cats + records
ako
https://soundcloud.com/a-ko 3,413 Posts
we have three cats at our house, and for some reason they just love to jump up on my turntable, whether a record is spinning or not. its annoying.any other problems with cats and records? haha
Comments
Bad story, one time I left the cover off my comic book box and when I walked in the room my cat was just going to town. Had some $20+ stuff in their too. So not a major loss, but still made me nuts. But hey I was the human who didn't remeber to cover my stuff.
FInal crazy story, I think all my loud rap music has made my cat deaf. Cuz she often sleeps behind the speakers. I'll be blasting stuff for an hour and then she just casually comes out from a nap like it didn't even bother her.
YES
When I first got my cat, she had this habit of climbing upon the records on my floor (I have them laid out upright, as if in boxes, in long rows), and shredding her claws across the tops...I didn't notice this habit until too late, as in, one night I was sitting there watching hockey, drinking a beer, and looked over to see my cat just scratching away at the tops of my beloved records!! HOLY SHIT! I spit beer everywhere, and went ballistic...I'm not one of those who can hurt small animals, even in discipline, but I was able to scream and frighten her enough that - eventually - she stopped doing this...for a while I had to lay things across the top to keep her off, so I would have all these books and clothes spread all over my records...and I do have a decent amount of LP's with damaged top spines to remind me of her very insensitive behavior...
"Don't kill me, master! I promise to only shred your Leo Sayer LP's from now on!"
yeah my ex-gf's cat is dumb as shit but even he understands the squirt bottle.
He does like to put his paw on the side if the record player platter (not on the album though) and slow my shit down when I'm listening to things. Again, I think he's just fucking with me.
Other than that, he's pretty cool about the vinyl.
Deep beats and deep crates,
SonicReducer
(TEAMAARON)
HA HA!!!!!!!!
please post some cat beats.
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0TML19EGP2MDZ25KUGNNUODV2N
BTW, I did those wack drums.
damn, your cat needs to get in the game! seriously though, that actually has some flavor to it. someone needs to rhyme on top of it, or at least put somebody else's vocals on it.
I can??t even begin to tell how much I anticipate hearing this! Downloading now!
- J
I would set up the program with sounds, then have a monkey bang out the sequences. Good idea?? Think NYU will let me use one of their monkeys for a coupla hours?
>>>>>>
As for the decks - my budgie (who loves music) once landed on the tonearm of my 1200 while it was playing. he sent it skidding of the vinyl and got a serious shock. he hasn't tried that shit since!
maybe thats whats scaring my cat off???
i bought some that i think had dog piss on it, but it might have been cat piss. either way the whole crate was soaked and smelled nasty. but i dont have a cat, my dog would eat it. and he doesnt fuck with my records, just gets his hair all over them.
i wish he made beats like sunfortune's cat tho!
303. "Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfill the appointed tasks, such as scratching record spines, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward (with the scratching and the pawing of the records)."
987. "The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and the records shall be pawed and scratched on."
1376. "Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the destruction of the record collections."
Really, he just goes on and on about it...
DOODE! I have been dealing with this with my little kitty. She used to do the spine shredding thang, but it was on the open end (cause I store my records so I can pull them out quickly) so it wasnt too bad. But after (literally) throwing her out of my studio and yelling a bunch at her she only scratches on the actual milk crate itself, not touching the records at all ("Good girl! Thank you!")
But the big pet peeve is her climbing behind my setup and playing with/chewing on wires and cables. One time she stepped on the cord to my lamp and it came crashing down on my table while it was playing a record - DOH!
I remember Dibbs talking about this in an interview about 5 or 6 years ago, saying "Cats love to fuck with your records" at the time I was like "whaa?" But now I know, and
Hanni and Susi my two cats love to sharpen their claws on my records.
Had to move all my stuff to a seperate appartement.
Still it??s first the records that have to move not my pets.
Greetings
Seb
My cats like to investigate whenever the closet door where my 45 boxes are stored is open. More like they immediately converge on it. And if I drag a box out and throw on some tunes, the girl (there's a boy and a girl) has to do one of the following:
try to fit in any open space that may exist in the 45 box
walk across the 45s on the floor
try to jump up on the turntable to see what I'm messing about with
The funniest episode was when I was spinning a 45 and, before I could stop her, she jumped up and put a front paw on the record, perfectly stopping it. I picked her up and the record continued along...