'm' like goldilocks. Not too high, not to low. I don't mind it being slightly different bass to bass.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1424877889' post='2701484'] Sure, when you record to tape you set the recording level, just like in digital recording. The difference is that whereas with digital you have a hard and absolute maximum level (0dBFs) which you cannot capture anything louder than at all (you just clip the input which sounds like arse) tape is truly analogue. As you raise the level on tape the peaks will encroach into an area above that which the tape can reproduce accurately, that is the maximum clean headroom of the medium. Instead of just crapping out at this point though you can keep pushing a bit more and rather tan sounding like arse the tape will saturate, there will be some distortion and a compression effect that sounds very very cool on a lot of sources, drums recorded hard onto tape is about as clasic a rock sound as you can imagine, but everyone in all pop genres used this technique. There wasn't a compressor for every channel in and some more for groups, and yet more for the 2 buss back in the day, but everything went to tape and you could use that to help you out both when tracking and when mixing down to 2 track, in both cases pushing the tape a little (effectively recording too hot for the cleanest reproduction) sounded better than clean did, more exciting, fatter with more impact and punch. Recording digitally you can not replicate this except with fx, unless you literally run your capture to tape and then run it back into your DAW (and yes there are studios that will do this for you if you send them your project file and wavs, its not cheap though because they'll be using big 2" 24 track machines and they cost a lot to maintain, not to mention the tape cost). If you want to get close there are several tape saturation plugins out there to play with, none of them is exactly like any specific brand of tape on any specific machine, but many of them can still give a reasonable facsimile. You can also roll your own if you want by chaining good saturation and compression plugins with the right settings, but its still not ever quite as nice as that fat tape sound (the grass was always greener over yonder blah blah). Of course tape has a tonne of issues that make it less good than digital (crosstalk, wow, flutter, head wear, tape wear, frequency response, dynamic range, sheer cost) but that sound of a great kit being pushed hard into tape is glorious [/quote] A couple of friends and I used to do this a lot a college in the mid to late 90's. We we were bang in to heavy rock at the time. We'd also have super gain gtrs then do it. We got some good results. Then the college got EU grants and built some digital studios and kept one 16 track analogue tape studio. The newer studios had great rooms, booths and equipment. We used to plead to let us take the tape machine out of the 16 and put it into the digi'd and do what you mentioned but they never would let us. Bloody Facists! Well that's what we called em at 18 everyone was a facist. we were all like Rik in the young ones haha

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1425682207' post='2709816'] Hey Nige....... Snap, I'm just listening to this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhHU_BZXSk[/media] So good. [/quote] [quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1425682605' post='2709821'] Ahh, I'm listening to them live at Java Jazz 2014. Damn hot sh*t! Will check your vid inna min. EDIT: [/quote] Got to admit i love this tune and i quite like snarky puppy. However, it sounds like 70's fusion just bigger. It also sounds like Korg synth demos. However, i still really like it. Great musicianship. Frightening!

After I come across something I usually lose interest!