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Trio da Paz Brings the Brazilian Heat : NPR Music: JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, June 5, 2008

- Trio da Paz comes from a vital music tradition: Duduka da Fonseca came to the U.S. in the mid-’70s, and Romero Lubambo and Nilson Matta arrived a decade later. Together since 1993, the “samba jazz” band represents the cream of expatriate Brazilian musicians in the U.S., as well as a vital link to the bossa nova years

I let the computer listen to JazzSet on Friday evenings (KUAZ). This show is very tasty.

Led Zeppelin: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide : Rolling Stone

Led Zeppelin: The Essential Album-By-Album Guide
From the First Album to “Mothership”: An Expert Rundown of Every Studio Album, Live Disc and Reissue

DOUGLAS WOLK
Posted Jun 12, 2008 3:30 PM

A recent report now says that the Mozart effect is another charming urban legend.

The bad news for the hip urban professionals: playing Mozart for your designer baby will not improve his IQ or help him get into that exclusive pre-school. He’ll just have to get admitted to Harvard some other way. Of course, we’re all better off for listening to Mozart purely for the pleasure of it. However, one wonders whether, if playing Mozart sonatas for little Tiffany or Jason could boost their intelligence, what would happen if other composers were played during the kiddies’ developmental time? Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz Excursion Radio Listen Now: Windows Media: 96 / 64    MP3: 128 / 64

Found this while I was reading about Bill Evans. Sometimes the radio works best

The MP3 128K stream is tastier than the 64K.

There are a number of “stations” - Smooth, Dinner, Vocal. If you sign up to be a member of All About Jazz you get to download the tune of the day as well.

Bagatellen: Signifying Junkie:

So, to the listening library I was dispatched. It felt like a punishment even before I clamped on those thumbscrews-for-the-ears they called “headphones” and popped in a tape of Sunday at The Village Vanguard. (Isn’t there a part in all of us that rebels at unsolicited recommendations? Don’t you hate it when somebody gushes, “This is the awesomest, ever. You’ll love it.”) Village Vanguard, I thought, what’s that, some medieval theatre-in-the-round? The way my teacher described it, the experience I was about to receive would be pianistic heaven on earth, Mount Olympus on the 88’s, and god himself would vibe me from those solid grooves. Bill Evans was at that time the summation of everything that was ever worthwhile doing with a piano or a piano trio. Forget Monk – not really a piano player; didn’t he write some quirky tunes? – forget Hines and Tatum – hopelessly old-fashioned, heavy-handed stuff – who? Cecil Taylor? Get out of my sight, infidel.

Bill Evans - The Vanguard Sessions - 1961 - quoted on the last page of this month’s Jazziz Magazine.

I have a “fair bit” of Bill Evans in the collection. Turns out that I have 2 copies (not identical) of the Vanguard sessions - “Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard” and “Complete Riverside Recordings (Disc 7)”. They are not identical, but appear to be the same sessions. The former is engineered a bit differently.

I wonder what’s different in the latest “Bill Evans: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961″ collection? The reviews and description at Amazon illumimnate.

Kevin Kelly — The Technium

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.

What’s in a Beethoven Quartet? A Full Curriculum - New York Times

In an unusual educational experiment Curtis has established Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F minor (Op. 95) as the touchstone of the academic year for its 160 students. Imagine a year of medical school revolving around the liver, or a car repair course centered on the Chrysler LeBaron.

Yet another un-attributed list from an email message. Made me smile.

you should not play any notes you have left

1. Everyone should play the same piece.
2. Stop at every repeat sign, and discuss in detail whether to take the repeat. The audience will love this a lot!
3. If you play a wrong note, give a nasty look to one of your partners.
4. Keep your fingering chart handy. You can always catch up with the others.
5. Carefully tune your instrument before playing. That way you can play out of tune all night with a clear conscience.
6. Take your time turning pages.
7. The right note at the wrong time is a wrong note (and vice versa).
8. If everyone gets lost except you, follow those who get lost.
9. Strive to get the maximum NPS (notes per second). That way you gain the admiration of the incompetent.
10. Markings for slurs, dynamics and ornaments should not be observed. They are only there to embellish the score.
11. If a passage is difficult, slow down. If it’s easy, speed it up. Everything will work itself out in the end.
12. If you are completely lost, stop everyone and say, “I think we should tune.”
13. Happy are those who have not perfect pitch, for the kingdom of music is theirs.
14. If the ensemble has to stop because of you, explain in detail why you got lost. Everyone will be very interested.
15. A true interpretation is realized when there remains not one note of the original.
16. When everyone else has finished playing, you should not play any notes you have left. If you have notes left over, please play them on the way home.
17. A wrong note played timidly is a wrong note. A wrong note played with authority is an interpretation.

