Glenn and I have kept up with our Tuesday nights band practice. Every Tuesday with rare exceptions, which is usually some form of vehicular issue on my end. Both Michele and I have had a slew of minor vehicle issues, mostly dead batteries.
Our motivation has not been the more difficult part, nor has our muse left us ( The two of us have been able to work out some really fun segments ). Read More...
To follow up on two previous posts, the Buckethead concert and making your own YouTube bootlegs, I’m going to add just a little more.
As I mentioned, the concert was great. If I were to pick out one part, it would have been this lengthy untitled (as far as I know) freestyle jam he did with a simple looping beat.
I cannot think of anything worse than falling in love with a song at a concert, and not knowing the name of it. Read More...
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Since I say this after almost every concert I go to, I’ll not forget to repeat it again:
This was the BEST show I’ve ever seen.
There are many aspects why: smaller venue, and our seats were on the balcony. This gave us a great view of the show, and we were pretty darn close to everything. Oh, and you know, it is one of my favorite artist doing what he does best. Read More...
HAHAHUGOSHORTCODE-0xc000e48000-1-HBHB Amazon recently announced their Cloud Drive, and I feel it is interesting for the following reasons:
The ability to play the same music from my phone, my computer at work, my computer at home is pretty cool Everyone gets 5GB of space for free, and you can pay for more When you purchase (DRM free) mp3’s from Amazon, it does not count against your Cloud Drive storage The player is web based, and the tools to download purchased music are usable on Windows, OS X and Linux So, I uploaded some music, bought two songs from the comfort of my phone to play around with it. Read More...
Hey Dad, lets chat.
We’ve spent a good amount of time traveling in either a car or a big rig, listening to music. I remember waking up at 4am during my summer vacation so I could accompany you to help deliver lots and lots of boxes to U-Hauls around California. Or, our trips to Santa Cruz/Mission Springs, (despite the fact that you maliciously left the AC off for the entire trip just so we would really appreciate that cool Mision Springs air :) ), it was always a lot of fun and I really expanded my musical palette. Read More...
As I’ve mentioned many times, I’m a big Pink Floyd fan. The Wall was the first DVD I bought, and pretty much the reason WHY I got a DVD player in the first place :)
I’ve always been sore that the band broke up before I ever had a chance. Seeing this live though, that really made me feel like I really got to see what it might have been like. Read More...
It was inevitable. Once I started playing the guitar again, it really was only a matter of time until I would want another one. Are we not all surprised it took me this long? I’m a geek, I love the hardware as much as the actual sound it makes. I honestly almost feel guilty, I’m not a real musician with gigs and a fan-base. Sometimes I just look at my Fender, knowing it is awesome enough to have lived the life of a true instrument. Read More...
HAHAHUGOSHORTCODE-0xc000770f00-1-HBHB Radio Lab had an episode on Buke and Gass dubbed ‘The Loudest Miniature Fuzz’. I was so intrigued by that episode, and the music, that I did some googling. What I found was their tour schedule, so I asked Michele if she would be up for seeing a little indie duo (on a Monday night no less).
I think this was the first time I went to a small venue to see a band. Read More...
Tools required:
The internet
A quality *nix OS (FreeBSD in this case)
youtube-dl, available in FreeBSD under ports/www/youtube_dl/
ffmpeg, available in FreeBSD under ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/
First thing is first, find a really cool youtube clip. If you dont know of one already, use a Buckethead Song (Volume warning, this clip was mixed “hot”, so turn your speakers down):
Watch the drummer (Bryan Mantia) go crazy in the background, pretty intense. Read More...
Last month when I helped my Friend Glenn,who now works at An Olde Town Tattoo Parlour in Monterey, move he was cool enough to lighten his load by giving me a very cool cream and black Gibson SG. The original heavy metal guitar made popular by Toni Iommi and Angus Young.
The guitar’s neck was broken at the body, and thankfully someone who knew what they were doing successfully glued it back on. Read More...
Not an instrument, but albums.
I enjoy listening to music a lot, it makes my commute better, it makes jogging a lot of fun, and sometimes I don’t mind running errands because it gives me a good reason to listen to a new album.
So, here are a few albums that I’ve recently picked up and really enjoyed.
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Fist off, check out that cover, that looks like a movie poster of something I’d watch. Read More...
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!!! I came home with Owen last night, it was dark in the house. I was going to Owen’s room to get him ready for bed, and I went to the corner of the room to turn the light on. What I forgot, and didn’t see, was my guitar that I left of the floor. I normally lean it up against my computer, or the wall, but sometimes I’ll leave it on the floor to encourage Owen to play with it. Read More...
Let’s get this out of the way:
My favorite band is Pink Floyd, and Sir David Gilmour’s guitar work still gives me goose-bumps.
There will be little criticism of this concert, in fact, there will be only high praise. With once exception, there was a TERRIBLE audio delay on the concert disc. That really annoyed me, mostly since I pay very close attention to how he plays the guitar. The show itself was good, it wasn’t the typical Pink Floyd production (no large circular projections screen, crazy laser lights and flying pigs), it was very basic. Read More...