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David Byrne Effect Pedal Art

May 8, 2008 - 2:04pm — duncan

I thought this was pretty cool and I would love to see and hear it in action. 

David Byrne

"My piece will be comprised of a kind of carpet of one hundred guitar pedals, which benefit attendees must walk on in order to enter the main dining and performance space. A guitar will be plugged into and run through all the pedals, and then into an amp."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the link

 

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Seth Godin on the Music Industry Again

March 3, 2008 - 1:52pm — duncan

Sure there are a lot of posts about Seth Godin on this site, but I really like his writing.

Seth has just posted a transcript of a talk he did about the music industry. It's full of good insight and good advice.



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Jeff Buckley Tribute Show

February 7, 2008 - 3:05pm — duncan

The excellent man and excellent drummer Derek Kerswill has put together a tribute to the late Jeff Buckley this weekend at The Lucky Dog.

Scott at the Telegram has a excellent article on the show and Derek.

telegram.com

8 p.m. Saturday (2/9) Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green St., Worcester

ps. Why is the photo of Scott McLennan so gigantic?

click here to read a review of the night

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Wormtown Blog

February 7, 2008 - 9:55am — duncan

LB Worm is keeping a great blog called the "Wormtown Punk". The blog has tons of old photos and scans of zines from the '70s. Reading about the The Great Clark Swindle, regarding The Clash at Clark University is real interesting.

wormtownpunk.blogspot.com

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Build Your Own Stylophone-style synth controller

February 4, 2008 - 3:43pm — duncan

This is just too cool looking, Make has instructions on how to make your very own Stylophone synth controller

fire up your soldering irons

link (via Engadget)

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Joe Perry on Worcester

February 1, 2008 - 1:30pm — duncan

The Pulse has a interview with Joe Perry where he talks a little bit about gigging in Worcester. I could read this kind of stuff all day.

[i]"Well, it was pretty much like it was in a lot of the smaller towns that we played back then. I would liken it to the Detroit area or Ohio. Worcester was a lot more like those cities than say Boston or Chicago. Those cities were pretty much the same back in those days. They had more character as individual cities. Nowadays with Starbucks and such, everything is the same, all these chains are all the same, it

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Carry On Wayward Son

January 20, 2008 - 9:13pm — nisa

I prefer a real full band actually, however, this may be interesting to some.

Who needs a band?

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Seth Godin - Music Lessons

January 7, 2008 - 3:36pm — duncan

I have mentioned Seth Godin here before, I liked this article he wrote on the lessons to learn from the music business (as it falls apart).

[i]2. Copy protection in a digital age is a pipe dream
If the product you make becomes digital, expect that the product you make will be copied.

There

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Podcast Studio

January 7, 2008 - 9:27am — duncan

This is a fantastic little device that attaches to your iPod and uses all that space for recording via dual XRL and 1/4" inputs and a built in mic and it runs on 2 AA batteries. Comes out in June and will cost about $100.


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