I Get Peculiar When I’m Lonesome Maybe Yes, Maybe No Dave the Roach No Pajamas Catalogue Lady Hangin’ On (like the lice on the legs of King Kong) Bad News Makes Good Blues Sunny River Outright, Downright Change Tasty Food For Thought Relaxin’ with Jackson

That’s the play list. Somehow I only had the first 4 saved. Can’t remember where I put the text file that has the list in it, so here it is. Best I can tell is 1979 for vintage.

Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free

Publish and Sell Worldwide Lulu is fast, easy and free Publish and sell easily within minutes. No set-up fees. No minimum order. Keep control of the rights. Set your own price. Each product is printed as it is ordered. No excess inventory.

So how about some music. Time to find the copyright holders.

In Dallas, Commercial Radio Without Commercials - New York Times

“In a major market, for a classic rock station to change formats is really an anomaly,” said Fred Jacobs, a radio industry consultant from Detroit who helped popularize the classic rock format in the mid-1980s. “You could make a nice, long, healthy list of top five stations that are classic rock,” and several would be No. 1 or No. 2 in their markets, he said. But Mr. Freeman, the Dallas station manager, says he has had his fill of classic-rock bands like Led Zeppelin. “A friend of mine said, ‘They’ve been climbing that stairway to heaven for 30 years, you’d think they’d be there by now,’ ” he said.

CBS jumps back into the music business - Dec. 15, 2006:

Mark Fratrik, a vice president with BIA Financial Network, a financial and strategic consulting firm for the media and communications industries. … But Fratrik said it would not be a good idea for CBS to use its radio stations to get more exposure for the musicians on CBS Records. He said the radio business is now highly formulaic. So it would not be in CBS’ best interest to feature relatively unknown artists while all of its competitors are playing “top 40″ musicians. “Radio is so incredibly competitive that if CBS actually did favor their own artists instead of more popular ones, they would pay in terms of lost listeners. That would be a tough thing for CBS Radio to shoulder,” Fratrik said.

What’s wrong with the “fill-in-the-blank” business is the business thinks that the people with the decisions are nothing but eyeballs, ears, and wallets. They would prefer that there be no decision at all - think subscription service.

Maybe the 20%+ decline in the CD business is due to the increase in formulaic “art” spreading across the globe?

Anyone know of a comparison showing the decline of music sales with the spread of Clear Channel radio stations?

Gimell Records turned 25 last year. They re-issued their first recording, with an additional Mass. I have the collection of Tallis Scholars recordings, starting from CDGIM001 through CDGIM040. CDGIM041 was released this month.

In order to keep my collection up to date I need to acquire 041, and decide what to do about the special release for the anniversary album. Read the rest of this entry »

Vault Radio

Give away the music and sell the show:

The major labels are freaked out: CD sales are continuing their inexorable decline and iTunes sales aren’t making up the difference. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of artists are giving away their music for free on MySpace, their own websites and independent MP3 blogs. This puzzles the labels. Don’t these bands want to make money from their art?

I remember making a choice between a recording and a live performance back in the 1980’s. It was between a double album recording by Ron Carter - “Picasso” or attending the live concert. It was simple math then (at least to me) $12 for the double album, $25 for a 2 hour concert. How much did the artist receive from the album sale? Probably $.20 if lucky.

(Via The Long Tail.)

The Ape: iTunes “Recently Played” list on your website

The other evening I set about putting my iTunes “Recently Played” list on a web page. Not only that, but updating it regularly throughout the day. I got it working and you can see the songs that are on my turntable right now. It updates every hour and is automatically uploaded to my website, as if by magic.

See the faceTunes page for my version.

Currently updates every 2 hours, shows the last 24 hours.

