Off-Topic Thread: Post your Pics/You-Tube/Links/Banter here!

fitz

Right lads...we're gonna give this a try, see how it goes.



Run amok.

PaulBrewer

Sure no one ever goes OT here ....;)

fitz

I'm going to love this thread, if only for the opportunity to post lolcats.

jtsuited

Good shtuff seeing this thread.


this week I mostly be loving:

1. taking time off due to illness.
2. spending unhealthy amounts of time finding music on the internet.
3. the fact that you can buy opiates in over the counter medication (and at fairly high concentration too).
4. Izotope Vinyl plugin (thanks to a fellow boardsie)
5. Flight of the Conchords

This week I mostly be hating:

1. Being sick.
2. The general public's use of the word 'random'.
3. The fact I'm not going to Life this weekend, despite every one of my dj mates playing at it.

seannash

jtsuited wrote: »

Good shtuff seeing this thread.


this week I mostly be loving:

1. taking time off due to illness.
2. spending unhealthy amounts of time finding music on the internet.
3. the fact that you can buy opiates in over the counter medication (and at fairly high concentration too).
4. Izotope Vinyl plugin (thanks to a fellow boardsie)
5. Flight of the Conchords

This week I mostly be hating:

1. Being sick.
2. The general public's use of the word 'random'.
3. The fact I'm not going to Life this weekend, despite every one of my dj mates playing at it.

why not going to life.
i think i take the credit for flight of the conchords.did i send you that if thats what your into video?

DamagedTrax

3. the fact that you can buy opiates in over the counter medication (and at fairly high concentration too)

please expand a little

dav nagle

If I hear that frikin word one more time 'legislation' in this Country.

Why won't the bill pass Paddy?

Because we are waiting for the minister to pass the 'legislation' on the bill...


You **** shut up

ICN

Cat Weight Lifting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRU68v-ESg

jtsuited

DamagedTrax wrote: »

3. the fact that you can buy opiates in over the counter medication (and at fairly high concentration too)

please expand a little

solpadeine Max has huge amounts of codeine in it. So much that it's up for review Worldwide in the coming months.

On the downside, codeine addiction is very very common in this country and is no laughing matter (i know a girl who went through some awful sh1te after becoming a little fond of solpadeine during college exams).

frobisher

Codeine rocks! So much so, that I ration myself even at my worst unwell-liness. I was sick a while back for a few weeks and I felt codeine starting to wrap its tentacles round me *spine-shiver*


My OT news is that the piano tuner has finally made it and is twisting and listening as I type.

jtsuited

frobisher wrote: »

Codeine rocks! So much so, that I ration myself even at my worst unwell-liness. I was sick a while back for a few weeks and I felt codeine starting to wrap its tentacles round me *spine-shiver*

nice one. I was worried about espousing the benefits of using a nasty opiate on an internet forum but then the mod did!!:p

Yeah it's friggin awesome. I know some poker degenerates that use it for endurance.
Best thing with solpadeine is you get completely goofed up with the codeine and then the caffeine gives you a sense of focus. And as far as pain killing properties go, it dominates anything else on the market.

Turns out my flu was actually a chronic sinus infection in 1 side of my head. Only went to the doctor when my ears started acting up.
Got seriously freaked out on Sunday night when I started getting seriously bad pain in my ear-drum. Typical musician - body falling to pieces but as soon as there's anything wrong in the ears, it's straight down to the medical professionals.

jtsuited

May as well post the links to the Future Music videos, seeing's as how so many people reference them:

Linky Majinky

Rockshamrover

jtsuited wrote: »

May as well post the links to the Future Music videos, seeing's as how so many people reference them:

Linky Majinky

Here's some really interesting topics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Topic_(chocolate_bar).jpg

jtsuited

Rockshamrover wrote: »

Here's some really interesting topics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Topic_(chocolate_bar).jpg

hahahaha. savage. never saw that before!!:pac::pac:

Rockshamrover

A hazel nut in every bite.

As this is the off topic banter yoke, we can talk about anything not related to music production?

What was the first record you ever bought?

Paul told me the first one he bought was "The Jazz Singer". Not the Neil Diamond one. The Al Jolson one:D Really old people will appreciate this.

fitz

Mine was A-Ha, Stay On These Roads. 80's-tastic.

frobisher

fitz wrote: »

Mine was A-Ha, Stay On These Roads. 80's-tastic.

