-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Restivo wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:14:00AM -0500, frank pirrone wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ken Restivo wrote: >> >>> As an expeirment, over a year ago, I plugged my fretless guitar >>> into my FastTrack Pro USB interface, loaded up Ardour on my >>> laptop, set up a cheap digital camera to film, and simultaneously >>> filmed and recorded myself playing some blues. It was an >>> experiment to see how easy it would be to sync the >>> Ardour-recorded audio up with the video, using Avidemux on Linux. >>> Worked great and was quite simple to do. I posted the results >>> here: >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuE2LWLXMc >>> >>> And, over the past year, that cheesy little off-hand experiment >>> has been by far the most successful thing I've done musically *in >>> my entire life*. >>> >>> 16,473 views so far-- more than any music I've ever made. I'm >>> baffled. I have no idea why such a simple, unremarkable, and >>> almost cliche'ed thing would have become so popular, but >>> nonetheless it is, in defiance of all rationality. >>> >>> -ken >> I dunno, Ken. Greater departure from conventional than the groovy >> funkalicious stuff you've done on keyboard/bass? >> >> Blue LEDs could have been Herbie Hancock playing, but for as >> complimentary as that observation may be, folks have heard stuff >> like that before. >> > > Yeah, but that's my point. > > Blues is as old as the hills, and quite possibly ten times as common. > There are great blues guitarists within hailing distance of > practically everyone. > > Why anyone-- let alone 16,000 people-- would have wanted to hear me > play blues, is a mystery to me. > > -ken > Sure, I know that. Actually, blues tunes and the ways they're played are 8.96 times as common as hills, but despite how common they are and the ubiquity of the players, I was intrigued by both your conversion of that cheap guitar to fretless and the interesting timbre of it as amplified. I also thought your playing was quirky, and thus the video was noteworthy for that a well. Still, I agree, that viewership is phenomenal. Hey...bask in the glory! Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk0yfYACgkQhIzUKCTXcU1ZfQCfRAiJLLuWBacr0xQL+1dJlDJj TZoAn0KD+kwO16/FD7Gz7SMLn9KMjU6n =CJUW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
