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Message |
| Topic: Song Ringing In My Head |
Gene
Replies: 25
Views: 1309
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 Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:04 am Subject: Song Ringing In My Head |
Oh, NOOOOO!!!!
I presribe this: Play this one, which is so maddening that it can't help but stick in your brain. (I do love that it's in 7/4 time, since I love weird time signatures, though...) ... |
| Topic: Song Ringing In My Head |
Gene
Replies: 25
Views: 1309
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:35 am Subject: Song Ringing In My Head |
"Get Free", by The Vines, 2004! (Think "The Kinks meet Nirvana" in the new millennium in Australia...) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eDWrlDR-Ro
I was reminded of this so ... |
| Topic: Look at what I just bought for 5 bucks |
Gene
Replies: 6
Views: 223
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:38 am Subject: Look at what I just bought for 5 bucks |
| Now THAT looks like a good score! Looks very utilitarian, and a comfortable play. If there wasn't anything obviously wrong with it, I would have paid $75 for it, easy! |
| Topic: Ever Been To Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame? |
Gene
Replies: 1
Views: 20
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:35 am Subject: Ever Been To Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame? |
| I'm looking into scaling back our summer vacation out east (rising gas prices!) and instead taking in Cedar Point, which I haven't seen in 20 years, and which my teenage daughters would probably like ... |
| Topic: The "Arpeggiator" |
Gene
Replies: 0
Views: 39
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Forum: Musicians Only
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:39 am Subject: The "Arpeggiator" |
Have you seen this thing on YouTube? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AklKy2NDpqs
It requires knowing some music theory to "get it", but it looks to use a lighted hexigonical table, ea ... |
| Topic: Moving the forums off the front page |
Gene
Replies: 7
Views: 138
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Forum: Announcements
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:13 am Subject: Moving the forums off the front page |
| The era of the internet has unfolded a lot of interesting stories in its evolution. The chapter of how online forums fared throughout this present period ended in a way I could not have predicted; Na ... |
| Topic: Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Rock Guitar Songs |
Gene
Replies: 1
Views: 56
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:07 am Subject: Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Rock Guitar Songs |
These compiled lists are good for controversial conversation fodder and that's about it, in my opinion, but they are amusing, nonetheless...
You must consider the source, being mostly a magazine th ... |
| Topic: Moving the forums off the front page |
Gene
Replies: 7
Views: 138
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Forum: Announcements
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:00 pm Subject: Moving the forums off the front page |
That's too bad.
It's clear that most musicians look to sites like this not to share and learn stuff, but instead to SELL stuff. (I'm all "on" promotion and all, but musicians promoting p ... |
| Topic: Song Ringing In My Head |
Gene
Replies: 25
Views: 1309
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:02 pm Subject: Song Ringing In My Head |
Haw! "Frankenstein" is a HEAVY one!...
I had to pass over some "honorable mentions", like "Eruption" by Van Halan (not so much an arranged actual song, but great &quo ... |
| Topic: Song Ringing In My Head |
Gene
Replies: 25
Views: 1309
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:10 am Subject: Song Ringing In My Head |
Rock instrumentals!
This is a pretty rare thing tried in rock, when in the process of composing, it is discovered that the piece really is so strong all by itself that, musically, words can't impro ... |
| Topic: Song Ringing In My Head |
Gene
Replies: 25
Views: 1309
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:16 am Subject: Song Ringing In My Head |
Canadian 90's Invasion!
I live near the border, so radio stations around me sometimes spill over from Canada. Canadians have something of a "thing" with pedistalling bands from their nat ... |
| Topic: Michigan Senate Revives Smoking Ban Debate (poll included) |
Gene
Replies: 11
Views: 679
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Forum: The Hang Out
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:23 am Subject: Michigan Senate Revives Smoking Ban Debate (poll included) |
You'll have to pardon me for sounding like a Republican on this one, but I think that the free market will do a very good job with this, unmandated by the government.
There are markets for those ... |
| Topic: How do you market your band/music? |
Gene
Replies: 11
Views: 723
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Forum: Musicians Only
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:05 am Subject: How do you market your band/music? |
I'm still of the old school where I post flyers, but not for the reason you'd think:
It's more of a gesture to the venue owner that I'm working my butt off to make my act a success. (I never keep ... |
| Topic: Songwriting: Do you collaborate? |
Gene
Replies: 8
Views: 518
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Forum: Musicians Only
Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 10:01 am Subject: Songwriting: Do you collaborate? |
I've never done this, and I have a lot of doubts about this kind of process being a group effort.
Music comes from a very inward, "deep" and personal place, and, there are just a lot of l ... |
| Topic: New R.E.M. |
Gene
Replies: 9
Views: 676
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Forum: Fan Forum
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:31 pm Subject: New R.E.M. |
Arpeggiated riffs find their way into a lot of my original material, since I love 'em, but the last CD I made was dominantly acoustic, not electric like this era of REM, so yes and no.
And, I som ... |
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