Britains got talent. :|


hasn't been off tv all this week its abysmal!

little tipsy atm, went to a friends got half way thru a 4 hr japanese film and came home, pretty tired, got a haircut today doin alrite, jamin in a nice studio in 8 hrs, ireland match tomorrow evening... good bank holiday planed, :)


OHHH HAAAAI LOD.

I don't find anything wrong with watching a horrible show once just to see how shitty it is for yourself, but if you find yourself watching it again there might be something wrong. For example I only watched jersey shore long enough to see that snookie girl get punched in the face, still glad I did.

i read one of those women hello magazines today getting my haircut in a womens hairdressers


a dude with super long hair walked by and we had eye contact for about 4 seconds as i was sitting in the charir, it was intense

hey this is an amateur question that doesn't warrant a thread (i figure one of you dudes could answer this in like a second)...

i just bought a guitar with two pickups (bridge and "middle") but i want to take out the middle pickup leaving only the bridge. after taking the pickup out would that turn the pickup selector into a kill switch? maybe stupid but i've actually never swapped out pickups before (i've been blessed with guitars with nice pickups)... the only real reason i want to take this pickup out is to make my guitar look cool anyways... but a killswitch would be a plus as well

It should work 'cause there won't be a signal going to the amp in the empty position.

Wire the unused wires that would have gone to the middle position to ground.


And Al:

[url]http://www.maxfarquar.com/2011/06/ronan-parke-simon-cowell-britains-got-talent-fix-letter-in-full/[/url]
SYCO's already had it taken down on another site

Sup gents.

Had the second to last exam today, went pretty well. Looking like postgrad might be possible after all... however I've got 24 hours to revise for my next exam and I've more or less only just covered the material, not done any examples or anything o.O

Then for beaches and nights out and parties and hilarity until the end of the school year. Hurrah!

was jamin there on sat wasnt happy with some pedalboard shizzle so i rewired and sorted out any issues with the pedals today all neat and cordinated

[img]http://a0.img.mobypicture.com/903a4c6ebe2529961e31544241f56048_view.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.mobypicture.com/user/alanmckenna/view/9719943[/url]
noice

i swear my guitar teacher is being such an arsehole

he didn't show up to my recital, which is ok i guess, not a particularly good move if you want to show that you take pride in your students but maybe he doesn't really care

but then he sends me this message today: [QUOTE]Have you had your recital mark yet by any chance? I'm doing some external examining at Leeds College of Music tomorrow, and just had a thought that it would be useful to know your mark as a basis of comparison. If you could let me know ASAP (if you've got it) I'd appreciate it![/QUOTE]
and i have no idea what to say because why should knowing the mark i got for my performance give him any idea of how he should be marking other performances, especially given the fact that he didn't even see the performance for which the mark has been given? whatsmore, isn't it pretty rude to just straight up ask for something like that?

the insinuation is that he feels like he can judge my performance purely based on what he's seen in the 2 lessons we've had since i started learning these pieces. This is a guy who has never seen me perform. in the last lesson we had he said 'you're a great player and all, but i've never seen you do something that was actually finished, completely polished and presented' and i was like 'ok, then come to one of my performances because you're not going to get that from me when we tend to have two lessons a term or less'.

i'm a completely different player when i'm performing, partly just out of lack of experience but i certainly don't play worse in my performances than when i'm practicing, usually quite the opposite. and he'll never know that in 3 years of teaching me. in fact, he didn't even ask how *I* felt about my performance, if I felt like i'd achieved my goals, got a good audience response or anything.

so i send him this back: [QUOTE]No I haven't had the marks back yet, I'm assuming it'll take like a week. I don't really understand the frame of reference you got from my marks if you didn't see the concert though - are you correlating the marks with the programme, and my playing in the practice session?

The recital went pretty well though.[/QUOTE]

and get this in return:[QUOTE]Somewhat pedantic, Niall... No, of course I wasn't at your recital, so can only guess at how you actually played based on my experience of you as well as my more general experience of how live performance affects the playing of myself, my students, colleagues etc. etc. etc. Around this time last year I did some external examining at Huddersfield, and it was really useful to compare with David's programme and mark.[/QUOTE]

fuck this cunt. i'm not playing ball with him.

Yeah, fuck him off completely. That's like saying 'well, you did crap in the lectures, I'm assuming you did badly in the written exam' without even looking. That's pretty much undeniably unprofessional, might even be worth talking to someone higher up the pecking order to try and see if you can make sure someone gives it a fair mark, if you don't mind burning your bridges with this guy.

I mean, fuck, electronics lecturers are hard enough to deal with, can't imagine what arts lecturers/teachers are like. The only reason I havn't filed a huge list of complaints as of yet is because I wanna keep the department sweet for if I need to convince them me doing postgrad is a good idea.

