10/10/2005

Ape vs Synth

Ben from Australia sends this lovely picture of a chimp and a modular synth. He knows nothing about it. Anyone know more? (Captions also welcome...)

40 comments:

  1. Also, what makes you so sure that the chimp knows nothing about the modular synth? :]

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  2. Anonymous12:13 pm

    "Chuck me another patch cable - quick!"

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  3. Anonymous12:35 pm

    Caption: HA HA! I don't own a tube amp!

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  4. Anonymous1:09 pm

    "Gimme banana plug!"

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  5. Anonymous1:18 pm

    My father swung through the branches of trees on vines
    I swing through oscillators on cables.

    same thing, really!

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  6. Vangelis 'furious' as Anderson steals his last Mu-Mu.

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  7. Anonymous3:01 pm

    Tommy Lee should really stick with playing music.

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  8. Anonymous3:43 pm

    Interesting that you're calling the chimp a "he"

    have a closer look!

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  9. Anonymous4:15 pm

    Oh No! Robin Williams broke into Moroder's house!?

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  10. Anonymous5:05 pm

    what happened to his moog track suit??

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  11. Anonymous6:10 pm

    The moog track suit is the funniest damned comment ever.

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  12. Anonymous6:16 pm

    I dunno, the "banana plug" one's pretty great...

    I nominate this as the worst comment ever (heard in Tubby's Kingston studio):

    "You're playing in the wrong key, mon!"

    pathetic...

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  13. Anonymous7:57 pm

    Lead singer of the new retro progressive rock band, Emerson, Ape and Palmer.

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  14. Anonymous8:16 pm

    actually there is a shadow, its just almost directly behind the damned dirty ape since they used a flash.

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  15. I'm sorry, your just not right for outr band, INXS

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  16. Anonymous9:15 pm

    he should be breaking a bone

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  17. Anonymous10:13 pm

    "in a break from the X-Factor, Simon Cowell discusses his love of analogue modulars"

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  18. Anonymous10:19 pm

    wendy before she was walter.... sorry a little cruel

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  19. Anonymous10:23 pm

    give a thousand chimps a thousand patchcords and 1000 moogs.... still wont sound as awful as Emerson Lake and Palmer on a bad day

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  20. Anonymous10:32 pm

    there's a new opportunity for the software emulators.... model the effect of patching a VCO to a VCF through a primate... its a whole new challenge...

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  21. Anonymous10:38 pm

    Chimp + Modular Moog = COMEDY GOLD

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  22. Anonymous10:38 pm

    or as awful as ELP on a GOOD DAY. HEYO. buy seriously, ELP is really bad, I don't care how big your modular is, or if you have a GX-1, they really fucking blow.

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  23. Anonymous11:01 pm

    was gonna really slag off ELP... but have live triple album i want to shift... at least one of the discs has never been played since 1976

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  24. Anonymous11:18 pm

    Do they also do the chimp as a VSTi?

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  25. I'm sure he can't program this darn thing much better than I do.

    Wasn't it Ministry who used a chicken to configure a mixing table? I'd like to have a chimp programming my synths.

    The name of the band? Primate Scream, of course.

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  26. Anonymous12:58 am

    I'm voting for the 'gimme banana plug' line by David Kristian. Btw David, your music is great :)

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  27. Anonymous1:53 am

    I don't even make tarnce! HA HA!

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  28. Anonymous3:33 am

    That's Bubbles!

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  29. I wonder if he's recording 'jungle' music

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  30. Anonymous6:20 am

    $#@! stupid illustrator! I asked you for a picture of a Moog and an ARP, not a Moog and an ape!

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  31. Anonymous7:42 am

    This is possibly from a Ben Folds music video. I have not seen the actual music video, only the making of on the Songs For Silverman bonus DVD.

    The music video featured William Shatner and a chimp in a recording studio, with Ben Folds and his 2 cronies playing.

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  32. Anonymous10:22 am

    mtv news: "and here we are, live at the recording session for michael jacksons new album!"

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  33. Anonymous said...

    Interesting that you're calling the chimp a "he"

    have a closer look!


    Don't be so sure... AFAIK, chimp penis=very small.

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  34. I tried so hard to post this pic so you could see it…

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  35. Anonymous3:56 pm

    "Radiohead payed their sound designer peanuts"

    Or (for the regulars)

    Ok I see Dave Stewart and the modular but where is Annie Lennox and the Akai S612?

    Or

    When Quincey Jones suggested "the sound of bubbles on a modular synth" for a track on Thriller, Michael Jackson was happy to oblige.

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  36. Anonymous9:37 pm

    if i can work with a modular, shure a chimp can do to.

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  37. Anonymous10:16 pm

    I don't know why everyone hates Bush so much, first I see him playing guitar, and now dancing in front of a synth! That Bushie guy is way hipper than I ever thought!

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  39. Now we know how Lee Perry got those wicked sounds on "Return of the Super Ape".

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