This is freaking awesome

rachmanoff · Post by **rachmanoff** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:05 am

now is that really appropriate behavior for a company spokes-whore?

what an asshole.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:09 am

john gordon wrote:could you use live in that thing or is it only for vsts

you can use any windows software.
its basically a PC built into the shell of a keyboard workstation.

john gordon · Post by **john gordon** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:14 am

wow,thats pretty cool.hmmm.very tempting.i wonder if its crash proof.

anonymouse · Post by **anonymouse** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:33 am

apparently this is a big cover-up by Open Labs. They have recalled all 150 machines that they have sold since January. The circuitry is so badly done that after only a few minutes of play they start to smoke and burst into flames.
Richard said after the set that he was actually meant to play for another 30 minutes, but the keyboard started to crackle and fizz, and then flames started coming out of the CPU.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:34 am

well its obviously not baseball bat proof.

what has always turned me off about the Neko is the size. (and the price).
since its an all in one unit, its freaking huge and awkwardly bulky.
you could build a dual opteron 2 space rack computer yourself for under $2G's much better for travelling with. but since Live doesn't utilize 2 processors for the audio engine, you may as well get a single cpu laptop.

like the HP in my sig that i'm selling....

rachmanoff · Post by **rachmanoff** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:55 am

aj, i believe it's written:

base ball

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:43 am

hahaha yea.

Zakari Luk · Post by **Zakari Luk** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:42 am

so whats the deal? was the fire deliberate?

its rock n' roll, but in this day and age somebody probably got hit with a hot piece of shrapnel from the neko and will sue for a few million.

proteron · Post by **proteron** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:03 am

from the site: "Don't miss the insanity and art!"

Obviously planned idiocy.

Moonburnt · Post by **Moonburnt** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:14 am

proteron wrote:from the site: "Don't miss the insanity and art!"

Obviously planned idiocy.

Oh, so THAT'S what art's about. Yeah man, insanity is cool. Hey look at me everybody, I'm such a free spirit because I bust stuff, but I still need nerds to build it for me.

Okay, I admit, maybe if an entire orchestra smashed their gear up at the end of a symphony in the albert hall, i would be a bit amused, but the whole instrument-bashing thing is so try-hard, I'm not sure what it's meant to convey - anarchy? penile girth? conspicuous consumption?

I hope that thing's biodegradable.

raapie · Post by **raapie** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:45 am

bah, such cheap tricks to get attention.

even Hendrix made a complete fool out of himself doing this kind of stuff.

dirtystudios · Post by **dirtystudios** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:21 pm

raapie wrote:bah, such cheap tricks to get attention.

even Hendrix made a complete fool out of himself doing this kind of stuff.

hendrix wasn't trying to sell zippos when he lit his axe at monterery, and it wasn't some planned event. it was a genuine grade-a drug induced action with no ulterior motives beyond whatever was going pn in his aciddy liitle brain.

k

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:38 pm

I think he was trying to upstage the Who, there was a bit of rivalry between him and Pete ("researching my book your honour") Townsend as to who was the most wacky guitarist.
After the Who's set, where they trashed their equipment, he had to go one better and came up with that zippo marketing ploy

raapie · Post by **raapie** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:45 pm

don't agree. Hendrix didn't need these cheap tricks. managers asked him to do that I've been told.

john gordon · Post by **john gordon** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:37 pm

im thinkin of buyin the neko actually

This is freaking awesome

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