A Place for Everything Else
In November of last year, I received a phone call from an advertising agency wanting to purchase a song I wrote, “I Wear No Pants” for use in an advertising campaign for Dockers, to begin during the 2010 Super Bowl.
The deal went through, contracts were signed and I sent them the [...]
I just read yet another article about how the whole business model of recording and selling CDs is dead. This particular article called it “futile” to attempt to sell CDs.
I’ve read dozens of these articles. A new one comes out just about every week, and each time I read one — and I subscribe to [...]
(I have several projects going right now, so I’m going to blog about them here, detailing the process, etc)
The Boggards have started recording their 7th CD. To date, we’ve laid down about 10 scratch tracks, and we’ll finish the rest tomorrow.
Doing things a little differently with this disc.
Firstly, we haven’t tracked one actual part yet [...]
I’ve been wanting to “discontinue” our first two CDs, Bawdy Parts and Barley Legal, for a few years now. My reasons are many, but primarily, that band doesn’t exist any more. The sound was different, the talent pool was different, the type of music performed has changed and evolved.
Some have made the argument that those [...]
A week ago, the whole band went down to the Coffee Gallery to meet Bob Stane, the owner, check out the venue and the sound system and drop off some CDs for Bob and his employees. Bob wasn’t there, but we talked to the girl working the counter, left some CDs and asked how many [...]
Grammy nominated children’s songster Zak Morgan performed last week at the Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena.
At an earlier performance I attended, he asked if we (the Poxy Boggards and Merry Wives) would sing back up for him on “Nicolo Picarello,” a song the Boggards recorded background vocals for about a year ago.
We were only able to [...]
Pain Celtic Squall rehearsed last night. For those that don’t know, this is my “other band.” It’s a quartet comprising Heather (my wife), Phil (from the Boggards) and Claire (from the Wives).
Once faire was over, we started using our regular rehearsal time to record, and we’ve made a good deal of progress toward [...]
Got a new laptop for Father’s Day.
HP Pavilion dv6700. Dual core Turion 64. nvidia graphics. 16×9 screen. 3gb memory and a 250gb drive.
Came installed with Windows Vista Home Premium edition. Preinstalled with Service Pack 1.
I have almost no experience with pre-SP1 versions of Vista, so take this with a grain of salt. I like Vista. [...]