Mon Sep 02, 2013 7:04 pm
I enjoyed reading all of this, but this bit is specifically nice.thingsthingsthings wrote:It was just circumstance. But the later realization that my peers were now in someway famous opened my eyes a bit and made me more comfortable with the idea of approaching performers as people rather than "stars" or "idols". That has lead me to a different perspective and over the years opened a few doors to experiences and situations that I don't think I would've pursued otherwise.
Not that I wouldn't have got involved, but just that the relationships I formed were less stilted... It was easier for me to sit down with a "personality" and see a real person, rather than the fictional character they're portrayed as through media. "We all put our pants on one leg at a time". That kind of thing.
That made me more comfortable and confident and in that respect, yes, I was lucky to have had that relationship with those guys because it lead me to other experiences I relish.
But, like I say, it was circumstance and those guys aren't the only celebrities I know from my younger days. If you grow up in a city you're likely to meet a lot of people and as time goes by some of them become known more widely.
Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:24 pm
Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:41 pm
Opothecary wrote:NEUROMUTE wrote:It's unfortunate that this represents the likely fate of most copies of Pre-Maxima tapes. Pity.
they're still out there. R35TT is a nice mix of all that stuff that someone put together
Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:12 am
mr3 wrote:Opothecary wrote:NEUROMUTE wrote:It's unfortunate that this represents the likely fate of most copies of Pre-Maxima tapes. Pity.
they're still out there. R35TT is a nice mix of all that stuff that someone put together
That's why R35TT has always been this kind of crazy magnet to me, for lots of the same reasons why recollections like the one driving this thread catch my attention. Their earliest accessible stuff says a lot about what happened after, but some of my top fav sounds from them come from those sources (oh man some of the synths). They're great things in their own right. So many related things I've been dying to know about, I've got like a growing list of nerdy scrawled notes/questions.
Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:17 am
TOYOTAセ wrote:The one thing crazy for me about R35TT is that it's a new experience for me each time I listen. I always hear something new each time, or I get a different set of emotions from it.
Sat Sep 07, 2013 11:12 pm
Sun Sep 08, 2013 1:00 am
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Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:40 pm
Fredd-E wrote:cool story, bro
Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:15 am
ScampSixteen wrote:Whoa guys, I just realised.
Wheeltower is an anagram of...
El Wet Whore.
This requires further investigation!
Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:32 am
Wed May 04, 2022 6:16 am
Sat May 07, 2022 3:28 pm
Echelon wrote:The ultimate question: Was any of Old Tunes and Random Thirty Five Track Tape from Wheeltower?
Sun May 08, 2022 3:49 am
Mon May 09, 2022 5:52 pm
Mon May 09, 2022 10:30 pm
Jango9 wrote:The comparisons to Nitzer Ebb are the most interesting part of this to me.phpBB [media]
I think they've almost certainly got a big chunk of early material that sounds somewhere between this and a couple of tracks from Societas X (particularly the Unspeakable demo and Strangers)
Mon May 23, 2022 11:30 pm
Tue May 24, 2022 1:23 am
Sky and Trails wrote:I think we heard some Wheeltower in the VHS tape stuff recently but I know that's not part of this thread.