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Published: 2017-06-24 15:08:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 2090; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 3
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'Twas 1996 and there was still music on Mtv, occasionally even good music on the radio, and you were young and not afraid to start a band. There were you and there was Kyle, who is not around anymore, Ewan who looked like a girl then and is one now, and Morvern on the drums. And you were pretty good, and you were going to make it big, like NOFX or Millencolin.GIMP 2. Estimating 80-100 hours.
While many people have provided valuable advice to get Morvern on the road - too many to list everyone - a special nod to FlapperFoxy is in order for her encyclopedic knowledge of period style and fashion.
EDIT: Since some questions have been raised on the subject, I feel it may be best to address it. What exactly is she?
Morvern is a "wild haggis", a Scottish tongue-in-cheek mythical creature. The actual haggis is a Scottish dish, a sort of offal pudding, but outside of Scotland it is sometimes believed to be an indegenous creature - a belief that has frequently been perpetuated for laughs.
As the story goes, the wild haggis has longer legs on one side of the body than on the other, which supposedly helps maintain its balance on the steep hillsides of the Scottish highlands. As such, Morvern is plantigrade on her left side and digitigrade on her right.
When the wild haggis is depicted as a plausible animal, it is sometimes rendered as a creature that looks somewhat like a large, lanky hedgehog, very shaggy, reverse-countershaded with a dark snout, and long, clawed toes. The Kelvingrove gallery of Glasgow has a particularly beautiful example on display.
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Yay. Vinyl Records.Β Β I'm a vinyl records collector.^^
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Love them <3 There is just something about the large vinyl discs that feels very "hands on", and the whole part with putting on a record is almost meditational in a way. Maybe it is a bit of nostalgia talking, but just love cardboard sleeves with large cover art - not just on records, but on old games as well. It feels somehow back in the day, everything was a much more complete work of art.
Am a bit of a collector myself, just not a very successful one: Only got four records and no player of my own. Recently made a real find, though - Jim Steinman's Bad For Good with the original EP still in the sleeve. Unfortunately it still had the original promo sticker as well, though, so I guess I'll never see the whole cover for fear of ripping it. But still!
This scene takes place in 1996, so it is the dark age for vinyls, with the impressive collection stowed away in a disused walk-in closet. In the extended story, figure it is Morvern - being a wise wild haggis for her age - who eventually saves the records and keeps them for personal use. And for inspiration when she and Ewan (then by a different name) end up together in a new band some fifteen years later.
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Why, thank you.
Say, would you like to hear her?
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Many welcomes. 
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Let us see. Or rather, hear:
youtu.be/PsKBf_b6R1s
This is a few years later, from 1999. But it is very representative of the style of music Morvern, Ewan and the others work in. Music that works equally well on a big stage as in a cellar club, on boombox in the halfpipe as in a disused walk-in closet converted to drum hall.
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Very strange diction in the vocals. Sounds a lot like Hoobastank. Intriguing lyrics... Much angst in them...
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Indeed. Millencolin and Hoobastank may be apples and oranges, but at the same time they grow from the same branch.
It is true, though, while the music is almost celebratory, the lyrics are largely about frustration and uncertainty throughout the album. Both their later and earlier are more hopeful - with lines such as "these shoes will get you anywhere" - but the music there is more primitive than what Morvern and her peers practice, although the lyrics are closer.
I picture that 22 years on the still-active survivors of the band - Morvern and Kyle (by new name) - are back together in a power metal band with fantasy trappings. But that is another story.
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I guess what goes around comes around. I keep waiting on an original concept to surface in the entertainment industry. Instead, I see an endless chain of reboots...
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The same can be said for music. Being a player for many decades, I can attest to the truth in this...
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Hmm, it seems Millencolin are releasing a new record this year.
youtu.be/2Ss5YOf5KJU
Twenty years on, and the boys have grown up: No longer angry, just disappointed.
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Such is way of world, Ma'am.
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Then again, if you pardon my waxing philosophical, perhaps sometimes such disappointment is a privilege. Better wonder how it came to this than assume it always was.
And the music sounds promising.
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I must agree with this assertion, Ma'am.
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Awesome!!! I can imagine it playing some drums exercises, I trust he'll become a great drummer. Great job!
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Why, thank you <3
As I pictured it, some of the surviving members became quite successful in their own right - Morvern especially as a session drummer, since she jams all the time, and Ewan (though by another name) moving on to power metal. The skate punk band here though, did likely not survive into 1998.
That is just how things are. Not everything succeeds.
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You're welcome!
Unfortunately it's true... But we don't never give up in all we want, we have to fight and struggle to reach want we really want!
