Episode 15 — Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

[myhandleonearwolf 62]

Really liked Doug in this setting! Doug Loves Movies and Comedy Death Ray got me hooked on podcasts, but lately it seems like Doug is burnt out on it, so it's good to hear him putting forth some effort!

[action52 554]

I work in the music "biz"

 

What? What the hell are you talking about?

 

(business)

 

Oh, okay. Now it makes sense.

[mfnpjparty 142]

 

What? What the hell are you talking about?

 

 

 

Oh, okay. Now it makes sense.

 

In fairness that is actually what we call it in the "biz" (business). I don't mean to reiterate.

[Mister Robarto 3]

Not sure if it's the haircut or the jacket, but Adam looks like he's rocking the Tig Notaro look in this ep's pics.

[lazerface 40]

Not sure if it's the haircut or the jacket, but Adam looks like he's rocking the Tig Notaro look in this ep's pics.

 

First of all, congrats.

[rachelpi 228]

Also, speaking of Paul Rust, they should do a podcast with him about Rush, called Rusht.

 

TWO OF MY LOVES

[rachelpi 228]

Scott: "Ass, gas or grass; no one rides for free."

 

You talkin' Fu Manchu to me?

[greggy 15909]

pretty good ep, i liked all the stories about spiderman: take back the night

[ieatpants 720]

 

Rust On Metal With Paul Rust, an Insider's Guide to The Most Brutal Trends in Modern Metal

 

 

i would prefer "Rust Never Sleeps" (a podcast about Neil Young with Paul Rust)

[Shannon 2953]

"Kiss me, kill me?"

"Kilmer."

 

I don't know why but it tickles me so when Scott does this. There was another one in the episode but it was more obscure and I can't remember it but it was great

 

 

Also, whenever Scott says "Hey Spiderman??" it's soo reminiscent of the cadence Paul Rust uses for New No-No's.

 

YES and i'm STILL laughing about it to myself now. it's just so perfect

 

Hey, Spiderman?!? (pause)(pause) Turn off the daaark!!

[Bozos of Basketball 3689]

I don't like U2. And this podcast is having weird effects on me.

 

The other day U2 came up in conversation with some friends, and they were trying to name the "other members" of the band. The immediacy in which I came up with Larry Mullens Jr. and Adam Clayton really shocked these other non-U2 fans.

 

Also, I purposely U2-YouTube'ed one of their videos recently. Hold Me, Marry Me, Fuck Me, Kill Me.

 

I'm scared.

[myhandleonearwolf 62]

Most of the engineers that I've worked with have used SM58's for recording guide vocals, then gone on to do vocal overdubs with more expensive condenser microphones later. The SM58's are good because they're dynamic and therefore don't pick up the sound of the drums and whatever else they're trying to record first. They do this so that when the lead guitarist or whoever gets around to recording their solo they have a nice clean but not perfect outline of the vocals to tell them which part they're up to and when to play. I'm guessing this is what Bono was doing. Still the anecdote is kind of weird. Was he impressed by Bono giving a good take even though it was just a guide? Or by the fact that he was using a cheap microphone? Or what? Scott was right to be confused by it.

 

(I apologise to anyone who fell asleep whilst reading this boring explanation. Here is a picture of a weird carrot)

 

www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/buzz-lightyear-carrot.jpg

 

 

It's a pretty well-known anecdote in recording circles. It's kind of one of those VH1 Classic Albums kind of factoids; Bono would take an SM58 and hang out in the control room (rather than the live room with the rest of the band or a vocal booth) and belt out his weird little oohs and aahs, and I'm sure some engineer insisted he kept that track rather than a more polished one on some song like Sunday Bloody Sunday.

 

Edit: Guess he used it more often than I thought. Not all that surprising for a touring band vocalist to be more comfortable holding a microphone up to his mouth while his band plays loudly instead of singing into a pop filter in a little vocal booth with headphones on.

 

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/mar94/u2robbieadams.html

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/jul97/flood_u2.html

[IanR 153]

It would only cost like one millionth of the money Bono and the Edge made on Spider Man Turn Off The Dark to get Scott and Scott t-shirts, I'm just saying they have the money and the shirts

[Joe Lerini 7329]

[Juiceten 8]

Hey Scotts............. when are we gonna get those fucking UTU2TM t-shirts in the Earwolf store?

 

...T-shirts, man...

[WEdidITagain 458]

 

I think the one he was mostly talking about from Letterman was "A Freak Like Me Needs Company": http://shakefire.com/embed/40394.

Makes me cringe pretty bad but at least it does seem like the actor playing the Green Goblin is enjoying himself. Glad somebody was.

 

The number actually reminds me of Paul Rust's Dr. Traygo's creeeeepies.

 

Yeah and

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The video I found has some WEIRD ASS breathing.

 

I believe it's Scott watching it and being mad he's not part of it.

[Bozos of Basketball 3689]

 

Hey Spiderman... how about grabbing a remote control and uhhh, Turn Off the Dark.

[AndrewStewart 42]

Dare I say Adam is developing a catchphrase in which he asks about people shaking their little fannies? Two consecutive weeks!

[Bozos of Basketball 3689]

Dare I say Adam is developing a catchphrase in which he asks about people shaking their little fannies? Two consecutive weeks!

 

I agree but I think you mean Scott.

[4royalparkers 117]

Because a freak like me needs company!

[Joe Lerini 7329]

Because a freak like me needs company!

Sorry to go on a tangent, but a quick Wikipedia search reveals that there are plans for an "X-Men XXX".

 

COME ON, PORNOGRAPHERS! "XXX-Men" was RIGHT THERE!

[Mikeyfazed 65]

If I were in the Letterman audience for the "Freak Like Me" taping, I would seriously question whether I had inadvertently consumed LSD.

[Drue Langlois 44]

Here's an animation I made using excerpts from episode #15! See the Scotts repeatedly telling Spider-man to "turn off the dark". Hope you guys like it:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=_QWYfZLdkAE

[Kickpuncher 5012]

This is weird...I liked that post and replied earlier, and both seem to have disappeared.

 

Anyway, that's amazing, great job!

[Chaz_Steadyfist 21]

Here's an animation I made using excerpts from episode #15! See the Scotts repeatedly telling Spider-man to "turn off the dark". Hope you guys like it:

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=_QWYfZLdkAE

 

Great ep. Really good ep.