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Pibbur

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:24 pm
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I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!

The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when you
can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
flute ... Hah!)

The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this needs
to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
included for that purpose. Help!!!

I wish Poly was here.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:24 pm
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, Pibbur
<oopsREM.OVE512.TakeThisOut@tele2capi.talsno> wrote:

>I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>
>The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when you
>can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
>flute ... Hah!)
>
>The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this needs
>to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
>strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
>included for that purpose. Help!!!
>
>I wish Poly was here.

I don't play guitar! But lots of parts = fun so I wish I was there too.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:38 pm
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Pibbur wrote:
> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>
> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
> you can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play
> piano, flute ... Hah!)

Nice. You can probably get some very weird sounds out of that - a piano
being played like a guitar is liable to come out very strangely.


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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:20 pm
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På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:22:33 +0100, skrev Polychromic <macecil RemoveThis @gmail.com>:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, Pibbur
> <oopsREM.OVE512 RemoveThis @tele2capi.talsno> wrote:
>
>> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>>
>> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
>> you
>> can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
>> flute ... Hah!)
>>
>> The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this
>> needs
>> to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
>> strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
>> included for that purpose. Help!!!
>>
>> I wish Poly was here.
>
> I don't play guitar! But lots of parts = fun so I wish I was there too.

Yay! Poly is like Chuck Norris. Poly can do everything!

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:20 pm
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With a deafening roar and a whoosh of spray, Pibbur swings about and
addresses the awaiting newsgroup...

> På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:22:33 +0100, skrev Polychromic
> <macecil RemoveThis @gmail.com>:

>> I don't play guitar! But lots of parts = fun so I wish I was there
>> too.
>
> Yay! Poly is like Chuck Norris. Poly can do everything!

Can he beat up Chuck Norris?
For that matter can Chuck Norris beat up Chuck Norris?

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:20 pm
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Pibbur of the Cavern #28 howled:
> skrev Polychromic:
>> Pibbur wrote:
>>
>>> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>>>
>>> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>>> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>>> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
>>> you
>>> can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
>>> flute ... Hah!)
>>>
>>> The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this
>>> needs
>>> to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
>>> strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
>>> included for that purpose. Help!!!
>>>
>>> I wish Poly was here.
>>
>> I don't play guitar! But lots of parts = fun so I wish I was there too.
>
> Yay! Poly is like Chuck Norris. Poly can do everything!

Silly Pibbur. Poly is like Poly. Poly can do everything! (not really,
but that's what we'd like to believe)

I am happy with your new guitar. Smile

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:21 pm
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På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:53:13 +0100, skrev Paulon <-@-.->:

> With a deafening roar and a whoosh of spray, Pibbur swings about and
> addresses the awaiting newsgroup...
>
>> På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:22:33 +0100, skrev Polychromic
>> <macecil DeleteThis @gmail.com>:
>
>>> I don't play guitar! But lots of parts = fun so I wish I was there
>>> too.
>>
>> Yay! Poly is like Chuck Norris. Poly can do everything!
>
> Can he beat up Chuck Norris?
> For that matter can Chuck Norris beat up Chuck Norris?
>

Heretic!!
Blasphemer!!
Heathen!!


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(Msg. 8) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:23 pm
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På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:38:40 +0100, skrev JP Morris <jpm.DeleteThis@it-he.org>:

> Pibbur wrote:
>> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
>> you can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play
>> piano, flute ... Hah!)
>
> Nice. You can probably get some very weird sounds out of that - a piano
> being played like a guitar is liable to come out very strangely.
>
>
Yay!

I'll start slowly. The first piece I'll try is Jethro Tull: Locomotive
Breath, that piano intro.

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(Msg. 9) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:07 pm
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På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, skrev Pibbur
<oopsREM.OVE512 DeleteThis @tele2capi.talsno>:

> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>
> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
> you can play the piano, the flute abnd . Problem is, I can't play piano,
> flute ... Hah!)
>
> The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this
> needs to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the
> guitar strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of
> parts included for that purpose. Help!!!
>
> I wish Poly was here.
>
Well, the pickup is approximately in place - I've only taped it to the
guitar so far, so I can redo it if necessary. I need to adjust the
sensitivity of the synth, the lighter strings sound a bit weak at the
moment and the signal is soon lost.

