The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Lunkhead wrote:An 8-string? That's the kind with 4 pairs of strings that are an octave apart?

Yeah. It's fun to play.

It looks like it's a beautiful day in Portland! Welcome to town, Songfight!

<jealousy>8 string bass!!! That must be awesome.</jealousy>

We'll see how awesome it is as I try to read the 5 million chords for Puce's songs off my chart.

The pairs are right up next to each other, like on a 12-string guitar. It's not confusing at all. Basically it ends up being like a normal 4-string except the strings feel wide and flat instead of round and thick, and they make different sounds if you pluck them in different directions.

Anyway. Leaving in 10 minutes to meet at the Octothorpe designated rendezvous point. Then I guess we'll be getting to Portland at like 5-ish or something. Hoorayness!

rdurand wrote:One thing i love about the two live things I've done is that you get to put faces and real names on these mysterious online people with odd names and odder avatars.

For example, here's Mintyhandy, martyr and Glenny at Synergy cafe.

I like how you don't actually get to see faces in that picture. However, feel free to put a neck, a bald spot, and a tasty, tasty panini on my mysterious online self.

The Portland show is going great! anti-m totally rocked and so did mico saudad. my setup took too long and I totally rushed on Gin Or Ginseng but other thn that I'm happy with my set. the primitive screwheadsare playing right now and they are awesome as always.

MintyHandy wrote:

rdurand wrote:One thing i love about the two live things I've done is that you get to put faces and real names on these mysterious online people with odd names and odder avatars.

For example, here's Mintyhandy, martyr and Glenny at Synergy cafe.

I like how you don't actually get to see faces in that picture. However, feel free to put a neck, a bald spot, and a tasty, tasty panini on my mysterious online self.

I didn't say who was who. You could have just posted: "Whoah, I didn't realize what a big bald spot Martin's got!!"
Too late now.

The show was great guys! I wish I could come with y'all to see you up in Seattle! I'm awfully rusty at playing live (as promised!) but it was great fun. I'll try to post some more coherent highlights when I'm not bound fer bed. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZ.

from now on, no Gin or Ginseng unless specifically requested and it's at a crowd which has more than two geeks in the audience. talk about a song that's difficult for both the performers and the audience...

Wow, excellent show last night! It was great to meet the final half of Primitive Screwheads and of course a special thanks to anti-m who helped me out with Grey Rainbow, she rocks.

Special thanks also to the Washington State trooper who saw me speeding home at 2:00am to try to get into bed and decided not to pull me over. Love ya.

See you tonight!

WOW! That was one heck of a lot of fun! Really got to do that more often. Thank you all for making it a really f'ing good show. Everybody rocks!

Good tight night, and we'll see y'all in Seattle!

Did Anti-M play the saw? If so, was it recorded in any way?

Brought the saw, but did not play it. There's always tomorrow! (Figuratively)

(The saw is always available for collabs... you need saw? I give you saw!)

Yeah, I'm imagining saw vs. E-bow, I'm collabing with PD Stinko this weekend maybe we'll hit you up for the saw solo? Are all keys equal on a saw?

If you wanna hear Anti-M rock the saw, you can chcek out XTRG's "Don't Think I Don't Miss You" or her "Other Places That I Lived". She can rock that thing.

Yes, the saw is "fretless" as they say. (and Niv, is, of course, too kind!) Send me your tracks, I'll see what I can do!

anti-m wrote: (The saw is always available for collabs... you need saw? I give you saw!)

Are you planning to go to SFLive in Atlanta?
-bill

Unlikely... But perhaps I'll have a change of heart. It would be fun to see everybody. But, I don't get much vacation time, unfortunately.

(And Atlanta in August?? How about "Songfight Anchorage" instead? That would be a good August destination, methinks.)

( ;

Seattle was an awesome end to an awesome venture. I wish I had a bit more time (or perhaps patience) to get my sound going good before I just piled into the set but it was great. Thanks Ken and Spud for backing me up, and also everyone else was totally awesome. Marcus is on my couch right now. Hooray!

My big regret was that while my laptop was able to record practice just fine, I couldn't get Logic to cooperate at the venue itself, so there's no recordings. So we'll just have to remember how awesome it was, and gloat at the people who weren't here to hear the awesome stuff, especially the people who had gotten covered wonderfully (such as Glenn Case, Mintyhandy, and 15-16 Puzzle).

...and WreckdoM.
/plug

Awesome show, gang, bummer that we missed the first 30 minutes or so trying to get there. Always great to see everyone. Y'all rock!

rdurand wrote:

MintyHandy wrote:

rdurand wrote:One thing i love about the two live things I've done is that you get to put faces and real names on these mysterious online people with odd names and odder avatars.

For example, here's Mintyhandy, martyr and Glenny at Synergy cafe.

I like how you don't actually get to see faces in that picture. However, feel free to put a neck, a bald spot, and a tasty, tasty panini on my mysterious online self.

I didn't say who was who. You could have just posted: "Whoah, I didn't realize what a big bald spot Martin's got!!"
Too late now.

Hey, where did you get that "baboon's arse" hat. that looks cool.