EDIT: Ah, I re-read and see what you mean, he's not actually marking it, he's just comparing someone else's performance to how he imagined yours would, then setting the marks in context?

But yeah, still a shitty attitude.

He's basically said "I don't need to see you perform I know how you would have done due to my years of experience etc etc". What a cum stain.

well we auditioned a potential new guitarist last night.

no good.

seriously, there are no good non-widdling guitarists in Lincoln or the surrounding area. or none with enough balls to give it a go anyway. fucking bedroom players.

finding people you like that actually work well is a bitch alrite

i started playing guitar with a friend of mine again, he records bass for some songs and is a good player, remember this song we made a couple of years ago before

[url]http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=4984052&q=hi&newref=1[/url] ...its actually not bad

/soundclick, anyone use it anymore? looks dangerously outdated twas before every to dick and harry decided to have music that could stream

[QUOTE=fingers mccoy;18532405]i swear my guitar teacher is being such an arsehole

he didn't show up to my recital, which is ok i guess, not a particularly good move if you want to show that you take pride in your students but maybe he doesn't really care

but then he sends me this message today:
and i have no idea what to say because why should knowing the mark i got for my performance give him any idea of how he should be marking other performances, especially given the fact that he didn't even see the performance for which the mark has been given? whatsmore, isn't it pretty rude to just straight up ask for something like that?

the insinuation is that he feels like he can judge my performance purely based on what he's seen in the 2 lessons we've had since i started learning these pieces. This is a guy who has never seen me perform. in the last lesson we had he said 'you're a great player and all, but i've never seen you do something that was actually finished, completely polished and presented' and i was like 'ok, then come to one of my performances because you're not going to get that from me when we tend to have two lessons a term or less'.

i'm a completely different player when i'm performing, partly just out of lack of experience but i certainly don't play worse in my performances than when i'm practicing, usually quite the opposite. and he'll never know that in 3 years of teaching me. in fact, he didn't even ask how *I* felt about my performance, if I felt like i'd achieved my goals, got a good audience response or anything.

so i send him this back:

and get this in return:

fuck this cunt. i'm not playing ball with him.[/QUOTE]

these situations are so frustrating. i had this TA in one of my classes this last semester and it's a long story but i must have hurt her feelings or something and she gave me a mark which was obviously unreasonable and had an effect on my grade for the class (in which my performance was otherwise immaculate) but there was absolutely no way for me to seek rectification. it was infuriating. if you dont have to be nice to him for the sake of your future or w/e, tear him a new one

[QUOTE=Blue_Moon;18533640]finding people you like that actually work well is a bitch alrite

i started playing guitar with a friend of mine again, he records bass for some songs and is a good player, remember this song we made a couple of years ago before

[url]http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=4984052&q=hi&newref=1[/url] ...its actually not bad

/soundclick, anyone use it anymore? looks dangerously outdated twas before every to dick and harry decided to have music that could stream[/QUOTE]

soundclick, yeah i remember that, think we've still got some recordings on there.

can't access it at work tho :(

I still have a soundclick, but I only use it instead of sending files, like, if I want to send a test mix to the other band members I just chuck it on there, and since no-one really goes on it it's pretty much private.

[QUOTE=Sad But True;18535003]I still have a soundclick, but I only use it instead of sending files, like, if I want to send a test mix to the other band members I just chuck it on there, and since no-one really goes on it it's pretty much private.[/QUOTE]

Pretty sure you can make soundclick actually private.

I'm not massively bothered if it is or not, just making a comment on how few people use it/view mine.

SO I asked my dad to steal some wood from his work so I could knock up a pedalboard and he comes back with this instead

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/coleman_phoenix/PICT0224.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/coleman_phoenix/PICT0225.jpg[/IMG]

also:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/coleman_phoenix/PICT0223.jpg[/IMG]

new monitors!

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/coleman_phoenix/PICT0204.jpg[/IMG]

New 7 string!

pedalboards massive

is it heavy

Yeah, but I decided that a little pedalboard to just have my individual pedals on would have to be the other side of the mic stand from my FCB so I just spec'd up a board that could fit the FCB and all my pedals at once.

which monitors are those? can't quite see in the pic.

did some more recording last night mysel, that guitar rig plug in for logic pro is continuing to surprise me.

looks like the project is starting to take off. the songwriter i'm working with has some good connections and we've been promised a slot upstairs at ronnie scotts once we get the act together. something to aim for in a few months anyways :)

Out of all the pedalboards I've seen, that's probably my favourite.

So, taking my first steps to finding out about postgrad research. Anyone here done/doing that? Trying to find as much info as possible tbh.

what pedals are those SBT?

[QUOTE=The_Mop;18537167]So, taking my first steps to finding out about postgrad research. Anyone here done/doing that? Trying to find as much info as possible tbh.[/QUOTE]
filled out a postgrad application for a comparative literature Msc, never sent it.

