#pete thom

[iloveraxacoricofallapatorius]

i wanna get back into emo tumblr

and also freak tumblr(if there is something like that)

[protytwo]

Anybody remember the L'il Subs? Actually, they were just some kids getting a tour of the Legion HQ. Doro stands in for Calamity King, and wears his traditional green. There are kid versions of Night Girl, Color Kid, Antennae Boy, Infectious Lass, and Porcupine Pete. From Legends of the Legion #2 by Jeffrey Moy, and W.C. Carani.

[jmrww]

sketches i did instead of work

[needoldmanmilk]

radiohead photographed by danny clinch, 1994 (link to the original webp here)

[casualoptimist]

Book Covers of Note April 2024

[sparepartsbacc]

[bandcampsnoop]

5/21/24.

Bungler is the work of Paul Hewes (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) who is pretty up-front about his mental health struggles and the important role of music in his life.

"Glen Providence" is a cassette release by label Strange Mono (also Philadelphia). This is indie pop/rock - kind of straight ahead, but with some interesting chords and progressions.

Hewes vocals kind of remind me of Thom Yorke crossed with Tap Tap and/or Pete & The Pirates.

[thevellaunderground]

Magazine: The Post-Punk Trailblazers and Their Quest for Peace

Magazine, the iconic post-punk band, emerged from the creative explosion of the late 1970s. With their unique sound and thought-provoking lyrics, they have left an indelible mark on the music industry and continue to influence artists today. But beyond their musical prowess, Magazine’s relationship with the concept of peace is a testament to their depth and the power of music as a force for…

[pupsmailbox]

MUSIC ID PACK

NAMES ⌇　abby. ace. adagio. adam. adria. adrian. adriane. aero. alex. alice. angus. ann. anthony. ari. aria. ariane. ariette. avril. axl. bill. billie. billy. bohemia. bon. brad. brian. bruce. cade. cadence. cadentia. cantrelle. charlie. cher. chester. chordelle. chordette. chordiene. chrissie. christine. cliff. crescenette. crescenne. cresciene. danny. dave. david. dolce. dolcette. dolciene. dolciette. don. doremi. duff. dusty. eddie. ensemblette. enslette. eric. fleetwood. florance. floyd. forte. frank. freddie. geddy. geezer. gene. george. ginger. glenn. grace. gregg. halen. harmonette. harmonie. harmony. harp. hayley. helena. iggy. izzy. jack. jimi. jimmy. joe. john. keith. krist. kurt. larry. liam. lindsey. lyric. lyrical. mac. malcolm. maynard. medley. meliene. melodie. melodiette. melody. micheal. mick. mitch. muse. musette. musine. nancy. neal. neil. nick. nicko. nicky. noel. note. notesie. notesy. octavia. orchestrae. orchestraette. orchestraine. ozzy. paul. pear. pete. peter. phil. randy. rick. ringo. robert. roger. ronnie. rosa. rose. sabbath. serj. sonata. sonette. songbird. songesse. songette. songstress. sonia. sonnet. steve. steven. stevie. symphonia. symponiette. thom. tim. tom. tony. treble. viola. violette. violiene. zack. zeppelin.

