Since my switch from the dreaded blogger lame ass blogging software to Wordpress I’m now able to take advantage of some new features here.
I’m now working on categorizing all the posts. I have 8 categories currently:
Boneheads: A category dedicated to stupid people and the things they do.
Gear: Recording gear, musicial instruments, computers or any gear I deal with.
Gigs: Stories about my gigs or other peoples gigs.
Random: A blanket category when nothing else works.
Rants: When shit pisses me off I use this category.
Recording: Recording studio war stories, recording techniques etc.
Uncategorized: Means I have yet to decide what category to put the post in.
Now some posts may have multiple categories. For example: A dumbass musician jumps on my stage and plays my drums. He’s drunk and he breaks my snare head and won’t get away from my kit. That post alone could be a combined boneheads, gear, gigs, musicians and rants. I can already see that the boneheads and musicians categories will be selected together many times.
I’m about 25% of the way through categorizing the old posts so be patient.
mediaguru Boneheads, Gear, Gigs, Musicians, Random, Rants, Recording
Welcome to the fresh new Pro Sound Blog! I started having some feed problems a while back. Then I all the sudden had a 404 error on my main page. But the damn file was there and it checked out ok. Add that to the fact that it seems like I’ve spent half my blogging life waiting for the frigging blogger page while it says “publishing…. publishing…. publishing….” for fucking ever.
I’m now done with blogger. I’ve moved the site’s location to the root of this server and I’m now running Wordpress. WP is the best blogging software out there. It is elegant and fast. It’s so much faster than blogger.
So there you go. I’ve spent this evening figuring out how to get all the posts from blogger to Wordpress. Not too hard. I managed to salvage the comments too.
I look forward to much more blogging about drums, rock and roll, music, recording and dumbass musicians.
Peace
mediaguru Rants
In this article The Who’s Pete Townshend blames wearing headphones in the recording studio for his hearing loss.
So touring for decades with The Who, standing next to the insane Keith Moon’s drum kit and standing in front of huge stacks of Hiwatt amps cranked to 11 had nothing to do with his hearing loss? I remember going to see The Who and there were actually disclaimers saying if you were in the first 30 rows in front of Pete’s rig you might experience hearing damage.
But no, it was the headphones…. Ok Pete.
mediaguru Boneheads
I found this cool site called the Sloganizer. You type in your company name or your name and it comes up with a slogan for you.
So naturally the first word I typed in was the word “pussy.”
Pussy – once you have it, you love it.
Go to heaven with Pussy.
Enjoy Pussy.
The Future of Pussy.
Pussyrific.
Pussy is your safe place in an unsafe world!
Make yourself at home with Pussy.
Pussy – as good as it gets!
I wouldn’t leave the house without Pussy.
Pussy, the original.
Pussy – spice up your life.
Pussy – go for it!
Make the world a better place with Pussy.
Pussy is your friend.
Pussy – what more could you want?
You better get your Pussy out.
When you say Pussy you’ve said it all.
Pussy – it’s like heaven!
Passion for Pussy.
Be young, have fun, taste Pussy.
The Pussy man.
Pussy is the only way to be happy.
Start the day with Pussy.
Life’s beautiful with Pussy.
Pussy on the outside, tasty on the inside.
Pussy – Your personal entertainer.
Now let’s type in….
mediaguru Random
I had to laugh at the new year’s gig watching my scatter brained guitar player. He was eating fish and chips while singing, playing guitar and trying to light a cigarette. Always entertaining.
So I thought I’d provide the general public with a “real” diagram of a guitar player’s rig, not one of those phony ones you see in guitar player magazine.
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Last night’s gig was interesting to say the least.
First our poor singer’s mother is in critical condition in the hospital following a head on collision with a semi on the freeway. We were very close to canceling the gig so our singer could be with his mother in the hospital.
2nd, our poor singer’s car was broken into, so half his guitar/pa gear was stolen. We had to put together a makeshift PA for the gig.
The gig was up at the top of the canyon at a ski resort. The weather was terrible. It was snowing heavily and we knew that 2 of the 3 cars we had in the band would not make it up in the snow. So we all packed all our gear in our bass player’s rental truck. Our bass player was rear ended by a drunk driver so his regular truck was damn near destroyed. I hope my car isn’t next.
The club was your regular resort bar you’d find in any ski resort. The only problem is that with all the heavy snow, the only people there were the ski bums that live at the resort and a few tourists. Fortunately out of sheer random luck our friend Mike was there. Mike is the best live sound guy in town and he helped us get our sound up and running.
One of the reasons I took this gig was I was told there were going to be strippers dancing on the stage. I’m always good with that. But the strippers apparently didn’t have four wheel drive so they couldn’t get there. Dammit. The club had this “Austin Powers Tent” setup where the chicks were supposed to dance behind a back lit white sheet for the audience. Fortunately there was a hottie that did that. My new girlfriend Michelle (pictured) danced behind the sheet. The nice thing was that I could see the back side so I got the real show. Michelle had about the tightest body I’ve ever seen. She and I had a nice “chat” on the break. She’s a professional dancer and dance instructor which explains the body. Now what does it mean when a chick asks you to go out and smoke (not ciggies) with her? Anyway…
Strange thing about this new years gig was the timing. With the heavy snows, the cops informed everyone that the canyon will be closing due to avalanche danger at 12:15am. So rather than being forced to buy the band extremely expensive resort hotel rooms, they told us to do the countdown to 2006 at 11:45pm. We played the last song and an encore. Then we left our gear there and rushed out to the truck and got through the gates 2 minutes before they closed them for the night.
The drive down the canyon was brutal (see pic 2). Major snow.
Usually a new years gig involves playing for 4 hours and partying until 1-2am. This time we were out of the club before midnight and I was in the comfort of my flannel jammies by about 2am.
mediaguru Gigs
