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Pulse Eternal
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9/16/2007 9:54:40 AM
A SuperPuss first on IAC.....
..... a song with vocals......The main reason most of my songs don't have vocals is because I can't sing to save myself and I want people to listen to my music, not cower in a corner in fear!!!!
I do however write songs with vocal parts and my newest song here is complete with vocals supplied by my friend, Cathy Taylor.
Check out 'Blue' HERE
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9/16/2007 10:33:47 AM
Quit being so humble. .
Your singing sounds great.
Your on key - your also singing harmony - with great vibrato.
You should sing more!
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9/16/2007 11:13:59 AM
Wanna hear a slightly funny story?
I live in a condominium on the second floor. My neighbors have been on my case to not play my guitar so damn loud for the last 10 years.
On July 4th 1997 (American Independence Day) I hooked up my all my guitar amps, opened the windows and played my version of "Star Spangled Banner" ala Jimi Hendrix for familiar flavor.
It only took about 45 seconds - and there it was - someone was pounding on my door and screaming at the top of their lungs "TURN THAT CRAP DOWN!!"
Ya know I hear the word "tolerance" used all the time for various "groups" of people - but SELDOM do I see it applied to strapping chaps like myself.
Anyway, that put the definite kibosh on my playing electric guitar in my condo.
Later on . . .
I had a problem - I had a song I was working on and needed to put the vocals down like right now. And lord knows I'm sure the other tenants here in my building would just LOVE to hear me singing at the top of my lungs. So what to do?
Guess what I did? I brought my 8 Track Digital with me in my CAR and drove to a park near where I live - with headphones and a SMB-58 mic :)
I sang the WHOLE song in my god damn CAR because of these intolerant bastards!
What IS this world comming too :)
Thought you might get it kick out of that Super Puss. .
BTW - Here's the track if ya wanna hear what it sounds like:
http://www.paulboothjohnson.com/MUSIC/Born_To_Be_Wild_HIFI.mp3
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Pulse Eternal
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9/16/2007 11:52:08 AM
Ha that's a classic story Paul!!
I'm listening to Born to be Wild right now. I can't believe you sang that sitting down in your car!!. Sometimes adverse situations can lead to inspired results :-)
I would've LOVED to have been there during your Star Spangled Banner rendition when your neighbours came pounding at your door. I could've answered, hit a double biceps pose and said, "so, what're you gonna do about it eh?!" lol :-D
As for the vocals on my track, I'd love to take credit for them but that is not me singing. It is my friend, Cathy Taylor.
SuperPuss
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9/16/2007 12:08:50 PM
My bad.
Well post something with you singing!
Yeaup - it's true - in the damn car.
I sure do wish you WERE there when those pricks were doing that! Thats a YouTube video right there!
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Pulse Eternal
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9/16/2007 12:21:36 PM
ROFL Paul!!! :-D
Actually, it's more of a Muscle Television clip. Youtube banned me for having too much muscle so I created my own Youtube-like site specifically for muscles :-p
SuperPuss
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9/16/2007 12:35:38 PM
You MUST be joking?
What a bunch of pricks!
Weenies man. .
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Pulse Eternal
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9/16/2007 12:40:08 PM
---- Updated 9/16/2007 12:41:56 PM
Yeah..... just a bunch of beaurocratic chickens!!
It lead to the creation of my new site though so I'm kinda glad they did it!
You can read all about it on my forum HERE if you want :-)
SuperPuss
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Troy Beadles
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9/16/2007 12:47:06 PM
Haha SP. The Hulk Pose. They'd a crapped their pants!
Great story Paul!
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The Man With No Band
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9/16/2007 12:51:52 PM
Paul ... I think you should go pound on your neighbors door and when they answer it tell them their just too d*mn quite and you just came by to check to see if everyone was dead or not ... :)
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Troy Beadles
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9/16/2007 12:52:55 PM
LOL
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Pulse Eternal
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9/16/2007 12:56:43 PM
ROFL Man With no Band!!! Classic!!!
Troy,
I guess the hulk pose (AKA Most Muscular) would probably be a more intimidating choice than the double biceps! lol
SuperPuss
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Troy Beadles
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9/16/2007 12:58:46 PM
Yea, ahaha!
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Stegor
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9/16/2007 12:59:26 PM
I listened last night when I saw it on the new releases. I always wondered what your music would sound like with vocals. I was surprised! Not what I expected at all! Very nice. I love surprises.
