NYC area musicians, wanna studio?

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Here's the deal. I have about 50 boxes of books and CDs etc which have been in a Manhattan Mini-Storage unit in West SoHo, NYC, for three years now. The fees (which keep going up) are killing me, and I've decided to ship everything to Berlin. But I don't have the money to do that right now, and may not have it for another six months to a year.

So I'm looking for someone in the NYC area who has a big basement or garage and can host these boxes until I can get them shipped.

Now why would someone want to do that? Well, here's the carrot. Amongst this stuff is a fully-functioning recording studio and a bunch of instruments: Korg MonoPoly and Jen X1000 synths, an ADAT machine, a mid-50s vintage Gretsch guitar, and all sorts of smaller instruments and electronic gadgets, including a theremin that cost me £600! This is the ideal opportunity for a budding musician to get kitted out at one go, and have a free studio for a year or so. (Some of this kit, including the ADAT machine, I will donate in exchange for the space. You can keep it.)

Tech. note: some of the gear runs on 220 volts (European standard), so you will need an adaptor.

I will rent a van and move the stuff in this weekend, August 16th - 17th. Tell me here if you're interested and/or drop me a mail.

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(By the way, you can listen to the CDs too, and read the books.)

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, believe it or not, I might have room in my place for all this. So if you really want to leave your stuff with someone you've had internet fights with, I'm sure it'd be fine.

― hstencil, Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil, wear your trucker hat!

ps: n****a says to say "thanks for a good time with you guys last night".

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That guitar is GORGEOUS, hstencil. I can't imagine how my friend the idiot has managed to stay away from it for so long despite the whole laptop and synth thing, that's how amazing it looks.

**drools**

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

AWWW MAAAN! Just when I needed a fully functioning ADAT. I´m in Mexico right now and I really haven´t been to New York...like ever. But my cousin lives in Manhattan!! So here´s looking your way, Nick...*wink wink*

I´ll LUV YA FOREVER

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 14 August 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, power just came on again in the East Village where I'm staying! Back to this thread in a mo...

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

power's back on in Brooklyn, too. Apparently, my roommate has some connection to your apartment in Berlin...

― hstencil, Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil check your mail and call me this morning (Saturday) please!

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Saturday, 16 August 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it's not working out with hstencil (thanks for trying, Stence!), so this offer remains open while I follow other leads.

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Saturday, 16 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, let me ask my roommate. do you know roughly the dimensions of the sum of the boxes?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 16 August 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Huge. 200 square feet?

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

A kind graphic designer has offered me space in his studio, so all is well. Thanks for the brainstorming, everyone!

― Nick Currie (Momus !), Sunday, 17 August 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we just set this up as the New York City Nick Currie Non-Memorial Arts Library (Hstencil, proprietor)? I wanna come over and play with the gadgets.

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(It didn't show me those last few posts before I made my joke. I was all ready to give Nick my apartment for storage -- I could sleep in the park and just drop in now and then to play guitar.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 17 August 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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