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FBI Demands Its Logo Be Removed From Wikipedia

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FBI Demands Its Logo Be Removed From WikipediaThe FBI is hopping mad at Wikipedia! Apparently they've threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove a picture of its official seal from the FBI entry at once. Wikipedia's lawyers, while squelching laughter, have replied "no."

The FBI's lawyers claim that keep a high-resolution image of its official seal violates federal code banning the manufacture, sale or possession of items bearing the insignia of federal offices.

The New York Times explains Wikipedia's response, which is essentially "oh shut up FBI."

The problem, those at Wikipedia say, is that the law cited in the F.B.I.'s letter is largely about keeping people from flashing fake badges or profiting from the use of the seal, and not about posting images on noncommercial Web sites. Many sites, including the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, display the seal.

You legal nerds out there might enjoy a brisk, pleasant read of Wikimedia general counsel Mike Godwin's entire letter to these FBI trolls. Godwin, a sassy fellow, accuses the FBI of deliberately misrepresenting the law:

Finally, while I sympathize with your footnoted desire to claim that "the plain meaning" of the statute supports your broad view of Section 701's scope, we note that you specifically removed the language that communicates the plain meaning of "other insignia." In context, this seems an ironic stroke.

The FBI is definitely going to raid their offices, like, tonight.

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If you use several Google accounts on a daily basis, you would probably like to be logged in to all of them at the same time. You have to use several different browsers to achieve that currently.

Now, according to Google Operating System, Google is testing a feature that will let users log in to multiple Google accounts in the same web browser. Personally, I have at least four different Gmail accounts open at all times, and this feature is very high on my wish list.

Google services that are currently being tested include Gmail, Reader, Sites, Calendar, Code and Docs. There is one limitation: if you turn on multiple sign-in, you cannot access Gmail in offline mode.

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Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?

Well, you’re not alone. In the past, I was not good at saying “no”, because I didn’t want to hurt the other person’s feelings.


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Video on the Web

 

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Diving In

Anyone who has visited YouTube.com in the past four years knows that you can embed video in a web page. But prior to HTML5, there was no standards-based way to do this. Virtually all the video you've ever watched "on the web" has been funneled through a third-party plugin - maybe QuickTime, maybe RealPlayer, maybe Flash. (YouTube uses Flash.) These plugins integrate with your browser well enough that you may not even be aware that you're using them. That is, until you try to watch a video on a platform that doesn't support that plugin.

HTML5 defines a standard way to embed video in a web page, using a <video> element. Support for the <video> element is still evolving, which is a polite way of saying it doesn't work yet. At least, it doesn't work everywhere. But don't despair! There are alternatives and fallbacks and options galore.

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Van Halen *JUMP Synth Fuck-up 'Eddie is NOT out of tune'

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Van Halen *JUMP (snot was coming out my nose) *synth fuck-up

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Just so it's CLEAR. Eddie is NOT out of tune.

 

The lead synth is a backing track that is being played at the wrong sampling rate... it is playing at 48k when it was supposed to be 44.1K That makes the ENTIRE song almost 1/4 tone off concert pitch... Roth can change his vocals but eddie was screwed from the word go. Every note he plays is out of tune by a 1/4 tone... What a nightmare!

I can't believe he actually played through it and committed 100% and actually "jumped"

WOW

Trivia time: 11 years ago today, Diamond Dave was fired from Van Halen after rejoining the band in June. Dude currently has a job — and from many accounts the reunion tour’s going well — but after Eddie Van Halen flopped through an out-of-tune “Jump” in Greensboro last week, looks like the boys need to fire and hire a guitar tech.
*synthesizer fuck-up: intro at wrong setting (44.1 KHz /48 KHz: REUNION 2007)
GREENSBORO, NC (*"Jump"s synthesizer intro at the wrong setting 44.1 KHz /48 KHz: REUNION 2007)
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a musicology graduate student/mogul sent me a snap-like, upbeat momenta this morning. Van Halen is starting to play their old hit "Jump"*'s synthesizer intro at the wrong setting...

Pretty hysterical. Speaking of which: Check out Dave’s giant inflatable mic ride and lift … preferably with the sound off (no wonder he has a job!). But was Eddie’s monitor off? Did he figure he’d Sonic Youth it? Did he forget how it was supposed to sound?

