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The Tape: Volume 2
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When we started this podcast, we thought we could spend time discussing old four-track recordings and maybe come up with a "purely theoretical" compilation tape of our favourite tunes. Ignoring the voices in our heads saying it was pointless and impossibly niche, we took our first faltering steps on the journey…
Incredibly, here we are with the second volume of our mix tape including tracks selected over the last fourteen episodes. We discuss the track listing, hear some alternate takes and digress in the usual fashion. As is customary, it's pointless and impossibly niche.
This episode includes, amongst other things:
- Cannibals
- Improvisation
- Bongos
- Sweat
Related audiovisual material is available on the This Are Johnny Domino blog
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Podcast artwork by Giles Woodward
Edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com
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Transcript
Introduction to Johnny Domino Podcast
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome, Seekers of the Unknown, to this odd Johnny Domino podcast that dares to venture into the shadows, to confront the unexplained, and to uncover the secrets that lie beyond the reaches of human understanding.
00:00:26
Speaker
Join your hosts Giles and Steve
00:00:52
Speaker
That's nice. So if you're ready to confront the unknown and challenge the rationale and push the boundaries of human knowledge, then join us as we venture into the world of this, our, Johnny Donnell.
00:01:39
Speaker
Hello!
Hosts Introduce Themselves
00:01:42
Speaker
Welcome to the This R Johnny Domino podcast. My name is Steve. And I am Giles. And we were just experimenting there with a different kind of intro.
00:01:52
Speaker
Yeah. Just to mix it up. Maybe it's a bit misleading. I don't know. There you go. Might bring us some more listeners. Who knows? I think we need to add a paranormal element into the podcast.
Adding Paranormal Elements?
00:02:05
Speaker
Like that lad in his red coat who does the stuff on BBC Sounds. What's his name?
00:02:10
Speaker
I have no idea what you're talking about. You don't know what I'm talking about. No idea. no it Literally no idea. Just Uncanny oh yeah is a series and his name is Danny Robbins. Danny Robbins in his little red coat. He's a very mystical little pixie man and if it's quite interesting. It's quite the phenom kind of ghosty type stories of of the unexplained. Is it?
00:02:36
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, he's been on the telly as well. Okay, okay. So check that
Final Destination Movie Discussion
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Speaker
out. I will. Quick update on Final Destination. Oh, yes, last time. Yes, you'd seen the first one, hadn't you? at my audition how I I had. Where have you gone? I have to say I've watched one, two, three, and five wow of the health and safety ah horror franchise that is Final Destination. Excellent. And number three is the best one.
00:03:05
Speaker
Absolutely, as I said. Yeah, it's the epitome of final destination-ness. Yeah. Yeah. It's particularly good when in the first one they have to kind of explain the idea that death has an order and everyone's going to die in a particular order and they've missed their chance so death is going to catch
Grandma's Love for Horror Films
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you.
00:03:23
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And then once they get that out of the way in one, all they need to say is, oh, there was a thing that happened a year ago and where all these kids were playing. And then it gets more fun because you go straight for the.
00:03:37
Speaker
You go straight for the money shot. I don't like that phrase. You're using that phrase. Anyway, what are you going for is the bit, you just want to see all the blood. you As our late grandma would say. Oh yeah, she loved them. She loved them. She loved watching horror films and she loved seeing in her own words, one of the last conversations I had with her, she liked to see all the blood.
00:04:04
Speaker
hi Did I tell you about that time I went round and I was talking to her? And she said to me, I watched a programme on telly the other night about cannibals, but you didn't get to see anything.
00:04:16
Speaker
And I said to her, it's a documentary, it's not a film. oh You didn't get to see anything. She wanted to see people, showing all the people. Absolutely. Well, I'm sure she'd seen it in one of the many, many, many horror films. I did buy the the Final Destination trilogy on DVD.
00:04:36
Speaker
I just want to tell people that she was not a sinister person in any way, she was very sweet. A picture of cartoon grandma, yeah you know, a lady with glasses wearing a pinny, white curly hair, that's an late grandma. She was not a psychopathic or anything. She'd just like to see all the blood. She'd like to see all the blood. But the thing is, I noticed something about Final Destination 3 that I'm not sure you
Creepy Song from Final Destination 3
00:04:59
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noticed.
