Current Music:
Jan. 16th, 2003 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaBeen digging through the 40 gig MP3 bucket again. It's like having all your CDs in a thousand-disc changer. Fiddling with the physical silver objects is so, so, clunky and Victorian.
Currently playing the Spikes' Colour In A Black Forest. A good example of why '80s Australian indie rock bands STRODE THE EARTH LIKE THE GODS THEY WERE. Bands who knew what a bass guitar is for. Will we hear their like again? (Outside the confines of B-Movie or Australian equivalent.)
Needless to say, it's almost all long out of print. And not even the dribs and drabs ever released on CD can easily be found on the peer-to-peer cultural preservation networks. I so have to get my vinyl over here and rip the lot of it. So much of it is music that only exists on a thousand pieces of vinyl, the master tapes having long since been lost or dissolved into dust.
(I'm sure a lyrics quiz on this stuff is on the way. You Engrish can SUFFER. "I'm not an elephant/Or a kangaroo ...")
Oh, here's the Sunnyboys best-of. This one came out on a major (Mushroom) and happens to still be available. (Those two, of course, not necessarily coinciding.) Second half is pointless, but it's a cheapie (AUD$20) and the first several songs are well worth having.
More Kim Salmon. Oh yesss ...
I also have to scan what remains of my fanzine collection and put it up
somewhere. OCRing can follow in due course as researchers are interested. I
actually gave boxes and boxes of zines to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
missmilky to pick
over and donate the remainder to the West Australian state library before
I left Perth. Wonder if she got
them there ...
Must put more effort into Rocknerd too.
(I wanna start a band of record nerds. Hey, zotz, hirez, zoo_music_girl - I'll learn to play properly if
you do! The band will, of course, be called the New Puritans.)
Off work again today. This is really crap. I desperately hope to be fit for Deathboy tomorrow, though it's possible I may not be.
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Date: 2003-01-16 10:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 10:20 am (UTC)~folds arms, taps foot~ *ahem?*
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Date: 2003-01-16 10:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 10:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 10:35 am (UTC)Unless her point is to destroy them (I don't know the lady in question, or her music taste) in which case I can think of people we could *both* assault.
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Date: 2003-01-16 10:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 11:08 am (UTC)Well, I'll come and watch you, anyway. Assuming I haven't found a bunch of kids who can play boxes-which-go-bleep in the meantime.
It's not likely, really. ~sigh~ Oh, for a synthpop covers band...
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:17 am (UTC)2 Unlimited were my first choice of source material, but I can see it working with a lot of things...
(anyone with a really odd sense of humour and a modicum of guitar-playing ability is welcome to get in touch about this project, although as I'm based out of London it seems unlikely to go far. I'm a drummer, by the way)
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:28 am (UTC)That's a definite 'depending', though. For example, I would go and see a heavy metal 2 Unlimited covers band - I can actually picture it working. (In fact there's a band I saw recently who reminded me strongle of a heavy metal 2 Unlimited - honestly - but I probably shouldn't say that out loud...)
"Let the beat control your, er, hair." Right. ~giggles~
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Date: 2003-01-16 02:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 03:03 pm (UTC)Perhaps there's a bootleg out there somewhere...
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 10:28 am (UTC)Bass guitars are for letting uber-un-musical kitties like me at least have a shot at playing something.
Or Primus. If I were ever to grow up I'd want to be able to play Tommy the Cat on bass. And some bastard (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sbp) even bought me the sheet music, just to taunt me further.
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Date: 2003-01-16 10:51 am (UTC)*loads a P2P-CPC and goes in search*
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:05 am (UTC)Now, if only the open-source version of SoulSeek worked on a NATted connection ...
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:12 am (UTC)And culture preservation clients are the obvious counter-part. Cool... let's go preserve some culture, godamnit! :)
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 11:21 am (UTC)Culture Preservation Network feels snappier - more like a military designation, even if not particularly good English...
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 02:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 04:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-17 12:55 am (UTC)Though I'd say it's closer to the Apostrophe Protection Society. We need Bob The Angry Flower on our side too.
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:01 am (UTC)All the releases will be only on vinyl?
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 11:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 12:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 11:36 am (UTC)Or, I could before the arthritis set in.
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Date: 2003-01-16 11:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 01:51 pm (UTC)It can be the name for even-more-incognito gigs, okay. By the way, can you play anything?
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Date: 2003-01-16 02:11 pm (UTC)But if you're talking about anything harder than Teenage Kicks, then I'd need a long run-up.
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Date: 2003-01-17 04:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-16 12:28 pm (UTC)I saw his pulse rate goin' down,
I saw his limbs all thrashin' round.
I saw him in convulsive throes,
I said "I'll have one of those!"
Too right...
guess who
Date: 2003-01-16 03:14 pm (UTC)Hey and you linked to my Blood, Suits and Bass Guitars article! Yay me! Thanks for that. :) Did you see how n4cat described me on acg yesterday, btw? "Walking database of all things musical and she's got boobs too". Heh.
Hope you're feeling better soon.
l,
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Re: guess who
Date: 2003-01-16 04:12 pm (UTC)('tis Daniel H. T. BTW)
Re: guess who
Date: 2003-01-16 05:58 pm (UTC)You should get a LJ too :P
Never! This thing is killing our Usenet! It should burn! *BURN!!*
Seriously, no. :) I don't want one.
('tis Daniel H. T. BTW)
Yeah, I know who kraant is. :)
b.
Re: guess who
Date: 2003-01-17 01:00 am (UTC)It didn't kill Usenet for me. What I write seems to be better suited to this format, and gets a response I'm more interested in here.
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Date: 2003-01-17 05:30 am (UTC)no hope for me. I can just about play bass guitar, but I don't own one. And hey, anyone can play bass.
K.
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Date: 2003-01-17 07:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-17 07:39 am (UTC)