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Just in case you wanted to know what we hairy arseholes looked like back in the day, the first seven photos on the link below are of Freefall (the last being shots of Jem and singer JP Orr recording tracks for Thrown). I should mention Jem was not a well bunny at all throughout the recording of the Thrown album but his legendary ability to knuckle down and simply do the job was evident even then. If you want to know just how sick the poor bastard was, have a listen to the song Hellstate and in the background of the quiet bit in the middle you can just hear the poor bugger's laughter breaking into a hacking, chesty cough.

The other thing I should say was there was not a lot of cash floating about back then and he was working with incredibly some cheap equipment even for the time. I think there was Yamaha DX27, a Kawai K1 (a cheap Korg M1 clone which Jem totally reprogrammed and made his bitch), a Roland D-550 (the rack version of the D-50), some strange Yamaha 12 bit sampler and a Roland R5 drum machine. These instruments were hooked up to a hardware sequencer Jem had dubbed 'Aubrey' which being made by Yamaha, was incredibly complex and took an age to program. There was a really cheap Itallian made FX processor which he put all the intruments and vocals through via a nasty plastic patchbay and the results were recorded onto a borrowed double speed 4 track cassette recorder, the make of which escapes me.

The fact that he was able to create anything listenable with this stuff is a huge testament to his already considerable creative and technical skills. Jem wrote, produced and engineered everything on the record and the bastard was only 20 years old!

//http://www.tinyfish.org/gallery/0-1987-2005/index.html



Simon.

This from The Register. The Increasingly rare red public telephone box is 75 years old today!

//http://www.reghardware.com/2011/08/24/britains_red_phone_booth_turns_75_years_old/

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On a related theme.

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ZqYc1CZiw&feature=youtu.be

Warning: Naughty language but bloody funny.  :evil:

Whatever happens, it'll be worth the wait.  

It's a good article. Sound advice about Preset Zero Syndrome and thinking like a drummer.

The was a young brother called Jeremy
Who borrowed my ELO album without ceremony
Yes, my copy of Time,
No reason, nor rhyme
Give it back you thieving git.

That flyer looks an awful lot like this old movie poster:

The whole F&*king band has tourettes. And they smell.

one can never tell with a pantsless camel.

Very true sir.

I'm looking forward to hearing it too. I wonder if it'll be any good?

Happy Bithday you mad, bad, perfectly law abiding bugger you.  

You just can't beat a stream of bananas being shot out of a man's nose and landing in a girl's lap. It shows that romance is not dead.

No less than our Mr Twang deserves I think.

The 'Fishes salute the Frosties with wavy hands and the gentle 'tink' of tea cups colliding. May your bladders never be full at inconvenient moments.

I received one for my birthday (along with a traditional Stylophone so I can go out busking at tube stations playing Kraftwerk hits). Both the beat box and the origianl machine together are fab! I also like the fact that they have an audio out on them and the sound quality is not bad at all.

The only thing I've found is that your timing has to be pretty good to construct usable beats with the record/playback function but that is just a minor niggle.

I thought I was the only one who liked this band. Glad to know I'm not alone in having a quick boogie to the AC.