[doggyinacoma]

Panda answered me!! Geo's headlamp is a Black Diamond apparently... Sounds badass

[Vovenarg]

oh shit just got a big live show spoiler from the top question




edit: not on top anymore, but be warned

[jetski]

lol thanks for your support Tap. they haven't answered it...

[jetski]

Vovenarg wrote:

oh shit just got a big live show spoiler from the top question

Oh noooo!! : /

[Vovenarg]

what a pointless question too (sorry if anyone here posted it)

[jetski]

yeah anyone reading the AMA, be warned there are setlist spoilers from the new live shows

[Vovenarg]

Victor Borge wrote:

yeah anyone reading the AMA, be warned there are setlist spoilers from the new live shows

BIG ONEZZZZ

ouch it hurts....

Spoiler: show

woulda been a great surprise

[speen]

Noah's favorite flavors of ice cream are almost exactly the same as mine

mint choco chip, pistachio and coconut

i can rest easy now

[jetski]

He also doesn't fuck with chocolate-based flavors. my man

[Vovenarg]

what the

[Vovenarg]

and i think i speak for the rest of us when i say that

[partario]

doggyinacoma wrote:

Panda answered me!! Geo's headlamp is a Black Diamond apparently... Sounds badass

assuming that really is Panda, it looks like he accidentally answered a couple questions from his personal account (which happens sometimes during AMAs). The only other post by him is in the Destiny video game subreddit, where he was looking people to go on a raid with. Can you imagine playing a video game and then randomally matching up with Noah? that would be insane.

[Stanshant]

I offered them a game of Street Fighter V which hopefully they took as a veiled threat.

[doggyinacoma]

Oh! Now the comment is deleted... I hope it was him

[partario]

haha he just confirmed on the official account
"hey yea that was me...I think i was trying to find a raid group? i can't remember...kind of loved that game but I've been less interested since sparrow league"

[Tap]

oh man my questions are so close to where they're at now they might actually get to em

[Vovenarg]

haha oh shit the destiny thing is great

[IkoOvo]

about down there tour songs:

avey wrote:

I probably will never record those songs but I do have a practice session from right before the tour which I've thought about mastering and just putting up on the website.

would be sick

[Ethmin]

yeeee he answered my question!

[Tropic]

Asked a question way too late I know but the answer is obvious anyways so it doesn't matta

[Tap]

geo answered mine yayyy

wrote:

I've heard the dual vocal style used on some of this album described as hocketing, but it sounds more to me like you guys are doing a sort of acoustic delay. Is this a fair assessment? And were the lyrics to On Delay inspired by this at all? Or maybe it's pulling from the history of being a band in Brooklyn in the 00's?
I'm also curious about the use of modular synthesizers on this album. I'd imagine that since you guys were probably taking live performance into consideration, that the approach was to create a versatile patch that could be re-used for multiple songs. Am I on the right track there? How was your experience with that?
Really psyched to see you guys in Seattle! Got my fingers crossed for Recycling!

wrote:

This is Geo. We actually didn't really know the term hocketing before the dudes started doing it in the studio. So not sure how to technically put it as one or the other.
You're right about the modulars. They were used a bunch on the record but to undo and repatch for every song wouldn't make sense at all for live stage. But we have them up there with simples patches that do a handful of simple things and then we just use them here and there in the improvised moments. I guess I use it a little in Floridada and Loch Raven and Bees, but those things came from improvising on the patch in rehearsals.

So that's cool, I was actually thinking that they were already keeping it simple on the recorded album, but it sounds like that actually wasn't the case and it was all just adapted later for live.

[kafkaesque]

ughhhhhh i posted a question as soon as it was out (had it pre-typed), and it got buried. fml

[dervish]

Sonic boom wrote:

dervish wrote:

noah has been touring and writing relentlessly with grim reaper and then rolling right into a big AC tour. he is def going to need a break.

Pandas move at a level of almost imperceptible but constant speed ...

.... He had sum suite idears for his next lp before GR was mixed ....
If he works from home as on PBvsGR , its not the craziest stretch....

