Yesterday’s Tweets
- http://is.gd/d7WNw Aww… #
Saturday in L.A.
Saturday Morning I walked over to Greg’s house. This is the wall where he shot the covers for Poets & Angels and Borrasca. We wanted to walk to lunch and, after striking out at the restaurant he had in mind, we walked to the Sunset Marquis. The restaurant in their garden was beautiful, but the food nothing special, maybe even awful – I was too hungry to care.
Anyway, here is the great wall Greg has used for so many portraits.
Friday Music
First half of the concert on 2003-10-02 at Ferguson Hall in Tampa, Florida.
Ahead of its time, if you ask me. Haven’t listened to this in years and must say that there are lots of very cool things happening. And Canton’s rig was totally homegrown… (((will look around for some pics!!)))
You can download the 320kbps mp3 here.
Band:
OL – guitars
Jon Gagan – bass guitars + synthesizer
Ron Wagner – percussion
Canton Becker – laptop DJ
Here is on photo of Canton’s set up. Battery-powered closet lights modified into switches to start and stop loops – light on = loop on, light off – loop off!:
And here he is in action with Ron – I shot this during their drum-duet:
Friday in L.A.
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Unfortunately, the work to reward ratio has made it difficult to sustain the experiment. Though you yourself expressed a commendable interest in the Ottmar-Friends business model, it seems that the pervading expectation on the Internet is that this type of content should be free.
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Santa Fe • New Mexico • Turtle Island
Thursday
Sunrise on the way to L.A.:
New sonic barrier around the drumkit. Don’t tap the tank! Don’t feed the drummer! Works really well as it blocks much of the sound of the drums from getting into the guitar microphone. Result better sound for everyone!!!
