I heard some really good music the other day at UNC. Three members of Sweater Weather were playing in The Pit. They had a great sound. The vocals were schweeeeet!
Maybe they want to try singing and playing with a full band? Need a drummer, bassist, or keyboardist guys? 🙂
Well, well, well….
I’ve wasted countless hours renaming the Artist or Album name for CDs that weren’t in something like CDDB or Gracenote. Turns out iTunes allows you to edit fields for multiple tracks at one time. Here’s how:
I had some cool ideas for playing on stage. These are just the artistic renderings of those thoughts. You can click on all the images for a slightly larger image.
In this one, the lunch box will roll on stage and then open to reveal the band as they start to play. Note that the drummer is wearing a giant foam pickle. The other players might be a thermos and sandwich. I’m not sure yet. And yes, that is my sad attempt at duplicating a Lazer Tag lunchbox from the mid 1980’s. I should know. I owned one.
Here, I thought it would be fun to have a medieval theme because I love D&D-like games and stories. I really like this one and it would require some sort of control surface from the back, where a tech could activate any one of the following “states” to go along with the music:
This marionette one is a favorite. I had a fun time thinking about it. Basically, all the lights are on the puppets in front with the band playing music in the background. A system for the players to control the puppets would be crazy….right? So I think you would need puppeteers to do that work for you. Cool.
If you like these, and by some chance use these ideas, please take some photos and let me see it! That would be awesome. Or, if I ever build one of these I’ll post pictures here. Deal?
I’ve been searching the web for replacement tubes for my vintage Ampeg Jet J12-T. I was suprised to find that the recommended tubes on the web did not match what was printed on the inside of my Ampeg amp. Some folks on the web were saying that the amp only had 4 tubes (it really has 5) and they were saying that one would need (2) 12AX7 and (2) 7591 tubes.
So for anyone out there wondering, the documentation inside of the amp says this:
Tubes (from left to right):
6BK11 or 6C10
6C10
7591
7591
5Y3
On the trip back from Baltimore this weekend, Jason and I began to talk about interesting subjects, including quantum entanglement. I introduced the idea to Jason, and he was very interested in it. I decided to read up on Quantum entanglement and I stumbled upon a nice article about Quantum teleportation, which said:
That the term teleportation reminds of the beaming process in the Star Trek TV series might have been intentional. After all, the physicists coining the term might have thought, it is as if the particle would be brought there. But this analogue is prone to miss the point: Only the information about the quantum state is brought there, the particle to take up the state must already be present.
I finished burning the first 3 copies of The McKees’ performance DVD. It contains performances in Chapel Hill, Greensboro, and Mebane, NC. If you would like a copy, please send me an email at jw@unc.edu. Make sure to include your mailing address and I will get one out to you as soon as possible. Supplies are (somewhat) limited, so act now.
So the trip to Ellicott, MD was a success! My good friend, Jason B., went with me. We had a blast! Toured some local breweries, drove through downtown Baltimore, went under some sound there, traveled through the outskirts of our nation’s capital, saw the Washington monument, played the VA lottery, lost big, ate good, talked about everything, and made it home safe!
I plugged the Rhodes in to the Ampeg Jet J-12 when I got home and it sounds GREAT. I’ve been playing to Hot Rooster this weekend, a local Hillsborough group that plays rock and roll jams. I’m going to be playing with them this Wednesday, and I expect it will be a ton of fun….I’ll be bringing the Rhodes!
Oh wow. It doesn’t get any better than this! A very nice fellow contacted me through email the other day responding to my WTB (wanted to buy) classified on the Fender Rhodes Super Site. I’m leaving tomorrow morning to go buy this beautiful instrument from him. He took some photos, which I’ll share here:
A view from the front of my Rhodes Mark V:
A view from the back of my Rhodes Mark V:
