Talk:Roddy Bottum

Dead Citations
Shame the citations to the Advocate articles are dead. I don't doubt them - please do not see this is as an undermining of the article's content - but can they be re-referenced via archive.org or some other similar service? It's frustrating when originating websites remove material, whatever the material, because there's something very 1984 about it, i.e. re-writing history at a whim. Oh hang on, this is Wikipedia...!

Untitled
I removed the last sentence about heroin addiction. I don't dispute it per se, but it needs to be sourced and rewritten to actually be a meaningful sentence that explains the inferred connection between heroin addiction and a friendship with Courtney Love. --Isotope23 16:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Faith no more - Synthesizers?
Listening the Angel-Dust album: Does anybody know the names of the used synhties and perhaps - if not selfmade - the names of the used sound-patches? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.255.102.222 (talk) 09:04, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

ANSWER: As a quasi-anonymous respondent (er, IP) to a question of 5 years ago (it's 2012 at time of writing this), I wonder why this is being asked. The possibility of the synthesizer is almost infinite. Through trial and experiment, it should be possible to replicate the sound of Roddy's "patches" should one deem it appropriate via one's creativity and effort. Or is it something to do with prestige, i.e. to say "Oh, but this IS what Roddy used on such-and-such a song so I'm being, ooooh.... truly retro, or, ooooh genuinely referential and reverential"?

There's a point I'm making here: anyone can go to the Fender Shop and get an "Eric Clapton" guitar, but it doesn't make the guitar player play Layla anything like Clapton IYSWIM. This answer is probably irrelevant, but then this is the Talk section of a Wikipedia entry, so we can say what we like, within academic reason. And conversely, no-one can ask what "patch" is used on the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar piano part, for example, but obsessives lacking imagination will want to replicate nonetheless. I'm aware this is a controversial position. Best regards, Rod.