h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We should ask Pink Floyd if we can borrow their lights. They don't seem to be using them at the moment.

That's made me think of something- we (the band) should have a plan: to all become filthy rich and completely lazy fat bastards who don't tour and only put out a studio album when we goddamn want to!

Hurrah!

Oh and Wowbagger TIP (you dopelganger you) can be our first official groupie! Whistle from the mosh pit if you so desire and, if you have a cigarette lighter, you can wave it during our ballad (if we have any).

We most definately will have a ballade!

We certainly must!

Will it be a cars: Drive style ballad, or more of a led zep: Stairway to Heaven type?

I vote for a Led Zepp*Stairway to Heaven* type

Good! i prefer that one too.... we'd better get some work done...

< strolls in at just that moment, wearing shades, a shoulder-draped polarbearskin (synth), drinking yoghurt from the carton, and hummin' "My nostrils slam shut when you breathe" from the corner of his mouth>

Just one moment please.

I believe, my digital delights, that you need one thing to get your act together, and I, with y'all your permission of course, would love to fill that particular vacuole.

I don't play no nothing no sir no how, but some writing is mine from time to time tho no name it hath. Anyhoo, I can hook you people up with all the bands you just mentioned above as your idols, and a whole lot more making Disaster Area seem like as dry as the desert planet of Krakafoon they once will fertilise. I can bargain the balls off a mule and the G out of the G-string. Stick with me and we'll get so much show on the road the crowd is gonna have to run just to see you people play.

I'd like to be your manager.

Deal?

*adopts spaghetti-western Spanish accent*

Managers?
Vee don't need no stinking managers



*Spits*

BTW Does this make me an A.R.S.E.-Bandito???
I sure hope not

Pres, my friend, though this group may certainly need some managing... I think our sensitive artistic natures may not fit in to the whole managerial scenario to which you refer.

But can you play the triangle? We need someone for those 'triangly' bits that come up in Led Zep style ballads (or was that pan flutes? Noooooooooo!!!! aaaaarrrrrrgh! I said pan flutes!!!!! Never! Never I tell you!)

DAMN YOU!! You've got that crappy 'Ship to Shore' theme song in my head! (crappy aussie tv show for those who don't know)

DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DAMN YOU!!!

Oh no... that show is torture!!!!

Medic! We deed a dose of morphene to subdue this patient! Stat!

*thrashes around for a while*

What about 'Pigs Breakfast'? That's really really really bad - worse than anything else.....maybe!

*thrashes some more* AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!! It's BACK!!! HELP ME!!

Late as usual
Well no-one seems to have swiped the trumpet slot so I will do that I think.
Frink can give me some time off now we're out of the softball season
(aren't we?)

Can we co-write a song?

I'm trying to work out ways how we could do that.... any ideas?

Start with a line, just a line.
Next guy/gal writes next line.
This can be quite surprising, but maybe it only gets us somewhere
if we're as smooth as the Mothers of Invention.
You culd write one opposite-of-chorus (forgot word) after another.

Oh and I'm forgetting about managing this band. I'll be very happy to do some of those triangle solos you spoke of though

Well... i'm no good with writing words, but i can churn out chord sequences like there's no tommorow....
Maybe we can do this by starting with someone writing a track to a wav file, or something.... E-mailing/ICQ ing it on to the next person, Who listens, writes another wav file to overlay it, and sends the two on.. etc.. etc.... and finally, back to someone who can mix all the wavs together, to form some sort of song.........
just an idea i had... not thought out or anything......

Ah, so we really have an idea here? Froody!

To get synchronized, all having the same tracker/sequencer would be nice. It gives you the oppportunity to listen to the various wavfiles together and all listen to the same thing as well. No malcommunications that way. I think tho that you sound a bit more experienced in that than I MaDmUnK.

Any ideas for that first line of lyric?

"I see the future now as I've never seen before"

NM

followed by
"I'm looking down through an open door"

Or not!! I'm just the Techie - I'll just go and sit up the back and play with the gaffa tape

Don't ask me to do anything technical with synths and stuff - I haven't a clue.
I write words