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[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Jonathan Frakes fun fact:

He has a gold record for an album he appeared on as a trombone player. Apparently the band phish saw an unusual mailbox when they were driving up to meet a record company guy and the guy from the label told them that his neighbor with the strange mailbox was in fact Lt Riker. Knowing he played trombone from the show they asked to be introduced and invited him to join them in the studio on a record they were working on (Hoist). Well as Jonathan tells it he got to the studio and pretty quickly realized that the charts for the part were probably beyond his ability, but he bravely recorded a few attempts and everyone was very nice about. The band did not use the his takes for the intended track but they did cut them up and make a track out of them called “Riker’s mailbox”. When the record went gold the band made sure that a gold record plaque was also sent to Jonathan.

Story pieced together from interviews with Jonathan and Trey, heard on a podcast at some point but I would have a hell of a time sourcing it further. The song, which also feature bela fleck on banjo, is pretty much just noise and not worth the effort to chase down. If a phish fan tells you NOT to listen to a phish song you should listen!

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wait, so should I listen to the song or not?

[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean it’s only 30ish seconds so it’s not a lot of investment, BUT, it really is just noise, you can barely pick out the trombone until the last 3seconds.

It is grating and unapproachable, but the rest of the album feels like it could have had half a dozen radio hits in an alternate version of the early 90s.

Edit: just re-read my comment and noticed the ambiguity in my closing sentence. Sigh… sloppy writing. Anyway I was playing with the fact that phish fans are known to be a little bit evangelical (not unlike trek fans tbh). And if one tells you not to listen to a song you should listen to THEM, and avoid the song.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Only listen if a non-phish fan tells you not to listen?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I just did. Yeah, you should.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Troi and Kirk in pain is just perfect.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Let's be honest, there's plenty of Riker on regular 24th century PornHub too.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Riker tells the computer to keep internal sensors locked on him at all times when he is on the Enterprise.

You never know when he might do something that he can relive on the holodeck later.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The audio for 24th century Riker PornHub was taken from 24th century Riker HornPub

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So they're using smooth jazz in porn. Everything's retro in the future! Boy do they love the 20th century! 1970s porn in the 24th century!

(By the way, I finally re-watched Never Cry Wolf. It was amazing.)

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think 1970s porn was always our default base human porn the whole time

(also .... now you're getting me to watch Never Cry Wolf ... I haven't seen it in over 20? .... probably 30 years now)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

When you watch it, I'd love to know what you think of the morally ambiguous character of Mike and how he feels about hunting wolves.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cool and all, but it needs more cowbell

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Are you feeling ok? Sounds like you're coming down with something...

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It's beautiful, thank you.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I'd run this program on the Holodeck.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Those notes don't look sour enough for my taste

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

There actually is a Horn Pub in my city.

And yes, it uses the Porn Hub aesthetic