The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real) - The Y! Music Playlist Blog

Funny, I've had all of these at some point.

Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon - washingtonpost.com

Still slogging away in Studio SG, working on a new "album", and enjoying some sounds from Salmonella Rex.

Scum Also Rises - "Publicity, self-promotion, and integrity: How do you think Miley Cyrus got where she did?" -

"Let me tell you, if you're lucky enough to have people who want you to sign your book, you better put on your best shirt and show up an hour early."

Scum Also Rises, page 1 - Music - Seattle Weekly

"The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton."

Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79

Spaz Out New York: Everything I Need To Know, I've Learned from Iron Maiden

Get an exclusive look at the inner working of our own world-renowned “dream factory”—the Fender Custom Shop in Corona, Calif. In each video, the Custom Shop’s Mike Eldred gives you an up-close look at some of our famous facility’s latest and greatest creations, from meticulously crafted artist tribute models to distinctively distressed “Relic” guitars and other fantastic instruments …

Videos of some of the current Fender Custom Shop guitars.

and here is one that is giving me "GAS"

MySpace.com - THE SWORD - Austin, Texas - Metal / Rock - www.myspace.com/thesword

HotFrets Chord Progression Generator

New Music from Robert Svilpa - A Fine Line Between… » new demo today

celemony_ :: Direct Note Access

The Golden Rule

Ghosts I-IV - NIN

 Buddy Miles, Hendrix Drummer, Dies - New York Times

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RIP, Old Pal. You turned Moscow on it's ears, when we played there in '92.

Ben McMillan, singer for Gruntruck and Skin Yard, dead at 46

So I'm playing with my new Samsung BlackJack II, that runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, and being a cheap, penny pinching geek and I decided that I needed a new ring tone. So, here it is, a quick, loud MIDI drum intro as a ring tone.

drums.wma (66.95 KB)

Trent Reznor airs the "dirty laundry" of self-reliant digital distribution, great reading.

Trent Reznor releases Saul William's album download info

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars

Zillinois SilverLight 1.0 Media Player

The George Fullerton 1957 Stratocaster® Guitar and Pro Jr® Amp.

I'm not sure how Fender does it, or what magic power they posses, but they keep producing stunning Limited Editions that I can't help but drool over.

Jermaine Dupri, who was named the most successful R&B producer of all time by the Guinness World Records 2007, is a Grammy-award winning music producer, president of Island Urban Records and author of Young, Rich and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul (Atria, October 2007). For more information about this blogger, click here.

"My book, Young, Rich and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul, came out in hardcover last month, but Simon & Schuster doesn't let the book stores tear it up and sell it chapter by chapter. A record is no different."

A Good Album is More than Just a Collection of Singles

This is a great, and timely article relating to the music industry, and how the artists involved need to "take back the music". I happen to agree completely, especially as it relates to the artist making a living by deciding how their music is distributed. Of course, I'm un-officially "semi-retired", but once I complete my new recording project, I plan to follow these very simple business guidelines.

From The Gibson Guitar Company, World's first 'robot' guitar. You can get all the details, as well as, enter a contest for one of the first 4000 limited edition guitars, from Gibson.com.

Today is my first day visiting the self described live music capital of the world, Austin, Texas. While this is supposedly a business trip, I am hoping to get out and take in some the spectacular and very lively night life that Austin has to offer. All the Texans that I've met so far have be more than friendly, and there is clearly an alt-country vibe, at least here at the Hotel San Jose, and it's neighbor, the Continental Club. It is a bit of a personal thrill to walk the very streets that guitar icon Stevie Ray Vaughan traveled in his youth. The wallpaper of concert and live performance posters that sparsely decorate city streetlight poles here in the "SoCo" (South Congress) neighborhood, as well as, most restaurant and beer joints, subtly reminds me of the grunge era of Seattle's Capitol Hill and University Districts. The Austin Chronicle is the local entertainment 'zine, and it hold the valuable info of what makes Austin nightlife tick.

All the usual suspects here, Johnny Cash, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix...

Face the Music: Rock Star Mug Shots : Photos : Rolling Stone

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Form our sister site, Channel 9 - Cakewalk: Making Music with Sonar

THE CULT

SEE + HEAR

Dirty Little Rockstar

Yes, I know, I've been lagging in the blogging department, and while I have already prepared a short list of redundant excuses (old laptop went TU, new laptop needed Microsoft Vista 64 bit drivers, work, life, juggling small kittens, etc.), I figure it is better to just to keep blogging along like nothing has happened. Well, in reality, where I visit from time to time, all sorts of things are happening:

Self-biased political commentator, Stephen Colbert, has announced his plans to consider whether or not to announce that he has decided to think about running for the position of "President of the United States of America". Personally, I think he really just wants to rule South Carolina. In that stark placed named "reality", he is actually helping teachers in SC get teaching resources their classrooms via DonorsChoose.org, which was created by Craig of CraigsList.com fame.

Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with "NSPD-51" or , and Ron Rosenbaum, of Slate.com, asks "Who will run the country after the next 9/11?". Of course, you can read the actual public facing document here.

Since almost everyone enjoyed the conspiracy of the DaVinci Code, this article about how the Vatican destroyed the Knights Templar makes for an interesting follow up read. This also lead me some very antique ambigram matchbox artwork.

The descent of Heroin, as presented by pictures, and sort of NSFW.

The Big Blue Marble.

I came across this interesting "do it yourself" article about how to build a USB enabled guitar. This really is a great idea for a project, as I've been idly waiting for some company such as Fender to come out with this kind of modification. If anybody else has done something similar to this, like maybe putting in a FireWire connector, I'd love to hear more about the project, and hear some of the output!

And just to add a couple of links for the programming crew, I came across these two opinion pieces taking on Bjarne Stroustrup's C++. They include "10 things I love & hate about C" and "Why D is kicking C++'s ass".

And lastly, this NSFW data splice of Google Images results for the term "housewife", though it does demonstrate the power of their filtering algorithm. and Microsoft's Live Image search has similar results.

The Fender Custom Shop does it again, this time with a version of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Lenny" Stratocaster, named after his loving wife.

The Stevie Ray Vaughan "Lenny" Stratocaster® Guitar

Seattle Comedian has a great satire tune, that is getting quite a bit of radio play here in the Pacific Northwest, so that means you should check it out. A great take on the recent pop hit, "Hey There Delilah" by "Plain White Ts", which I'm sure you've heard, but with a quaint anti-terrorism message. You heard it here second...
"Hey There Al Queda" by Sean Ottey

COCA-COLA UK gets into the Web 2.0 world, by allowing visitors to this Adobe Flash enabled site, to create their own Coca-Cola advertising posters. Great idea, with some small idiosyncrasies, meaning the downloads and email option wasn't working when I played with this, so I can't really show of my "totally awesome" design (which I should charge Coca-Cola for anyway), in all it's 1600x1200 glory.