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All the little details and warm colours make this a very interesting piece. I can imagine this actually happening, and them trying their best in that era to be successful. ^^
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Thank you, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it. And indeed, it could and certainly did happen.
I was a young teenager in the 90's, so there are admittedly some rose-tinted goggles at work here. Never was in a band, but saw many come and go - some of them which are among my favourites to this day. Many things have changed: Back then you could expect to stand out once (if) your name got out of the garage - today getting out is trivial, but standing out in the crowd largely comes down to luck. But some things never do change. All garage bands will always be young adults, with a lot of fire but little experience, and there will always be obstacles - even artistic - that are unrelated to the music itself.
Even implying that the band ultimately is doomed to fail, for me it was hard working anything into this piece that was not immediately joyous or at least hopeful. I remember the fun of the effort too clearly.
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You've put a lot of work into this and it definitely shows. I like the Β warm color tone and of course I'm a junky for anything mythology of folklore related. I'd love to pick around in that record collection and see what I could find.Β
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Thank you - and I would love the same, so I can help you with that.
On the top shelf to the far left is a Springsteen/E-street band bootleg with a stenciled sleeve. On the far right and squeezed in with the stack of singles is Below the salt by Steeleye Span (my first anthro lynx ever on the cover). The copper coloured album in the middle was first intended to represent Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, then Bo Hansson's Music inspired by Lord of the Rings, but I ended up dropping both after learning both albums - despite their very impressive covers - actually have rather discrete spines.
Essentially they could be any of the blank-worn ones.
On the far left of the middle shelf is a Benny Andersson compilation, and under it an E-Type single in a cardboard sleeve. Next to them stands an LP by "Tin Top" (a fictitious band - intended to represent the enormous number of late 60's British rock bands that never made it big). Next to it is an LP by "Narcotic Casserole" known from MST3K. Admittledly anachronistic, as that sketch aired in 1999. I do unfontunately not remember the name, but the hot pink album with the squiggly was based on one of the groups on the original Terminator soundtrack.
The bottom singles shelf does not have anything specific depicted, but since it is based appearance-wise on my mother's singles collection, it likely includes the full Beatles single discography and a lot of local talent.
T'was a real treat to paint. Learned a good deal, and will be sure to return to it in the future.
With the sole exception of the Brood War outro, I don't think I have seen a record collection on a starship...
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Awesome, 
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Β Love this used to have a YamahaΒ Stage Custom wish I would have kept it gave it to somebody who probably never used it. I have a Pearl Masters now for about 15 years great kit. Do you play drums?
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Thank you, but unfortunately, no. It may not be apparent in my painting, but - courtesy of Asperger syndrome - I suffer from really bad coordination, and I have a poorly healed wrist from an accident about a decade ago. Of modern instruments the drum kit is however that I find most interesting, and if someone asks me to name a notable musician, jazz and classic rock drummers often come to mind - Ginger Baker and Rick Allen in particular.
I didn't want to be bound to a single photo reference, so invented a fictitious Yamaha line and some entirely fictional brass brands to give the impression this is a drum kit played by someone with a lot of love but absolutely no resources, as skater punk bands always started out - and nearly always ended. There certainly is a sliver of Pearl in the bass and toms.
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Sounds like a "Brain" kit whatever he finds to beat on 
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Indeed, whatever one finds. You've almost certainly noticed the kit is a hi-hat short, and that the rightmost cymbal is anything but standard - might not have what she'd like or even needs, but no reason not to work with what she's got...
Looks like I'll finally get the time to touch her up tomorrow. But the kit stays.
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Well, this is just an incredible piece of art. What is especially impressive is all the attention to detail that was included; There is so much detail in the fur, the rug, the textures of of the clothes and every thing else. There is even detail in something that might be overlooked like the worn out areas of the drum heads whereΒ they have warped slightly from the repeated strikes of the sticks.
I can definitely feel a pang of nostalgia looking at this
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I am honoured to hear this, and very glad you enjoy it. This was a real learning experience, sometimes in unexpected ways. It took a lot of scaling, pasting and rebooting to get the fur texture out of my poor Dell Optiplex. Especially glad that you noticed the notched drumheads: While the resolution is low they are straight out of memory since the last time I touched a drum kit, around this time in 2000... there is plenty more where that nostalgia came from.
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I love it! The records in the background shelves are a nice touch too! Excellent work!Β
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Thank you, and very glad to hear you like it. The records were with me from the start - I always imagined a cluttered room that wasn't really intended for keeping a drum set in, so a record collection seemed natural.
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You're welcome-I look forward to your next project! Β
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