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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: THE WICKED AWESOMES "Punk Holograms" LP out now on Psychic Handshake!

« on: September 02, 2009, 03:34:43 PM »

IF YOU'VE ORDERED, YOUR ORDER IS PACKED.

IF YOU HAVEN'T, DO BEAR IN MIND THAT THE $5.00 DISCOUNT ONLY LASTS TILL FRIDAY NIGHT.

HOW CAN YOU AFFORD NOT TO?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: THE WICKED AWESOMES "Punk Holograms" LP out now on Psychic Handshake!

« on: September 02, 2009, 07:02:46 AM »

BWAGG, I think this is gonna be a double date kinda deal.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: THE WICKED AWESOMES "Punk Holograms" LP out now on Psychic Handshake!

« on: September 02, 2009, 06:30:43 AM »

SPECIAL ONE TIME OFFER!!!!!

We are going to go swimming in NY or VT this weekend.  Gonna mail out distro orders & we'd be happy to discount individual orders we can send US Media Mail....

SO, if you paypal before Friday evening....and live in the Continental USA.......

INDIVIDUAL ORDERS (PRICES ARE POSTPAID TO CANADA AND THE U.S.)

PSY-003 - THE WICKED AWESOMES! "PUNK HOLOGRAMS" LP --------------- $15
PSY-002 - RED MASS "SELF TITLED" 12" (last copies) ----------------- $10

PayPal money for either record to ------ psychichandshake [at] gmail [dot] com

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Columbus Discount Records Singles Club Year One

« on: August 13, 2009, 04:15:00 AM »

Y2 Goin' Double Weed!

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: TORONTO TERMBOIN'- Negative Approach, Career Suicide, Shitty Limits, Drunkdr

« on: July 30, 2009, 07:47:34 AM »

YO,

Who in Toronto is booking this show....

FRI, AUG 28

THE SMITH WESTERNS w/ Sunday Sinners, Give Us The Daggers @ Silver Dollar, $7 at RT, SS

Can the Wicked Awesomes get on this bill??  Having no luck lining up anything for the band in TO on the 27th, but the band has told me they'd be happy to stick around for a good show on the 28th or 29th.

Oh, just figured out it's Dan Burke.  I'll contact that dude.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: my professor just tried to get me to join his pyramid scheme

« on: July 28, 2009, 06:27:35 AM »

Speaking from a certain amount of experience, I'd say that it's best to have a handle on how bureaucratically fucked up the institution is before you try to fight the good fight.  These places are all fucked up businesses guilty of all kinds of duplicitous and dubious shit & full of people desperate to maintain the status quo.  I assure you that even stone cold evidence of "wrong-doing" will not guarantee that any action will be taken against this prof.  There's a hierarchy that your complaint will need to climb, so get ready to spend some time on this.  Noboday wants to address problems - they want to stay afloat, so expect the dept. head to pass you onto a dean, who will pass you onto something like an ethics board, who will pass you back to the dept. head, and so on (also, expect about 4 weeks between each step).  If you ever get  to someone with the sovereign power to decide the legitimacy of your complaint, they will probably decide against you...and generally because the time since the infraction has rendered the evidence irrelevant.  Really, don't expect that you will be able to address this through proper channels - unless you're at some super hippy dippy day spa of a university.  By becoming a clusterfuck of colossol stupidity & economic single-mindedness, the North American university is better suited to crush insubordination...small or large...than ever before.  Shitty, I know.  If you really want to do something, your best bet is to lure this prof into an even more compromising position then threaten to go public - probably a psychologically fragile dood/lady who would be happy to resolve the issue under the table.  

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Non-Music Shit / Re: amp questions

« on: July 22, 2009, 06:51:35 AM »

Since when does Tim have a tube amp?

Na, he had the combo Fender M80 solid-state... and I had a ridiculous head + 4 x 12 version of the same.

After far too many years on a Fender M80 solid-state head + cab, I recently scored my first tube amp: Traynor YGL - Mark III from 'bout '73.  Apparently these Traynors can very easily duplicate the sound of an AC30 with a pretty straight forward mod, but for now I can't find anything wrong with the amp's present sound.  Just perfect.  Cleaner than a Twin, or, it doesn't break-up in the same way...but I like that...a good sound easily changed with a good fuzz pedal.   

The Fender was actually pretty good, and I was amazed to discover that the dude in TV Ghost gets his sound outta the same amp, but I couldn't figure it out.

Anyway, very happy with the switch to tube, even if I don't know jack about this stuff.  Thing is, the tremolo doesn't work, though apparently it did before the seller sold it, and I would like it to now.  Someone has told me this is a simple matter of changing the rectifier tube.  Is this true?

