Re: Punk Alice...

Yeah he uses a magnifying glass to do all the fine detail..it must be terribly time consuming. Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric .. yeah well I just purchased that as well as 'No More Pain'. I purchased the cd formats so hope I won't be missing out on anything if I opt for that rather than LP. I still prefer LP over cd but lps are a lot more expensive to ship around the world than cd.

I never knew that Nick lost the plot and had to be committed...all this stuff about popes getting around in hearses.. and he even thought he himself was the pope, lol. Perhaps too many drugs caught up on him? Apparently he also wrote stories and other written material, so would be interesting if he had thrown some more elucidation on the subject of paedopiliia (as apparently "Gobbing Pogoing And Gratuitous Bad Language" was written in reference to the Alice song). Peni wrote a song called "Defined by Age" which was a criticism of society putting different aged people into boxes and stereotypes, so I would have thought that the fact they had written this song meant they must have had at least some sense of respect for children and for them to be allowed to make up their own minds what they wanted or didn't want, and that they DON'T need society's condescension, cotton wooled over protection and "age appropriate" civil rights. Let's hope they would hold that view as to be at least consistent with what they sing about all through their albums.

My friend's band had tried for YEARS to find the secret formula to Peni's SOUND specifically from their first "Farce" EP (rather then their Death Church LP which is quite a bit more muddy and less direct in guitar tone). Like, what bass, guitars and amps did they use in Farce? But most of all what were their main effects pedal(s)? It's a real brutal distortion on that ep, and rhythm guitar chords are like a constant wall of grinding noise with no detection of pick strumming which is a very difficult effect to obtain as my friend tried to get that sound for years but to no success. "Mice Race" has awesome feedback-like effects in a section where there's no vocals, so would be interesting to know how Nick gets those effects too.