Ugclone Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 our band's first show is tonight and i'm pretty excited..what does this have to do with atari? i play a 2600 in the band (thanks paul slocum!) using the synthcart.the 2600 and a big freakin' amp with some distortion. the band's name is the Dead Whipp-it's..hopefully i'll have some stuff (including some of our songs) to put up on the net soon. wish us luck BTW check out the synthcart site http://www.mindspring.com/~paul-slocum/synth.html [/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicJoke Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Good Luck! I would like to hear some of your stuff with the 2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnspike Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 You play a 2600 in the band????? ROCK ON! You HAVE to post an audio file of one of your sets in here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!! Is there anything the 2600 can't do, I'm going to see if the one I have can change my sons big stinky diapers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Slocum Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Look forward to hearing your band and I hope your show goes well! I'm interested to hear more about how your using it and what your setup it like. I haven't had a chance to play live with mine because the guy I play music with moved to Austin. But when I visit, I always take a Synthcart so we can play. Hopefully I'll be moving to Austin soon and we can play some shows then. -Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inextremis staple Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 usin the old 2600 in a band genius my dear lad genius pure and simple and good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Good luck! I've played in several gigging bands throughout my life (sometimes up to 3 nights a week!) and it's hard but the extra money makes it worth it. Break a leg dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugclone Posted July 7, 2002 Author Share Posted July 7, 2002 thanks for the support everyone! the show went well and it looks like we got some more gigs coming up soon as a result (a few people from some other bands were there and they liked our stuff). I'm excited , to say the least. anyways once we get some recording done i'll try to have someone put it on the net for me and i'll let you guys know when that happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inextremis staple Posted July 7, 2002 Share Posted July 7, 2002 congrats my man i can really see you and your 2600 goin places i see you and moby and he laughs at the atari so you drop an elbow on his bald head and he cries like a baby ha ha atari always triumphs because good is dumb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranthulfr Posted July 7, 2002 Share Posted July 7, 2002 Hopefully I'll be moving to Austin soon and we can play some shows then. Maybe we'll catch you playing an Atari on Austin City Limits one day... That would be cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 My big novelty when I was a drummer, before I learned guitar properly, was to use things other than drum sticks for my end-of-show solo...tennis rackets, toy Light Sabers, you name it! Thankfully, I never decided to pick up a couple Atari 2600s and bang my drums with them. But, now that I think about it, those huge remote-control 2600 joysticks would've worked well. (As durable as the CX sticks are, it probably wouldn't have hurt them, either!) For the next show, maybe you could somehow get a recording and upload a sample of your 2600 mastery for us to hear! Congratulations on a successful show; and we score another 10,000 points for ol' Stella! P.S. Beware of doing covers. Stick to original songs. Let's not disgrace our beloved machine. You're the only music-scene representative who we have at the moment, who uses an actual VCS. CF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulag picture radio Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 There is another guy- Spike The Percussionist. He built a rackmount Atari that he uses with SynthCart and regular ol' games too. There are some example songs that you can grab from his website that use the Atari. http://www.manipulate.net/skan/index.html As for doing cover songs, it's pretty hard with SynthCart since it can play all the notes in a major scale or a minor scale, but not both at the same time. That means that cover songs are confined to hits like "Three Blind Mice" and "Jingle Bells". Not that I'm complaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Slocum Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 It's hard doing cover songs at all on the 2600. Doing Mr. Roboto and Rock The Casbah were pretty hard even when I had access to all the notes possible. The following song has some Synthcart in the background and a short solo (through a lot of reverb) at about 1:40. Our music isn't the most accessible stuff, though. http://www.palfloat.com/audio/sl_mr_cement.mp3 -Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiggerthehun Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Awesome idea Paul! I too would love to hear more of your stuff - listening to that song right now... "formica"... doo doo... very cool... "Mr. Cement"... good so far... WHERE'S THE ATARI?... "Magic wand" - hmmm, sounds dirty... 1:45 left - haven't heard the Atari yet - or maybe the distortion confuses me... O.K. - I think I got it now - the synthcart - thought that was a guitar at first... Hey, I think it rocks! I don't get the lyrics, but that's o.k.! BTW, tho' this isn't Atari, I went to a Nine Inch Nails concert where they broke into the Zelda theme. THAT ROCKED! Probably half the audience got it - the other half was looking around like "Why is everyone cheering? - I don't know this song!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 LOL -- For a joke between songs sometimes, our bassist and I would play the NES theme from Super Mario Bros. 3, when Mario's in the pipes and it plays that funky little break-it-down kinda thang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcsnow Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Cool, wishing you a good night tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trey Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 if i had a nickel every time someone has come up to me and said they play the 2600 in a band, i'd have a nickel. i've gotta hear it. please post digital sample. i'm guessing it has a "funky town" sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriana Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 That is HOT ... actually playing an Atari 2600 in a band. If I were in an electro-clash band right now (which seems to be all the rage here in San Francisco) I would totally do it. Paul Slocum's Synthcart is the bomb! Has anyone heard of a Detroit electro duo called Adult.? I swear that there are Atari 2600 sounds all over their record. I've been trying to get the keyboardist in Blue Period (my band) to sample some 2600 sounds to use, but to no avail ... yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Destructo Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Nice to see Adult. mentioned here! They don't use Atari, but they definitely have a low-tech electronic sound, as do lots of other electro artists in Detroit, such as Dopplereffeckt, Ectomorph, Aux 88, and Drexciya. If you like that style, definitely check these artists out. I DJ an electro set as Mr. Roboto , and my new promo CD will indeed feature some "mad" Atari beats, thanks to this record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulag picture radio Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Cool! My copy of that record is in the mail to me right now. I can hardly wait. I'm not a DJ, but I figure that it's a cool enough object to just own... I'm looking forward to it coming soon! I'll have to see what the music looks like run through an Atari Video Music unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noble Kale Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 That is very cool Ugclone. Who knows, maybe it will net you some good finds somewhere down the track? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ugclone Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 i've gotta hear it. please post digital sample. i'm guessing it has a "funky town" sound. funky town the disco song?! oh dear god no. we kind of play around with different styles of music and bring them together to form a strange mixture... think if you can styles from artists like the dead boys, devo, and johnny cash all splashed together in one form or another. Electrocountrypunx ! (I made that up myself..oh so clever!) I just got pictures from the show back today so i'll try and get them scanned and posted as soon as i find some free time. Also we usually tape our practices so i should probably be going through the tapes and posting some of the better quality stuff (it's not exactly studio quailty stuff since we just set the good ol' tape player down and press rec.) anyways i'm probably going to have to put a web site together to hold all of this stuff. sounds like i've got some work to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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