But I've tried several sounds, especially string and lead synths, and IMHO
the result is good. I'm sure I would get far better results using a
keyboard player and a real synth, but for my needs it's great.

For those of you curious about how it sounds, just search on youtube for
"gr20". The gutarists in those videos are .. ehm .. slightly better then I
am ... ehm .... But you'll get the impression.

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(Msg. 10) Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:07 pm
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:07:37 +0100, Pibbur
<oopsREM.OVE512 DeleteThis @tele2capi.talsno> wrote:

>På Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, skrev Pibbur
><oopsREM.OVE512 DeleteThis @tele2capi.talsno>:
>
>> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>>
>> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
>> you can play the piano, the flute abnd . Problem is, I can't play piano,
>> flute ... Hah!)
>>
>> The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this
>> needs to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the
>> guitar strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of
>> parts included for that purpose. Help!!!
>>
>> I wish Poly was here.
>>
>Well, the pickup is approximately in place - I've only taped it to the
>guitar so far, so I can redo it if necessary. I need to adjust the
>sensitivity of the synth, the lighter strings sound a bit weak at the
>moment and the signal is soon lost.
>
>But I've tried several sounds, especially string and lead synths, and IMHO
>the result is good. I'm sure I would get far better results using a
>keyboard player and a real synth, but for my needs it's great.
>
>For those of you curious about how it sounds, just search on youtube for
>"gr20". The gutarists in those videos are .. ehm .. slightly better then I
>am ... ehm .... But you'll get the impression.

Watching a fellow named Robert Marcello makes me think that the GR20 is
basically a synthesizer with the guitar being like the controller on a
console game. Next you can invent the Wii plugin to control the GR20
wirelessly!
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:07 am
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, Pibbur
<oopsREM.OVE512.TakeThisOut@tele2capi.talsno> wrote:

>I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>
>The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when you
>can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
>flute ... Hah!)
>
>The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this needs
>to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
>strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
>included for that purpose. Help!!!
>
>I wish Poly was here.


<looks over Pibbur's shoulder>

"You just need to mount the framistat securely under the gizflotchie
so that the magnetic resonance can resonate magnetically in 4/4 time ,
three-part harmony."


A droning buzzing fades in from nowhere...
Pibbur slumps forward on the table, closes his eyes as the room
pixellates around him, swirling clockwise unsteadily as fuzzy guitar
chords swim around his brain in exactly the way that ideas don't. He
feels a moment of intense, wrenching vertigo and..
Pibbur opens his eyes to a cartoonish world gone poorly rendered 3-D!
He watches two young boys walk past wielding deadly-looking hard round
objects that they would flick viciously out, tethered with a string
that returned the grim object to their hands.
"Look at them yo-yos." Pibbur murmered "I'm going to play my guitar,
that ain't working."
Pibbur had just seated himself on a nearby mushroom when two
two-wheeled contraptions zoomed by at breakneck speed, trailing a
luminous roostertail, and swerving recklessly trying to entrap each
other.A window in the air suddenly popped up in front of Pibbur and
showed the head of some artificial-looking fellow who had a very
pronounced st st st st tutter but a very bright smile.
Pibbur, disgusted at all the noise hiked away up the steep mountain to
the other side overlooking a narrow waterway extennding out to a broad
sea, bordered by all these crinkly mountains..
"Ah, that's more like it! Peace and quiet!"
Suddenly, Pibbur pauses in his guitar noisemaking, and listens. He
casts his ear to the wind and just drifting in on the freah breeze he
hears...guitar notes being played. The tune sounds so tantalizingly
familiar,but Pibbur jusst can't quite place it. Hungering for
resolvement, Pibbur hikes off in the perceived direction of the
playing, now becoming more rapid. Soon the notes re comng deliciously
fast as Pibbur clears the ridge of another hill to see a lone man,
sitting quietly on a folding chair playing the notes in question.
Pibbur nears the man and notices his squirrelly look, how his fingers
fly over the fretboard with a complete and utter lack of movement of
the rest of his body. Pibbur watches, enraptured as he finishes the
tune abruptly, almost in mod-bar. He looks up at Pibbur and says, "All
this skill, I will now pass on toy you, my most faithful of fans. With
this touch, you will aquire all my skills."
As he raches out his hand to Pibbur, A strange droning buzzing fades
in and the world swirls counterclockwise, fuzzy guitar chords buzzing
away and he falls.
He falls through time and space for an infinite seeming moment. As he
falls he wonders how he stays alive out here in space unsuited with
his guitar slung over his back. He looks ahead to see a disk
approaching viewability, then growing larger rapidly when, with
seeming light-speed suddenness, he plunges directly into and then
through the disk. "Hmmm - whipped cream and banana cream." Pibbur
notes.53 times more he repeats, each time slowing some more. Splut
splutsplut splut splut splut splut splut splut splut splut
splut , well you get the picture.Massive SPLUTTING going on there.
One final disk approaches and Pibbur realizes it's Earth. He passes
and ducks around a few pieces of space debris, then inspiration grabs
him. After recovering from his right being grabbed, Pibbur positions a
metal ladder beneath his feet as he heads into the atmosphere. He
air-surfs gently down searching for and finding his home. As he
alights he..

