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Yeah I think the fuzzy bits are just tremolo picked but the last chord is either chorus or possibly a phaser. I don’t think it’s tremolo because… well, it just isn’t <img> Actually, it might be. Just use any of those modulation effects with the rate turned up and you’ll probably get close.
<small>[ 03-04-2002, 08:22 AM: Message edited by: JimmydaFuzz ]</small>
does the black big muff actualy have different electrics from the normal silver one, or is it just a casing thing?
Tao dude, I wish I had it so easy. Y’see, I too was a user- I had the flange, the modulators, envelope filters, the whole thing… I thought I was ridin’ high, flickin’ the fish, slappin’ the beef, but it got too much for me. One by one, all my fellow fuzz addicts started to fall away… some died, some went mad or blind, and some even started listening to Leonard Cohen. LEONARD COHEN, man, that was a tough time. I didn’t get the easy way out, though, oh no. See we don’t have none of that advance medical technology here in Dingle town, no sir. They just locked me in a room and told me to get on with it. I had the full shit, man- the burning in the ears, continuous mental feedback swirling in my wah-wah glands… then one day it just stopped. It didn’t leave me, I still knew the fuzz was there for me but I had control of it. I had an epiphany concerning a snail and a small pot of jam… long stry, very sticky.
I just hope peopel such as ourselves can serve as an example to the fuzz-using youth of today. You have the technology, now you must learn how to use it. Stay in school. Stay cool like the cool man says.
Aw, don’t yo be talkin’ bout ma mama. Ma mama didn’t RAISE no goofy stitch-men in yo beef truck.
Now ya best run else I be findin’ mah redskin chickenfish supreme. Served on a SPADE, fool.<img> ON A SPADE <img>
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<img>I din’t think ther’s much I can say here that hasn’t already been said. Anyone who considers themselves "better" or superior in any way to anyone else is just generally wrong. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions etc etc I can’t be arsed to go into full rant mode so I’ll mosey off and mumble to myself for a while, eating chalk pastels and professing myself to be the true ruler of Dingustown, BO
You may or may not have read this one (answers on a postcard etc if you know where its from)
I’ll post something of my own later in the week….There was a young man from Japan…
Just Kidding <img>
It’s a Raymond Chandler evening
At the end of someone’s day
I’m standing in my pocket
And I’m slowly turning greyI remember what I told you
But I can’t remember why
And the yellow leaves are falling
In a spiral from the skyThere’s a body on the railings
That I can’t identify
And I’d like to reassure you
But I’m not that kind of guyIt’s a Raymond Chandler evening
And the pavements are all wet
And I’m waiting in the shadows
Because it hasn’t happened……yet.
And here’s one from our friend Mr. Waits…
The Ocean doesn’t want me today
But I’ll be back tomorrow to play
And the strangles will take me
Down deep in their brine
The mischievous braingels
Down into the endless blue wine
I’ll open my head and let out
All of my time
I’d love to go drowning
And to stay and to stay
But the ocean doesn’t want me today
I’ll go in up to here
It can’t possibly hurt
All they will find is my beer
and my shirt
A rip tide is raging
And the life guard is away
But the ocean…
The Ocean doesn’t want me todaySoundgarden: taken from a piece of art they saw standing in a town square somewhere
Smashing Pumpkins: just the dumbest jokey name they could think of
Metallica: a name a friend of Lars Ulrich came up with. Also the name of a magazine around the same time.
NickelBack: one of the members ( I forget which) worked in a Starbucks or some similar place, where the most popular coffe cost $1.95. People would always pay $2 so he’d always have to give them five cents (a nickel) back.
Dave Matthews Band: Duuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrr….. <img>
my two cents….
there’s no denying Nirvana’s musical potency- bleach and nevermind are still two of the best modern punk/rock albums of the past ten years (christ, it’s more than that now…) but Kurt never honestly did or wrote anything that hadn’t been done before, by the Stooges, the Pixies, the Sex Pistols or whoever… even Teen Spirit had nothing to say that Anarchy in the UK hadn’t asserted 20 years previously, Kurt was just fortunate (or perhaps unfortunate) enough to hit on the exact right time to come out with an updated version for the youth of the early 90s who had nothing to latch on to but makeup-wearing spandex monkeys swapping hairspray tips over wank-infested guitar solos. I have to say that even when he died it had no huge affect on me (although strangely enough I was only a few miles away over the border in Vancouver at the time).
Let’s face it, anyone can bash out power chords and scream, but it does take a certain charisma to become the figurehead of an entire generation. If Kurt hadn’t died when he did, his lack of real musical variation would have meant he’d just have become increasingly boring (I even find it hard to this day to remember individual tracks off of In Utero), until he would eventually be forgotten.
One could even present the opinion that Nirvana, though important, was a bad influence on the next musical generation. Just think: these days we have a million bands playing nothing but heavily distorted power chords and screaming at the top of their lungs, thinking it’s okay to not be able to play your instrument properly because "Kurt did it, so we should too".Yeah it’s more or less legal for medical purposes here but there’s only about 7 people or something who’ve actually got clearance for it, although recently it became… not legalised exactly but decriminalised, meaning you can’t actually be arrested or prosecuted for being caught with it on your person (or yourself for that matter <img> ) I think they can only confiscate it then give you a warning or a court summons or something.
To be honest, I hope it doesn’t get legalised. Then you’ll have the government charging £30 a J or whatever and filling it out with, like, seaweed or something to pad it out more <img>Whoa, that’s a lotta reading for quarter past midnight <img>
I think I’d rather just get wasted and not know the theory behind it all <img>
That’s not to say I’m uninterested in spirituality etc, but I don’t think it needs to be related to LSD / hallucinogenics in any way
<small>[ 02-27-2002, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: JimmydaFuzz ]</small>
Yeah I hear one of them (Alice) is to do in some way with another musical or something he was involved in?
PS on the jazz subject, di you ever listen to Blood on the Fields (Wynton Marsalis)? Everyone I know says they find it unlistenable but I find it kind of wierdly makes sense… maybe I’m just crazy <img>
This is too good- more Waits fans! I just got Mule Variations recently, then went back to Bone Machine, and next I’m going for the Swordfishtrombones – Frank’s Wild Years – Rain Dogs trilogy. If that guy ever clears his throat, his career’s over.
Hey- somebody who actually knows who John Coltrane is… this is getting freakier by the minute, I swear. I’ve been trying to listen to A Love Supreme recently, but it just doesn’t seem as accessible…On the subject of that Garbage riff, I’m not sure now whether it’s Garbage or Pearl Jam… It sounds kinda like a cross between "Supervixen" and the start of "Nothing as it Seems"… might even be a Skunk Anansie thing…. <img> AAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH <img> I just know it’s never gonna get out my head until I work out what it is….
Don’t speak to me about Li*nel R*tch*e. Just don’t.
You guys listen to some cool stuff. I have loads of stuff playing in my head all the time, but recently it’s been
Tom Waits: Black Wings & I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Dino J: Show me the Way (damn that’s catchy)
Al Green: How Can You mend a Broken Heart
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) *NB: This one practically never leaves me*plus some riff that won’t go away… I think it’s the intro to a Garbage song but I can’t be sure… <img> hate it when that happens <img>
