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onehappyprick
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 03/29/2007 : 06:18:13
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Haha, ok.
That would make more sense.
"Goodnight Kim", "Goodnight Charles", "Goodnight Kim", "Goodnight Charles", "Goodnight Joe".... "Goodnight Charles" |
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Mac E. Doobage
= Cult of Ray =
503 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:19:46
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| Where can i get a full track version of this album immediately? |
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anazgnos
= Cult of Ray =
USA
383 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:33:22
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Originally posted by coastline
Ok, so which one of us wrote the wiki entry for "Bluefinger"? Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefinger
(It wasn't me. And it needs some work.)
Feel free to work on it, I just threw it up there.
I think it's premature to go taking Frank's offhand reference as absolute gospel that the album will be released as a "Black Francis" album and not a "Frank Black" album, especially in the absence of anything like wiki-grade reference to that effect, but if anyone wants to change it back to "Black Francis" I won't argue the point. See the discussion page on the article for more thoughts on that. |
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anazgnos
= Cult of Ray =
USA
383 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:41:22
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| Are there any consolidated translations of the dutch posts from FB around? I've only caught bits and pieces so far, and should probably get up to speed. |
Edited by - anazgnos on 03/29/2007 07:41:43 |
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:45:51
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I put some comments on the discussion page this morning, arguing my point, but I don't have such strong conviction as to change it myself. I figured that if I could convince you to change it, then it probably needed changing, and if you resisted, then I would leave it at that for now.
I don't know the first thing about creating wiki entries, but would it be appropriate to create entries for every song? For now, the folks who run fb.net surely won't be putting anything in the Discopedia (until the album is released), but once we nail down the lyrics to any of the songs via this thread, it would make sense to me to make them permanent somewhere -- such as a wiki. But you seem better-versed in the Wikipedia, anazgnos. What do you think?
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:46:50
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Originally posted by anazgnos
Are there any consolidated translations of the dutch posts from FB around? I've only caught bits and pieces so far, and should probably get up to speed.
He erased most of them, but a couple were quoted in replies by other forum members. I think we still have the double-translated lyrics to the song "Bluefinger" and the announcement of the album.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
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999
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:59:41
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Big Bang Sky
Big Bang Dirt |
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anazgnos
= Cult of Ray =
USA
383 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 07:59:53
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Originally posted by coastline
I put some comments on the discussion page this morning, arguing my point, but I don't have such strong conviction as to change it myself. I figured that if I could convince you to change it, then it probably needed changing, and if you resisted, then I would leave it at that for now.
I don't know the first thing about creating wiki entries, but would it be appropriate to create entries for every song? For now, the folks who run fb.net surely won't be putting anything in the Discopedia (until the album is released), but once we nail down the lyrics to any of the songs via this thread, it would make sense to me to make them permanent somewhere -- such as a wiki. But you seem better-versed in the Wikipedia, anazgnos. What do you think?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs.
It's not unheard of to do that, but generally only for like really huge albums that are widely discussed in the press. You can quote lyric fragments but I don't think it's OK to quote entire song lyrics, being (potentially) copyrighted material. All info in wikipedia is really supposed to point back to solid, published references, and not just like "fan discussion/speculation" (which the current article is already pretty much skriting), and given that there aren't any interviews or press reviews to reference on this album or any of the songs yet, I don't think we have the raw material to fill individual song pages.
But you don't have to have an account or anything to edit wp...if you see anything you want changed, seriously, just click "edit" at the top of the page and just go! |
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:12:04
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Originally posted by 999
Big Bang Sky
Big Bang Dirt
Here's another line that seems to be about Brood's suicide. But I've been wondering about his suicide, as I haven't managed to really learn the details of it. Did he shoot himself as he jumped off the hotel roof, or did he just jump? Does anyone know? |
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Grotesque
= Cult of Ray =
France
777 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:21:24
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Originally posted by coastline
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Originally posted by 999
Big Bang Sky
Big Bang Dirt
Here's another line that seems to be about Brood's suicide. But I've been wondering about his suicide, as I haven't managed to really learn the details of it. Did he shoot himself as he jumped off the hotel roof, or did he just jump? Does anyone know?
Apparently he drove his car to his hotel room, tied his neck to a rope, took a full box of sleep medication, loaded his gun, drove the car throught the window and shot himself.
He was hanged, shot and intoxicated during a car accident trough his hotel window !
Then he drawn in the hotel pool.
Hum... sorry, couldnt resist. Keep going! |
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:33:39
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What Grotesque said. Apparently the police concluded the death was accidental.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say." |
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2543 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:38:01
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did he jump from the roof, or room 902?
