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blimey, I’m old

Sunday, February 11th, 2007 | general,music

Some times you notice small things and realize you’re older than you thought. Like today, for example. Paging through this week’s Best Buy newspaper flyer/advert they are really trying to sell the hell outta Vista. I also noticed they sell Apple computers; I knew they sold ipods, but not Apple computers. Keep paging through…TaxCut…digi cams…TVs…gaming [...]

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Internet sounds

Sunday, January 28th, 2007 | music,tech

A few years ago I wanted to listen to radio stations while browsing internet. Stations like KTCL and KROQ didn’t have their on-air content online at the time. If I remember correctly it was something to do with the FCC regulating the adverts. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. A couple years ago I was checking [...]

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I’m everywhere

Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | music,tech

Well, I finally broke down and did it. I am now on MySpace. This goes along with my PureVolume page, and of course this site. I’m a media superstar I reckon. Hooray for me!

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cost of a signature

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | general,music

Musician’s Friend is by far my favorite mail-order music equipment website/catalog. Gibson is one of my favorite guitar companies. But today I saw a Gibson on the front cover of my new MF catalog and thought things are flying out of control. We all know “pro models” or “signature series” items fetch more money than [...]

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modern music listening

Monday, August 28th, 2006 | general,music,tech

Just this week I finally got an mp3 player! It was quite cheap…OK, it was free as someone gave it to me. But, they got it free too. It was a fundraiser prize–if a person collected a certain amount of donation money they got a small gift or prize. In short, I ended up with [...]

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guitar effects pedals

Thursday, July 20th, 2006 | music

It’s in the back of every electric guitar players mind: should I get a new effects pedal or not? The good thing is that pedals are fun…effects are fun. But like most things the bad usually outweighs the good. Pedals usually increase noise in your signal path. Plug that expensive guitar into that expensive amp [...]

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