PRONOUNS ⌇　aero/aero. band/band. base/base. beat/beat. black/black. blink/blink. chili/chili. crash/crash. cream/cream. cure/cure. door/door. dor/doremi. dru/drum. drum/drum. eagle/eagle. electric/electric. flu/flute. flute/flute. for/forte. forte/forte. guitar/guitar. gun/gun. har/harp. heart/heart. hot/hot. iron/iron. jam/jam. journey/journey. jump/jump. ke/key. kiss/kiss. la/lala. loud/loud. ly/lyric. machine/machine. maiden/maiden. mel/melody. metal/metal. mu/muse. mu/music. muse/muse. music/music. nirvana/nirvana. no/note. noe/note. note/note. oasis/oasis. oct/octave. pearl/pearl. pepper/pepper. perform/perform. pi/piano. pia/piano. piano/piano. pink/pink. queen/queen. radio/radio. rage/rage. red/red. reverb/reverb. rhy/rhythm. riff/riff. rock/rock. rose/rose. rush/rush. scorpion/scorpion. scream/scream. shred/shred. sing/sing. soe/song. soe/sonnet. sol/sola. song/song. spike/spike. stone/stone. string/string. stud/stud. tempo/tempo. tre/treble. treble/treble. trumpet/trumpet. tu/tune. tuba/tuba. tune/tune. vio/violin. vocal/vocal. yell/yell. 🎤. 🎧. 🎵. 🎶. 🎷. 🎸. 🎹. 🎻. 🎼. 💥. 📹. 🔊. 🔋. 🔌. 🗯️. 🤘. 🥁. 🧑🏻‍🎤.

[thatliminal-wanderer]

Rock Music ID Pack

Requested by Anonymous

Names

Abby, Ace, Adam, Adrian, Aero, Alex, Alice, Angus, Ann, Anthony, Avril, Axl, Bill, Billie, Billy, Bohemia, Bon, Brad, Brian, Bruce, Charlie, Cher, Chester, Chrissie, Christine, Cliff, Danny, Dave, David, Don, Duff, Dusty, Eddie, Eric, Fleetwood, Florance, Floyd, Frank, Freddie, Geddy, Geezer, Gene, George, Ginger, Glenn, Gregg, Halen, Hayley, Helena, Iggy, Izzy, Jack, Jimi, Jimmy, Joe, John, Keith, Krist, Kurt, Larry, Liam, Lindsey, Mac, Malcolm, Maynard, Micheal, Mick, Mitch, Nancy, Neal, Neil, Nick, Nicko, Nicky, Noel, Ozzy, Paul, Pear, Pete, Peter, Phil, Randy, Rick, Ringo, Robert, Roger, Ronnie, Rosa, Rose, Sabbath, Serj, Steve, Steven, Stevie, Thom, Tim, Tom, Tony, Zack, Zeppelin

Pronouns

aero/aeros, beat/beats, black/blacks, blink/blinks, chili/chilis, crash/crashes, cream/creams, cure/cures, door/doors, dru/drum/drums, eagle/eagles, electric/electrics, guitar/guitars, gun/guns, heart/hearts, hot/hots, iron/irons, jam/jams, journey/journeys, kiss/kisses, loud/louds, machine/machines, maiden/maidens, metal/metals, music/musics, nirvana/nirvanas, oasis/oasis’, pearl/pearls, pepper/peppers, pink/pinks, queen/queens, radio/radios, rage/rages, red/reds, reverb/reverbs, rhy/rhythm/rhythms, riff/riffs, rock/rocks, rose/roses, rush/rushes, scorpion/scorpions, scream/screams, shred/shreds, stone/stones, vocal/vocals, yell/yells, 🎵/🎵s, 🎶/🎶s, 🎸/🎸s, 💥/💥s, 📹/📹s, 🔊/🔊s, 🔋/🔋s, 🔌/🔌s, 🗯️/🗯️s, 🤘/🤘s, 🧑🏻‍🎤/🧑🏻‍🎤s

Titles

A Rock Fan, A Rock Lover, A Rock Producer, A Rock Song, A Song With Loud Noises, Lover of Rock and Roll, The Drummer, The Guitarist, The Hard Rocker, The Headbanger, The Rock Fan, The Rock Musician, [prn] Inviting You to a Concert, [prn] Who Listens to Rock

Genders

Aggrorockvolic, Bassgender, Bassguitagender, Delinqxenifemasc, Drumgender, Guitargender, Guitarweaponic, Rockcothrillic, Rockfem, Rockgender, Sleepyguitaric

Other mogai

Aldembodirock, Alderguitar, Aldermusicae, Musicperspesque, Musictasteperspesque, Musicvior, Musivesil

[thekingofgear]

‘Read The Room’ Instrumental Notes

Jonny dramatically muting the strings of his late-70s natural finish Les Paul Standard during a performance of Read The Room in Cleveland on July 11, 2023 (Ryan J).

Verse

Read The Room starts with just a guitar through a single-repeat delay. Well, technically two guitars: the same guitar part is recorded twice, with one recording panned hard left and the other panned hard right. Each one has its own delay. Jonny almost certainly used his Boss DD200, given the clarity of the delay sound (a Space Echo would be too warm in the highs). If we count quarters at ~61.5bpm, we can hear that the delay time is set for a single quarter note.

There’s also medium overdrive and a flanging effect added to Jonny's guitar. The overdrive is probably Jonny's Boss SD1, which he's found a new affection for with The Smile (since 2007, he's used a Boss OD3 with Radiohead instead of his older SD1). The flanger is almost certainly from the EarthQuaker Devices Pyramids visible on Jonny’s board in studio photos.

At 0:09, Thom’s bass guitar enters. Based on live usage, he's probably playing his vintage, modified Gibson EB0. You can also see that bass in a photo from the the Wall of Eyes zine, which we included in our last post.

At 0:13, the drums enter, with Tom playing a stuttering pattern on the kick and snare, with occasional cymbals and open hihats for emphasis.

At 1:07, Jonny’s Sequential Prophet 5 REV4 adds a nice descending counter-melody (at least, it's probably the Prophet based on studio photos and similarity to the live tone). When the synth enters, Jonny switches to plucking muted strings on his guitar for a totally percussive sound, which leaves space for the synth to stand out. At live shows, he mutes the strings rather dramatically, sliding his hand up and down the fingerboard to vary the sound of the percussive plucks.

At 1:37-1:41 some slightly open hihats lead us to the next section...

A photo from Jonny's home studio in Oxford, showing his Sequential Prophet 5 REV4 nestled between a 1980s Sequential Prophet 600 and an Elektron Digitone Keys. This photo by Sam Petts-Davies was originally posted on the Smile's twitter on October 31, 2023, but was definitely taken much earlier since the band were on tour at that time.

Chorus

At 1:41, the song switches to a softer “chorus” section, and a center-panned acoustic guitar becomes the main rhythm instrument. However, Jonny’s left and right panned electric guitars keep playing, adding subtle swelled notes. He’s probably using the “freeze swell” trick he first used for the Skirting On The Surface outro solo — more info in this post. However, it’s hard to say for sure, given the amount of woodwinds in this section. Robert Stillman's clarinets and Pete Wareham's flutes enter more clearly at 1:53. They add a rich, undulating texture through to the end of the chorus at 2:08.

For most of the chorus, we only hear a gentle hihat pattern from Tom. But at 2:00, we first hear cymbals, then the kick and stuttering snare from the verse enter to lead us back out of the chorus.

A photo of Pete Wareham playing flute in Abbey Road Studio 2, from the Smile's Wall of Eyes zine. Wareham previously collaborated with Tom Skinner’s past band Sons Of Kemet.

Verse 2 and Chorus 2

At 2:08-2:11, the start of the next verse, we briefly hear the main riff on the single acoustic guitar from the chorus. Then Jonny's two hard-panned electric guitars return at ~2:11. This verse (2:11-2:40) mainly repeats the instrumentation from first verse, but with more cymbals and more intense vocal delay. However, we do get a left-panned clarinet playing the counter-melody at 2:25-2:36, replacing the synth from the first verse. We also hear some fun sliding noises — seemingly from a “delay time” knob being turned — at 2:26-2:30.

The second “chorus” (2:41-3:11) brings back the acoustic guitar, swelling electric guitars, woodwinds, and gentle hihats from the first chorus. The main difference is that the winds play a richer texture, and Jonny’s two electric guitars start to add spacier delayed notes at ~3:00 (possibly with his Boss RE-202 Space Echo pedal).

