I remember when I did that song… it was around 2004, I think. It was originally made for a streaming video for a friend, but he never used it. Well, the guys over at Asheville Twestival used it for their streaming video on pledging for clean water. Cool. Thanks for the credit, guys. Glad I [...]

If you’re local to Asheville, and you’re exploring the many web design and web development companies around, then I’d recommend you make a good hard think before choosing bewteen the first few that pop up in your Googles. Many of my local competitors offer web design. They offer web development. But I–not you–I know which [...]

I’m a lucky guy!

If you hold the guitar up toward the tv, to where your line of sight sees the guitar string first and the tv in the background, you should pluck a string. You can actually see the wavelength of the vibrating string at whatever note you’re playing. Try changing the note (ie finger the first fret, [...]

I used to be a recording engineer, kinda. I never worked for a company doing this kinda work, but I did record a several bands, as well as my own and my own bands’ music. Back in the day I used an analog four track recorder. It used regular cassette tape to operate. It was [...]

I recently saw a strange guitar in a local music shop, Blue Ridge Music in Asheville. This guitar had only four strings on it, and it was built to only have four strings. I picked that thing up. It’s called a tenor guitar. I’d never heard of such a thing. A little research revealed that [...]

I had a little trouble finding a decent streaming music player for the Nintendo Wii. At first I tried Pandora, since it’s free and pretty smart. But it wanted too much memory, and the Opera browser on the Wii Internet Channel didn’t like that very much. It gave Pandora a big no.

Tom sent me this link, and both being musicians (sort of) and programmers (yes, real programmers), we were a bit intrigued.