00:04:59
Speaker
Well, is that true? There's a song in Final Destination 3. It's a key bit in the actual plot where, you know, where she's sort of driving along and the radio retunes and it plays like a a song that kind of freaks her out. It happens in a few of them, but it happens in this one. And the song that comes in in Final Destination 3, it goes like this. There is someone walking behind you. Oh, yes. Turn around. Look at me.
00:05:30
Speaker
Do you know the one? Do you remember it? a yeah during the roll right yeah And I was watching the film with Tracy and she said, is that an actual song? Because it was just like, it just sounded like such a ridiculous song. And I was like, I don't know. Is it a real song? um and It turned out it is. see and the so The version in the in the film is by the Bee Gees.
00:05:52
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And it was written by Glenn Campbell. Beautiful. It just goes to prove that even Glenn Campbell can write some shite. And it turns out it's not about a serial killer. It's more about a fellow who's perhaps trying a bit too hard to convince a girl that he likes yeah and then is coming across as a bit of a serial killer.
00:06:13
Speaker
Yeah. We're back to the the world of the all for one, I swear, video, aren't we? With these guys misreading signs, the sign being, get away from me. yeah Yeah. Don't try so hard, guys.
Recapping and Compilation Plans
00:06:28
Speaker
There is someone watching your footsteps. Jesus. Yeah, yeah. It's a great song.
00:06:36
Speaker
There's like loads of versions of it, but I'd never heard it before I heard it in the film. So yeah, there you go That's what I say. Well, I'm glad you're enjoying the Final Destination franchise Yeah, because I have I've done it now. I don't want to watch it anymore. Well, you gotta watch there's a fourth one as well Obviously, you've seen one two three and five fours not great, but I think there's another two in the works Yeah, I'm getting into the purge now This is the most fantastic story I've ever heard and Maybe word of it's true, too. That's a fantastic part of it
00:07:09
Speaker
like This is the ah our Johnny Domino podcast when we don't just talk about films from years and years ago. It's not but it's not paranor it's not a paranormal podcast. And I apologize if you you thought, hey, it's another Danny Robbins. It's not. It's me and my brother Giles talking about songs that we recorded up to and over 30 years ago. We do. And we talk about them with a view to building what was at first a conceptual compilation tape that is now very much in the realms of forcing our genius onto an unsuspecting public. Today
00:07:52
Speaker
this is not perhaps an episode that you want to start off on if you're new to the podcast because we're going to be doing a bit of a recap because it is time now for us to actually work out the track listing of volume two of the best of this or jolly domino this tape that we are making. So we're going to work out a track listing of our favourite tracks from the last few episodes. So probably it's not the best one to start off with because you're better off print maybe one of the last two episodes might be good if you're a new new listener. yeah But not this one. But not this one.
00:08:31
Speaker
Ordinarily, what we do is we will listen to maybe two or three songs and we will select a song to go onto a compilation tape. That is what we do. Yeah. So we're recapping all the ones that we chose in in the last few episodes and trying to wrangle them into some kind of listenable tape thing. Yes. And we'll probably put it onto some kind of streaming service, won't we? Oh yeah. Hopefully. I'm not going to do it. I haven't got the technical ability to do that, but you have.
00:09:01
Speaker
Let's go. Track one, side one. Track one, side one. We are going to go with the track one, side one. I think it's very important. My rationale here is to think of the fact that you come into a new album. you tend I tend to listen to the first track.
00:09:16
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Do you listen to the first track? I listen to the first track. And if it doesn't grab you, you're not going to listen to much more, are you really? You might try the second track. So we've got to go for two decent ones. And to be honest, I think this is my favorite song that we've listened to recently that we've um uncovered from our back catalogue.
00:09:36
Speaker
And it surprised me because there was like three versions of it. Yeah. And we found a version of it that was that I think was like one of the best recordings we did. And it's kind of quite downbeat as a song for a first track. But I love it. I think it's atmospheric. And it spoke to me, Steve. It spoke to me. What do you think? I agree.
