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Big congrats to Scotswolfe for being the Mixposure.com Artist of the month! Stop by his page and have a listen!
Bio:
Scotswolfe being my recording persona,my real name being Jim McMurtrey.I answer to Jim or Mac.
Started picking out one finger melodies on the piano by ear around age six.Still play by ear as I never seemed to had the patience to learn to read music.Many times I wished that I had forced myself to learn.Maybe someday yet...heh.
Began playing in bar blues/rock bands around Fort Worth in the late sixties.Moved to East Texas in the eighties where I played for several years with country/rock bands.Spent a few years in Oklahoma,then moved back to my hometown and settled here.
Finally I have the time to do what I enjoy most,composing ,creating and recording my music.
I only play keyboards,piano,organ,synths.Started using analog synths in the eighties.Now my studio consists of the bare necessities...a Casio WK-1800 as a standalone keyboard and midi controller,Computer and Mixcraft6,a very affordable and versatile recording program with virtual instruments to expand my virtual orchestra.
Stumbled across Mixposure a month back and now it feels like a second home.Friendly folks and awesome musicians here.I've posted my music on a couple of other sites,but none of them compare to Mixposure,not even close.Plan to be here for a long while .
Scrisoare către fiica mea (Te-am condamnat să trăieşti într-o ţară în care doar curvele şi hoţii mai au loc în grila de valori, fiind modele de succes promovate pe toate canalele de informaţii)
de Ștefan Ciocan
Tu nu ai greşit cu nimic copilă! Poate am greşit doar eu, sau poate am fost prea egoist şi m-am gândit doar la bucuria sufletului meu. Zâmbetul şi gânguritul tău m-au orbit. Primele tale cuvinte m-au făcut să nu aud nimic şi să nu privesc în jur. Da! Am fost egoist şi pentru asta, acum cât nu înţelegi încă ce se întâmplă în jurul tău, îmi cer scuze!
Te-am condamnat fără să ai nicio vină să trăieşti într-o ţară fără niciun viitor. Să aparţii unui popor care-şi neagă valorile şi pentru care lenea şi hoţia sunt considerate virtuţi. Să nu te integrezi copila mea în lumea asta mincinoasă! Să nu crezi în falsele valori pe care ţi le va scoate în faţă, zi de zi, ceas de ceas, această naţie alterată! Nu e vina ta, cum nu e vina multor români cinstiţi că nicăieri în lume nu suntem bine primiţi. Că ne umilim încă pe la ambasade să cerşim viză spre lumea civilizată. Că în Europa oamenii îşi bagă adânc mâinile în buzunare când aud că suntem români. Te-am condamnat copila mea să trăieşti într-o ţară în care doar curvele şi hoţii mai au loc în grila de valori, fiind modele de succes promovate pe toate canalele de informaţii. Tu să ştii că nu ăsta e drumul spre succes! La grădiniţă şi la şcoală te vor învăţa de ce trebuie să fii mândră că eşti româncă. Nu e nicio mândrie să aparţii unei naţii. Fii mândră că eşti cinstită, că eşti deşteaptă. Fii mândră dacă faci ceva în viaţă pe puterile tale, cinstit şi corect. Fii mândră pentru ceea ce faci, nu pentru ceea ce eşti! În fond a fost voinţa hazardului să te naşti în România. Şi nu văd de ce ar trebui să fii mândră pentru asta.
Tu nu ai nicio vină că în jurul tău lumea nu zâmbeşte, că faci parte dintr-o naţie paradoxală, tristă în gândire şi vulgară în manifestare. Tu nu trebuie să crezi că manelele reprezintă singura şi unica formă de distracţie şi că lumea este croită după modelul de viaţă al ţiganilor. Copila mea! Noi nu avem casă cu turnuleţe şi nici nu ne îngropăm morţii în cavouri uriaşe de marmură şi în limuzine în loc de sicriu. Nu asta este normalitatea, nu asta este civilizaţia, nu acestea sunt valorile lumii în care mi-aş dori să trăieşti. Iartă-mă copilă că te-am condamnat să trăieşti în această ţară minunată, dar care se autodistruge prin oamenii săi. Eşti încă mică. Mi-e frică însă pentru ce are să se întâmple aici când vei fi mare. Mi-e frică pentru viitorul tău şi viitorul acestei ţări. Pe tine te rog, te implor, să pleci de aici. Cât mai departe. Într-o lume civilizată, unde oamenii se iubesc, unde respectă cinstea, onoarea şi munca. Tu vei pleca! Dar România nu are unde să plece. România se va autodistruge sub povara unui popor din ce în ce mai leneş, mai lipsit de cultură şi mai tupeist. Veţi fi prea puţini copilă! Nu veţi putea salva România. Du-te! Dar nu uita niciodată că eşti dintr-o ţară binecuvântată de Dumnezeu şi distrusă de oameni.. .
Congrats to our Winners for the 2013 Mixposure.com Music Awards! We had a tie in the Rock Category also. Below are the Winners!
Our next phase is having the trophies made so I will keep everyone posted on when those will be completed.
