From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #8 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 Thursday, January 12 2006 Volume 11 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Dolby raps! ["Paulo" ] Alloy: KATE BUSH ["Paulo" ] RE: Alloy: Back in the fold for a brief moment [l u ] Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V11 #6 ["Andy Venables" ] Re: Alloy: Hollywood bound [John McJunkin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:36:34 -0200 From: "Paulo" Subject: Alloy: Dolby raps! Mizmusic wrote: > Say, I just realized that I never thanked Robin, Paul and Paulo for their warm responses to my slightly tentative first post, so thank you all! :^) No need to thank Kara. I thought the subject of your post was very interesting really. Have a wonderful 2006! Let's pray we get something new from Thomas this year! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:38:20 -0200 From: "Paulo" Subject: Alloy: KATE BUSH Ian Gifford wrote: > Every track is a piece of art in my opinion. I agree, but concerning Kate Bush this is nothing new really. Her music has been fantastic since the 70's. I can't choose a favourite album, but THE DREAMING, NEVER FOR EVER, LIONHEART, KICK INSIDE and HOUNDS OF LOVE are (equally) top of the list. My least liked is THE RED SHOES. As usual, the new one is great. A CORAL ROOM is such a beautiful sad song written for the memory of her mother who died around the RED SHOES period. I think the second disc A SKY OF HONEY is more cohesive than the first one A SEA OF HONEY. My impression is that this album is a lot more uncommercial than ALL previous albums. I miss a bit pop things like RUNNING UP THAT HILL. But it is a great record, anyway. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:05:40 -0800 (PST) From: l u Subject: RE: Alloy: Back in the fold for a brief moment Man,.....RObin, I so know where you're coming from - it sooooo sucks not being able to go. What with moving house and such like, not a chance I can come,...so think of me stuck at home on my birthday while you guys are watching TMDR!! Grrr! But I'll be there in spirit with you all, and will be praying for an east coast or european date - currently my only chance to see Thomas play live (are you listening Thomas? - hint hint!!!!!) An of course, those of us who can't make it are expecting a full report, 'kay? :-) Enjoy guys, enviously yours, Lissu :-) - --- "Thurlow, Robin" wrote: > > Wish I could be there, guys! You're going to have > such a great time. > > No Dolby in NYC then..? > *sigh...* > > xxxx > ~robin Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:46:00 -0500 From: "Andy Venables" Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V11 #6 > The way an > overdub worked was the erase head on the tape deck (an electromagnet > that > erases the tape before it gets to the record head) was switched off > and a > new part would be recorded directly overtop of the old recording. Ah, happy memories. Back in my early teenage years I used that technique to insert DIY 'radio jingles' (for my own pretend radio station!) onto the tapes I'd made from recording the tracks I liked from the Top 40 on Radio 1 on a Sunday evening. There was always an inevitable word or two from the DJ talking over the end of the song (if I'd taped two in a row without having a chance to re-cue the tape) so I 'punched in' something to amuse me. I didn't have to sabotage the deck though, I put a small blob of 'blu-tack' over the erase head, with a bit of tissue paper on top of that - so the tape would still glide over it. It worked well! It really helped to have a deck with a good mechanical pause - one that pulled the pinch-roller away from the capstan to stop the tape moving (as well as stopping the take-up spool). You could then move the tape backwards and forwards over the head (and hear it) to cue things more accurately.. using something like a plastic cocktail stick to move the reels and wind the tape one way or the other. Ah what fun! My deck also used to play at double-speed when the play lever was only halfway down.. with practice you could record like this too.. making fast recordings that sounded hilariously slow when played back normally. My mates were very impressed with my loooooong fruity belches, LOL. Hey, I was young. Tape seems so archaic now, although whenever I dig some out and listen again it can still sound surpringly great (conditioned as I am to simply ignore hiss). I can't imagine what I'd have achieved back then with the abilities of today's typical PCs... send this thing back through time to me in the early 80s and wow! It would have been worth more than our house, back then! And this new key-ring sized mp3 player I've just bought.. over 150 tracks in an astonishingly small little device running of one AAA batttery!! If THAT had suddenly materialised in front of me back in 1981 (with appropriate TARDIS noise) I'd have probably fainted when I realised what it did, LOL. You simply wouldn't have thought it would be possible, back then :o) (as for 'home taping killing music', as a teenager there was only so much music I could afford, and even the most rabid execs of the RIAA would surely agree I've made up for it since ;o) And anything really worth having just HAD to bought, to have the track in good quality stereo rather than the mono FM we put up with for years *Sigh* Ah well, enough rambling to pass the time. Back to work... Andy But how would you sync your new track with the ones previously on the tape, if you can only play OR record at any one time? - -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:38:54 -0700 From: John McJunkin Subject: Re: Alloy: Hollywood bound I will also be at the Hollywood show, and my wife will be joining me for the Anaheim show. Keith--if it will save you any money, I'm more than happy to drive you back to the Maingate en route to my own hotel. I would invite you to join me for the journey up as well, but I will be spending the afternoon at Devo's studios on Sunset by invitation, and it would be presumptuous for me to bring someone along. I've never met the guys before, so I don't know how they'd react. I shan't be imbibing at all on Friday, but Saturday evening the venue is stumbling distance from the hotel at Disneyland, so all bets are off! Is anyone else excited out of their minds about this as I am? This is going to be simply brilliant! Cheers, John On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Keith Stansell wrote: > > It's official - I have a ticket to the Hollywood show as well. > > Count me in 1 for dinner. > > So - any suggestions on what to do to kill time in the Hollywood > area from 1 until dinner ? > > -Keith > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Abbitt" > > To: > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:41 PM > Subject: RE: Alloy: hi > > >> >> Dabbitt + 1 fiance for 1/27 Sunset dinner & show - add me to >> reservation >> pls. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of >> Monya De >> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:45 AM >> To: alloy@smoe.org >> Subject: Alloy: hi >> >> >> >> So I've been blindly posting from another email address and the msgs >> have not been getting to the digest! >> >> I'm compiling a roll call with show/dinner plans, please post what >> you're going to do. >> >> Monya- Sunset show +dinner, pls add me to reservation >> >> Monya +1 = Anaheim show, no dinner >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #8 **************************