I can't sing a note either. My voice cracks like a 14 year old. So when I do vocals tey're usually sing-speak and heavily processed.
Paul, believe it or not I've done the same thing! I wasn't singing, I was doing narration for a video project, but I got an adapter for my cigarette lighter to power my 4 track cassette and plugged a mic in and wrapped it around my steering wheel and spent several lunch hours in the far back corner of the Walmart parking lot recording. I felt really stupid, but it worked. The car is such a dead acoustic space and, except for a jet flying over I got a real good recording.
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9/16/2007 4:26:53 PM
Sam, you KILL me. Heheh, I'd love to do that! Really I would! But I think I'm already on their shit list! ;)
Yeah Stegor - sounds juts like what i did. Except my 8 tracker also take batteries. So no AD/DC conversion was necessary.
I do have a practice space, but thats only for the "heavy artillery".
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Pulse Eternal
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9/17/2007 3:37:51 AM
Thanks Stegor :-)
I have yet to record an instrument inside my car but I do have a mains power inverter and a pretty hefty car stereo with balanced XLR inputs. I have done gigs at festivals with a small mixing desk, a couple of keyboards and a multitrack all run from my car through it's stereo.
I've also recorded an album with a friend of mine inside the crater of an old volcano with my car system. We drove into the crater, set up our recording gear and recorded the whole album live at night. That was a blast!
SuperPuss
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Stegor
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9/17/2007 10:37:18 AM
Oh come on!
Well I once recorded an album in my car while orbiting Saturn using power from salt water ignited by radio waves that I broadcast from my cell phone attached to my alternator. I had to have my respiratory system surgically altered so I could breathe methane gas but it was worth it!
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Jillidom
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9/17/2007 11:47:59 AM
Pft....I once created an album by having myself dehydrated, reduced to bit size then cloned reproducing at 600,000 rpm per square micro metre. Then I was dropped into a black hole, where I bounced off the sides and managed to swallow my echos for 100,000 light years until I exploded. It got to #38 in the Album charts just below Mr Blobby's Christmas hits.
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9/17/2007 11:55:46 AM
Maxillae!
A Blackhole eh?
So I assume you were able to Quantize Gravity, and tie Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity?
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Pulse Eternal
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9/17/2007 12:25:25 PM
ROFPMSL guys!!!!! I love it!!!!! :-D :-D
I tried making a quantum synthesizer but the problems I had were every time I tried to observe what was going on when editing a patch, my observations changed the probability factor of the CPU output and my patch went totally random! Then it would drift towards some strange attractor and oscillate uncontrollably until I stopped observing it!!
I was serious about my car expeditions though, although I must admit, I've never experimented with cell phone power conversions or black holes!! :-)
SuperPuss
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Jillidom
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9/17/2007 12:30:10 PM
Fair cop Paul, I might have exaggerated about the black hole...it was more of a gray area.
Sorry SP, you're a great sport.
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Pulse Eternal
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9/17/2007 12:33:44 PM
LOL Maxillae :-D
No need to apologise. This is fun!!
SuperPuss
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9/17/2007 1:19:50 PM
Maxillae! No, I think it WAS a Blackhole now for sure - since your memory seems to be warbling in and out of this World Line :)
SuperPuss!
I see the inherent problem with your quantum synthesizer. Observing particles that are below the Planck length in your Quantum Synthesizer will be disturbed by the Photons that are bouncing off your eye's retina. The Photons literally are streaming from your eye, and smashing into the Quantum Synthesizer's editing patch - thus disturbing them - hence your inability to detect them properly.
This results in only being able to assign a Probability to your editing patch's exact position in Spacetime.
When you find a better detection method - please let me know. It's a Nobel Prize winner ;)
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Pulse Eternal
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9/17/2007 1:36:25 PM
Paul,
Perhaps I could try a collimating lense in front of my eye. I think the photon stream from my eyes is already phase coherent so it could just be a matter of controlling the scatter and, of course, I'll avoid looking directly at the CPU.....then again, that would be far too simple and I doubt a Nobel prize would be won so easily!!
I have my cat, Neo, working on string theory in my kitchen right now -
SuperPuss
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9/17/2007 1:53:34 PM
Who knows? Your cat might be smarter than Ed Witten!