Who knows, but maybe it’s the stinking, screeching incident that’s driven the finger-tapper into teaming with a … flower shop? Ah, sweet sweet smells. All you have to do is order a floral arrangement in excess of $100, and you’re entered to win some sweet swag. First prize is a signed guitar, which is cool enough (you can recreate your own out-of-tune solo at home!), but EVH “striped tennis shoes” valued at $5,000? Seems like Smashing Pumpkins pricing.


Long live 44.1khz!
This is just an appreciation thead for 44.1khz. I'm not sold on "HD". I think it's a major marketing ploy. Most mics and pre amps don't produce frequencies past 20khz anyway. And yes, I know the argument, it's what you can't hear that makes the freqencies you do hear sound better. O....K...?

When I use HD, I get twice the sample rate, but I need two times more hard drive space, I get two times more crahes and spend twice the money. No thanks. (Even though I'm using Pro Tools HD). I did the last two projects at 96khz. What a pain in the ass!!!

I like how 44.1 sounds. Now here comes the....

-- 44.1 KHz as opposed to 48 KHz;

Description

This article is from the CD-Recordable FAQ, by Andy McFadden (fadden@fadden.com) with numerous contributions by others.

2-35] Why 44.1KHz? Why not 48KHz?

(2001/01/05)

The "Red Book" specification for audio CDs chose 44100 samples per second,
where each sample is 16-bit stereo PCM. PCM is a fine choice for encoding
audio, stereo is widely recognized and supported, and it's very easy to
manipulate data in 16-bit quantities with existing hardware and software.

Why 44100? Why not make it a round decimal value like 44000, or a round
binary quantity like 44032? Why not 32KHz or 48KHz?

In general, the human ear can hear tones out to about 20KHz. According
to a smart fellow named Nyquist, you have to sample at twice that rate.
Because of imperfections in filtering, you actually want to be a little
above 40KHz.

According to John Watkinson's _The Art of Digital Audio_, 2nd edition, page
104, the choice of frequency is an artifact of the equipment used during
early digital audio research. Storing digital audio on a hard drive was
impractical, because the capacity needed for significant amounts of 1 Mbps
audio was expensive. Instead, they used video recorders, storing samples
as black and white levels. If you take the number of 16-bit stereo samples
you can get on a line, and multiply it by the number of recorded lines in
a field and the number of fields per second, you get the sampling rate.
It turned out that both NTSC and PAL formats (the video standards used in
US/Japan and Europe, respectively) could handle a rate of 44100 samples per
second. This rate was carried over into the definition of the compact disc.

The sampling rate for "professional" audio, 48KHz, was chosen because it's
an easy multiple of frequencies used for other common formats, e.g. 8KHz
for telephones. It also happens to be fairly difficult to do a good
conversion from 48KHz to 44.1KHz, which makes it harder to, say, copy an
audio CD with a "consumer" DAT deck. (Well, okay, some consumer DAT
decks can do 44.1KHz now, but initially only "professional" decks could
handle the lower frequency.)

There is relatively little difference in audible quality between 44.1KHz
and 48KHz, since the slight increase in frequency response is outside the
range of human hearing. Some inaudible tones produce "beats" with audible
tones and thus have a noticeable impact, but the improvement from 44.1 to
48 is marginal at best.

not just reproduced in the technical detail (JFK assassination's over ballistics): What the result is, IS pretty: I can tell this long-hated cheeseboard-anthem, turned, atonal mes sin, thousand customer's, soldier-on Van Halen is special. Eddie transposes fly-wild-fucked-cupboard'-

non-musical 1.5 semi-tuneup-no-fret-fixable solos! Harry Partch's pitch isn't "non-artistry's," no, the universal castoff is tantamount to Chromatic hooks of guitar-bar-prisons and MIDI-loser-Comp-sin-heavies' talk! note: libertines ahead-- one; Stout diffuser's:0 musical noise-Cobbler. An hearing music acumen into (morsels nowhere semi-fastening's of the octave are not all the same to seeing colorant), living in a whacked world: BMW teacher, Einstein Jonas, convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, so attuned to introspection, contentment, and quiescence, Equal temperament as the musical equivalent to eating a Rudolf meat and Prozac dentitionactualising . The music doesn't turn your attention inward, it makes you want to go out and woof on something. On a more subtle level, after I've been immersed in just intonation for a couple of weeks, equal temperament music begins to sound insipid, bland, colorless. There are only eleven types of intervals available instead of the potential several dozen that exist in even the simplest just system, and you don't get gradations of different sizes of major third or major sixths the way you do in just tuning. On a piano in just intonation, moving from one tonic to another changes the whole interval makeup of the key, and you get a really specific, visceral feel for where you are on the pitch map. That feeling disappears in bland, all-keys-the-same equal temperament. As a composer, I enjoy having the option, if I'm going to use a minor third interval, of being able to choose among the 16/7/659/111 and 96 varieties, each with its own individual feeling. Far beyond the mere theoretical purity, playing in just intonation for long periods sensitizes me to a myriad colors, and coming back to the equal tempered world is like seeing everything click back into black and white. It's a disappointing readjustment. Come to think of it, maybe you shouldn't try just intonation - you'll become unfit to live in the West, and have to move to India or Bali. Composers love saying stuff like this -- "distill interesting thoughts, fatuous opera, Dirichlet ..." *why music? scents: two years old and Video sets," (Nigh, I wank) the first Chernomyrdin bradawl music video (this was before Smokey Dimensioning Steadicam. I was fate, dude natl). Tate of mine -- I remember sitting in your basement currycomb when I was 15, etching on "Chadian Motet , muling, first girlfriend,"Jump" was kith's Easter's, soaring "euro song." that Godsend ember and 'scrapings