I'm thinking that I'm up for the challenge, but the problem is that the challenge is so undefined - for our department, there's 4 different research groups, 2 of which I'd be interested in, but I've been given all sorts of weird advice on how to go about finding information, and who to talk to and how to get a project. Some say to apply to the group, some say that it's best to apply through a specific lecturer, some say just hand an application to the school supervisor.

Then on top of that, I havn't got a clue where I'll end up, whether I'm academically capable, whether I'll have to do teaching, where to get funding, e.t.c.. all seems so mental. Gonna meet with the school postgrad supervisor on monday and see what he can tell me.

of course you're academically capable. don't question that, you don't have to be a genius to carry out substantial research in your field of interest.

checking out syllabus requirements cause i wanna do a guitar diploma, i apparently have to take grade 5 theory followed by grade 8 practical, fuck this shit i just did a degree

oh wait, i can go straight to a licentiate of the royal schools of music, awesome

getting a mim fender jazz bass five string tomorrow

woo

MÚTANT STYLE MULITI0QUOTE!!!!!



Eww short scale. I'd much prefer a 5 string P-bass.


[QUOTE=The_Mop;18537207]I'm thinking that I'm up for the challenge, but the problem is that the challenge is so undefined - for our department, there's 4 different research groups, 2 of which I'd be interested in, but I've been given all sorts of weird advice on how to go about finding information, and who to talk to and how to get a project. Some say to apply to the group, some say that it's best to apply through a specific lecturer, some say just hand an application to the school supervisor.

Then on top of that, I havn't got a clue where I'll end up, whether I'm academically capable, whether I'll have to do teaching, where to get funding, e.t.c.. all seems so mental. Gonna meet with the school postgrad supervisor on monday and see what he can tell me.[/QUOTE]
All of that sounded very confusing, or, at least very confusing to a drunk guy. So, what I'm gonna do is smile, nod, and agree with everything you've just said.


[QUOTE=Matt?;18537170]what pedals are those SBT?[/QUOTE]
It's a Blackstar HT Drive,(which isn't mine unfortunately), a shitty Behringer Chorus and a L6 Dr. Distorto. My Whammy, Muff, OD-2, Crybaby, TU-2 and FCB1010 were at the practice space so I couldn't get proper pics. Love the shit out of the Blackstar pedals though. The HT Drive and the HT DistX or whatever it's called really impressed me.


[QUOTE=jaklyons;18536226]Out of all the pedalboards I've seen, that's probably my favourite.[/QUOTE]
Because it's basically a big plank of pine my old man knocked up at work?

Love that shit. :D



[QUOTE=guitarbaz;18536203]which monitors are those? can't quite see in the pic.

did some more recording last night mysel, that guitar rig plug in for logic pro is continuing to surprise me.

looks like the project is starting to take off. the songwriter i'm working with has some good connections and we've been promised a slot upstairs at ronnie scotts once we get the act together. something to aim for in a few months anyways :)[/QUOTE]

Really getting into Fender basses recently, but, still ... a J-bass? get all over that P-bass mother fucker! Also the monitors are Alesis M1 mkii's.

anyone who wants their bass tone to have balls behind it gets a Jazz bass

There are far ballsier sounding basses than J-basses.

happy birthday to me

guys i'm just saying, no matter how much of a dick i am, i think you're all bros and would happily cook you all chilli, because i know none of you would condescend to vegetarianism.

also my chilli is fucking pimped. if AG was still around i'm sure he would appreciate it.

cheers all you cunts.

also sbt, how're you doing these days? working?

Bring me chili. And the queens meat.

that's on the cards, i'm down in two days. although the queen's meat will have to wait.

[QUOTE=fingers mccoy;18540166]happy birthday to me

guys i'm just saying, no matter how much of a dick i am, i think you're all bros and would happily cook you all chilli, because i know none of you would condescend to vegetarianism.

also my chilli is fucking pimped. if AG was still around i'm sure he would appreciate it.

cheers all you cunts.

also sbt, how're you doing these days? working?[/QUOTE]

You're a pretty sound bloke yourself sir. Happy birthday homeslice.

I'm doing somewhat okay. Looking for a job, going to a few counselling sessions, keeping up my prescription, etc etc. Personally I'm doing alright but I've developed a ridiculously short fuse and have fractured knuckles punching walls. Stupid I know.

How you fairing these days? You ever get round to uploading your performance from the other week?

bappy birthday fingers, I'd normally use this as an excuse to go get shitfaced but the weekend was damn intense and I'm still suffering the consequences

happy birthday fingers, have a good 'un

My internet got cut off a few days ago. However I'm still here. HTC internet thethering = awesome

[QUOTE=Sad But True;18540163]There are far ballsier sounding basses than J-basses.[/QUOTE]

auto-god tone

jazz bass tone is like universally good no matter what