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.
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 