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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 06:23:19 AM

Title: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 06:23:19 AM: A couple of weeks ago we recorded five new songs with Boilersuit. Four will appear on an EP soon and the fifth will be remixed by a famous DJ. As soon as the songs are ready, I'll post 'm here. Some pics of recording it in our own German bunker.

Ze entrance of ze bunker with 12 foot of concrete and above us:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/1-1.jpg)

Ich mit ze trusty Dönnervogel:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/7.jpg)

Loes with her new Gibson Jr.:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/Opnames013.jpg)

Another action shot. Hard to capture me, with all the movements....:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/Opnames041.jpg)

Recording it the old way:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/Opnames046.jpg)

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/Opnames047.jpg)
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Barklessdog on September 10, 2009, 07:26:16 AM: Can't wait to hear the new songs. You look pretty spaced out or depressed in the pics. Does the bird get you down?
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 07:35:14 AM: Chris is still growing. Everywhere.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Dave W on September 10, 2009, 07:38:29 AM: He's not deperessed. Just attentive.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: TBird1958 on September 10, 2009, 07:39:49 AM: Quote from: uwe on September 10, 2009, 07:35:14 AM
Chris is still growing. Everywhere.

I was gonna say....................or ask?

Are you on hormones? Looks like you're starting to grow some boobies.
They're fun to play with!
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 08:05:46 AM: Fun to play with! :mrgreen:

Why does a thread about my always end in discussions about my weight? I'm slimmer and healthier than ever!! Really! End of last year, beginning of this year I gained some weight but it's all off!! And I'm proud of that.

Boobs: I dunno why but my chest is a bit strange and yes: I seem to have some more fat there. Friends always bully me with it, but I don't care:)
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 08:14:54 AM: Lay off poor Chris now! :mrgreen:

I am haunted by memories of adolescence when my breasts seemed to veer off in a different direction while I was praying for the day some hair would finally grow in a certain place to deliver me to manhood. And then - we're in the locker room at TASOK** after PE around 1973/74 - some smart alec New Jersey kid quips while I proceed to the shower: "Look at Oohvuh***, he's not only bald, he's growing tits now too!" It had me simultaneously cracking up and dissolving in midair in shame! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

**The American School of Kinshasa

***Difficulties in pronouncing my first name were inherent with large parts of the American population.

And Chris: You're not fat at all, seriously. :-X
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 08:23:20 AM: Thanks Uwe!
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 08:28:45 AM: Just pleasantly plump/charmingly chubby! (ducking ...)
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: OldManC on September 10, 2009, 08:53:21 AM: Damn, you guys are brutal! :mrgreen:

(Note to self: NEVER post pictures from Jr. High at the Outpost.)

And Chris, I'm looking forward to the new tracks!
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 09:23:29 AM: I think I'm off again here for some weeks:D
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 09:28:51 AM: Diet farm again?
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: TBird1958 on September 10, 2009, 09:31:39 AM: Quote from: uwe on September 10, 2009, 09:28:51 AM
Diet farm again?

LMAO!
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 09:38:56 AM: You started it! :mrgreen:

Hell hath no fury like a jilted fiancée's scorn.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: TBird1958 on September 10, 2009, 09:45:22 AM: Looks like he's got a 38 B cup goin' on in that pic! I think his "girlfriend" is giving him encouragement.... ;)
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 09:51:28 AM: Mark!

I like the tasteful sixties bunker art best. I remember pictures like those being on sale at Italian beaches way back in the sixties. Obviously, they have lasting appeal with some people.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 09:59:29 AM: Uwe, just admint you missed me! It's always clear people bully other people most if they really love them!

;D
Title: Re: Verloor Zoon
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 10:15:46 AM: Actually I did! But then, after having been witness of what you did to Fräulein Rommel, I thought you might be lost for good ...

(http://www.juergen-wollmann.de/huwi01-1g.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Der_verlorene_Sohn_Max_Slevogt.jpg/526px-Der_verlorene_Sohn_Max_Slevogt.jpg)

Some Dutch guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83_fu5hI8qs

(not featured in your bunker) painted this:

(http://images.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://www.abtei-oberschoenenfeld.de/images/aktuelles/der-verlorene-sohn-rembrandt_gr.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFnuJ6GYc92pa2P9LZTD7jC0i_SCA)
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 11:27:47 AM: Uwe, your stories and fantasies are very troubled and worrying...
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Highlander on September 10, 2009, 01:38:07 PM: Not sure I like the look of what's going on in that last "master"... :o

Looking forward to hearing the new stuff.. 8)
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: uwe on September 10, 2009, 04:14:27 PM: You guys drag everything into the abyss of your cavernous minds.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: clankenstein on September 10, 2009, 06:02:11 PM: i bet thats going to sound good.is the english muffin a good overdrive for bass?
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: OldManC on September 10, 2009, 06:13:54 PM: Quote from: uwe on September 10, 2009, 04:14:27 PM
You guys drag everything into the abyss of your cavernous minds.

I don't mind hearing about cavernous minds. It's the other caverns I don't want to hear about! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 10:54:09 PM: Be prepared: The new Boilersuit songs don't rock that much. It are all four quite slow-ish songs. Two ballads and two a bit more up tempo. The only fast song is getting remixed as we talk. But within some weeks I have MP3's!

The English Muff'n isn't that good for bass, but it looks good! ;) No, it sounds terrific, but you miss some lows now and then. But I love the sound and the way the tubes really react on how you play. More overdrive by pulling the strings harder.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Bart! on September 11, 2009, 02:14:11 AM: Looking forward to hear the new tracks!

And, "sixties bunker art"? This must have been one of the bunkers where whe hid the paintings of the Rijksmuseum, just before the war started. Obviously this is the place where the works less talented students of Rembrandt were stored...
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Basvarken on September 11, 2009, 05:40:14 AM: Quote from: Chris P. on September 10, 2009, 10:54:09 PM

The English Muff'n isn't that good for bass, but it looks good! ;) No, it sounds terrific, but you miss some lows now and then. But I love the sound and the way the tubes really react on how you play. More overdrive by pulling the strings harder.

Chris you might want to try a clean blend.
This way you keep the low end of the clean sound. And you dial the overdriven part in to your liking.
Ask Rogier (Bernardduur) to build you one.
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Chris P. on September 11, 2009, 08:11:11 AM: Good idea, Rob! Thanks!
Title: Re: Boilersuit
Post by: Highlander on September 11, 2009, 12:34:30 PM: ... and less butter on the muffin...

I alway thought "Muffin The Mule" was something illegal until I discovered Smirn..., no, lets not go there...

And Uwe... that's why you love this place... ;D

... and talking of "cavernous" intellects, let's not forget the (vastly overdue) apology to Alan Turing's family from our glorious leader, who continues to chew shoe leather on a regular basis...