Almitomx2 :*sWEET Airhead (a 6P)*

sWEET aIRHEAD (A 6p)

by ALMICTOMX2

https://vlayman.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-airhead-a-6p

I have a theory

… mebbe a conspiracy theory:

The “MSM” is pushing written info aside

they want streaming to be the thing

(double Stoli screwdrivers! that’s the thing – you mitigate the acid reflux

and can claim to be drinking, healthy-like)

and how sophisticated this stuff gets

at 2:00 or so they have Clinton from ’98 speaking the new B meme of, “not age, but age of ideas”

then they show B saying the same thing at the SOTU

pretty smart

if ya kinda wanna sorta unnerstand American political comedy, right now

if ya kinda wanna sorta unnerstand J6, right now

https://youtu.be/4Q8R0JXFXZE

(as I post, I only wartched 12%)

EDIT:

aiight, it’s really smart, but very American-specific

if anyone needs context(s) or translation(s) 

OH and mic techniques

posted at tomb:

we have been recording full band live, lately, amp’d up

so, Studio Projects C4’s in XY 3′ in front, centered on the snare, 5-6′ up – I did just buy one o’ those printed ORTF clamps (at Reverb) that I’ll get around to trying …

57 or 58 or a old AKG (lately D6000) at the snare rim, 45 degree angle pointed at the center

Senn 602, 6″ from the floor, pointed up to kick center (no hole)

we record inna small house (drums in the living room, bass amp in the hall, guitars in kitchen and bedroom, lead voc 12′ in front of and facing the kit) so I get bleed in the other mics and I like to use the bleed, e.g., when a BV mic is only bleed on the track I’ll nuke that and bring it up under, in and out in different place in the mix; I’ll do that with the lead vocal track sometimes, like under the intro, outtro, “middle 8″*

I only have 8 tracks in my recorder so I use 4 on the drums, 1 each on the bass and guitar, 1 on the lead vocal – if only 1 guitar then I have the other for BV

I have occasionally messed up an OH track when breaking down the full session to indiv songs and so end up with 1 OH – I tend to use a bigger plate on the snare when I do that, pan the OH at 1:00 or so – no one has said anything the 3 or 4 times I hadda do it lately

I have also used only OH’s a few times because it sounded cool; I lost the snare track a cuppla times (same reason as above) and the OH’s and kick were used – no one seemed to notice, particularly when I duped an OH and gated it to just the snare to trigger a big plate

* our songs’ “middle 8” usually happens 2-3x and is anywhere from 8 to 32 or even more measures

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I mix with olive juice.

the grease is awesome

so I buy this high-quality chorizo atta local international-kinda grocery store (Pete’s, btw)

sometimes I can only get the links, and so I hadda pound of it and I squeezed the filling out in the iron pan and I fried it quick

and spatula’d it out onna plate covered with a cuppla paper towels to absorb the grease (relatively not that much, as this is pretty high-quality US$6/lb stuff)

plan is let the paper towel absorb the grease then freeze the chorizo (what I minced with one of them plastic 4-prong mincers while frying) into a chunk and slice it off as needed

works a treat for a quick spicy brekkkie what at my age keeps the system, eh, loose

but then I cook this mornin’s eggs in that same fry pan with some of that chorizo and put in some onyums and pickled jalapeno’s and pickled carrots and slop it on 4 corn tortillas with summa my fave sauce (Tipatio) and eat that greezy mess and have a fresh-ground coffee and, well …

the grease is awesome

Vermen: *jabberwocky (a 4p)*

https://vlayman.bandcamp.com/album/jabberwocky-a-4p

thunderbitch

don’t know if you are a Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes, solo) fan, but this 2015 CD is her doing garage rock

hard to find (Japan), it’s pretty cool, pretty funny, and pretty raw altho’ well-produced

I’m a Brittany fan, because who doesn’t love gay 300 lb. African-American gospel/hip hop/Americana female singers who play a mean guitar

so, 2-guitar band bar rock – live

1. Live at Rajis (re-mastered) – The Dream Syndicate

2. Plan 9 – The Drive-By Truckers

Jason Isbell and Shona Tucker are in this version of the band, and Isbell covers “Moonlight Mile” backed by DBT and it gives a frisson.

I do have other fave live albums (reminds me I gotta break out No Sleep ’til Hammersmith and it’s sequel …), but these are the top 2 in that style ….

got any faves there?

We jammed/recorded yesterday, are kinda doin’ just a little Flaming Lips/hip-hop/psych/jam thing adding percussion and some edit-delay FX (Radiohead/Wilco) here and there. OK, I’m doing it, because I’m producing and mixing, having writ it all, but it seems we are all aiight withit.

Except we did do a Yardbirds cover.

And we used a Lewis Caroll poem.

Took most of the weekend but 3 hours actually playing got us 5 songs. Now I need to do overdubs.

BTW, I wrote this and liked it –  writing to you is inspirational and it’s not the first time – but I will publish this email to you on my wordpress.  (The email will be chronologically first.)