00:10:03
Speaker
We did usually get tarred with a brush that said we were quite miserable anyway by people that listened to us. And I think on this one, we're particularly, we're kind of leaning into it. I used to sometimes try to write music that was a little bit pretentious.
00:10:23
Speaker
And I think this music is a little bit pretentious, but it also rocks a little bit. OK, well, you can you play it and then explain to us which bits you think are pretentious, what's pretentious about it?
00:11:24
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I don't think that tambourine is too serious though.
00:12:14
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The devil's interval. Is that the devil's interval? The top note a bit.
00:13:28
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I like this sound.
00:13:33
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That's going on for a while there.
00:14:10
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What I like is it's like it's kind of austere like you say, but it's not oppressive. No. It's not oppressive because you can have austere stuff that's kind of very dark and sounds very claustrophobic. But I don't think that sounds claustrophobic. It sounds quite open. It's quite warm. So it's a good recording. but Is it punchy? I think it's warm and punchy.
00:14:31
Speaker
Yeah, I know what you're saying, but we recorded three versions of that song, like you said, yeah and I'd always gone for the third one because that is a bit more pro sounds, which is the term that we used to use for things that we didn't like. But I think that version is a good mix of the austere and a bit lo-fi. Yeah. And I've always liked the words as well. I think i think there's some really great lyrics in that song.
00:15:01
Speaker
It's a well done you. That wasn't just me. You did the words. I did do the words, yes. You did the words. I did the words. Okay, first track though, yeah? Absolutely. Bloody hell. Right.
00:15:17
Speaker
Then we've got track two. which I thought was a bit of a surprise. Well, I don't know, is it a surprise? What I wanted to go for was kind of loud, quiet, loud, quiet, loud, quiet. right you know And also long, short, long, short. So after a a relatively long, loudish song, we're going to go for a short, more acoustic-y type song.
00:15:41
Speaker
which is called brand new complication, which is a bit more on the indie side of things, of what we tried to do. And I've not listened to it very much. ah So purely selfishly, I thought it it would be a good one to put as our second track because then I'll listen to it more often.
00:16:00
Speaker
Well, I was surprised that you picked it because when I suggested we listen to it, in fact, I played it to you as a surprise. Yes. On an episode. I kind of sprang it on you because we were talking about songs by our friend Jock and his band Peru and it was our most Peru like song. Yes. And i'm I'm really glad that you like it because again, it was something that popped up when I was just faffing around on the computer and I've not heard it for a long time and I really enjoyed it. So I agree.
00:16:29
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I like it. I'd prefer it if it was a Peru song. But we can't do that.
00:16:38
Speaker
Man, you want the moon on a stick. I know. ah yeah we got yeah So that's track two. And we should probably say that this is more or less your track list in that you came up with. Well, I don't know. i know i but i um I'm going with it because I think it makes a lot of sense. I actually listened to the songs in the order that you came up with and it makes sense. So okay so again, well done you. Oh of God, what's going on? This is weird.
00:17:08
Speaker
all you of earth are idiots you just hold on buster you're gonna start it's these start being more negative towards me it's too weird okay you're being too positive down down is track three down was a song that was track one on our miserable album the first 100 years i don't think it's miserable but people say it's miserable yeah it's quite downbeat and the first track is called down and the version that we're going for is a version that we recorded as a almost like a level check when we were setting up to record the album Solid Ground. And it's a better version because we've been playing it a long time. Yeah. But we didn't listen to it very often, did we? No. So we've kind of rediscovered it. Yeah. And we enjoyed it when we listened to it a few episodes ago.
Recording Anecdotes
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Yeah. The thing I like about it
00:17:56
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is I think it's got a really nice clear recording. In terms of the track listing, it's going back into a kind of a longer, louder song. And it's got Jim singing on it, which is good. Always nice. And in the episode that we played it and chose it, I was quite getting into the sort of talking heads, Adrian Ballou type guitar playing that you did. Can you sort of go into a bit more about how you made the guitar sound on on this track?
