Did you record the EP live or track it seperately?
props on right now I... almost called up my ex girlfriend but chose to pick up the guitar instead.

for the record I'm coming is the sweetest solo ever

we tracked it live and overdubbed guitars and vocals. thanks for checking the stuff out.
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doing your own tour, or going out on a package type tour ( like Area one)?

Thanks.

asia next week to tour. we'll be in the u.s. by summer.
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roots or incubus

love the new album by the way...great work

thankfully, no one knew who i was after shows with either band so i'd slip out the back and go home and watch howard stern on e.
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he likes to watch howard 'encourage' the ladies on the show to show their 'janets'....I wasn't gonna say anything, but I can't have you saying ben's a bullshitter....that just won't stand!

*sits back and waits for this to backfire, too*

ya well, I'm sure he loves to watch Howard and 'Janets' like most do, but I was mainly refering to the nobody recognizes me after the show humbleness, I never hang out with sex craved groupies...
kinda notion. All I know is at least once in a while he's in on that Incubus tradition, lots of naked chicks backstage, hard to pass up sometimes.

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"ask beavis, get nothing but head" - big l

peace & love

when times get rough and i have to perform solo out of a carry-yokey machine on hollywood blvd with a high top fade wig like larry blackmon circa 1986.

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"ask beavis, i get nothing but head" - big l

peace & love

i got the division group ep in the mail the other day, and i'm diggin it a lot. i was wondering though, what exactly is ?uestlove's kitchen?

is where he let us set up and play rock music into the wee hours. i can only tell you that it is somewhere in philadelphia.
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how long did it take you learn how to hit those high notes in foster and inside the live version (I listened to that song for a week straight in awe and to show it off to friends)? I keep topping out after the first cycle. Any tips on expanding vocal range?

More props on priceless (please put that song in the setlist) and the ending ascending from the guitar part in pistola (weird way to explain it but I think you might get it)

just drive around in your car blasting sketches for my sweeheart the drunk and try to sing along.
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Was that you that ran out at the Universal Ampitheather during the Roots opening to the EB concert to play in the ?uestlove solo? green army had, green jacket i think...

but i almost went home and packed my bags when i heard kirk's solo.

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hence "vato ben" and in the incubus dvd i saw the "homies" characters on top of your rig... Whats the deal? and if you were an o.g from east los what would your cholo gang name be?
peace
anthony valadez aka la shy boy - jk..

it's more of a hand-me-down, wanna-be, nyc-hardcore kinda thing. i wish i was o.g. something.

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to tell the concert promoters to have the division group as openers when you tour the US.

anyway, here's question: what was your favorite song while making 'a crow left of the murder"?

btw im really enjoying the album.

i'm a tired old man. i can't do all that in one night and get up and do it again the next day.

oh, and the title track is definitly my favorite at the moment.

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just wondering

and what do you think about Albuquerque, New Mexico?
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Good things come in slim packages.

I like kids, I just don't like chicks who have em.

"K fleezy, K flizzle, K flza, K flowdo smoke, Key Fleez"-- speaks in slang

but ?uestlove does.
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hot, dry, strip joints, and one of the best roots shows (as far as crowd energy) in 2001. not much in the way of vegetarian food though.
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The city of my birth. I've definitely been to some good shows there. Couldn't tell you how the vegetarian cuisine is.

where can i buy supergrub cd/ep's?

all the records are out of press. if you're in philly, look in the $.99 bin in any of the used record stores. we're getting most of the stuff repressed by the end of summer.
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being in a hiphop group?

what do you hate about being in a rock group?

pharrell and chad should holler at you for some nerd shyt.

black thought overhauling his lyrics on a nightly basis.

i hate opinionated eleven year old incubus fans with internet access and a grudge against the new guy.
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loaned it to me untill i could think of something witty for my signature.

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i go to this hat shop on 8th st in new york.

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i live right near there!

dudes standing on ladders watching everyone when i go in there. that's not normal to me.
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what else have you been known to rock. that strap is getting pretty thick, btw.

the morris day mustache.

