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Re: Julian Cope's Cornish Board
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 3:44 am
by devnulljp
Can you imagine trying to sell that on TGP without telling them it was made by Pete Cornish?
Re: Julian Cope's Cornish Board
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:17 am
by dorfmeister
smallsnd/bigsnd wrote:dorfmeister wrote:This thread is truly sad. A bunch of foolish dicking around about not liking Julian Cope's pedalboard without any curiousity about the man or his music.
Truly pathetic and sad.
this thread was titled "julian cope's cornish board" and there were only pictures about said board.
nothing about him or his music... why are you so upset that everyone was talking about the board and not about him? start a thread about him if you want to discuss his music, or at least post a link to his wiki page or something...
the board is interesting to see and is most likely very well built, but what is there to say? it's some rehoused boss pedals in a giant woden 80's hair metal green box with a bunch of mega-huge switches and leds, cornish buffers and probably really nice wiring and routing that we can't see.
It is was because of the disparaging nature of the discussion around the board. I think the Cornish concept is a pretty good solution to putting together a solid, integrated good sounding pro board. You wouldn't have to use boss pedals. You could do something similar with Smallsound/Bigsound pedals. Cornish charges a lot but he has been doing this for 40 years and the pros who use his services will pay it. He isn't really aiming his services at any one else.
I guess I shouldn't have assumed that people already know who Julian Cope is as he has been prolific, brilliant, and influential musically over the last 30 years, has one of the best music websites on the entire web (
http://www.headheritage.com for those who don't understand how to use google), has written influentially on all sorts of subjects from Krautrock to Neolithic megaliths to environmentalism, and is simply all around one of the most dynamic and interesting figures in rock music. Might be a guy worthy of 5 minutes of research.
Looks yellow to me but maybe I need to have my monitor calibrated. If anyone is the opposite of some guy in a 80's hair metal band it is Cope.
Seeing the board and other Cornish boards might give a builder the idea to create a system that does the same thing but better and more affordably.
Re: Julian Cope's Cornish Board
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:21 am
by dorfmeister
devnulljp wrote:Can you imagine trying to sell that on TGP without telling them it was made by Pete Cornish?
This is the thing that people seem to miss about the Cornish stuff. It is made to suit the practical needs of Julian Cope for touring. I am sure he used it for years...maybe still does. It isn't some fetish object to buy and then sell off a week later on a message board so you can buy the new latest and greatest. While some of Cornish's pedals have become fetish objects his focus has always been on creating individualized pro solutions for touring musicians and he does that extremely well.
Re: Julian Cope's Cornish Board
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:42 am
by dorfmeister
I've been listening to the detroitrocksampler stream on itunes. Lots of great fuzz tones all over that.
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/fe ... cksampler/
Re: Julian Cope's Cornish Board
Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 10:17 am
by smallsnd/bigsnd
dorfmeister wrote:smallsnd/bigsnd wrote:dorfmeister wrote:This thread is truly sad. A bunch of foolish dicking around about not liking Julian Cope's pedalboard without any curiousity about the man or his music.
Truly pathetic and sad.
this thread was titled "julian cope's cornish board" and there were only pictures about said board.
nothing about him or his music... why are you so upset that everyone was talking about the board and not about him? start a thread about him if you want to discuss his music, or at least post a link to his wiki page or something...
the board is interesting to see and is most likely very well built, but what is there to say? it's some rehoused boss pedals in a giant woden 80's hair metal green box with a bunch of mega-huge switches and leds, cornish buffers and probably really nice wiring and routing that we can't see.
It is was because of the disparaging nature of the discussion around the board. I think the Cornish concept is a pretty good solution to putting together a solid, integrated good sounding pro board. You wouldn't have to use boss pedals. You could do something similar with Smallsound/Bigsound pedals. Cornish charges a lot but he has been doing this for 40 years and the pros who use his services will pay it. He isn't really aiming his services at any one else.
I guess I shouldn't have assumed that people are already know who Julian Cope is as he has been prolific, brilliant, and influential musically over the last 30 years, has one of the best music websites on the entire web (
http://www.headheritage.com for those who don't understand how to use google), has written influentially on all sorts of subjects from Krautrock to Neolithic megaliths to environmentalism, and is simply all around one of the most dynamic and interesting figures in rock music. Might be a guy worthy of 5 minutes of research.
Looks yellow to me but maybe I need to have my monitor calibrated. If anyone is the opposite of some guy in a 80's hair metal band it is Cope.
Seeing the board and other Cornish boards might give a builder the idea to create a system that does the same thing but better and more affordably.
yeah i know you could use any pedals you wanted to in there, i was only commenting on that board. without knowing too much about cornish's buffers, etc. it seems like they are perfect for their intended audience. i mean, if you're playing arenas, you want to be damn sure your tubescreamer turns on every time you turn it on. i think there definitely could be a market for mid/high-level bands (not arena rockers) using boards like that and somebody should definitely step in and fill the void. i'm not the best at woodworking so i'd rather not go there...
