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I got hit in the face with a running chainsaw when I was a kid. Cut the tip off my nose and a slice through my cheek right by the edge of my mouth. Funny the story came up in O-town this weekend and i've been thinking of it ever since. Don't remember it at all, just some pictures of me in bed with my face in bandages and some relatively(I mean really a fucking chainsaw!) small scars...

oh yeah, and in related Helix news, I see Bruce Arnold, Helix's original drummer all the time...he's still drumming, and rents gear from me. Also met Brian Doerner a couple times at work...and Helix just played in Kitchener(at a very small bar) recently. No R's where given by me.

Spectacular weekend all round - feel a bit bad for not seeing much of Ottawa besides my hotel/Maverick's/that place and it all went by so quick I can't believe it's freaking tuesday already.

Thanks so much to nero - you continue to blow my doors off and it was nice to have completely reverted back to 'fan' mode - not that working with you guys wasn't fantastic, but experiencing nero is just that much better.

Really, it was a reunion show as much for the band as it was for the crowd - It just feels so good to be surrounded by people you know - when the band hits that particular 'crunch/wail/what?' moment and you look across the crowd, lock eyes with someone while you both nod 'oh yeah' and smile the bejeesus outta yerself.

I think I actually did something bad to my shoulder from so much fist pumping and high-fiving.

Thanks so much to everyone for the smiles, laughs, memories and excitement that only seeing nero in Ottawa can bring...

ah finally off work for more than 24 hours!! I'm hitting the bong then hitting the road! Well, actually Denise is driving, i'm merely the stoned co-pilot for the first bit....but see you folks soon!

hilarious coincidence- I've listened to this show 2 or 3 times the last week - it's the only music on my mp3 player right now(broke the usb cord)and i've been on a soldering binge with this show as my mind-numbing companion. Makes me super nostalgic as it was my 5th or 6th show and when they broke into Roses are Free I'm pretty sure I screamed myself hoarse.

Anyways, the Drowned is a real treat, and not really being a BBFCFM fan, this one is pretty good.

hmm Cinci might be one of mine too - I had gone to Chicago but(as Giggles may remember) it was a movie-worthy weirdness/terrorfest at our frickin hotel after that show so looking forward to two nights in Cinci while staying at the Hilton was the earthbound equivalent of the step from purgatory to heaven....

This nero run tops it anticipation wise though... It's like Christmas and New Years mailed my present too late and it didn't arrive till Friday. I'm ok with it and instead of sending a card I'm gonna do it in person. Is there a Fuck Yeah! Smiley on this frickin message board or what?

Just buy all 3 albums and rock out. Then buy the entire Pavement discography and rock out.

uh yeah I was at the fest and besides the bombardment of advertisements and gimicky free shit(GMC guitar picks anyone?) totally aimed at our age group, it was great. Yes the Lips were off stage early due to curfew but same as at Hillside or Molson Amphitheatre...there's a time boundary in place, and if you can't get yer shit setup in time you are going to play a shorter set.

Hell by midday each day I was, uh, in my element. wherever that was.

Ferrite Beads on the cables help, both on power and signal cables. even ungrounding one end of the guitar cable can help, especially if you are running a Tele or similar single coil pickups...

if it's desperate...Faraday Cage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

carnivale was fantastic and amazing then shitty once you realized 2 seasons was it and it was signing out on a cliff-hanger...

I lent Greg Keelor(Blue Rodeo) a mirror from my car so he could do blow in a port-a-pottie at a quebec festival.

It's also on Pulp Fusion: Fully Loaded and Stone Cold Funk....

(BTW - Loose and Juicy is a must have funk compilation CD)

nice one - I love that Jefferson Airplane track-from the box set?

if your mp3 player works with the same cable and USB jack then it has to be the driver on his...you've ruled out everything else.

neat and all but with the mics attached you'd have to put the whole thing up on the stand...or stand there and hold it like it's a geiger counter...nice meters tho!

yup. best show ever. It's like a mash-up of my entire childhood with swearing....make that more swearing...

Right now i'm the manager of a 'pro audio' shop - I handle retail/rentals and a staff of 10 people. The actual company is alot bigger, doing production for concerts/corporate/etc...

I miss my last job where I was doing post sound and voiceovers for cartoons...definitely sounded better when asked 'what I do'

...also left me lots more time to lounge about on the net...and my house.

it's like the bastard child of George Harrison and Tom Selleck.

Beringer scares the poop out of me. Ever since I discovered that the tube in one of their tube compressors sole purpose was to light up.

actually, that's not even the tube lighting up. They put a little yellow LED behind it to make it look bright!

actually that's the half of gang starr i like the least...Premiere is the man. Ah well, I suppose he does have something to say, and he was one of the first hip-hop guys to work with the old jazz heads instead of just pilfering their albums...

I think i'm going to go crank 'Above the Clouds' right now...

If it's got a couple of vu meters on the top it's probably an old Radio Shack jobbie....hi and low could even be consumer -10dB level vs. pro +4 or broadcast +8....won't be powered as it's on rca's, and the 2x hi outputs will just be parallels so you could send one to a tape deck for recording and one to the speakers/receiver/whatever...

Happy Birthday Sharon! Remember - the 30's are the new 20's.

check out the m-audio stuff - great prices, lots of fiddly little bits between the different models to meet anyones needs...

and lemme know if you need used microphones/cables/etc...We get them at work all the time.

If outdoors is ok, I got married in Cambridge at a small amphitheatre on the river - Mill Race Park. Pretty nice, very un-churchy.

http://www.city.cambridge.on.ca/cs_community/parks.php?fid=50&cpid=41&did=7&sid=0&ssid=0&tp=0&grid=0

Yeah this is a good disc! David Holmes is the man - I wish he hadn't gone from making cool-ass music to soundtracks so fast - the soundtracks are cool but his discs(see 97's 'Let's Get Killed') are unbelievable.

The Fila Brazillia mixes are pretty facking good too-

Fluffhead I keep thinking we need to have a pint sometime...

Don't forget the last page - his TV pilot idea...