Packets, packets, got your packets here!
Going way back into the ‘what is the internet?’ file, here’s a great article about the actual first pitch and live demo of the internet (then called by it’s acronym ARPANET).
Yes, it did … Read the rest
Entertainment
Clash of the Titans
Had to double post this — a total powerhouse performance. Just wow.
If this doesn’t inspire you to get off your ass and do something what possibly could?
… Who Says Opera Can’t Be Funky?
Wow. Legendary.
… Read the restJust Some Funky Fun From 1984
Look At That Pit.
F.U.N.K. 2.0
Are You With Me?
This is one of the most interesting bands from Ohio, especially when they keep their clothes on.
Most nights they get naked and loaded so you just gotta go with it… it’s unbelievable.
To everyone in the world outside of … Read the rest
Free Art (with Feathers)
Beautiful visual art done to one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. Happy sunday!
A Junie Bit of Pure Funk
Some consider this one of Junie Morrison’s best and worst jams, and I actually don’t have the original LP so I had never heard this mix before stumbling on it on Youtube.
This is the fuller extended mix, plus, the … Read the rest
Thank You For All Of It
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011.
Where would the tech world, perhaps the world as a whole, be without Steven P. Jobs? The concepts he developed in his teens and twenties regarding if/how/when/why we interact with computers built entire industries. Appleholics like myself … Read the rest
My Hat Tipping Unto Itself
[Is it too early to declare my first album that no one bought the most underrated album no one bought in the last 7 years?]… Read the rest
Witness The Power
of a Fully Operational Fishbone (tip of the hat to GC… haaa)
Turn it way up and hide the children…
… You’ve Been Slade
‘coz I luv you 🙂
This band almost hired Robert Plant as lead singer a few months before Led Zeppelin formed.
The guys thought he would steal all the women and decided to sing themselves!
Still doing it ya old … Read the rest
Enough Already, Let’s Play Tetherball!
My First Laptop
I’ve been more or less living on a laptop since about 2002. I had a desktop machine as my only rig from ’87-’96 (Atari, Apple, Tandy, Gateway, Dell, IBM, white boxes, you name it…) and around 1996 I was finally … Read the rest
Touch the Music
Here’s a nice overview article on some of the tech that’s changing music making, particularly the iPad. As someone who’s produced several tracks with just a laptop, an interface, a mic, and a midi board, this is a big change. … Read the rest
A Nugget of Punk Funk Sensation
Here’s the Chili Peppers circa late 80’s showing off their new guitar player, a very young and aggressive John Frusciante.
Killer clip.
