OPPIKOPPI!

Jayhell · 2012-08-02T19:16:34+00:00

So, who is heading up to the farm for a few days of debauchery next weekend. I'm going for number 12 to kill the mind and body and revive the soul and get a yearly fix of mind altering the rock 'n roll. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Lethe

deefstes wrote I'm curious, did any of you use the contactless card payment system at the bars? Our company developed the system and I'd be interested to know how it was received. Don't worry if you feel like saying it was utter crap, I wasn't personally involved on the project so I wouldn't mind if you thought it was rubbish. I'm just interested to know.

I was quite impressed when I saw it.
Used it about 3 times. Some of the operators weren't quite used to them, so it took them a little longer to do a transaction. But other than that it was quite efficient.

Jayhell

Mine got all mesed up but in good way. I put R210 on it, bought a round of drinks and then I had R260 on it. To celebrate this I bought another round and still had R260. But after the third try it went back to 210 and resumed to work as normal. Discovered the wonders of Strongbow and Heiniken, insta-shandy. :goodtimes:

Psean

Jayhell wrote Mine got all mesed up but in good way. I put R210 on it, bought a round of drinks and then I had R260 on it. To celebrate this I bought another round and still had R260. But after the third try it went back to 210 and resumed to work as normal. Discovered the wonders of Strongbow and Heiniken, insta-shandy. :goodtimes:

More like insta-puke ? I find either one horrible on its own and can only imagine the combo is worse.

deefstes

Jayhell wrote Mine got all mesed up but in good way. I put R210 on it, bought a round of drinks and then I had R260 on it. To celebrate this I bought another round and still had R260. But after the third try it went back to 210 and resumed to work as normal. Discovered the wonders of Strongbow and Heiniken, insta-shandy. :goodtimes:

Cool! I like systems that work this way ? Would you mind letting me know the serial number printed on the back of your card? I'd love to go look in the system what happened here. Don't worry, you won't be asked to give your round of drinks back ?

Jayhell

deefstes wrote
Jayhell wrote Mine got all mesed up but in good way. I put R210 on it, bought a round of drinks and then I had R260 on it. To celebrate this I bought another round and still had R260. But after the third try it went back to 210 and resumed to work as normal. Discovered the wonders of Strongbow and Heiniken, insta-shandy. :goodtimes:
Cool! I like systems that work this way ? Would you mind letting me know the serial number printed on the back of your card? I'd love to go look in the system what happened here. Don't worry, you won't be asked to give your round of drinks back ?

I'll have to ask my wife where she stashed in away, then I'll let you know.

Hammeron

Lethe - "Why not programme some parts to make it sound more like the cd if you can ?". Because it's not Rock n' Roll that's why.
This was a live gig, now you are either 'live' or you are not - where do you draw the MillyVanilly line ? I'm sure Lemmy would have something to say about that!

Psean

Hammeron wrote Lethe - "Why not programme some parts to make it sound more like the cd if you can ?". Because it's not Rock n' Roll that's why.

+1
If you want to hear the CD, Listen to the CD.

Hammeron wrote This was a live gig, now you are either 'live' or you are not - where do you draw the MillyVanilly line ? I'm sure Lemmy would have something to say about that!

Damn right he would! :goodtimes:

Jayhell

Hammeron wrote Lethe - "Why not programme some parts to make it sound more like the cd if you can ?". Because it's not Rock n' Roll that's why.
This was a live gig, now you are either 'live' or you are not - where do you draw the MillyVanilly line ? I'm sure Lemmy would have something to say about that!

Because the kids are full of S^%$#t, and people don't know that live is the way it should sound! I agree it's not Rock 'n Roll, but the fans seem to have enjoyed it.

Bob-Dubery

Hammeron wrote Lethe - "Why not programme some parts to make it sound more like the cd if you can ?". Because it's not Rock n' Roll that's why.
This was a live gig, now you are either 'live' or you are not - where do you draw the MillyVanilly line ?

Where indeed? Playing to a click track? Or to a drummer who's playing to a click track?

It's not just Milli Vanilli. Mid 80s there were rumours about Sting using back tracks or canned vocals for some songs. I saw him and Peter Gabriel and the Boss live in '88 and you know, in those big stadiums and with all that MIDI stuff they've got on stage how would you know?

I agree that "live is live", but "live" is open to debate. You could have a keyboard player trigger samples in real time. Live? I saw Chris Letcher recently, and he would hit a key and a whole bunch of sound effects would go off. He hit the key in real time, and they were sort of ambient noise things (cars hooting and so on) rather than actual notes, so he didn't need a click track and he hit the keys in real time. Live?

There is a trap. You make this big, multi-layered album with an impressive sound - now what are you going to give your fans in concert? Tricky.... Just about anybody with an album produced by Mutt Lange must have needed some extra help when playing live.

