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Home Base

Okay so, you’re on this scavenger hunt right? But everytime you get a new clue it directs you to a new place and a new page in a new book. After about 20 new clues and pages and books, you’re lost. Scary.

Now imagine that this “scavenger hunt” I speak of is really a metaphor for how you start clicking links on a web page until you forget where you started in the first place. (Still creepy, but at least you can do it in your pajamas.)

You know what I’m talking about. Don’t front Mom.

Well, I can’t help you with the real life scavenger hunt, but if you’re afraid of getting lost in the internet jungle, start doing the apple-click (Mac) or the control-click (people that haven’t bought a Mac yet) when you’re opening a link.

That way you open your links in a new page without losing home base

Bread crumbs on the keyboard and mouse void most warranties.

Warm Merrymaking In The Months After Spring

I hate that I have to give Apple more props than they already have, but one of my new years resolutions was to try NOT to hate on folks so much. (Don’t worry, next year’s resolution will be to make hating on things and people that suck a new Olympic Sport. I’m just saving up).

Because of the iPod and the iTunes store, people don’t really say that music is from a particular generation like they used to. It’s all just music. There’s not so much of that “you’re listening to the oldies?!” crap.
If its good, then just say so. “I don’t care when it came out, that rocks!” or not. (see Achy Breaky Heart all the way to The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.
Those of you who are taking note, and wondering why I’m hating on Billy Ray and Gordon Lightfoot, I’m not hating.

FACT: Those songs suck.

But back to Apple…..

Initially I was just gonna write a blog to let you know that Sly & The Family Stone’s Hot Fun In The Summertime is my favorite song of all time. That’s right……ALL TIME. Then I got all self-conscious like “is that new and hip enough? That song came out when I was like 1. Should I name some newer hipper song? I hope people don’t think I like old people music”. THEN I realized that because of how accessible and “right now” Apple has made music, there’s no such thing as old music. So, there, I said it.

In your face, kid.

“HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME”.

You can search all day and you’ll never find another song like it.
Try to resist the urge to sway back and forth like you’re in the Partridge Family.
Do It.

Can’t can ya?

Rock that shit like its 1969.

p.s. “Hot Fun In The Summertime” was a single only release. The Greatest ALBUM of all time also goes to Sly even though it doesn’t include that song.

File Under: More Uses For Useful Products

You could do 2 Strats
or 2 Teles
or one of each
or 2 Les Pauls
or a Les Paul and a Strat
or a Les Paul and a Tele.
Hell, if you got all 1985 with it, you could even do one of those pointy headstock guitars and a Hohner Tele like the one that somebody stole from my rehearsal space when I was 16.
Maybe a BC Rich Bich and a Kramer Pacer.
A Hamer and a Charvel San Dimas, maybe?
Point is, its all up to you my man (I use “man”, much like “dude”, not meaning to exclude the female shredders, i.e. Jennifer Batten see live version of Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana”).

But when you really wanna handle some #$^% like I do, when you step up to the plate your Dub Bag will be full with your keyboard controller, Lacie Hard Drive, and the American guitar of your choosing. NOTE: room service menu added for drama and high class flair. That’s just how I do things.

And I hope you’re not in the room next door to me ’cause I will be rocking (like a hurricane)

4 Is Better Than Infinity

Back in the day (when I was a teenager, before I had status and before I had a pager) I bought a 4-Track Tascam Portastudio because I wanted to be able to demo the songs that I had in my head. In order for me to figure out how to operate the machine, I decided that I would record versions of other people’s songs so that I didn’t waste valuable time screwing my songs up until I got the hang of it. I did The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows” and “Baby, You’re A Rich Man”, Prince’s “Let’s Work”, Sly & The Family Stone’s “Just Like A Baby” and some others. I figured out how to do my thing by re-doing their thing and lets just say that the rest is Mystory. I loved you so Mr. Tascam.

Eventually, I got tired of all that track bouncing just so that I could get my Beach Boys background vocal thing on, and I just wanted more tracks… I bought an 8 Track (by then I wanted to get my Freddy Mercury on), got sick of that, and moved on to the digital multitrack ADAT (16 tracks on a VHS tape? really? weird, but whatever) and lastly/currently I moved up to what the big boys use… Pro Tools… oooooo… ahhhhh! More tracks than 279 fugitives running through the woods with blindfolds on. Does it make my songs any better? I think not. It made me soft. Lazy.

It’s like Nas says about 1 Mic… except I’m saying it about 4 Tracks. Anybody can make shit sound good with unlimited tracks (you Pro Tools sissy) but what can you do with only 4?

Fade to Black (silence…)

2007: Bitches, I’m back!

Enter, the new,sexy, sleek, and small Boss MicroBR, a digital 4 track that is just a little bit bigger than my Palm Treo.

Oh yeah, its on.

And here’s a cover song. Just like the old days. Hendrix’ “Spanish Castle Magic” (4MB MP3) recorded entirely on the MicroBR.

Fuck sexy, I’m bringing 4 track back.