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<p><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=item_image&item_id=123&band_id=2839" alt="" width="350" height="271" /><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=item_image&item_id=126&band_id=2839" alt="" width="350" height="244" /></p><p>We are down to a handful of T-Shirts left before we put in our next order. What we would like to do is for this month and next month is award the Top 2 Song Reviewers with a Free Mixposure T-Shirt & Keychain. You can see what they look like <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_store"><strong>here</strong></a>. Click the pictures to enlarge. Please remember these are Song Reviews! Song reviews are done on the Music Page of an artist and by clicking the Comment/Info Button. You can also visit the <span style="color: #000000;"><a><strong>Newest Songs</strong></a></span><span style="color: #000000;"> P</span>age and review from there. The monthly Song Review Totals can be found <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=monthly_user_review_totals"><strong>here</strong></a>. </p><p>The rules are pretty simple.</p><p>1. Review Songs!</p><p>2. "Cool Song", "Great Tune" or "I Like It" is not a review. Please give the artist a little substance in your reviews. Reviews like this will be tossed.</p><p>3. The contest ends on the last day of the month and a new contest will begin in March.</p><p>4. Limited to Sizes on Hand </p><p>5. Mixposure Mods/Admins/DJ's are not eligible!</p><p><br />Thanks,</p><p>The Mixposure Team</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">As many of you know, this Saturday marks the official return of Saturday Night Rocks on Mixposure. There are a few things we wanted to let everyone know about. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There will be a new <a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home" target="_blank">skype</a> call in number for any requests you may have. To use this feature, you must download <a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home" target="_blank">skype</a>. My guess is the majority of you already have it but if not, you need to grab it! From there, just send a message to "SNR.Requests" without the quotes. You will receive a recorded message from Maurice aka Experimental Brain Surgery and you can leave a message with the artist name and song. Maurice will try and play it as soon as possible. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Maurice will be featuring a new interview with Mixposure Artist of the Month, Stephen Foster, and Kooder on the maiden voyage of the new Saturday Night Rocks. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We hope to see everyone there!!!</span></p><p> </p>
<p><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Paul_Reed_Smith_Music/"><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&band_id=4872&width=290" alt="" width="290" height="313" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Paul_Reed_Smith_Music/"></a><span style="font-size: medium;">Rick and I discussed this one while driving back from Experience PRS in Maryland. Who should be the October Artist of the Month? After tossing around RWK or Dazed, just kidding, we decided that it should be Paul Reed Smith. As you can see from our pictures and videos, we had a great time. We thought it was only fair we return the favor. So the October Artist of the Month is none other than <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Paul_Reed_Smith_Music/">Paul Reed Smith</a>! Thanks for a great time in Maryland!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey Everyone! You may have noticed that since we are not changing over to a new skin, I have been making some changes to the existing skin. As you can imagine, it is difficult to check every page on here so if you see something that is off, please let me know! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Once we get comfortable with how this looks, I will make an additional skin in a different color that is a bit lighter. So you will be able to toggle between a few color schemes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for being here!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Dazed<br /></span></p><p> </p><p> </p>
<p><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&band_id=3385&width=290" alt="" width="290" height="218" /></p><p>Hey Everyone!!</p><p>We are in the process on working on a new Radio Show but this one will be a bit different than the regular Radio Shows. Primarily because there will be no music.</p><p>What we are working on is a show that will be entirely on Mixing. Some of you may know <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Mike_Aurigemma/">Mike Aurigemma</a> and his music not to mention his knowledge on not only mixing but equipment as well! Anyway, we are in the process of possible putting a show together that will be an educational show on ways to improve your mixes or just learn in general. The shows will probably be based on topics suggested by members and be an hour long with an hour of discussion after the show.</p><p>So what we would like to know is would this be of interest to the members of Mixposure? If so, what topics would you like to have covered?</p><p>Thanks for your input!</p><p>Dazed</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The OCR.BOYS Radio Show on MixStream Radio with your hosts Steve & Bubba Proudly Present the Rock and Country Song Contest!</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>So what is at stake for this contest?</strong> A $75 Cash Prize to the winner of each song genre!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>How do I participate?</strong> All you do is go to the OCR.Boys Radio Shows and join them in Chat to enter your song. When you upload your song, please use the genre of OCR_Rock_Song or OCR_Country_Song. This will help us track each song better. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Who is judging this contest?</strong> Mixposure's own Daddy Rabbit is the Judge! Any bribes, threats of posting pictures of him in a thong will be cause for immediate laughter. I mean disqualification! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>When does the contest end?</strong> The contest will run through May!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Could this be an easier?</strong> Not really!</span></p><p> <object width="400" height="425" 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="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fxmKda5ElDM&rel=1"></param><embed width="400" height="425" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fxmKda5ElDM&rel=1" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></p>
