Stupid musicians, stupid clients, general dumbasses and things people do that drive me nuts.
Client: My company is about to go public. They figure the shares will be worth $6-$8 each and I have 300,000 shares.
Me: Awesome! That’s so great for you. By the way here’s your latest invoice for $600.
Client: Oh. Uh here’s a check. Can you hold it until next Friday?
Since my switch from the dreaded blogger lame ass blogging software to WordPress I’m now able to take advantage of some new features here.
I’m now working on categorizing all the posts. I have 8 categories currently:
Boneheads: A category dedicated to stupid people and the things they do.
Gear: Recording gear, musicial instruments, computers or any gear I deal with.
Gigs: Stories about my gigs or other peoples gigs.
Random: A blanket category when nothing else works.
Rants: When shit pisses me off I use this category.
Recording: Recording studio war stories, recording techniques etc.
Uncategorized: Means I have yet to decide what category to put the post in.
Now some posts may have multiple categories. For example: A dumbass musician jumps on my stage and plays my drums. He’s drunk and he breaks my snare head and won’t get away from my kit. That post alone could be a combined boneheads, gear, gigs, musicians and rants. I can already see that the boneheads and musicians categories will be selected together many times.
I’m about 25% of the way through categorizing the old posts so be patient.
In this article The Who’s Pete Townshend blames wearing headphones in the recording studio for his hearing loss.
So touring for decades with The Who, standing next to the insane Keith Moon’s drum kit and standing in front of huge stacks of Hiwatt amps cranked to 11 had nothing to do with his hearing loss? I remember going to see The Who and there were actually disclaimers saying if you were in the first 30 rows in front of Pete’s rig you might experience hearing damage.
But no, it was the headphones…. Ok Pete.
I had to laugh at the new year’s gig watching my scatter brained guitar player. He was eating fish and chips while singing, playing guitar and trying to light a cigarette. Always entertaining.
So I thought I’d provide the general public with a “real” diagram of a guitar player’s rig, not one of those phony ones you see in guitar player magazine.
Sometimes my clients amaze me with what they can find. Look at this new form of CD/DVD disc storage. This could change the whole disc storage landscape for years to come.
You’ve spent hundreds of hours working on your album. You’ve spent thousands of dollars in recording, mastering, musicians etc. Your new master is the culmination of countless hours worth of work. You wouldn’t want to trust your master to just any old CD case. You need:
