music

Google’s Tribute to Freddie Mercury

September 4, 2011

I love when Google does these tributes. Freddie Mercury Google Doodle – YouTube.

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Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear | Postmodern Times – WSJ.com

August 26, 2011

This is crazy. So one of the few storied manufacturers left in the US has to deal with this kind of crap every few years? We have no shot at rebuilding our manufacturing base with the overreaching environmental community, I’m afraid. On border patrol and customs: It’s not enough to know that the body of [...]

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Ladies and Gentleman… The Bartles!

December 24, 2009

Each year on Christmas day my family gathers in the recording studio to record a Beatles song with intentions to reproduce the instrumentation, sounds and performances as closely as our talents allow.  This year, we’re releasing our first album recorded between December 1998 and December 2008.  We called it Crappy Road.  Check out The Bartles!

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My New Guitar

October 14, 2009

Believe it or not, I’ve been trying to play the guitar since I was six years old.  After a few years of playing old school rock band—a baseball bat for a guitar and lunch boxes and dinner trays for drums (pots and pans are so cliché)—my older brother and I had perhaps the most awesome [...]

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