The Beatles recorded stuff they couldn't possibly have done live.

Freddy-Bl00D

Card system worked great, there was just abit of a problem using debit cards to put money on the card.. At one stage only one debit card machine worked so progress was slow.. I still find the fact that you cant get cash on your card back a little annoying.. You can get vouchers or sonething to use on next years cards but its still not the same as getting my R150 i have on the card back in my account

On the bands side of things i really loved seether! EODM also kicked ass.. On the local side of things Shadowclub and The Anti Retro Vinyls blew me away.. I knew the bands from before but never paid much attention to them.. I sorta just stumbled into the crowd when those bands played and they ended up being the best local bands at oppi in my opinion

Lethe

In regards to backing tracks the whole "it's not rock and roll" argument is quite weak. It just depends on what the band is trying to achieve. Some bands will need them, some bands wont. It's technology that can be used to a bands advantage. The entire idea of doing only what your image allows you is fail.

Psean

Freddy-Bl00D wrote Card system worked great, there was just abit of a problem using debit cards to put money on the card.. At one stage only one debit card machine worked so progress was slow.. I still find the fact that you cant get cash on your card back a little annoying.. You can get vouchers or sonething to use on next years cards but its still not the same as getting my R150 i have on the card back in my account

On the bands side of things i really loved seether! EODM also kicked ass.. On the local side of things Shadowclub and The Anti Retro Vinyls blew me away.. I knew the bands from before but never paid much attention to them.. I sorta just stumbled into the crowd when those bands played and they ended up being the best local bands at oppi in my opinion

Were the Anti Retro Vinyls sober? I saw them when they were up in JHB and have never seen someone so absolutely trollied play guitar like that. The guy was falling all over the place and droppinghis gear on the way to the stage but played well - even though he ended up on the floor, propped up against the wall. I can't really remember what they sounded like though :-\

flatfourfan

I meant to ask what were BFMV like?

I can't do the koppi thing anymore. I just can't justify blowing that amount of cash for a headache and in my case, probably a broken foot, screwed up ankle, black eye stolen wallet and a friendship that's hanging on a thread........lol.

Freddy-Bl00D

Psean wrote
Freddy-Bl00D wrote Card system worked great, there was just abit of a problem using debit cards to put money on the card.. At one stage only one debit card machine worked so progress was slow.. I still find the fact that you cant get cash on your card back a little annoying.. You can get vouchers or sonething to use on next years cards but its still not the same as getting my R150 i have on the card back in my account

On the bands side of things i really loved seether! EODM also kicked ass.. On the local side of things Shadowclub and The Anti Retro Vinyls blew me away.. I knew the bands from before but never paid much attention to them.. I sorta just stumbled into the crowd when those bands played and they ended up being the best local bands at oppi in my opinion
Were the Anti Retro Vinyls sober? I saw them when they were up in JHB and have never seen someone so absolutely trollied play guitar like that. The guy was falling all over the place and droppinghis gear on the way to the stage but played well - even though he ended up on the floor, propped up against the wall. I can't really remember what they sounded like though :-\

They have a reputation for being typical dirty whisky drinking rockers... They seemed sober enough to play the music and rock out on stage, i must admit they werent super tight but thats something that suites the genre in a strange way.. Something about the show reminded me of a nirvana dvd i once watched..

Psean

Freddy-Bl00D wrote
Psean wrote
Freddy-Bl00D wrote Card system worked great, there was just abit of a problem using debit cards to put money on the card.. At one stage only one debit card machine worked so progress was slow.. I still find the fact that you cant get cash on your card back a little annoying.. You can get vouchers or sonething to use on next years cards but its still not the same as getting my R150 i have on the card back in my account

On the bands side of things i really loved seether! EODM also kicked ass.. On the local side of things Shadowclub and The Anti Retro Vinyls blew me away.. I knew the bands from before but never paid much attention to them.. I sorta just stumbled into the crowd when those bands played and they ended up being the best local bands at oppi in my opinion
Were the Anti Retro Vinyls sober? I saw them when they were up in JHB and have never seen someone so absolutely trollied play guitar like that. The guy was falling all over the place and droppinghis gear on the way to the stage but played well - even though he ended up on the floor, propped up against the wall. I can't really remember what they sounded like though :-\
They have a reputation for being typical dirty whisky drinking rockers... They seemed sober enough to play the music and rock out on stage, i must admit they werent super tight but thats something that suites the genre in a strange way.. Something about the show reminded me of a nirvana dvd i once watched..

Cool. They weren't the tightest when I saw them either; still really impressive that someone that out of it could actually play? Wouldn't mind seeing them again. Hopefully the music will take first place rather than the drunken spectacle? to be fair they were on tour and it seemed they'd spent the whole day in the club waiting for the gig.

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