New Music Rampage Part II

well, I’m delving further into Michael Torke, and starting with another big name I have up till now neglected: Morton Feldman. Also picked up a Naxos issue of a Rzewski piece I don’t have… I have a CD of his music by 8BB I like a lot, so at less than $2 it was a [...]

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Followup to Worst Hotel Room Night EVAR

Well, it’s Sunday, and I’m home and rested. The Berkely Springs gig was great, great people, the Springs themselves are great. We played right next to George Washington’s Bathtub. After the gig, the guys decided to take a swim. I should say that I’m running entirely on adrenaline and caffiene at this point. Then we [...]

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Computer upgrade went smoothly for once…

It never boots up correctly after I do any sort of work inside the case, but experience has taught me to reseat the RAM sticks and then try it again, and that worked. I guess the RAM slots are just fickle on this mobo. Anyhow, the work was that I swapped out a gone-noisy Geforce 7600GT [...]

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The Week In Review

…got myself a new tool for the studio… a Korg Padkontrol.   Got it used, a price I couldn’t pass up ($104 delivered.) Here’s a demo video. Didn’t come with the software but I don’t need a bunch of demo versions anyway. Works great. Now all I need is a used snare stand to use [...]

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Took some pics of our trees after the storm a couple weeks ago

…finally got them loaded up on photobucket. I think this is the best one. Click for the album. In other news, I bested my wii bowling score… went from a 219 to a 223.  Also, I won’t be going to see Battles tonight. all the time spent in the sun and heat playing gigs with [...]

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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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Score!

Went to Best Buy to get some DVD-R DLs, I was out of ’em, and lo and behold, what do I see, but 22″ LCD monitors on sale for $239. They’re “HANNSpree”, and they only do analog ins, but that’s quite good enough for my purposes. Neither has a single dead pixel. My music software looks great on [...]

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Pictures from CD Release up at Players Website

Go to our website and click on ‘Pics’… the pictures I took of the CD release gig at the Recher in Towson are the topmost entry, at least for now. Looking at the list you’ll see that I’ve taken most of the pictures available on our website. The result is that I’m in very few pictures, hehe. There [...]

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Players Band Tomorrow Night

  Tomorrow Night at the Recher Theater, we’re gonna be releasing our 4th CD, ‘Live and Direct”, which I recorded, mixed, and mastered. For tech notes on the CD check out this blog entry. Playing on the gig with us will be our good friends Can’t Hang… they’re worth the price of admission all on their [...]

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The Final Master

…of the Players Band’s “Live and Direct” is now done. I just tweaked a couple track markers and am burning the CD to give to Andy in the next couple days. It sounds good, I’m pretty happy. Speaking of which, if you have Windows Media Player 10 or 11, and XP or Vista, you can dowload [...]

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