<p><img src="http://blog.local.ch/files/Happy_Birthday.png" alt="" width="504" height="368" /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GINA </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">(aka Wildhoneypie). </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope Rick takes you some place nice and buys you another Martin Guitar. Who wants jewelry anyway?</span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p><img src="http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/LZ/esq-eddie-van-halen-fist-0512-lg-11299692.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="586" /></p><p> </p><p>Read the full interview <a href="http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/eddie-van-halen-interview-2012-8147775#ixzz1sOujZnqT">here</a>:</p><p>The world of rock has blown up recently over a rare interview Eddie Van Halen did with <em>Esquire</em> magazine recently, which appears in the popular mens magazine’s May issue. <em>Esquire</em> has posted some outtakes from the interviews that didn’t end up making the final cut. There’s quite a bit of personal history from Eddie in the leftovers, which is definitely interesting, but the real meat and potatoes lies in his admission of a little white lie he told <em>Guitar Player</em> magazine that set many Marshalls aflame. Here’s his admission of guilt:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: Tell me about your amps, though. How much would you tinker with your amps back in the day?</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: Always. We were tinkering until we left on tour.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: I’m talkin’ back in the old days, with your Marshall. What did you do to that thing?</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: That was a stock amp.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: Come on man, rumor was that you rebuilt the damn thing.</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: I lied in. Okay, this is a long story, actually. I think this is also my paranoia of interview, because, is because the very first — Dave and I did a promo, a radio promo, an interview promo thing before the first record came out. And here we were on live radio, and the guy’s going, “We have Van Halen, a brand-new band from L.A. here in the studio. So Dave, tell me” … And here’s Dave, “Bop, bop, yabba, dabba, doo,” you know? Then he turns to me and says, “I understand you and your brother, Alex, are from Amsterdam, Holland.” And I went, “Yeah.” Dead air. Dead air. And then the guy starts going like this, and I go, “I’m over here.” <em>And I’m looking at him, and I start gesticulating, too, and then I say, out loud, “What the **** does this mean?” It was a fuckin’ disaster.</em> So afterwards, Dave goes, “Here’s what you’re gonna do. You’re gonna lie. You’re gonna make up some shit so they don’t remember it.” And, you know, I had to say something. I couldn’t just say, “Yeah.” But he asked me a stupid question. “Yeah” sufficed. You know, I wasn’t about to say “Van Gogh’s from there, you should see it during the winter,” you know? I’m not good at elaborating in that respect. So anyway, I do my first full-blown interview with<em>Guitar Player</em>, and that whole thing is in my head. You gotta make up shit. You gotta keep it interesting. All that Dave told me. So — oh, Joe Walsh calling me?</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: Really? Joe Walsh?</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: Yeah. Grab it. Tell him I’m in the middle of an interview. But, so — okay, what I did was the amp was completely stock, but I used a light dimmer.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: You used a light dimmer on what?</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: I bought an English version, I had my 100-volt Marshall. I bought one through the recycling or the newspaper that was from England, and it was set on 220 volts. I didn’t know. So I plugged the thing in, but I’m going, “Fucking thing doesn’t work. I got ripped off.” I just let it sit there. After about an hour, there’s sound coming out, but it’s really quiet, cause it’s running on half voltage. So I go, “Hey, wait a minute. It sounds exactly like it’s supposed to all the way up, but it’s really quiet.” So we had a light dimmer in the house, and I hooked up the two leaves from the amp to the light, so I did it backwards, blew out the fuse box. Then I went down to DOW Radio and asked, “Do you guys have any kind of super duper light dimmer?” They go, “Yeah, it’s all Variac, variable transformer, you know.” And on the dial you could crank it up to 140 volts or down to zero. So I figured, if it’s on 220 and it’s that quiet, if I take the voltage and lower it, I wonder how low I can go and it still work. Well, it enabled me to turn my amp all the way up, save the tubes, save the wear and tear on the tubes, and play at clubs at half the volume. So, my Variac, my variable transformer was my volume knob. Too loud, [makes knob turning sound] I’d lower it down to 50.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: That’s amazing. But still, that was it? That was the only modification you did?</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: Just out of necessity. I need an amp I could play in clubs. We wouldn’t get hired, I would play so loud, you know, I’m going, what can I do? What can I do? Okay, I turned the voltage, the wall voltage into my volume knob.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>ESQ: Did you lie to <em>Guitar Player</em>?</strong></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">EVH: Wait, wait, wait, what I was gettin’ at was when I did my first interview, I told people the complete opposite. I told them I raised it up 140 volts. I felt so bad. I felt so fucking horrible, man. They said, “Please don’t attempt what Eddie Van Halen said in the last interview, because everyone was blowing their amps.” Everyone fried their amps ’cause of me. I felt so bad. I never lied again after that.</p><p>So, that’s that. Eddie Van Halen comes clean. Although, by this point, everyone knows that raising the input voltage on an amp is going to wreak havoc, but at least Eddie is man enough to admit when he lies. Thanks, Ed. Check out the rest of the outtakes over at <a href="http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/eddie-van-halen-interview-2012-8147775#ixzz1sOujZnqT"><em>Esquire</em></a>.</p>
