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Big Electric Cat have Dr. Ruth
Children On Stun have Poison Dwarf
The Merry Thoughts have The Thought Machine
The March Violets simply credit drums to The Machine

Do you know any other named drum-machines? Besides The Doktor, of course.

Yep, Slayer have got one called Dave Lombardo

Mine never had a name, maybe Dark will change that when he takes custody of it.

FearOfHatred's old digital 8-track was Doris
My laptop is Torch.
The new machine.. we shall see.

Naming Ceremony suggestions...



seeing as that's where it'll probably end up.

rosetta's was madame razor

Big Black's was called Roland.

I think the nephilims' "The Humping Pumping Machine Brain" was one ?? could be wrong though.

Nurse Landslide

Paddy.

Ghost Dance's was Pandora.

Doubt it, Dave. If all else fails, I can try making some death metal if I play it at double-speed.

The Double Happys, New Zealand noise band of the mid-80's, had one called Herbie Fuckface. Apparently he was incredibly low tech, you would kick him to make him stop playing and a goddamn bossa nova rhythm would come out.

And then one of the two human members of the band met a tragic end by leaning out of a window on a train when a tunnel was coming. Trufax.

SYL's drum machine is called the Atomic Clock.

He's actually human, tho when you hear him drum, there's reason to doubt that

IZ.

The Robot

We call ours the Grim Beater.

The Hated Reign's is called Johnathan E.

If memory serves, didn't Echo and the Bunnymen have a machine called called Echo?

Syberberg wrote: If memory serves, didn't Echo and the Bunnymen have a machine called called Echo?

Will Sergeant -

We had this mate [Smelly Elly] who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest.

Hom_Corleone wrote:

Syberberg wrote: If memory serves, didn't Echo and the Bunnymen have a machine called called Echo?

Will Sergeant -

We had this mate [Smelly Elly] who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them. I thought it was just as stupid as the rest.

Thanks for clearing that up!

each day I trust my memory less and less but I seem to remember that the March Violets also used the very same Doktor Avalanche... or am I an utterly senile bastard already?

I'm pretty sure they did.
James Ray And The Performance used Doktor Avalanche (for at least Mexico Sundown Blues) as well.

The Doktor is a slut

Yeah. He was on early Salvation songs as well.

Dark wrote:I'm pretty sure they did.
James Ray And The Performance used Doktor Avalanche (for at least Mexico Sundown Blues) as well.

As far as I can remember we used cardboard boxes, cushions and a couple of kettles to create the drums/percussion fro Mexico. The Doctor just wasn't up to the job - a bit like Sylvester McCoy at the time.

Jeez, but what type of cardboard boxes?

walkers cheese & onion crisps and a Fortnum & Mason hamper

Ah right. I'm just going by an old Performance interview I read, some references to Doktor Avalanche on drums, and one of you on bagpipes.

LOL! Panpipes not bagpipes. Another dumb-ass, pseudo-journo. They may be able to spell but they sure as fcuk don't know how to listen!

BTW - not one drum machine I have ever used has been given a name other than the manufacturer's recommended one.