Rather than cranking out up-to-the-minute track posts I’ve just added a Logic composition repository page.
Feb 062008
My epic war of attrition with audio production hardware, software, and everything in between may be nearing its end. I don’t want to jinx it, but I think Logic Pro 8 may be my huckleberry. Here’s a sampling of the goods from tonight – I call it collarbone funk.
Dec 312007
I’d already bought my ticket to the Anon Salon Sea of Dreams New Year’s bash when I got lassoed into “Vasty Rumpus”, the near-legendary off-Broadway jazz burlesque troupe billed to perform on the Cabaret stage just before midnight. Actually, they weren’t billed to perform there (yet), since the band didn’t even exist until early December… but a few rehearsals, a booking connection, and a promo video featuring leggy dancers (most of them old friends of mine – y’know, from my off-Broadway days) landed us the slot.
Here we are stumbling through Duke Ellington’s Night Train, though I suspect like most of the audience you won’t be too hung up on any missed key changes.
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May 202007
San Francisco gets high marks for its execution of citywide day-partying: Carnaval traverses the Mission, North Beach Jazz Fest invades 20+ bars, Love Parade takes over Market St and Civic Center, Blue Angels prompt bbqs on every rooftop, KFOG Kaboom is visible and audible from every vantage point and car stereo, Haight St Fair overflows into the panhandle and GG Park, Burning Man Decompression makes Dogpatch visible from the moon, etc. But Bay2Breakers is the one debaucherous day to rule them all, cutting literally and figuratively across the entire city’s topography and demography, creating the biggest, most-inclusive, and most definitive annual day-party in the city. If not the country.
The Ron Jeremy Explosion has tried to do its part to contribute…
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Mar 162007
RJX loves Tahoe. Tahoe loves RJX. We played at Bar of America in Truckee close to 20 times between 2001-2004, but it’d been three years since we’d been there (on account of us not being a band anymore). Drummer Mike–visiting from NYC–provided the camera, and thanks to our friend Peter for lending his impromptu professional photography sensibilities.
For some reason these remind me of a mid-career “back to the studio” type video that some bands make (Steely Dan comes to mind), but it’s actually a live performance with really low lighting. And we seem strangely well-dressed and well-behaved. Okay maybe “old” is the word I’m looking for.
Seems appropriate the kick things off with the tune we wrote for the gig we’re playing, Truckee:
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