No - that should not be the case.  The rectifier basically converts the AC line current coming into your amplifier to the DC voltages that are needed in the amp.  It "rectifys" the power, so to speak.  There are other tubes in your amp that relate to the tremolo circuit; possibly a preamp tube like a 12AX7 or some smaller pentode like a 6K6, etc.  The problem with the tremolo may be related to its specific tube, but it may not be either.  If you can see a circuit layout for your amp, you might be able to figure out which tubes relate to the tremolo and then try changing them out.

Thanks for the advice.  Those 12AX7s are in there, so I'll try them first.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: amp questions

« on: July 22, 2009, 04:50:55 AM »

After far too many years on a Fender M80 solid-state head + cab, I recently scored my first tube amp: Traynor YGL - Mark III from 'bout '73.  Apparently these Traynors can very easily duplicate the sound of an AC30 with a pretty straight forward mod, but for now I can't find anything wrong with the amp's present sound.  Just perfect.  Cleaner than a Twin, or, it doesn't break-up in the same way...but I like that...a good sound easily changed with a good fuzz pedal.   

The Fender was actually pretty good, and I was amazed to discover that the dude in TV Ghost gets his sound outta the same amp, but I couldn't figure it out.

Anyway, very happy with the switch to tube, even if I don't know jack about this stuff.  Thing is, the tremolo doesn't work, though apparently it did before the seller sold it, and I would like it to now.  Someone has told me this is a simple matter of changing the rectifier tube.  Is this true?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Selling Books

« on: July 22, 2009, 04:31:27 AM »

Yeah, even better than selling back to the campus bookstore (who then marks up & sells to students), is setting up a table in front of the bookstore & undercutting that mark up.  I've "sold out" every time I've done this, and saved the hassle of a sale here & a sale there.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: TORONTO TERMBOIN'- Negative Approach, Career Suicide, Shitty Limits, Drunkdr

« on: July 21, 2009, 05:32:06 PM »

HEY,

Can folks in OTTAWA & TORONTO hook up shows for the Wicked Awesomes on August 26 & 27?

You can reach them through www.myspace.com/wickedawesomes

I think the whole leg "w/Ultrathin" has yet to be booked.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Fixing cigarettes...

« on: July 14, 2009, 03:58:58 AM »

Me too.

This skill is particularly handy 'cause I get my smokes from a dude like this:



That bag in his hand is 200 smokes & runs 'bout $8 - $15 CDN.

How can I afford not to smoke?!?

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Music Shit / Re: Trent Ruane pulling Mummies ebay auctions?

« on: July 08, 2009, 03:34:06 AM »

And presumably, a block on the free distribution of these bootlegs could inspire additional bootlegging, as fans are presently unable to score copies of what's out there.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Fashion Thread

« on: July 05, 2009, 10:21:13 AM »

I like when girls wear their pussies.

In my late highschool years, or maybe shortly after the end of highschool, me and my buddies had an idiot sorta friend.  He and a bunch of my buddies worked at this rich golf course that held a big Xmas party for the staff.  Everybody would get loaded.  At the end of the night, a friend's Mom picked everyone up, including this idiot dude, and a girl or two.  So, the idiot dude was drunk in the back row of the mini-van with one of these girls when sinsterly mumbled to the girl, "hey, hey, whatta you got on under those panties?"  I assume she was wearing her pussy, as do most, but this remains a hilarious thing to ask a lady.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Walkman vs ipod

« on: July 02, 2009, 05:45:34 AM »

Got my ipod & computer stolen a couple weeks ago.

A friend gave me his old walkman & it's super rugged & sporty.  I think I can go swimming with it!  Will report back on that.  Can you swim with an iPod?

Listenin' to old Sonic Youth tapes, Pink Floyd, NWA, Tribe Called Quest, and... NoBunny.  I'm actually getting more variety than an average day w/ the iPod.

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Music Shit / Re: The Wicked Awesomes - Punk Holograms

« on: June 24, 2009, 09:11:03 AM »

HEY EVERYBODY,

Happy to hear folks are digging it.  Album will be out in a shortly.

So you know, I subbed out the tunes on our MySpace for HiQ Mp3 versions.

Currently Streaming from the LP PUNK HOLOGRAMS:

- Death Sunglasses
- Henz Teeth
- Streaming Intelligence

Have a listen at www.myspace.com/psychichandshake

The Wicked Awesomes! will be on tour soon.  I've yet to see the band live, but I'm very excited to get to.  By all accounts they are killing it these days. 

The schedule is on their myspace: www.myspace.com/wickedawesomes

Send 'em a note if you can help out with the empty slots.  THANKS!