00:18:26
Speaker
Well, interestingly, this goes into a version of this song that I found prior to this recording. In the early days of Johnny Domino as a band, I would write the music and present it to the rest of the band and everyone would either work out their bits or just play what I asked them to.
00:18:46
Speaker
Eventually we started getting into being more of a in inverted commas jam band and I was waiting for the delivery of a demagnetizer called a degauser and I had to stay in all day so I said why don't you all come round and we'll record some music. So we plugged everything that we owned into the 8 track recorder and recorded just faffing around with songs, and mostly just improvising. And I'm using that term very loosely and just recording what came out. And one of the things that we did record on that day, and I think I might have had the riff before we started jamming, was the first ever version of the song Down. And the guitar solo is on it. Oh, listen, listen.
00:20:18
Speaker
you were saying was about the sort of talking heads kind ofness of it. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of groovy. It's a bit wonky. Yeah.
00:20:33
Speaker
I want to hear where you get into doing some my more guitar part.
00:20:52
Speaker
purpose I think. I must have had the sound set up because it's a very strange sound.
00:21:21
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That was a bit out of the blue, wasn't it? They're so low. Is it out of the blue, really? Where did that come from? Where did that come from? Yeah, I think it foxed you a little bit. We were probably all laughed when I tried on the pedal, I'm not sure. I think so. But we kept it in.
00:21:43
Speaker
And that's basically the interesting bit about that recording. But I thought that was, it was cool because basically it was all there. Yeah, you did it. More or less. Yeah, pretty much. And I've made myself work out that solo. That you improvised. Again, improvised in the very loosest of terms. How was it not improvised?
00:22:08
Speaker
Well, it was improvised, but to say it was improvised makes me sound like a jazzer. And I probably just turned on the pedal. Yeah. And then I put my hands on the guitar. I was like, oh, that's a weird note.
00:22:21
Speaker
And they just kept it in. That is improvisation. I suppose so. Yeah. It's nice to hear how we made it all. Yeah. I thought so too. It was good. It was good. What's the next track? It's a song called Real Life that we spoke about on an episode called Sitting on the Pavement, which also featured Down. And we're talking about the Nottingham xylophone man. Yes. And the song's got a bit of a xylophone-y type feel to it. I don't think it's got any xylophone in it.
00:22:50
Speaker
Oh, it's got the the classic Johnny Domino Placio CZ-3000 xylophone sound. Sorry, vibraphone sound, that which we used a lot. yeah And it's ah it's sitting on the pavement playing little tunes. Yes. There you go. Frank. Frank. I've forgotten his name, Frank. Isn't that terrible? That's bad. Anyway, there's a plaque there. Where he used to sit. There is. There is a plaque there.
00:23:18
Speaker
So yeah, real life, bringing it down again ah bit more meow yeah after the last one. And then we're going into track five, which was, I forgot what I set out to do, which was a song that never really properly got released. But I really like it. yeah good way It's a good one. it's that It's a bit of a pop tune. Yeah. It came out on a Christmas compilation through Artists Against Success Records. So it is available on streaming, but we are going to have it for ourselves again.
00:23:49
Speaker
there you Yeah, it's good. I actually like listen to that one for enjoyment. Absolutely. Yes. You listen to your own music for enjoyment. I listen to that one for enjoyment. And then we're going to, this is the last track of side one. Is it? And it's wake up and smell the cat food.
00:24:08
Speaker
We spoke about that in episode 32, the one previous to this one, and it was a song that we recorded for our first properly released collection of songs called Rabbit Themes, and it's just a very nice song, very nice acoustic song. Yeah, we liked it because it's got a bit of a more straightforward autobiographical lyric and it's not trying to be arch or what was the other word you used to describe trouble free or steer or steer it's not trying to be austere is it not trying to be too clever yeah so that's the end side one cool jingle i wasn't sure about the johnny domino podcast but i gave it a chance and now i think i love it we do love it we do love it
00:25:00
Speaker
And your first track of Side 2 is a song called This One's For The Kids. It is. It Which is from episode 29, Something Electric Happens. It was the last track on our second, I don't like calling them albums, it just feels like I'm being too released.
