It’s Friday the 13th. Bad luck abounds. My step son has a bug and is home sick. He’s a miserable little man right now. Hopefully once the 13th becomes the 14th the bad luck will dissipate and our little man will feel better.
Right now he’s just hanging out on the couch with his good pal Netflix. I wonder if I can find a new show for him to binge watch.
Why do so many guitar player accessories have blatantly sexist names? I don’t want to be a part of this particular problem but I’ve gone and made a hypocrite out of myself.
David Gilmour… listen to his Stratocaster sound on Pink Floyd records like Animals and The Wall. What does he use to get that killer tone? I want that killer tone too! How can I get myself one step closer? Well I can start by trying out some of the gear he used. How about his overdrive pedal? Awesome!
Except that it has an embarrassingly sexist name. I won’t share it because it would make me feel like an asshole. Even worse? I bought one on ebay. It’s going to be shipped in a day or so. Maybe I’ll put duct tape over the graphics painted onto the housing. It won’t fool anyone, but at least Mr Hypocrite will be able to pretend.
I feel like a jerk, and not just because I want to steal someone else’s tone.
Is it just me or is hipstamatic devolving into a bug riddled disaster?
I bought the latest Hipstapack tonight and took a couple of test pics. The app failed to save them. They didn’t make the hipstaprint section of the app, or the camera roll on the phone. What the hell?
I changed the lens/film combo and it worked, then changed it back to the new purchase and now it is saving. Should I mention that while I was using the different combo the app crashed?
Not good, hipstamatic… Not good.
This little picture just reached 1000 hits on Flickr. My 31st picture to do so.
I feel so proud.
Somedays you just need this. You know?
So where oh where is a cover band to play these days?
I haven’t been in a working cover band since 2005. There were only a few places that we would play back then, and I think they’re all either closed or under new management. Most of the places Lizardfish played before I joined have either closed or stopped offering live music.
I have been perusing the Google tonight but there don’t seem to be a lot of tools available online to help cover bands book shows.
Anyone out there know of anything that can help us out? Anyone wanna throw a house party with a super loud band?
Jenny and I are going to an opening day showing of Star Wars The Force Awakens!
Oh hell yeah we are!
WOOHOOO!!!!
One year ago tomorrow I took some sun rise pics at Old Orchard Beach in Maine.
I thought about going for a second round tomorrow. But the weather’s going to be bad.
Oh well.
What’s going on, Rob? You slacking or what?
I’m listening to a recording of last night’s band practice. It had been a couple of weeks and it really showed. Ouch. The tape was made with my phone, not my laptop. Why? My Lexicon audio interface is producing HUGE amounts of extraneous noise on all channels. I think she’s dead, Jim.
I’d been threatening it, and last night I did it… I played my Strat at practice. It doesn’t sound too bad on the tape. Different, but not bad. I still think I’ll be back to the Les Paul next week though. It just feels more natural to me.
I’d been threatening it, and last night I did it… I bought a distortion pedal on eBay. It was 50% off the retail price. Cool. Of course that was before I realized I need a new USB audio interface. Ouch.
Speaking of ouch, I was walking to my car after work and my right leg just gave out. Huge pain in my calf. I thought I was going to fall but I kept my feet. I’ve been limping like mad ever since. I didn’t step funny or move weird or anything. One step it was perfectly fine, the next it was hurting like hell. I hope it’s better tomorrow.
This little audio interface which has gotten me through so many recording projects appears to be dead, dead, dead. Oh no!
