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music industry, music business, and free music downloads - Future of Music
Chapter One of “Future of Music” book now online

“It is the year 2015 and you wake to a familiar tune playing softly. It gets you out of bed and makes you feel good. As you walk into the bathroom, your Personal Media Minder activates the video display in the mirror, and you watch a bit of personalized news while you get ready for the day. You step into the shower and your personalized music program is ready for you, cued up with a new live version of a track that you downloaded the other day. It is even better than the original recording, so while you dress, you tell your TasteMate program to include the new track in your playlist rotation.

You put on your new eyeglasses, which contain a networked audioheadset, letting tiny earbuds slip into your ears. You switch on the power, and the mix that your friend made for you starts to play. Music pours into your consciousness. It becomes yours.”

Check out this MP3 interview:

Dave Kusek Interview

Wow!! This is a killer Blues Podcast! You have to check this out! It’s all music from Garageband.com and it rocks!

Listen here: Roadhouse Podcast #15

The Roadhouse: The Roadhouse 015
The Roadhouse 015

The Roadhouse 015 is available for download from the above image link.

It’s the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the US, time to hit the road and welcome the unofficial start of summer. This week features music perfect for road-tripping. Steve Pierson, BB Chung King and the Buddaheads, Kelly Bell Band, Billy V and the Smoking Section, and Delta Chuck lead us down the highway. Listener comments, contact information, podcasting news, and blues news serve as the mile markers. It’s the finest blues you’ve never heard - the best independent blues artists from garageband.com.

One of the huge challenges with Podcasting today is with playing music on the Podcasts. In order to play RIAA music in Podcasts you need to have BMI and ASCAP license. The cost of these are well beyond the means of virtually all Podcasters.

ENTER POD SAVE MUSIC. Pod Save Music is music protected under the Creative Commons License that allows use in Podcasts!

Podcasting represents an exciting new distribution channel for music artists! This channel is not controlled by the oligopoly radio industry or oligopoly RIAA record labels. This channel is about passion - passion for music and passion for Podcasting!

Check out the link below and support the Pod Save artists and if you have original music please setup a free music hosting account at the link below!

Join and support the revolution!!!!

Pod Safe Audio - Podsafe Music under the Creative Commons license for Podcasts and Webcasting

Here’s my Pod Save Music Site

Two Rock Owner’s Community :: View topic - TR Live Chat 5-11-05 - The Transcript

00:01:45 [joguitar] hello everyone, and welcome to the chat! It’s been toooooo looonggg!

00:02:00 [bluessyndicate] hi Joe

00:02:03 [joguitar] who’s the new Sig owner? Congrats!

00:02:26 [kirk95] KOG

00:03:02 [KOG] Hi Joe! Awaiting shipment from Midtown, Thanks

00:03:17 [bluessyndicate] seems to be a trend…saw your post on TGP about business trend growing for sigs…congrats

00:03:28 [joguitar] Excellent! Great place, nice folks.

00:03:58 [joguitar] thanks buddy! How aer you?

00:04:52 [bluessyndicate] all great here…just finished trying some new tubes in teh CR sig…having fun as usual no matter what i put in them

00:04:55 [joguitar] hey Kirk, as always, many thanks for making this chat possible

00:05:27 [joguitar] yeah, it’s fun to mess w/ tubes. whatcha got in there now?

00:05:30 [kirk95] no problem

00:06:29 [bluessyndicate] well, it’s an evolution, now it’s mullard at7’s in reverb driver/PI, Jan Phill V1, Ruby Silver Special V2, orignal NOS Chinese everywhere else

00:06:57 [kirk95] What’s up with the Sterlings? How many left?

00:07:57 [joguitar] I like a tele in v1 and a nos rca in v2, the rest don’t make a big di to me.

Click our and read the whole Transcript.

And now a gear update from the makers of Tone Tubbies!

Tone Tubby Discussion :: View topic - What’s new at Broun Sound?

Well we’re busy. John is working on 15’s for all applications and also on a good 8″ for guitar and near field monitors. All of course with the Hempcone. We are back ordered right now 3-4 weeks on all Tone Tubbies currently in production. We’re glad to welcome Ampeg/Crate aboard and the V30 and V50 sound awesome with our Ceramic 12″ Tone Tubby.

We have some clips up at:
http://www.tonetubby.com/sample12cer.htm
Clips Here!

We continue to offer speaker repair and reconing here at A Brown. Still going strong in the SF Bay area since 1974.

We would like to thank all the guitar players big and bigger for the tremendous response we’ve received the last couple of years. Thanks also to all involved in helping to make the Tone Tubby a success.

Cheers, Charlie

Team Tone Tubby

Just found a review of this cool little amp.

AXL ThinAmp Review

At the recent 2005 NAMM Expo, AXL Music�was displaying a unique portable amp, the ThinAmp. It’s only 2″ thick, and weighs just five pounds, yet it packs 10 Watts of power, 18 built-in DSP effects, a three-band EQ, and twin speakers. It’s so unique, that it is helping to create a new class of amp.