suddenly wakes up, looks around, and says, "Wow! What a trip! No more
lutefisk for me! " Then he goes to finish working on his guitar,
failing to notice the wisps of cream pie stuck to his beard.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:07 am
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:07:32 GMT, Optician Dragon
<dragonlensman1.RemoveThis@verizon.net> wrote:

>suddenly wakes up, looks around, and says, "Wow! What a trip! No more
>lutefisk for me! " Then he goes to finish working on his guitar,
>failing to notice the wisps of cream pie stuck to his beard.

Creative story...or was it?!

Since lye is often a main ingredient in bottles of drain cleaner/opener, I
wonder if there are fewer clogged kitchen sinks in homes where they eat a
lot of lutefisk?

Lutefisk doesn't seem too bad to me. I was watching some murder drama set
in Iceland a few months ago and the main detective kept going to a drive
through fast food place to get his "regular" meal. A whole sheep's head.
He'd eat the eyes first, with great delight.

I never have liked eating food that looked too much like it did when it
was still alive. No ribs for instance. Certainly no freaking faces or
eyes.

..

..

..

..

Oops, excuse that stuff. Some little girl from the neighborhood got in
here and started typing.

/goes back to eating babies. alive. in blood sauce.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:29 am
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With a deafening roar and a whoosh of spray, Polychromic swings about
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> I never have liked eating food that looked too much like it did when
> it was still alive. No ribs for instance. Certainly no freaking
> faces or eyes.
>
> .
>
> .
>
> .
>
> .
>
> Oops, excuse that stuff. Some little girl from the neighborhood got
> in here and started typing.

Tell her the cure for the sheeps eyes issue is to put sunglasses on the
head before it's boiled.


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(Msg. 14) Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:34 am
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På Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:07:32 +0100, skrev Optician Dragon
<dragonlensman1.TakeThisOut@verizon.net>:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, Pibbur
> <oopsREM.OVE512.TakeThisOut@tele2capi.talsno> wrote:
>
>> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>>
>> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
>> you
>> can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
>> flute ... Hah!)
>>
>> The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this
>> needs
>> to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
>> strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
>> included for that purpose. Help!!!
>>
>> I wish Poly was here.
>
>
> <looks over Pibbur's shoulder>
>
> "You just need to mount the framistat securely under the gizflotchie
> so that the magnetic resonance can resonate magnetically in 4/4 time ,
> three-part harmony."
>
>
> A droning buzzing fades in from nowhere...
> Pibbur slumps forward on the table, closes his eyes as the room
> pixellates around him, swirling clockwise unsteadily as fuzzy guitar
> chords swim around his brain in exactly the way that ideas don't. He
> feels a moment of intense, wrenching vertigo and..
> Pibbur opens his eyes to a cartoonish world gone poorly rendered 3-D!
> He watches two young boys walk past wielding deadly-looking hard round
> objects that they would flick viciously out, tethered with a string
> that returned the grim object to their hands.
> "Look at them yo-yos." Pibbur murmered "I'm going to play my guitar,
> that ain't working."

