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<span style="font-size: small; color: #ff00ff; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">'Brothers in Blues' band, coming to a pub near you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small; color: #ffcc99;">'It Hurts Me Too' collab.</span>
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Between songs I like to take a few photos. This is one of the cows coming home.
They`re taken up to the Higher Alps in July and brought home at the end of September..This pic was taken from my garden last week..Last Saturday the big herds were brought down...They were all decorated with highly embroidered collars with HUGE bells hanging from them (The sound is incredible when they`re all together in a herd)
They had wonderful garlands of flowers and grasses attached to their horns and they looked so proud. It`s amazing to think that this is literally on our doorstep. Hope I don`t step in it. Hahaha, lol. I wanted to make the pic bigger but don`t know how.
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<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; color: #00c000;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Gary_Carciello/">Gary Carciello</a> pleasured our ears, hearts and souls with ONE HECK of a Center Stage Presentation here on Mix Radio tonight. Some of you already knew a bit about Gary before this show, but now you've heard him up close and personal! It was simply an outstanding Center Stage Presentation!<br /><br />Listen to more of Gary's fantastic music <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Gary_Carciello/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /> Once again, if you missed this last show, <em>please download it to your iPOD or whatever means</em> to listen to a rebroadcast of this great show via the following links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/092708SNRwithGaryCarciello.mp3">September 27, 2008 SNR - featuring Gary Carciello - Hi-Fi (192 kbps)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/092708SNRwithGaryCarcielloLOFI.mp3">September 27, 2008 SNR - featuring Gary Carciello - Lo-Fi (96 kbps)</a><br /><br />The complete playlist of this past Saturday's show is <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/092708SNRPlayList.htm">HERE</a>. <em> For all other re-broadcast links, please visit the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page</a></em><br /><br />We hope to see you again next Saturday for another exciting Mix Radio Center Stage Presentation via Mixposure.com - "Interactive Radio" at its best! <br /><br />Your Host,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Mike_Kohlgraf/">Mike K</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: Verdana; color: #00c000;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Gary_Carciello/">Gary Carciello</a> pleasured our ears, hearts and souls with ONE HECK of a Center Stage Presentation here on Mix Radio tonight. Some of you already knew a bit about Gary before this show, but now you've heard him up close and personal! It was simply an outstanding Center Stage Presentation!<br /><br />Listen to more of Gary's fantastic music <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Gary_Carciello/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /> Once again, if you missed this last show, <em>please download it to your iPOD or whatever means</em> to listen to a rebroadcast of this great show via the following links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/092708SNRwithGaryCarciello.mp3">September 27, 2008 SNR - featuring Gary Carciello - Hi-Fi (192 kbps)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/092708SNRwithGaryCarcielloLOFI.mp3">September 27, 2008 SNR - featuring Gary Carciello - Lo-Fi (96 kbps)</a><br /><br />The complete playlist of this past Saturday's show is <a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/092708SNRPlayList.htm">HERE</a>. <em> For all other re-broadcast links, please visit the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page</a></em><br /><br />We hope to see you again next Saturday for another exciting Mix Radio Center Stage Presentation via Mixposure.com - "Interactive Radio" at its best! <br /><br />Your Host,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Mike_Kohlgraf/">Mike K</a></span></p>
