Gilby

Hi all, don't post very often, ( I'm probably better known as Mr LyndseyG I suppose ) but I have a question.

Today I learnt that a thirty second advert during the Super Bowl costs four million dollars. Surely any company that can afford that fee is successful enough not to really need that advertising.

Now I don't know who advertises during the event, I'm guessing beer brands, coca cola are likely suspects.

Would a charitable donation to a similar figure be more appropriate? After all, I'd personally be more impressed if money I spent on their product went to a good cause rather than thirty seconds of airtime I'll probably be paying no attention to. I'll be either getting a brew, having a pee or debating the game during that break so the adverts are pretty irrelevant.

(Out of interest, I would like to know who the advertisers are).

Stroke of genius even if I do say so myself !

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Hi all, (mr Lyndsey G here).

Can't do links but there's a five part interview on music radar on the recording of c.a.

Just google music radar geddy part 1 (2,3 etc)

There's also a written interview with nick, the producer.

Sorry if it's already been posted but Lyndsey wasn't aware of it so I thought I'd actually make a post on the forum.

After careful consideration........

 

Never Enough

Great expectations

C'mon everybody

Plethora

I was really into the Ozrics throughout the nineties and have kinda lost touch with what's going on.( Tbh it's since I stopped smoking the herb ). Really need to catch up with the last three or four albums.

Seen them many times, small clubs, festivals and their legendary allnighters which had some great line ups. Through the Ozrics I got to see eat static (obviously), system 7 with Steve hillidge, gong, senser (highly recommende and recently reformed) the levellers, fun da mental, oh alsorts of bands.

Very happy days indeed.

I do remember reading a review of a show many years back in kerrang magazine. It was basically this, "grass grass grass, I thought I was in a meadow. The ozric tentacles are the ostrich testicles, see them now !"

 

(another offshoot, sort off if you can find it is Seaweeds earlier band "the thunderdogs-thundermental. Hmm, punky-ish, levellers meet the ozric without the folk influence. Top track, the LSD conspiracy).

 

Oh man, just looked up if they're touring (no ) but got linked to other gigs. Banco de Gaia still going !!! That takes me bank some. (yea did I enjoy the ambience thing).

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The mrs, LyndsyG and myself were discussing great album titles.

Not neccesarily bands you are into, just titles that catch your eye of just prod your curiosity enough to investigate the band further.

So I've got my top album titles lined up.

 

Modern life is rubbish - Blur

The correct use of soap - magazine

Stop making sense - talking heads

Press the eject and give me the cassette - Bauhaus

 

Come on people, what are your fave album titles

Tbh I've not spent a great deal off time with TD but am a big Ozrics fan so maybe a biased vote. Did try to get into TD but found the Ozrics a bit more "organic" but that may be the guitarist in me. I do enjoy Hawkwind a lot to so theres a common link with preference in tripy music.

 

(besides, a band that's named after an imaginary breakfast cereal, that's way to cool)

Cheers all.

Shoe gazer telecaster ? Not if you stick the right pickups in it.

 

0.58 onwards

 

 

Still doing using it to. Pretty sure he was involved in it's creation. (I think one derivative is called a "soul kiss" but I may be wrong.

 

Just want a little feedback on this one.

I play a bit of guitar and have both an electric and acoustic. The problem I have is that living on a narrowboat in the uk, we have no mains electric. I use a vox battery amp (dac5 I think) which is a great bit of kit.

I have the opportunity of a bass on a sort of permanent loan. It's a squire precision and lives in my brothers attic. Using it just for some noodling, do you guys think it would be ok through the little vox guitar amp? Had a look for bass practice amps and have yet to find one that can be battery powered. I could power one through an inverter from the boats battery banks but would rather not add more consumption to our domestic supply.

I know the bottom line is to suck it and see but obviously would rather not kill the vox.

Any advice would be gratefully welcomed.

Just to add to the usual suspects (Gilmore, Page, etc )

 

Steve Rothery of Marillion

Ed Wynne of the ozric tentacles

John McGeogh during his magazine and siouxsie and the banshees days.

Had to do this when LyndsyG and I bought the narrowboat to live on. Problem I have with the music is I want to physically own it, not have a file that could corrupt. (does this make sense, buy an album rather than Itune it).

What we did is loose the cases for album for all the CDs and DVDs and put them in folders.

The big problem is the one hundred plus audio tapes I've been hoarding. Would free up some space and there is some embarrassing big hair eighties rock going on in that lot!

QUOTE (treeduck @ Jun 25 2011, 12:32 PM)

QUOTE (ColdFireYYZ @ Jun 25 2011, 12:25 PM) The only jam bands I really listen to are The Allman Brothers and Gov't Mule. Both are great, and the Allman Brothers are one of my all time favorites. I can't get into the Grateful Dead though. I've tried listening to live shows on XM, but I don't really get the appeal. Try Ozric Tentacles, they're a bit too complicated to simply call them a jam band I think, but they're certainly in that ball park...   Ozrics earlier stuff were definatley Jammed but you are quite right in saying that they are far to composed to be considered as a jam band. Have a lot of difficulty deciding which style I prefer. At the moment I've been pretty much listening the Spice Doubt album exclusively which a "reworkings" album. Myriapod, Disolution(the clouds disperse) and Sploosh, gez, you wouldn't have thought these tracks could of been improved upon !

Ultimate guitar tab ?

Theiving magpie intro is great but I prefer Stravinksy Rite of Spring on Suouxsie and the Banshees Nocturn. Just the way the banshees go straight in with "Israel".