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Pulse Eternal
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9/17/2007 2:00:49 PM
Maybe!! He's been taught by a very special friend of mine who worked at Caltech and JPL (who also happens to be an IAC member).
I'll have to direct him to this thread ;-)
SuperPuss
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Bat Lenny
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9/17/2007 3:42:07 PM
Damn you, Max! Leave it to you to out-Stegor me! I thought I'd have the last word but no! You eclipsed my Saturn with your black hole! Then that guy with two last names goes all quantum on us and name drops Ed Witten and SuperPuss makes a String Theory reference and it's all over!
I'll get you, Max!
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Carl Malone
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9/18/2007 12:01:34 AM
Everybody step away from the theoretical physics talk and leave it to the experts!
You might hurt yourselves! LOL
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Pulse Eternal
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9/18/2007 3:02:53 AM
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Hiya Carl,
I knew I could count on you when I need some quantum backup!!
<3
Guys, allow me to introduce my very special friend and quantum expert, Carl Malone!!
He's a modest soul though and isn't one to blow his own horn much so I'm doing it for him!!!!
A little about him -
"Carl Malone, is the "CM" of CM Labs and is the founder and Chief Product Designer. Carl’s childhood was spent growing up in Pasadena, CA. A father who scratch-built models, the scientific intellectual drive of the Cold War 50’s and an innocent curiosity about how things worked started Carl on his life’s path.
When it came time to go to college, Carl’s practical streak came out. Not optimistic about the economic prospects of a career as a performing musician, Carl instead directed his music/scientific interest into the study of Physics. The intent was to add fundamental science and disciplined research to his skill set.
From 1980 to 1990 Carl was a Physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He worked on radiation testing the microprocessor systems for the Galileo spacecraft. While at JPL, Carl obtained 2 patents on novel particle detectors.
By this time, Carl was an accomplished musician on vocals, guitar and flute. In addition to producing many of his own recordings, he has also performed and re-corded with Ravi Shankar. He continued his association with Shankar, functioning as the chief sound engineer with Ravi Shankar’s Music Circle in Los Angeles for 12 years.
Carl was the inventor of the HUI product which is widely considered to be the first product of its type. He was also instrumental in the design of the Pro Control and has made many presentations about modern console design."
More HERE
SuperPuss
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Carl Malone
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9/18/2007 6:01:25 PM
A word about quantum mechanics. These days, physics uses something called quantum field theroy (QFT). The original "quantum mechanics" was formulated without the inclusion of Einstein's "Special Relativity" and it did not predict or describe the electron. When Special Relativity was added, bingo, out popped a description of the electron and the necessary existence of anti-matter. At that point, QFT described electromagnetism, but not the other known 3 forces of nature.
Since then, QFT has incorporated something called "local guage symmetries". QFT now has culminated in something called "The Standard Model" which describes, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. Gravity has remained untractable by QFT methods. Now, the mathmatics called Superstring Theory (SST) has shown that all known forces of nature can be consistently described by a field theory, however 10 spacetime dimensions are required. The underlying idea of SST was really simple. Physicists had always imagined that matter was point like, but imagining it to be like tiny strings has produced fantastic advancements in theoretical physics.
Unfortunately, experimantal physics has not been able to produce any experiments to test the latest ideas as of this date. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ will begin doing experiments this year, and it is expected to shed light on many of the problem in our understanding of nature at its most fundamental level.
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9/18/2007 6:34:23 PM
Hi Carl, and welcome!
I always wanted to be a Science teacher - but on this World Line, I'm only a lowly truck driver.
I only have about 1,000 questions for you Carl!
But they will have to wait, since I have been up since 2am - and I'm about ready to fall over.
Once again, welcome Carl! I would love to hear your music too!
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Carl Malone
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9/19/2007 10:39:09 AM
Hi Paul,
I would love to try to answer any questions you have about theoretical physics.
The world we inhabit is turning out to be stranger than anyone has imagined.
In the last 50 years, physics has made tremendous strides.
Thanks for you rkind comments.
Carl
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Pulse Eternal
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9/21/2007 5:58:08 PM
I can't wait for us to share many moments of Quantum chat, Carl......
....Soon, VERY soon, the IAC world will hear the fruits of our musical interaction too :-)
I think we'll have to wait for Paul to get back on the 27th I think, before his quantum questions continue here.
SuperPuss
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