Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Music recording, past and present

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Until recently, I had a minidisc recorder which I had used to record live music - mainly my own practices and performances - and which I had occasionally used to make digital recordings of public speaking. The latter were mainly sermons at church which I recorded off the sound board ...

How to behave during the national anthem

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

I've had a lot of opportunities to observe how members of the public behave when the national anthem is played or sung. It's apparent they don't know what to do, so here are the complete rules, as enacted by Congress. The ones pertaining to the anthem are at the top, ...

Chuck Mangione Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Monday, June 21st, 2010

An Evening of Magic: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Chuck Mangione) My brother worked at a radio station and got a copy of this on LP. I wore the grooves off of it. Perhaps one of the good things about the LP format was it encouraged you to listen to the whole ...

R.I.P, tuxedo pants…

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

What's odd, and perhaps ironic, at least in the Alanis Morrisette sense of the word, is that my greatest fears leading up to a concert all revolve around getting there in one piece. I'm not a morbidly fearful kind of guy, despite nearly killing myself in a motorcycle accident early ...

This is a catch-up post…

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

The more interesting life is, the less time I have to write about it. And then there are other complications. Interesting stuff at work. Not finalized so - can't write about it. Making some progress with the accident case. Not finalized so - can't write about it.

AU Knights reunion this weekend; the anti-climactic end of the T-mobile card…

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

The Auburn Knights will have their annual reunion this weekend. Montgomery Advertiser story. I like to think that in some parallel universe I got to play with the Auburn Knights as a regular band member, but truthfully I went to AUM and anyway I was probably never that good. However, I ...

logolounge.com, swooshy logos, and you

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Perhaps this would have been a good place for Birmingham's Mayor to look for inspiration/advice: www.logolounge.com

This is why it’s so hard for adult music beginners

Monday, July 7th, 2008

(hat tip - John Tracy, one of my twitter friends) This is so true - my own application of this has to do with adults who try to begin on musical instruments (or even musicians who try to begin on different instruments). The hard part is - you know how bad ...