August 20, 2008
I was deeply saddened to hear that Leroi Moore, the saxophonist of Dave Matthews Band passed away on August 19, 2008.
I don’t consider myself a huge fan of DMB — at least not any more. That said, two early albums, Under the Table and Dreaming and Crash, are among my all-time favorite albums. And I [...]
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August 18, 2008
I’m half way through reading a book called “Song Man” by Will Hodgkinson. This is a sequel to a book called “Guitar Man” by I haven’t read the first novel.
It’s Will’s own chronicle of his journey to discover the secret of songwriting, and in the course of his exploration, he uses his position as [...]
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August 5, 2008
Last night, I started two brand new songs. One a children’s song which will be called “Balloon Boy,” the other a bluesy rock song.
It’s a great sign when I wake up in the morning and can still sing the tunes I wrote last night.
Starting a song is a bit like catching butterflies, or any [...]
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July 27, 2008
I submitted this blog to an event called Blog-To-Show. Well, I made a silly mistake of omitting some required information in my submission, so I don’t know if this blog will even get listed.
Anyway, the organizer of this blog advised to put up a little post to guide the new visitors from that event to [...]
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July 21, 2008
I just discovered a new mp3 search site — Mix Turtle.
It uses Ajax to find songs you’re looking for, load it and play it for you. You can make play lists of the songs you found.
I just did a search on Tool — I could find the entire Latelarus album, create a play [...]
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July 15, 2008
This morning I was listening to System of a Down — and was tapping into the feelings of music. It was a great outlet. Serj Tankian has such an articulate voice. It’s so sharply focused — it’s like a heavy hammer, but it’s engineered and balanced so perfectly, that anyone can use it to hit [...]
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July 13, 2008
This week, I had a chance to reconnect with one of my close friends from high school, Fred, on the phone.
Since graduation, we had spoken once over the phone during college. Considering that, we enjoyed a great conversation — it was amazing how we still related to each other after all these years. It appeared [...]
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July 8, 2008
It’s one of my pet peeves. It used to be worse in the 80’s but it still happens often enough in pop music.
Fading out a song at the end.
There are millions of ways to begin a song. The most common way is to play a riff or the main chord progression — sometimes [...]
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July 6, 2008
I was on a vacation this last week, and had an occasion for a 3-hour drive by myself. Now that I’m a family man, a road trip by myself is quite a treat — driving being one of the favorite way for me to listen to music. There’s something about road trips that make them [...]
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June 30, 2008
Yesterday, I had a peer mentoring session with a good friend of mine who’s looking for a job.
And in the conversation, I realized that there’s a huge common ground between job hunting and promoting a band.
It’s all about identity.
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