Do they have any with pockolates?
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Chris Watson of Cabaret Voltaire and pre-eminent wildlife recordist on David Attenborough for his 99th birthday:
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Guy came into my bar recently, immediately someone came up and said āHey, sorry but has anyone told you you look like someone?ā
āTimothy Chalamet? Yeah I get it all the timeā
Five minutes later:
"Excuse me but has anyone ev
āTimothy Chalamet, yeahā
Happened half a dozen times.
He acted like he hated it but he fucking loved it.
It had become his whole identity. Weird existence. And I swear the guy didnāt even look that much like Timothy Chalamet.
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Reminds me of this story that Iāve told a couple of times but the band Cake (who only really had one hit and then some minor outlying successes) is from my hometown and when their song āthe distanceā started getting played on MTV, I was (at the time) working at a video rental store.
The singer would come in there to rent videos sometimes (we lived in the same area of the city) and after the music video was released, he started wearing the same hat he had worn in the music video all the time. I assume that he was trying to be recognized for the MTV appearances.
I noticed this while working at the video rental store but heard reports from some friends around town that he was doing the same thing elsewhere, like going into stores and lingering about, wearing his hat from the music video.
I might have done the same thing in his position, but just reminds me of your story and I almost wonder if the timothy chalamet lookalike goes places where he thinks that heāll get this compliment on purpose.
The singer and his hat (for posterity):
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I mean maybe the dude just liked the hat. Unless he was also wearing the purple suit, then itās getting really suss.
Iām betting he was just hanging around hoping for a girl with a very particular skirt/jacket combo
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Possibly. He didnāt wear the hat before the video came out, I can tell you that much for sure.
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Circumstancial your honor
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Cake were from Sacramento, no? I lived in Berkeley when they were coming up and they played the Starry Plough a lot, I always thought of them as a Berkeley band. I think we might of played with them once. Like Third Eye Blind (dicks), Train (yawn but nice enough dudes I guess), Counting Crows (good guys), etc, they were one of the bands that left us in the dust on the road to success. Iām not that bitterā¦
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Sacramento. If you were playing in the general area around that time, Iād be interested to hear who your band was as I was pretty into local / semi local music at the time!
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We were called Tucker. People liked us okay, but I cringe today at my singing and songwriting and guitar playing. I started out trying to be Kurt Cobain, we switched guitar players and then I wanted to be Jeff Tweedy. Neither worked. And we really were the East Bay band left in the dust.
Eventually I disbanded the group, moved to L.A. and wanted to be Paul Simon. Ha, as if. Decades on I just twist knobs in my āstudioā, so, you knowā¦
I will say our band could out drink any other. 
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Your story reminds me of the singer of Louis XIV entering our local disc shop in 2005 after he had had some success for their recordā¦ It was right before their concert, he was wearing the whole rockstar makeup and acting like he was one.
I donāt know if he was there to try and measure his fameā¦
In a few sentences the shop owner gently showed he had learned to spot such kind of attitude for decades, that being a rockstar was not a job, nor a very permanent status, and that if the singer was truly in it for the music, they could learn a bit from the shop owner, that had had some firsthand experiences, a solid rock culture, and could give them quite a few interesting references and anecdotes.
It was a bit funny to see the face of the singer going from conqueror to humbled kid.
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Of all the band names one could pick, hereās one that just screams humility. Iām shocked the singer would have such attitude.
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In which Bootsy Collins shows off among other things a collection of drum machines, Bernie Worrellās synths and shares his love of cheap keyboard sounds too.
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I had a jam with my Digitakt and 2 x Edge. First time using this setup itās pretty fun. I have a DFAM but the addition of MIDI makes syncing to Elektron boxes a breeze.
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Crazy how much his music contributions stretch. He is that sound.
Thanks for posting this.
It popped up earlier on my YT feed but hadnāt clicked on it.
To me itās not about the gear but everything in there has a connection or a story to a place, time, person or album.
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There is one for sale , in 2ememainā¦ not really cheapā¦ 
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I guess he was really going the distance with that hat 
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Yes, I saw it, itās because of this one that I went to see this video. 
Fun fact, my neighbor, a film director, is a friend of the singer Daan, who himself is a long-time friend of Sherman and whose wonders he has used throughout his career.
These machines have always made me want them and I have the impression that they are lurking around me, one day maybeā¦
(a single or a double, letās be serious 
)
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