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eponymous replacing anonymous still in durance vile

hi psi:

Six hours to departure:

If there was no eponymy then you might expect a reciprocal 'musical offering' but there is, so you shouldn't

Suggest a few days grace before repeat transmission.

ok, np.

Hi psi

just off.

At the risk of becoming HOTSOA by stating the obvious, it is not the factotum who is eponymous. She is typically female though for all I know musical.

Appearances will be intermittent over the next month depending on wifi access and inclination.

I have a part completed 'slack cutting' post to finish.

bsy

Boredbyfour

I'm a bit puzzled now.

Do you mean they won't send it back because it has a name on?

Should the first line of the replacement be the solutions to the cryptic clues with that word you mentioned in between giving:

6,6,9 ?

Ah, I think I get it....

So that's the right name but a different person?

Eponymy precludes identity and reciprocity, I understand I think.
Sorry, I was being a bit dim again. Pity, I could imagine you as a bluesman.

dear both,

hope you are well 'n that sorry been afk and sot (short on time) with both my kids with ear infections. guess we were lucky that it didn't happen on hols, but 2 weeks in the sea and swimming pools is bound to get them in the end.....

so number 1 child is off on a school trip despite high core temperature, and number 2 child is at home with stuff running out of both ears. ah the joys of parenthood.......

psi; thanks for the feedback. spot on with the sabbath and new order whiff picked up. the guitarist has a tatoo (can be seen on our website alongside mine. damn they hurt btw, never again) that says "love will tear us apart". so you get 10/10. i tried to pass on your more technical analysis but his eyes sort of glazed over. it's all luck and instinct with him. and that's why i like working with him perhaps..?

bored; indeed "i like compulsion and compulsion likes me" is a good starting point. unlike the Drum and DIIC stuff you'll actually be able to read the lyrics. some of the best lyrics you'll find this side of Leonard Cohen i'd suggest. the singer just had that way words, like only a gifted irishman could. great economy with immense impact and visuals........

psi; am still in limbo regarding my new Les Paul. no new stock arriving till the end of the month so it's SG and acoustic all the way till then. which is nice but i also feel like i'm waiting for my bride* to arrive in some odd arranged marriage.

both; i have been left out a bit due to your use of cryptic and cliquey language. i know it's drop related but as i am quite useless at crosswords (good at swearing though....ha......ha) i'm in the dark.
i did once nearly complete a The Times crossword except i couldn't figure out the last clue; "overladen postman".......no? no idea either? ah well i'll stick to what i'm good at.

adios!




* just read this back and i seem to be falling in the trap of thinking of a guitar as female. i seem to remember taking the p*ss out of those that did so in the past. double standards eh? anecdote; in US on tour when after a gig a fan comes up to the guitarist and says "hey i stroke the lady's neck pretty good myself, but tonight you really brought her off!"

Evening psi

Dateline Bruxelles

No package
Imagine: So could I but the only other thing we share is the hairstyle so no reciprocal exchange of musical oeuvre is possible. No recordings of my early triangle playing exist (I hope).

cryptic: 6,6,9 resident in AAPS will take care of communications to named devil's musician.

Ought is: I'll try and dig up a few references to papers on Searle's Ought is when I get the chance.

Pity your thread seems to have petered out looked interesting.
bsy

Hi jank

Hope the ear infections have healed.

Compulsion: Thanks. I'll pick it up when I get a chance.

cryptic/cliquey: Trying to give a drop without triggering a 'durance vile' event as you did earlier.

overladen postman: not a clue.

Btw. Noticed that somebody recommended Sloan Wilson's: Darwin's Cathedral . It is worth a read.

psi posted the same link to the 'Skeptic' article sometime last year on the 'Delusion' thread.

DSW (an atheist) is really making an argument in favour of 'multilevel adaptation' and claims that the persistence of religion can be explained in terms of its group benefits.

You can also find a interesting description of Gould's and Lewontin's views on 'multilevel adaptation' in Nils Eldredge's 'Reinventing Darwin'

I picked up a secondhand copy of 'Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary and Stephen Rose. Interesting.

I'll be AFK for a few days

bsy

hi psi,

finally got round to giving the 2nd cd some time. here's my thoughts on it, and i trust you appreciate that offering the listener only a duo of axe and trombone (should i say "tombone"?) is risky to say the least....

i do have 1 big problem with the whole disc and that is the sound quality. whereas your quartet sounded broad, warm and edgy, the duo sounds......well....muffled is the only word that springs to mind. sounds as if you recorded with a single mic in the room which imho doesn't do either instrument justice.

but what about the music? hard to tell to be honest at times. i think this is due to the instrumentation. on track 4 you have it spot on and the music comes out. then on track 5 it all comes apart imho because a trombone just doesn't hold time like a bass. close, but not close enough for me....

i then realised that track 6 here is track 7 on the quartet one. because i'm very familiar with that composition (i love it) it highlights to me the strenghts and weaknesses of the duo approach compared with an arrangement for quartet. on this duo arrangement track 6 works well when the tombone solos but starts to weaken when holding down the bass lick.....

for me the standout track is the last one, absolutely spot on re arrangement and instrumentation. imho that is how your duo works, and allows an audience access.

pls note psi that this feedback is from me as a huge fan of your work, the quartet cd is still on heavy rotation......

