A new (old) computer comes to life

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Stick

on 28 July 2006

in art and culture, audio and technology

. Tags: art and culture, audio, technology.

Ok, so I bought Corey’s cast off G5. It’s quite a step up from my G4.

Here’s a little nothing I did for testing out my revamped LogicPro template.

15 Responses to “A new (old) computer comes to life”

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1 michael lee
28 July 2006 at 3:16 pm

awwwwwwwww yeah. Show me the funk!

Are you sure that wasn’t leftover from one of Corey’s sessions?
2 corey
28 July 2006 at 3:20 pm

um. yeah. IIIII’m gonna neeed you to send that back to meee…

It never sounded like that when I owned it.
3 michael lee
28 July 2006 at 3:22 pm

That’s because you were using ProTools, Corey. Stick is doing all of this on Fruity Loops and Garage Band. They’re much more musical.
4 corey
28 July 2006 at 4:12 pm

ah. I see. And Beth is leaving town so I can track for the weekend. I guess now I have to trash PT and start to climb the hill of that exhausting Garage Band learning curve. So much for tracking this weekend.

So, Ahab, can I borrow my doobage?

For those of you who are new to Addison Road, I used what they call a Pop (which is short for “Popular“) Culture reference to a 1985 movie entitled The Brekfast Club. What I was really asking was, Dear Friend Michael, by any chance have you finished using the ebow that I let you borrow last month? And if so, perchance could I get it back from you to polish up my mad ebow skillz before our dear friend Chad comes calling?“
5 corey
28 July 2006 at 4:13 pm

b-r-e-a-k-f-a-s-t.
6 michael lee
28 July 2006 at 4:25 pm

yeak Brekfast Club is a totally different thing.

yeah. I’ll grab it and get it back to you.
7 Stick
29 July 2006 at 12:38 am

You jest, but I’ve done a couple passable demos in GarageBand. It’s a little lacking on mojo and key commands, but in a pinch it’s cool.

And tell Chad the mixer dude says “no ebow”.
8 corey
29 July 2006 at 9:13 am

:) no ebow? One less thing to learn. That’s puts me right on to “Things To Learn” number 2: holding the guitar.
9 michael lee
29 July 2006 at 9:18 am

That’s easy, corey. Left leg forward, right leg way back, lunge at the knee, left hand bars an open power chord, right hand spins cartwheels while strumming the strings, and each time the right hand hits the strings, you have to aim the neck of the guitar and somebody in the crowd, like it’s a gun, and you just killed them with the Rock.
10 Zack
29 July 2006 at 10:18 am

I have seen this porno, and I love the song….
11 Stick
29 July 2006 at 11:06 pm

See, now Mike, that’s exactly the soul of the new (old) G5. Ok, yeah, it’s microprocessors and hard drives, but in it’s heart of hearts, it only wants to Rock. Not that it didn’t revel in the glory of graphics creation in the hands of a gifted master such as Corey, but the too infrequent visits to the foothills of the Rock Mountains on the back of Corey’s Strat left it feeling a little empty and hollow. It knew from the beginning it’s destiny was for All Rock All the Time. Now, all I have to do is boot up ProTools….

…a n d t h e r e i s R o c k .
12 michael lee
29 July 2006 at 11:30 pm

JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG

JAAAWWW JAWWWWWWW

JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG JUG

JAAAWWW JAWWWWWWW

meedilymeedilymeedilymeedilymeedily

JAAAAWWW JAWWWWWW

(my mouth drumming is much better than my mouth guitar)
13 Morphea
31 July 2006 at 8:41 am

Very cool, Stick. Very Incognito. They play my favorite stuff ever.

Zack, I was going to laugh and say that that was just what I was thinking, but I wasn’t thinking it until YOU said it. Very true, very true. Though you have to admit that Stick’s quality of porno music is way above the bar.

Cerise
14 Stick
31 July 2006 at 2:29 pm

I don’t know what porno music sounds like. How do you guys know?

Well, I guess if I have to do porno music, I might as well try and do it good.

And, I DO know a couple of other chords, I was just to lazy in my “test out the rig” mode to bother changing to a different chord.
15 Morphea
31 July 2006 at 3:35 pm

Duh, Stick. I watch porn. And porn music consists of vamping eternally over a simple chord structure. Whether it be (bad, very bad) Kenny G-like jazz, or lugubrious rock power chords with passionate and awful guitar wailing solos, or electronic Enya/John Tesh soothing stuff. I could go on, but I think Baby Jesus is already crying…

Your music resembles porn’s only in that you vamped on a keyboard over a relatively unchanging structure for a period of time (well, and the wah-wah guitar, which figured prominently in 70s and 80s material). I liked your vamping. I thought it was good. And me telling you that it reminded me of Incognito was high praise. High praise. [nods]

Cerise