tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63274691198467213382023-11-15T22:41:07.851-08:00I don't know...whatever.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-75037996582952620992018-03-14T21:34:00.003-07:002018-03-14T21:34:55.176-07:00Tiny Desk (I have one too)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
so there’s this show you should watch called Tiny Desk Concert. Product of NPR. Always great musicians. And now they’re having a contest to drag us little guys out of hiding and into the limelight that is National Public Radio. I seriously doubt I’ll get picked but what the Hell? We’ve got camera phones and all you need is a live video at a desk doing an original tune. You should do it. That song you haven’t played for anyone yet may be just what someone needs to hear. Best of luck to anybody who endeavors to perform your artwork for the critics of the world. Here’s one of mine for what it’s worth. </div>
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Always loved this song. Decided to record it. Buy Tom Waits records...they're good for you.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-77238533958985425432017-08-03T03:12:00.001-07:002017-08-03T03:12:32.822-07:00Getting to know Tina<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JIMFfeUC2BU" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-71938129365869483542017-06-15T06:43:00.001-07:002017-06-15T06:43:00.718-07:00Wherever I Go 6/14/17 Jefferson Fox<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PFvgw4Qb6dg" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-28742839753999795122017-03-24T22:23:00.001-07:002017-03-24T22:23:50.978-07:00My Girl 2017<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qesFd_FYi_Y" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-84235903748194238692016-11-02T21:10:00.002-07:002016-11-02T21:10:43.081-07:00How to mic a guitarI'm going to answer your question. Any way you want to.<br />
Now. For the wasting of letters in the alphabet part. What kind of guitar? In what environment? With what microphone? What preamp? For rhythm or lead? Primary instrument or backing? Picking or strumming? Fingerpicking or pick? Taylor? Fender? Gibson? 6? 12? 8? With percussive attack or without? Stereo or mono (mono)? Electric or... surely you get the point. There are far too many variables for that to be a valid question, but I've asked it too. So now I'll tell you what I've learned from experienced engineers and from doing it wrong a thousand times.<br />
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1. Know where this guitar recording will be in the mix. The only true wisdom I can give you on this is ...If the instrument will be accompanied only by a vocal or is all alone, or rather is the primary instrument...then your microphone(s) should be closer to the instrument than in other cases. It will have more character as a result. How close depends on a lot of things but I have learned that farther away than you think is almost always a better choice than too close. I don't care what anybody says (nor should you care what I say...more on that in a minute) but I recorded guitars too close for a number of years and battled string noise, pick attack, percussive elements, transients far more than is necessary. Which leads me to this:<br />
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2. The place where you hear the guitar sounding the way you want it to sound on the record IS the right place. Here's a trouble spot that will arise: If the guitar player is in charge of this desire then you will need to hear the guitar from where his head is...or as close to that noggin as you can get which will cause other issues. If any other human being on the planet is in charge then this location will move to out in front of the guitar because that's the way everyone else hears the instrument. Height matters. If you're 6 foot 3 and like the guitar sound when you're standing better than when you're leaning over...don't put the mic 3 feet off the ground. Put it up at 6' 3"... If you're recording a guitar in a band setting where it plays an equal role in the body of the song you'll need to back away a bit to give it some room to blend with everything else. Depending on the microphone you're using all of these decisions could cause you to be 9 inches from the fret board or 8 feet away. I will not tell you what is right but here's some food for thought. The time that it takes sound to travel from each instrument to it's respective microphone will dictate how "real" this recording sounds. It will also lend to perceived timing of the instrumentalists and if they are all playing at once but not everyone's microphone (or DI signal) is the same distance from the instrument then the perceived sound will not match what you heard live in that setting. Another unusual phenomenon occurs because every band member hears a different mix of the song based on their location within the playing space. You really should decide on a listening point for the body of music and sculpt the recording to emulate this location. All of this only if "real" is a thing you're after. Even if you're not after "realism" you probably will struggle with seemingly troubled timing if the distance/time is not somewhat equal. SO...if everybody in the band is playing into a microphone at about 3 feet away then believe it or not that direct bass line you recorded will be arriving at the recorder faster than everybody else and "things" will happen that make you scratch your head. If one guys mic is 10 feet away and someone else's is 3 inches...it becomes very apparent that something is amiss and very few people figure out what it is. It's time and distance. Being different distances gives the expected perception of varying distance from the listener. If you want the vocal closer to the listener then put the singer closer to the mic. Where do you want the guitar in relationship to the listener and the rest of the band? That's your bible as far as distance from the microphone goes. Walk around, move your noggin, listen for balanced tone and peculiarities/smooth spots...beware of bass blasts if it's an acoustic, beware of transients that ping your ears no matter what it is and Put the Mic there.<br />
