Category: Music

  • The excellent techno music for my podcast comes from Amber DJ (www.aimthedj.com). Apparently someone broke into her car recently and stole a bag that had some of her material and a lot of memories.  Bummer … total lost is around $500. I suggest making her day brighter by buying her…

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  • My wife and got to usher for a recent performance of Jersey Boys at the La Jolla Playhouse @ UCSD.  It was absolutely amazing.  This play is based on the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. The production, the acting, and of course the music was fabulous.…

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  • Internet.Pro radio turned me on to instrumental country music from this podcast: Radio 29 December 2004 (52.9 megs): Podcasting through the Grammy Nominees: Music from Asleep at the Wheel, Sam Bush, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Mark O’Connor and Brad Paisley

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  • Every three months or so, Costco (which I am a member but not a stockholder) sends out to members a "coupon" book of upcoming deals.  If you have a long range goal of getting a HP iPod 20-GBs (currently just under $299) between Mar. 7 – Mar. 13, 2005 they…

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  • Below is the show notes for this edition (HTML output from Frontier) of my music supplement (here is the direct MP3 download link): (00:00-00:16): Introduction (00:17-03:07): Al Hirt with "Silver Bells" from the album "Have A Merry Little" (03:08-05:08): Mannheim Steamroller with "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" from the album…

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  • Two of my favorite bands make the Top 10 (Echo and the Bunnymen & The Ramones) CNN.com – Review: The best of the best.I have to totally agree that the Echo and the Bunnymen one is really good (not sure if it is #1 of all the offerings out there). …

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  • Billy Watson has answered my email request to play his music on my podcasts with an enthusiastic "YES."  So you’ll probably be hearing some more! 🙂 From his website: YOU CAN PICK UP BILLY’S CD’S UP AT THESE FINE LOCAL ESTABLISHMENTS (SAN DIEGO COUNTY): Lou’s Records in Leucadia Mitch’s Surf…

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  • I have just posted a music supplement to Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast.  I guess you can now think of my audio.xml file as a "radio station" and you get three shows: technology reviews, some musical selections of potential interest that are interesting to me, and some commentary (aka "podcast…

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  • Tantek is urging folks to vote for DJ Amber in a DJ poll.  I have already done so, but I wanted those that listen to my podcast know that I really like her music and have been using short blurbs in my podcast between segments.  [Thanks to Robert Scoble for…

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  • OpenPodcast.org had a post (#131?) of a song called "I’m Coming Home" but no link to a band name, but thanks to Google I was able to find on Garageband.com as Dead by Gun (from Finland). I gave it a listen … and if you like early 1980’s punk ……

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