Scratching the surface without a purpose won't accomplish anything new
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:46:53
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Since Brood's dead was widely documented in the dutch newspapers/television news:
Brood's body was tired of all the drugs and alcohol (ab)use. Doctor's said that he maybe
at 4 or 5 months to live, Brood stopped using but his body was so damaged that he decided that
life wasn't good enough for him anymore. I don't want to burn up, let's safe that for the cremation (I quote his farewell-letter, which also said: 'maybe I will see you sometime' and 'have a party'). I believe Test Pilot Blues says something in the line of 'I don't want to fade away'. That's typically Brood, he didn't want to slowly wither away, he wanted to go on the moment that life wasn't that great anymore. He used to go on the roof of the Hilton many times, he could see his house from there. One day he wrote his suicide-letter at the bar in the Hotel, got a cocktail and paid with hundred dollar, he didn't want to have any change-money because he would be 'right back'. Then he got to the roof again and jumped. He was dead immediately, but his face or body weren't ugly damaged (that's what his wife said in the press). The reason that people weren't sure that it was Brood was that he had shaved his head. Brood had nice dark hair, it was his trademark.
There was a big ceremony with thousands of people attending. Then he was cremated and his ashes were burried in Zwolle.
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6214 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:51:11
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Originally posted by Llamadance
did he jump from the roof, or room 902?
Scratching the surface without a purpose won't accomplish anything new
Upload your Frank photos here - fb.net gallery
john and yoko spend a week in room 902 during their honeymoon-bed inn for peace.
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 08:55:24
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Here are FB's double-translated lyrics for the song "Bluefinger":
"I am in top Bluefinger on the hill over the dark water to still run there but my blood of eerder Schweinetrab is Isala, and I' D came me at the surface, and I have myself each decrease drunk went through the pressure balance chamber door and received on the course Pepperbox the clock, which blows my brain, but I have it with the Spanish cocaine returned go noiseless, and I examined and made the cows the solemn oaths, if my choice is bad it made, her made me, and which corresponds with my door? I do not have it did not pay, her did not pay me to need to me disturb it sign here me the manager a friend mine am, thus go the baby, only more time am a lever jump at this thing on my back me, and everyone my choice were to clean me made, they made I, and who corresponds with my door? I paid it, paid her me."
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 09:07:43
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Originally posted by billgoodman
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Originally posted by Llamadance
did he jump from the roof, or room 902?
john and yoko spend a week in room 902 during their honeymoon-bed inn for peace.
yeah, it was just that in Angels it sounds like he was going into the room before he jumped.
Scratching the surface without a purpose won't accomplish anything new
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 10:24:14
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| In Test Pilot Blues where is he says "I love this part, We did it". Do you think he's referring to the music or to whatever the test pilot is doing in the song? |
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
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3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 10:31:28
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Originally posted by darwin
In Test Pilot Blues where is he says "I love this part, We did it". Do you think he's referring to the music or to whatever the test pilot is doing in the song?
I keep thinking the answer to that is contained in a YouTube video that none of us has discovered and posted here yet.
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 10:49:27
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Originally posted by frankoholic
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Originally posted by 2Strings
Not sure if anyone else has seen this already http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaS0VzvfxGY (~0:50 'amazing! it works!') i guess this is where Frank got the line in Tight Black Rubber.
bluefinger:
And I got on the train
The pepper box been blowing my brains
But I made it go quicker with Spanish cocaine
And I looked at the cows
Pepper box is a small handgun back from US Civil War times. |
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 11:01:42
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And I think he says, "The pepperbox bell been blowing my brain." Hence the word "clock" in the jacked-up translation above.
Here's the wiki on "pepper-box": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box
You know, somebody ought to run the lyrics to this song through Babelfish -- to Dutch and back to English -- and see how well it matches what we read a couple months ago. |
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prozacrat
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1186 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 11:19:04
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Originally posted by billgoodman
I don't go with that, of course he may have checked somethings online
but you can find lot's of expositions, a musuem an tons of books on Brood here.
the statue of Herman Brood is placed at the venue were FB played
lot's of shows with the Catholics. Zwolle isn't punkrock-city number one,
nobody plays there, believe me. To me the only way that it makes sense that he played
there was that he had a friend in the area. Maybe the club's promoter or something like that. So my guess is that he knows the place well. That's great, for a musician it's common to know Amsterdam or Utrecht, but Zwolle...no way. Frank is special
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I was mostly joking about the internet bit. Yeah, he's obviously been using it a bit, but Frank really seems to have an intimate knowledge of what's going on. From what I can tell by the lyrics, he was pretty immersed in this culture, the way all those references just pile up. But I was jokingly thinking that with Frank's amazing songwriting skills, he could have written this whole album using Wikipedia alone.
http://www.prozacrat.com
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Kirk
= Cult of Ray =
USA
633 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 12:20:18
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prozacrat
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1186 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 12:33:15
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I don't know if I would go that far yet. Of course, it's the quality of the album that matters the most, but we still don't know exactly how much Frank put into writing this. From what I've read of Sufjan's research, it was very lengthy, and very, very thorough. Though both these guys have made concept albums, their products have been very different. Frank has painted a very elaborate picture of the life of one man. Sufjan has been soaking up the history of entire states (and whatever else he's written concept albums for) and distilled from it what he thinks will make a good album. It's really hard to compare these two. I may be totally overthinking this, Kirk. I apologize.
http://www.prozacrat.com
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6214 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 13:41:32
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BTW
Violet's back ups are just like Herman Brood's back up singers. Captain Pasty is also very Brood-esque. And then there's indeed the cover You Can't Break A Heart and Have It.