00:25:22
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Second full length collection of songs that were released in a single format called players. And we were very pleased about it when we first made it up. We did actually play it live because my friend will sent me a set list from a gig that we did. And it was very, very, very, very long.
00:25:44
Speaker
It's got like 11 songs on it. Oh, that's too long. And in my mind, all of our sets were more like seven or eight. You know what, I don't like it when bands play for too long. I like a shorter set, I have to say. I think half an hour is long enough. What, for every band that you go and see? No, like, you know, a band, bands that are maybe not doing the great bands that are not playing a kind of a ah collection of their best selling three albums or whatever. right you know yeah i mean I'm not talking about Brian Jonestown Massacre, like they they need to play for about four hours because they have to have lots of arguments in between songs and stuff.
00:26:29
Speaker
I read something about um Herbie Hancock's Moandishi band from from the 70s, and they used to play festival gigs, and they'd do four songs, yeah but they'd play for three and a half hours.
00:26:44
Speaker
Yeah, well, yeah, and that that would be OK. Let's be honest, they've got the chops. Yeah, that's OK. I'm talking about indie bands. Yeah, yeah. That you'd go and see just to see what they're like. Yeah. They don't need to like overdo it. Just yeah people are going to get bored. Just do what for now? Well, when I saw the strokes, they played the first album and that was it. No Encore, no Flash, because they were all the songs that they had.
00:27:13
Speaker
So they just played it from soup to nuts, track one to the last track, and that was it. And then they walked off. I bet it was good, wasn't it? The more I think about it, it was great. At the time, I wasn't completely sold, but looking back on it now, I appreciate the fact that they knew what they were doing, in, out, sorted. There you go. It's funny that we're talking about being succinct.
00:27:37
Speaker
Yeah, we're fucking going on about it today. Right, let's move on. um The next song that you chose was I'm Not In any Anymore, which is an old song. And we we've talked about it a couple of times on the podcast, because it was on episode nine.
00:27:54
Speaker
Yes. And we didn't pick it. And then we did Second Chance Sunday, episode 30. Oh baby, give me one more chance. And I said, can we have another listen to this? Because I thought it was good. And you agreed with me.
00:28:11
Speaker
So it's going on there. So that's great. So it's made it on. It's made it on to the hallowed stage of volume two. By the skin of its teeth. Yeah. Right. Then we have to have track nine, our theme tune. Yeah. JD Stomp. Yeah, which is great. Which also only got in by the skin of its teeth on the same episode. Oh baby, give me one more chance. Yeah.
00:28:37
Speaker
It was a shocking oversight for us not to include our theme tune, just silly. yeah Now we're moving on to a song, which again, I was surprised that you chose a song called Superhero. Why were you surprised I chose this song? because you were never really into the kind of Sarah Records indie side of things as much as, you know, jonk. And I was part of Peru as well. So I was by osmosis into that kind of stuff. And it's quite a simple song. And it's got quite a nasty lyric. And I wanted to talk about it because I think it's a good song. But I didn't expect you to like it. So I'm glad you chose it.
00:29:18
Speaker
Yeah. just ah You know why I didn't like those kinds of songs? Because it was it felt a bit exposing because they're all about song the kind the kind of songs where you can sort of hear the lyrics and understand the lyrics. And it's me that's singing it, pretty much. So it felt a little bit like I was like,
00:29:37
Speaker
air in my dirty laundry so that's maybe that's why I didn't like it at the time but now there's enough distance you see so yeah kind of like I get into it anyway we listened to it and it's lacking something yeah you said at the time you wanted to hear some bongos yeah it it needed something yeah something so we've ah You know, I think i think we're gonna gonna we're gonna give it a go, aren't we? We're gonna listen to ideas. I did ah tried adding some percussion. And I've just gone for a sort of moral sort of effect, really, haven't I? It's very tasteful. And I'd just like to say I had no part of this.
00:31:50
Speaker
I think it comes in at the chorus here.