The Truevulgardian-Easy Way Out 11
Supirima Sangramaya -- Thushan Ushanka 11
Thanks for being a part of Mixposure.com everyone!!
Starting over on a clean slate of new remixes of old/new stuff...some you may have never heard before coming soon!
Chabane's Records ' new release :
V/A - FUCK, YEAH, FUCK , a fucking tribute to The NAKED DOLLS
10 Grunge / Garage Punk covers
CD and FREE download (click here)
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CHABANE'S RECORDS:
http://www.chabanesrecords.c.la
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http://www.youtube.com/user/ChabanesRecs
http://time.com/29410/1st-stratocaster-guitar-for-sale-250k/
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — George Gruhn’s guitar shop in Nashville is a kind of mecca for fine, vintage musical instruments, but even Gruhn is blown away by the latest addition to his inventory. He says it’s the very first production model Fender Stratocaster ever made.
“This is special,” Gruhn told The Associated Press. “It’s not special as memorabilia because it was owned by anybody special. But it is special because this is effectively like having the right Rembrandt or Van Gogh or Da Vinci. It’s special because of what it is and who did this. Not because of who owned it.”
The sunburst-finish Strat bears the serial number 0100. Although some Strats have lower numbers that begin with 0001, Gruhn says they actually were manufactured later in that first year of production. He says the number-one Strat was sold to an amateur who evidently took good care of it.
“This one didn’t go to a famous performer,” he said. “It actually went to Joe Blow Public. But it stayed in good condition, hardly used. And then, a bit over 30 years ago, Richard Smith, who is a curator today at the museum of the city of Fullerton, Calif., where this guitar was made, bought this guitar.”
Smith purchased the guitar from the original owner. Gruhn said the record-keeping on the guitar is superb because Smith is considered one of the foremost experts on Stratocasters. Smith is selling it on consignment through Gruhn’s Guitars.
The Fender Stratocaster, first produced in 1954, has been described as a guitar that changed the world. When it first arrived, its streamlined, space-age contours seemed strange and perplexing to some. But the kids knew what to do with it. Buddy Holly played one. So did Jimi Hendrix, when he transformed the psychedelic experience into sound a decade later. Bob Dylan chose a Stratocaster for his revolutionary electric set, when he fired a defiant shot at tradition during the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
And 60 years after it was created, the much copied design of the Stratocaster has hardly changed.
According to Gruhn, Stratocasters are the single most popular, best-selling electric guitars on the planet.
Over the years, a fair number of vintage Strats have sold for $100,000-plus, with some approaching $1 million. Eric Clapton’s “Blackie” sold for $959,500 in 2004 and recently the Stratocaster that Dylan played at Newport sold for a record $965,000.
However, Gruhn says the very first production model Strat is something like a national treasure.
“I consider this to be one of the most important pieces of American, truly iconic industrial design, as well as musical instrument design, that we can find today,” he said. “It’s a piece of art, it’s a piece of industrial design, it’s a piece of musical history. And it’s part of our national heritage.”
He added, “I think it belongs in a museum ultimately. On the other hand, I don’t like to see them put in a museum setting where they will never again be touched without white gloves. Even for the Stradivari quartet at the Library of Congress, it does get played. They don’t play those instruments every day, but they are used for concerts. And this instrument is a wonderful sounding guitar. It plays great.”
Lyrical Princess Linda Fry
Mixposure radio and it's community bring a lot of things to many people's lives. Sometimes those things can even be life changing. Lyrical Princess Linda Fry sets a prime example of this being true. Linda joined mixposure radio as a listener in 2008, and today she is a household name to those who are listeners to the mix's broadcast's as well as to Linda's own fan base.
Linda's poems and lyrics are packed with great emotional punches that along with her gentle style of 'word-smithing' takes the listener to the heart of the matter right away. As Linda so eloquently speaks to the vulnerability an artist takes when collaborating, as a listener we know that it is Linda's willingness to embrace that discomfort that allows us today to have the pure joy of Linda Fry's words recorded forever.
Come join Linda & Doug Tuesday evening March 25th (8pm est) for the best indie music available, and listen in to what Linda will be sharing with Doug and all her fans.
Should be another stellar evening on Mixposure radio.
~ posted by Toni Taylor-Helser @ Barefoot Music
I uploaded a new version of "Sweet Misery" and adjusted the mix some. Check it out!!
Why is the Facebook link a direct link to the Mix song page rather than an in-line play?
Monica Chapman
Monica Chapman from Toronto began studying piano at age 9, later she attained her degree in Piano Performance and Voice ant the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engish Literature from York University Monica found her calling in her rich vocals and jazz, delighting listener's from all over the world.
Join Monica & Doug Sunday, March 23rd and listen in as Doug will be asking Monica about the numerous projects she has in the fires, and what Monica is looking forward to in the near future.
- See more at: http://www.mixposure.com/barefoot-music/blog/5705/doug-dickens-jazzing-it-up-w-monica-chapman#sthash.FlgwkhvY.dpuf