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October 15

"There's a party going eown" song

One of my friends has a ringtone that includes a clip of this song:

And there's a party going down/at Rieland Drive/with lots of fine, fine girls/who like to have fun with the girls/who get the bestest times

Attempts to google the lyrics have not turned up one it. What is this song, what genre is it, and who sings it? Wiwaxia (talk) 04:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Have you asked your friend? It would seem logical that they would know what the song is that is on their phone. Dismas|^(talk) 04:45, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

She says she was just scrolling through ringtones and landed on this one without checking where it was from. No one in the van knew the song. Wiwaxia (talk) 05:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... Yeah. It is proving to be particularly hard to find on Google. Which leads me to believe that it may be by some unsigned band who through some deal may have sold their songs to the phone company in an effort to get "discovered". Or some other similiar situation. The phone company gets a cheap but catchy tune, and the band gets a few cents and hope that they'll sign a contract. Dismas|^(talk) 05:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Guitar effects for bass

What problems could I possibly encounter if I were to use an effects pedal which is supposed to be used with a normal electric guitar for my bass guitar? In my neck of the woods bassists generally do not use effects pedals with a bass guitar so it'll be pretty difficult for me to get hold of one for my bass.Leif edling (talk) 08:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

The only problem you will probably encounter is that some effects pedals won't sound too great - guitar effects are designed to affect different frequency ranges than bass effects, a guitar wahwah will not really change a bass signal all that much because the frequency range the wah affects is not very pronounced in a bass. Other than that, just experiment and see if you can find something that sounds good - I've been using guitar effects for bass and vice versa for years without ever damaging any of the equipment. -- Ferkelparade π 08:41, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

the main probem is that one does not find the effects that one desires, in bass playing one wouod need some heavy distain to hold notes for much longer without replucking the string, see type o negative this is not achievable on a normal guitar effects pedal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 (talk) 10:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Holy Days

Hello! Do you maybe know a song from the 80's that has words holy days in it's chorus? It's sung by a man. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.77.182.61 (talk) 13:44, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Holy wars / punishment due by megadeth maybe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.115.175.247 (talk) 15:57, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Unless you might mean [[1]] by Bruce Springsteen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.109.202.24 (talk) 21:53, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Or Holiday by Madonna --WORM | MЯOW 07:42, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Madonna isn't a man. Something by Cliff Richard? AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 11:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh!¨Thank you so much! How did you know it? I was searching for Springsteen's song, yes. Thank you sos so Much! :-)

what's the name of this Japanese sport/art?

From a book which is a century old:

A unique Japanese feat is to tear pieces of paper into the form of butterflies and launch them into the air about a vase full of flowers; then with a fan to keep them in motion, making them light on the flowers, fly away, and return, after the manner of several living butterflies, without allowing one to fall to the ground.

That's all the author wrote about it, so I'm looking for a name for this---ideally, a free video showing it. Can you help? --Ayacop (talk) 16:44, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

This sounds like a form of "action origami". The Origami article has a (brief) section about it.--Zerozal (talk) 15:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

It's a Japanese classic magic called 胡蝶の舞/kochō no mai or 浮かれの蝶/ukareno chō. I tried to find a free video, but couldn't. I could find only this. Oda Mari (talk) 19:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks! --Ayacop (talk) 09:45, 18 October 2008 (UTC)