Music
Jon Kulp: Conciones para ninos
On a note tangentially related to my previous post regarding the Library of Congress, my friend Jon Kulp, whom was the other “fellow” in the Music Division when I was was there, has released a set of MP3s of new recordings of one of his song-cycles. It’s an excellent performance of some quite beautiful [...]
Five Little Monkeys
Here’s a bit of GarageBand fun I did with the boys a couple of weeks ago: Five Little Monkeys. As usual, certified loop-free.
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MPFreaker and AudioFaucet
MPFreaker (Mac only) is a way cool app that searches a variety of Internet sources to locate the correct information and artwork for the songs in your MP3 collection, then updates the tags with that info. Sweet.
Also, the beta of AudioFaucet is finally out. It’s a renamed and updated version of iSeeiTunes, which [...]
Keyboard
I ordered an M-Audio Keystation to complete my “home studio”. I debated getting a Yamaha with speakers and sounds on-board in case the boys want to play with it, but decided to go for the more compact MIDI-controller. We have a piano, after all. This should make it a lot more fun [...]
RIP, Gatemouth
There will be many sad story of loss in the musical community from the fallout of Katrina, I’m sure. The death of Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown is one that struck me.
Saturday afternoon I had just be sorting out my remaining vinyl records to go on eBay, and the couple of Gatemouth records there haunted me. [...]
eBay’ing the LPs: Lou Reed and Velvet Underground
After a considerable hiatus from the venture, I just got the first 10 batches of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground LPs up on eBay. Should have the rest up in the next day or two. Lou was a very important musician in my formative years, so I attained a few interesting promo pieces [...]
Audacity
Audacity looks like a handy app to have around. And free, too. I often need a simple audio app to edit an MP3 — just to slice off some silence at the end, etc.
Props
I have great respect for Merle Haggard’s ability to effortlessly rhyme the words “ain’t” and “drink”.
Now I’m dangerous
After cleaning up my desk last night, I decided it was time to hook my Tascam US-428 MIDI/Audio interface back up to the G5. Thanks to GarageRemote I now have it working as a control surface for GarageBand…using the following settings:
Return to start- BF 18 7F F7
Rewind- BF 60 7F F7
Play- BF 16 7F [...]
Franken-Tele
I recently mentioned to my Uncle Robert (aka “Fat Frank” of Fat Frank and the Plank Spankers) that I had been without an electric guitar since selling my ‘71 Tele on eBay. He took responsibility for righting this wrong and shipped me off a gem of a Franken-Tele. It’s a bright red tele [...]
Bo Bice
So, I’m an American Idol fan. I doubt I ever would have gotten into the show if not for Kt, but I did. And, I gotta say, Bo Bice rocks. It’s hard to image anyone on this show could have ever rocked, given the limitations of the highly professional but stiff house [...]
CBGB faces closure over unpaid rent
CBGB may close soon. CBGB is a total dive, but one of the classic dives that spawned the NY punk scene in the late 70s. I worked there for a while I was at NYU — mostly for the on-the-cheap record label Hilly was trying to start up at the time, and in [...]
Mike and Tift
One of my closest high school friends, Mike Leach, is a sound engineer and is currently touring with Tift Merritt (er, sorry…that should be “Grammy-nominated Tift Merritt”). They came through Dallas last night, and I went out early, got to hang with Mike and get caught up, and watch some of the show.
I love [...]
RE: ipod2car
I just hooked up the iPod2Car. They originally shipped it without the required wiring harness for my car, then were very non-responsive about getting that fixed, but they final caught up with my complaints and overnighted the harness yesterday.
The install was very easy. The hardest part was figuring out a good way to [...]
Tin Roof Toasted
No, really.