Don Butterfield, acclaimed tuba player, dies at 83 - Examiner.com

The Associated Press Nov 29, 2006 1:32 PM (1 day ago) Current rank: # 1,580 of 8,566 articles CLIFTON, N.J. - Don Butterfield, a renowned tuba player who began playing the instrument because his high school band in Centralia, Wash., was out of trumpets, has died. He was 83. Butterfield, of Clifton, died Monday of an illness related to a stroke he had suffered about a year before, his wife, Alice Butterfield, said Wednesday.

So sorry to hear this. Don was my mentor. We studied and worked together in 1969 and 1970.

So many memories.

Animusic Previews - Harmonic Voltage - Google Video

CG Music animation written from the ground up. Property of Animusic LLC. www.animusic.com

Visual synthesis to go along with the sound.

Check out the full-length videos (there are multiple clips)

Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray are dead on arrival. - By Sean Cooper - Slate Magazine

Until recently, the history of home entertainment was the history of encoding formats. For movies and music to get into our homes, manufacturers had to invent some medium that was capable of holding Star Wars or ABBA Gold. And so it went: vinyl, eight-track, cassette, Betamax, VHS, CD, DVD. Our shelves filled with slabs of plastic, spools of magnetic tape inside cartridges, and 5-inch discs stamped with binary-encoded metal foil.

Boing Boing: Tubatron: HOWTO make and play a flaming tuba (video)

But more importantly, he designed and built a flaming tuba, and plays it beautifully in exotic locations throughout the weirdosphere. He toots out a cover of “Oops I Did It Again” in this video.

Have you looked at iTunes?

Some of us “abuse” our tools.

I just recently created a single frame movie (using iMovie) that has an image in it.

I have copied this movie into iTunes any number of times.

What I do is add metadata that helps me track and find my home-brewed DVD recordings. Each copy of the movie gets the metadata for the movie(s) contained on my DVD.

I have Smart Playlists (in a playlist folder) that allow me to track and catalog my movies.

Yes, my simple list that might be 2K bytes of information has grown (4KB per movie) but what the heck, that’s only 1MB for tracking 250 movies. A small price to pay for the convenience.

If I was really insistent about it I could track down an image for the film (IMDb?) and use that as the single frame.

Import image into iPhoto, create a “slideshow” movie, put the movie into iTunes. That takes about 400K, so it isn’t really an option.

Now if iMovie had some Automator controls…or was AppleScriptable

Hip-hop is a major American cultural tour de force. It’s music, but it’s not just music. It’s a culture, an ethos, and a generation. Read the rest of this entry »

Donal Fox: Bach to Monk: The pianist Donal Fox is a bridge-builder between Johann Sebastian Bach and Thelonius Monk.

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Listen Safely: Your Ears and Your iPod:

Warning: This iPod may be hazardous to your hearing. That’s right. While the iPod offers excellent music playback functionality, most people don’t realize its potential dangers, or that they need to use it in moderation to protect their ears. Sure, if you listen to your iPod at a low volume level for short periods of time, you won’t have to worry much, but the louder you set the volume, and the longer you listen, the more chance you have of damaging your ears. iLounge isn’t interested in preaching to you, but we do want to advocate safe listening habits that will help you keep using your iPod (and ears) for a long time.

Stanford iTunes

Most interesting. Most interesting.

can’t seem to upload the MP3, but this uploaded just fine

Here’s the MP3 - One sample short of a lawsuit

For Sam.

Making Light: Folksongs Are Your Friends

Don%u2019t ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin, friggin%u2019 beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh, stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who is not currently chatting up a country maid, are always worth heeding.

If Microsoft Only Had a Brain [Fool.com: Commentary] October 11, 2005

What do you call a digital-music subscription service without the four major record labels? A good start?

If you are new to Blues music, or like it but never really understood the whys and wherefores, here are some very fundamental rules:

1. Most Blues begin with: “Woke up this morning….” Read the rest of this entry »

Ipod Nano 200gb Instructions/Page 1 - Uncyclopedia

First, put on a static wrist strap and attach it to a grounded surface to avoid damaging the iPod Nano. Open the package. Remove your iPod Nano from the protective casing. Admire the packaging. Remove the packaging from your hard drive, and lay it on the table.

It’s just wonderful

Valparaiso University: News and Press Releases

An aria composed by Johann Sebastian Bach that was lost for nearly 300 years until its rediscovery earlier this year will be performed for the first time in the Midwest Oct. 9, when it is presented at Valparaiso University.

