The Problem
After about a year of enjoying how well my Ubuntu Linux home server downloads, organizes, and serves video files to my TV, I started to think harder about serving up music to devices around the house, and to my phone and/or PC while I’m at work. In the past, I’ve made my music library [...]
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The record industry is dying, and that’s fine with me. It’s most important function, aside from distribution, is content selection. Record label A&R (artists and repertoire) acts as a giant content filter, which has its good points (you don’t personally have to listen to 1,000 lousy songs before hearing a good one) and its bad [...]
Not all the songs that I played with Moondog made it to the recording studio. Part of my songwriting practice was recording demos on the 4-track cassette recorder that Nate Harris and I shared. Here are a couple of my best recordings on that venerable device.
During the Moondog days, we must have had three or [...]
When I was in high school, I spent countless hours playing guitar, writing songs, rehearsing, and performing with my best friends, Nate Harris and Sean Burton, in our band: Moondog.
It was really fun, and we took our music very seriously, even the pretentious Velvet Underground covers we played at every rehearsal. Just after high school [...]
