Talk:The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Merrick Atkinson
How many Merrick Atkinsons could there possibly be in the Lower Mainland? And Merrick Atkinsons who are musically inclined? Someone from the Royal Bank (I suspect Toren himself, since he's currently working as a temp for a financial institution) has been editing out references to Merricks other band affiliation with Lummox. I'd like to know why? Are there in fact two different Merrick Atkinsons in the Vancouver region? As unlikely as that seems, it is a possibility. --Dogbreathcanada 19:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Corrections From The Band
i had a look through the wiki entry for the band. here are some corrections...

The band formed in February 1992, mostly from members of a local role-playing group. -- 1) we formed in January 2) we all met in art school. later we ended up gaming together.

They often perform live, and have performed concerts with many other bands including Gwar, They Might Be Giants and the Dayglo Abortions. -- we played at Dragon*Con where Gwar was performing and we were SUPPOSED to be the opening band but a last minute screw job moved us to a different stage in Dragon*Con to perform. so you could say we played with Gwar but I don't consider this the case.

backup vocalist Merrick Atkinson (also of the band Lummox). -- as stated in a private email, our Merrick is not the Merrick from Lummox. there are in fact, two Merrick Atkinsons in the area that play in bands.

Bob Fugger appeared as bassist on all releases prior to 2006. -- Bob was not the bass player on all releases prior to 2006. Bob was our bass player on the following recordings: Cthulhuriffomania, Cthulhu Strikes Back & Spaceship Zero.

For the songs off of Hurts Like Hell, we had a bass player named Chris West. For songs off Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle! we had a bass player named Devon Presseau. -- 2006-02-09 14:09:47 207.200.152.99
 * Thanks for the information, Warren. This is the same information as the email I received, and have already made the correction. Good to have the information here on the talk pages though. --Dogbreathcanada 03:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Expansion
I've received a large amount of addition material, through email correspondence, with Warren Banks. I shall be incorporating all this information into the article shortly. (Which will also mean merging the CD section of Spaceship Zero into this article, but of course retaining a direct link from that article to this article.) --Dogbreathcanada 00:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Album tracks as list versus paragraph
To the person who reformatted all the album tracks as a numbered list. I reverted back to the original style. 1. Track one 2. Track two 3. Track three 4. Track four 5. Track five 6. Track six

versus

1. Track one 2. Track two 3. Track three 4. Track four 5. Track five 6. Track six

I think the numbered list looks ugly in the context of this article and creates far too much vertical scrolling. I don't think the numbered list format adds anything of value over the current formatting. Unless there's some strong Wiki guideline that states that all album tracks have to be formatted as a numbered list, then I don't feel change is necessary. --Dogbreathcanada 03:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I think the vertical orientation looks more appealing, but I do agree that it adds to much vertical scrolling and doesn't add enough to this article. If each album had its own article, I would say make the track orientation verticle. — Asatruer 11:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Did you click one of the previous links in history to get a look-see? Probably would work with different formatting, but didn't seem to work with the formatting I chose to use to cover each album. I hope nobody gets the bright idea to create separate articles for each album, because the albums themselves aren't notable enough for their own entries. I'd have to RFD based on lack of notability. --Dogbreathcanada 18:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:20, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

This is Toren, lead singer for the band. I accept responsibility for the cover of the album for The Shadow Out of Tim. If you have concerns you can email me at thickets@uniserve.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thickets (talk • contribs) 00:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Cthulhu Strikes Back
Looking around on the internet I find two different tracklistings for it, not including the 2 extra tracks from the 2003 re-release. "13 tracks on the original/15 on the re-release" or "15 tracks on the original/17 on the re-release". A total of 2 extra tracks, this article lists the former.

Tracks 1-6 are the same on both so I'll skip them. On the former it is listed: 7.Rock Lords; 8.Protein; 9.HVW; 10. Burrow Your Way To My Heart; 11. Worship Me Like A God; 12. Cthulhu Dreams; 13.Gluttony; 14. Slave Ship (Special Edition reissue only); 15. House of Clocks (Special Edition reissue only)

On the latter it is listed: 7.Wrath; 8.Rock Lords; 9.Protein; 10.HVW; 11. Burrow Your Way To My Heart; 12.Sloth; 13. Worship Me Like A God; 14. Cthulhu Dreams; 15.Gluttony; 16. Slave Ship (Special Edition reissue only); 17. House of Clocks (Special Edition reissue only)

Also some sites list it as originally being released in 1996 not 1995. Does anyone know what is going on here? The Light6 (talk) 03:22, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

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Proposing List-defined references(LDR)
I'm going to see if I can find time over the next few months to add information and references to this article. Would anyone object if I convert this to List-defined references (LDR) format? I find LDR makes it much easier to work with large numbers of references and read the artictle text inbetween all the reference markup. --Culix (talk) 15:22, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, it has been a week with no objections. It looks like most of the major editing for this article happened several years ago and it has lain dormant for a while. I'm going to be bold and convert to LDR over the next few days, to make it easier to fill in material and work with the article. --Culix (talk) 19:15, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, the conversion is done. It took less time than I thought. The before and after versions of the page look identical, and have the same number of references (phew!). The reference text between both versions is identical. --Culix (talk) 19:44, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Copied material
While searching the internet for references I found this: Lovecraftiana: Vol 1, Issue 2 - A review of "Cthulhu Strikes Back" by Stephen Herdandez. This looks like a magazine or fanzine, dated 2016. The interesting part is that two of the sections of this Wikipedia article appear to be exact copies from that magazine article:


 * "The current line-up of the band consists of vocalist and lyricist Toren Atkinson, guitarist Warren Banks, guitarist/bassist Mario Nieva, drummer Jordan Pratt (former drummer for the band Mystery Machine), and bassist/backup vocalist Merrick Atkinson."

and


 * "Outside of the band, Toren Atkinson is also an artist, having illustrated books for role-playing games including Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu (and Delta Green), as well as the Lovecraft-inspired collectible card game Mythos. Warren Banks and Toren Atkinson also co-wrote (along with contributions by John Scott Tynes and Monte Cook) the roleplaying game Spaceship Zero, published by Green Ronin Publishing."

I just wanted to make a note of it here so anyone can see and check. I'm not sure when the material was added to the wiki, but I don't think we should just copy/paste that person's text verbatim. I will make a point to go through and rephrase this and write up material collected from other reputable sources as I work to improve the article. --Culix (talk) 03:53, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Band photo from 2017
I was able to find a nice high-quality photo from a show in Vancouver, 2017. I believe this was at the Storm Crow Alehouse. The photographer is from VIES Magazine, and has kindly agreed to license it under Creative Commons BY-CC-SA. , and begun the process of marking it as approved, licensed, and released through OTRS. Once it is approved I will put it in this page. --Culix (talk) 02:28, 12 March 2021 (UTC)