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Self-defecating would mean, literally, shitting on oneself.

Self-depracating would be to deface onself, or to put oneself down before others.


--- to defecate, to deprecate, from Compact Oxford English Dictionary ---


defecate /deffikayt/ • verb discharge faeces from the body.

— DERIVATIVES defecation noun defecatory adjective.

— ORIGIN Latin defaecare, from faex ‘dregs’.

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Robin Workman in 1976 (?) recorded an album of ABBA instrumentals called "Moog and Guitars Play ABBA." It was only released in Australian as far as I know. It has never had a CD outing, so I have mastered this track from my own LP copy at the highest quality possible. Enjoy this Australian Rarity and the ABBA Mamma Mia pictures!!

 

 

 

Here is another LP rarity. Robin Workman in 1976 (?) recorded an album of ABBA instrumentals called "Moog and Guitars Play ABBA." It was only released in Australian as far as I know. It has never had a CD outing, so I have mastered this track from my own LP copy at the highest quality possible. Enjoy this Australian Rarity and the ABBA SOS pictures!!

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In the nig-nog corner | School master reprimanded for referring to black pupils and Asian classmates as "in the nig-nog corner"| The Guardian

A teacher was given a professional reprimand yesterday for referring to a group containing two black pupils and an Asian classmate as being "in the nig-nog corner".

Michael Aldersley, a science teacher at Calderstones school in Liverpool, was sacked in May 2001. In November 2000 he had told a computer class of 14-year-olds: "Everyone in the nig-nog corner, come here, you might learn something." Three pupils and their parents complained to the school.

Yesterday, a General Teaching Council hearing in Birmingham concluded he had demonstrated unacceptable conduct, and that a formal reprimand should lie on his registration for two years.

Dr Aldersley, in his 50s, did not attend the hearing. In a statement, he said he had meant "foolish and silly children". The hearing was told the Oxford dictionary had several definitions of the phrase: a foolish person; an unskilled recruit; or a coarsely abusive term for black people.

After the hearing, Brian Davies, headteacher of Calderstones, said: "I never considered that it would mean silly or foolish children. I only took it to have one meaning ... and that is a derogatory phrase toward black pupils."

Mr Davies said Dr Aldersley had apologised to the pupils concerned, but from his initial meetings with the teacher, he suspected he did not realise the offence he had caused; 22% of pupils are from minority ethnic groups. He was sacked for gross misconduct by a 5-3 vote of governors.

In his statement, Dr Aldersley referred to his "incautious" use of language but said that, when questioned by the school, he had felt a lack of support, a bullying tone, and cynicism concerning racism in South Africa, where he taught in the 1970s. Yesterday Mr Davies acknowledged that Dr Aldersley "nailed his colours very firmly to the mast" in South Africa as an opponent of apartheid. Calderstones colleagues and pupils had also written in support of Dr Aldersley, who had an unblemished teaching record.