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
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3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 13:52:47
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Our man on the scene nails down some more Brood-ishness. Nice work again, Jop.
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
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2Strings
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
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Grotesque
= Cult of Ray =
France
777 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 17:11:01
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Originally posted by billgoodman
BTW
Violet's back ups are just like Herman Brood's back up singers. Captain Pasty is also very Brood-esque. And then there's indeed the cover You Can't Break A Heart and Have It.
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Tell us about the Dutch scene. I only know The Ex and De Kift (incredibly great bands by the way). |
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Grotesque
= Cult of Ray =
France
777 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 17:32:59
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Originally posted by houstonguthrie
just heard it for the first time and as a long time Frank fan who loves everything he's done - I am just FLOORED!!! this album rocks!!! it's going to floor Frank fans, Pixies fans, and a whole bunch of new people
just looked at my Martin acoustic across the room - and didn't even want to pick it up
I'm puttin down the Martin - and I'm buying a Tele baby!!!!!
Caution ! I bought once a tele after seeing Frank Black live, but that was not at all his sound, because this little pervert has a tele with HUMBUCKERS (double microphones)!
The normal single mic tele sound is really light and gentle, almost accoustic sounding. You wont be ablle to make that twing twang sound like FB with that. It just makes a gentle "FRIIING".
Bluefinger has such a great rythm guitar sound, I think there will be a huge demand for a "FB signature" telecaster in a year from now. |
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Czar
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 18:56:34
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Originally posted by Lokikun
Some of the songs on Bluefinger remind me of other Frank songs. Test Pilot Blues reminds me of Nadine. Angels Come To Comfort You's intro sort of reminds me of Horrible Day. Anyone else find themselves going 'Jeez...That sounds familiar!' with any of the songs? I'm definately not bringing this up as a knock against the album or anything. Actually, I rather like it when it happens. It's almost bridging the old with the new.
Yes. I'm glad I'm not the only one to have felt some feeling of déjà entendu -- and it's not negative at all! It's like deliberate on his part, maybe.
I'm I the only one to link Rubber with the Breeders and Can't Break a Heart... with Sonic Youth? |
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2Strings
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 19:31:25
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The end section of 'Angels Come To Comfort You' feels a lot like 'Vanishing Spies' from TOTY to me. I agree, these references are cool, the album has a weird out of time feel to it. Seems like although it is an album with a very clear concept, musically it feels like a nod to everything in Franks universe.
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 19:39:40
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Originally posted by Czar
I'm I the only one to link Rubber with the Breeders and Can't Break a Heart... with Sonic Youth?
My very first thought about "Tight Black Rubber" was that it sounded just like Pearl Jam's "Spin the Black Circle," off the "Vitalogy" record. So I guess we all link it with something.
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Jefrey
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 21:50:28
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Originally posted by Grotesque
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Originally posted by houstonguthrie
just heard it for the first time and as a long time Frank fan who loves everything he's done - I am just FLOORED!!! this album rocks!!! it's going to floor Frank fans, Pixies fans, and a whole bunch of new people
just looked at my Martin acoustic across the room - and didn't even want to pick it up
I'm puttin down the Martin - and I'm buying a Tele baby!!!!!
Caution ! I bought once a tele after seeing Frank Black live, but that was not at all his sound, because this little pervert has a tele with HUMBUCKERS (double microphones)!
The normal single mic tele sound is really light and gentle, almost accoustic sounding. You wont be ablle to make that twing twang sound like FB with that. It just makes a gentle "FRIIING".
Bluefinger has such a great rythm guitar sound, I think there will be a huge demand for a "FB signature" telecaster in a year from now.
In the meantime you could pick up one of these teles if you can afford it:
http://www.thepolicetour.com/news/news.php?uid=4818
Serious firepower there!
Anyway, it's not hard to find a tele with humbuckers. They make a bunch of different models.
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Steak n Sabre
* Dog in the Sand *
Uzbekistan
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Posted - 03/29/2007 : 22:03:00
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Originally posted by Kirk
look at the tab for Captain Pasty.
The chords strategically placed, they're everywhere, skipping a beat here and there.
http://bluefinger-tribute.blogspot.com/2007/03/captain-pasty-tab.html
Maybe it's a typo, but it starts on F#. Get rid of that first E and it's right on. Anyway, sounds like they maybe have not settled on the chorus riff.
As long as this might be a W.I.P.(?), I'll vote for the last one:
D E F# A
D E B F#
as the riff to use for all of 'em...
( Well,,,OK then, alternate it with the D E G A )
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theonecontender
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 03/30/2007 : 00:42:23
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think it does start on E, just slides straight to F#
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
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