BBC- Radio 2 - Bob Harris Country

BBC - Radio 2 - Bob Harris Friday

BBC - Radio 2 - Bob Harris Saturday

RealAudio streams - different playlists - not bad…actually, pretty tasty.

Here are the links to the Audio Player for each

Bob Harris Country

Bob Harris - Friday

Bob Harris - Saturday

Radio Without Borders: KUT’s live music podcast from Austin, Texas:

Radio Without Borders host Teresa Ferguson plays music from Black Before Red, Jeff Klein, Torch, Maggie Walters, Charanga Cakewalk, Jimmy LaFave, the Greencards

(Via Radio Without Borders.)

OK - cool. At the very end you get to hear The Greencards. Some good picking.

A bit of hunting finds The Greencards online

<a href="http://www.thegreencards.com/">The Greencards</a>

with pointers to available online music on their reviews page.

like this one from WSM radio in Nashville - Opry on a Friday night.

http://mmslb.eonstreams.com/wsm/archives/0909-fri_opry20k.wma - the first half-hour is Porter Waggoner, Greencards in second half-hour.

This is a good pointer, if you want to hear WSM recordings, then WSM Online

NPR : Podcast Directory

NPR Podcasts include selections from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning programs from NPR and partner organizations.

mount_smbfs //music@myhost.com/MP3/mp3/ /Users/fred/Sites/netjuke/var/music/tunes/

host mount mp3 netjuke

Arizona Opera: Operas

Carmen The Threepenny Opera Semele The Italian Girl in Algiers The Flying Dutchman

A new crop of tunes

The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin thanks Mr. Kooper - classic sounds - American Music classic

Vanilla Fudge - eponymous - greatest cover band ever? Have to check out this (5a, 5c, 6b, 7b) Illusions of My Childhood STRA WBER RYFI ELDS - not in the CDDB, can’t simply see these tracks classic - small speakers equalizer helps

Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance - such clean cut looking boys - has my favorite rendition of “Season of the Witch” - much better production - equalizer not needed

WAR - The World is a Ghetto - oh, yeah! Excellent production, all the instruments are clear - City, Country, City yummy, yummy, yummy but then I’m just a B3 slut. Have been for 40 years.

WAR - all day music

Multiple paths are a good thing. The “Avenue/Rhino” CDs don’t work in one drive. No “Compact Disc” logo, so possibly weird? They work in the burner drive, so in they come.

Scripting News: 6/30/2005:

It turns out that iTunes does export its subscription list, in a weird format I’ve never seen before. It is XML, so it’s process-able. But why not use the standard same one everyone else does? (Thanks to Denise Howell for providing the example.)

What you have pointed to is not a subscription list, it is an iTunes “playlist” file. It defines the order of tracks in the list, and points the the physical location of the file. There’s no information about the subscription. See Hacking the iTunes Music Library for some useful information about dealing with the formatted file.

Unfortunately the subscription information is kept in the *other* iTunes Music Library file, the binary database. I have yet to find a description or tool that can decipher that beast.

OK - I did a little bit more homework (of the searching kind) and located some choice information about the format of the binary file here iTunesDB - WikiPodLinux

Whose podcasting directory is this?:

And because podcasts are just audio, there are none of the attention-sharing features (like searchability, tags, or even hyperlinks) that might help provide automated ways of discovering and surfacing new voices. Unless I’m missing something? But it seems like we have a level content publishing model but a very un-level content promotional and discovery market.

(Via Jarrett House North.)

iTunes podcast delivery does video blogs as well as audio

Check out the chaptering tools. There’s a short little description here The Unofficial Apple Weblog - iTunes 4.9 Chapters

Art Mobs

Art Mobs returns with a new project. Last year we hosted a gallery event at Marymount Manhattan College. Now we’re focusing our attention on the Museum of Modern Art. We’ve produced (unofficial) audio guides for MoMA, and we’re making them available as podcasts. We’d love for you to join in by sending us your own MoMA audio guides, which we’ll gladly add to our podcast feed. Why should audio guides be proprietary? Help us hack the gallery experience, help us remix MoMA!

Coverville: Coverville 85: The Jimi Hendrix Cover Story

The great Jimi Hendrix is one of the most influential artists in rock and roll, and also one of the most covered. Here’s what’s on the show tonight:

molly.com » Trains Matter Much: 3/29/05 Trains Matter Much On blue sheets twist and turn Smell the tide the sweet and burn Suddenly, the Erie rattles through Shake the house Shake the house

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SABADABADA:

Welcome to www.sabadabada.com.  Look at hundreds of classic Bossa, Balanco & Samba LPs from Brazil, learn about record labels and artists, download selected tracks and share your ideas on the feedback page.

