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Podcast 39: Long Neck
PodcastsJohn has a looooooong neck. Cinnamon identifies a Glock in real life. We discuss sensitive artists, whether looking like a Victoria’s Secret model will be good or bad for your career, and offer a new segment about how to find joy in marketing. And of course our music is excellent:
- The 1895 with Intro/The Drifter
- Elliott Kage Jones (Schoolboy Cubemaster) with Dysphoria
- Scum Shots with Daydrinking/Beerpressure
- Frankiie with Dream Reader
- Your Idiot Brother with Hoochie Coochie
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song. (Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)
Podcast 37: Sitting on a Membrane
PodcastsJohn’s birthday! Lots of talk about songwriting. Cinnamon finally gets to talk about ancient aliens. Society’s deep-seeded desire for backup singers. And, of course, we have excellent music:
- Seagulls with Like U Do
- Echo of the Elms with I Just Can’t Say No
- Acid Carousel with Fuckin Spaceships (the sequel)
- Liz Cooper and the Stampede with Sleepyhead
- Lil Tone and the Unknowns with Black Rose
- [Bonus Content: The Egg Eaters with Trash Morning (unreleased Australian version)]
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.
Podcast 36 – Revenue Streams
Featured, PodcastsWant to make more money in 2019? Well, have we got some slap-bang ideas for you! Also, how to get a celebrity to sing on your album, why Facebook is Totally Over, and John metaphorically cuts his hair. Also, the Monkees. And our music is excellent as always:
- North by North with Open Door
- Supervillain with That Boy’s a Beast FEAT. Nick Oliveri
- Secular Pains with Cut My Hair
- Hairy Nipples with Like Everybody Else
- The Holy Knives with Switchblade Heart
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)
Product Review: The Boss R-3 Looper for 4-Real Dummies
Featured, Product ReviewsA looper is quickly becoming something that every musician needs, but for those of us who are a little behind the eight ball in adopting computers into our practice/performance, it can be pretty daunting. Although I had been wanting a looper for years, I was not entirely sure what exactly a looper was. I sure did want one, though.
When our Boss R-3 looper arrived in the mail, John took it out of the box, plugged it in, and started playing with it immediately. I, feeling much more cautious, instead watched a bunch of Youtube videos about how to use it. In spite of our different learning methods, as you can see from our video performance, the speed-of-adoption of the technology was about the same for both of us (mediocre-to-acceptable). Squinting at the manual and watching Youtube are probably optional: the looper is frustrating in the beginning, but it’s built for stomping on — in hindsight, I say just go for it.
One thing that might help in learning to speak to your looper are your distant memories of a flip phone. Many of us learned (briefly) to triple-touch-type. Communication between you and your looper will have a similar morse-code kind of feel: Tap once to do something. Tap twice to do something else. Press a button and then tap and hold to do a third thing. You get it. Functions like looping, overdubbing, saving, and deleting are all tapping-sequences that you’ll have to memorize, but don’t worry — it’s relatively easy and it improves greatly with practice.
Any musician who has played with a click-track before knows that non-human drum beats are scary. An electronic rhythm will not flow with you. It will not wait if you mess up. It will not catch up to you when you get excited. Most of the youtube videos that I’d watched on the subject of looping gave strong and strenuous warnings that loopers were the meanest kinds of computers: The loops must be done exactly, exactly, EXACTLY on the ‘1’ — One-two-three-four-STOMP/start playing!-two-three-four-STOMP/stop playing! The video hosts — invariably longhaired young men who work in guitar stores — strongly implied that if you miss the `1’ by even a little, the whole thing will be ruined, and you’ll be embarrassed for the rest of your life. That made us pretty worried, as John was born without rhythm, and I am the stereotype that all dumb-drummer jokes are based upon.
Fortunately, the R-3, ‘Cadillac of Loopers’, seems to have been designed with imprecise people like myself and John in mind. As you see in the video, he misses the 1 by a fair amount on his first try, and the loop still sounds ok. I can’t explain how that works (it has something to do with their programming, and that, fortunately, is theirs and not mine to worry about), but I can say that John and I tried this many times and although our rhythmic skill didn’t necessarily improve, the looper continued to be friendly and work with us. Each time, it grabbed our loop, in its approximate relation to the `1’, matched it to our chosen beat (I should mention that the R-3 comes with a good handful of beats, a couple of which are quite fun), made it into what it thought we were trying to play, and off we went. It really will make you feel like a super cool musician. (If you already are a super-cool musician, I imagine that it will make you feel stratospheric.)
