I Wish I Was a Girl – by The Pink Fairies

Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat

Ironic or what?

Oh I tripped down the street in my fashion,
Arousing Ladies passion,
But they misunderstand my eyes,
They don’t know that I’m just after their guys.

The instrumental and vocal bit after the verse above is the best bit.  It’s a controlled use of harmonies and echo which unfortunately is buried towards the end so if you flip off before the end you’ll miss it.  This would be unfortunate as it’s one of my favourite ’sounds’ of all time and is something that I’ve tried to emulate many times.  The bass playing subconciously sets off the root notes in your ear which aren’t necessarily the chords being played and sung, especially during the slow guitar solo (after 7:00 & 8:10 and elsewhere).  Keeping a handle on multiple  echoes is a really hard studio and playing trick to get right.

This is so right.

The whole first side of the “Kings of Oblivion” LP that this comes from (this is track two of three) is perfectly put together.  The Pinks never bettered this IMHO and it was all due to heart attack Larry Wallis.  He’s the addition that made the difference from their other output in reality.  ”Uncle Harry’s Last Freakout” off ‘Never,NeverLand’ is the only other track that’s close.  Some of their stuff over the years was frankly appalling as recordings, I can’t vouch for live which is a different beast in my book.

There’s also a Bowie and Iggy Pop connection to this.  The LP title is pulled from a Bowie line off Hunk Dory and when Iggy & James Williamson got together to do Raw Power (produced by Bowie), they came to London to use the Pink’s rhythm section.  It didn’t pan out so the Ashetons were hired again and dragged across to London.  The rest is history.

Ron Asheton and most of the Pink Fairies and Stooges are dead.  Wallis has heart trouble or something, Iggy recently advertised car insurance on telly, Bowie is like a grand dame of the theatre now when he’s wheeled out for chat shows and Williamson is an IT professional in charge of Technical Standards for Sony USA.

It’s funny how things turn out!

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Hey man,
hope all is well with you and your family.  Have you checked out my website videos yet?

Well the mixer is on hold indefinitely
Picked up a Soundcraft Folio for now

Germanium Preamp

The studio is but a few weeks away from semi completion. Just painting(not sure what color)and sound proofing I’ve added a pic of a Chandler Germanium Pre amp Wondered if you could theorize what’s going on inside

Thanks Paul

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Paul.

ETI Standard OpAmp Circuits

This scan is from my old ETI Circuits #2 from the 70’s.  It’s about the best op-amp info you are likely to find.  With a bit of knowledge, these six circuits are an instant ready-reckoner and allow you to do almost anything!

If you’ve no knowledge, they’re just squiggles on paper.  But then so is any language on paper…

Studiomaster Mixdown 16-4-8, 16-8-16: Channel Schematic

If you want to learn then they are ideal to have sat next to a larger circuit to help with the comprehension process.  Like your mixer project!  BTW, how’s it going with that?

Because of some recent site activity, I’ve checked and realised a picture was missing from a previous post here: http://strangelyperfect.tv/79/headphone-amp-circuit/ so I’ve updated that and added a bit of info from the same mag above.  There’s shedloads in it.  I can see why I never chucked it out now!  I’ve found someone here in Australia with the same disposition as me – check the circuits!  Nice and simple, and you’ll get that authentic analogue sound, as well as getting some understanding along the way.

Most of this sort of information I vigorously used and modified (along with other stuff, of course), to make our Crawling Chaos hardware.  So it does work!  :-D

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