Long weekend

I have just dragged myself out of bed and am listening to Regina Spektor. Had two gigs with the Players Band this weekend. Both my mixers are fubar. Fortunately the band owns one, an old Mackie CFX-16, which we can use for the remainder of our gigs this summer; it’s just that it only has [...]

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Home after gig

Bay Cafe went well. The Crossover and Compressors worked fine, once I had them wired up correctly (dope de dope de dope…) so no more speaker crackling/breaking up during gigs. Huzzah!. Now all I need is a good 8-bus mixer, lol. Anyone wanna loan me a couple grand? hehe. We’re playing the Columbia 4th of [...]

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A long day

So I had planned to get up at noon, go down to Rockville to Guitar Center to buy a cart, then come home, pack the car and be off to Baltimore by 3 (for load-in at 4 for the gig at 6). But I decided that a) coming home after getting the cart would be backtracking and [...]

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Woe. Woe I say.

So Friday, before going to my gig, I decided to fire up the computer (the tower, my main computer) so I could print out some sheet music our trumpet player needed. So I hit the power button. Nothing happened. I flipped the power switch up and down, and then hit the power button again. Nothing [...]

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I’m enough of a Myspace geek…

… to want this tee shirt. Also, Players at Bay Cafe tomorrow, 6-10.  Recorded a trombone track for Radiation Puppy… they sent the rough mix and I recorded the track right here in my bedroom studio and sent it back to them. Song is nice, I liked it.

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