Thanks to Chicago DJs for this. We are excessively amused.
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
WTF: Crosby Stills and Nash Skullcrushingly Bad Album Art
For those of you just joining us, WTF is our archive of crappy album artwork. There’s no way to define what exactly earns an album cover inclusion in our WTF gallery–we just know it when we see it. With that in mind, we give you…
Crosby Stills and Nash are responsible for some of the worst hippified excesses of the 60s. Once Neil Young departed the picture, these three sonic tormentors were free to torture the rest of us with godawful dribble like “Teach Your Children”. Behold: “..and so become yourself/because the past is just a goodbye.”
Um, what? Bloody hippies. Go back to the peace pipe and leave us alone.
And then there’s THIS abomination–skewered hot dogs on the moon. Of COURSE! What ELSE would you put on an album called “Live It Up”? If you look closely you can see tiny little telephone company linemen wondering WTF they’re doing on the cover of this wretchedly awful nonsense. Can you hear what they’re thinking? “Oh my, I do hope I don’t float away into the cold vacuum of space. After all, I don’t have a space suit and I may die. But if I DO. at least I don’t have to listen to Crosby Stills and Nash ever again. In fact, I think I’ll just let go of my pole here and sail off into the dark. Maybe I’ll explode.” Continue reading WTF: Crosby Stills and Nash Skullcrushingly Bad Album Art
Mackie D4 Mixer
Once upon a time I edited and wrote features for a website called Gearwire.com. One of those features was on the Mackie D4 DJ production console. I talked on camera with Mackie rep Ronnal Ives, AKA DJ Buttnaked, about the Mackie D4 at a music industry trade show, NAMM 2007. Revisiting that video now (where the D4 was featured in a demo of Mackie’s Traktion3 software), I am tempted to pick up the D4 to integrate into my setup for Paisley Babylon, which goes back and forth between straight music production/performance and DJ sets.
The D4 connects to your Mac or PC via firewire, features Onyx mic pres, XLR outs, and sports four stereo program channels for your CD player, turntable, and FireWire inputs. The turntable inputs have Mackie-designed pres. It also comes with Traktion 3 software.
I’d love to hear from anyone who owns and uses the Mackie D4–drop a comment and let me know how you like it.
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The Horror Films Collection Volume Two CD: Now on Sale Here
Now for sale here at Turntabling: The Horror Films Collection Volume Two, a CD featuring tracks from Lady Frankenstein, Zombie, The New York Ripper, Conquest, and many others. It’s a Lucio Fulci-fest, including two tracks from his “compilation” movie Cat In The Brain at least one of which you may recognize from The Beyond.
This is a fun collection of tracks from Piero Piccioni, Claudio Simonetti, Manuel De Sica and many other well known Italian soundtrack names. The Horror Films Collection Volume Two is a good companion disc to the Goblin greatest hits collections also sold here–put the discs in your changer, hit “shuffle” and be immersed in the sounds of vintage 60s and 70s Italian horror.
Buy The Horror Films Collection Volume Two for $13 plus shipping. This is a brand new, shrink-wrapped CD shipped directly from Turntabling. At this time we can only ship to USA addresses.