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My friend Circe

My first day in SL I met a lady,

I was fresh off Noobe Island with $240L in my pocket. I was marveling at the technology at work bringing me to this virtual place listening to this live show. After the show was over I introduced myself to this classy girl who had seemed to be the belle of the ball. Saying hello to everybody welcoming them to the show. Making sure everyone was taken care of. The crowd had dispersed and we talked about Streaming software.. I gave her my links and she gave me links to software I would need to get started in SL. After few weeks playing at Old Salts our Schedules synced up and I started playing Luxor stage for Circe. Our friendship has grown. It is no wonder everyone loves Circe. Broom takes care of her artists. She is always there to promote, make signage, play hostess, and make sure she holds up her reputation as a quality feed manager. Her Sim is a beautiful place indeed… lovely venues with pose balls everywhere.

Thank you Broom for  being my friend

I Have Been Immortalized

Saturday Feb 2nd 2007. In the Mastering suite of Tonic Room Studios, burning a CD with 3 songs on it. I felt immortal. These recordings give life to what I have been hearing in my head for years. It’s been a long, wonderful day filled with creativity and music.

9:00 I wake up feeling a little worse for wear, It was a late night playin with the band, and maybe a couple to many beers. Is my voice going to be up to task today? I worked it pretty good last night. I burn a CD with all the song possibilities for today. Print out Lyric sheets for every song on the list.. I have it narrowed down to 10 songs. (narrowed.. yea right) I have to get coffee in me before I get to the studio… my voice still gruff, I get a triple grande Vanilla Late it soothes the pipes feeling better now.

11:00 I meet Jason Rinelstetter Engineer/Owner of Tonic Room Studios. I bring my stuff in from the car into the studio. It’s chilly I worry that it might be too cold but Jason adjusts the thermostat, and we talk about my Idea of what we are doing today. I give him my CD and we play an early recording of Darkness Within I point out the use of echo and he mentions how he hears a big production around this song .. Drums, bass, keyboards. I explain that is exactly what I have in mind but for when I record it with my friends.. today it is an acoustic version.

12:00 We have finished setting up a couple mics for the virgin guitar tracks I wish I could remember the mic model numbers and stuff.. there was an AKG pencil style mic and some big grey tube mic for catching the low end. With any multi track recording you have to start somewhere… I never expected how hard it would be to play a song start to finish on guitar singing along silently in my head with out tapping my foot. First we recorded baseline guitar part for “Darkness Within” then “Disconnected” and last “Wicked Karma”.

Time has stopped.. must be around 1:00 we start recording Lead Vocal parts. I am a bit nervous, afraid that my voice might crack up I decide to record Disconnected first.. it has the most delicate vocal part of the three If I am not on then the day is over and I’ll have to record vocals on another day. another glass of water and a cough drop.. I sing into a $5000 replica of a Neumann U47..hand made in Nashville this is a gold plated faithful replication and sounds awesome. playback sounds incredible. I guess I am singing today. Jason has a suggestion for using a technique called “Vocal doubling” on the chorus parts. This entails singing two more takes of each chorus exactly matching timing, inflection, on each syllable. then one take is panned right and the other panned left in the mix. The natural fluctuations in the human voice give a cool chorus effect that can not be duplicated with software or hardware effects. the problem lies with the singers ability to reproduce exact replicas of a performance.. evidently I am a natural at this.

3:00 ish.. I’m hungry and we take a break. I run out to the car only to find my keys in the ignition and the battery is dead. I walk across the street and get a chicken breast and a double tall vanilla late. Hopefully by the time to go my battery will have recovered enough to start my car.

After a short lunch we record Vocals for Wicked karma and Darkness Within the same process of doubling is done with these songs too. it’s been a couple hours since I recorded the Virgin guitar tracks and screw up and sing the last phrase of Wicked Karma one to many times.. It sounds cool A Capella like that so we re record the mistake and leave it in. On Darkness within I played guitar one to many measures at the end I had to hold the big end note another full measure which was already a stretch for me. I nailed it the first run through. the second take for the doubling effect I barely made it before running out of breath. and after 5 tries falling just short for the 3rd track We decided to do some creative editing

4ish Lead guitar parts.. out od the vocal booth and back to the main tracking room. It’s a lot warmer in the studio now which is nice for lead guitar. one song at a time we set up loop recording around the empty parts of the songs and lay in little acoustic riffs. I had not practiced any of this. it was all off the cuff after a few stabs there was something we could use. The solo in Disconnected really soared.

around 6:00 my clock ran out I had booked the studio for 6 hours and we still had 2 more songs to mix. Jason was totally into the music by now and offered to finish off the clock. He wanted to hear the finished product as much as I did.

