we’ve made little secret of our affection for analog synthesizers. i’m not really sure where it came from; for me it was from being a little tired of guitars. for everyone else, i think it was because they like turning knobs. we’ve been through several iterations of analog — first, fake analog (alesis micron) then simple analog (realistic mg-1 — a moog synth sold by radioshack in the early 80s) to our current moog voyager, which is ostensibly the bmw of analog synths. for some reason, piling on the analog synths, especially in the studio, always brings the inevitable rick wakeman comment, which does consistently bring laughter — guys who like synthesizers are pretty funny right? well, i learned tonight, that entering ’synthesizer’ into youtube, brings you into a whole new world of rick wakeman. and it is no laughing matter…
i’m dealing with a nasty trojan that appears to have infected a fair amount of the code on our main site and possibly here as well. it does appear that i got it out, but i’m no tech support guru … let me know if you get any warning messages from any of the various appendages of the bridges and powerlines online empire.
i succumbed to intense blog pressure and bought frightened rabbit’s new record this morning. if i can take the liberty of saying a band is somewhat similar to us, i would have to say that these guys are a glaswegian version of b+p, of course with their own set of tricks. very anthemic album, and some nice vocal trapeze-work by their singer.
we have added another show to the calender: june 21 at the after the jump fest ! come for b+p, stay for heavyweights like the forms, pela, and health. it all goes to a great cause, and thanks to pat from poptarts for the hook-up!
and now, after our own jump, some photos (credit: ana blohm) from the show friday:
