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I just listen to some new music or even old stuff I mainly listen to but not played. Then I get into a song and then just grab my guitar or keys and start jamming along. I I really get into it then figure it out cop some line etc. I let music guide me to some music that makes me want to play it. Sometimes its a new genre so it opens up a whole new world to explore.

This is for all the ladies on the dance floor tonight..... Everyone love a good Shuffle and a all tuba horn section. If that ain't love I don't know what is!!!!

the 37 key is $900 and I believe the 61 key is $1500. But the reason for the 37 is that from the time the key 61 was release people kept asked for a smaller more portable version, so Akai made it for them.

No different than the last time I played in a Country band way band when Disco and movie Urban Cowboy were big so Merle, George Jones, and most the Country artist started pumped Four On the Floor bass drum up in their mixes so all the new wave of Country dance joints would play their records. Country is a business and goes where the money is.

Oh yes the Here Comes the Sun.....

Think back on when I hung up my Rock shoes this was one example of the music of the times. I liked the Thompson Twins, Motels, Till Tuesday, X, Oingo Boingo. Duran Duran, Howard Jones, cool stuff for the time.

I really had to have a Nord Stage 4 so don't have a lot left for rent. On the positive side the red really brightens up the house.

Today Akai released it's new MPC Key 37 Standalone MPC Production Keyboard. Akai skipped the NAMM show, but YouTube is blowing up with people posting video about the new MPC Key 37. Visual leaks about the MPC Key 37 started showing up a few days before NAMM and now it's officially released, so Akai saved a lot of money not going to NAMM and letting word of mouth be their marketing tool. In general it's a 37 key version of the MPC Key 61 that came out a year or so ago, a few differences beside the key count but basically the same. The MPC Key 37 comes with Akai's new Stem separating software that was previewed but now is released. So the new MPC Key 37 makes for a easy to transport all you need tool for Beat makers.

Country is where old Rock and studio musicians retire to it's been going on since the 80's.

All the music on the main Grammy show is pre-recorded so everything on stage was just acting like they are playing. The Grammy Pre-Show where they give out most of the awards that aren't seen on the TV is one of the last award shows that has a live band for the event. Too bad it isn't reversed and the main Grammy show have a live band like in the old days.

Living around 50 miles from the next city with a big selection of stores, the Amazon Prime membership is worth the money. Prime includes basic Prime Music, Prime video along with no shipping fees and sometimes it's next day delivery. Plus Amazon I can order some grocery items that the local grocery store doesn't have or stopped selling. Plus a few years ago Amazon built a distribution center where I live that created a lot of jobs locally. So for me the cost of Prime is worth it.

Prime channel run fewer and shorter ads than even their other Freevee movie channel. At this point I'll watch the couple minutes per hour of ads they run and save the couple bucks per month. I stopped watching Over the Air TV a few years ago because the amount of ads was getting insane somewhere around 12 minutes per hour. As I remember from a class years ago they said..... everything in life has a price tag, nothing is free. So the increasing commercials on Over the Air TV got to be too much, so I pay a small price tag for streaming TV and get fewer or no ads.

Reminds me of a discussing about music artists and how they divide up between those that just want to make it, the One and done types. Then the artistically minded ones who the money is a fringe benefit if it even happens. I think those two categories go back as long as there has been a music industry. A lot of the One and Done type end up with normal boring day gig and a musical weekend warrior playing bars and such, or when I worked at the rehearsal studio they'd be in on the weekends to jam and consume mass quantities of beer. The whole DIY music scene is increasing the number of people who think of themselves as "musicians" and or "producers" but still the mindset of I'm a One and Done or I'm an artist. I loved the scene in the movie Animal House and John Belushi in his toga coming down the stairs and there is a guy with a nylon string guitar singing a lame folksong to some girls. Belushi stops, listens for a second, then grabs the guitar and smashes it to pieces. If that was 2023 the difference would be the lame guy on the stair would have his laptop playing a beat for the girls. Belushi would stop listen, then smash the laptop and throw it across the room.

