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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 [...]

Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

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. [...]

Monday, September 12th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Sunday, September 11th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

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.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005. Posted in Music, Technology | No Comments »>

Props

I have great respect for Merle Haggard’s ability to effortlessly rhyme the words “ain’t” and “drink”.

Thursday, May 26th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005. Posted in Music | 2 Comments »>

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 [...]

Thursday, May 12th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005. Posted in Music, TV | 1 Comment »>

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 [...]

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Friday, January 21st, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Tin Roof Toasted

No, really.

Friday, December 17th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

ipod2car

I just ordered myself an Xmas present. I’ve looked and looked for a good in-car solution for my iPod all year, and finally decided to get an ipod2car. It works with my existing stereo, and will let the stereo buttons work on the iPod, in addition to charging it, all in one simple [...]

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004. Posted in Music, Work | 1 Comment »>

The Beatles I never knew

DW has determined that Lennon gave McCartney a sh*tty deal in the Beatles. Huh? It obvious to me that — discounting Pete Best — it’s George that really got the raw deal. According to Dave,

I thought John Lennon’s style developed over the years, but it turns out he always sang [...]

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

From the Vault, vol. 5

Another edition of “From the Vault” coming your way. These two entries from a session a did with long time friends Tim Blankenbaker (drums) and Steve Winter (bass) in 1991. Another of our high school buddies, Mike Leach, was working the sound board at The Bayou, a club in the Georgetown section of [...]

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