{"id":1595,"date":"2010-10-13T19:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T03:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/they-shuffle-with-a-bovine-grace"},"modified":"2010-10-13T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T03:33:28","slug":"they-shuffle-with-a-bovine-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/they-shuffle-with-a-bovine-grace","title":{"rendered":"They Shuffle With a Bovine Grace&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been wondering recently: how was the bass line in  &#8220;The Thin Wall&#8221; by Ultravox done? (A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?hl=en#sclient=psy&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;site=webhp&amp;source=hp&amp;q=the+thin+wall&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g2&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=24caab9999a5d8d0\">Google search<\/a> will reveal links to the video and other ways you can listen to it. I sprang $0.99 at Amazon to get an MP3 of the remastered album version which has the cool cello stuff near the end. Unfortunately I think I sold my CD of <em>Rage in Eden<\/em> long ago.) We&#8217;re talking about 1981 sequencer technology here. Notice that it changes in subtle ways as it goes along. Is it just someone dinking with a CV sequencer? Maybe it&#8217;s just a gate programmed in the drum machine (a Linn, I think), which obviously has plenty of free voices since there&#8217;s nothing else coming out of it besides a kick and snare? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Anyone? (Wow, two 80s references in one post. Am I showing my age?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been wondering recently: how was the bass line in &#8220;The Thin Wall&#8221; by Ultravox done? (A Google search will reveal links to the video and other ways you can listen to it. I sprang $0.99 at Amazon to get an MP3 of the remastered album version which has the cool cello stuff&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/they-shuffle-with-a-bovine-grace\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">They Shuffle With a Bovine Grace&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}