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Last night we played a gig at The Frequency here in Madison.  It was the anniversary show for the local Dane101.com blog.  Jesse, the mastermind of Dane101, pretty much pulled in four wildly different bands to do four wildly different things, and the end result was pretty ( Read more... )

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Out of the blue I received a pair of tickets to see Mr. Peter Murphy in Milwaukee.   I’ve seen him on a number of different tours, going back to 1995.  I’ve seen a pop tour, a rock tour, an acoustic tour, a turkish-ethnic tour…and now he’s back doing a kind of rock thing ( Read more... )

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Since Gearfest was a tradeshow, you know that there would be a lot of free “stuff” from vendors.

A few notes:

1) Rode gave me a tshirt.  They assumed I was a “large.”  While I’m flattered, I am not a large.  Sigh.

2) Moog gave me a tshirt.  They were out of anything other ( Read more... )

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This past weekend, Dan and I headed down to Fort Wayne, IN to Sweetwater Gearfest, a big ol’ trade show/convention/workshop for audio nerds.  And both of us being audio nerds, this was a good place for us.

Never having been to one before, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  ( Read more... )

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Everybody in the world now knows that Michael Jackson has died.

Some people respond with fawning praise, some with tasteless jokes, others with wailing agony, and others respond by shopping.

I dunno. Whatever you thought of his music or his person, he was an inescapable ( Read more... )

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It should be common sense, but then common sense usually is anything but (and, frankly, it’s often wrong, but that’s a different epistemological rant)

http://www.knowthemusicbiz.com/index.php/BIZ-BLOG/Why-Bands-Should-Avoid-the-Myth-of-the-Rockstar-by-Nick-Fitzsimons.html

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Been busy finessing some recording techniques.  I’m hoping there’s a good outcome to this, and that I don’t get caught up in making things sound good without, you know, recording anything.  That’s the downside of being your own engineer - you can get caught up in the ( Read more... )

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Due to a scheduling mix-up, the lineup of Rein[forced], Null Device and The Dark Clan have no venue at which to play.    Which means, essentiually, that the show is off.

Bummer, becasue we had some new stuff in the pipe to play.

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I’ve got some new music that’s been occupying me.

The most obvious is Depeche Mode’s “Sounds of the Universe.”  It’s pretty decent.  The sounds are very old school - if “Playing the Angel” resembled “Violator” in structure,  this one almost resembles an old OMD album.  Lots ( Read more... )