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Week in Review
Jackie Wilson Goes Solo … Bushwick Bill Goes Nuts …
CD Sales Go South …
1962, The Beatles hit Abbey Road recording studio for the
first time, recording "Love Me Do" in about 16 takes with drummer
Andy White … 1965, an ad in Variety
announces auditions for the new TV show The Monkees
… would-be Monkees who fail to make the cut include Stephen
Stills, Danny Hutton later of Three Dog Night, songwriter Paul
Williams, and Charles Manson … 1978, Who drummer
Keith Moon succumbs to an overdose of the drug Heminevrin
prescribed to combat his alcoholism … an autopsy reveals
that he'd washed down 32 of the pills with champagne …
1996, Wal-Mart refuses to carry Sheryl Crow's second album
because the song "Love is a Good Thing" includes the lyrics, "Watch
out sister/Watch out brother/Watch our children as they kill each
other/With a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores"
… 2006, in a Rolling Stone interview, Elton
John reveals that he's thinking about putting out a hip-hop album
…"I want to work with Eminem, Pharrell, Kanye, and Snoop.
We'll see what happens. It could be a disaster." …
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Harmony Central Spotlight
What's new at the #1 Online Community for Musicians
The Harmony Central Forums are not just places to gossip and
pontificate (though that?s fun, too). You can actually learn
something there, including hard-science principles?with equations
and everything. For example, if you?re a string player you may be
curious about the relationship between tension, vibrating length,
and mass regarding strings. It has to do with why mandolins play
higher than basses and why Strats are stiffer than Les Pauls. But
check out the actual facts here on The Acoustic Guitar Forum.
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Expert Advice
Tech Tip: Stupid Computer Mistakes
Usually, I like to write about some clever trick. But this time, I
want to explore stupidity, particularly because stupidity breeds
stupidity: Sometimes a stupid mistake will make you do an even
stupider mistake, like re-installing your computer's operating
system when it isn't really necessary. Here's a chance to learn
from my stupid mistakes, and those of others. I was trying out a
new interface. I booted up my host program, loaded a sequence, hit
play, and …
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Guitar Effects Hands-On Review: DigiTech HM2 HarmonyMan Intelligent
Pitch Shifter
DigiTech: The world's first intelligent three-part harmony
generator for guitar!
I'm not sure what ethical violations have occurred, but I for one
am glad that DigiTech cloned Brian May (of Queen), miniaturized the
clones, and put them in an effects pedal so that guitar players
everywhere can generate instant, intelligently harmonized guitar
solos. Okay, I know the whole Brian May clone thing sounds a bit
creepy, but it's the best analogy I could come up in extolling the
capabilities of this amazing …
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Bass Amps & Accessories Hands-On Review: Tech 21 SansAmp Bass
Drivers
Tech 21 SansAmp: Three reasons bass players love
analog
The SansAmp Bass Driver DI from Tech 21 isn't new. It's just good
stuff, so it hangs in there while other products become obsolete
after a year or two. It's a bass preamp, direct box, stompbox, and
recording tone tool all in one, and it remains popular with bass
players because it works great. Now the SansAmp Series has been
expanded to include …
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Live Sound Hands-On Review: QSC GX5 Power Amp
QSC: By the power of QSC - We have the power!
What if I were to tell you that you can have real QSC-quality power
for your system at a price you?d never expect? To begin with, the
new GX5 has been designed specifically to provide high-end
performance for professional entertainers on a limited budget.
Tailored to accommodate the power ratings of the most popular PA
loudspeakers out there, the GX series assures you a …
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