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I am getting so old. The pieces are finally coming together to allow me to start recording again. Windows 7: check. New Cubase 5: check. Now we’re ready to configure the recording setup. Using an Emu 0404 as input, I have two mono inputs...
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You’ve got to be kidding me. What’s the occasion for this? Which freaking song are you still working on? Well, the impetus for the post is the simplicity of Windows Live Writer. Having a nice WYSIWYG editor makes for less resistance...
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Just a post to say I'm still here and still doing stuff. I'm trying to make good on the next CDD release. I'm not sure when or how I turned "CDD" into a release format, but whatever. I have one full song, one more than midway complete song, and a couple...
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While I was writing descriptions for the different albums, I found myself referring to "era's" of writing: early CZ, middle ESQ, TLC. I used the songs that were being played as a guide as to when the album was recorded. That got me thinking about the...
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As the end of the year approaches, I find myself with a renewed interest in the 700cb.com website. Some of the things I have done, am doing, and plan on doing: Added tracks from Super Sessions Organized tracks out of Latest and Greatest into Seq 4 Adding...
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The more recent of my musical experiences has been an extended tour of "dueling piano" bars. Well, I'm going to say "extended" because it's been more than one, and anyone that knows me would give pause at the thought of me in a bar. That's part of the...
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It's been so long since I made a blog entry I don't know where I left off. My latest diversion has been my jump into portable MP3 players. Starting with the wife, a Sansa c250. Seeing the immediate addiction (the headphones are in almost constantly),...
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Sometimes I wonder how bands come up with names. There's a lot of creative names out there. Sometimes it would interesting to know how the name came to be. I'm guessing in most cases it just sort of happened. Boston: "What should we call ourselves?" "Well,...
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Even when it's fake press Studio of the Future? A local Florida studio is preparing for the next wave of pop music talent. The 700 Chilled Brains (700cb) studio claims it will create the first kid-friendly studio in the country. A spokesperson for Chilled...
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My recording has come to a temporary stop due to computing improvements. An upgrade of the computer this weekend has left me without any MIDI capability. Apparently, the soundcard drivers for the Yamaha SW1000 really do not cooperate with multi-processor...
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ewww. So I'm finally making good on that post a while ago to record something... anything... new. A while ago I tried recording this older song, but just couldn't get the feeling right. Sure, I could play it live, but why not take the time and try to...
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So what have I been doing lately? I do have a new song that's being refined in my usual process, which involves playing it ad infinitum until it makes sense to me. The parts that usually get tweaked are the transitions between sections. Anyone that has...
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This is the second concert in as many weeks. That's almost as many concerts as I've been to in my life. This week at Universal was Huey Lewis and the News. The music was great - only maybe four songs I didn't know. However, it wasn't a top-notch experience....
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Last weekend at Universal Studios, I stayed late to watch the Mardi Gras concert and that night was Donna Summer. It was a very old school concert. In the days of synthesizers and backing tracks, it's pretty retro to take a large band around. And it was...
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Here's a couple of organ songs. I've been sitting on them for a little while and I guess it's time to set them free. At one time I was thinking about making them into a trilogy, with Sunny Cathedral being the first part, but each one stands on its own...
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And the winner is... soft rock. I thought I would go for the electronic album, but no. The other two albums are: Wendy MaHarry - Wendy MaHarry: I thought this was soft rock, and I was correct. This album reminded me of Christine McVie, although not as...
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On a recent trip, I made a pawn shop run on the search for some music. Being sick of everything i had and hoping for some random cool music, I grabbed 5 cds that could have potential. I picked a cd each that looked like: death metal guitar-based rock/jazz...
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I was in the middle of a decent idea, recording tracks and finding more ideas. Then I hear growling. Cat #2 is trying to enter the studio, which cat #1 is hoarding. This (protective, possessive behavior) has been pretty typical, so with a brief check...
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Well, it's not really a swarm like I had promised months ago, but it's progress. The website is finally getting stabilized and now I can start doing something creative. The new tunes are: Chuck : This track is not mine. It's from an old archive of MacSnide's...
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Older songs listed but not downloadable now have MP3s. These are songs in Jake Sequences, *** Archive, We Live For Tea, and Future Archives....
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700cb merchandise is now available through CafePress.com !...
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I'm currently in the process of revamping the 700cb site. It's going to be entirely run by Community Server. Not such a bad idea since there's really only a couple of pages in the main site and everything else is data-driven. The new theme is orange and...
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A few nights ago I had the pleasure of enjoying some Live music - the first in long a while - and was inspired this time to PLAY instead of write. The band was Galactic drummer Stanton Moore’s self-titled side project from his latest album 'III'....
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I'm just cleaning up some old stuff and figured I'd mix it down into a bunch of B-side grade tracks. I have three slated so far and maybe more depending on how deep I dig and how lame I want to get. One of the songs I can try out an idea shown to me by...
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In the immortal words of Return of the Living Dead. I came up with this chord pattern one night and like any other neat riff, I cannot get it out of my head. So to exorcise it, I have to record it. So there's a new sequence coming this weekend. probably...
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