Some things should stay secret :-)

Rockshamrover

My first record was 10cc's "I'm not in love".

Now there's a song that's stood the test of time.

Aha were great too.

ZV Yoda

My first record (actually, it was a 6 record box set) was "The Complete Buddy Holly".



I've been a fan ever since I was a kid. The box set was released in 1979 & I don't think it was available for very long. Over the years, I tried to get it on CD/digital but never found it anywhere. A few years back I converted every single one of the 120+ tracks/interviews to MP3 & they're still in my iPod to this day.

You want to hear real analogue recordings?... then this is the real McCoy. On one of the tracks (recorded in his kitchen) you can even hear his mother putting out the milk bottles in the background.

Now that's rock'n'roll!

frobisher

My first record, and it was a record, was Stand And Deliver by Adam And The Ants :cool:

seannash

the first album i bought with my own hard earned was the tv series Gladiators soundtrack
before that i used to always play my mother now series records.ive fond memories of jumping round my living room as a nipper listening to the ghostbusters song:D

fitz

What a classic that was...

DamagedTrax

my first album was... bros

11811

Think mine was ACDC's Razor's Edge on cassette!!

That or else the best of Boney M... Im not sure.:o

Ian C

I think the first I'd admit to is "Performance and Cocktails" by Stereophonics... some extremely dodgy purchases prior to that! :pac::D

Aridstarling

Texas - Greatest Hits

Still like it!

Rockshamrover

Next off topic topic is.............................................................

Who or what was it that got you into making music instead of buying music?

Having asked the question, I can't actually remember a definite moment for me. The scriptwriters will have to make something dramatic up when they do the movie.

dav nagle

Rockshamrover wrote: »

Next off topic topic is.............................................................

Who or what was it that got you into making music instead of buying music?

Having asked the question, I can't actually remember a definite moment for me. The scriptwriters will have to make something dramatic up when they do the movie.

I was always a bit of a computer nerd so the idea of software and hardware and music all combined was very tantilizing to me, the fatman. I never taught it was going to be so hard to go from home to commercial but it was, baby steps all the way.. The process of sound manipulation was the deal breaker. Making music is so real and pure and cool and it rocks and I love it and will go at it for as long as I can afford to!

Rockshamrover

dav nagle wrote: »

I was always a bit of a computer nerd so the idea of software and hardware and music all combined was very tantilizing to me, the fatman. I never taught it was going to be so hard to go from home to commercial but it was, baby steps all the way.. The process of sound manipulation was the deal breaker. Making music is so real and pure and cool and it rocks and I love it and will go at it for as long as I can afford to!

Nice one Dav.

That was very emotional.

If the bank manager came and took all your gear away, could you ever go back to a basic set up?

dav nagle

Rockshamrover wrote: »

Nice one Dav.

That was very emotional.

If the bank manager came and took all your gear away, could you ever go back to a basic set up?

What can I say I am an emotional guy, have you not seen some of my highly unecessary outbursts on boards???:pac:

I would definitely not start from scratch! No way !!

Why did you get into the recording ?

Rockshamrover

dav nagle wrote: »

What can I say I am an emotional guy, have you not seen some of my highly unecessary outbursts on boards???:pac:

I would definitely not start from scratch! No way !!

Why did you get into the recording ?

I have indeed seen your posts, they are the stuff of legend.

Me and recording? Well I drifted into it from being in a band. We had a Tascam 4 track and tried to do our own demo's on it. We were hopeless. We ended up using the 4 track as a mixer. 2 guitars a bass and keyboards going through the tascam to one guitar amp.:D

That was donkeys years ago. Me and the bass player got back into recording abut a year and a half ago.

Still only learning but having a great time of it.

dav nagle

Rockshamrover wrote: »

I have indeed seen your posts, they are the stuff of legend.

Me and recording? Well I drifted into it from being in a band. We had a Tascam 4 track and tried to do our own demo's on it. We were hopeless. We ended up using the 4 track as a mixer. 2 guitars a bass and keyboards going through the tascam to one guitar amp.:D

That was donkeys years ago. Me and the bass player got back into recording abut a year and a half ago.

Still only learning but having a great time of it.

