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I keep coming back to the guitar lead after the first verse and chorus of Soft Machine. It is such a great lead -- so concise, textural, melodic, and narrative -- and nasty tone! It's perfect! Gets me every time.

Anyone notice the general lack of guitar solos on this record (not that I'm really surprised)?

if i may quote androo from the very first issue of state of mind magazine...

THE SLIP: Sonic Enviormentalists

(when questioned about people's attitudes towards the new sound)
"I don't really see that we've abandoned anything necesarilly. We're moving more towards a group sound, and maybe people are hearing less of the individuals. We used to create a lot of music where there were solos. It was like half of our songs were a melody, then there would be a guitar solo, a bass solo, and a drum solo. And lately the music has been more about this one sound, a sound of a unified body. ... Lately it's been more about creating a wash, where there are a lot of overtones and chaos that's happening as a bed for the music to be felt. I'm a lover of creating an atmosphere. It really helps me create music when we can create a bed of sound underneath our songs.

what is this IKE business?

and, to Colin, I have to ask, where did you take that picture in your avatar...I know of a chinese restaurant in maine with the same name...i'm sure there are more though.

i think the guitar lead toward the end of mothwing bite is insane, wouldnt mind more shit like on that on the album

drewry wrote:i think the guitar lead toward the end of mothwing bite is insane, wouldnt mind more shit like on that on the album

definitely. The doubling of notes that brad always does gets me every time.

the first chords to soft machine are sweeet where it just swells up

to booher...
i got that pic online but i was in maine last summer with the family and drove by it... made me laugh
im pretty positive that the pic on my avatar is the maine location

by the way, i hope you enjoyed that little article and it wasnt a waste of time cus i had to rewrite it, copying it from the actual article.

Ogunquit, maine, by any chance? My grandparents live up there, it's right down the road from them, haha. And, yeah, the sign is hilarious.



As far as disappointments on IKE, I'm kind of upset Brad trashed the second verse in If One of Us Should Fall.

mm Ogunquit

It's real nice up there. Too bad it's full of Canadians and gays (not that there's anything wrong with them!). I'd prefer good looking females You have to bare with Hampton Beach, NH for that.