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

on 11 Nov 2003 in uk.music.alternative, Neil chanted thus:

> Aw, Alfred.  You ended up as the bass player.
> 
> Were you secretly pining to be on lead guitar - were you?  Did you
> scribble down innovative chord sequences and dream of presenting them
> one day to your band, whereupon they would (in the dream) stand
> open-mouthed before the Beefheartian magnificence of your reinvention of
> popular music - did you? 
> 

No, because I could barely play simple bass lines, let alone lead guitar. 
(What's a chord?) I did later go through a bedroom electronics phase in 
which I succeeded in reinventing popular music through the combination of 
dance beats, squiggly freeform solos and samples taken from Radio 4 
("Please Mr Woolley, not again"), but the world must wait for that.

-- 
Alfred Armstrong                       
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