Isn't funny what those liddle 4 tracks can do, thats how I started, a little digital 4 track and then a pc and :pac::pac:

fitz

I started with on-board sound cards and cubase. Got a present of an m-audio interface when I got more interested in recording demos at home. Ended up on Mac because of massive Firewire problems on windows, haven't looked back. So I suppose recording started as a way of getting demos down for me...

fitz

A forum full of techies...one of you is bound to find this useful

http://batteriesfeelincluded.blogspot.com/2009/05/309.html

jtsuited

U2 on the Late Late.

What a bunch of cúnts.

jiltloop

Yeah whats the story with the fact that only Bono and the Edge ever talk? It makes you wonder what Larry and eh... the other guy's musical input is.

Going back to first record I ever bought, first 2 CDs I ever bought were in a shop in Helsinki called spine farm (I think I still have the bag), they were Autechre EP7 and Aphex Twin I Care Because You Do....
But before the CDs purchases I remember buying AC/DC Razor's Edge and Altern 8 Full Mask Hysteria on cassette. (Also in my brief heavy metal phase I bought Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and Metallica. I still love the Balck Sabbath stuff!).

woodsdenis

jtsuited wrote: »

U2 on the Late Late.

What a bunch of cúnts.

A bit harsh dont you think. There wouldn't any Irish music industry without them and I have always found them to be pleasant ,polite and very helpful. Anyway doesn't Larry look like Kevin Bacon now?

jtsuited

woodsdenis wrote: »

A bit harsh dont you think. There wouldn't any Irish music industry without them and I have always found them to be pleasant ,polite and very helpful. Anyway doesn't Larry look like Kevin Bacon now?

not harsh at all. they are caricatures of what they were like back in the 80's/early 90's (when they were actually good).

the tripe that was coming out of Bono and the Edge's mouth was horrendous, even by their standards.

Rockshamrover

jtsuited wrote: »

not harsh at all. they are caricatures of what they were like back in the 80's/early 90's (when they were actually good).

the tripe that was coming out of Bono and the Edge's mouth was horrendous, even by their standards.

I have nothing against the guys personally, I loved them back in the 80's when they were incredible.

One of the first major musical decisions I had to make as a kid was wether to buy 11 O'Clock tick tock by U2 or Bank robber by the Clash. The Clash won out but I did get the U2 track a few weeks later.

At that time in Ireland, every other 2nd rate band was intentionally or unintentionally mimicking U2 and it just sounded corny.

Last night on the Late Late, the song they played sounded so cliched because every part of it musically could have been a sampled part of some of their past glories. They were mimicking themselves.

For me U2 are great when they don't sound like U2, if that makes sense.

Aridstarling

I do think there'd be a better music industry in this country without U2. Waste of valuable space.

PaulBrewer

woodsdenis wrote: »

There wouldn't any Irish music industry without them and I have always found them to be pleasant ,polite and very helpful.

I agree with Denis.

I remember 'pre them' - pub gigs, pub bands, few studios, few PA companies, few rock gigs - remember too that when they appeared the few who had succeeded before had left Ireland to do so.

This was also at a time (late 70s/Early 80s) when the music biz as a whole flourished both artistically and commercially, but still was in it's infancy here.
Across the water 'everything' was happening.

Whilst all the naysayer/begrudgers tried to drag them down they lived their dream.

I remember in the mid eighties Bono and Fredia McAnna of Rocky De Valera and the Gravediggers (hilare!) were both on the Late Late show together.
To me Bono represented the 'New' Ireland of the time with the can do, big picture, anything is possible attitude. Whilst McAnna's angle was 'Would ya not just get hammered all the time in case it ended tomorrow'.

It was, an I'm sorry to say still is, Irish Begrudgery at it's worst ...

In many ways they showed us all, both locally and internationally, how to do it.

Whilst their music no longer has any impact on me their legacy does.

seannash

not defending u2 but has there been a band who have been around as long as them whilst still maintaining there artistic credibility(genuine question)

jtsuited

SO obvious the 'Irish begrudgery' nonsense was gonna be mentioned.

Nothing to do with begrudgery. Had I been old enough in the 80's, I would have been proud to say U2 came from Ireland.

Doesn't change the fact that last night they were on the Late Late acting like a bunch of cúnts.

