I discovered my new delay/looping pedal can do continuous notes. No gaps! My old pedal (which admittedly wasn’t so hot) couldn’t do this. I didn’t think my new one could do it either, until I accidentally did the following:
Start a loop, but don’t actually play anything
Play a note with the guitar’s volume all the way down
Slowly fade the volume back up
Repeat steps 2–3 as necessary
????
SPACE ROCK!
At some point I should really make a video of this process, so I can put it on youtube and have everyone say that it’s FAKE. Yeah, about that: see below!
So far my output has been really quiet for some reason
And I have really bad line noise coming from somewhere (shitty cables?)
Distortion makes the bad line noise even worse, so no bowel-shaking drone metal just yet
NOTE, FROM THE FUTURE: Here is a totally FAKE video I made:
ANOTHER NOTE, ALSO FROM THE FUTURE: The line noise/quiet output only seems to be a problem with headphone rockin’ (which is a problem in many other ways). I’ve been playing through an amp, really loudly, and the output’s been fine. The line noise is about what you’d expect when you also have a billion other pedals, so no complaints here.
I keep forgetting to do this list, but this is one of those weird phenomena that I have noticed. Say there is a band you like. No, not them, that other one. Similar names are the death of me, especially when I love one band and hate the other. I spent years of my life not liking Chavez, because I saw a video by Gomez (which I hated), and the names were permanently mixed up in my mind.
SOOOOO, in no particular order (except alphabetical), and varying levels of similarity…
The Arcade Fire / The Fiery Furnaces
Black Dice / Black Lips / The Black Keys
Cake / Cake-Like
Chavez / Gomez
Codeine / Morphine
Deerhoof / Deerhunter
Del Fuegos / Del Lords
fIREHOSE / Firehouse
Fucked Up / Holy Fuck (and they’re both from fuckin’ Toronto, fuck!)
Garth Brooks / Brooks & Dunn
Jawbox / Jawbreaker
The Mars Volta / Volta Do Mar
Mew / Muse
Modest Mouse / Mouse on Mars
Múm (from Iceland) / Mum (NOT from Iceland)
OMD / OMC
Panda Bear (from Animal Collective) / Grizzly Bear (not from Animal Collective)
Polara / Polaris
Stroke 9 / The Strokes
Super Furry Animals / Animal Collective
Supergrass / Superdrag
Television / Telephone
The Verve / The Verve Pipe
The Vines / The Shins
Wolf Eyes / Wolf Parade / Wolfmother / Wolf Balls (ok I made that last one up, but it’s only a matter of time)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Hot Hot Heat / !!!
Honorable mention: the seven hundred or so bands during the 80s that had all one word names that started with a C.
BONUS ROUND: XTC album “Black Sea” / X album “Under the Big Black Sun”
It seems like there were more, but my memory is terrible—which is why I am always mixing these groups up in my head to begin with.
Today I finally got my money’s worth from the all-day Saturday pass ($2 for unlimited bus rides).
20 Red South: downtown to campus, for pizza and witnessing whimsical conveyances
100 Yellow South: campus to Savoy, for the viewing of latest “talkie” film involving masked adventurers
100 Yellow North: Savoy to Target (this is practically the entire length of this route, from the southernmost to northernmost and took about an hour)
20 Red South (again): back to downtown
50 Green East: downtown to easternmost edge of Urbana, ostensibly for more grocery shopping but mainly I was engrossed in my reading material and kind of aimless
50 Green West: back home (downtown)
NEVER DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN
Actually, I had an idea once, when I was driving all up and down the Olympic Peninsula. I’d be out in the middle of nowhere, and there’d be a bus stop sign there. Western Washington has a whole mess of different local, county, and community bus systems, so I wanted to see how far I could get, starting in downtown Seattle. I could get pretty far into the Peninsula, for sure, and heading north and east I could probably get close to the Cascades.
Due to the weakening economy (don’t say the “R” word!) many currencies have lost their value. A year ago, your problems could fetch as much as two shits. Today, I can barely give half a shit (0.47shit, to be exact). Also affected: damns, tinkers’ damns, hoots (in hell or otherwise), figs, flips, fugs, fucks, flying fucks, craps, tosses, a good goddamn (devalued to just a mediocre goddamn), and many more that I couldn’t find on google but probably exist even though they’re not Avril or Eminem songs. Anyway, the currency hardest hit has to be the poor rat. Lately I find I cannot even give a rat’s ass for the concerns and issues of the day.
And now, a favorite album for each year I have been alive on the earth planet:
1972: Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
1973: Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
1974: King Crimson – Red
1975: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
1976: Joni Mitchell – Hejira
1977: Television – Marquee Moon
1978: The Jam – All Mod Cons
1979: Talking Heads – Fear of Music
1980: The Pretenders – s/t
1981: The Cure – Faith
1982: X – Under the Big Black Sun
1983: U2 – War
1984: The Replacements – Let it Be
1985: R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction
1986: Metallica – Master of Puppets
1987: Guadalcanal Diary – 2×4
1988: The Church – Starfish
1989: Pixies – Doolittle
1990: Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
1991: Slint – Spiderland
1992: Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
1993: Girls Against Boys – Venus Luxure No.1 Baby
1994: Rodan – Rusty
1995: Hum – You’d Prefer an Astronaut
1996: Failure – Fantastic Planet
1997: Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1998: Don Caballero – What Burns Never Returns
1999: Trans Am – Futureworld
2000: Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One
2001: Les Savy Fav – Go Forth
2002: Ms. John Soda – No P or D
2003: The Sea and Cake – One Bedroom
2004: Laura Veirs – Carbon Glacier
2005: Kylesa – To Walk a Middle Course
2006: Mastodon – Blood Mountain
2007: Baroness – Red Album
2008: Boris – SMILE
2009: Baroness – Blue Record / Polvo – In Prism (I CAN’T DECIDE)
2010: ????
NOTES:
1977 and 1984 (and even 2009) were banner years for good rock, which made it hard to pick just one.
1991 was no contest, but there were a few trying for “close second”.
If I were even older, 1966 would have been another such year.
I recycled this post from my el-jay, just because.
