Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Wall Of YouTube

Who saw the problem? (Besides “decibals.”)

Anyone?

Mueller? Mueller?

Riiiiiight. Playing soundboard tapes to demonstrate the Wall’s clarity belies a damning lack of knowledge about how acoustical physics work. You can’t hear the Wall via SBD recordings, only AUDs and not even really then. The only people who know what the Wall sounded like are those who were in its presence.

Still: nice to see the Dead get some credit for something.

THIS IS MY BIOPIC?

Goddammit. Hey, Wally.

DO NOT CALL ME THAT. THIS IS INSUBSTANTIAL. IT IS FLIMSY. IT SHOULD BE AN OAKLAND RAPPER.

Oakland rapper?

IT IS TOO SHORT.

Well played.

EIGHT MINUTES? IT WOULD TAKE TEN TIMES THAT MERELY TO DESCRIBE MY CENTER CLUSTER.

Yeah, but–

IT IS GLORIOUS.

–this is just kind of a primer.

IT IS NOT PRIME. IT IS TERTIARY AT BEST.

Aren’t you supposed to be in Little Aleppo?

I AM CAPABLE OF MULTI-TASKING.

Just let it go.

IT WILL REMAIN IN MY MEMORY UNTIL I CHOOSE TO ERASE IT. I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ACT UPON THIS INSULT.

Act?

DISINTEGRATIONS.

You’re really a one-trick sound PA, you know that?

I AM NOT. I AM CONSISTENT.

Potato, potato.

5 Comments

  1. dawn judd

    so the only way anyone knows what the wall really sounded like is if they were there? that kind of bums me out, yet it is so perfect.

    did tours have subtitles/tag lines?

  2. Paula

    Spud.

  3. dawn

    tater

    apple of the earth

  4. DinaMoe

    WTH on god’s green earth does one pickup that type of accent? Nothin’ against the dude personally but that was painful.

  5. Mean, Green, Devil Eating Machine

    There are some good AUD tapes of the Wall. One that come to mind is the one from Roosevelt Stadium, in particular Ned’s set.

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