I treat the Grammy's like most award show I just look at the list of winners the next day for the few categories I like. As I get older I know fewer and fewer names of "big" name artists anymore. I follow some of the new artists so I have an ideas what's going on. I feel I can't comment on something I haven't given a fair listen to, unlike others who listen with their eyes.

Lancaster is the northernmost tip of L.A. county and over the mountain from the coast so we've had days of rain, but no damage I've heard of just some streets flooding that's it. I had a doctor's appointment in downtown L.A. friday and coming home the drive in the desert to Lancaster hard to see because black rain cloud coming in so darker than usual on the freeway, but I was lucky it didn't rain until I was a couple miles from home.

Of all the winners I saw listed the one that made me the happiest to see was..... Meshell Ndegeocello the first winner for the new category Best Alternative Jazz Album.

I remember Wild Man Fischer well from my days of hanging out on Sunset Blvd at night when not working. I believe name was Larry Fischer and he would tell people he'd make up song for them and sing it for a dollar. In the morning a favorite spot for him was outside UCLA at the bus stop. Catch Wild Man at UCLA he would make up a song for you for a quarter. Most the time Wild Man sang one of his song like Merry Go Round that ended up on his album that Frank Zappa produced. I met a guy on Sunset who was hanging out for awhile who worked as a bouncer at some of the clubs, interesting guy always full of crazy stories of things that went on at the clubs. One day we go to get a burger at the Eating Affair (called the Slop Affair in one Love's tunes) and he tells me Wild Man Fischer is his brother. Wild Man shows up and joins us for awhile they were talking about some family stuff then Wild Man left. So I start talking to him about his brother Wild Man he said Wild Man actually makes quite a bit of money singing his songs for people. That Wild Man has a really nice car and will park a couple blocks from wherever he's going to sings for money so people think he just a street person. Wild Man Fischer wasn't as wild as people thought he was. Hanging out in Hollywood and during the day at UCLA campus where a lot of the Hollywood crowd would be during the day was a great time of the 60's.

Just curious as to why. Google is already the one of the biggest collectors of of personal data and knows pretty much everything about you, so what is logging into YouTube going to reveal to Google that they don't know already. Private companies like Google know more about us than the government and the government know way too much. So as the Borg said.... Resistance is futile.

From working as SysAdmin and working with computer security department I know it can be a pain but it's a necessary evil at this point. Users put their whole life on smartphones the one item with more security holes than anything and then gripe about having to have passwords and two factor authentication, but they are also the same people who scream and whine the loudest when they get hacked and want to sue everyone for not protecting them. What what the line from the old Baretta TV show "don't do the crime, if you can't do the time". So don't sidestep security if you can't handle your and your friends data get stolen.

When the son is as much of a badass as his dad Rocco Palladino son of Pino. When Pino isn't available for one of his past artist he worked for Rocco is now getting the gigs.

Guys like Vai are usually pretty cool about meeting fans informally. Try to get ahold of them through their social media and tell them your son is a HUGE fan and if he would autograph your son's guitar. They might say yes and tell you a time to meet them in their hotel lobby and say hello and sign the guitar.

Meh Sounds like he sampled himself but didn't change things enough to be something new other than the lyrics. His voice just sounded old, not like older singers who finding new ways to use aging voice. I'm sure he doesn't need the money so probably just trying to keep is name in people memories.

We're only in it for the money -- Frank Zappa

Boy was this a mistake the level from the SSL to the DAW and other audio software on my Mac are all very low. I contact my Sweetwater sale guy who just said those things should be fine, but here's the tech support phone number. Boy Sweetwater isn't what it used to be in the past if a problem they would of tried to help and then have support call me. Then I put in a SSL support request and all I got was links to what appears as old Mac articles on unity gain. So last night I got ticked I have homework to do and need my gear working. I decide to buy what I originally was going to a Focusrite 2i2 4th generation since that's what so many use and seems to work fine. So local GC is out of stock and take days to get one shipped, so I check Amazon. Amazon stocks it not a Marketplace vendor and Amazon say it will deliver next day. So I place the order last night and it arrived at 11am today. Set it up and works great good levels going into my DAW. A lot of people bitch about Amazon but when you live 50 miles from next city they make life so much easier getting a lot stuff.