On the MTV! I wonder how that one will sound played strictly as a flute.

> Pibbur had just seated himself on a nearby mushroom when two
> two-wheeled contraptions zoomed by at breakneck speed, trailing a
> luminous roostertail, and swerving recklessly trying to entrap each
> other.A window in the air suddenly popped up in front of Pibbur and
> showed the head of some artificial-looking fellow who had a very
> pronounced st st st st tutter but a very bright smile.
> Pibbur, disgusted at all the noise hiked away up the steep mountain to
> the other side overlooking a narrow waterway extennding out to a broad
> sea, bordered by all these crinkly mountains..
> "Ah, that's more like it! Peace and quiet!"
> Suddenly, Pibbur pauses in his guitar noisemaking, and listens. He
> casts his ear to the wind and just drifting in on the freah breeze he
> hears...guitar notes being played. The tune sounds so tantalizingly
> familiar,but Pibbur jusst can't quite place it. Hungering for
> resolvement, Pibbur hikes off in the perceived direction of the
> playing, now becoming more rapid. Soon the notes re comng deliciously
> fast as Pibbur clears the ridge of another hill to see a lone man,
> sitting quietly on a folding chair playing the notes in question.
> Pibbur nears the man and notices his squirrelly look, how his fingers
> fly over the fretboard with a complete and utter lack of movement of
> the rest of his body. Pibbur watches, enraptured as he finishes the
> tune abruptly, almost in mod-bar. He looks up at Pibbur and says, "All
> this skill, I will now pass on toy you, my most faithful of fans. With
> this touch, you will aquire all my skills."
> As he raches out his hand to Pibbur, A strange droning buzzing fades
> in and the world swirls counterclockwise, fuzzy guitar chords buzzing
> away and he falls.
> He falls through time and space for an infinite seeming moment. As he
> falls he wonders how he stays alive out here in space unsuited with
> his guitar slung over his back. He looks ahead to see a disk
> approaching viewability, then growing larger rapidly when, with
> seeming light-speed suddenness, he plunges directly into and then
> through the disk. "Hmmm - whipped cream and banana cream." Pibbur
> notes.53 times more he repeats, each time slowing some more. Splut
> splutsplut splut splut splut splut splut splut splut splut
> splut , well you get the picture.Massive SPLUTTING going on there.
> One final disk approaches and Pibbur realizes it's Earth. He passes
> and ducks around a few pieces of space debris, then inspiration grabs
> him. After recovering from his right being grabbed, Pibbur positions a
> metal ladder beneath his feet as he heads into the atmosphere. He
> air-surfs gently down searching for and finding his home. As he
> alights he..
>
> suddenly wakes up, looks around, and says, "Wow! What a trip! No more
> lutefisk for me! " Then he goes to finish working on his guitar,
> failing to notice the wisps of cream pie stuck to his beard.

I new you were an artist. But this, this surpasses all you have done so
far. A classic.

--
Pibbur, who humbly accepts the spluts, feeling somehow releived and starts
playing "Smoke on the water" on his violin.
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:26 am
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:34:38 +0100, Pibbur
<oopsREM.OVE512.TakeThisOut@tele2capi.talsno> wrote:

