What's Hot on the Podcast 9/30

	/podcast/media/SilasScarboroughStageTest.mp3	106	18	4.39 GB	36.26 MB
	/podcast/media/RidetheDragon.mp3	78	30	988.13 MB	9.15 MB
	/podcast/media/SwingHeil-9_1_1510.12PM.mp3	51	24	420.10 MB	5.60 MB
	/podcast/media/LittleBitoBlues.mp3	45	22	406.87 MB	6.07 MB
	/podcast/media/HeyBaby9.mp3	44	14	254.83 MB	4.39 MB
	/podcast/media/HeyBaby.mp3	42	23	430.06 MB	6.62 MB
	/podcast/media/SwingHeilII.mp3	38	26	381.31 MB	5.96 MB
	/podcast/media/BeCarefulwiththeBackwash.mp3	30	8	169.73 MB	4.47 MB
	/podcast/media/Logic.mp3	8	16	22.73 MB	969.61 KB
	/podcast/media/marigolds.m4a

StageTest - recording of broadcasting into Cat's Art MusikCircus.  It opens with "Ride the Dragon" then "Hey Baby" and then more "Swing Kids."  Runs about 30:00.

Ride the Dragon - a single version - looks like you liked the StageTest better

Swing Heil - tribute to the Swing Kids of NAZI Germany.  They fought NAZIs with swing music and dance (it really happened).

Little Bit o' Blues - Well (larfs)

Hey Baby 9 - never in my life would I have thought I might say something I did is 'too Hendrix' but ... it is.  I love it and will almost certainly do it again but that may end up being a crow biting my brain if I start thinking ... no, no ... too Hendrix.  What does that even mean.

Hey Baby - I love the song so it's another recording of it.

Swing Heil II - previous version - slightly modified version of the one from the StageTest.  Django laughs and he's so cool but I stand by it and smile.  It's all good.

Be Careful with the Backwash from Your Spiritual Turbine - a little song for Creflo Dollar (contemptible for-pay preacher) and into a bluesy bit from there.

Logic - poetic reading.  The listener count looks dismal but they fade after a while.  I'm proud of this one.  With a lot of my stuff I'm not sure what to think of it but this one is ok.  I just listened to this one again and, yep, this one stands.  No need to record it again.

Marigolds - it's a jammatron song as I wind it up and see where it goes.  I've used this loop for quite a while and many times.  That it's at the bottom doesn't mean much as it was probably uploaded last month.


Don't expect perfection as my definition of the word may not the same as yours.  For me it's how close you can come to the sound you really want and there are risks in that as I won't always hit it. For me there is no music without taking chances and I try to record all of them.  This isn't an apology as I'll hit a clam and groan just the same as you when I hear it on playback ... but ... I also know I would not have hit the clam if I were not pushing it.  Very much it's my purpose to push it as hard as I'm capable of doing it.  Sometimes I crash but, as you'll see in other articles, I've done that quite a bit.  See the doc, get put back together again, and, wowzer, back on the road again.

Pushing it hard may not mean the same thing to you either as playing slow is harder than playing fast, much harder, in fact.  It's not so much a matter of musical difficulty but rather how much of you is in it.  When you sustain a note and let it hang, every thought inside you goes into it, and there it hangs in space singing ... of whatever you are.  For speedball guitar, the notes are aggregated into the larger arpeggio but that goes into "Yngweh Malmsteen's Arpeggio from Hell" which is musically-impossible but entirely lifeless.

That's not denigrating Malmsteen's talent and his speed, I just don't like it.  I'll play fast or I'll play slow and there's nothing I do which cries out to me, man, this sucks if you don't do it faster.  More accuracy is always good but more speed not so much.


Some unusual stuff I typically don't notice

	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	1,329	4,507 (3.39 visits/visitor)	8,227 (1.82 Pages/Visit)	20,773 (4.6 Hits/Visit)	3.10 GB (720.14 KB/Visit)

Maybe I should look at this stuff more often as, what do you know, there's a lot of traffic here.