You can go on vacation, have an hour to yourself or attempt to meet a deadline and time hits fast forward and you're battling against the clock, but why, oh why, on a Sunday when you think it's time for dinner it's only 2.30pm and you've had enough of the day already?<br /><br />Let's examine: <br />I've cleaned the apartment, done my washing, showered, made lunch, worked solidly on a track, been to the store to get some things, chatted to the woman in my life for probably an hour and a half and browsed Mixposure, and I crawled outta bed at 9.30. On a Saturday, or any other day of the week it would now be 1am and my day would have been full. <br /><br />Is there a Sunday Conspiracy Theory? Does the world revolve a little slower? Why is there never anything to watch on a Sunday in the UK except re-runs of the stuff that was on during the week? Is there really need for an Omnibus of the 500 soap operas we have here? <br /><br />I know Sunday is a day of rest, but that doesn't mean an extra 60 seconds into every minute so the minute hand doesn't have to move around the clock so fast!!<br /><br />Ahhhhhhh...always good to vent.<br /><br />Oh, by the way, birthday in October. I want a 1 TB pc with a 40 GB memory, 60 inch monitor and a home theater system for cool sound quality<img src="images/smilies/face-devil-grin.png" border="0" alt="devil" title="devil" />
Hi, folks. I have to appologize for being so scarce around here. As some of y'all know, I've been on a five-month work-related detail in Texas since early May. I am wrapping that up Tuesday and will begin the three-day, 1830-mile drive back to New Hampshire around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1<br /><br />There is a good chance I will be moving to Texas sometime before hard winter sets in, or early next year. If the opportunity presents itself, I'll be DFW-bound in a heartbeat. But, the instructing job, combined with three huge projects I've been involved with here in Texas, has eaten up a bunch of time. Hopefully, once I get back, get some vaction time in Maine done, and get settled back "home" (mid October) I will be back here visiting with y'all a bit more often.<br /><br />Finally, I hope you'll check out a few "live" recordings I posted here this morning. They were recorded on Aug. 31 at a festival gig me and my band did in New Hampshire while on a home visit from Texas. <br /><br />These songs ("Rumble". "Skat4Alvin/Living On The Edge", and "Mustang Driving Mama"
are rough at best, and represent the mix of the tracks as they went through the master board (we had no control over that feed). I certainly didn't play my best, but the energy more than makes up for it.<br /><br />It's amazing that we pulled it off at all. Because of my detail in Texas, Dave (bass) and Doug (harp) and I hadn't played or practiced together since last October! Kris, the drummer, was amazing -- he has never shared the same room with any of us, even though he is the drummer on most of the "Mustang Driving Mama" CD we finished earlier this year. We captured his drum parts for the CD via electronic track swap, but we never met face-to-face or played together until the day we did this festival.<br /><br />Enjoy the tunes.
The music is staying just on the Mix for now just to see how the page goes with it. Anyhow, joined Facebook out of boredom lol. You can nip along and say boo here:<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/pages/IDIOM/36232639342#<br />
Umph!<br />Bah Humbug!<br />etc...<br /><br />You know when you've become obsessed with something when you're awake at 3.20am staring at your software and the lifeless notations within, pondering whether to give that corrupted tune one more shot or just hit delete.<br />The problem is folks, a song is like a pet dog: It's with you for a long time and even when it's ill, all life being sucked out through it's eye sockets, you just can't bare to let go of the poor creature. So we have to find a miracle cure; that one magic medicine to cease the rampaging disease that ravages the nerve endings of that beloved creature you have nurtured since birth.<br /><br />So here is that one track, sat here in FL Studio, looking at me as if to say <strong>well, Jackass, if you had thought it out a bit more I wouldn't be in this goddamn mess</strong>, and you know, it has a point. I was reaching deep, attempting to extract a simple notion, that of betrayal and the madness that ensues, and came up with something resembling a broken toaster.<br /><br />It's now 3.26 am and still it's not right.<br />One improvement was to turn the overall bass and drum lines into a muddy bath to simulate the feeling of depression, add some reverb to create a rumble over several synths to bring forth the nerves about to rip into pieces. A dark track indeed, a very dark, non melodic painful expression of something very close to home.<br /><br />And this is where the problem may lay. When I wrote lyrics I wrote from experience and found some words harder to come by because my innerself would not open up to that time and place. Maybe this too applies to this stubborn monkey that looks up at me now like a demented goldfish.<br /><br />Now 3.30am I'm going to end this ramble and proceed to some sort of sleep and hopefully in the morning the world will seem a much happier place. <br /><br />........<br />.........<br /><br />Oh to hell with it..back to work<img src="images/smilies/face-devil-grin.png" border="0" alt="devil" title="devil" />
<span style="font-size: medium; color: #ff00ff; font-family: andale mono,times;">Watch for it....great new tune...<br /><span style="color: #00ccff;">dem rockin' blues, coming soon to a club near you...</span></span>