september theme ... GOSSIP

[Beardedone]

OK they have CB on Amazon

[emdot_ambient]

...Keep in mind that my mom and dad's idea of cool music was Burl Ives, the Sons of the Pioneers, etc., so I didn't have a real wide exposure to any music of interest while growing up.

My parents had that stuff, too. Along with Mitch Miller. Those two are the reason I still refuse to believe that goatees are cool.

But Dad also had a lot of Herb Albert albums. The album Whipped Cream taught me that I am completely heterosexual

That see, I jumped from Herb to Jethro Tull, Yes, ELP to Pink Floyd to Vangelis, Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Kraftwerk. So, Captain and Tenille is NOT the only outcome of a Burl Ives upbringing

[Wopelka]

Try before you buy

If there is a legal way to do that.

there is a legal way

[Beardedone]

Thanks Wopelka! Got it. Not too sure about the music though

[Scoops]

First off,
I would like to thank all that have responded in a positive nature to my submission this month. I like to thank each and every one individually, but I have been busy with my life, and things slipped away a bit. So again, Thanks all.

And then,

Nice background loop and great production - sometimes the bass gets a little overpowering, but it doesn't take too much attention attention from the dialog or get stale during the span of the piece. It's a strange concept particularly funny with the vocoder and lusty she-moan samples, though some of the humor as well as the connection too Moog missed me. But it's good fun and I'm glad you entered it.

Thanks for your kind words, I'm Glad you liked it.
Just for clarification, my piece was developed to demonstrate the possibilities Bob has provided us through the electronic medium, not necessarily try to make to sound like a "Moog" tune. The tune itself has one loop. Thats with the drum beat. There is very little repition of anything else, with the exception of one of the phone ringings, and the return to the root in the ambient. The ambient (which includes the LFO/bass line) is 4 differnt synthesizers inside Reaktor. I have Reaktor playing a 12 tone tone row. Each occurance of a tone in the row has an accompaning root note that remains the same through the composition, which is prolly why it sounds like a loop.
As far as the humor is concerned, some of it is purely American, some of it is personal, and some of it is just plain fun. None of it really has any direct connection to Moog. Overall, it was me just having a little fun with the synths. After all, what does a blues guitarist know about this stuff anyway.
But again, TYVM!!!!

Scoops

[You™]

I must somehow miss my email notification from KVR every now and then because I repeatedly find myself seeing I thread to which I subscribed active over in the "Recent Posts" column and then have to quickly read through several pages to catch up. I was beginning to think all the traffic over on this thread had migrated to the REVIEW pages or the Relief CD threads and then, Bam! You all are talking about Herb Alpert.

How do you post pictures btw? I have completely forgotten.

Gordon you can link any picture on the web by wrapping the URL for it with tags that say afterward. No spaces though. LIke this:

Take out the spaces and you get:


@Ezy Ryder: I have tapes (tapes!) and at least one self-produced vinyl LP of me and my friends bashing around making our unholy racket. You've easily mastered several things we did not: timing, tuning and modest song lengths. Love the quote in your sig. BTW.

@Scoops, Thanks for the followup info. I meant to mention the "Are you ready for some football?" reference. That was just bizarre. Wasn't that originally a Hank Williams Jr. song co-opted by the NFL? I think so. Something about your handling of that and the moaning girl at the end made me think there was more to this than meets the eye. So don't spoil the illusion with too much technical explanation.

[Wopelka]

( I did start another track but didn't get past the intro... DJ Glooper )

so not only have you kept for yourself one of our finest singer, Remco, for a killer track, you were about to collaborate with DJ Shadow! MOOOOOO

[Beardedone]

Thanks George. I'll try again. I must of missed something.

[Glooper]

( I did start another track but didn't get past the intro... DJ Glooper )

so not only have you kept for yourself one of our finest singer, Remco, for a killer track, you were about to collaborate with DJ Shadow! MOOOOOO

can you guess who the mystery voice is though?...

Ben

[You™]

[police siren]

ok what's the point to have a clean Review thread?!

Busted. Sorry, man. I got carried away and forgot which thread I was in. I agree with Andreas, putting everything in one thread was easier for me to manage.

@emdot_ambient: I was serious about the capes. I think its what the world needs right now. There's too many skinny shaved-head bike shorts wearin' dour-faced electronic acts. I say we kick their asses and prance on their virtual analog synths with our 5' rhinestone boots. Proglamtronica Rules!

[Wopelka]

( I did start another track but didn't get past the intro... DJ Glooper )

so not only have you kept for yourself one of our finest singer, Remco, for a killer track, you were about to collaborate with DJ Shadow! MOOOOOO

can you guess who the mystery voice is though?...

Ben

the MOOO voice? i guessed it was you. if it's not, i'll have to hear it again.

[Glooper]

( I did start another track but didn't get past the intro... DJ Glooper )

so not only have you kept for yourself one of our finest singer, Remco, for a killer track, you were about to collaborate with DJ Shadow! MOOOOOO

can you guess who the mystery voice is though?...

Ben

the MOOO voice? i guessed it was you. if it's not, i'll have to hear it again.

It's not me... but it is a KVR member...

Ben

[You™]

( I did start another track but didn't get past the intro... DJ Glooper )

so not only have you kept for yourself one of our finest singer, Remco, for a killer track, you were about to collaborate with DJ Shadow! MOOOOOO

can you guess who the mystery voice is though?...

Ben

the MOOO voice? i guessed it was you. if it's not, i'll have to hear it again.

It's not me... but it is a KVR member...

Ben

Oh he's very butch!

[emdot_ambient]

@emdot_ambient: I was serious about the capes...I say we kick their asses and prance on their virtual analog synths with our 5' rhinestone boots. Proglamtronica Rules!

Wow, that's a great name for a prog revivalist group:

Proglamtronica

As long as I can play a grand piano that's wired to do filps on stage, I'm in!

Hmm, I'll need to get a wig, though.

[emdot_ambient]

More than this: At the end of their (ELP) concerts Emerson often battered his keyboards with a knife. But nevertheless he was (is?) an excellent keyboard player (and composer/arranger) (emdot_ambient, do you read this? ) who got chosen by several magazines as best keyboard player over many years.

I like to rag on ELP, and feel I've got the right, since I was a HUGE fan of theirs all through the '70's. But I grew out of it Hell, I even used to like Triumvirat, a blatant ELP sound-alike trio from Germany.

Oh, and those magazine things you mention . . . Keyboard magazine used to be the only synth related commercial magazine in the states. Emerson always got his boots licked in that mag, but most of those awards were reader polls. So they were really just big popularity contests. I even participated in them as a young lad, usually voting for the cape <<ahem>> Rick Wakeman over Emerson, 'cause Wakeman, for all his pretense, was way less of a grandstander. He didn't mook it up like some metal guitarist and jump around and all that crap. He just stood there in his long hair and long cape looking wizardly.

Funny what tweeks a teenager's fancy, innit?

But in the long run, I still much prefer Wakeman's work with Yes than Emerson's work with ELP. I ended up feeling that his keyboard parts were all about showing off his technical prowess, rather than making good music. He had his moments but Wakeman's work within the Yes framework was more consistently about enhancing the songs rather than drawing attention to himself.

IMHO, of course. Anyone else's opinion is as valid.