A photo of Jonny in the live room at Abbey Road Studio 2 from March or April of 2023 (Sam Petts-Davies). We can see his EHX Freeze, Boss SD1, Boss DD-200, and Boss RE-202 in the bottom row. His EQD Pyramids is at the end of the top row. For more info on his pedalboards, check out Jonny's page.

Coda

The coda begins at 3:12 with a right-panned single electric guitar from Jonny and a cymbal crash from Tom. Jonny plays a riff that initially feels pretty simple, until you notice that he keeps skipping eighth notes. There's a few ways to divide it up, but the full pattern is 22 eighth-notes long (two measures of 11/8, though it's easier to count as two measure of 6/4 with the last eighth note or each measure skipped, which also feels closer to the way the band play it).

Unlike the previous sections, this guitar has no delay or other effects. Instead of delay, Jonny’s riff makes use of open strings to give a fuller, multi-voice sound. On the studio recording, his B-string is detuned to an A for this section, allowing him to add an open “A” ringing over his riff. This is pretty notable, because the song’s main riff used an open B-string in standard tuning! At live shows, Jonny doesn’t bother with the high “A”, presumably because he has no time to detune the B-string or to switch guitars. So that's a little extra studio magic!

Jonny most likely played his late-70s natural finish Les Paul Standard for most or all of the studio recording. He's seen with other guitars in a few studio photos, but his tone on this track has a richness that's characteristic of his Les Paul through his Super Reverb — particularly his clean tone in the code.

The cymbal crash from the start of the coda slowly fades from 3:12-3:19. Then at 3:20, a couple of snare hits call in a new pattern of kick, snare, and closed hihat. The pattern is reminiscent of the "motorik" beat found in a lot of Krautrock, with a snare on 3. But the skipped eighths in the riff make the beat much more varied than in a traditional Krautrock track.

Thom adds a distorted bass guitar at 3:23, mirroring Jonny’s riff an octave below. He’s probably using his EarthQuaker Devices Plumes pedal for the added punch. In live footage, we can also see Thom and Jonny grab plectrums at the start of the coda. Thom may have been using the Plumes earlier in Read The Room, but the plectrum really emphasizes the punch.

When Thom’s vocal re-enters at 3:45, there’s a ton of vocal layers and reverb. The layers all seem to match the main vocal, so it might a dual delay setting from Thom’s Strymon DIG pedal, albeit with some heavier reverb added to the delays. At live shows played after the Abbey Road recording sessions, Thom had a drone from his Moog Matriach playing during this section, but it’s not present on the album.

At 4:05, Jonny adds a second electric guitar layer, panned hard-left and playing patterns with a new single-repeat delay. At live shows, he relied on Thom to keep the riff going. But on the studio recording, his right-panned riff guitar keeps playing too.

Tom brings back the cymbals in earnest from 4:13-4:48, bringing the song to its climax. Then, after a choirs of Thom say "everybody thinks so" at 4:48, the cymbals and vocals drop out (with a long vocal delay fade-out). The guitar, bass, and drums continue up until the track ends abruptly with another statement of "everybody thinks so".

In this shot, from the The Smile's show in Cleveland on July 11, 2023 (Ryan J), Jonny's tech can be seen tapping in a dotted-eighth delay during the start of the coda section. Jonny only uses the delay during the second half of the coda, but his delay time is different from the rest of the song, so it needs to be adjusted while he plays the initial coda riff. Thom can be seen with his vintage Gibson EB0.

[colorfultheoristpeace]

A heavy lifestyle: Part 6

We follow Thom as he seems the only one left able to make decisions beyond what food nearby to eat first. He’s deadset on getting his group to Greece until the all too familiar hunger in his belly rears it’s head again...