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(mustache), i look like the sleeziest porn star to ever walk the earth, so that never last more than ten minutes.

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the magic of cgi. on some george lucas type shit.
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you could tell too, it was on some john travolta 'michael' shit. looked heavy as shit.

does it corrupt the soul or bring new light to a person's inner child???

Founder of M.W.S
(Insert comment here) We insert all the time!

Bootleg my stuff by the millions! - me

Hear our old stuff on...
www.soundclick.com/Schematix

it puts the spotlight on the corruption of children's inner sole. and makes it scarier to go to the clinic for an std test.

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I know that the next Incubus tour is going to be in support of the new album, but what are the odds of maintaining/adding some older shit? Is there pressure for you to learn the back catalog?

no too old, but old enough. old enough to know but too young to resist.

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in GD?

vatoben. they all thing i'm a mod down there. then they see my post count and are like "they're just giving away OKs these days..."
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Jack White could always use a guitar tech. Then you could be associated with a good band.

there u go again, don't u know Jack just learned how to string his own guitars this year, he was gonna start taking some lessons too but his radiator in his car went out...I think Ben was even gonna give him a discounted hourly rate.
who knows...

i'd worship a flash in the pan, hip, trendy, "the-" band. but unfortunately i only like stinky old unpopular bands like the bad brains and black flag.

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your definition of quality.
i like how all different color girls come out to the roots shows though. i can't lie.
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I mean was it a good time, and did ya'll get along well. And what do u think of him as an artist/singer/musician ?
The few times I met him I found him very uplifting and enlightening...and how would u compare playing w/ him opposed to Martin Luther. Who do u prefer, and last but certainly not least who does Incubus plan on touring with throughout the rest of 04' ?

i love cody. he's a great person (and i'm not even into jesus either). i miss kicking it with him alot. i never played with martin luther. i don't know if i've seen him play either. kirk is great. i feel like he does alot better job than i did. i don't know who incubus is touring with. we're doing our own tour but the openers haven't been confirmed yet.

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i figured you two had some good times...not sure what I was thinking w/ Martin, guess I had my timeline skewed.
But ya Kirk does a good job, but it's clear who opened that door, and who humbly left it open I might add.

'the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again'

So I guess you guys don't hand pick opening acts.
Are you coming to Cincinnati this tour by chance ?

didnt see the other one at first.

and then i relize that you're in Incubus.

>and then i relize that you're in Incubus.

and i love it.
who wants to be a punk anyway?
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cool. As a musician myself it never ceases to amaze me how a scale limited in notes can produce so much wonderment and fulfillment. I appreciate the way you guys sound within those notes. I, of course am enamoured of Brandon's lyrics which at first seem contrived, but at second glance reveal a poignant vulnerability, wit, and biting sarcasm. How difficult is it for you to shift from hip hop to full on rock? Do you find that the personalities in each genre differ, and cause you to re-balance yourself (I mean, hanging with black thought has gotta be different than hanging with Axl). Was it awkward for you at first?

Tangent: that video is.......damn nnear biblical. loved it.

Why they HELL arent there any pics of the band in the disc? that was mildly irritating!

And Ben, your courage, honesty, and integrity are to be admired. I mighta said I wasnt feelin well and wound up on tour with the "I" LOL

there's pictures in there somewhere right? i thought there was.
i just like music. and i like to play whatever moves me. fortunately for me i've been able to play with people that i consider great. hip-hop, rock, it don't matter as long as the songs are there.
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get you down. Any sort of change is startling, and they will warm up to you, if that matters to you. The main thing is, the majority of die-hard incubus fans, and even newbies are FLOORED by the music, and I am not just saying this to say it. I mean its a great record.....and you are part of it. And "no" there arent any pics in the cd sleeve, only on the cover. Perhaps the suits thought the "transition" might go down a bit easier if it want so...."in your face" you follow? Best of luck ben.

I been playing a vintage strat forever, done did the piano (still do) and needed a challenge. Moving on to bass. copped this. Is it worth a damn?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3701996750

if you like it. i used to get grilled for playing this cheap ass squire strat. but i liked it.
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Is that one of your cats in your avy?

miss bapu
a.k.a. booty butt.
her royal highness and ruler of my humble home.

