Taking Sides: 'The Begats' vs 'Electric Bubblegum Arkestra'

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Which Kateband would rock yr world ?

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

::blinks::

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The Begats are my white belt skinny tie band.

The Electric Bubblegum Arkestra are my 22-piece sonic experiment/cult/mothership.

(The difference is, the EBA actually played a gig or two and might actually be real.)

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I will be the only person to post on this thread, I predict.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Not true.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(it'll probably get more answers than my modal music thread)

The EBA gets my vote

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I would vote for EBA, except that it's apparently a "real band." Real is passe, fake is where it's at, so I'm voting for the Begats.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I'm touched!

I have just spent the past 20 minutes in the server room, singing along with the server, so I think I have a new EBA song. It is called "Field Studies In Server Fan Modulations With Free Jazz Scat Over The Top Version 1.0"

(And who says that living with Joe is influencing me in any way shape or form?)

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Bad band names:

Grundle and the Taint Strings Millimeters of Pleasure A Lump of Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning (or LoPIFIMAOMM to their fans)

Used Yugo Extremeganza!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

A Lump of Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning (or LoPIFIMAOMM to their fans)

You lie! That is the name of a POEM in a Douglas Adams book!

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The glockenshpeil player in LoPIFIMAOMM was a scary intense Adams fan.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

OH, and BTW, as Mr. Noodles would be the first to point out, you forgot The Plungers. ;-)

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Field Studies In Server Fan Modulations With Free Jazz Scat Over The Top Version 1.0"
When you publish a stable 3.0 version, I'll check that out.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord Custos plagiarizing zany English fiction?? MY WORLD IS SHATTERED. Sorry, I have a headache. It's only my brane that's shattered. I know I said I was leaving today, and I am, but I feel impelled to report my opinion on the matter as tabled. Except I can't decide. Both.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord Custos plagiarizing zany English fiction?? MY WORLD IS SHATTERED.
Wait...I can plagarize more if that whats yer into...
(*scurries off to bookshelf to find a Discworld novel...*)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, I have a headache.
http://www.yourfamilyshealth.com/aspirin.jpg
Here you go, Tracer.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

'Electric Bubblegum Arkestra' is a great name. Make sure you have lots of furry animals onstage with you.

― mei (mei), Friday, 13 June 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I am in a right bad mood today. Had a producer friend who was interested in working with us write me and say "Oh, had a mail from Jane saying she was starting a new band..." FUCKING COW, UTTER FUCKING COW, MISS "I DON'T HAVE TIME TO BE IN A BAND AT ALL ANY MORE, BLAH BLAH BLAH, IT'S NOT FUN!" and then not only walks off to start new band, but then tries to steal my producer as well.

And doesn't even have the balls to tell me herself, (yeah, that's hard when she's not returning my emails or signing my checks) but I hear through the grapevine. I fucking hate people.

In other news, Joe likes my piece and wants me to write a new Disinformation track for him. In fact, he wants to find other people to record the whole thing for him. He claims that this is a subtle artistic statement on the nature of experimentalist music. I think it is because he is too lazy to get off his handsome ass! Hah!

― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, another friend has pointed out that this is *exactly* the sort of trick that musical Svengalis use to kick lagging artists back into the fold and make them get off their asses and make music again. Playing the jealousy card works wonders, I suppose.

I overreact. And sometimes the grapevine makes up its own branches.

Can I do Trial by ILM? Post some MP3s of new stuff and you tell me if I've got any talent. And if you say yes, you can be in my arkestra, cause how am I going to have a 22 piece arkestra when there's only one of me?

― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I do Trial by ILM?

Shityeah! do it, do it now...

ps. An Pierle, anyone?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Invoicing just started. I'll see you all in two weeks. ARGH! My quotas have been raised. :-(

― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, I spoke too soon. Looks like we're playing a gig this weekend. The EBA, that is. I can throw together some bubblegum dronepop on a laptop in a week, I can't throw together a white belt band in a week.

― kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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