Ringmix - Bang! by The Weathermen, with samples off my answering machine

My latest installment of weirdness, blogging it up for more general consumption, since it's really too good not to share.

Listen to it here.





The backing track is a song called Bang Bang by The Weathermen! Loved that tune...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weathermen_(band)

These were real people that left real messages on our answering machine, around '87-88. Digitized these about 15 years ago...way before computers made sound editing easy, was pretty much doing the "sound on sound" thing with one of those dual cassette decks...if you heard these now you'd figure these were Jerky Boys-style put-ons, but nope, these are 100% the real deal.

The first...I'm sorry to say used to be a close "friend"...she was a WHOLE bunch of evil, and yeah she called me "brother"....get this, she wanted to borrow a pack of Krazy Glue to put in some hated classmate's panties (Think it was a cheerleader rivalry revenge thing), and went apesh*t when I told her that wasn't such a hot idea. And...I eventually did pick up the phone, and (sorry to say) probably gave her the stupid pack of Krazy Glue.  I hope to God she never actually went through with her insane plan.

You see, I was totally smitten with her, even though most of my friends pretty much hated her guts since she was a totally stuck-up POS...and managed to get a couple of nice guys to be her boyfriend...the original draft called them "saps", but that's unfair to them, one in particular I had no problem with, he was a really, really nice (now we'd say 'chill') guy...though one other jock-type we all knew (*NOT* one of her steady boyfriends) bragged about what he was able to get her to do for him, which I could hardly believe at the time, we all figured he was lying or blowing smoke...but in retrospect, now believe was 100% true.

In exchange I got the "privilege" to hang around with her at lunch and do her homework, since I got pretty good grades in high school. She also was a student TA in my senior Econ class which for some unknown reason I was totally bombing, she managed to get on the teacher's computer to change my D to a B...I don't think I asked her to, she just did it...I still feel sick to my stomach about that.

The second miscreant...was some racist tenant who had it in for my dad, and apparently hammed up this totally racist, ugly, hick impersonation, or he really WAS like that, yikes!

...warning: foul/racist/sexist language...and actually quite scary/upsetting at the time...

Still lll...

As I look behind me
Watch the time gone by
And I stare ahead
To the new horizon

And we'll take some time out
To smile as we stumble
And laugh when we're down
And laugh when we're down

And you pass so close to me
To hold my emotions
I suppose you must love me
I suppose you must love me

And we'll take some time out
To smile as we stumble
And laugh when we're down
And laugh when we're down


--Durutti Column, 'We Stumble'. 

Vini and Stephen Patrick collaborated once, you see... Terry Malts covers a version of this tune on their 7" split, out on Loglady Records.

For the several of you that continue to follow AMH, I have been taking a bit of a summer break. Fret not, I still have many more of our recordings to share. For the purpose of making it easiest on everybody, non-YouTube links will be provided as comments, and will hereafter appear in MP3 format, as this will save me the expense of hosting. For those still wanting lossless, you'll be accommodated if you contact requests@atmyheels.com I'll work on fixing up older posts in time, many of which still have comotose links due to the Megaupload fiasco.

For the very most astute observers, you might have noticed several posts that have disappeared.  This was of my own choosing and save for one of the posts, not due to any DMCA-related takedown request. The circumstances surrounding the removal of these posts were most unfortunate, alas.

Shonen Knife - 2010-09-12 - Amoeba Records SF

Shonen Knife, in front of the gathered Amoeba horde 
(source: amoeba.com)

I only wish I read Amoeba Records' own Five Reasons To Go To See Shonen Knife at Amoeba.  Couldn't have said it better myself, and wished I could have heeded their advice.  Sundays don't tend to be gig days 'round my parts, sadly.

But my friend tomzero made it, and so did another taper by the fabulous handle of toolshirt.

Knife Knife (source: amoeba.com)

So, you have a multitude of download choices, since I like to think I've gotten adept at doing multisource blends, aka matrix mixes.  I'm particularly proud of this one, actually...I really feel that if done right, they make the blended recording greater than the sum of its parts.

Knife or spiel? (source: amoeba.com)

(Just so I don't have to hear it from the person who just doesn't want to deal with converting FLA-what's-it? to our beloved Fraunhofer's abortion of an algorithm.  I don't want to hear about either, it's a topic that's been done to death, so I've punted and am just using that format.)

The component versions are available as well, for those who can send me a REQUEST.

Recording details:

Shonen Knife
2010-09-12
Amoeba Records
San Francisco CA
USA

contrast cluse:

Matrix mix by lammah, combining two different recordings together

Components

(1) tomzero:   Sonic Studio mics -> 
Edirol R-09HR (24 bit / 96 kHz) -> 
Nero (level boost & downsample to 16/44.1) -> 
cd wav -> flac level 8
 
(2) toolshirt: Zoom H1 -> WAV -> 
CD Wave for track splitting ->you guys

(1) panned L30 -3dB
(2) panned R30 -5dB


Setlist

01 intro (photograchar) (parisensore)
02 Twist Barbie (false start)
03 Twist Barbie (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar)
04 Perfect Freedom (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar) (David Toshiyuki) (Alex Luo)
05 Capybara (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar)
06 Top Of The World [The Carpenters] (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar) (David Toshiyuki) (Alex Luo)
07 Gyoza (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar)
08 Super Group (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar)
09 BBQ Party (bayareanorthernsoul) (photograchar)
10 Sushi Bar Song (photograchar)

'So Adorable': (photograchar)
Autograph signing: (photograchar)

Think Amoeba was filming, you can see their video camera in the above footage, though to date only photos have appeared:

SF: http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/detail-1719#cat-most_recent_shows/page-1
LA: http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/detail-1710#cat-most_recent_shows/page-1