Hi

[tomplus]

*burp*

[dapablo]

Hello and a welcome to you.



Hitch hiking, don't see much of that nowadays except for the occaisional oddball.

What was your last journey on the thumb ?

[tomplus]

Cheers,

My last trip was between London and Birmingham with 2 mates from Prague. 3 people was pushing it but we got lucky and 3 dudes in a minivan picked us up and took us all the way. Its true that you don't see many people doing it nowadays. Usually the people who pick you up are a bit mad or they've hitched themselves in the past.

[dapablo]

Haveing been a hitcher myself I'm always looking for the thumb when I see a person on the side of the road. Never had any problems, (touch wood).

Did your music come easy to you or has it been hard work, whats your favourite piece even if only of the moment ?

[phoenix_indigo]

what sort of music do you make yourself?

what instrument(s) do you play?

[tomplus]

Haveing been a hitcher myself I'm always looking for the thumb when I see a person on the side of the road. Never had any problems, (touch wood).

Did your music come easy to you or has it been hard work, whats your favourite piece even if only of the moment ?I wouldnt say it ever came easy, there are plenty of frustrating moments where i feel like i cant get the new beat im working on no matter how many times i try. But then i'll go away and have a break for a couple of weeks and i'll come back and all of a sudden i can play it. Its like my brain is learning it subconsciously while i'm focusing on other things. :)

right now im trying to learn jazz which is basically like learning a new language for me.. everythings been shuffled around and i just cant get it. imagine, being a rock drummer where almost everything is straight and on the beat then moving onto jazz where its pretty much the exact opposite. I suppose you could look at it as if you had to learn to speak english backwards or something.

so no its not easy, but i love playing and i feel good doing it so the progress part is just a bonus really. right now i love nothing more than having a jam with a few people...

anyway dont wanna bore you with my drumming ramblings any more haha

favourite piece, I think I'd have to choose a whole album as a piece and that would be Can - Tago Mago

check it out if you haven't already, its a journey. like a mix of funk, folk, jazz, acid rock and hypnotic tribal rhythms. all that from a bunch of germans in the 70s haha (no offence germans!)

[tomplus]

what sort of music do you make yourself?

what instrument(s) do you play?i make quite a few different styles really, from jazz to techno to noise to hiphop to drone :)... up until now i think everything ive done has been kind of learning how to use my equipment like synths to get the sounds i have in my head, which can be difficult.

I play drums mainly as you will have seen in the previous post but i'm trying to branch out into other melodic instruments that i can use to actually write with. I think thats one of my main problems with making a piece now is that it lacks a proper progression. I want to add some proper 'music' to my beats and sounds :) so far ive messed with the guitar and the piano and i think i like guitar more... maybe something like flute could be good too

[L.A.Matthews]

What Jazz do you like?

[tomplus]

John Coltrane, Miles (especially 70s fusion period) Sun Ra, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton and Herbie Hancock are a few of the better known ones. But my guilty pleasure is the late 60s/70s cosmic fusion stuff like Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Weather Report, Masabumi Kikuchi, Harold Alexander, Mtume, Oracy & Black Renaissance etc

I also dig a lot of soul, funk and blues

my all time fave Jazz LP is A Love Supreme by John Coltrane

[Wond'ringAloud]

Cumbrian here! so whereabouts in the Lake District are you? I'm here on the west coast. Trane eh! well I've a daughter here who loves him and she plays jazz, reckons it's in the blood and that it's a beast, you've just got to know how to unleash it. Bit pissed at present, listening to Ascension.

[tomplus]

how goes it? :)
West Coast eh? how is the coast here? I'm quite near Kendal myself. I've not really explored the coast much... grew up in bowness&windermere. Are there any other Cumbrians around?

Thats cool about your daughter, i agree with the releasing the beast. Is she into Ascension too? thats some challenging shit!

[Wond'ringAloud]

Well I suppose it depends how drunk you are on the west coast, pretty chavvy, much prefer your part of Cumbria.

Yeah! daughter is into all kinds of music, she's a member on here, should have a crack sometime.

[tomplus]

cool, will do

what instrument does she play?

[Wond'ringAloud]

Wind player, but she dabbles with other instruments. Loves guitar and piano.

[tomplus]

nice

[Peace-Phoenix]

Hi Tomplus, welcome to the forums. I like your name, makes me think of nonplussed every time I read it, which is a brilliant word. What's your favourite word?

[tomplus]

nunplussed :) hehe

fave word, mmmm i dunno... what about

resonate

[Wond'ringAloud]

Are you in a band at present, what's the music scene in like in Kendal?

[tomplus]

not at the moment, no...

don't really know that many people up here anymore, when i came back from london everyone i used to hang out with had moved on to university or whatever... theres a couple of weekly jam sessions in one of the pubs where i meet other musicians but most of them are only into playing rock. theres a culture center type place called the brewery what gets some interesting acts in... have you heard of the cinematic orchestra? theyre playing in april.

most of the time im at home makin music on my computer :p

[Wond'ringAloud]

Ah yes, I know The Brewery and the Cinematic Orchestra...I'm sure they've played The Sands Centre at Carlisle.

[tomplus]

Saw the Soft Machine there a month or two ago

they're one of my fave groups :)

I found out the other day that Elton John named himself after the Soft Machine's original sax player, Elton Dean...

little bit of trivia for ya :p

[lithium]

Hi tomplus,

Good to see TMWRNJ get mentioned in your introduction, that's proper old skool! Have you seen any of Richard Herring and Stewart Lee's solo stuff they've done since then? There are a couple of really good Stewart Lee DVDs of his stand-up stuff, and some of Herring's one man Edinburgh shows are being put out this year too. Did you see Jerry Springer: The Opera?

[tomplus]

lithium,
I haven't as it goes, I've seen a few recent Stuart Lee things on youtube, nothing of Herring. Haven't seen the opera either :/ I was a bit wary to be honest... how is it?

what a pair though.... the comedy from that time in the UK was pretty good. I don't suppose you ever came across Comedy Nation that used to be on BBC2 late at nighty on the weekend? that ones a bit more obscure. It was a funny as f**k sketch show, loadsa people who are quite well known now did bits on it... Like Sacha Baron Cohen, he was doing Borat years ago on that. It was around the same kinda time as TMWRNJ... I can't really get into the modern UK stuff like Mighty Boosh... it's so pseudo-random and just really boring to be frank... Bring back 90s comedy! that jimmy carr too, i hate him. eurgh

[Peace-Phoenix]

Do you like Peep Show?

[tomplus]

peep show is alright, not hugely into it

i dont actually watch much tv at all these days

[lithium]

lithium,
I haven't as it goes, I've seen a few recent Stuart Lee things on youtube, nothing of Herring. Haven't seen the opera either :/ I was a bit wary to be honest... how is it?Oh it's fantastic, I really think it's one of my favourite things Stewart Lee has done. I maintain that the real quality of it is in Lee's linguistic virtuosity, it's just incredibly subtle and clever. I think a lot of people don't see past the shock tactics, media satire and swearing - all great reasons to like something, but what always appealed to me about Lee and Herring was the way they play around with language in a really original way. That's something that you notice in Lee's standup especially. Just got hold of some DVDs of Richard Herring's Edinburgh shows:D

Uh. Question. What is your best memory of milk or dairy products generally?