TidBITS#766/14-Feb-05

Podcasting: The People’s Radio by Andy J. Williams Affleck Few buzzwords surrounding Internet technologies have moved into the mainstream more quickly than “podcasting,” but because of this speed and an only tangentially related name, few consumer-level technologies have engendered more confusion. So what is podcasting?

This goes along with the 4 minute video.

All Music Guide - Vienna Teng - Waking Hour - Review

Lyrics

All Music Guide - Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers - Review

Lyrics

allmusic ((( Bill Evans > Biography )))

Visit allmusic.com at http://www.allmusic.com for more information and to explore hundreds of thousands of artists and albums.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:emf5zfgheh5k~T10

cheval noir Art? Vision? Pizza?

A whole bunch of links to KCRW RealAudio. This is a pointer to a more permanent document. Morrisette Amos

Sounds Eclectic

molly.com » music slut (again):

MUSIC SLUT (AGAIN). I like this playlist but I need your suggestions for improvement. What’s spinning with you?

No particular order…

• Mindy Smith
• Sarah Harmer
• Rachel Yamagata
• Maceo Parker
• Street Pajama

Ann Hampton Callaway

Show Details for Leftover Salmon: 2004-09-16: Band/Artist: Leftover Salmon Date: September 16th, 2004 Venue: Neighborhood Theatre Location: Charlotte, NC

Alternative Music, NPR News - KCRW.com

Looks like it has the good stuff of radio!

Metropolis looks and sounds interesting.

Flowchart for CD ripping morality: Cory Doctorow: Here’s a thought-provoking flowchart suggesting a moral process for deciding whether you should rip any given CD. Link (via Waxy)

(Via Boing Boing Blog.)

First Look: Rio’s Hot New Carbon MP3 Player: “Supersleek 5GB digital audio player is set to challenge Apple’s IPod Mini.”

(Via PCWorld.com - Latest PC World News Stories.)

The Playlist: What’s Wrong With Digital Music Stores?: “Though digital music has come a long way, today’s online music stores still have significant problems. Here’s my fix-it wish list.”

(Via PCWorld.com - Latest PC World News Stories.)

Music Fans, Beware the Big Bass: “Doctors report several cases of collapsed lungs apparently caused by loud music. They theorize that lungs may start to vibrate in the same frequency as the booming bass, which could cause a small rupture.”

(Via Wired News.)

macosxhints - Use iTunes to convert MIDI to audio files: “You don’t need to burn the MIDI file to a CD and import it back, you can just select it and choose `Convert Selection to AAC’ (or MP3 or whatever) from the `Advanced’ Menu.”

OK. Mod date?

This is for Christine to find

rtsp://66.28.252.97:554/wednesday/cri_english_1600.rm?cloakport=”80,554,7070″

OK, so that was too hard. Let’s try this

China Radio International

I edited for clarity.

RollingStone.com: “The state of Illinois sued the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of human waste from its tour bus into the Chicago River and hitting a passing boat filled with tourists. The suit cites the band and its driver for violating water pollution and public nuisance laws, and seeks $70,000 in damages.”

Show Details for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: 1998-05-28 Band/Artist: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Date: May 28th, 1998 Venue: TCC Music Hall Location: Tucson, AZ

An ear for downloads | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: “One last question I have to ask, even though it’s in your FAQ. Why no Harry Potter books? Five years ago, the issue was that we had no Tom Clancy.”

Good reading interview with the CEO of Audible - Donald Katz. I wonder if he’ll make an audio file available with the interview

Show Details for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: 2004-08-12 Band/Artist: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Date: August 12th, 2004 Venue: Aragon Ballroom Location: Chicago, IL

OK - I’ve tried them. At least in this case the VBR stream is much better than the 64KB stream. I guess the fact that the pipes are empty this time of the day makes it behave better.

Liszt: Masterpieces for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 - Alfred Brendel & Jeanne-Marie Darre: “

Liszt: Masterpieces for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 Alfred Brendel & Jeanne-Marie Darre Release Date: August 26, 2003 Total Songs: 8 Genre: Classical Price: $19.99 Copyright 2003 Vanguard Classics

(Via iTunes 50 Just Added Albums.)

