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My Son’s Radio Interview

October 25, 2006 at 10:13 am · Filed under Family, Music

My oldest son went over to Fargo last night (more like early this morning – 3am-5am) and did a interview on NDSU radio. He’s got a band, and they’re getting better than what they had been in the past. I’m not really “into” that type of music, so I really don’t know.

Anyway, I tuned into the stream, online and recorded the whole two hours. I created four different versions of the recording. A full version, complete with all of the other music that was played during the two hours (NDSUFull), another version that was chopped down to just their voices (NDSUVoice) and their song (which was played twice). There’s a high quality WAV (High) and a low quality MP3 (Low) of each.

Rather than link them, directly, I’ll just give you a directory listing of them, so you can decide which one, if you want to listen. At the time I’m writing this, the only one that has completed uploading is NDSUVoiceLow.mp3. It might take a while for the others, and I’m going to bed. I’ll yank out the last part of this paragraph when I get up.

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It’s Not About MySpace

June 4, 2006 at 7:38 pm · Filed under Music

Where is all of the “good” music, these days? In the Metal genre, there seems to be a thousand bands with the same sound and the same “growling” lead singer who couldn’t carry a note if they tried. If they actually “could” carry a note, we wouldn’t recognize the voice, anyway. We had “one” band that sounded like that, in my generation. All the rest of them seem to be copying them, or each other. If you know of one modern Heavy Metal band that doesn’t sound like the lead singer is the spawn of Satan, please let me know.

Anything else that is classified as the Rock genre seems to be mostly watered down versions of the same theme, played at different tempos. Any artistic value that most of today’s music has is lost because there are no rough edges.

Gen X may be the first generation in history to complain the following generation is “too quiet.” [Link]

I’m 36. Maybe I’m not supposed to like the music that my kids are listening to, just for the fact that if I “did” like it, it wouldn’t be cool. Well…The fact is, I really don’t see how most of today’s music is supposed to be cool, anyway. They can have it.

I’m sure that I’m missing something, though. There’s got to be some good bands, creating some cutting edge, hard music that I would actually want to listen to. Where are they? My oldest son (18) listens to a lot of good music! Kinda’ funny how he can’t stand much of today’s music, either. I wonder how many other “kids” are listening to their parents music because it actually has some artistic value, edge, and power.

Meanwhile, my 11-year-old son just walked into the room, and out of the blue says “How can anybody like AC/DC?” Oh boy… I guess everybody’s got their own tastes in music, anyway.

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An Afternoon With Alice Cooper

May 14, 2006 at 6:16 am · Filed under Fun Stuff, Music, Personal

Remember the guy who decided that he was going to trade one red paperclip for a house? He started trading, a little less than ten months ago, and today the trading brings Alice Cooper to Alice, ND (about 50 miles East of where I live).

Because I have to work, I won’t be able to make it over there (I really wish I could), but this guys trading story “is” getting a little strange, especially since Alice Cooper is stalking him.

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More Video, But Not My Own

January 28, 2006 at 10:34 am · Filed under Music, Podcasting, Technology

Eric Brightfield (father of Luke Brightfield) is putting together and sending over a higher quality version of Lazy Monday – Oak Park Version. I added a link to the SEO contest blog, yesterday, but I contacted him about getting a higher quality version than what’s hosted over at YouTube.

Honestly, I think this is one of the best video mashups that I’ve seen. The fact that two 11-year-old kids put it together and made it happen is the most interesting part. Like I said in the post, over on the contest blog, it’s not the original, but it’s definetly good!

I’m telling you this because I plan to upload an iTunes compatible podcast version of it, here. I’m not sure on the file size, yet, but I’ll be as easy as I can.

These kids know what’s happening in the future, whether they realize it, or not. I’ll find out if they have a copy of Darknet yet, and if not, they’ll both get one from me!

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Labeling Indie Music

December 27, 2005 at 4:12 am · Filed under Music, Technology

Lately, I’ve been having a harder and harder time finding out if music is copyrighted, signed or independent. This story from the New York Times gives a pretty good idea of what’s happening. The problem that I have is finding out how the music is licensed, and whether it can be shared on a network or web site, legaly.

I hope that there is some sort of solution so that Indie Artists can define how their work can be used. I know that the meta information is supposed to tell us all of that, but most of the time, it doesn’t. Honestly, though, even if the meta information said that the music “did” have a copyright, there’s nothing stopping people from changing the information and “re-releasing” it.

Most of the indie bands that I’ve seen have web sites. They need to make it clear, on their web sites (something that can usually “only” be changed by them), how their work can be used and shared! This would help a lot of people stay out of trouble. It would also keep certain moderators from removing your songs from web sites because there could be a chance of infringement, even if your intentions were to make it freely available.

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