There is some absolutely sick layering pedal work in this video.
Howie Day is the perfect example of a singer-songwriter who was completely ruined by his management, collaborators, or by the label (I’m not sure which). His best work is solo; putting him with a full band on tour and over-producing his albums were both really, really bad decisions.
If you don’t mind working with Shorten files, there’s a great recording of one of his shows from 2002 available (legally) here.
I’m excited to be seeing new music from AKUS coming soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMBpBjFfVyo
Boo on there not being any harmonies in this track. Otherwise, great stuff.
A couple of weeks ago I picked up the Pat Benatar pack for Rock Band, mostly out of curiosity. Last night I played “Love Is a Battlefield” for the first time and found it to be a lot more fun than I was expecting. I suppose I hadn’t listened to what the guitar was doing in the background before.
I did 95% on sightread, which was good enough for 1,496th on the leaderboard.
It’s not the best Benatar on Rock Band, though; that honor goes to “Heartbreaker.”
My Rock Band activity page is here, by the way. I really wish Harmonix provided RSS feeds or another way to ingest this information elsewhere. I turned on the Facebook integration today, but I prefer to bring this stuff into my own site where I can control it.
Devin Coldewey for TechCrunch:
The record companies suing Limewire were asked to estimate the damages that should be paid by the file-sharing service. Their estimate? $400 Billion on the low end, and at the high end — $75 trillion dollars. That’s more than the GDP of the entire world.
The last gasp of a dying industry cartel.
Ryan Markel 