8:30 Saturday Feb 2nd 2007. In the Mastering suite of Tonic Room Studios, burning a CD with 3 songs on it. I felt immortal.

ASM1000

Ronnie Carr comming soon to a stream player near you. was talking with Flameheart Sol from the House of Flames about giging there in March.. (A verry exciting prospect) and she mentioned the ASM1000 music network that is gaining speed in SL. I had heard of this device and network and just hadn’t taken the time to check it out. It sounds like an awsome oppertunity to further promote mymusic in SL…So I sent in a few tunes.. Rush out and buy one of these players for your land!

Marketing works

Been working on my Media kiosk.. (I would like to give a shout out to my Bro, Geo Claxton for providing me the space to build) But it’s not enough just to build it. As James Earl Jones said in feild of dreams.. “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true here in SL. So yesterday I found myself with an hour to myself and I threw out a notice. started my stream server, and threw an impromptu house warming party. Any venue owner worth his or her salt will come touch bases when he or she sees an impromptu performance. It tells them that I am available and that I have the tech tools and knowledge and am ready to go. A dozen folks showed up. my stream peaked at 7.. and then started skipping.. at least now I know my bandwidth limitations now…7 almost as pathetic as my 117 prim limit. I’ll need to rent a stream next time. Any way I digress. Yesterdays marketing push yielded a new venue owner, and stream owner to my contact list. Also netted me a gig at said venue. So as a direct consequence of this show. I will be playing at Miso’s Hillside Tap on Feb 19th… Marketing works.

Back to the Begining

I have a new song availible for download from my Media Outlet in SL. It is called Back to the Begining Please visit and download it. there is no fixed price .. Just donate what you can. Or come see me when I play and download from there.. Check my calendar to the right for show times.

Accidental Party

Last night I was talking with my friends at Wicked Karma and working on my Media Kiosk. I was putting in a railing and dancing while listening to the Virtual Song Cast, while explaining the inner workings of the MP3 sales widget to Luc and Cali, I asked my friend Ronnie to join us then there were 4…when along came a stranger. like strangers do when your just chillin in SL then there were 5… Cali breaks out the dancing cows… that must have been an odd site. then there were 6… then 7… someone passes out flaming sombreros.. must have looked like a beacon from the air.. then there were 10 then 15. Crazy man crazy

MP3 Sales in SL.. “It is ALIVE!”

Got my hands on a fresh new scripted object yesterday. Bobby Fairweather Creator of secondtunes has come up with a “Point of sale” for second life artists to sell their Mp3s. Look for it at live events and at live music venues.. also coming soon will be an SecondTunes MP3 storefront in SL. I am excited about the possibility’s for artists and the opportunity for fans to support the music they love.

It has only been out for a few days and already being used by.

• Bobby Fairweather (Soulful, acoustic pop)
• JueL Resistance (Acoustic’Roots’Soulful’Blues)
• Julian Vesta (Brazilian Music)
• NANCE Brody (Rootsy Bluesy )
• Ronnie Carr (Acoustic Singer Songwriter)
• Spaceman Opus

Podcast Kiosk

Yes I am a multi faceted dude.

In addition to my music and performances, I am interested in the creative process in building a song from initial inception to fruition. That is why I created the Virtual Song Cast. It is a short show, 10 to 15 minutes that I produce about once a month where I talk about the creative process of making music. So why mention it in my Second life blog?? the Virtual song cast SLURL is coming to Second life. Yesterday I acquired a small plot of land from My brother Geo Claxton for the purpose of building SL’s first Virtual Song Cast kiosk. The player uses the video channel of the land so it can be used without interfering with the land’s audio channel. My hope is to install as many kiosks as I can at live music venues in Second life. Another goal is to interview more SL musicians, and feature their songs on the show. I think this is a great idea for venue owners who want to draw people to their place in between live shows.