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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Whenever there is news on a Mixposure Artist, we will always try and keep everyone informed! If you have news, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:news@mixposure.com">please email us!</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/MARK_CLOUTIER/">Mark Cloutier</a></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Based in Upstate New York, in the Syracuse region, guitarist Mark Cloutier is doing a great job releasing a barrage of CDs on his Blues Lion Records label. Much of Mark’s 2009 CD <em>Attitude With Gratitude </em>is instrumental in nature and with that unique element front and center, his guitar work sounds also greatly inspired by rock legends like Hendrix, Jimmy Vaughan, early Buddy Guy and T-Bone Walker. Likewise, much the same could be said about Mark’s 2008 CD with his group <em>Stratattack, </em>entitled <em>Blues In My House. </em>Featuring solid support from an adept rhythm section, Cloutier’s guitar takes on a number of sonic guises on different tracks. For instance, track 8 on <em>Attitude With Gratitude, </em>“There’s A Place”—a great atmospheric instrumental that mixes rock and jazzy styles to great effect—is one of Cloutier’s finest and most memorable tracks. One look at Cloutier’s web site and you can really see a guitarist who is quite prolific, with each of his CD's being strongly recommended to both blues and rock fans, as well as guitar instrumental fans. <strong><a href="http://www.DoubleBarrelBluesBand.com" target="_self">www.DoubleBarrelBluesBand.com</a></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">MUSIC WEB EXPRESS 3000 <br /> presents MARK CLOUTIER</span><br /> Guitars Center Stage Guitarists making waves in the music world, their new recordings and gear!</em></strong></span></strong></span></p><p><em>Musical Background</em></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /> </span></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I started playing guitar when I was 14 years old. I saw this fella playing a Halifax Les Paul copy guitar in the school hallway and it caught my attention. I remember him playing “Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love” by Van Halen and I thought it was the coolest thing. I approached him and asked about the guitar and he told me he was selling it. I went home and begged my parents for a week or so and they finally gave in and gave me the money to buy it! Very exciting for me as I was tiring of athletics and need something new—a new challenge! I had a friend who played guitar so he started teaching me basics and eventually I studied with a fella by the name of Dana Klipp. He turned me on to the blues and all the great guitar players! I have been playing for 30 years now and everyday I am still learning something. I also enjoy playing bass and on some of my early solo guitar recordings you can hear me playing the 4 string! <br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><em><br /> <br /> New CD<br /> <br /> </em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As you may have noticed I am very busy recording my works. It really is an ongoing documentation of all my ideas and influences.<img src="http://www.mwe3.com/reviews/MarkCloutier2010/Mark11.jpg" alt="" width="444" height="451" align="right" /> I really love turning on the record and sometimes just tapping into my stream of conscience. Lately I have really worked on themes and dynamics to build off of and then come back to. Seems to be a very good formula of late. The new CD <em>Attitude With Gratitude</em> was based on that formula. I received some helpful tips from the legendary Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records. He has listened to some of my recordings and made mention of paying a bit more attention to melody and themes to bring out my soloing more. I took that advice and think I am heading in the right direction for sure! <em>Attitude With Gratitude</em> is the result.<br /> <br /> I record at home in a very simplistic manner. I use Cakewalk software with a Lexicon Lambda usb. The bass guitar and drums are from a fellow by the name of Lawrence Fritts, a professor from Iowa University. He had posted some backing tracks to be used by musicians such as myself. I asked him if it would be okay to use the tracks for my CD’s. He said no problem and mentioned he really liked what I was doing with them! I have embellished many tracks with rhythm guitar and in some cases double lead work. I just plug my SRV Fender Strat into either my Crate or Hughes and Kettner amp and run it direct into my computer by way of mic-ing my amp. It’s a cool formula that allows me to work efficiently during my usual two hour stints of recording per session. I work and have a family and gig often so I am very busy. I do much of the online advertising with our web site and everything else involved. Essentially, I am my own recording label. I do think these recordings are influenced by my many years of gigging and reading people. The people’s response-reaction to what you do and what you don’t do are important. I tend to lay back quite a bit to set the crowd up for my attack. Some say it’s a form of blues shredding when I get excited. I would say Buddy Guy has influenced me in that manner—I love how he attacks. Of course SRV had the same effect on me along with Hendrix.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.mwe3.com/reviews/MarkCloutier2010/" target="_blank">Read More.....</a></em></strong></span></strong></span></p><div><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em><br /></em></strong></span></div>
Congratulation to RW for having the Mixposure Song of the Week. Check out the tune below or visit his page!
