That awesome thing that Jim plays on "Sooner&

[MyLifeISought]

What is it?

[corey]

Omnichord

[MyLifeISought]

I want one...

[corey]

Try Ebay

[fitzcarraldo]

Found this, the next generation omnichord (The qchord) with more bells and whistles (according to the website):

http://www.qchord.net/docs/omnichord.htm

[tomEisenbraun]

don't forget, Jim plays the Omnichord Generation 2. It's a slightly different looking, and I would slightly different sounding, Omnichord. And it sounds damn fine rigged up the way they have it.

[corey]

Tom, do you know the model number on it, by chance?

I looked at those Q chords at Wal-mart and they're like 200 bucks or something like that. Kinda steep.

[cmccubbin25]

how exactly do you play an Omnichord?

[tomEisenbraun]

pff, screw that. wal-mart schmal-mart.

don't get a Qchord, they sound cheap, but too much so. The Omnichord is exquisitely toned-down.

You play it by pressing a chord button and strumming across this little pad that has electronic sensors for keys. Kind of an electronic autoharp. Same theory, at least.

hang on while I check eBay (and get further distracted from my research paper that's due in less than two hours)...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Suzuki-Omnichord-System-Two-OM-84-with-hard-case_W0QQitemZ7371655646QQcategoryZ38071QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


If you want Jim's exact model, this is it. A good ol system two, the OM-84 with the logo above, rather than under, the keys.

I may be wrong, but i think the key set-up is probably similar to an accordian's chord buttons--arranged based on the circle of fifths with four rows or something like that. who knows, I may have to buy one and figure it out.

[corey]

Cool. I looked at that auction about 30 minutes ago.

My wife needs ideas about what to get me for X-mas. :)

(Get your paper done!)

[tomEisenbraun]

Any thoughts on the origin of the Rwanda genocide? What caused it? I've only got little of it done.

[corey]

No clue. Didn't they make a movie about it a year or two ago?

[fitzcarraldo]

some info here:
http://www.preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/rwanda/indangamuntu.htm  

I was dancing at Lollapalooza when this was happening, US news hardly covered that, shame.

[tomEisenbraun]

yeah, it's amazing how our entire country mourned over Kurt Cobain on April 5, 1994, and this happened the next day, the 6th, and went entirely unnoticed.

i finished the paper.

[primushead]

yeah, it's amazing how our entire country mourned over Kurt Cobain on April 5, 1994, and this happened the next day, the 6th, and went entirely unnoticed.

i finished the paper.

I had to do a paper on that my freshman year.  It was pretty ridiculous (800,000 dead in 30 days, wasn't it?).  My favorite part is how Clinton went to Rwanda to apologize for not intervening.  "Um...oops.  Sorry half your country got slaughtered with machetes".

[tomEisenbraun]

yeah, 800,000 in 100 days. April til June.

It's pretty sick. And the UN pulled out after only ten men were killed. But then my roomate was reading up about it. What they did to those ten men was to first cut their achilles tendons in their heels so they besically couldn't move, then castrated them and and stuffed their dismembered manhood into their mouths. This was all before they actually killed them. After they were dead, they put the corpses on public display, as a warning. I almost understand the UN pulling out, seeing as they are not an army, and were ordered not to fire. They didn't have enough people to do anything of benefit, but they could have rallied for support worldwide and not swept it under a rug.

You want something really shocking? There's genocide happening right now in Sudan. And no one knows about it.

[aMillionDreams]

I had to do a paper on that my freshman year.  It was pretty ridiculous (800,000 dead in 30 days, wasn't it?).  My favorite part is how Clinton went to Rwanda to apologize for not intervening.  "Um...oops.  Sorry half your country got slaughtered with machetes".

I saw Clinton say on Larry King that not intervening in Rwanda was the biggest mistake in his presidency.  He said that it would have been political suicide since we were already in Somalia and periodically bombing Iraq the Republicians would have take him to slaughter so he had to sit back and watch as all those people were killed.  It's a damn shame.

Rock on omnichord!  Hey, olwiggum, are you bidding on that omnichord because if you are I'll bid on a different one.

[corey]

Not bidding on the omnichord. I haven't shown it to my wife yet either, so she doesn't know what to look for.

I may wait until after X-mas and get one if I have some leftover $ after I get my tax returns and pay some bills off.

Let me know if you win!
(and if the minor keys work)

Jim said that the minor keys didn't work when they were in BHAM. I wonder if he got those fixed before the bigger tour. I don't remember any minor chords in "Sooner". Is that the only song that he used it on, besides the little acoustic numbers that he did on the radio?

[aMillionDreams]

He played it on "This Magic Moment" at the BHAM right?

[corey]

Yup.