2012.11.21 update
Allright, here's my new music page. Needs some new tracks and photos, but damn that's better. Actually tells you something about me as a musician. :-)
I have a few home studio projects in the pipeline... a memorial to Jon Pratt, with my old bandmates from Pictureflood ... one Obsidian Shell solo cover (down a couple octaves, not falsetto :) ... and sketches of covers and originals I'd like to perform with a band ...
No rush, but I want to start playing in pop/rock/metal groups again. Just local groups, mostly covers. I'm looking for "low key" - no ear-splitting Marshall stacks - danceable yet edgy. We could play in some pretty classy joints :)
Vital Stats
Instruments: electric guitar, bass, classical guitar, fiddle/violin. Noob on keyboards :-)
Favorite genres: baroque, celtic, thrash metal, blues-rock... basically I'm into upbeat danceable stuff with melancholy undertones :-)
Major influences: long dead guys Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Purcell, Froberger, Dowland, Mozart... rock/pop/metal acts Metallica, Slayer, NIN, Judas Priest... The Doors, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Dire Straits, The Who... Heart, Fleetwood Mac... fiddlers David Kaynor, John Kirk, Jay Ungar, Natalie McMaster...
Stuff I've been listening to lately
- Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits
- synth-pop and trance stuff
- Obsidian Shell - symphonic metal from Hungary
- Peter Blanchette - plays Bach, Dowland, celtic stuff, etc - on an awesome 11-string guitar
- Peter Novelli - New Orleans blues/rock by my very own dad
Random Notes
2012.11.13 Fixing the music biz? - I wrote this on Google+ this morning, and I'm cross-posting it here for more permanence. Basically it's just a 20-minute analysis of the current problems in getting paid for music, software, writing, etc.
2012.05.28 UX review: Guitar Tablature in MuseScore 2.0-alpha
2011.08.04 Sheet music and software failures