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Happy Birthday Adam!

Happy Birthday Mike.

RIP Jimmy Heath. I have many fond memories seeing him and hearing his playing and compositions! As part of the Heath brothers, he seemed like the voice of reason in a family of cut ups!

The way Sylvia Massy has flooded the interweb kinda drives me crazy (in a bad way).

IMHO Superbooth has taken the world by storm. I've been trying to figure out a way to get over there to attend one (and an F1 race maybe). If you haven't watched one of the endless SonicState videos from last year, here's a good one with a Richard Devine interview. He's using one of the Polyend sequencers that are pretty popular (and a butt load of other goodies).

Happy Birthday Grahame!

RIP Paulo Goncalves Died in a high speed crash during the 7th stage of the Dakar on Sunday.

That storm should be hitting us in Or in a day or so. Probably not as much though. Care out there!

Happy Birthday Frank! I hope everything is going great for you and yours.

Happy Birthday Doc!

If I was into hardware synths, I'd be drooling over that one (watched some cool sounding reviews). A guy I know picked up one of the new(ish) Novation Summits and he loves it (and he's got a big selection of analog and modulars in his shed). This would be a great year to go to NAMM!

Make no mistake,.. these "unboxing" videos are porn! Now I totally want one!!!!

A hero in my youth. RIP Colonel Korn (Catch 22)

Goodbye John Baldessari,..

Happy Birthday!

Real world impressions and benchmarks for pro audio and post production audio with the new Mac Pro's are trickling in. It seems like audio professionals are opting for the 16 core processors and installing OWC ram so their machines are clocking in at the $8k range. The benchmarks in Logic and Cubase are pretty astonishing compared to the 2013 dust bins. I haven't seen any direct comparisons to the top of the line iMac Pro's but those aren't that much less and they are not user upgradeable. Just a handful of buyers in the virtual composer communities so far but there are quite a few doing the "wait and see" to decide on configurations they should order. Here's a video of 850 instances of Absynth.

Hope the recovery is coming along okay Jose! Funny, I was watching the New Years celebrations on tv and a couple of gals at Time Square said they were from The Canary Islands. " I wonder if Jose knows them?" Crossed my mind (as if there are only 20 folks living there or something stupid like that). Anyway,.. Get well soon (and give us the gory details when you're up to it)!

The copy so heavily undercuts the Beyer that is seems kind of spiteful. If the sound is anywhere close to the original, it seems like it would just about destroy it at half the price?

Happy New Year HeadCasers!

Proof that there are plenty of ways to earn a living as a musician left (particularly if you play a large 10th century instrument). https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/31/carlos-ghosn-escaped-japan-hiding-in-a-musical-instrument-case Carlos Ghosn reportedly fled house arrest in Japan in a musical instrument case, in an audacious Hollywood movie-style escape masterminded by his wife with the assistance of a Gregorian music band and a team of ex-special forces officers. The escape began when the band arrived at his home in Tokyo, where Ghosn has been held under house arrest and strict police surveillance, according to Lebanese TV news channel MTV. At the end of the performance, as the musicians packed up their instruments, Ghosn – whose height is stated at 1.7m, or just under 5ft 6in, in his Wikipedia entry – apparently slipped into one of the larger cases and was taken to a small local airport.

Holy shit! In-fuckin-tense!

Very cool Dusty. It's interesting to loop back to the beginning to remind my ear where it started.

Have a happy everything Ric!

Got mine a week ago and it is awesome! This thing is really well made and looks very cool.

Here's a little something to feed our Imposter Syndromes. Writers Retreat Gives Aspiring Novelists Opportunity To Receive Critical Feedback From Other Nobodies GLEN FALLS, NY—Revealing that her lousy peers’ advice had been invaluable, aspiring novelist Alicia Duncan confirmed Tuesday that the writer’s retreat she’s attending provides a great opportunity to receive critical feedback from other nobodies. “It’s been incredible to spend the week getting diverse perspectives on my memoir from a bunch of fresh MFA graduates and bored retirees, none of whom have ever been published,” said Duncan, adding that she enjoyed attending daily workshops about how to get a literary agent taught by a college professor whose only published book is about how to get a literary agent. “The $1,500 tuition is pretty steep, but it’s worth it for all the networking I’ve been able to do with people who have no industry connections and cannot help me. Every day we read our work aloud and take turns talking out our asses before sitting in on lectures from people who have barely sold 10,000 copies in their whole careers. They helped me figure out how to make my characters more two-dimensional and the best way to build out my story arc so it’s more convoluted.” Duncan added that she was eager to take all the inane, toothless critiques she’d received and turn them into something unreadable. https://www.theonion.com/writers-retreat-gives-aspiring-novelists-opportunity-to-1840480239