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I'm embarrassed to say I got all of them (that means I know who the bassist in McFly is, hence the embarrassment). I actually guessed Chris Wolstenholme would be the lowest, I watch a fair bit of Pointless (yea I know...) and from a lot of the questions it's clear the sample is generally more middle-aged, on music questions that span a few decades the 70's 80's stuff is always more popular. And I remember there was a question about Prime Ministers and Harold Wilson and James Callaghan scored more than Tony Blair.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1369873334' post='2093906'] I'm also wondering if you feel the bands you are a fan of owe you something. And what they owe you. I saw an interview with Deftones yesterday and they have had a couple of difficult, slightly dodgy albums, and I'm a huge fan and didn't like the albums they had problems with, which was due to their own evolution and personal problems. Do they owe me something for supporting them through their journey? I personally don't, not in the slightest. But I know people who feel otherwise. [/quote] Nah, I'd much prefer a band to make the album they want to make rather than tailor it to fans expectations, because lets face it, fans, while capable individually of being intelligent, reasonable people, are, en masse, raving idiotic morons who just want band to remake the album they like the most for the rest of their career. Bands have a basic obligation of respect towards fans sure, showing up to gigs on time etc., but creatively bands don't "owe" fans anything, and frankly I'm grateful to any band who's ever made an album I like.

I think it's more of a gradual thing, bands that I'm a "fan" of are the bands that I make an active effort to keep up with, and are really familiar with. I'd say I'm a fan of any band whose entire back catalogue I've listened to (if they have a few albums out), if I only like one or two albums, I'd probably say I'm not a fan. The other big thing is keeping up with news on the band, if I'm a fan, I'm periodically checking up on what they're doing, I know if they're working on a new album, and I pre-order it. If I just like a band, a new album might go unnoticed until someone mentions it, at which point I'll check it out. Spending money is the other main thing, I listen to so much music I only tend to buy stuff from bands I'm a fan of, because I'm pretty confident I'll like it, case in point, I've just bought an album that doesn't even exist yet, because I love the band.

Ahh, I've just run through the offline process and it just generates a .html file to copy onto an internet PC that sends you to a link to put your serial numbers in, then generates a .xml file for you to copy back on to the offline PC. Unfortunatley you have to load the .xml through the authorization manager, so you probably can't get round it if you can't run the program. Personally, if I'd already payed for the software I wouldn't feel bad about cracking it, but obviously you may not feel the same way.

Have you tried running it as administrator (depending on which windows you're running)? Just right click the .exe and the option is there, for some reason it makes a lot of programs run perfectly that otherwise don't.

What do you mean your PC just spits it out? It won't install or it won't run? Which version is it? Have you tried downloading the latest version from the site? Are you sure they didn't email you the mac version?

Remixed and rejigged mine slightly, to avoid confusing poor little Charic I've edited the new link into my post on the previous page. The minute silence at the end is accidental, but I can't be bothered to reupload it, so just know the track ends at 5:00. Eventually I'm going to figure out how to mix a track so soundcloud transcoding doesn't mess up the high end.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1369314984' post='2087660'] Well done getting your track finished Bob! I've not had chance to listen as yet but will do so. I actually quite like the idea of a 'collaboration month'... might be tricky to organize but plenty of potential for some very interesting outcomes! Food for thought anyway. [/quote] Thanks man, I think another cool idea might be to do an "exquisite corpse", I've just pre-ordered an album based on the idea, it's an old surrealist thing. How they've done it for music is someone composes a few minutes of music, then passes the last 20 seconds on to the next person, who composes another few minutes from that as a launching point, then they pass on the final 20 seconds of theirs and so on, the idea being that you end up with one album length song that no one hears until it's completed (except the person who compiles it). I'm not sure how we could make it a competition, but it might be a cool thing to do one month. Re: mine, I'm considering chopping the ending off, it seemed like a good idea at the time but now I'm not sure, how about a straw poll, keep the big noisy ending, yay or nay?

Somewhere a rowing boat is missing a cheap plywood oar. The action at the body end of the neck looks beyond unplayable.

Ended up finishing it anyway: https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/cloud-of-achenes Collaboration sounds interesting, what would be really fun is if we did one month of just collaborations, everyone declares their interest then pairs are picked at random, but probably too much of a pain to organize and too much to go to wrong.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1369182658' post='2086109'] Yup. It's a shame the seller hasn't learned some logic. [/quote] It's perfectly logical, you can have more than one of a type of thing that individually are unique. Every snowflake is unique, but there's still billions of them. Or, as in this case, you can have more than one of a type of thing that is unique. The Ford Focus, as a model of car, is unique, even though there's millions of them.

Probably be sitting this one out after all, I've got a good first bit and last bit but I have absolutely no clue what to do in the middle. Plu my

Not sure I'll get mine finished, I've got the ideas in my head I'm just not entirely sure how best to execute them. I might have a burst of inspiration though

Also not wanting to be overly condescending but do you have an input jack plugged in? Even on mains power it needs a jack plugged in to work.

For some reason I'm doing guitars and electronics again, not entirely sure why.

8 days a week is kind of interesting, I love odd time sigs and 5/4 is one of my favourites, it kind of works in the verses but the choruses are just a mess. It's possibly a bad thing to say on Basschat but the bass is just too damned loud, the mixing is awful. Trooper is kind of interesting too, but the original vocals don't work at all with the music, which is just the same parts played on bossa nova appropriate instruments, not overly inventive.

Most useful is the tuner and LS-2, indispensable is the OC-2, rat tail and DD-20, I use it for tone-shaping, and it's my jury-rigged recording interface.

I wonder if it affects the feel: http://knobfeel.tumblr.com

I was offered one for £90 about 9 years ago, I turned it down because I thought I'd find a cheaper one......

I'm not sure I even want to attempt jazz, as Bilbo jazz is about feel and getting a jazz feel out of VST's is going to be an exercise in futility, so I'll probably focus more on the second picture, but the black and gold colouring of the first one does conjure some sounds in my noggin, so hopefully I'll get the vibe right.

[quote name='Perry' timestamp='1367307473' post='2063845'] It showed just how badly our parcels are treated. [/quote] Correction, it shows how badly parcels are treated at one depot of one company. Treating it as a microcosm of the entire courier industry is a little unfair.

Excellent stuff, I still can't get over how lovely that Private Universe cover is, the contrasting dynamics are inspired considering the original is so.... homogenous. Here by Pavement would be a great song to hear given the same treatment, if you take requests . The Settle is lovely, although the lyrics are pretty depressing, but those harmonics before everyone comes in are a touch of class, good job.

I approach writing songs the same as everything in my life (to my detriment) as puzzles to be solved. I start with a riff or a melody or a chord progression or whatever, and from there I know there's other parts of the song that belong together, I just need to figure out what they are. The satisfaction of finding the perfect riff to follow that chorus is for me, incomparable.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1367023440' post='2060511'] Yes, that's fine, so long as you buy or make me some top rate cider, and send it to me by courier. Here's my shipping address - Heaven. And it's a 'yay' on anal sex. Who said God isn't cool? [/quote]