00:33:52
Speaker
It just needed a bit of something, didn't it? still listen and little Just a little bit. We need more bongos. all you of earth are idiots you just hold on buster thanks Well done. Thank you for that. umve I've been listening to a lot of Santana. You can't blame Santana for that.
00:34:15
Speaker
When you talked about adding bongos to it, ah Mark Elston, hi there Mark, of the Johnny Domino Band, he sent me a message that said it could be a bit primal scream. I think he's got an element of therapy about it.
00:34:31
Speaker
and but not necessarily the band Primal Scream. It was a ah cry for help. I'm unleashing. No, I don't think so. I think I'm just unleashing something inside. Yeah. I'm not sure that that is going on. That version is going on the compilation. We'll see. Well, we will see when I put it together. But there you go. So that is Superhero. Again, I was a bit surprised by that. And then, weirdly, it's another song that we gave another chance to. That'll be... a song called Reap the Wind that we talked about when we're talking with our friend, Dick, back on episode 12. Back on episode 12, Get Off the Road, I've Got Pigs to Feed, which was a series of songs that either featured our friend Dick or were about our friend Dick. And so Reap the Wind is a song that he helped and did some vocals on. It was actually by the Johnny Domino, not a side project, what would you call them?
00:35:30
Speaker
Jimmy Dorito, what would you call them? I'd call it a side project. but Okay, it's a side project called Jimmy Dorito and um we just recorded some songs very quickly we did and we got Dick in to do some vocals because he had the rock voice. yeah He was known as Dickie Rock. And it's a good song because it's got a contrast between the more rocky butthole surfers thing, and then it's got a bit of a poem in the middle. A little poem in the middle. And again, you did very well. Right, stop it. It's just weird, man. All right, well, I've got a problem with the next couple of songs that you've got in your tracklisting. That's all right. Well, I'm um i'm open to suggestions because I was only really attached to the first bit. OK, you were spitballing, weren't you? Yeah, so at the end I was like losing it.
00:36:17
Speaker
OK, well, I think the next song is called Space. OK.
Selecting Songs for Compilation
00:36:21
Speaker
We like that one. we and But is it called Space Brackets Everybody Wants to Live Together Now? No, no, it's just called Space. There you go. And that is from an episode, episode 21, which was called Everybody Wants to Live Together Now. and So that is track 12. And then track 13 is a song called This is a Tune. Yep. Which I have always really liked. OK. We talked about that.
00:36:47
Speaker
the episode called I'm right in there like the Pope. Yes, that's a lyric from the song. Yep. And then we're going to end with, there's no other way to end it really. Well, there is, there's many ways, but this is the best way to end it. It is a good way to end it.
00:39:10
Speaker
There you go. And titles. And titles. Yeah. This Our Johnny Domino podcast. It's got bongos. Yes. There was one other bit of music I wanted to listen to because one of the songs that we are not including on volume two of the best of This Our Johnny Domino is a song called Oh Chimpy. And I found a live version.
00:39:35
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It was recorded at the old angel in Nottingham. Oh, it's now called the angel. It's called the angel, but it's no longer the old angel. At the chapel. At the chapel upstairs at the old angel. Yeah. We did many gigs there in various bands over the years, but we did a gig supporting a band called Bardo Pond and Yeah, it was one of the hottest days of the year. And the set that we did was pretty short, seven songs. ah All the songs involved Mark playing keyboards, apart from the last track, which is the version of Ochimpi.
00:40:17
Speaker
Let's see if someone can work out what has happened to Mark's guitar after tuning up at the start of the set in a very hot room. Let's just see if you can work out what he's done to his guitar.
00:41:15
Speaker
Oh my are are I actually like it Steve.
00:41:31
Speaker
She would do. um
00:42:01
Speaker
All right.
00:42:34
Speaker
Bloody hell.
00:42:42
Speaker
That's a room of people just showing their appreciation for the fact that we've stopped. That that was noise rock. I didn't realise we were so noisy. It sounded a bit New York 1980s, didn't it? that Yeah, I think the thing is Mark recorded it. He just bought a mini disc recorder and a microphone and that was the first thing he recorded on it. I think he set his microphone to high input or rather than low. If you put it on low, it would have been a cleaner recording, but it it it does sound hot in there.
