Wicked Injection

[Purple Haze]

The postman finally brought me the Uber Sounds today.

If you didn't ask for it, too bad for you.

You think his posts are bizarre?

Bart Simpson meets the Central Scrutinizer,

I'm going to dance like a pogo,

I'm going to take the rest of the day off.

Thank you, Sparky.

 

[indyweasel]

I didnt join the board soon enough to see the thread to ask for one..

Do you have Napster by chance?? Could you load the songs on there??

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Thanks Purp.

Hope you got a big laugh out of it - my friends sure do.

But it's more like - "CAN YOU FUCKIN' BELIEVE THIS SHIT?" Sort of thing with them. Or, "OH MY GAWD!"

Don't know who else has gotten there's yet - but I must have sent 10 or 12 out.

You would know too - not everybody's cup of tea.

Wait til you hear some of the new stuff.

That phone message was real (not me) a wrong number left it years ago - nearly 20 now. Have no clue as to the caller - but man! It never ceases to amaze me - a guy like that actually lives!

In that first jazzy guitar thing - you can hear my new baby boy yelping in the background. That was on my new DeArmond hollowbody Jazz box, through the POD amp simulator - direct into the console.

Pogo's the hit single I guess - I don't much care for it - too comercial for ole Sparky.

Thanks again Purp.

Offers still open - just dare to give me yer address and it's yours.

 

[Purple Haze]

Play that funky music, white boy.

How come there's no liner notes?

I'm assuming you played all the parts, drum machine?

All of those guitar effects came from one box?

What brand of acoustic guitar are you using?

How much did you have to pay Mr. Bill for the back-up vocals?

Any chance of getting another blow-up doll? This one's wore out.

 

[Flagg]

What brand of acoustic guitar are you using?

A yamaha me thinks

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Okay, you asked for it.....

I love talkin' shop.

All parts by me, vocals (Mr. Bill too) drum, bass - except where obvious - like the drum machine and recorded TV parts (that's from the Twilight Zone episode No Change, my favorite) - any bad piano, harmonica, thumb-drum, toy ray-gun, toy sound effects, various shakers and sometimes I plat the drum machine pads live too. (Hey, I'm too stupid to figure out how to program it.)

I'm too embarrassed to perform in front of anyone - including the Shebabe - so I lock myself up in the studio or wait until the apartment is cleared. I could never invite any real musicians over to help with anything - even though I know and hang with many - I just think I suck so bad and add the stage fright and - freeze city. Many times I can't even stand the sound of myself over my headphones and flip the off switches in discust.

I'm extremly impatient and can't get into the "craft" of music - it's just way too boring to me. So, all this stuff must happen rather spontaneously and quickly - nothing on this thing, no single peice took more than an hour. I think of course you can tell.

I often think - man, if I could really take my time, work on shit, get some confidence - shit - I could be real fucking scary (hell it allready is right) but I mean real fucking scary. You know Beck meets Satan, cuts a deal with Jesus and they all gang rape Michael Jackson, live, during a Super Bowl half-time.

The acoustic guitar is an old Takamine, Dreadnaught with a cutaway and active pick-up. I use John Pierse strings. They are fucking great - a little expensive but they make these Japanese accoustics sing.

Lately I've been running everything through the Line-6 POD. Check it out - http://www.line6.com/Main/Products/images/ACF62.jpg

Check this sight out very thuroughly -

http://www.line6.com/main/main.cfm

This thing is great - today I was laying down some tracks and I was running my Shereton to it and selecting "Vintage British Blues and cranking the overdrive - Bam! Angus Young, just like that.

Liner notes - what for? Why? This ain't no professional deal - just stupid fun.

 

[Flagg]

A yamaha me thinks not.

 

[Purple Haze]

His piano is a Yamaha.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

My old Yamaha piano is......

A super piece of shit - I think something like $159 about 10 years ago. Out of the "hundreds of fucking voices" I only like about 4 or 5.

But - I process it with various guitar stomp boxes - of which I have far too many - that way I can get some pretty weird shit out of it. Not much of which is really on this CD - maybe next time.

Cool thing about some of the bass tone stuff though. I use a pretty standard Fender Percision but different cause it's got older (now) Fender Lace Sensor's on it - it's some kind of Uber Precision - anyway - I also got a custom Sparky pick-up on it - it consists of the receiving end of a disc-type Doctor's stethoscope and the rubber tube attached. In the open end of the tube I've got an old Omni-Directional Radio Shack Lavalier mic that I bought for $9.95 crammed into it. I duck-tape the disc of the stethoscope onto the back of the head stock of the bass. I'm tellin' ya - it gets a very close sound to an accoustic upright bass. I either mix that in with the pick-ups or just run it alone.

Pretty neat trick - buddies of mine recording Rock-a-Billy shit are useing the same method.

Other weird shit I do - McDonald's salt packets? I use'em for shakers. I also use my keys and jangle'em sometimes. Then too - I bought some of these very cheap sleigh-bells - the kind on a red plastic ribbon and I took'em all off and mounted them on a stick with light rope - a sleigh-bell shaker was born. I took a tamborine and mounted it - with microphone hardware on a long Atla goose neck (very springy) attached to a weithted desk stand - I bend the tamborine so it goes under my right foot - when I tap my toes on my right foot - tamborine jangle comes forth.

What else - I just got a tiny Aiwa Mini-Disk recorder - so I can secretly record street sounds and conversation with the homeless can collectors in my neighborhood - I've established a relationship with them - I give them all my cans and platic bottles - don't want Rudy's boys to get them.

Wish I had room for a drum kit - I started on drums when I was 12. And a B3 - I love B3's.

Only thing - woodwinds and brass - horn shit - man I can't believe how fucking hard horns are to play. Horn player's are nuts.