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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
 Posted - 10/07/2004 : 08:05:18
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Just got this via e-mail from one of the bands I used to engineer for back East:
edo takes on the election
I mighta put it in the Humor folder, since these guys are known to spontaneously start channeling the Marx Brothers onstage, but thsi time the boys seem to be being serious.
I'm gonna have to give Eliot a correspondence course on How to Mix Background Vocals, but I liked it anyway.
Share and Enjoy! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 10/07/2004 : 10:21:40 [Permalink]
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| Very cool. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 15:44:26 [Permalink]
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| It would be cooler if it was possible to understand a single word in the song..... heh. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 17:29:22 [Permalink]
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Actually, I was able to understand Eliot's leads- although after spending thousands of hours working with his voice I have something of an advantage there. Where I lose it is in the choruses- can't understand them at all.
Web animations with music send me right up the palm tree. On their Web site there's a Flash animation of "This is your Cat on Drugs". Now, I know exactly what that song sounds like, since I mixed the @#$% thing. The top-end loss in the animated version is so bad that I can't listen to it. OTOH, there are some .mp3s that aren't bad at all, reproduction quality-wise.
There's gotta be some way to combine animated visuals and music for Web surfers without mertilating the audio.  |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 20:52:02 [Permalink]
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| The Condi Rice pic was cracking me up.... bet it would have been even better if I could understand what they were saying.... lol. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2004 : 23:57:28 [Permalink]
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I thought that was pretty good, actually. Rumsfeld Pinhead and Dark Jedi were awesome pics, but that blond toddler flippin' the bird takes the cake.
Anyway, here's my best attempt at decyphering the lyrics for those who had trouble hearing them. (Took me a few runs.) Please feel free to add corrections or fill in the lines that eluded me.
And it's 1, for all the lies they've told us.
And it's 2, for the bill of goods they sold us.
And it's 3, for the self-righteous way they scold us
when they say the price of freedom must be paid
by you and you and you.
[Chorus]
And the boner-biter retards in the Pentagon.
The values of citizenship in Iraq. (unclear)
In Iraq. In Iraq.
We've made an awful mess.
And it's 5, for all kids who've died there.
And it's 6, for all tears that God cried there.
And it's 7, for all brains we've fried there
because of contradictory... (unclear)
And those boner-biter retards in the Pentagon.
Those boner-biter retards in the Pentagon.
In Iraq. In Iraq.
Bit by a rabbit, yeah. (?)
No, they've never, rollin' river.
Across that river of slop. Rollin' river.
And it's 9, for all hopes that have faded.
And it's 10, because it seems so complicated.
And it's 11, ‘cause people have started to be hated.
And they say we are safer than we used to be
but I am scared of them.
Of those boner-biter retards in the Pentagon.
Those boner-biter retards in the Pentagon.
In Iraq, across that river.
Across that river of slop. Across my....
(Fades to inaudible)
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 10/08/2004 17:05:03 |
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todd
New Member
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Posted - 10/27/2004 : 12:28:54 [Permalink]
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hey! thanks for all the feedback. I play Piano and moog for EDO, the band in question. I also mixed the recording ON THE FLY, I should add. Rough mix. We really just wanted to get it out there before the election. The lyrics I read are pretty close, but it's "bit by a rabid Yak." and it's also "across that river of snot." Yes. that's what it is. I don't know why. Eliot is nuts. That's why.
Eliot might not be a slick rock singer like you see on your mTV, but he is a true original and never ceases to crack me up. I've been a fan of this band for 10 years and now they've finally let me in the band.
This is a little song we would sing and it would make us giggle, but then our guitar player Pete made the flash program. Now I find it quite poignant. I hope you send it around to all your friends. It might just save the world.
And Ktesbios is the great engineer he says he is. We miss him. thanks for your comments!
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2004 : 10:35:58 [Permalink]
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[Boris Karloff voice]
Hello Toddy
Welcome to SFN!
[/Boris Karloff voice]
How the Heck did you find this place? I don't recall telling Eliot I'd posted that link here?
Anyway, I hope you have some time to browse around here and join in the discussions. It's a good bunch of folks here and we manage to keep the discourse civil and informative.
Now, since Todd has given me such an inflated compliment (I've never claimed to be anything but a competent engineer), I'm gonna tell an anecdote illustrative of his character.
Some years ago, when I was still in Philly, I kinda fell for this woman (uncle Ktesibios' heartfelt advice for the younger set: Never fall for an anarchist gal. Just take my word for it). I knew she liked Todd's music, so I asked him if he could cut an acoustic version of his song "Facing the Pig" so I could include it in a batch of newly-mixed songs from the edo album we were working on at the time which I was putting together for her.
He came down to the studio and sang and played for hours; when I listened to the DAT the next day I realized that I had an album's worth of material. So, I mastered it and formatted it into a CD, complete with a subtly mushy graphic design and a bloomin' love letter on the front cover, written in ancient Egyptian and disguised as part of the decoration.
As it turned out, she quite liked the record and had some fun puzzling over it looking for the secret message I'd told her was hidden somewhere in it.
As for the rest, well, I'm still single and 3000 miles from the scene of the crime, but I remain rather proud of that record. Goofiest damn thing I've done since I was a kid.
But that's OT. The point is that Todd made the trip from his home to the studio on a work night and spent that time singing and playing his heart out- just so that I could make a present for a girl I liked. That's the kind of guy he is. There ain't many like that.
And, just to provide some kind of tie-in to the Politics folder, I want to to see a Todd/Eliot ticket in 2008. How can you beat integrity, humanity and a mirror ball hat?
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 10/28/2004 : 12:03:55 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by ktesibios
Just got this via e-mail from one of the bands I used to engineer for back East:
edo takes on the election ...Share and Enjoy!
That was great! Here is another one a friend sent me. Adult language but rather lilting. |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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todd
New Member
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Posted - 10/29/2004 : 07:24:13 [Permalink]
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oh yeah, wow. small world. I met that guy, Jim ...Infantino, that is. Long time ago in Philly.. 1994. Nice guy. Very talented. I'm partial to the edo video, but I guess I'm biased.
thanks for the kind words, Ktesibios. I still get compliments on the album you mixed for us back in 1997. And I can still listen to it once in a while without cringing! I credit your mixing job.
non sequitur: I saw Dark Side of the Rainbow last night. (Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack.) What a hoot! You must check it out someday. It's really funny. Someone has made a DVD so you don't have to sync it up manually. |
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Doomar
SFN Regular
USA
714 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2004 : 22:03:38 [Permalink]
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| I liked it! |
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