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The Ancient Ambassadors of Eternity

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Super guitare!J'aime!

this holds a tremendous power!

Fascinating space time ride with the Ambassadors

Loving those squeaky high end touches - lap steel with Entwistle single coil trying to compete with the theremin in its own way

Godlike feline sounds - the Theremin does bring that aspect in - like an Egyptian cat goddess

sinister!: It's mainly the bass movement that makes it so

Oh, that's a floating stairway of sound, alright. For giants.: There's an epic quality there

Pagey!: Yeah - when I listened to this back I immediately heard that theremin shriek he put in the middle of Whole Lotta Love. Theremin has a lot in common with slide guitar, but there are certain frequencies [and you can hear them on this piece] that you can get on theremin but not on guitar. That's why what Page did was so effective.
You own an actual Theremin? Fantastic!: Yeah - similar to the one Page used on stage. It only has a pitch aerial, again like Page's. The original ones had a pitch aerial and a volume aerial. Strangely enough, you actually tune the thing. I tuned it very low on here to get the growls, but even then it goes insanely high. You feel like you are actually playing with air - it's quite supernatural, and I began to make runic shapes in the air. What is so great about it is it reacts to any objects in its proximity, so it is a perfect experimental instrument. I believe it was the first electronic instrument as such ... well, I want to do some more experiments with it.

oh, how monsterously song like.: The theremin is grotesquely vocal

Excellent fade

They're transmitting from roving vehicles, I can tell!

Those ambassadors sure like to speed by!
Bit of theremin there - thank you, Jimmy Page!
Wondered if it was, it's a grand sound!

When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead!
: The opening notes on this were played on an Epiphone ES339 I picked up at the weekend - not like your Gibson 339, but a scaled down version of the 335 in black with two coil tapped humbuckers - a breeze at £200 [whatever that is in Dollars this hour]. The tone is marvellous; it has that bloom and squirm to the notes that you can't get on a solidbody. I've got it screaming here [and even then you can hear the extra dimension of colour to the sound], but I want to get some bluesier sounds down in the near future.
Yea, I came close to getting that model more than once (and have a couple friends with them). They're fine guitars, and not just for the price. Epi's hitting it out of the park (and so is Gibson) lately, in a way that reminds me of Fender's resurgence in the 90s.
Yeah, I'm in a state of disbelief - while it isn't a 335 it seems the next best thing, and better in some ways. It seems that if you want real tone you go to this kind of guitar
But the body resonance shapes the string and the pick up picks that up, and the body too. It is the most versatile electric guitar too, especially with the coil tap.
Yea, the coil taps are huge on anything. The one thing I'd love on my LP which has the moon and the stars is coil blend a la my mean Jaguar - the ability to do a blend takes the pickups to something that's neither bucker or single coil, and is marvellous. I prefer the smaller body on the 339 by a mile - while the Casino will howl like a banshee thanks to total bollowbody, it just doesn't sit the same, and if I'm going to play a Gibson-sized thing, give me something smaller and roughly LP sized. And the 339 in its own way fills my LP doublecut desire, I had a DC for a few months when I was younger and trying out anything under the sun and it's my favorite guitar appearance by far.
You must get one of these Epi ES339s - the coil tap has an unearthly tone - not like the usual single, but a kind of mutant - but it so extends the tonal pallette of a HH guitar, which is actually very wide anyway with two vols and two tones - this one with coil taps is pretty infinite.
Definitely on my considered list, I'm waiting to see what's floating around when I havethe LP paid off in a couple more months. That and I need to pop the cavity on the LP again and play around with the split/tap DIP switches after settling on what initially worked many months ago and see if I can dial in better.

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The Ancient Ambassadors of Eternity

If there is such a thing as Eternity, then it follows that there must be Immortal Beings within that Eternity.

If there weren’t, then there would be a break in Being if mortals expired all at once – a strong possibility.
There would then be a break in existence, and an End to Eternity, assuming that Existence is dependent upon Being.

Therefore, Logic itself dictates that Immortals must populate Eternity, alongside mortals.

And what would these Immortals do?

They would certainly act as Ambassadors from Galaxy to Galaxy, and so on.

These were sometimes called gods by mortals.

We are now discovering the movements of these Ancient – for they have no beginning and are older than Time – Ambassadors of Eternity.

They typically move on floating stairways of sound.

This track is an envisioning of one of those pathways.

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from The Ancient Ambassadors of Eternity, released July 22, 2017
Bill Boethius, guitars, lap steel, synth, Theremin, bass and drums.

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