Rock Stars on message boards

He closed the site and took his bat and ball and went home.

I've no idea what name he post/s/ed under , or if he actually post/s/ed at all, but i must admit i was kind of thrilled a bit.

Several lists pertaining to specific analog synthsisers have a few "names" on them, sonic boom, as mentioned above, members of c0il and so on.

You need to relisten to The Gold Experience and Emancipation -- he's been riding the net hard for about ten years plus.

this is why if i'm ever even moderately known by anyone outside some friends, i will never reveal anything ever to anyone. ever.

You could tell when she was fucked up too. Up until 2002 her posts were brilliant, but around that time you could just tell something was going on. And then she stopped. Her last post on the Internet, that I know of, was in March 2004.

I remember Jim O'Rourke being on the Sonic Youth mailing list. He didn't post under his own name; but I knew his email address (this is why people should never do CC emails). I didn't really gave it away, but I did make a joke about him (although not saying it was Jim O'Rourke) doing promo emails as he sometimes recommended records he had produced.

Theres a lot more to the story than what I just wrote. The dude was making wild acusations and lashing out at innocent by-standers.

The best thing is when they post about themselves under third person on the net and get angry and expose themselves. Usually they're pondlife underground rappers who've come out over the past ten years.

Cannibus wrote incredibly detailed, lengthy ripostes to criticisms that he can't pick beats for shit and was only ever good on mixtapes on sohh.com and hhi.com under an alias account.

The guy from Company Flow who isn't El P was involved in the "remove that review, homie" situation and El P himself plus Cannibal Ox talked shit on hhi.com to the wrong person which resulted in one of the Can Ox clowns getting knocked out and ending up getting his jaw wired.

Joe Budden got caught defending himself under an alias account and hyping himself up with "YO YOU HEARD THAT NEW BUDDENS TRACK??..SHIT IS FIRE!!!" threads and i think he also had a messageboard beef with Yukmouth. Ditto The Game.

There's some lame underground rapper called Immortal Technique who's quite popular with backpackers and skateboarders that used to register various alias accounts to back his main account up whenever he'd get dissed but didn't realize that his IP was visible and then went on a rampage threatening to kill "message board crackers".

And then there's that lanky streak of piss Copywrite who has gotten beaten down twice over his posts on the net by other underground rappers and was exposed dissing his friends and label mates under the flava bitch moniker and making posts about some song of his with a Jay Z dis in it and wondering if Jay Z would respond. Pure comedy.

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he linked to my grime bog on his LiveJournal

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c-money was down in da swindon hizzle and he be sayin "a-train why dont you be representin tha xtc krew on the internet yo" and i be like what da fuck is this shiznit

but now i be ownin tha internet hood yo on dis river of orchids mah homiez

Not that Wayne isn't approachable enough, but when our false idols start writing regularly, it's not too long before they are revealed to be regular folks. It takes the shine off of em a lot faster than a National Enquirer expose.

I have no problem with that at all! I agree I think it's cool that the Lips have a member keeping tabs on things, etc., if the others aren't interested or too busy to do otherwise, but surely the point of the Fearless Freaks documentary in part was to capture the core three as 'regular folks,' not in the sense of being falsely humble or down with the kids or whatever, but people with their own concerns, struggles, comforts and thoughts. If anything that boosted my respect for them by a huge amount.

he posted a lot until 2003 or so, im not sure why he stopped.

And Lady Sov is a pretty mighty presence online.

He discovered it was more effective to call people at home and leave messages on their voicemail.

I salute their tormentors.

When Ron Jones left, Steve started taking over more of that instrumental role, but since he plays a LOT of instruments, it was more of a decisive move than might be imagined. There was a transitional period where they toured with Steve doing double-duty -- he prerecorded his drum parts and they projecting him playing part of the time on a screen behind the band (this was when I saw them back in 1999), while he was otherwise onstage handling guitars, keyboards, etc. This eventually settled into the touring drummer deal, with Steve onstage doing his thing otherwise -- can't remember if they have another touring guitarist now as well but I believe they do.

It's interesting that U2 don't seem to have any extra musicians on stage - they quite blatantly use a lot of sequenced stuff instead.

Depeche Mode taught them well (and that ain't a criticism of DM, more like U2 realizing, "Oh right!" -- you can bet the two groups still keep close tabs on each other thanks especially to the Corbijn/Flood crossover influences back in the late eighties/early nineties).

*jaw drops*

This would be an interesting thread in itself.

I'm pretty sure a lot of the Edge's patented multitap delays kick in automatically, too - or are controlled by a general MIDI clock. They're always too perfect to be done by hand (or by foot, as it were) - since each note begets a hundred reflections, it would be easy to screw up half a song by mis-timing one stroke.

On a Bob Dylan message board awhile back, people were debating the meaning of Blowin' In The Wind. People were assigning all sorts of hidden symbolic meanings to it, really delving deep into it. Then one post says "You're all wrong. It was just a naive plea for peace written by a very young man." The board starts in with, "how do you know" and then the poster replies, "Cause I'm Bob." They ask for proof and he says, "I'll play Highlands at my next show."

Guess what Dylan opened with at the next concert.

that's true, i saw a doc about 2 years ago on the Elevation tour, and it had 2 guys (can't remember whothey were) under the stage. one did guitar, the other, keyboards/synths and various effects....

Indeed, she's Bono (not Larry).

and then there is the whole ninjatune thing .. strictly kev, yarah bravo etc all hangout on the forum over there ..

sort of. it synthesizes other notes to play in harmony with yours. so you play a C, and if it's set right, it will bend the pitch of that up to E, so you can sound like you're playing something more harmonically rich than you actually are.

it's just a tool.

Ha, that sentence was funny for some reason.

Sometimes it's a bit optimistic to say they "use" the internet... Fripp still uses AOL.

Just Blaze responding to comments to this interview post :

http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000245.html

However, most of his posts weren't that coherent.

Soma? Fuck that shit -- BOOZE AND ALLERGY PILLS.

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I salute their tormentors.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), September 24th, 2005.

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