Too bad. I liked checking in with my stats every day or two. Now, the ‘scrobbling’ from my iPod is intermittent at best. It still tracks what’s being played on the computer (iTunes), but not the pod. I guess it’s for the best, though, because it was making the synch time go extra long. Now, it’s nice and quick.
I’ve got loops, I’ve got live guitar; I’ve got midi controller, I’m outta control!! The question is whether to just muck about, try to record one of my songs or if I’m going to start with guitar or start with lops or what. I’ve got four little projects going and I’ll post whatever gets done first. This is fun!
A bit of luck: just when I decide I’m sick of seeing Lindsey Bukingham’s forehead in my Last.FM artist quilt (see below left), they fix the album quilt to be more up-to-date and they spruce up the whole user interface. Nice! I’m not about to use it for social networking, but it’s fun to keep track of what I’ve been listening too. Also, it helps generate the below signature:
I want to start keeping up with music over here at mpomy.com. That means lots of ramblings about the connections between different artists and what order the guitar pedals should go. Not all of this will make sense.
My plan this morning was to listen to songs that were only in the thirty-minute neighborhood. I didn’t really follow through completely with that, but the album pictured above is a good place to start with the long songs – it has to in the 30’s, on in the 16’s and the obligatory ballad, which Neal Morse does remarkably well.
Best. Band. Ever. These guys are in their mid 20’s and they play this insane pop-zappa-prog-blues-rock. AND they’re from Sweden, but the lyrics are (almost entirely) in english and they’re actually quite good. I’m shocked that I’ve found a band that’s so great and so young. And when I say ‘I found’, what I really mean is Dr. Starr found and told me to listen to. The new record is Sleeping In Traffic, Pt. 2. GO BUY IT NOW!!! This video is from 2006 and will give you some idea of the pure joy that is Beardfish!
It’s not quite as bad as pictured, but my 80GB iPod Classic bought the farm the other day. No picture, no power, no nuthin. I went to forums and reviwed troubleshooting guides from Apple and others. I made an appointment at the Genius Bar. The dude played with it for about 12 seconds and then handed me a replacement. Data (67GB)– Gone.
That’s fine, I’ve got everything backed up in various places. So this will have some differences compared to the music on the old (and inartfully named) Progpod. The MpomyPod will feature less Dead. I love them enough to commit to rotate stock. I’ll just start at the beginning of Dick’s Picks and keep no more the one or two set on the MpomyPod at a time. That will free up LOTS of space.
Some of the old stuff is making a comeback. That’s especially true with the fusion and the Clapton. I may even have to get the Derek and the Dominoes Fillmore Concert. Contains the longest known version of ‘EC’s Let It Rain’ (about 1/2 hour).
We can slag this guy all we want. We can say he went soft in the 80’s. We can say he never did anything new or special of different, or at least not after Cream. But, you know what? This dude can play the blues – FOR REAL. And he’s been doin’ it pretty much non-stop for, like, 45 years. He hasn’t stopped because it appears that he can’t. I think a lot about the blues lately. It’s something that speaks to me in a very direct fashion. Even when I was young, I could feel it. there was no intellectual aspect. It was all emotion. When I was too young to know how vital it was to be able to express emotions so that they didn’t back up on me and create havoc (or more havoc) later on, I knew that I could play blues music – simple, almost infantile, expressions of a feeling that is so important and so universal. I think I learned a lot of this from Clapton.
Just added a Jam featuring Les Claypool and the immortal Mike Clark. It sounds like they’re having fun. Check it out here.
Just added some of the Ster’s classic Weather Report to the Music page, under live stuff about 1/2 way down the page. I had to change some of the file names, so the old links at the ‘Prog Listening Group’ won’t work anymore – sorry! Just use the Music page, and everything will be fine.
Just checking in. Need to do a few things with the music page. Watch for more available downloads and more tunes on the streaming jukebox.