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<p>I had a quiet morning and, not particularly wanting to head into work too prematurely, decided to have a browse around the net. Every so often I do a google search on myself. It's not so much an ego thing as curiosity. Whenever I do it, and really it's only on boring days like today, I always find something weird.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>During today's search everthing started off normal, my website, the various omds I've belonged to over the years, the various sites that offer my CD tracks for paid download, but never send me cheques. I have this theory that there are all these sites out there that each owe me 99c but none of whom will pay me till my account reaches $20.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyway, nothing untoward had been located until i found this link: <a href="http://pl.ayli.st/Self+Tort#2"><span style="color: #000000;">http://pl.ayli.st/Self+Tort#2</span></a></p><p>It took to a site where there was a long list of&nbsp; tracks I've recorded. There was no rhyme or reason to the tracks there. A couple from the first CD, a couple from the forthcoming CD, a couple of collabs with Lex Zaleta, some recent collabs with Melsi and Saladin, and somewhat bizzarely, a collab which, so far as I am aware has never been posted anywhere apart from the original mixposure site.</p><p>While I was staring at this list a video commenced. It wasn't my video. It was some guy doing a tribute to Ronnie Barker. But if you came in cold you would assume that the video was "Self Tort". The songs themselves don't play. If you click on the link it does a search of Youtube and then tells you there's no video for the song. It then starts playing another video.</p><p>What was particularly strange was that "Bush ****" which has a video on youtube was not on the list, and "What's the Attraction" which also has a youtube video still came up "no video for this song".</p><p>I then decided to do an artist search. I tried Nigel Potter and a page for Nigel appeared with a number of songs whose names I recognised as being Nigel's work. In Nigel's case nothing happened. Each song was noted to have no video, and no other vid opened during the operation. The same thing happened with Lex Zaleta.</p><p>I then tried Texas Jake Lee and "Conversations at the Crossroads" and "Understanding" were listed. I clicked the first track and no video was found. When I clicked Understanding a video then commenced with a guy playing a rock guitar track over a backing track. No identification as to who he was. Quite the contrary the title made it clear it was Texas Jake playing Understanding. If you'd just found the page by accident you'd assume that the video was of Texas Jake (although the German accent might cause you some suspicion).</p><p>When I hit Maria Daines I found paydirt. Actually got Maria Daines video and audio.</p><p>I really don't know what to make of it. If the site was offering free downloads of my music I might have been a bit narked that they hadn't sought my permission to do so. But I'm still a bit narked to have a list of my songs up on a site with my name and a geeky looking guy appearing in a video that people might think is me.</p><p>I imagine Jake wouldn't be too impressed with his name being linked to someone who's not only not him but in a completely different genre. Maria's vids have obviously been taken from youtube and I guess if you post them there you're pretty much putting them in the public domain.</p><p>I was wondering if anyone has any insight into what the site's all about and whether we should be jumping up and down about it or not really giving a toss.</p><p><br />Cheers</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Brian</p>

<p><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />&nbsp; Gooooood morning,</p><p>I do hope every one had a great night.</p><p>Great show last night if you , missed it I'm sorry.</p><p>It was as always a great show.</p><p>I hope every one has a just wonderful sunshinie day.</p><p>Even tho It's raining out ,I'm having a great day.Because things are looking like the sun is going to shine around here again.</p><p>Yea!!</p><p>I hope things are just wonderful as well for every one here on the mix.</p><p>Thanks for good music and good friends</p><p>Fay</p>

<p>When you have a moment, please call round and listen to my latest collab. Richard John has produced such a sweet little song in Thank You Maybe. Beautiful guitar work and his soft voice give&nbsp;what are quite bitter words that&nbsp;really easy listening feel. x</p>

<p>(Firstly, something strange has happened to me recently - I have absolutely no idea what I have done in my life which was so very good that it merits this, but God has sent me one of his Angels. Wooooweeee)</p><p>Right then - now to what I am here for:</p><p>Anyone know of any decent luthiers suppliers i this god forsaken country of mine...or even Western Europe...(particularly France - any excuse to nip across the water )</p><p>it used to be so easy to fnd them...but now apparently they are few and far between.</p><p>I am looking for guitar parts,&nbsp;wood blanks, fret wire, bridge blanks etc&nbsp;etc, &nbsp;all the ususal paraphernalia for making of a nice instrument.</p><p>I'd be very grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction </p><p>Thanks a lot</p><p>Gordon</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>Hey everyone, 2 new Techno tracks for listenning: Cravings and There Goes Spiderman....</p><p>Part of the album Self Learning.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="color: #00ff00;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">We had yet another great Center Stage Presentation by one of Mixposure's finest (55 CSP's now!): <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Vesa/">VESA</a>, a great slide guitar player and the show was quite good!!! <br /> <br />Vesa's CSP can be found here: <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio_CenterStage">MixRadio Center Stage Presentation Page</a>! Rebroadcast link of the entire show is below (it was very long!). <br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/MixposureRadio/20090815_SaturdayNightRocks.mp3">August 15, 2009 Saturday Night Rocks with Vesa on Center Stage</a><br /><br />The complete playlist of this past Saturday's show is <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?c=august_15_2009_saturday_night_rocks_playlist">HERE</a>.<br /><br />For all other rebroadcast links, please visit the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page</a>.<br /><br />For our LIVE DJ schedule, please visit <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_radio_dj">this page</a>.<br /><br />Please, check out all of our shows. We have a bunch of great people here as DJ's and they all have great taste in music, serving and promoting all the great Indie Artists from all over the planet!!!<br /><br />Until next time - for all of us here at Mix Radio,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Mike_Kohlgraf/">Mike K</a></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;">Elvis died 32 years ago today. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Raise a glass in toast to the kid from Tupelo.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/wiki/File:Elvis_Presley_1970.jpg" title="Elvis in 1970" class="image"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Elvis_Presley_1970.jpg/220px-Elvis_Presley_1970.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="339" /></a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/wiki/File:Woodstock_poster.jpg" title="Woodstock poster.jpg" class="image"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Woodstock_poster.jpg/250px-Woodstock_poster.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="359" /></a></p>

Since  Rogers-Tennison Band posted about Woodstock I was searching around youtube for some footage and this one was always one that caught my attention. Especially when you consider it was over 8 minutes and was captivating the whole time..