Hi jank,

Thanks for the feedback, constructive criticism is always welcome.

I know this duo is a tough ask on most listeners compared to the quartet.

I think we were aiming for a compact sound but I can't remember how many mics we used, but of course it was live. To me it doesn't sound muffled but it is what it is-no big sounds there really.

It is interesting that the stand out track for you is the one with the extra element-my line6 loop sampler.

morning psi,

glad you understand i'm trying to be constructive and that my "review" comes from a good place.

i just had another listen side by side using bog standard windows media player, and i can see quite a vast difference between the frequency bandwidths of the 2 cd's. i thought it best to check with a machine since i am a bit mutton in my right ear, and have lost a bit of top end in both. the result of many years sitting too close to marshall stacks and smashing cymbals.....still i'm very glad not to suffer from tinnitus.

anyhoo, comparing like with like (quartet intro track 4 with duo intro track 6) i can see many more frequencies in the mix for the quartet. i tried to imagine this fuller sound applied to the duo material and i honestly think it would make for a more accessible product. even when the duo is at full throttle the end result is much "smaller" than you on y'r tod on track 5 on the quartet cd....

what is right about the sound on the duo (imho) is the feeling of being in the room, so to speak. the stereo position of you both is very nice.

stand out track; thanks for pointing that out. now i can clearly hear the loop and it does seem to underpin the duo sound. perhaps you've already played around with this, but i would try and loop the tombone (i.e. intro track 3) and then together noodle over the top as per last track on the duo cd. just a thought......

pls do keep me updated with any future releases as i am now a genuine fan. so any gig in brighton will be guaranteed quite a few bums on seats....

bye for now

Jank,

I will, no problem.

One point, surely a quartet with drums bass and piano is bound to give you more frequencies than a duo with instruments of very similar range, regardless of the actual sound quality?

hi psi,

frequencies; it seems a bit counter intuitive but the variety of intruments does not guarantee a broader frequency range. here's a very good chart* showing what's coming out;

http://www.independentrecording.net/irn/resources/freqchart/main_display.htm


also, i made sure to only compare like with like, hence i looked at "that track", same on both CDs, where you play the intro on your own. also the acoustic guitar tune on the quartet CD is "bigger" on its own than the duo going at it hammer and tongs.

i reckon it's down to how it was recorded, mic position/input levels/compression/etc, since same has happened to me in the past, it's easily done. of course it is possible that it happened during mastering but that is less likely as one would on purpose be making the material sound less "hi-fidelity".

i could go on, but i'm already scared of my own level of anoraknesness.......




* this chart is even better than i thought, just float your cursor over the various bits and loads more info pops up. fascinating.....(damn, somehow put my anorak back on...)

"i could go on, but i'm already scared of my own level of anoraknesness......."

Eeek!

psi, come back mate, i haven't yet explained about acoustic coupling, impedance, and wave table synthesis.

psi...



psi..........psi...............matey..........


.......i'll get my coat*.........





* anorak

Cafe Coyote, Augusta Trevorum

hi psi.

The AAPS mailroom has`been thoroughly searched and there is no package,


Pirsig run going well Zeebrugge, Gent, Luxembourg and Trier with practically no motorways or main roads. Up the Mosel valley to Koblenz in the morning. From there I am not sure but I plan to be Amsterdam at weekend

The 'anorak' exchange incomprehensible but fascinating but I'll think stick to intuition/emotion.

The boxer's road music system is excellent though I seem to be playing a lot of Doors and CCR.

bsy

I haven't posted replacement yet. Let me know when would be good, although now might not be, what with the strikes. Although that might not affect Scotland.

Sounds like your trip is going well.

I find anorak exchanges largely incomprehensible too, so I just tend to smile and nod.

dear both,

odd that my "acoustic anorak 101" has you both on the backfoot? is this a case of trying to "out punk" each other, or leading a horse to water....?

no big deal, just that from previous experience you both tend to thirst for knowledge etc. and psi i can't believe that the sound you create from your guitar and amp set up is the product of repeated luck.

library; via Amazon i now have the Atran and the Miller books. as i've been stuck in bed or on the toilet with dire foodpoisoning for 1.5 days now i'm making good headway. Ken Miller does a great job demolishing ID/creationism using science. about 3/4 in and he's off trying to explain how God fits into the science we know about....

Amsterdamned; if you need any tips on where to go just say the word. if you are keen on a dining experience with a bit extra, then go to Pier 10. it's a restaurant on a boat moored at pier #10 just outside the north exit of Centraal Station (the main railway station). you'll see lots of ships going about their business whilest you enjoy very good food in a funky bohemian chique decor. it's medium price.

but if you fancy eastern food then opt for Idonesian Rijstafel. most Indonesian restaurants provide good food but 1 of the best is Kantijl en de Tijger 291-293 Spuistraat. the best i've ever been to though is Tempo Doeloe 75 Utrechtsestraat but you have to book ahead (020 625 6718) and it's a bit more expensive, though worth every Eurocent......

bye for now





fous ta cagoule! = get your anorak!
(a silly nonsense song in French that may or may not make you smile...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud_-AuBmp6Q