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZdXfkkyI1nQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZdXfkkyI1nQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Rick posted this in the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14205" target="_blank">forum</a> and I though I would post it up on the main Mix page. For those of you who did not know, Rick built this custom SG and gave it to Buck Dharma from Blue Oyster Cult. Here is a video he found on youtube of him playing it in concert. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Way too cool Rick! </span></p>
Congratulation to Vrane Kamene - Crows of Stone for having the Mixposure.com Song of the Week. Check out the tune below or visin their page!
Vrane Kamene (Crows of Stone)
<p><span style="font-size: small;">I just wanted to let everyone know that we did a slight update to the site. Dace had mentioned that he missed the blogs on the main page and I agree so I did do a slight update. Under the Site Blogs you will now see the addition of Artist Blogs. That will display the last 10 blogs entered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"> There were also some people that wanted the players to start when the web page loaded and others who did not want it to load. What we did was to create two code areas to copy from on your Widget Page. One will have the autoload function and the other will not. Just copy the one you need. Also please remember that the majority of the audio players are scalable. All you need to do is to change the height and width values to make it the size you need. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">I hope this helps!!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Dazed</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Well Facebook made a change somewhere down the line and it stopped our Audio Players from working on Facebook. I spent about an hour last night playing with it and got it working again. That is the good news. The bad news is Facebook caches all of the pages and I think only Zuckerberg knows how long that is until they expire and cache the pages again. Facebook offers a developer page that will refresh the caches from an individual page standpoint but not an entire site. In other words, I can't snap my fingers and make it work!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Please give it a couple of days and you will be able to embed the players back on Facebook again. Sorry for the issue everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Todd</span></p><p> </p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy Valentine's Day!! </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #888888;">I hope everyone is having a great day! Since it is Valentine's Day, there will be no Radio Show tonight. Mr Polar bear is taking out Mrs Polar bear for some salmon delights and eskimo thighs. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p>
<p>Congratulations to <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Ron_Kauffman/">Ron Kaufman</a> and <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/ONE/">One</a> for winning the OCR Country and OCR Rock & Roll Contest.</p><p>Ron's song was called Hero and was an amazing Country submission. The band one submitted Queen of Rock and Roll and was a brilliant tune.</p><p>You can check out the tunes below as well as visitng their song pages on Mixposure.com.</p><p>Thanks to everyone who submitted a song and a big thanks to Bobby, Steve, Carol Sue and Gene for running this contest! </p><p><object width="400" height="450" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=31088&band_id=8446&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=31088&band_id=8446&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></param><embed width="400" height="450" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="radio_id=&song_id=31088&band_id=8446&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=31088&band_id=8446&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </object></p><p> <object width="400" height="450" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="flashVars" value="radio_id=&song_id=31063&band_id=8444&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com"></param><param name="quality" value="high"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=31063&band_id=8444&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></param><embed width="400" height="450" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="radio_id=&song_id=31063&band_id=8444&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450&system_name=Mixposure.com" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="system_name=Mixposure.com&radio_id=&song_id=31063&band_id=8444&autoplay=false&skin_color=0x000000&cluster_url=http://www2.mixposure.com&jamroom_url=http://www.mixposure.com&remoteSwf=http://www.mixposure.com/modules/n8FlashPlayer/players/j3Xap.swf&remoteWidth=400&remoteHeight=450" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> </object></p>
