Posts Tagged: Music and Sound
Halifax Scene Again
Posted by on Friday, September 9, 2005 in - 4 comments
Even though I suspect this here site is by new old farts for new old farts, I am sure there are more than a few interested in another flourishing of the band scene in Halifax. The weekly The Coast, the only way now to keep in touch with my old City since The Daily News website became so bad, talks …
Tree Jealous
Posted by on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 in - 1 comment
Web-pal Cyn gets to be a Rolling Stone roadie for the Moncton concert.
Professor Longhair
Posted by on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 in - leave a comment
Someone I know says "longhair music!" with a humph when the wrong sort of classical music comes on the car radio. • There is another sort. I was thinking - as I am thinking too much - of the flooding down south and I remembered that I used to have a live double lp of Professor Longhair, the New …
John Peel Day
Posted by on Thursday, September 1, 2005 in - leave a comment
I like this idea. To celebrate the memory of the massively influential BBC radio host John Peel, who died last year, people are encouraged to put on their own gig of some sort: • “The very first John Peel Day will take place on Thursday October 13th. The day will be a celebration of John's life …
My Hits Of 1981
Posted by on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 in - 3 comments
Twenty four years since high school ended and undergrad began. I sometimes wonder that, with the passing of time, that moment in my life is as distant as 1957 was to it. Ancient history I would have said then. • Anyway, someone has created a internet meme-thingie about the songs in the top 100 …
Doctorow Self-Justifies...Again
Posted by on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 in - 29 comments
It must be a blast around chez Doctorow when Cory gets takes last slice of bread or puts an empty milk carton back in the fridge. It is like listening to an early teen: • “It doesn't matter how strong or weak the DRM is on the copy that I choose not to buy -- all that matters is how much …
Where Are The 90s Bands
Posted by on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 in - 13 comments
This strikes me as a telling indicator that I am getting to be an old fart. The BBC has a story up about the people in 1990s Britpop bands and where they are now. I never even had CDs of many of these bands being even then cranky that the stuff the kids were listening to was nothing like The Clash …
Appeal In Copyright Levy Case Denied
Posted by on Friday, July 29, 2005 in - 2 comments
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada denied an application for leave to appeal the December 2004 overturning by the Federal Court of Appeal of the December 2003 ruling by the Copyright Board of Canada of the decision to put a levy on Mp3 players to cover the lost copyright fees left unpaid by …
Hawaiian Slack Key
Posted by on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 in - leave a comment
When I travel I end up blowing a bunch of money at book and CD shops getting all the stuff and selection that Heritage Canada would keep from us - reasonably priced obscure American history and regional US music in particular. Not to mention a decent variety of jerky. I know there is a Federal …
My Life With Loud
Posted by on Thursday, July 14, 2005 in - 1 comment
There are few things which have been as constant in my life as loud. I was going to actually create a wee web radio thing about me and loud but then I thought, having listened to one recently for over an hour, that there is a heck of a lot of effort that goes into one of those things for any extra …
