Archives for the 'Music' Category
Another Cigar Box Guitar
Published on 30 May 2007 at 8:56 am.
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A couple weeks ago I decided to make a second cigar box guitar. This time I followed the plans from CigarBoxGuitar.com. It was more complicated than the MAKE magazine version I made previously. The neck runs through the box rather than just being glued to the top. I also decided to use real strings and […]
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Aaaaaaarrrrrghhh!*
Published on 23 May 2007 at 5:44 pm.
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I just realized I skipped Houses of the Holy in my Listen to Every Led Zeppelin Album In Order Project. Now I have to start over.
*Side note: Although this is not valid in Scrabble, AARGH, AARRGH, and AARRGHH are all OK.
What This Country Needs is a Good 5-cent Guitar
Published on 8 Apr 2007 at 8:48 pm.
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Last week Kathy gave me a really great gift: a subscription to MAKE magazine.
MAKE is an amazing magazine that really appeals to the tinkerer in me. It covers making everything under the sun from woodworking to electronics. Every issue is packed with tons of fantastic projects. So, a really awesome feature of the subscription […]
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Published on 2 Apr 2007 at 12:59 pm.
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Friday night, I finally got a band I’ve waited a long time to see: Black Sabbath. Well, they weren’t calling themselves Black Sabbath, they were calling themselves Heaven and Hell (why do I think Sharon Osbourne is somewhere behind that?) but it was Black Sabbath. I had tried to see them last year or the […]
Conjunction of Awesomeness
Published on 27 Dec 2006 at 10:44 am.
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Circumstances have brought together two things that I really dig: the band Harvey Danger (who I’ve written about before) and Jonathan Coulton, the hilarious genius behind Re: Your Brains and many many other songs.
The Stranger held a charity auction where the winner got to pick a song for Harvey Danger to cover. (Jeez, that was […]
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Last Week In Music
Published on 17 May 2006 at 4:27 pm.
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I saw two excellent but very different shows over the past week. (OK actually it’s almost 2 weeks ago now…)
Last Friday was Dark Star Orchestra, the Grateful Dead cover band. If you’re not familiar with DSO, their shtick is that they don’t just cover songs, they cover entire shows. I was a minor-league Deadhead in […]
Bluegrass and Other Delights
Published on 17 Apr 2006 at 12:40 pm.
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Friday night we saw a true living legend in concert: Ralph Stanley. If you don’t know him by name or know about the Stanley Brothers, you’d probably recognize his voice as the singer of “O Death” on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. And if you still don’t know what I’m talking about then […]
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Metal for Old Farts (Rob Zombie at the Nokia Theatre)
Published on 29 Mar 2006 at 12:37 pm.
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The tagline for the show was “VH1 Classic presents Rob Zombie”. VH1? Classic? How old is Rob Zombie? How old am I?!
This was my first time at the Nokia Theatre and I was really impressed. It’s a good medium-sized venue (holds about 2500 I think), with the front general admission standing and the back […]
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(Don’t) Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd
Published on 17 Mar 2006 at 6:37 am.
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Kathy and I went to see the new production of Sweeney Todd. Bleh. Awful.
It was staged in a style I can only describe as Avant Tard.
There was no orchestra - the actors were also the musicians. Clever, right? I guess. But what that means is that every scene has a bunch of people milling around […]
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Live Plasma
Published on 23 Oct 2005 at 7:02 pm.
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My current favorite web toy is LivePlasma. It’s been around a while, but if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s like a Flash version of those Rock Family Trees they used to have in Rolling Stone. It works with both music and movies. The fun part is that you can click around and keep exploring […]