There are thousands of amps available for musicians to choose from, so it takes something unique to make one stand out. The ThinAmp does just that, by combining a powerful set of effects with one of the most portable amps ever designed.
Comparing it to other amps is difficult. It doesn’t have the body or volume of a full-size amp, or even many portable amps. It’s digital effects are useful, but are not state-of-the-art. But try and fit any other amp in a laptop bag, and you’ll see that the ThinAmp offers its own unique benefits.

Aron is the guitar tech with Weezer and currently is blogging from the current Weezer tour! Killer podcast - check it out!

Parking in Bitterman Circle
Parking In Bitterman Circle Podcast #14- Couch SurfingHere’s the latest podcast from Philadelphia, PA, especially for you.
It’s time to share the glamour of the road, travel and checking in
early because the bus can’t stay….

Aron,

Just a quick note to say I’m really enjoying your podcast! I was also in Boston playing music in the early 80’s! I am also a huge Lowell George fan… certainly don’t hear any of that on mainstream radio these days.

Since you dig Lowell , Doyle and Susan T., check out one of my tunes:

We Gotta Go

Please keep the Podcast’s coming! Highly Recomended!

Music Thing: The FlipTone Amplifier - Engadget - www.engadget.com.

Musicians are, as I’ve said before, a very traditional breed. Even digital synths often emulate designs that are 40 years old. So it will be interesting to see how acoustic guitar players take to the FlipTone amplifier. The specs are unremarkable - a 25 watt amp with a few digital effects, EQ, various inputs and outputs and laptop-style rechargable batteries for $600. But the form factor is amazing - a A4-sized brushed aluminium briefcase with a flat panel speaker forming the lid. Guitar amps have never looked like this before, although it’s not the first amp to use flat-panel speakers. The ThinAmp is a much cheaper, plastic-cased version which came out last year.

Website here.

Carl’s Site

Carl’s Discussion Board

Life Before Midi Site

Scott answers your questions round 15 - 5/9/05.

Here’s an excerpt - classic SCOTT!
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2) I saw a photo…you with John McLaughlin. So I wonder if you ever had any kind of experience with one of the monsters guitarists?(John Scofield or Pat Metheny). Do you get something from that sort of relations?

Scott:
I’ve only met Scofield twice and I’ve never met Metheny, but I’m sure I’d like him because we both have a healthy hatred of Kenny G.

3)Did you have benefits from being great guitar player, I mean having sex with gorgeous girl (like pornstar or strip dancer)

Scott:
Oh yeah, porn stars and Penthouse models love jazz fusion and they’re always waiting to rape me as soon as I get off stage. But I’m 50 now and sometimes I’m too tired.
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Full Scott Henderson Q&A here:
Full Article Here

Enjoy!
Kirk Out!

Two Rock Live Chat is Back! You can talk directlly to Bill and Joe (the builders) at Two Rock. Get the inside scoop of new Two Rock amps - The Sterling and The Sig!

When: 5/11/05

10 - 11 pm EST
9 - 10 pm CMT
8 - 9pm MST
7 - 8pm PST

Where: TROC
You have to be a member of the Two Rock Forum to join the chat.

Please join us on 5/11!!!

I am finally getting around to posting these legal GA&F mp3. These are from the first show (I think) on the tour. I have the first two tracks up and will keep posting in the next few days.

This is from the 1/21/05 Penn’s Peak Jim Thorpe, PA gig. Enjoy!

Robben Ford Discussion :: View Forum - Greg Allman and Friends featuring Robben Ford

I have been traveling the US non-stop the past 8 weeks. I am in startup build mode again!!

I caught Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Village Vanguard in NYC and he was playing this guitar. He was smoking BTW! Then a couple of weeks later I was down in Dallas at the Dallas Guitar show and got a chance to play one of these guitars. WOOOO

I want one!!! REAL BAD!

D’Angelico Guitars

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Thanks,
DH

We’ve been huge fans of this concept of podcasting. Adam Curry is leading the charge.

This is very important because Podcasting represents a whole new distribution platform for music promotion and personal content. It’s a continuation of the macro trend of media fragmentation that has been going on for the past 4 decades.

Check this out!!

The Podcasting Strategycast

Adam Curry gets Sirius - Podcasts - podcasts.engadget.com /
Adam Curry gets Sirius

Posted May 2, 2005, 5:36 PM ET by Barb Dybwad
Related entries: Podcasts, Portable Audio

Much like Infinity Broadcasting has gotten curious about podcasting, Sirius satellite radio seems to be the latest broadcast media outlet bitten by the DIY bug.

Skype is about free VOIP! Yes free… call anywhere in the world for free with better quality of land lines!

Click on the link and downloand and feel free to give me a call or leave me a voicemail. (Voicemail is not free BTW)

My Skype name is davidhenderson007….. Skype Me!