I’ve been fortunate to become involved with a new album from my friends in the Mike Farley Band. If you were into the music scene in Cleveland in the late ’90s/early 2000s, you remember the band and their amazing live performances, and their album “Halfaworldaway”. The guys in the band are creating a new record despite […]
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The new DD69 album “The Pint of No Return” is online now!
My musical collaboration known as drunkdude69 released our fifth studio album on 6/9/15: “The Pint of No Return“. You can listen to the album at DD69’s bandcamp page and name your price for downloads (yes, even free). Please have a listen! This album returns to the ska-flavored rock style that was in evidence on […]
Klipsch GMX-A speaker repair
I’ve got two sets of speakers here in my lair: JBL LSR4326P powered monitors with a subwoofer, which are set up as the monitors for my Pro Tools system, and a set of Klipsch GMX-A speakers which plays audio output from my Mac desktop (iTunes, YouTube, and so on). Recently I was relocating some wiring while cleaning the […]
A powerful sentiment
This is from a great comment I found while checking out an article on the CD Baby DIY Musician Blog. It’s from a user who goes by BoboSwenson, and it resonates with my feelings about making music in a strong way (emphasis is mine): “… I work at a great music and arts academy and the most important […]
Footswitch fix
I just fixed an issue associated with a new footswitch, which is a Roland FS-1 I’m connecting to the Nord Stage 2 Latch/Rotor input to switch between slow and fast rotary speaker settings. For about a year I’d been using an extra sustain pedal to switch the rotor speed. Depress the pedal and (most of the time) […]
Does This Hold Up Theme – holiday redux
Jamie and TJ from the Does This Hold Up podcast asked me if I could get them a holiday-flavored version of the theme song that Jay Goodman and I recently wrote for their highly entertaining show. I was happy to oblige! I retooled some of the tracks and swapped in some new instrumentation (sleigh bells, bells, strings and […]
Studio night
Cool shot from a recent night when Jay and I recorded vocals. Thanks Jay!
Does This Hold Up?
Via a friend on Twitter I found out that the guys over at Does This Hold Up? were looking for a theme song for their podcast. I got in touch, and they explained that they do an entertaining look at old movies, with guest comedians joining regular hosts Jamie and TJ. It sounded like fun, […]
Judicious Stutter
I’ve been digging a new Izotope plug-in I got for Pro Tools called Stutter Edit. In the simplest terms, it lets you assemble a group of effects into what they call a “gesture”, and then you can play these gestures via MIDI. It’s almost something that you have to play around with to grok the […]
8/28/2014: Slightly Stoopid / Zach Deputy
If you’ve checked out any DD69 music, you’ll know that I loves me some ska, rock, and funk music. So it’s not a surprise that I wanted to go check out Slightly Stoopid at the House of Blues. They were originally scheduled to be here back in March, but had to cancel. I kept an […]