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Nig-nog school master reprimanded for referring to two black pupils and an Asian classmate as being "in the nig-nog corner") might be of interest to anyone reading around the subject. Far less defensible than "niggardly", of course, or maybe the teacher had been asleep for a generation or two. – Hajor 5 July 2005 00:42 (UTC)

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I think that this article should exist, but the title isn't right. Shouldn't the title be something like "Niggardly controversy"? HuskyHuskie 9:13 am, 17 March 2007, Saturday (3 years, 4 months, 18 days ago) (UTC−5)

At the deletion discussion a good number of people wanted a change in the title, including me. It seems to me that since the word has become controversial at somewhat different times, it might be better to say "controversies", although they all seem to revolve around essentially the same issues. I'm not really sure whether "controversy" or "controversies" is better. I could accept either. Noroton 10:41 am, 17 March 2007, Saturday (3 years, 4 months, 18 days ago) (UTC−5)
There's a naming convention that prefers singular words to plural in Wikipedia article titles (here: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)), but I don't think it applies here. Noroton 10:51 am, 17 March 2007, Saturday (3 years, 4 months, 18 days ago) (UTC−5)

I'm not sure about plurals, but I'd prefer Controversies about the word Niggardly or something like that, just because niggardly is an adjective so in "Niggardly controversy" it looks like it's modifying the word controversy.Chunky Rice 12:26 pm, 18 March 2007, Sunday (3 years, 4 months, 17 days ago) (UTC−5)

I didn't think of that. Good point. The title should be as short as possible, but that may be the shortest while also being the clearest. I guess the link from "Niggardly" will keep it accessable to people searching for something on this subject. If that link ever went, the article would be extremely difficult to find no matter what else we name it. The meaning of the title also fits the subject matter. You've capitalized "Niggardly" but we probably shouldn't, per Wikipedia naming policy. It's better that we don't put the word in quotes or italics (we probably can't put it in italics). Saying "the word" before "niggardly" makes it clear. I don't see a better substitute for "about" either: it's a good, plain word. Did you know there's a whole Wikipedia page not just on naming articles but on the use of capital letters in article names? It's here, but it all comes down to not using capital letters except for the first letter or in names. So: Controversies about the word niggardly Noroton 2:11 pm, 18 March 2007, Sunday (3 years, 4 months, 17 days ago) (UTC−5)
All right, just to make it more complicated, I used the Wikipedia "Search" and "Go" functions to look up "Controversies about", "Controversies on" and "Controversies over" and "over" is the word they use most. I personally like "about" but just so you all know, "over" is the word used more, if that matters. Noroton 2:21 pm, 18 March 2007, Sunday (3 years, 4 months, 17 days ago) (UTC−5)
I'd support "over" or "about". I agree that the article is primarily about the controversies rather than the word; and I agree with the need to avoid quotes and to avoid making "niggardly" appear to be a modifier in the title. Mike Christie (talk) 2:23 pm, 18 March 2007, Sunday (3 years, 4 months, 17 days ago) (UTC−5)
Lots of good info in this discussion on the name that I hadn't thought about. I really prefer shorter titles, but Chunky Rice is quite correct in his point about what looks like it is being modified. As to what preposition should be used, let me throw this suggestion out: Controversy regarding the word niggardly HuskyHuskie 5:28 pm, 18 March 2007, Sunday (3 years, 4 months, 17 days ago) (UTC−5)

So, I'm fine with Controversies about the word niggardly. Is there any consensus here? Chunky Rice 11:25 am, 20 March 2007, Tuesday (3 years, 4 months, 15 days ago) (UTC−5)

  • Support Noroton 2:39 pm, 20 March 2007, Tuesday (3 years, 4 months, 15 days ago) (UTC−5)
  • Support Mike Christie (talk) 3:53 pm, 20 March 2007, Tuesday (3 years, 4 months, 15 days ago) (UTC−5)

Okay, I just took the initiative and moved the page since there didn't seem to be any singificant dissent about it.Chunky Rice 5:17 pm, 21 March 2007, Wednesday (3 years, 4 months, 14 days ago) (UTC−5)

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Sappy personal story - really needed? [edit]

The interjection about the newspaper editors in Ohio is cute, but does it really help our understanding of the topic? I don't think so, and would recommend its deletion. Feralcats 9:20 am, 3 April 2007, Tuesday (3 years, 4 months, 1 day ago) (UTC−5)

