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September in the Spotlight: Evansorchid

Tattoomom	Date: September 4, 2008 @ 3:06 AM Post your questions here! Thanks for all the responses last month to the Vicious Kitty interview! I'm looking forward to this month with Spike!!!
evansorchid	Date: September 5, 2008 @ 12:55 PM Thanks for resuscitating the Spotlight Forum, Crystal. I'm sincerely looking forward to this.
ShadowMom	Date: September 5, 2008 @ 3:10 PM What comes first-- the music or the lyrics?
moam	Date: September 5, 2008 @ 3:11 PM Who's your biggest musical inspiration?
aflunky	Date: September 5, 2008 @ 11:11 PM What comes first--the evan or the orchid?
ShadowMom	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 1:54 PM Your artist snapshot says: "We love our audience. Thanks for listening!" How many of you are there?
Israfel	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 1:58 PM Musical influences?? I mean besides me, of course...
evansorchid	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 2:40 PM I'll break the rules and answer Mom's question.... The "We love our audience" line is a reference to the Bauhaus song titled Spirit where Peter Murphy sings that line over and over at the end of the song. It's just a line that has always stuck with me. But, it's just me here though....and maybe a couple of multiple personalities that pop out from time to time.
ShadowMom	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 2:46 PM Do you ever see your piano teacher these days? I have LOTS of questions for YOU!
evansorchid	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 2:52 PM Mrs. Mahoney was my piano teacher when I was 10. After a month of lessons, she told my mother that I should consider another instrument. She suggested a typewriter.
ShadowMom	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 2:53 PM And how HAS Israfel influenced your music?
evansorchid	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 3:01 PM Izzy isn't really an influence...she's more like....influenza.
ShadowMom	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 3:04 PM I notice you waited for her to leave to say that.
evansorchid	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 3:10 PM No...no....you mistake my meaning. The good kind of the flu....you know.... Where you get really sick....so sick that you start to have hallucinations....and then your mind starts to get these creative bursts of energy that never could have surfaced if you hadn't been sick in the first place....so you write down your thoughts and ideas anyway.....and when your fever breaks you go back and check out your ideas and...... ....she's not going to believe this, is she?
ShadowMom	Date: September 6, 2008 @ 3:33 PM WPP for you! The bag on the head won't be enough!
NoRentJoseph	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 3:53 AM What were your first methods of multitrack recording ?
leedsquietman	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 4:18 AM If you won a 10,000 dollars shopping spree at a big music/music technology store such as Sweetwater or Guitar Center etc., how would you spend the money ?
evansorchid	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 4:35 AM I'll break from the protocol 'cause and answer Joseph's question. I think the first time that I discovered multitracking was when I was 14. I was messing around with this extremely inexpensive Panasonic 'sound-system' that I've since trashed. It was the kind that had a Dual cassette deck, an AM/FM receiver and a turntable all built into a single box and detailed with new wave colors to appeal to kids. Anyway, it also happened to have a left AND right microphone jack. I think the original intent was so that you could play karaoke with your friends, but I dicovered a crude method of ping-ponging. When I first discovered it, I didn't even have a microphone. I used a set of headphones as a microphone and plugged it into the microphone port. It does work. I would record my first take normally. Because I had a Dual cassette deck, I could take that initial recording and put that cassette into the 'play only' side and put a fresh cassette into the record side, then plug my headphones into the OTHER microphone channel. Cue the tapes. Press play on one cassette deck and press record on the other side and I was able to multitrack on separate channels for the very first time. It evolved into multilayer pingponging after a few days. I recorded tracks like that for a few years, until I was able to save up enough money for a Fostex multitracker.
ShadowMom	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 4:36 AM You are gonna have Israfel and Crystal both on your case, Spike!
evansorchid	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 4:37 AM Oh gosh....now I see Martin's question as well.....I could rack up $10,000 dollars pretty fast. Let's see. I've always wanted a Telecaster...a nice one. I could blow $2,000 on that. I'd also get a decent drum machine...$1,500....a decent keyboard...$4,000....and probably invest in some professional studio equipment like a mixing board and better software, some rack mountable effects......now that I think about it, $10,000 dollars isn't enough....
NoRentJoseph	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 9:11 AM My Mate had a Sharpe Twin Tape. We used to record in pretty much the same way back in T' Day Cheers for the answer
Tattoomom	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 12:59 PM Well if he answers all the questions here it saves me some work doesn't it?!?
