Synth 1

Since I last looked at Synth 1 it has gotten a new updated version. It still looks the same, but it seems more stable with my fruity loops installation. Which is good, cause Synth 1 comes highly reccomended. I don't think it has crystal synth beat in terms of sound design possibilities. But it is rockin none the less. No need to buy any lead synth, or Moog knockoffs... you can just use crytal synth and synth 1.

Thanks! Mr genius Japanese Synth maker.

Synth 1 - in all its bewildering question marks and japanese carachters.

A Happy, Happy Doggone Day

Today is a great day.

Today is a day that I'm damn proud.

Today, is the 1st day of Myku's new schooling. He's starting up Art School, after basically living and breathing Art School since he was, what? 3 years old?

I was proud before. Now, I'm more proud.

To celebrate, i'm taking tomorrow off to play some guitar, and hopefully write a song. I'm just putting the whole lyric/idea notion on the shelf. Cause it's keeping me from writing stuff. So i'm just gonna focus on writing some music, and we'll see how that goes.

So godspeed and good luck, M. I'm so damn happy I could bust.

Songs in the air,

Since it's been too long since i've posted anything. Here's a run down of the music that keeps getting played from speakers that i'm ever near.

The Constantines:
A mix of Shine a Light and Tournament of Hearts, esp.

• Draw Us Lines
• Young Lions (video here.)
  
• Soon Enough
• Working Full Time
• On To You

Yo La Tengo's

• Fakebook
• Painful
• I can hear the heart beating as one

Recent crew mixes such as the "just married mix", "flight plan", my own Ugata Heardis contribution. and Zach's Ugata mix which is a thing of majesty.

And almost religously:
Willie Nelson's

• Teatro

Which really people, deserves it's own Wikipedia entry. I should get right on that - as soon as I learn anything about that record. It is just SO good.

What's being played at your spot?

The Constantines Rebuttal Rebuttal Re..... oh Whatever.....

Yeah.

I sort of read that write up of the show and was wondering if I'd missed something. However, as I usually DO miss something, I just kept my pie hole shut. :)

Oh, um, stirring things up again.......

I really like Chad VanGaalen. I hope he didn't ruin the Constantines show, but I have his "Infiniheart" album and it's pretty sweet.

The article IS, in my opinion, a little lacking concerning the actual performance by the Constantines, though. Not enough coverage/info for my tastes, considering that's what the article's supposed to be about.

-Love,
.m

The Constantines Rebuttal Rebuttal

Umm...

So time has passed and I re-read the review of the Cons concert in Seattle. The reviewer wasn't as harsh as I first read it. Then I read my rebuttal...and it's kind of dopey.

I still wish the reviewer had written more - cause those guys deserve as much praise as they can stand.

Link:
Pitchfork Feature: Live: The Constantines

No More Guitar Tabs On The Web?

I am so sick of this. I've been tooling around on the internet since 1995 and I hear this again and again. The publishing companies do a sweep of all the tab and chords sites like every 4 years. Claiming copyright infringement. What a load of shit. Y'know why the Hal Leornard company doesn't make any money? Cause the Hal Leonard product is A) Not written for the audience they think they are serving and B)Incorrect. I stopped buying any version of a monthly guitar magazine (guitar world, g-hero, electric-guitar, guitar-buttplug monthly) when I was 15. Why? Because, I knew how to read music and tab and I'd learn what the magazine would say a song part went, and I'd play it - and it'd sound wrong. Then I'd learn from a friend or try and figure out my self, and it would sound correct. This happened over and over and over, and then i realized: The transcriptionists at those magazines were crap. They basically were correct when they knew what KEY a song was in, and if someone used an alternate turning but they were wrong about WHICH tuning about 50% of the time.

Fast forward to the internet age (1995) and there's all these tab sites. and guess what? The user generated content on tab sites was about 95% correct. Cause it was written by a bunch of guitarists, who loved playing guitar, who loved learning songs from the source and then writing out the correct way to play it. Cause that's what they wanted, and that was what WE wanted too.

So let me get this straight. The music industry wants us to 1) pay for a artifact (cd or download) 2) pay to hear it on the radio 3) Pay to see the song live 4) pay for us to buy a transcription that is incorrect and written for piano. and 4) look the other way when the folks making the damn music in the first place get paid MAYBE .4% of the gross, if they get paid at ALL (see Jim Croce, the Cold Crush Crew, and James Jamerson of the Funk Brothers as stellar examples of artists being compensated fairly.)

Eat it. Just Eat it. You bunch of heartless greedy snakes. I'll be damned if I ever want to look at you leeches. Much less do any kind of business with you.

The J-Walk Blog: No More Guitar Tabs On The Web?