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Argh argh full band practice on Sunday panicpanicpanic.
To elaborate on that slightly, potential bandmate from Reading is back from his sojourn in Canada and is trying to organise a full band practice on Sunday, presumably so I can meet/play with the rest of the band. As this is the first time I've played with a whole band in months and months, I think I'm understandably having a touch of the vapours. Add to that the fact that my finger has a big old cut across the top (I have eczema and thus my skin cracks really easily) which makes it hard to play bass and I'm doing a little shit, figuratively speaking. Also I do feel I will be judged behind my back, but I don't want to indulge my neuroses in here (neuroses? In popular music? I never heard of such a thing!).
In other news I'm quite excited about potential doom-o-project (no. 5 from last time, if anyone's keeping up): the other member suggested using as a rhythm section a guitar pedal called a Total Sonic Annihilation, whose basic function is to make a fuckton of crazy noise. Once The Quatermass Experiment got it to sound like a hyperactive duck, but I don't remember how. This has also given me the idea to get a cheap old synth - the ones that can't replicate any instrument sound - and put it through pedals until it creates a massive wall of noise. You may be able to tell I'm quite into doing this sort of thing.
This leads me nicely onto thought I've been having of late about my "band ambitions". As far as I can tell, I only have three real goals for any band that I'm in, listed in rough order of importance below:
1. Play at ATP, possibly the UK's best festival (and home of more alternative/underground stuff)
2. Get a positive write-up on Pitchforkmedia, spiritual home of hipsters everywhere.
3. Play at Supersonic, a crazy experimental festival held in Birmingham which really does feature a lot of insane, weird bands. I almost went last year and wish I had, because I don't recognise very many bands on this year's line-up.
My ultimate ambition is to be one of those guys who's in lots of bands and seems have fingers in many musical pies - a sort of "figure" of a scene, if you will, perhaps in the vein of someone like Mike Patton. As I say that's my ultimate aim but let's not run before we have legs, eh?
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I approve of synthesizers that just sound like synthesizers. It was one of the main problems with Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus.
The other problem is that it exists.
Verify word: pophiliz
The trouble is that my budget doesn't allow for a synthesizer that sounds like anything other than a cheap piece of crap.
As you have suggested earlier, you can do tons of shit to it later with post-production. In digital music there's pretty much no such thing as a bad take - everything can be used again, just not necessarily in the same way (or in the same project) that you intended.
Verification words on your blog are awesome. This one is "Splights".
The trouble is that I have no-one to teach me how to do fancy electronic things (hint hint).
Did I really suggest that earlier? You know my blog better than I do evidently.
There are so many ways. I wonder where to begin. Probably shouldn't start with Ableton. Maybe with Acid Xpress (and maybe some trackers!).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker
Trackers are proper old fashioned now, but I still sometimes give em a spin.
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