PaulBrewer

seannash wrote: »

not defending u2 but has there been a band who have been around as long as them whilst still maintaining there artistic credibility(genuine question)

Hard one to answer Sean - I think because 'artistic credibility' is all about perception.

Does Dylan have it? A lot of people would say yea, however he has advertised for multinationals .... the sort of thing, some might say, that those without artistic credibility might do.

One can't really judge definitively in my opinion ...

woodsdenis

jtsuited wrote: »

SO obvious the 'Irish begrudgery' nonsense was gonna be mentioned.

Nothing to do with begrudgery. Had I been old enough in the 80's, I would have been proud to say U2 came from Ireland.

Doesn't change the fact that last night they were on the Late Late acting like a bunch of cúnts.

I think the word you used to describe them is way OTT, thats just me maybe, but I would take it as a very personal attack if someone called me that.

Wether you like their Music/Attitude/Hairstyles/Current Album or whatever it doesn't warrant a personal attack like that. That is my point.

If you had been around the Music/Recording scene pre U2 you would have an understanding of how different it is now and how much they and their
management and crew contributed to what we all take for granted.

Discuss anything about them or what they do or represent is fair game
but calling them " a bunch of c**ts" is childish,immature and totally
smacks of begrudgery IMHO.

jtsuited, I enjoy really your posts a lot, and you have a great deal to contribute
but this is way beneath you.

jtsuited

woodsdenis wrote: »

I think the word you used to describe them is way OTT, thats just me maybe, but I would take it as a very personal attack if someone called me that.

Wether you like their Music/Attitude/Hairstyles/Current Album or whatever it doesn't warrant a personal attack like that. That is my point.

If you had been around the Music/Recording scene pre U2 you would have an understanding of how different it is now and how much they and their
management and crew contributed to what we all take for granted.

Discuss anything about them or what they do or represent is fair game
but calling them " a bunch of c**ts" is childish,immature and totally
smacks of begrudgery IMHO.

jtsuited, I enjoy your posts a lot and you have a great deal to contribute
but this is way beneath you.

I hear what you're saying but I can't really think of any other one word description that so succinctly sums them up at the moment.

Really annoys me the way if you criticise anyone who's Irish it's put down to Irish begrudgery.

There are many world-class artists that come from this country (one from my own town incidentally) and yes there are a lot of people who take out their own insecurities on these people by deriding them...

But.....
U2 (despite all their success and talent) were acting like a bunch of cúnts on the Late Late last night telling oh so funny stories involving Louis Walsh and Captain Americas.

Now in fairness, I probably shouldn't watch the Late Late if I don't want to watch a bunch of Irish people engaged in an orgy of back-slapping and general twattery. So joke's on me really.

woodsdenis

jtsuited wrote: »

I hear what you're saying but I can't really think of any other one word description that so succinctly sums them up at the moment.

Really annoys me the way if you criticise anyone who's Irish it's put down to Irish begrudgery.

There are many world-class artists that come from this country (one from my own town incidentally) and yes there are a lot of people who take out their own insecurities on these people by deriding them...

But.....
U2 (despite all their success and talent) were acting like a bunch of cúnts on the Late Late last night telling oh so funny stories involving Louis Walsh and Captain Americas.

Now in fairness, I probably shouldn't watch the Late Late if I don't want to watch a bunch of Irish people engaged in an orgy of back-slapping and general twattery. So joke's on me really.

Criticize all you want. They are absolutely fair game. Its the use of the word I find extreme. I must be getting tetchy in my old age.

jtsuited

woodsdenis wrote: »

Criticize all you want. They are absolutely fair game. Its the use of the word I find extreme. I must be getting tetchy in my old age.

haha. yeah it's a good aul nasty word.

will refrain from use of it in future (unless it's bono!).:D

woodsdenis

Anyway back to the point in my original post.

Does no one think that Larry Mullen is looking more and more like Kevin Bacon?:D

frobisher

jtsuited wrote: »

U2 on the Late Late.

What a bunch of cúnts.

That's a pretty hateful sounding description of some lads that are in band. If that's what comprises a c**t for you then you've lead a sheltered life!

ZV Yoda

woodsdenis wrote: »

Anyway back to the point in my original post.

Does no one think that Larry Mullen is looking more and more like Kevin Bacon?:D

He he... I think he looks more like smokey bacon at this stage... they're all getting on a bit in years. I think Bono's 50 next year.