From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #133 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, May 26 2001 Volume 06 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Life as a looser in the suburbs of 1980s Surrey ....oh dear!!! ["] Re: Alloy: Life as a looser in the suburbs of 1980s Surrey ....oh dear!!! [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: Re: TIME IS RUNNING OUT ["Robin Thurlow" Subject: Alloy: Life as a looser in the suburbs of 1980s Surrey ....oh dear!!! Hi, I think the Westchester thruway is featured in the film 'Being John Malkovitch'. Which I thought was a great film - something really odd and different. It's got a sign saying Westchester thruway on top of the entrance.... I really loved the FES web page Thomas remembers... Especially about the songs airwaves and flying north and spandau ballet. I once saw SB in concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I was right at the top with my girlfriend Rachel and the accoustics were truely woeful. The drummer would smash the snare drum and then we'd get about six beats as if the thing had gone through a AMS delay line ( probably had ) or was it the mushrooms....? No not those sort of mushrooms....... The ones they stuck on the roof of the Albert hall to deflect the accoustics..... They might smooth it for the last night of the Proms but they could'nt cope with the sonic truth that was a sweat soaked tony hadley in full flow. Accoustically it was like a mess, but as a piece of rock and roll history it was memorably kitch. My girlfriend and I were quite appauled at how many of the songs we recognised and even sang along with. We really enjoyed ourselves ! Later we would try to justify our gig on the not very sustainable grounds that it was credible to see such bands at the height of their powers and thus at the time just when everybody else was saying they were 'out' and no longer 'in'. If it was uncool to seem them - what better reason or timing. Later still I once saw Gary Glitter put on an even more camp performance of absolutely outragious swagger and poise, in a run down theatre on the outskirts of Bournemouth. A few years ago I heard he had been locked up for indecent pictures of children on his PC. The sad truth was that it had been Game over for Gary many years earlier. I wonder why some acts die? and others like Hawkwind, Quo, the stones and Sisters of Mercy......have the dracular ability to remain immortal. I reckon its because they can't become car salesmen or work for an insurance company. The journalist GILES SMITH once wrote about STING..... "Whats he do when hes not actually being sting" ? "I reckon he mucks about" and I think that probably just about sums it up. There are three routes through Pop music........ Sting Dolby Glitter Thats if you get lucky enough to take part. My rock and roll lifestyle aspirations has left me with boxes full of sticky cassette tape with things written in fading biro like "Mark Tim and Pete in Concert - and then further up the box rather sadly in less confident writing - "at Marks House" .......... I reckon thats why all british boys like the DJ John Peel because he represented hope. The chance that one day 'The Heard of Terrapins playing Dwarf Pigs" might actually get aired to an unsuspecting public beyond Bookham Youth centre and Bookham Baptist church hall. ( Ive got some dreadfull photos somewhere including one I subsequently had blown up poster size!) This is why I was filled with admiration for Thomas Dolby when he said recently he was all in favour of 'the democratisation' of the music industry. If only the internet had existed when we formed the terrapins - we might never have actually had to learn how to ahem 'play' our instruments! [God we were crap - but we loved it]. Hurry up with 'the democratisation' of the music industry Thomas!! Tim. {Official candidate for musical democracy for terrible musicians having fun party). I'll do another geographical analysis of a TMDR album this weekend..probably TGAOW......its certainly a silly idea! [you can say that again - whatever next a 'vegetable' analysis - list of vegetables mentined etc....?] I'm going mad here..... Keep up the reminiscing section on the FES site Tom - its great to share these thoughts and memories of yours. Have a good weekend everyone. - -- Tim Hudson tim_hudson@zdnetonebox.com - email ___________________________________________________________________ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:32:10 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Re: Alloy: Life as a looser in the suburbs of 1980s Surrey ....oh dear!!! Tim Hudson wrote: > I'll do another geographical analysis of a TMDR album this weekend..probably > TGAOW......its certainly a silly idea! The first one was such great fun to read... I look forward to the next. You write in a very engaging tone & I really enjoy reading your analyses and posts. > Keep up the reminiscing section on the FES site Tom - its great to share > these thoughts and memories of yours. Hear, hear!! More memories please, Thomas! :) xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 08:50:54 -0500 From: "Krzysko, Bill" Subject: Alloy: OT-- A Question for the Alloy TechFolk There is a program you can get here http://www.jumbo.com/mm/files.asp?x_fileid=151519&S=12967&ord=&mv=8 that should do the job for you. You will need a patch cord to go from your tape player to the line input on your sound card. (There are probably 3 jacks on the sound card, Output, Line In, and Microphone In. Make sure you use Line In.) One end will be a stereo plug that looks like the headphone jack for a walkman, the other end depends on the outputs of the tape player. You should be able to find whatever kind you need at Radio Shack. Once your hooked up, you will need to set the levels for recording, Turn on the tape player, hit play, then hit record on the software. I think you want the loudest parts on the tape to hit the 0 mark on the VU meter. It will take some trial and error, but once it is set, you can let the tape play, and it will be recorded to disk in .WAV format. Most if not all of the current CD writer software will let you burn a .WAV file directly to an audio CD. If you want, you can also get a program that will convert the .WAV file to and MP3 file. This will save lots of space on your hard disk. Most CD software will burn to Cd from a MP3 as well. If this doesnt' make sense, let me know, I will try to explain better. I've done this with quite a few tapes, and it works well for me. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Merujo Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 9:26 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Re: Alloy: A Question for the Alloy TechFolk "Krzysko, Bill" wrote: > How long is the recording? If you have a windows machine, and a sound card, > and enough disk space, you should be able to do this. I will try to find the > name of a freeware program that will do this for you. Thanks, Bill. It's probably about 20-25 minutes long. I don't have that much loaded onto my computer, so disk space shouldn't be an issue. Win95 and soundcard. Muchas gracias. - - Melissa ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 2001 18:55:15 -0000 From: "doughboy" Subject: Alloy: Re: TIME IS RUNNING OUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT. I DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF A NEW THOMAS DOLBY ALBUM, OR I WILL COMMENCE MY HUNGER STRIKE. ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Private, Free Email Account at http://www.dotcomemail.com Now With Over 1,500 Com, Net, and Org Domains to Choose From! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:03:13 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: TIME IS RUNNING OUT sorry to hear that... Best of luck Doughboy (imagining a very skinny doughboy indeed..!) xx ~r ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #133 ***************************