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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: paulman on November 14, 2006, 07:51:14 AM
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Went to see Borat over the weekend...an inappropriatly funny movie. If you see it, or have seen it, you'll know what I mean.
In the Revival scene, I believe I saw the headstock of an Alembic Spoiler on the music stage. It was pointing straight up so I assume it was on a stand. I watched very intently for any other shot of it but the one with the headstock showing was not repeated.
They are out there!
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Yet another 'Alembic' sighting, I posted a thread here that the doctor examining Peter Parker In Spiderman 2 had an alembic style tee shirt..did anyone notice that??
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Saw Borat last night with my wife. Funniest. Movie. Ever. We're still laughing about it this morning.
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John.
Go see jack Black's Pick of Destiny (tenacious D) movie. i promise you'll be rolling in the aisle;-)
Graeme
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I have no interest in seeing Borat or anything with Jack Black, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Ben Stiller, Keanuu Reeves, Will Ferell, Jon Lovitz, Pauly Shore and several other so-called actors. Hollywood has been turning out trash for many years. Don't waste your money on this crap.
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Graeme,
My daughter wants me to see Pick of Destiny with her this afternoon. I'm not a huge Tenacious D fan, but it looks like it'll be fun.
John
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Kevin, I'll see your list and raise you Jim Carey, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams, Martin Short and Steve Martin. Though I must confess that, while Jack Black generally makes me itch, he was great in High Fidelity. And nominations for Funniest Movie Ever were closed the day The Big Lebowski was released.
Peter
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I will stand up to defend Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Robin Williams, and Steve Martin. I don't really know the others. Those cats are genuinely funny (Tenacious D is genius), and I can't imagine life without a little silly laughter.
Andy Calder
www.andycalderbass.com (http://www.andycalderbass.com)
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And Ben Stiller was in both There's Something About Mary and Flirting With Disaster, two of the most side-splittingest funny films I've ever seen.
Bill, tgo
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Oh, that guy! Yes, I agree: Ben Stiller is very funny!
Andy Calder
www.andycalderbass.com (http://www.andycalderbass.com)
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I loved the hair cream scene in Something About Mary. I couldn't stop laughing!
Everybody has got a different take on comics.
My son still laughs when someone gets hit in the head. Slap-stick stuff. Nothing wrong with that!
To each their own. There's something for everyone.
NLP
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Flirting with Disaster is a great movie. I will also say that Robin Williams, to my way of thinking, is a huge step above most of the others. He has done some very silly stuff, but rarely is he simply two dimensional and obnoxious as Jack Black and Jim Carrey can be.
Steve Martin also has had some great roles against type-seeing him in The Spanish Prisoner, while not a great movies, was a huge change, plus the drummer in my high school band wrote and directed Novocaine, which starred Steve Martin and I thought he did a great job of interpreting the madness that is Dave Atkins.
Everybody's mileage varies here!
Edwin
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I recently saw a comic strip where two women are talking. The first notes a recent study that found the average adult laughs 17 times per day, while the average kindergartener laughs 300 times each day. The other woman asks: I wonder what the difference is? To which the first replies: 283 fart jokes!
Bill, tgo
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pure economics of emotion -
the more time you spend being happy, the less time you spend feeling blue
- special thanks to Jaco and S & D
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Where Tenacious D is concerned, their acoustic tunes seem lacking.
I just heard their Christmas song, What I Want for Christmas, and the hard rocking side of them I like very much. But, I don't seem to hear any Alembic in there. Com'on Jack!
Steve Martin is a hell of a Banjo player, and played with Jerry once so there is a remote connection to Alembic.
And There's Something about Alembic was a very funny movie.
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Where Tenacious D is concerned, their acoustic tunes seem lacking.
I just heard their Christmas song, What I Want for Christmas, and the hard rocking side of them I like very much. But, I don't seem to hear any Alembic in there. Com'on Jack!
Steve Martin is a hell of a Banjo player, and played with Jerry once so there is a remote connection to Alembic.
And There's Something about Alembic was a very funny movie. At least it sounded great ;)
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Okay, bear with me here...
Steve Martin was a writer for the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (I think that's what it was called). Glen Campbell played Ovation guitars. Ovation used graphite composites extensively. Graphite composites were also used extensively by Geoff Gould (Modulus Graphite). Geoff built graphite necks for Alembic.
Not quite 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon...
Steve is one heck of a good musician.. When he performed King Tut on SNL, didn't his bassist play a Hyak? I looked it up on youtube, but it's too low of resolution to tell...
John
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I have a personal friend who used to be PA to a member of parliament, and I once spent a few minutes chatting to this MP, as my friend was finishing a phone call. A few years later, after a brief period of unprecedented political turmoil, this unassuming MP became Prime Minister, and in that capacity has been the guest of and host to numerous heads of state. (Name of PM withheld so as not to bring more ridicule upon our already prideless nation.)
So by virtue of your membership of this forum, you are all just 3 degrees from shaking hands with the high and mighty worldwide. At least if you're into that sort of thing.
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(Going even further afield) Martin was guest-hosting for Johnny Carson once, and had Bill McKuen (sp?) of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on - I think Bill taught Steve to play. So Steve played - really good. Bill played - mind-blowingly good. Then, while they were sitting down talking, Bill lays his banjo on the floor. He whips off his shoes, and then his socks - revealing another pair of socks with the ends cut off - and proceeds to play with his toes! He was almost as good as with his fingers.
Peter
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Personal Assistant to Bootsy? That'd be a cool job.
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Glen Campbell did have an Alembic guitar. I remember it being a lovely graphite necked koa topped beaut. So there is a stronger connection there!
Hyak!?! Someone say Hyak? I checked out the King Tut video and it seems early on in the vid, the headstock does not have the Hyak logo, but almost looks Guild-ish with a truss rod cover. But toward the end of the video, looks like it could be a Hyak. I need better pics.
By the way, I really like my Hyak.
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I remember when I saw that originally on SNL, the bass had a scroll. It's been a few years though...