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no.

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So what WAS ?uest saying on !!!! ?

(Big fan of the 80s punk myself...Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Minor Threat, etc. So thank you for that little piece of something I never thought I'd hear The Roots day)

the ask ?uest thread. only he has the answer to that.
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he's one crazy ass cat....
I love me some Bad Brains...good to know folks are still down for em...

but i've kicked it with doc, darryl, mackie and chuck treece.
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guitar or bass for hiphop?
you'd be a good man to do it

write out some tabs for the roots stuff but i'd have to charge you.

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where you want the money order sent to man?

I told you I'd do it fo free!!!

On the new Incubus album did you feel you had the biggest influence/part in & also what is your favorite song on the album?
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puttin it down like it burned my hand.

most of the songs have the same "group effort" thing. mike comes up with most of the riffs, brandon does all of the singing and kilmore, jose and myself would build our parts around that. then we'd listen to the song and work on it as a composition together. oh and tonight, my favorite song is leech.

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How sick is Kilmore?

Seriously, dude's bugged out and does stuff in the live show that nobody even catches...

he's scary. i've heard him break loose and just cut for like 2 hours straight. he's the best dj i've ever heard in person.
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what is your favorite Jeff Buckley song ?

you shold have come over.

#2 would be nighmares by the sea

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would you pleadge allegiance and become a slave/gang raped by monkeys victim, or would you rebel?

taken a close look at our president lately? i think that should answer that.
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1) what kind of bass strings / amp do you use? i'm thinking of picking back up and starting to play again.

2) stuck on a desert island with one person. who would you choose and why?

Yes I too cannot stand the incubus board. I don't know why I even check it, but I almost lashed out on the kids but realized they can't even read. They're just kids who latched on during the wish you were here and can't comprehend the new level of musicianship the band has reached. In some weird way I'm happy they don't like it because it's shows that it's so good it flew over their heads.

What does Ashley bring out in you playing wise that Jose doesn't and vice versa?

Was the solo in "I'm coming" improvised or did you take a couple takes?

ashley plays every instrument at least as good as i do so he's a mutherfucker to play with. and we grew up on similar stuff so we have a real effortless communication. jose is just dope. he's really unconventional as a drummer and that's a big part if incubus's sound. all those backwards and spilt beats take the songs up a few notches.

the solo in i'm coming was like two or three takes. i always improvise solos when i can. i would love to be on the level of eric krasno from soulive. when you just play what you feel every night.
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I agree with you on jose, he has a very ecletic style along with mike and brandon which forged their very unique sound...adding you just took it to a whole another level of sickness. I feel Jose took Copelands' style of fills (hi hats and toms) onto another level of freedom.

whats your thoughts on recording to a click?
Do you have any suggestions for a guitar playing trying to branch out of the pentatonic?

when's the solo album coming out and what happened to the supergrub page with all the other random songs and communicator?

lakland joe osborn and bob glaub signature models. and i use mesa boogie m-pulse 600 amps with mesa cabs.

the desert island thing is tough. probably my dad.
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-that side project with the other dudes on incubus (the jimmy kimmel band)...what was the name again?

-supergrub/division group...are the other dudes recording separately at all? anything new in the works?

-jack bauer (i missed the last episode of 24 and was hoping SOMEONE would fill me in).

Time Lapse Consortium...

we'll do some time lapse consortium stuff when we get some time off.

right now ashley is working on a solo record and chris is recording with a band called stiffed.

and i don't know much about 24.
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Bad Religion
Face to Face
No Use For A Name

thanks

bad religion has a few tracks but i'm not too into them. i missed out on the whole face to face thing and no use for a name doesn't really do it for me.