Mooooooop ! Yr insatiable !
Which is Nice......

well color me excited then. i hope you start mixing tomorrow!

[jetski]

Damn it's been an hour and still nothing on my q. Come on surely the dudes like ragtime.....didn't Avey mention Tin Pan Alley in a recent interview??

[jetski]

Glad other people's (actual) questions are getting answered tho!

[dio]

someone asked if theyre planning an ep and avey kinda said maybe...

"We love eps. we have a couple extra songs and have talked about writing and recording some more but have not put those desires into action yet.
avey"

[Ethmin]

it'll happen.

[spoogn]

noah likes ape escape.... : )

[Stanshant]

He's mentioned putting bootlegs up on their website several times new. I'm not kidding when I say I'd happily have top quality old bootlegs over any new music for the rest of my life. Easy to say because I know they'll carry on making music but it's so exciting to me to think that in twenty years I could still support them financially as they dip into their archives. I'd pay a monthly subscription for fuck's sake.

[Fovrodi]

spoogn wrote:

noah likes ape escape.... : )

indeedy

Spoiler: show

wrote:

I'm dorky with video games. I game sometimes, no doubt. "Ape Escape," for the first Playstation, was a good one. The music on that one ruled, especially when you're there with the little guy in the space station loading saving space. I liked the colors and the worlds and that kind of thing, and it was fun running around netting little monkeys with sweet spacey drum and bass playing. I can get into sports games, too ("Pro Evolution Soccer 6"), and have for a long time (see Vince Vaughn in "The Breakup" to feel where I'm coming from).

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lis ... anda-bear/

[dio]

^ya lol. sweet to hear him on video games and his favorites... katamari damacy and tony hawk 3... shadow of course. theyre all killing it in this ama, its like one of the best interviews

[jetski]

Avey was answering a question about the recording of Spirit and said "The only track I did from that era that is similar is a cover of fleet wood macs dreams." oh man I would love to hear that
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/com ... ma/d0drlnl

[Tropic]

Ya this AMA is sweet. Was planning on reading it later but have been stuck into my mobile. Their answers are warming my heart/rising my penis

[Stanshant]

Ah, it physically pains me that such a thing exists outside my experience.

Still got my fingers crossed they comment on your marvellous ragtime DYSTW, Vic.

[davidvidvid]

Ethmin wrote:

it'll happen.

Damn right

[dio]

like this one.. someone asked about if automine played a certain venue..

Spoiler: show

Yes! Not Auto Mine though. Auto Mine mainly played house shows, though we did one at Park School, and then one at the Catonsville Church. But Dave and I had a band called Come Winter, which occasionally drafted in Josh or Noah, and we did 3 shows at the Red Room. It was a summer tradition in between years at college when we'd either all be back in Bmore, or we'd drive down from NYC if some of us were there. So we did them in 98, 99, and 00. They were some of my favorite live performances I've ever been a part of.

so that means ac's first name is Come Winter. thats kind of epic...

[inkspot]

what the?

WINTER IS COMING!

I MUST stop winter from coming home!

(cum inside winter's glove!)

little plastic shove (HELL!)



so many band / brand names!

Auto-Mind (where to?) / Faux-Pavement! / Pandertorium / COME WINTER / TOGETHER

COME TOGETHER (over me!) / GROING / GOING! / noah's barking! ... that other one (?)

Animal Soccer Stars / pre collective human idears!

[dio]

Come Winter, the 90s AC, half-way between pavement and the future. winter def came, hard

[BulimicVegetarian]

https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/com ... ?context=3

Peebs answered my question about why the song is called "Recycling"-- it's not actually recycled from PBMTGR as some of us speculated...

[Ethmin]

wrote:

Silver Jews were massively important. Doesn't get mentioned very often but Dave and I were big Palace (Will Oldham) fans in high school. Also all four of us loved Stereolab. I'm alone on this I think, but I hear some Stereolab influence on Painting With. Halo Benders were pretty sweet too. Sometimes when people talk about how Dave and Noah sing together in AC it makes me think of how Calvin and Doug did it in the Halo Benders. -Geo

halo benders comparison is so cool