Music

Lou Reed makes a good point, doesn't understand marketing

Lou Reed, who I am big fan of his music, made a point at the SXSW premiere of the documentary Lou Reed's Berlin that, "people have got to demand a higher standard". Coverage at ZDNet. While I agree that MP3 is a crumby file format, Lou misses the point.

Jim Donovon Music

I was walking through the house humming along to Rusted Root's Send Me On My Way playing off my music server and thought to myself, "Whatever happened to Jim Donovan?

Zendrum ZX MIDI Setup Mapping Cheat Sheet

After playing around with my Zendrum ZX for a couple months now, I'm ready to go public with performances. In the process of setting up the ZX, I realized how useful it would be to have a template for recording the MIDI note mappings and what they trigger. For one setup I might be using my Alesis DM5 module and the Standard Set.

Music

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."

— John Lennon

Music

"This song is copyrighted in U.S. under seal of copyright D154085 for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of our'n, 'cause we din't five a dern'. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." (found on a late 1930's songbook distributed by Woody Guthery)

— Woody Guthery

Jazz Music

Regarding JJ Johnson

"I remember when we did drag J.J. on up there [onstage], Benny Carter said, 'Go ahead, man, play something.' And he's sweating and scared to death. Man, he turned 'Body & Soul' inside out."

— Earl Coleman

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