00:43:23
Speaker
It's good. ah ah ah ah I thought the slightly out of tune dissonant guitar was kind of good. It made me think of Sonic Youth or something, you know. Yeah, I know. But Sonic Youth do that kind of thing on purpose. i know but It's only one string that's out. It's just...
00:43:42
Speaker
Oh, you're hearing something different to me. I i thought that. I mean, it's a really difficult to hear recording. But I thought it sounded pretty good. I liked it. I remember that gig. It's come back to me. It's come back to me. There's quite a lot of people there. Bardo Pond were a noise band as well, so it was kind of appropriate. They were like a drone, like art rock band. Yeah, you are I think they're still going. I remember two things about that gig. Yes.
00:44:12
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I remember the I used to work in a record shop and there was my friend who used to work at a record shop called Stuart who was this big, slightly crazy guy. yeah And he was shouting his appreciation in the middle of the audience. good And he was like the madman in the audience like screaming that he loved Joey Domino. yeah And then I remember In the backstage area, I remember I found two members of Bardot Ponds watching some porn on their laptops. no That's all I remember. Everyone has their own pre-gig rituals, don't they? And that was the Bardot Ponds pre-gig ritual. Yes. There you go. Cool. It's because of men like you that all must be destroyed.
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Thanks. It's quite all right.
Finalizing and Releasing Compilation
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We've got all of the songs for the compilation now, aren't we? We've gone through the track listing. Yes. It took us a bit longer than we thought, didn't it, Steve? Yeah, it did. This is going to take some editing, isn't it, Steve? No, it's not going to take too much because I'm just going to pop a load of shit out. You're going to make this make... It's going to be snappy. It's going to be snappy.
00:45:20
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We don't need to hear all the songs and we don't need to hear them from the start. They can be faded in. You can have some little clips, can't you? It's wonderful what I can do. It's going to be really good. So this bit won't make any sense to anyone who's listening to the final product because they'll be thinking, wow.
00:45:34
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But it's like lifting the veil. is the How this piece of work is created. How this art comes together. Right. I will master the songs as quickly as possible. You're already working on the artwork, yeah?
00:45:51
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Yes, the artwork is is basically done. Sweet. So we're ready to roll. Let's get it done as quickly as possible. Let's get some more product out there. If you ah if you want product, I have actually got mugs now.
Encouraging Listener Engagement
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Yes. So if you want to get involved in the podcast by sending us stuff, it can be old recordings from your youth. It could be anything that you record.
00:46:18
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that's maybe in response to some of the shit that we talk about on the podcast. Yeah. Anything. Send stuff in, get involved. I'll send you one of our beautiful mugs. They are quite beautiful. youll Have a look on Instagram, you'll see. Yes, you'll get one of those if you take part in any of the engagement opportunities that we are trying to promote on the This Are Johnny Domino podcast. If you've got some old recordings that you've got onto your bed, dig them out, send them in, we'll listen to them and we'll critique them and you might gain entry into
00:46:55
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the eternal halls of the four track gods. Do you want to clear your throat before you do that? it's No, it's fine. oh dear The
00:47:19
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Yes, we're also asking people to send in recordings of songs that are either from their childhood or inspired or inspired by notions of childhood. If you listen to some of the recent episodes, you'll hear some examples that have been sent in by our wonderful, talented and frankly beautiful listeners.
00:47:42
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So please get in touch either through Instagram or through Facebook, and you can be a part of the wonder that is our podcast.
Sharing the Podcast
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And don't forget that this are Johnny Domino podcast. It's got bongos. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Thank you for listening to the podcast. If you are enjoying listening to the podcast, if you're enjoying it,
00:48:06
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Please share it with a friend or an enemy or a loose acquaintance. yeah Maybe someone you work with you occasionally chat. Maybe you want them to stop talking to you, in which case recommend this podcast to them.
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our feet is saying Please do like and subscribe to our podcast and recommend it to someone who you think might like listening to all this kind of weird shit. Send us some of your old music and enter the eternal halls of the four-track gods.