On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:54:15PM -0500, Mike Mazarick wrote: > > > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce that the latest Annual Best of Mix for 2009 is > > now up for your listening pleasure. > > > > http://djcj.org/audio/lam > > Thanks, Patrick for this !! > > And to think this was all done with an old Radio Shack boombox and Audacity! > ;-) > > Actually the truth is a bit more complicated, so I'll give you guys an > overview. > > My brother and I have been talking for years about throwing a 'Recognition' > party for an old jazz trumpet/flugelhorn player from Fayetteville, NC named > Ray Codrington that all the jazz heavyweights in the area know, love, and > have played with. You may have heard some of his recorded work because of > his recordings in the mid-60s with Eddie Harris, Stanley Turrinetine, and > others. He recorded what later became the 'jazz standard' called 'Freedom > Jazz Dance'. > > Well, my brother's wife got tired of hearing us go on and on about what we > wanted to do and told me to 'make it happen'. > > It was easy, because Ray has a lot of musical fans and everyone was getting > tired of getting together every decade or so for someone's death or because > of some other severe crisis. We ended up holding the event in the upstairs > above a local woodwind repair shop. The owner (Rodney Marsh) is a jazz > player and has fixed up the upstairs to look like a nightclub so that the > aspiring jazz players who take lessons at his shop will have a place to > play. A classical musician may aspire to a concert hall, but all a jazz > guy is looking for is a gig in a nightclub. What Rodney has created is a > 'faux' nightclub because he doesn't have any liquor licenses (and there > aren't any nightclubs around here suitable to play in). There were about > 120 attendees of the party over the 4 hours, and the place was always at its > capacity of about 80. Rodney is also a gourmet chef and only got to play a > little bit during the evening. He's played the flute lead on 'Night in > Tunisia'. > > It was recommended by someone else that I use a local sound guy who had > recorded Nine Inch Nails, American Idol, Matchbox 50, etc. He is all about > ProTools and he has an elaborate sound setup which included putting 5 mics > on the drums, a $6k Neumann 'head' mic at the back of the room, etc. As > part of the deal, he captured the sound he mixed and gave me a download (on > my disk) of the 16 tracks of raw WAV files. > > After a lot of noodling around, I took a few selections from the 4 hours of > music and put them in Ardour where I got a rough mix and eventually > converted it to an MP3 so it would be small enough to download. I hadn't > figured out how to use the effects on 'Night In Tunisia' and I never figured > out how to use the automation on any of them, so I would just 'set it and > forget it'. I'll eventually figure all of it out, and post some more > stuff. I've just got to find a block of time to do this. You would be > surprised at how 'unaware' the jazz guys are of basic recording. They > often wandered around on the stage and one string bass player literally > refused to plug into the DI box for some reason (which means about 30 > minutes of the recording doesn't have a direct bass input. > Funny. Great story, great music, great pictures! > Here are a few pictures of the event: > > http://www.flickr.com/groups/1143697@N22/ > http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2054294&id=66106565&l=096dd86c33 > > > Just so you know, the 'which B3 clone is this?' is actually a real B3 and > leslie. If you listen carefully, you can hear when the tube went out, > taking out the upper keyboard. It was being played by a monster keyboard > player named Chip Crawford. Here's a YouTube of one of his performances: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSadt0OYsNw Awesome, thanks for this! > The singer is his wife Eve Cornelius. She's a real 'diva' and both of them > believe it is very important that I get a 'release' from everyone who > performed because of her recording contract (a near impossibility and by no > means worth the effort). > > Which leads me to what my evil plans are... > ;-) > > April Fool's is coming. You can get in on this joke if you want to. > > Even though all these guys are at least in their 50s and many have been thru > this at least once, all of them are convinced some record company is going > to recognize their innate talent a give them a gazillion bucks for a > recording contract. They all still have stars in their eyes. > > Here's the deal: > I need somebody (else I'll have to figure out how) to write an email message > to me telling me that their recording has had 25,000 downloads and is very > popular with the Rave crowd in Prague and Poland. Naturally, the eastern > European promoters want to know if someone can perform live for about > $10,000 plus travel expenses for a show or two, with a concert tour likely. > The email message must have kremvax somewhere in the header and be released > at 12:01 AM April 1 Prague local time. They will want to know if I have > releases for this to make sure it can be promoted properly and meet the > European Labor commissions standards so that visas can be issued. > > Later on April 1, I will need to get a second email from ASCAP stating that > anyone who has signed a release is personally liable for the $.05/copy > 'mechanical rights' for the 25,000 downloads and asks me will I forward the > names of the people who have signed releases so ASCAP can deduct the > royalties from their pay. > > Maybe at this stage the European promoters become angry and withdraw from > the deal, but ASCAP still wants to be paid... > > ... > > Around midnight after this dialog with the 120 people is finished and > everyone is stirred up properly, we'll have to put out a giant 'April Fool' > from Kremvax. > I think that's be mean. Kind of like teasing a starving dog: "here, I got food for ya... naw, I don't!!" That is one fscked-up industry. I have heard horror stories like this over and over again, and they still occur, though perhaps not as often as they used to. Your proposed stunt would be a totally believable scenario, which is sad. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