So what, specifically, do you need the Boss R-3 looper for? Although my initial vision of myself was of traveling the world performing in one of those looper festivals, beatboxing and violin playing with all those tattooed girls with dreadlocks, in practice the R-3 turned out to be a much more practical tool. It’s a workhorse, and specifically a workhorse that wants to practice with you: if you play an instrument that doesn’t practice well alone, such as bass, or drums, or if you’re working on your complicated face-melting solos, putting down a short guitar riff into the looper will make you feel like you’re practicing with a band. (A version of the band that will not guffaw at your mistakes, so go nuts with those solos.) It also holds up to 99 saved loops, which is handy, as John and I are already up to 17. It will also attach by USB to bring beats back and forth to your computer. I tried to bring a couple of loops into GarageBand and I have to report that this worked only fifty percent of the time; that may, however, have been because of my cord. You know how cords are.
By itself, the Boss R-3 looper may not be good for performance, because it won’t switch loops between parts of the song (I’m told an attachment, called a ‘twin,’ —which we will review anon—, will allow for this); however, what about adding a continuous (or occasional) human beatbox to your next show? As you observe in the video, the R-3 looper makes it damn easy. Welcome to the future.
Podcast 35: Walt Whitman
Featured, PodcastsJohn gets stuck in a dress. Profanity is newly-offensive. Dead Singers fucking speak to us: specifically, Simon LeBon -who is still living- gives John permission to be a sexy poster boy. Also, a special guest appearance by sexy dead poet Walt Whitman himself. And our music is excellent as always:
- Family Vacation with Kathy
- Annie More with Homme-Enfant
- Flight to Dubai with Hail Damage
- Rebecca F. with Dead Singers
- BROTHRS with Losing Things
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)
Podcast 34 – HLYCRP TOP 10 of 2018!!
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To say that this was a difficult decision would be a tremendous, tremendous understatement. But here it is… This week we bring you Less talk. More rock:
- Bundles with State of Seattle
- Wallin-Jison with Move Around the Room
- Woy with View from Mars
- Daydream Creatures with You Let Me Let You
- Brendan Willing James with Woke Up on Pills
- Susto with Havana Viella
- The Launderettes with Marks on My Map
- The Pretty Littles with Hills Hoist
- The Power with I’m Open
- Francie Moon with Gave it All I Could
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, and thank you to all of the bands who let us play their music on our show in 2018. You amaze us. And you improve the world, a lot. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)
Podcast 33 – Satan’s Eggnog:
PodcastsJohn has to go to the bathroom. Your heroes try valiantly to find a Satanist who is awake at 9 am, and eventually succeed – Scott Thompson of Supervillain explains the Satanist perspective on Christmas. We also learn what it feels like to put out a cigarette on your own arm. And, as always, all of our music is excellent:
- Tight Solid with I Hate Christmas
- Kurse with Epilogue
- Errol Bateman with Autopilot
- DeFault American with I Hate Christmas
- Vienna Ditto with Amazing Grace
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to Scott Thompson of Supervillain for all the wisdom, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)
Podcast 32 – Dave Grohl and Frenemy Derek
PodcastsA christmas-EP-challenge is presented. The mystery of Oak Island is solved. A lot about Dave Grohl. Why having a dumb day job might be good for your soul. And, as always, all of our music is excellent:
- Los Barbos with Hombre Sin Nombre
- Greenia with You Never Check Your Mail
- Poet Radio with I’m Clean
- The Big Dumb with Mary
- E L I Z A B A N D with Be Your Own Good Friend
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)
Podcast 31: Vive la révolution
PodcastsWhy Cinnamon likes to dress in drag. John’s rocking-out shorts. Recurring-character Summer McClinton explains the new French Revolution. The podcast travels to Mexico, Sweden, Ireland, France, and deepest Swannanoa, and, as always, all of our music is excellent:
- Acid Trip with Smashead
- The Spiral with Thursday
- IMPARFAIT with Mégalomaniaque
- Aaron Dunphy with Deodorant
- Wallin-Jison with Move Around the room
Thank you to Foot Gun for providing our theme song, thank you to the Hoodoo Music Festival for being our mortal enemies (show is on 12/15 at Turkey Point South in Greenville, SC), and thank you to The Asheville Rock Collective, for existing. (Hey- also!!!! Please take a second to like Holy Crap Records on Facebook and friend us or whatever on Twitter.)