We had it a couple of times in Sri Lanka. It's banned on public transport in a few countries apparently. Given a choice though I would prefer a few Mangosteens
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You chose to eat it? Audacious to say the least..
The first time our guide bought one for us to try and once I got the smell out of my nose the taste was wonderful, we bought one for ourselves in a market on another trip there a few years later washed down with king coconut served by a young lad with a machete
The swinging machete probably pulled your attention from the taste..
Ha, he was a lovely kid with a big smile. Took a slice off the top of the coconut with it for us to drink then he he took them back and took another diagonal slice to make a spoon shape and sliced the top off so we could scrape out the coating from the inside, I love king coconut, I suspect that had more to do with distracting from the smell. Thinking about it we had Durian in a hotel too but prepared, no smell that I remember and I'm sure I would
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@dukeorock - I finally got a chance to listen to this - its Freaking Awesome!
The band sounds great, nice and tight with frills in all the right places. But that's just scratching the surface. I'd imagine the back story on the complexity of using a single mic to get a sound this incredibly balanced would make for an excellent foot liner or inside cover story. Instrument and amp placement, amplifier volumes and drummer touch must all be critical along with mic type in the room and sound shaping in the booth.
Sure I see a ton of talent in every member of that three piece band - a drummer with impeccable timing and touch, a monster guitarist with massive stage presence, and a bass player locking the drums and guitar together in a perfect groove. But the untold and unseen back story is the inspiration and talent that pulled it all together in a perfect production. The thought that went into equipment selected, the room placements, the sound shaping and any prep and practice it took to get it this good would all make for a really interesting read.
To me, this surpasses the initial cool factor of the MTV Unplugged series of concerts. Don't waste your time cutting a CD of these recordings. Put out a DVD of the series with options in the menu for the back story on the technical challenges of this type of recording method and a spotlight of each person in the band as well as the producer and sound man. I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
Wow, that’s so kind f you to say! It would be fun to do a whole record that way. I can only provide a tiny bit of technical details, because we only cut two songs and most of the time spent was with the video guys getting their shots and lighting right. We did 3 takes each on two different songs and the engineer wound up using the first take on each one. Great engineer who came prepared and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He used an AEA R88(I think) stereo ribbon mic (I have the mono version...amazing mics!), a Millenia stereo mic pre, no compression on the front end as I recall and I don’t remember what audio interface he used, but he ran it into ProTools at a crazy high sample and bit rate.
The guitar player used his own Tele and brought amps, but we wound up using two small, vintage tweed Fender amps that the studio had laying around (they have a fair amount of seriously cool old amps, guitars and basses). For bass, I just used my live rig...Blast Cult upright with gut strings, 2002 TBird with Lollars and Cobalt flats, Grace Designs Felix pre amp, Mesa D800, BNA Audio 1822 cab. The engineer put the cab directly in front of the kick drum to sum the two. Adjusted volume accordingly.
For drums, when U2 cut some songs there years ago Angel of Harlem for one), Larry Mullen left his drum kit there and that’s the kit we used.
That’s pretty much it. Play like you mean it in an amazing room with a great engineer
Thanks so much!
That’s very kind, thanks!
Ok, how come you changed your avatar?
I grow tired of my visage easily. I prefer to hide behind things I like.
Gotta check out @dukeorock 's sounds when I get a quiet hour.
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This is beyond great.Wow, that’s so kind f you to say! It would be fun to do a whole record that way. I can only provide a tiny bit of technical details, because we only cut two songs and most of the time spent was with the video guys getting their shots and lighting right. We did 3 takes each on two different songs and the engineer wound up using the first take on each one. Great engineer who came prepared and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He used an AEA R88(I think) stereo ribbon mic (I have the mono version...amazing mics!), a Millenia stereo mic pre, no compression on the front end as I recall and I don’t remember what audio interface he used, but he ran it into ProTools at a crazy high sample and bit rate.
The guitar player used his own Tele and brought amps, but we wound up using two small, vintage tweed Fender amps that the studio had laying around (they have a fair amount of seriously cool old amps, guitars and basses). For bass, I just used my live rig...Blast Cult upright with gut strings, 2002 TBird with Lollars and Cobalt flats, Grace Designs Felix pre amp, Mesa D800, BNA Audio 1822 cab. The engineer put the cab directly in front of the kick drum to sum the two. Adjusted volume accordingly.
For drums, when U2 cut some songs there years ago Angel of Harlem for one), Larry Mullen left his drum kit there and that’s the kit we used.
That’s pretty much it. Play like you mean it in an amazing room with a great engineer
Thanks so much!
That’s very kind, thanks!
Had many business trips to China and Singapore where this is a fairly common fruit. I agree with Chucky, it looks uninviting and it smells like a septic tank. That's enough to put most people off, but when in Rome...Where you on the piss? Sure you didn't get a papaya?.....
So, yes I've had it and didn't really care much for it, I like Dragon fruit much more. I've also had most of the other shocking menu items in rural China - cooked scorpion, duck embryo eggs fermented in cow dung, sea horse on a stick, suckling pig, deep fried whole shrimp, duck feet, duck tongue, snake, eel, dog, horse and I'm sure other things that I wasn't aware of. Like I said, when in Rome.
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Food for thought, so to speak.
Disgust - Wikipedia
As part of the behavioural immune system, it appears to be unwise to intentionally overcome these inhibitions...
Is it really food for thought, or...........?