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with the old bass player ? How did the spot open, did he leave, or was it a bad situation...seems like most don't really know.
can u talk about that ?

http://citypaper.net/articles/2003-07-24/music2.shtml

I read that in ur post the other day, but it's way too vague. It says 'Dirk Lance had just left the band'
what the heck does that really mean, ya know, boring.
it's got to be more interesting than that...
I want the dirt.

those guys. to me it's like asking "so why did your parents get divorced" the next moday at school.
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i wansn't sure if i had missed something that was common knowledge...thanks for being so responsive to all the posts,
goes a long way.

is the loot you make with Inc more than The Roots?

$28.50 a night after taxes. now i make $31 a night with dental and my bus fare included.

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would they think you were cheating?

i was here first.

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midnight oil, bad brains, failure, ahmad jamal, smif n wessun, spoon, yes, prince, mahavishnu .. i'm too lazy to keep going........ not in any particular order either.
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Since you are vegan, do you ever get cravings for things like... ice cream or cheese?

i'm not vegan. only vegetarian. but i rarely consume dairy. i don't mess with gelatin, rennet, casienate or any other nasty by-products. i freak with jamba juice pumpkin smashes and they have frozen yogurt.

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jus curious...

#2 give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe.
angelo is my hero.
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>angelo is my hero.

mine to =)

Hey, Mr. Ben not really a question, more of a "WOW... i think your pretty dope". I've been a fan of Incubus' for a while and a fan of The Roots for a while, but seperately, then you migrated, and i was one happy mofo. Saw you make a little cameo at the E.Badu/Roots concert at Universal Ampitheater on the 11th, and I got all excited... "hey look! It's Ben Kenney!" people thought i was crazy. Yay!.... Thank you.

thank you.
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okay... so my sister thought it was dorky that a 22 year old used the words "dope" and "mofo" in a message board that the artists actually look at soooo....

"WOW... I think you are amazingly talented and resilient artist" and your migration made me a very cheerful supporter.

Revised and sister approved.

I like to use the thesaurus.

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i haven't heard of him.
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did the roots?

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Do you like playing on guitar or bass more? And how did y'all keep it together when you were jamming with the Roots, since you had such a diverse set and still brought it hard every night?

i'm playing bass, then i want to play guitar. if i'm playing guitar, than i want to playi drums. if i.... so on and so forth.
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aka lisa vs rudy.



()()

prolly go with rudy. although saying that feel pedophillic.
could denise be an option pleese?
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What song was the "20 minute jam" session/guitar solo thing Mikey was talking about in interviews? how was it? and will it ever see the light of day??

Monuments and Melodies also didn't make the final cut?? will there be material left over for a B-side compilation/e.p?

the 20 minute track is done and it will be released. monuments and melodies is megalomaniac's b-side in the u.k. i think.
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...the other day?

And leave droppings in...oh...wait. Wrong Ben...

Um...questions for Ben, questions for Ben...

lol

so i can rob it when you're on tour.

as soon as possible. or if i could ever retire....

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thats where im at...a lot of places are kinda rough but there's some nice neighborhoods that are maybe 10 minutes from cape may and are a LOT cheaper...think half a mil for a house in cape may vs. maybe 100K for one outside of it.

plus they're rising in price so after 10 years you can choose to move and sell the house and make a shitload.

who would attract more flocks of woman while walking down the street- Brandon Boyd or ?uestlove?

also, when are the either of the bands (roots or incubus) coming to arizona on tour?? youre very appreciated here...

anyone's u.s. tour schedual just yet. as far as cruisin, brandon is much easier to disguise than a certain afroed 6'4" drummer i know.
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Have you played these songs yet? crowded elevator has always been neglected live in the past. All three of these are tight tracks, i can picture you jammin bass on these and the whole group rocking these out. Can you tell me your experience with these songs, and please try to incorporate them on the next tour, all 3 are very energetic tracks.

thanks

but "crowded elevator" is my favorite incubus song. "under my umbrella" is the best song from morning view. ben, please try to convince these guys to play these songs live.

edit: also, these 3 songs you mentioned fit the mood of ACLOTM perfectly. it would only make sense to play these songs live,

glad to see i am not alone in this uphill battle.
one love!

are probably not the only ones.

