nine

they them she her

[commanderchr1st]

i went on the scooby doo diet where I just eat giant subs and processed biscuits and I gotta say im not feeling to

[cadtap]

Deltarune I saw in a dream last night

[bunsidhe]

naturally blue !!

[benthic]

Kris I think struggles to differentiate between romantic and platonic feelings. I think they naturally get so attached that the lines of love get blurred really fast, to the point that those lines dissolve entirely. That’s why it seems like they want everyone they’ve ever met. The friendship to crush pipeline is destroying their damn life!!!!

[mc-killarx]

[hammerheadworm]

ragebaiting my childhood friend with my doomed unrequited crush

[ihavemints]

imagine you're a teenager and have an awesome best friend who you've been having cool magic adventures with and who you talk about going to the festival with and you have a special place with just each other and then she hangs out with your childhood friend at the festival and they flirt the whole time and suddenly alll she can talk about is your oldfriend and she tells you that you guys had fun but now what you need is the childhood friend and she changes your guy's special place to be special for her and you're a teenager with no friends

[frosted-co0kies]

this really was the 'kris gets tortured forever' chapter

[lara-cherriinie]

my name is Susie Deltarune and my power is being oblivious as fuck

[theriverdraws]

If something good happens to Kris the game is programmed to explode.

[tmbgareok]

I consider you both an influence on my music/art, so here's a question, how was it like working on Lincoln?

JF: The great part was the new technology that was available opened things up for us sonically in some very exciting ways, with improvements in drum machines, along with just our basic stuff getting better. I had an actual Fender guitar by the end of that album and that was huge for me. The horizon line of what was possible seemed to just be ever expanding. We had started touring in earnest, and all our recording dates were interrupted by more live shows, but those experiences were revelatory for me in terms of singing and playing, and just putting things together. While the road work was exhausting, it made us better and better.

But it was also a very very busy time and hard to keep up with all the moving parts of our lives. I made a lot less money in 1988 and 1989 than I did in 1986 and 1987, just because I went from having a pretty great professional job to being a full time touring musician playing pretty bottom run gigs. So the brokenness was a bit of a drag.

As for the actual recordings-with a few notable exceptions, it seemed like the first time something worked in the studio it meant it was finished, which is not uncommon for people on a tight budget (or no budget), but kind of frustrating.

[tmbgareok]

JF, can you elaborate on any details of your interview with Space Ghost? Will we ever see the full thing?

JF: oh it was a messed up day. JL was in a different vehicle and didn't arrive in time. It was just a drag.

[tmbgareok]

Oh, and almost forgot to ask, what's a good accordion to buy? I'm a cheapskate so I just need a cheap one that won't fall apart. *and* Any tips on making drum machine patterns? Thank you so much.

Well… there are many affordable used accordions out there. The biggest issue is that some in very good shape can still be very out of tune–not with themselves so much as every other in tune instrument, so download a tuner on your smart phone, bring it to the junk store and play a c note into the phone and if it’s really sharp or flat (like above or below 3 cents) just walk away!

Here is a simple bit of advice on drum programming–95% of the time drummers won’t play a pattern that has the kick and snare happening at the same time. Although it can be fun programming both at the same time it’s usually a pretty “machine-only” kind of move. 

For me, I learned the most about drummer from sitting very close to bands with a good view of a drummer and just checking out they put their beats together. Just watching a blues band’s drummer or an r and b band’s drummer playing at close range you’ll figure out a lot. (and before the show starts bring a pair of hard, barrel shaped earplugs, roll them up in your fingers so you can stick ‘em deep into your ear canal where they’ll expand–save yourself!!)

any old cheap Roland or boss programmable drum machine from the 80s–the kind that had the graphical interface (looks like a grid with dots, kind of like a chord symbol for guitars but usually 8 or 16 bars long) will illustrate a lot of how drum patterns really work, and are really fun to kind of “type” shapes into and finding out how they play back. 

speaking of the 80s–if you wonder how bands work in the most elemental ways this series is really got a lot of information (and hairstyles and video graphics that are so dated you could lose you mind)

PS: dig how they say “boog-ee” and “’evy met-l” The accents are fantastic.

[tmbgareok]

Hi John! Over the years there's been a few TMBG song titles—mentioned in official places like the Songs T-Shirt, the User's Guide CD liners, and newsletters—that are kind of a mystery. Would you be able to share any memories of what these songs are, if you recognize any? (I'm guessing a few of these last ones could be incidental music) Boss Don't Like Me — Drumbeat — Memoirs of an Amnesiac — Titanic Fog — The Story Pt. 2 — Get Your Pepper Talkin' — We Found You — Steal This Book — This Just In — Yeah Yeah Yeah — Wild Card Thank you, either way!

While almost all these titles are very familiar, I can't quite recall what most of these are....

When we were doing music for Malcolm in the Middle and various other shows, we were cooking up ten or twenty cues a day, so a lot of things got NAMES for the cue sheet that no one remembers. I remember we started naming cues after players on the Yankees.

From context, as quickie titles I bet Yeah yeah Yeah had some Beatlish element, and This Just In was news-sounding music for either Malcom or the Jon Stewart show...

Titanic Fog was one of the "set aside" titles we had arranged with Fox TV for songs we wanted to contribute to Malcolm but expressed intentions in advance to use ourselves later, and thus we were allowed to hold on to the publishing. "Four Track Mind" which became "Clap Your Hands" is another example. Unfortunately I don't remember what song became Titanic Fog... but I am pretty sure it got repurposed on a regular album.

Wild Card I think was an unused instrumental track put together for Dunkin' Donuts (which is a descriptive term in broadcasting/advertising for non-time-specific "ad buys" that saves money for the client as that classification of ad exempts the client for paying royalties to performers!) I think the intention was to finish an original lyric to it in order to make a new song. Get Your Pepper Talkin' became "All McGyver On It"

Drumbeat I think was a walk on or walk off music in the early show I THINK.

We Found You — I believe that was a really early Dial-a-song... It was really kind of odd, experimental

Get Your Pepper Talkin' became "All McGyver On It"

[tmbgareok]

Thanks for the out-of-body experience that I enjoyed at your two Brisbane shows. I was the tall portly gentleman with the moustache. Was lovely to get to meet Stan and Mark! Technical question: could you tell me a little bit about your pedalboard and what you have on it?

JF: I have a very big pedal board that I have yet to fully take advantage of. The main thing is the Benson Pre-Amp which is the perfect thing for me. Very much like a 21st Century update of the Chandler Tube Driver which, along with the Boss Turbo Overdrive were my two (non-clean) sounds in the 80s; it's just a nice super-crunchy sound. I am also using the Way Huge fuzz box which is a little over the top for me, but I have dialed it back so it's not too heavy metal. The only other boxes of note are the Surfybear Surfyvibe vibrato pedal which is a pitch tremelo but can be low key , and the Earthquaker Auaduct which has a very warm, organic vibrato that is much closer to a Leslie cabinet-style warble.

[tmbgareok]

I was recently jamming to Flood, and was wondering, why did songs like Ant, Stormy Pinkness and James K. Polk (Original Version) get left off? I love the album as a whole, but I also think these songs would have been good inclusions.

JF: they were recorded after Flood was delivered, and knocked out in special sessions just to make b sides. Rushed and with no budget!

[spinchs-field]

accidentally wrote “never mill yourself” like yeah i don’t think anyone would do that unless they’re wheat or perhaps a rice

[spinchs-field]

what the fuck happens in Magic the Gathering dawg