Thom looked around for his companions. As usual he just had to follow his nose to the nearest food point and found all three of them glutting themselves with everything they managed to order. It has been a good decision, he thought, arriving a couple hours early at the airport. He got in line to order, his belly leading the way and making itself known by gurgling loudly, alerting the people infront of him of his presence. They looked at the middle-aged man just freshly starting to sweat and looking with piggish glee at the menu and they instictively knew exactly what group of people he belonged to: the one that sat with their fat buttoms at the booth to their left. 

Between the three of them, each one was fatter than the one before. An older man, maybe mid-40s, seemingly an exjock firmly embracing the fat-dad-look with his sports-shirt ill fitting and khakis that did nothing to hide his massive backside. His gut, newly hefty almost touching the table as he bent forward, chugging his burgers with a dazed look in his rounding-out face. He grunted while shoving handfuls into his face, his unkempt beard already stained with different sauces. Then there was a young man that had a similar look to the guy behind them, maybe they were related. Darker skin, lots of hair and lots of fat. This one was massive, there was no neck to begin with as his fattened cheeks were working hard on the remains of one of the biggest fast food orders they have ever seen. His chest jiggled with the motion of his eating, quivering above what could only be described as an apron of fat that hung low between his heavy, thick thighs. The third one though was the fattest one, a pure monster of gluttony. He looked the same age as the one before, light skinned and haired and what remained visible between the huge, rounded cheeks could have been described as a man who could be quite handsome. That is, if he wasn't atleast 300 pounds lighter. His double-chin was extremely big, not at all hidden under his light beard. His shoulders might have been muscular once, now they were broad with pure bluber. His huge arms were spread out to the sides, curtesy to his prominent breasts which would put all women to shame. They struggled to reach the food on the table as he had to lunge forward with his mountainous gut in the way. It looked like he didn't even try to hide it under his tent-like shirt, leaving nothing to the imagination. He struggled to breathe as he bent forward, surely because of the monstrous ball of fat in front of him. That made him snort piggishly through his throat as he crammed more and more food into his gullet. All three of the pigs were feasting away with a glazed over look in their eyes, lost to the sensation of only another meal of their morning. That same look had the one behind them im his eyes, now that they came to think of it. If he doesn't watch out, he'd soon be just as fat as his son or the other ones, they thought. Disgusting pigs! It has been an hour before Thom came back to as he looked around the food court. 'That's gotta wait until I got us to Greece!' he thought to himself. Bad enough that he had failed Niko and trapped himself into the trap that had befallen so many of his ancestors... now they had to make it quickly, else they would end up immobile blobs before long. He noticed that 'Chief' sitting across from him had fattened up even quicker than Pete, the metabolism having surrendered without a chance at the huge quantities of food. He wondered if it all could have been prevented if only he hadn't gone to the cinema that fateful day...

[thelongstrangedrivehome2]

the second of november twenty twenty-three

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tower Of Song

David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards

Thom Yorke - Skip Divided

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star

Arlo Guthrie - Motorcycle Song

Pistol Annies - Best Years Of My Life

Roger Waters - What God Wants

R.E.M. - Fall On Me

The Breeders - I Just Wanna Get Along

The White Stripes - As Ugly As I Seem

Nico - These Days

Erykah Badu - Me

The Clash - I'm Not Down

The Beths - Whatever

Florence + The Machine Over The Love (Of You)

Warren Zevon - Desperados Under The Eaves

R.E.M. - So Fast, So Numb

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

Bob Dylan - 'Til I Fell In Love With You

Jack White - Ball and Biscuit

Regina Spektor - Hotel Song

Townes Van Zandt No Lonesome Tune

Babes in Toyland - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft

Bo Diddly - I'm A Man

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

David Bowie - Ricochet

Radiohead - Nude

Pete Shelley - Homosapien

Iggy Pop- Success

[thespamman24]

Rock Musicians Rated Based on Wether They Would Like Anime or Not.

This is a completely normal thing to think about. I'm a completely normal person.