i peruse the incubus boards every once in a while. while they are corny, the incubusonline boards have a pretty good perspective of what is good about incubus (to a degree)

the mysteries of the setlist. if it's in the set today and we cut it out tomorrow and i told you we're playing it than i am a douche. and i'm not into that.
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Is that with Santi White??? I think thats her name, she wrote the whole Res album.

i heard they just finished a new record too.
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i just started collecting vinyl...and an older friend of mine gave me free reign on his teenage collection.

i scored:
bad brains, suicidal tendencies, 7 seconds, agnostic front, siouxsie and the banshees, uk subs, jim carroll band, mahavishnu orchestra-inner mounting flame, pharaoh williams

anyway, i might be willing to part with some if you are interested in that sort of thing...

btw, fishbone-truth and soul one of my favs too. love the freddies dead cover. and ma and pa has the best groove period.

Do you have any suggestions for a guitar playing trying to branch out of the pentatonic?

when's the solo album coming out and what happened to the supergrub page with all the other random songs and communicator?

what was it like recording w/ blackalicious for 'blazing arrow'? that was my favorite album of 2002 (roots was close).

best part of my first roots concert (january 2002, 930 club) was you playing "welcome to the jungle" and "iron man" and black thought started singing along! is he a big metal fan and did you turn him into a dc hardcore head? (i'm from dc) did you ever do any fugazi covers during your solo set?

good luck w/ everything, ben

that every 3rd month or so one of my magazines is sent in one of those 'damaged by the postal service, but we're sorry' bags?

but seriously, what's a good incubus album to start with? i know nothing.

b

theres lots of great bands...if you guys are every down in Mexico or you can even find them here in the U.S., pick up some CD's from Zoe, Jumbo, or Zurdok...its great music,you wont be disappointed

...another question...how have the reactions to "megalomaniac" been? (i love that song)

Ben,

Yo, good lookin' for coming out on Lollapalooza, it was cool to see how the band sounded with you on bass, thought it was a good show...but I really wondered about the setlist....At the show I went to, the following HUGE songs didn't get played...Pardon Me(which I assume you guys HATE to play by now,) Drive, A Certain Shade of Green.......

PLEASE tell me that when I see you in OSAKA, you'll be playing Certain Shade of Green??!!!? Normally I wouldn't be like "Oh famous rock star, won't you play my request?" but I sorta wonder what it would sound like to have you playing the heavy riffs for that song!

God, I love that tune....So excited that you boys are coming to our little corner of the globe. Yay Incubus, Yay Osaka...

P.S. Do you wanna hook up a poor, broke-ass high school english teacher and his broke-ass mate with backstage passes? Please?:)

When you performed with them this summer. Are they as crazy as i think they are?

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2 QUESTIONS HOMEY!!!!!


1) WHEN YOU DO BLOW OFF OF GROUPIE BITCHES' ASSES, DO THEY EVER JERK YOU OFF SIMULTANEOUSLY?????

2) WHEN YOU CRUSH GROUPIE BITCHES, DO YOU FUCKING CUM ALL OVER THEIR FACES??????? DO THEY EAT IT AND/OR TOUCH IT?????



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Whoever or whatever you are go back into the hole you crawled out of. It's people like you that scare the artists away from interaction like this previously good thread. Its people like you that make message boards a breeding ground for incredible stupidity.

OH REALLY???????????????? IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK????????????? WELL I THINK I HAVE A RIGHT TO ASK QUESTIONS THAT PERTAIN TO THE SUBJECT MATTER IN WHICH I AM INTERESTED YOU MARK ASS TRICK!!!!!!!! IF YOU CAN ASK HIM WHAT TYPE OF RECORDING GADGET-BOT HE USED WHEN HE RECORDED "HIPPY HOP SHUFFLE IN A MINOR" AND OTHER QUESTIONS OF THAT SORT THEN I FEEL I HAVE A RIGHT TO ASK HIM ABOUT CRUSHING BITCHES!!!!!!!!!


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I don't know what a mark as trick is, but for starters turn your caps off chumpzilla. Judging by your sig I guess you can't read or write english but I didn't ask about gadgets I asked about his recording methods. Enough said you just killed this thread.