Jean-Luc Pickguard

Here's my entry. Just in time for the deadline. This is about Quantum mechanics, specifically that quarks are never found alone — they are always stuck together in particles like mesons, which are made of a quark and an antiquark, or baryons — like protons and neutrons. When you try to pull a quark and antiquark apart, the force between them gets stronger, like stretching a really tight rubber band. If you keep pulling, you give it so much energy that instead of breaking apart, new quarks appear from that energy thanks to E=mc². Instead of ending up with a single quark and antiquark, you now get two new pairs each comprised of a single quark and antiquark stuck together. The song is divided into four verses, with each one focusing on a specific topic: 1. Quark Confinement Basics 2. The Rise of Confinement Energy 3. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) 4. The Hadronization process All instruments apart from the bass were programmed in Logic using logic's built-in instruments and all processing was performed by logic's built-in FX. Alchemy was used for the 303ish Acid loop that repeats throughout. There's also an analog sounding pad plus transistor organ and electric piano. I used a text to speech app to make the lead vocal and fed this into the EVOC 20 vocoder on the chorus sections. The bass part was recorded using my Rickenbacker 4003, with each pickup routed to a separate track via the Rick-O-Sound output. This allowed me to use the bass pickup throughout the song, with alternate eight bar sections having the fuzzed treble pickup added in. My new 'band' name came from the bandname.uk web app I made.

I bought a thomann safecase 80 for my 4003 and I don't think its possible to buy a better specced bag for the price (£120) https://www.thomann.co.uk/thomann_safecase_80_e_bass_bag.htm It is made for Thomann by Music Area, who sell the same thing with their own brand for a higher price.

The Parmesan — Leonard Cohen

I’ve had a few from Brian — The ones I bought were always a very good fit and he has a wide range of materials to choose from.

I used to just mumble incoherently if I didn’t know the lyrics. Probably explains why I’m no longer a vocalist.

Pimple Minds Sadness The Beet The Curd Depeche Mope Guns n Noses Frankie Goes To Bollywood Public Enema Pet Shoe Boys Dirt Straits Jew Order Bog Jovi Spandau Ballot Steely Pan Talking Herds apologies for any repeats —I’m getting old and my memory is not what it used to be

Killing In The Name — Rage Against The Machine

Average Shite Band

Mr Slater’s Paracetemol — Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

I didn't look as I sometimes do as I'm told. What did I miss?

October — Sun Ra

High Heel Sneakers — Tommy Tucker

Howlin' Wilf The Wollies Hairy Nilsson Ẉank Williams Grand Fuƈk Railroad B.B. Ming

What! Men Without Cats Brian Ono Brian Merry Ann Weebles Mad Company Syd Parrett Blood Sweat & Teats

Turd Uncle — Brian Eno

Born Too Plate — The Poni-tails

Or ran out of andrex

Jimmy Purvey Shag 69 Silly Idol

Murder On The Dancefloor — Sophie Ellis Bextor

Zombie — The Cranberries

Poor Tom (Cruise) — Led Zeppelin

Rebel Trouser — Duene Eddy

Uriah Meep