GeneHilbert	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 1:33 PM If you were marooned alone on a desert island. What would be the two things you would want to have with you? Don't answer here....... Give Crystal some meat. .........LOL
ShadowMom	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 3:53 PM Which of YOUR songs are you most proud of and why? Do you ever put the right sock on the left foot? So many questions, so little time!
Israfel	Date: September 7, 2008 @ 4:17 PM Spike!! Quit answering the questions here! Sheesh!!! and say what you will, I know I'm your greatest influence.
ShadowMom	Date: September 8, 2008 @ 2:42 PM Okay, today's question... Do you prefer live or lip-synching?
Distilled1	Date: September 8, 2008 @ 3:04 PM besides music what are your if any other creative outlets?
ShadowMom	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 7:21 AM Personally, I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question, D1!
evansorchid	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 2:01 PM Well, if you folks insist, I suppose I can maintain myself until the interview ....that's where I plan to submit to Crystal an excerpt of my first "tell-all" book titled, Spike & Izzy: A Discarded Gigolo. That should generate some interest.
imemine	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:04 PM Rumor has it that you are the illegitimate love child of Micky Dolenz. Without Britney Spears’ing the subject….can you explain your recent involvement with Sarah Palin previous to the bridge to nowhere money and what the two of you did with the money after deciding that the bridge would not be built? That said, you live somewhere in the continent of Texas….the home of the Bush family……again, rumor has it that you are totally connected to the Bush family and totally financed by “BIG OIL”! Perhaps why your hair is so greasy. So a long way to get there but….”Who are YOU drilling”? Inquiring minds need to know. Last but not least…….Does Dick Cheney hunt Moose?......or just fuck tax payers?
Israfel	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:19 PM That Ime...he sure does go on, doesn't he? Oh and Spikey, you're discarded when I say you're discarded.
imemine	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:21 PM cough It's "skippy"! thanks! NOT "spike".
evansorchid	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 PM My hair isn't greasy!!! Everything else.....well....there may be a bit truth in some of that. Yeehaw... .....oh, did you say something, Izzy.
Israfel	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:22 PM Oookay....Skippy then.
imemine	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:30 PM See-----typical-----take the "hair" thing! EASY!!!!What about the rest? I demand a response! Your PEOPLE demand a response. HELL---AMERICA demands a response! You SUCK skippy!
Israfel	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:31 PM Who let him in here?
imemine	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:34 PM "rofl:
evansorchid	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:36 PM Geez, Ime.....Living in the basement of your mother's house has made you just a tiny bit hostile. You might try changing out the bedsheets. It might just cheer you up.
imemine	Date: September 9, 2008 @ 3:49 PM No-----I think it's traveling with Sean Hannity that made me the way that I am. You would think that FOX would at least give us separate rooms. We're going to Washington and shake things up!!!!He does have very soft lips though......are you sure that you want to take your form in this direction though? Seriously, that Micky Dolenz thing needs to come out!
zedsalt	Date: September 10, 2008 @ 3:28 AM Whatever became of Amy Dolenz? Oop, better stay on topic here. Crystal, please ask Spike if he knows whatever became of Amy.
GTOriginal	Date: September 10, 2008 @ 10:36 AM OK, the Missus and I had a discussion about your user name. Somehow she got the idea you were a chick. I said, "No honey it's a dude named Spike". She was like, "Why is HIS name 'Evan's Orchid' then? It's obviously a reference to some guy's flower". My response was to roll my eyes and reply, "This is how we can tell that I got school. It is quite obviously a reference to a bunch of apple trees. Sheesh! Read a book now and then willya?" So my question is: What's the deal with the name, and is it an actual band name or just a DM user ID?
shutyatrap	Date: September 14, 2008 @ 1:28 AM Wow this is a fantastic choice. Ok I have a question. "How the fuck do you come up with such amazingly crazy lyrics? Where you just born like this or have you taken a shitload of drugs?"
ViciousKitty	Date: September 21, 2008 @ 5:20 PM This should be cool!! hmm er err hmmm well er er ahh hmmm! Some technical aspects of your music production would be cool hear about me thinks!!
Tattoomom	Date: September 29, 2008 @ 8:08 AM The interview with Evansorchid is posted. http://news.dmusic.com/article/34614 Thanks again Spike...I enjoyed the interview very much! I hope everyone else does too.