This is too much money for a music download!

Printing CD Covers and Lists in iTunes: “Apple’s recent updates to iTunes (versions 4.5 and 4.6) offer users many exciting new features including the ability to print CD covers and track or album lists, the importing and converting of WMA audio files (Windows only), an all-new play queue feature called “Party Shuffle,” the sharing of “iMixes” on the Music Store, and last but certainly not least: streaming audio to a remote set of speakers using an Apple Airport Express with AirTunes technology. These new…”

(Via iPodlounge.)

I didn’t know this!

Show Details for String Cheese Incident: 2004-08-07 Band/Artist: String Cheese Incident Date: August 7th, 2004 Venue: Sunshine Daydream Location: Terra Alta, WV

Show Details for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: 2004-07-28 Band/Artist: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Date: July 28th, 2004 Venue: Woodland Park Zoo Location: Seattle, WA

Changes to the Hotel California, Made in Response to Mr. Henley’s Recent Complaint: “McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: C H A N G E S   T O   T H E H O T E L   C A L I F O R N I A, M A D E   I N   R E S P O N S E T O   M R .   H E N L E Y ‘ S …”

(Via X’s Prismatic Ponderings….)

Link to Link

KQED | Public TV, Radio and Interactive • New Jersey Gov. Resigns • Calif. Gay Marriages Invalid • Najaf Battle Nears Shrine

This is where to find Studio 360 et al

said the gramophone: with you these songs are for evaluation purposes only: go out and buy the records! please stream tracks instead of downloading. all songs are removed within seven days of posting.

[iTunes was playing "Who's Going Down To Town" by Open Road while I was writing this.]

Who’s Going Down to Town - Family Tradition Lyrics Database

Who’s Going Down to Town Whiskey by the gallon, sugar by the pound, A great big bowl to put it in and a spoon to stir it a round. Chorus: Who’s going down to town, Who’s going down to town, Who’s going down to Wellingtown, to carry my tobacco ’round. Once I had an old fool dog, and I wish I had him back, He chase the big hogs o’er the fence and the little ones through the cracks. Once I had a little girl, I brought her from the south, She bound her hair so doggone tight, she couldn’t shut her mouth.

Show Details for String Cheese Incident: 1998-05-01 Band/Artist: String Cheese Incident Date: May 1st, 1998 Venue: Nashville River Stage Location: Nashville, TN

Source: DSBD - Sony TCD-D8 Lineage: DAT - ?? - CD-R - EAC - FLAC16 Transfered by: Robert Varnell Good Example! of earlier String Cheese

Lawrence Lessig

On the nascent cable industry, in 1974 “[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.”

Lessing provides some Jack Valenti quotes

Show Details for String Cheese Incident: 2004-07-25 Band/Artist: String Cheese Incident Date: July 25th, 2004 Venue: The Joint Location: Las Vegas, NV

Source: DPA4023 - Lunatec V3 @ 24bit/44.1kHz - VXPocket v2 - Portege 3480ct - Lineage: Vegas 3 - WaveLab (24-16bit dither via UV22HR) - CDWave - FLAC Frontend Taped by: Jason Ho Transfered by: Jason Ho

M.C.Escher On this website you can find information about the use of M.C. Escher’s work, a short biography, news, bibliography, links and some fun stuff like a Virtual Ride through some of his works.

Eric Halfvarson Eric Halfvarson was destined to be an opera star.

“I have to stay strong,” he observes with a sly smile, “in order to kill the tenor on stage. Which I never mind doing, because tenors make more money than basses. And they usually get the girl.”

Show Details for String Cheese Incident: 2004-07-10 Band/Artist: String Cheese Incident Date: July 10th, 2004 Venue: Red Rocks Amphitheater Location: Morrison, CO

I really like this tune…Desert Dawn

Show Details for String Cheese Incident: 2004-06-20 Band/Artist: String Cheese Incident Date: June 20th, 2004 Venue: Horning’s Hideout Location: North Plains, OR

Source: Rode NT-2’s (TS – DFC) > Grace Designs Lunatec V2 > Benchmark Sonic AD2K > Tascam DAP1 x2 > Sony TCD-D8 > Sony PCM-M1 @ 48 kHz