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1. I am insecure about the girth of jonny's peni-- er, feet.
2. I started opening bottles with my teeth because I read GIJoe's Barbecue could do it.
3. I was in the US Navy from 1991-1994.
4. The bassist for the Psychedelic Furs took a picture of me at a Swatch party in NY back in 1993 or 94.
5. My favorite number is 9.
6. One of my first jobs in LA was working for Jan De Bont and Lucas Foster.
7. I once got to drive Maria Grazia Cucinotta to her hotel and fell in love instantly!
8. I used to draw my own comics on folded and stapled notebook paper when I was young.
9. My nickname as a child was Bozo.
10. My nickname in the military was Skip because I wore down my knee muscles and limped about.
11. I graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Filmmaking.
12. I used to be a Christian.
13. I worked as a Special Effects crew member for my internship and made bombs and blew up cars. It was rad.
14. I used to have a thick southern accent.
15. My first car was a 1979 dookie brown Camaro with hubcaps and whitewalls affectionately labeled the brown turd.
16. I wish I would've stayed in the abusive Hollywood machine instead of switching careers to the interactive industry.
17. My bootcamp company made hall of fame.
18. I graduated with a 99.39 average from Naval Training School.
19. I graduated fifteen from the bottom of my class in high school.
20. My buddy and I once conned a chick at a bar in NY into buying us drinks all night because we told her we were talent scouts from Reprise Records.
21. I still have my first skateboard: a hot pink Powell & Peralta Sword and Skull.
22. I own a signed copy of the first appearance of Spider-Man (Amazing Fantasy #15) in pretty shitty quality.
23. I've worked in textile mills off and on from high school through college.
24. I was once an RA, a Head RA and a Summer Counselor in college.
25. I once asked John Ritter if I could call him Jack Tripper. His response, "As long as you don't call me Janet or Crissy."

That's pretty f'ing sweet.

The best part was when I Love Turtles broke his pick and didn't know what to do.
Bassist just did his job.
Drummer was totally into it.
Rockin' singer, dude.

...and I'm always glad to see other bassists play with a pick.

Thanks, my brutha!

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Some bassists resent the term 'Bass Guitar' because a bass is not a guitar in the same way that a tuba is not a trumpet. It would be like calling a guitar a bass ukulele, which would instantly cut a guitarist's sex life in half (unless they are Hawaiian). *promote

Some bassists resent the term 'Bass Guitar' because a bass is not a guitar in the same way that a tuba is not a trumpet. It would be like calling a guitar a bass ukulele, which would instantly cut a guitarist's sex life in half (unless they are Hawaiian). *promote

Bassist: "What am I gonna do with this crowd of biker-bar hangouts?"
Drummer: "And what am I gonna do with this gift card for a half-hour of free blue-screen studio time?"
Both: " . . . Hey. Wait a minute. Are you thinkin' what I'm thikin'? Ha ha ha!"

As a side note, I think that studded-leather is like a +5 to your AC. Pretty sweet.

I wish I had a beard like Trevor Bolder's (bassist).

I think the bassist and the drummer is the only reason this song actually gets to the end.

swampgirl you have no idea who this guy is, do you?
don't worry, i did the 30 seconds of wikipeding for you.

"He was a member of Fat Les, a band which also contained Britpop artists Damien Hirst and Blur bassist Alex James. Allen was also closely associated with the band New Order. He co-wrote their only UK number one single, World In Motion, and occasionally performed with them live."

"on the BBC's arts & culture programme The Late Show when Keith Allen as a guest on the show got into an extremely heated row with the panel over his view that comedy was now being hamstrung to appease rules of political correctness. Just before storming off the live broadcast, Allen - a veteran of the early 1980s wave of UK "alternative" comedians that had shocked many - had stormed at an Asian member of the panel that was for tighter controls that "It's not a chip you've got on your shoulder, it's a fucking vindaloo!" Allen later explained to press reporters that a vindaloo is as faux ethnic (this piece of Indian cuisine actually originated from Portugal) as those who masquerade as self-appointed spokespeople for ethnic minority communities' rights in order to censor arts and culture according to their own pet prejudices."

over your head, eh?

As the bassist, Dave Pegg said, "people don't realize how musical Ian is. A lot of that stuff on the records, it's right off the top of his head."

In fact, Thick as a Brick was pretty much written that way. The band had the studio for about 2 weeks, Ian would get up every morning and write music for 2 or 3 hours, and then take it to the studio for rehearsing and recording. 40 minutes of music was composed, rehearsed and recorded within 2 weeks. Pretty amazing stuff.

I was curious, so I went for a walk in Wikipedia:

"In 1969, Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, created the band to play songs written by the former Who roadie, drummer / singer John 'Speedy' Keen (miscredited as "Keene" on the single's label). Keen wrote the opening track on The Who Sell Out album, "Armenia City In The Sky". Townshend produced the single, arranged its strings, played its bass guitar under the pseudonym Bijou Drains, and hired for it eccentric GPO engineer and jazz pianist Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman (born Andrew Newman, in 1943) and the fifteen year old Glaswegian Jimmy McCulloch.

Originally titled "Revolution", but later renamed because the Beatles released a single of that name, "Something in the Air" captured post-flower power rebellion, marrying McCulloch's sweeping acoustic and glowing electric guitars, Keen's powerful drumming and yearning falsetto, and Newman's felicitous piano solo.

The single was Number One for three weeks, holding off Elvis Presley in the process. The scale of the song's success surprised everyone, and there were no plans to promote Thunderclap Newman with live performances.

Eventually a line-up, augmented by Jim Pitman-Avory (bassist) and McCulloch's elder brother Jack (drums), played a handful of gigs. Personal records say the band played live only five times, although Keen referred to a two-month tour, playing "everywhere".

"Something in the Air" appeared on the soundtracks of the films The Magic Christian (1969), Almost Famous (2000), The Dish (2000), The Girl Next Door (2004), and The Strawberry Statement (1970); the last having helped the single reach No. 25 in the United States. The song also appeared in the deluxe edition of the Easy Rider CD. In the UK, a follow-up single, "Accidents", came out only in May 1970, and charted at No. 44 only for a week, and an album Hollywood Dream, peaked in Billboard at No. 163. "Something In the Air" played at the end of the 26 March 2007 episode of The Riches on FX. An episode of the television sitcom, My Name is Earl also featured the song.

The members of the band had little in common. Newman once commented, in a 1972 interview with New Musical Express, that he got on with Keen's music but not with him personally, it was a similar case with McCulloch. Two more singles followed before the band split."

Hooray for mp3s. I'll pm a mediafire link in a few minutes.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Yes, I'm interested, By all means send it to me, provided it doesn't cost you anything. If it will cost you then I insist on paying for it. You're a righteous dude, my friend.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Well, the bassist plays with the pillows, who I'm a huge fan of, so I got into these guys quite a while back, and have loved them for a good almost two years now I think. They only released two albums, but both were really good, especially "Killing Pop," the one with Eleking as the opener. If you're interested, I could send it to you sometime.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Thanks for the translation! Great find, BTW.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I'm extremely partial to the entire song in general, from the slightly dark opening to the beautiful vocals (especially the chorus).

By the way, I posted a translation, so go ahead and take a look.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Give it a chance to get rolling..

Though the song does get better as it gets going, the intro is still great. I love dark, moody music like that. In other words, this whole song is awesome. I wish I knew the lyrics. (Don't worry, I'm not asking you to be Translation Boy.)