I agree; I went ahead and took it out. Mike Christie (talk) 9:31 am, 3 April 2007, Tuesday (3 years, 4 months, 1 day ago) (UTC−5)
Cute and sappy don't do it for me either, but I think it shows how strong feelings can get about using the word, on both sides. That's why I included it. How many words that have a noncontroversial regular meaning can you say that about? It gives another example (and there aren't an enormous number) showing how offended people can get about it. Please reconsider. Noroton 6:47 pm, 4 April 2007, Wednesday (3 years, 3 months, 30 days ago) (UTC−5)
Hm. To me the story is interesting because it's not just about misundersta
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Just as I'd become convinced that the United States was really one big Essex it turned into a bumper sized version of Lincolnshire. Now it's mutated into a slightly more stodgy Hertfordshire. We had a beyond bland dining experience in a Cracker Barrel in Louisiana yesterday - fried chicken breast and side dishes of vegetables in varying shades of beige. The chicken was encased in some sort of fibre glass version of batter which meant that they could take random bits of chicken and the casing would sort of hold it all together in a vaguely chicken breast shape. The Cracker Barrel was like one of those farm shops you find on the A17 in Lincolnshire. It had farm implements hanging off the ceiling and the place was cluttered with factory-made interesting old things. Everythin had a barcode, everything was for sale.
It seems to me that America is forever trying to recreate it's recent past in glass fibre, plastic and particle board. Yesterday, having played in Austin, we were obliged to drive through the night because the hotels were full of hurricane evacuees. We got to Shreveport in the late morning and booked into a Casino hotel. Shreveport is all Casino hotels - Casinos and loan places. We got a great big luxury room with a kingsize bed that was almost double the size of a double bed. It was very cheap - they make their money on gambling, the rest of it is just designed to make you feel like a high roller. Neither Amy or myself have any interest in gambling. We strolled round the casino looking at all these glum, desperate people. Occasionally one of them would have a win and they'd set up a half hearted whoop and a holler. Some of the others would vaguely join in. then they'd all slump back into their own private misery.
We had dinner in a plastic brick built railway station from the Great Depression. For no apparent reason there was a stage coach hanging off the ceiling. We had a table under an overhanging canopy. Above us were balconies stacked with the luggage of the dear departed from a century ago. We had gumbo and shrimps and stuff and it taste very much like the real thing.
The hotel staff were all black - African Americans as they're called now. I love the black people I meet in America, we always seem to get on together. They're much more open, much less uptight than a lot of the white people - Jellyfish Americans as I believe they're now called.

I can see how America breaks bands that try to tour it - the bands that try to break America and fail. Touring here is hard. The distances are huge and a lot of the venues have joined the industry. Some take a professional pride - they don't perhaps give a flying fuck about you personally but they'll make every effort to ensure that the show goes off without a hitch. Others really don't give a fuck. Nobody compliments you or tells you anything that would help to make you feel less insecure - you're on your own, buddy.
PA systems don't work properly, house engineers mix you too quietly because they feel like giving their ears a night off. Some engineers are so fucking lazy that they can't be bothered to waddle the distance from the board out front to the stage to actually listen to the monitors with their own ears. That's usually in clubs where nothing works properly and just being in there for more than five minutes is enough to bring you out in a rash.
Thee Parkside in San Francisco is a bit like this. Last time we played there a young girl did the sound - she actually did a great job even though she arrived an hour and a half late and the monitor speakers were all but blown. This time we had a guy who could have got off a care in the community bus. He was willing enough and he kept calling me Sir. Every time I asked for something he said yessir, yessir, and bowed subserviently. He seemed to think we were a country 'n' western band - he said we'd be OK with him because his speciality was twang. I said ours was bass and that threw him through a loop, I could tell by the slight twitch.
The monitors hardly worked, just like last time. Apparently there's no money to repair them. We didn't break the percentage due to unspecified costs. I hope some of these costs go to repairing the equipment. We didn't have a bad time but some of the people, the ones who probably thought we'd be a Dead Kennedys tribute or something, got on our nerves. Mostly the audience were lovely. I hope we can play in San Francisco again soon but at a diferent venue.
At Merced in the middle of California we came across a notable exception. Jeff the soundman there did a great job. Sadly there were only twenty eight people. But those twenty eight loved us thanks in part to Jeff. And I should say that the Bumbershoot crew were good too. In fact I'm probably going to back track completely on most of what I've just said because thinking about it just about everywhere we've played is a notable exception.
At the Cinema Bar in Los Angeles I thought I made a fine job of the sound myself with no time for a real soundcheck. Even though some drunken arsehole at the back demanded in a stentorian voice that we TURN THE GUITARS DOWN - WE CAME TO HEAR YOU. Well, really - I pointed out that Amy was standing behind a yard of American plywood with strings on it, whacking the hell out of it, and so was I, so what the fuck did he think he was hearing if it wasn't us, expressing ourselves.
There was a cunt sitting right in front of me who suggested in quite an aggressive manner that we do more of Amy's songs - how about Beer And Kisses, or what about Give The Drummer Some? That ought to work well with that computer beatbox thing. The subtext read stop fucking about with that talentless English git and play some quality music.
I didn't like him and he didn't like me, I could tell. He was middle-aged - he wore a baseball cap perched on top of his fat pink head, a loose white t-shirt, tight shorts and luckilly one of those black banana bag things that men like that wear to keep their hemorrhoid cream in. I say luckilly because at least that way we couldn't see an escaped testicle.
I think he was the inspiration for my Campaign For Better Dressed Men. I'm not sure quite how we're going to campaign yet, except by wearing trousers and real shoes but I'm sure tailoring and a bit of work with a steam iron will find a way.

