Re: [EVENT] Carnival of Souls, faetal, Filth

La Maline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message:
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> Alfred Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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>> on 07 Nov 2003 in uk.music.alternative, La Maline chanted thus:
>> 
>>> Alfred Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
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>>>> on 06 Nov 2003 in uk.music.alternative, La Maline chanted thus:
>>>> 
>>>>>> Pee poo belly bum drawers!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is that the support band? 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Oh yah. By the way, if you fancy a piece of my past:-
>>>> 
>>>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2570637948
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not the seller. I wouldn't have the nerve to ask 8.99 for the
>>>> thing. 
>>> 
>>> And postage not included.  That's outrageous!  Can you remember how
>>> much it cost originally? 
>>> 
>> 
>> What did singles cost in 1979? 
> 
> 50/75p?
> 
>> I think it cost about 50p to produce
>> each one (for a lot of 500) and they sold for about 1.50. We sold
>> them through distributors such as Rough Trade and Virgin who bought
>> boxes of 50 for 50 quid a time (ie a quid a record). I remember
>> getting a cheque from Virgin which was drawn on a Coutts bank
>> account, which exemplifies Richard Branson's grandiosity.
>> 
>> Of course we gave a lot of them away to family, friends and anyone
>> else who wanted one. We weren't in it for the money, maaan.
> 
> Ah, right.  I missed the "you" connection by a mile.  Alfred - Bass. 
> Doh. 
> 
> Perhaps you can settle an ongoing dispute we've had in another group. 
> It's regards Jack White, of White Stripes fame, and his Seven Nation
> Army track. 
> 
> The studio version [and apparently the live version too, which is said
> to be poor] sounds like he uses both a 6 string and a bass - but
> different sources say different things.  Some say he used a bass
> backing track to do it live, others say he used an octave divider to
> get the key.  Liner notes make no mention of the bass.
> 
> Wotchya reckon?

Funnily enough, i was watching him play said song on the mtv awards (or 
something) this evening, and i said (aloud!), "Who's playing the bass?"

Looked like just an effects pedal to me.

Are you the only two (3? 4?) left?

-- 
Neil