Nobody calls me a liberal and gets away with it, foo! As for mythical beasts, it is -true- that I worked for a music and arts newspaper in Washington DC three decades ago called the Unicorn Times. It was B.I. (before the Internets) so you youngsters can't look it up on Wikiplayer.
We were covering electronic music (live and recorded) back then too. Here's an article Ted White wrote about a local dude, Rupert Chappelle, who ended up in some mysterious mid-70s prog universe and never left: http://irupert.com/irupert/ozonepage.html Ted White, in his Dr. Progresso guise, was one of our staff writers and this is one of the columns I edited. He -is- on Wikibooyaka. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_White_(author) I can't take credit for assembling our stellar cast of writers, that was all the doing of editor Richard Harrington, who was also a Washington Post freelancer and is now the dean of Post music writers. Back then, a "mixer" was a skronk box that was designed to add distortion to guitars so that fanboys would think they were more punk. Of course, in the right hands -- The Cramps, for example -- that was the correct move. fh Oh yeah, vote: playing in: Rane MP22 (with crossfader pulled because I don't use it and don't like the insertion loss) playing out: Rane MP24 ----------------- >I have a custom made mixer forged from the steel of King Arthur's >Excalibur sword and certified awesome by Bea Arthur. Theo played on it >once at a gig we did a Burger King and it made him cry like a little >girl when he tweaked the EQs. It has patent technology AI that >predicts just how far you are going to kill certain ranges and does it >before you do. > >The guys in Optimo own one which they customized with supersonic gain >(I called it "Helenkellerification"), custom spoiler and neon lights >underneath. It sits on 22s. > >I almost made a third one for Phred, but he refused to get me the >proper amount of Unicorn blood that I needed to make it happen. He was >having liberal guilt fits about the slaying of an animal in the name >of sound. > > >