>På Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:07:32 +0100, skrev Optician Dragon
><dragonlensman1.TakeThisOut@verizon.net>:
>
>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:08 +0100, Pibbur
>> <oopsREM.OVE512.TakeThisOut@tele2capi.talsno> wrote:
>>
>>> I bought a Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer today. Yay!
>>>
>>> The good news: I can from now on play a lot of different sounds on the
>>> guitar: Piano, strings, flutes and genuine synth sounds. (And before
>>> anyone asks why use a guitar synth to play piano, flute and such when
>>> you
>>> can play the piano, the flute abnd .. Problem is, I can't play piano,
>>> flute ... Hah!)
>>>
>>> The bad news: It requires a special pickup for the guitar, and this
>>> needs
>>> to be mounted very accurately to ensure proper tracking of the guitar
>>> strings. So there is a lot of adjustments to be made, and lots of parts
>>> included for that purpose. Help!!!
>>>
>>> I wish Poly was here.
>>
>>
>> <looks over Pibbur's shoulder>
>>
>> "You just need to mount the framistat securely under the gizflotchie
>> so that the magnetic resonance can resonate magnetically in 4/4 time ,
>> three-part harmony."
>>
>>
>> A droning buzzing fades in from nowhere...
>> Pibbur slumps forward on the table, closes his eyes as the room
>> pixellates around him, swirling clockwise unsteadily as fuzzy guitar
>> chords swim around his brain in exactly the way that ideas don't. He
>> feels a moment of intense, wrenching vertigo and..
>> Pibbur opens his eyes to a cartoonish world gone poorly rendered 3-D!
>> He watches two young boys walk past wielding deadly-looking hard round
>> objects that they would flick viciously out, tethered with a string
>> that returned the grim object to their hands.
>> "Look at them yo-yos." Pibbur murmered "I'm going to play my guitar,
>> that ain't working."
>
>On the MTV! I wonder how that one will sound played strictly as a flute.
>
>> Pibbur had just seated himself on a nearby mushroom when two
>> two-wheeled contraptions zoomed by at breakneck speed, trailing a
>> luminous roostertail, and swerving recklessly trying to entrap each
>> other.A window in the air suddenly popped up in front of Pibbur and
>> showed the head of some artificial-looking fellow who had a very
>> pronounced st st st st tutter but a very bright smile.
>> Pibbur, disgusted at all the noise hiked away up the steep mountain to
>> the other side overlooking a narrow waterway extennding out to a broad
>> sea, bordered by all these crinkly mountains..
>> "Ah, that's more like it! Peace and quiet!"
>> Suddenly, Pibbur pauses in his guitar noisemaking, and listens. He
>> casts his ear to the wind and just drifting in on the freah breeze he
>> hears...guitar notes being played. The tune sounds so tantalizingly
>> familiar,but Pibbur jusst can't quite place it. Hungering for
>> resolvement, Pibbur hikes off in the perceived direction of the
>> playing, now becoming more rapid. Soon the notes re comng deliciously
>> fast as Pibbur clears the ridge of another hill to see a lone man,
>> sitting quietly on a folding chair playing the notes in question.
>> Pibbur nears the man and notices his squirrelly look, how his fingers
>> fly over the fretboard with a complete and utter lack of movement of
>> the rest of his body. Pibbur watches, enraptured as he finishes the
>> tune abruptly, almost in mod-bar. He looks up at Pibbur and says, "All
>> this skill, I will now pass on toy you, my most faithful of fans. With
>> this touch, you will aquire all my skills."
>> As he raches out his hand to Pibbur, A strange droning buzzing fades
>> in and the world swirls counterclockwise, fuzzy guitar chords buzzing
>> away and he falls.
>> He falls through time and space for an infinite seeming moment. As he
>> falls he wonders how he stays alive out here in space unsuited with
>> his guitar slung over his back. He looks ahead to see a disk
>> approaching viewability, then growing larger rapidly when, with
>> seeming light-speed suddenness, he plunges directly into and then
>> through the disk. "Hmmm - whipped cream and banana cream." Pibbur
>> notes.53 times more he repeats, each time slowing some more. Splut
>> splutsplut splut splut splut splut splut splut splut splut
>> splut , well you get the picture.Massive SPLUTTING going on there.
>> One final disk approaches and Pibbur realizes it's Earth. He passes
>> and ducks around a few pieces of space debris, then inspiration grabs
>> him. After recovering from his right being grabbed, Pibbur positions a
>> metal ladder beneath his feet as he heads into the atmosphere. He
>> air-surfs gently down searching for and finding his home. As he
>> alights he..
>>
>> suddenly wakes up, looks around, and says, "Wow! What a trip! No more
>> lutefisk for me! " Then he goes to finish working on his guitar,
>> failing to notice the wisps of cream pie stuck to his beard.
>
>I new you were an artist. But this, this surpasses all you have done so
>far. A classic.

Yeah, is there still any UDIC fanfic repository around?
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