Jimmy Hendrix- Would have loved Cowboy Bebop and Gundam. If he had been a child in the 2000s then he would have dressed as Sasuke for Halloween.

John Lennon- Would have been a big attack on titan fan and frequently gotten into online arguments. Lightly ashamed of being into anime. Has a crush on the evil woman from Chainsawman.

Paul Mccartney- Would not be an anime fan. Apathetic towards anime.

George Harrison- Has seen the 1997 Berserk Series and Ghost in the Shell. Not into anime, but willing to see it.

Ringo Starr- Would not be an anime fan, but he wouldn't mind seeing a Ghibli film.

Eric Clapton- Would regularly make fun of anyone into anime.

Gerald Way- Confirmed fan of anime.

Thom Yorke- Has possible watched a few anime. Would probably love Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Rivers Cuomo- Has most likely watched an anime. Would probably be into very weird and niche romance anime stuff.

David Bowie- David Bowie would either, A. have watched a few well known anime like Death Note and Full metal Alchemist but not be really all that into anime or B. be the biggest anime fan ever, but like, in a bisexual way.

Kurt Cobain- Enjoys slice of life anime, but not in a weird way.

Dave Grohl- Has mostly likely watched something anime, but I doubt he sees it as different from other cartoons.

Courtney Love- Extremely toxic RWBY fan. Regularly gets into arguments over ships.

David Byrne- I am confident that David Bryne has watched some anime at some point. I don't know what, but he definetly has. Would probably love Akira.

Freddy Mercury- I had to think about this long and hard and I think Freddy would be into shonen like Dragon ball Z.

Brian May- Would not be into anime.

Billy Joe Armstrong- Has most definetly seen an anime before. If he was born two decades later then he would have been the biggest Jojo fan ever.

Alex Turner- Hah! No.

Bono- Into "intellectual" anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion. Has seen multiple Satoshi Kon films.

Bruce Springsteen- No.

Robert Fripp- Robert Fripp was born in the wrong generation. Had he been a millenial, then Robert would be obsessed. He would attend anime conventions, wear cosplay, and regularly get into arguments online.

Pete Townshend- Casual anime watcher who's seen one or two and is kind of ashamed about it because of the internet.

Roger Waters- Constantly getting into arguments about Gundam online. Is a moderator of some anime subreddit.

David Gilmore- No.

Lou Reed- Used to regularly make fun of anime because of...you know...but somehow ended up becoming really into it, like really into it.

Ian Anderson- Watches the weirdest fucking anime. Just the strangest shit you have ever seen.

Jon Anderson- Steve seems like a big fan of all things cyberpunk. He'd love Akira and Ghost in the Shell, and would definetly enjoy the Blame! manga.

Steve Howe- Has not seen any well known anime, but has seen some lesser known stuff that's "weird in a good way".

Patti Smith- Kawoshin shipper.

Bill Bruford- No.

Joan Jett- Nah.

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

Gruncharov Cast so far:

Walter Heisenberg: Kurt Cobain

Skyler: Courtney Love

Walter Jr.: Rivers Cuomo

Holly: Frances Bean

Jesse: Layne Staley

Jane: Colin Greenwood

Marie: Jonny Greenwood

Hank: Mike Patton

Saul: Damon Albarn

Skinny Pete: Kim Gordon

Badger: Jerry Cantrell

Gretchen: Krist Novoselic

Elliott: Dave Grohl

Gustavo Fring: Thom Yorke

Tomas: Graham Coxon

Ted Beneke: Billy Corgan

Hector Salamanca: Alex James

The Salamanca twins: Noel + Liam Gallagher

Who still needs casting:

Mike:

Combo:

Gomey:

Krazy-8:

Emilio:

Tuco:

Andrea:

Brock (Andrea's kid):

Donald (Margolis):

Carmen:

Jake Pinkman:

Jesse's mom:

Jesse's dad:

Kathleen Hanna will either be cast as Tuco or Carmen. More castings wanted.

[sparepartsbacc]