Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
New pedals! The compressor is mainly planned for use with the bass. And the Eyemaster gives me the HM-2 Swedish chainsaw sound. Gonna learn some Entombed I guess!
Interesting lens. Only 30 USD. Here’s a review. Tempted to just order one.
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Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Imagine Dragons are a Grammy-winning band from Las Vegas. They’ve sold over 20 millions albums so far, and they were the most streamed band on Spotify in 2018. In March of this year, they released the song “Follow You." Singer Dan Reynolds started the song at home, and then later, the band took it to the studio Shangri-La, to record parts of it with legendary producer Rick Rubin. In this episode, Dan breaks down the song, which tells a deeply personal story of his relationship to his wife.
For more, visit songexploder.net/imagine-dragons
Over the weekend, I made new prints in my darkroom. And in this post, I'm showing them.
This wasn’t bad. I certainly like the acting of the two. But 60+ instead of 80+ minutes would’ve made this more gripping. I’m sure this film was a big influence to the makers of Host.
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
You order some stuff on the Internet and it shows up three hours later. How could all the things that need to happen to make that happen happen so fast?
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Command discovery of the day: zless – for directly viewing zipped text files. Now I can stop manually gunziping and lessing server log files like an idiot.
file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
Instagram seems to have definitively locked out people without an account. I couldn’t open a single page for weeks now.
A shame some people only post there. But I’m not going to get an account.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan break free from the straitjacket to rewatch ‘Lethal Weapon 2’, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Joe Pesci. Hosts: Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Here’s my take on the melody and solo part of Spiritual Beggars’ Look Back. I love that melody.
But I’m actually not a very good lead player, so the solo part is a bit so-so. And it’s only loosely based on the original anyway. But hey, I’m doing these mostly for fun, and to be able to look it up later again. So that’s my excuse for being lazy.
I used the Pitch Fork pedal to shift down my guitar by one octave to simulate the bass track underneath. And I used my looper pedal to record this and play it back as the backing track.
The lead uses the EHX Cock Fight plus expression pedal for the Wah, distortion, a bit of delay and reverb.
Oh, and this is played in standard tuning while playing all the notes like on the recording. It’s very likely they had their instruments tuned to C standard.
Pedalboard-shot:
This was a waste of time. It’s just not something I enjoy (anymore?).
Honestly, the only thing that made me laugh was how strangely similar this one actor looked to a young Jackie Chan.