Anyway, as I was saying, touring America can wear you down - it's scary. We landed up in Kansas City. I thought, what the fuck am I doing playing in Kansas City? I remember Doctor Feelgood coming home from their only US tour with tales of opening for Gentle Giant in Kansas City and it not making any sense at all.
The club we were at was called Knuckleheads. It could have been put there for the tourists except that no tourists would come to this area of town. It on the wrong side of the tracks but there were so many tracks it'd be hard to say which tracks it was on the wrong side of - the place is surrounded by railroad tracks. It appears to be in the middle of a freight yard.
Knuckleheads is a genuine juke joint in a poor area of town. It looks like the bar in The Blues Brother where they play both types of music, Country and Western. I was looking for the chicken wire grill in front of the stage and for a moment I was almost terrified. But everyone was really kind and we set up the gear and soundchecked, had something to eat and bonded with the soundman and owner over stories of John Mayall and what an arsehole he is.
The set went over great. When we got to the break in Another Drive-in Saturday a passing freight train sounded its horn/whistel/siren thing - you know the noise. It was exactly on key, sounding like a deranged orchestra. There were no more than fifty people but for a Tuesday night in Kansas City we took that as a great success and so did the owner - he wants us to come back and do a weekend show. I never thought there'd be anyone interested in us in the middle of America. I assumed they were all redneck rock fans and Foreigner ruled the airwaves. It seems I was wrong.
Before we went to the hotel - best hotel of the tour by the way - we had a junk food excursion at the Waffle House. As we walked in Sweet Home Alabama came on the jukebox. The place was cluttered up with neighbourhood badhats. It was trashy and we felt right at home. We had waffles with maple syrup.

     
25 September 2008
     
We're somewhere in Virginia at the moment. Yesterday morning we were in Pittsburgh. Last night we were in Trenton near Philladelphia. Tonight we're playing in Vienna - not the one in Austria, this one's near Washington DC though nothing would surprise me. The weekend before last we were in Texas dodging the hurricane. I can't remember where we were this weekend though I know it was utterly memorable. I remember - Chapel Hill, North Carolina - how could I forget? Allison brought us some chocolate chip muffins and I nearly blew up Peter Holsapple's amp which he kindly lent to me even though he knew I was going to plug my bass guitar into it. He told Amy afterwards, 'It's OK, I always knew Eric was a volume merchant...'
     

1 Never say ‘cheers’ or ‘yeah,cheers’ at the end of a song.
2 Never, ever address the audience as ‘you guys’.
3 Never tell the audience about the boring stuff you got up to on the tour bus -
     


I don’t want to hear that stuff - a band should always strive to give the impression that they arrived in a space craft. Unless they’re a blues band, and then I want to know that they arrived in a Bedford van having spent the night in a lay-by, sleeping in ex-army sleeping bags on top of the amplifiers. The only band I've ever witnessed transgressing rule number three was a Brighton band called The Electric Soft Parade. Their frontman said yeah cheers so often I lost count. The Electric Soft Parade weren't very good. The Dykeenies were but the singer said cheers after the first three numbers so I gave up. Actually that’s not quite true - I was getting cold and I had to go and get organised for my cameo appearance.

I don't know what to say about The Proclaimers shows without sounding corny, trite or bland. Someone who isn't reading this carefully might leave under the impression that I'm using those adjectives to describe The Proclaimers but I'm not - they could never be any of those. So I have to resort to fabulous, fantastic, they went out with a bang etc...
I've probably said it all already anyway. Erika Nockalls played the violin on Sunshine On Leith wearing a green satin frock. I played my green Microfret guitar on Whole Wide World. So there was a bit of colour co-ordination - a matching his 'n' hers Eric section.
Anyway, they were talking about getting together to record a new album beginning next March. I can hardly wait.

There's loads more to talk about but if I start on that I'll get bogged down in it so I think I'll stop now and put this on the site without finishing it off...

 

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