^ Why the unsticky? Not complaining, just curious.
sixpartseven said:
That's me in the center, wasted and passed out.
Your hand is covering your face though... and all your friends seem to have suffered horrific facial trauma. :D
leftwing said:
more than like, mate.
there has been huge bushfires throughout victoria and a few in new south wales as well i think. the death tally in the victorian fires has reached over 200 people, it's australia's worst "natural" disaster ever. i say "natural" because there is speculation that some of the fires were lit by arsonists. if they were i hope they catch whoever did this and punish them for life. death is too good for these kind of people, that's letting them off too light.
Yeah fuck those motherfuckers, what drives a person to do that kind of thing? I hope right now while they're waiting for the fuzz to slam down their doors they are drowning in a pool of guilt. 200 people dead. I can't even imagine what it was like to be there.
I raise my glass of codeine and 20mg valium to those firefighters down there.
leftwing said:
it's alright though, mr blonde is younger, fresher meat
Was that a valentine? For me? :D
Sorry brother I don't really do Hallmark holidays, but right back at you.
Me, my bass player and my keyboardist brother got together to practice some music tonight. We warmed up with a few Pink Floyd songs, we did Any Color You Like, Brain Damage and Eclipse all together just like on the album then Money and then Comfortably Numb. We played them all straight like the album versions except for Comfortably Numb which we do heavier and with our own solos.
Then we did my six song concept piece, all in a row like I wanted and segued together like I want to record it. It was such a great feeling playing it, only thing was that two of the songs we are still composing so we jammed them and the whole concept piece went for like an hour and forty minutes of straight playing. I'm fucked up and feel like typing so let me explain to you all my concept piece.
1) Ladders - Basically this song is about competition in business, trying to get ahead of your colleagues by being backhanded, trying to climb that ladder and knock them off. It sounds a little bluesy, and has cool clavinet, bass and guitar solos.
2) The Crash Sequence - An instrumental. This one is meant to represent the financial markets and the conflict between the rich and the poor. It starts off with a kinda disco, flashy sound to represent materialism and the shallowness of wealth. It then has a cool part where we go up a whole octave chromatically one semi-tone at a time, representing the stock markets rising. It then plateaus for a while, then comes all crashing down representing financial turmoil like is happening now, then goes into a somber bit to represent recession, e.g. The Great Depression.
3) Rifts - This one is about how friends and family can become distanced from one another, and how sometimes you can't go back to how things and also about whether these disputes can be resolved. It has a dreamy kind of sound to the verses, but then becomes harder for the choruses. Piano and guitar solo for this one.
4) The Break Up - About fighting between lovers. Has a hard rock sound at first and when I get around to recording it plan on having cool double tracked guitar parts and screaming organ. It then changes halfway to a different sounding piece composed by the other guitarist in my band, him writing personally about a split between him and a girlfriend he was close with.
5) The Corridors of Power - About political intrigue and also references the McCarthy era commie witch-hunts. Has a psychedelic sound to it, in the middle gets funkier though and then a part of Ladders gets played here, musically showing the ties between big business and government. The vocals in this are kinda spoken word I guess.
6) War - Well, that's the working title. My bass player has composed/planned most of this one, it's another instrumental and will musically be representative of World War II. The beginning part is the same depression piece from the end of The Crash Sequence, then goes through the beginning of the war, to the gloom and doom of Europe, to victory against Germany and then the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima. It ends with a D-minor requiem similar to the Last Post, with a trumpet solo playing as a tribute to fallen soldiers.
Damn, what a long post.
