[conspire] Cabal & Covid19

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Mar 21, 2020, at 09:06, Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
> 
> On 20Mar2020 08:38pm (-0700), Rick Moen wrote:
>>> At some point, Im going to install a Raspberry Pi to monitor the place.
>> 
>> Have a lot of fun!
>> 
>>   -- /etc/motd from Gesellschaft für Software und System Entwicklung mbH
> 
> As some of you may or may not know, I met my partner while working at SuSE.  She speaks German pretty well, and we still get a giggle barking at one another to "HAVE A LOT OF FUN!" occasionally.

I think that’s fabulous. I hope Dehnen und Entspannen (sp?) still makes the rounds, though that was from some video, iiirc.

I occasionally am reminded of the SuSE Linux book I co-wrote eons ago.

Speaking of German-related things, yesterday, a used Hofner Beatle-style violin bass guitar arrived via UPS. I’d actually intended to go buy one locally, then all this virus crap broke out and simultaneously the local stock dried up due to an unrelated distribution issue, which meant I could buy a used one in a color I preferred (metallic red) for less dosh.

Ages ago I’d been in a glam band as a bassist while studying sound recording and electronic with Don Dorsey, most famous for his work on the Main Street Electrical Parade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTdd8EKo3Y (as a keyboardist and arranger along with the concept of having the music flow through the park with the parade, something that genuinely hadn’t occurred to Disney) and other Disney work. He also had Telarc albums Bachbusters and Beethoven or Bust (which you can find on YouTube) and did the Disney show Illuminations, which ended late last year.

One of the things I learned from him was what we genuinely lost with the death of quadraphonic. Sigh.

While he was still up-and-coming as a Disney consultant, he still had a day job as a recording engineer and was much loved by Donna Summer, working on her most famous albums. It was while he was working on that that I took sound recording, and he gave as his first assignment that we MUST use reverb so we got it out of our system.

That album? I Remember Yesterday, aka the one with I Feel Love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0

I love William Kurk’s Reverb series on how to recreate the synth stuff on classic tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2dgsKfphA “You can’t just Uber anywhere in space, you need some time to get there."

Anyhow, it became obvious I had sound-triggered migraines, which is why I reluctantly switched over to writing in the late 80s. I was never as good at it. At times I’ve had to disappear at Cabal meetings when they got too boisterous, but I’m hoping I won’t have to manage that quite so carefully in the future. I mean, I’ll never be in a Korn tribute band, for which we’re all thankful, but….

Deirdre