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3. How many microphones? It's always going to come back to your intention. Bluegrass band sitting in a line...Blumlein pair maybe. James Taylor doing his thing on the next legendary ballad he's gonna write...one well placed mic and perhaps a room mic or two (that whole stereo/mono thing again). Any backing guitar...One. And the type of mic is going to make more decisions for us. After you find that perfect location and have a mic there it's time to listen again. That mic you chose just changed things...It's not your ears. If it's a cardioid microphone you're possibly still too close because it's hearing is superimposed...hyper-cardioid is more-so. If you've chosen an omni mic you have my blessings on the next record because obviously you're a discriminating listener and you're a whacko...who records with omni's (I do)...but you may be able or need to move that mic closer to the source. It's picking up everything in the room and it doesn't have trouble with proximity affect so it's the most forgiving tool when it comes to close mic'ing. Ribbons are awesome for lots of things...signal is sometimes an issue but good Lord they love amplified instruments and they'll work on a lot of acoustics. If your player is gently stroking the strings and you must strain to hear their softest notes a ribbon is probably not the right microphone. Read up on suggested microphones elsewhere but some of my favorites include the Audio Technica 4022 (omni), the AT 4041 (cardioid), the AKG C414 (try all the patterns), the AEA R84, the Royer 121 and of course the SM-57. Never underestimate the SM-57.<br />
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4. Where should this guitar be recorded? Again...what's the goal? If' it's an important player in the mix then start thinking about the space that will surround the track. If you record everything in a nice, "lively" room that provides it's own "reverb" or "ambience" then you may avoid destroying your whole project with some crappy reverb plugin, which we would all appreciate. If you are going to HAVE to add depth with an electronic device (try delay instead of verb) or absolutely cannot find a good room to record in (though I'm sure there's one in your house) then a quiet room is best, largest room you can find unless it's fabulously engineered to trap bass and diffuse/absorb higher freqencies etc. Read up on room treatments as well and do what you can...don't mortgage the house for it. The most important thing that will happen during this recording will be the performance: If the performance is magnificent you can fail at everything else and it's still going to be legendary. If the performance is mediocre (as mine usually are) then you need to get some things right. Really right. Concrete walls suck. Drywall sucks most of the time. Being in exactly the center of the room is a no-no. Too close to a corner is usually a bad idea. Do some more research, I've rambled too long already but bottom line: record where the instrument sounds as close as it can to your desired end result. The less you have to do the track to get where you're going the better the track will be. Staircases and bathrooms may provide a fantastic place to put a second mic which can be blended in with the source mic to give your track depth. Be creative. Break the rules. Steal ideas from stories you read about smart engineers and musicians. It's an art form you know.<br />
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5. Preamps, Interfaces, Formats etc... Get the best things you can afford. Read lots of reviews. I like and trust most of the Sound On Sound reviews I read. Your salesman at that one place you shop will actually have information. I'm not a MAC guy so I don't have a lot of input on the MAC only stuff but obviously the Universal Audio gear is very good stuff. I like the the AEA RPQ-500 and the MAAG PreQ4. If I could afford to I'd have several UA pre's, a Manley Slam and a Grace design product. I can't so I use what I can afford. The RPQ-500 is extremely versatile, has crap tons of clean gain and once you start to understand the 140Khz bell curve that is the Curve Shape device...you'll benefit from it's existence. $650. Not cheap but well worth the money. Interfaces for windows: I like the Focusrite stuff. I like the pre's in them etc. I've used a lot of things. A/D conversion is where the meat is and once again, if I could afford something of professional studio quality that's what I'd have. Most of the trusted brands have produced a great interface that is capable of high quality conversion with reasonable preamps and options. Do your own homework and get the one you think is the prettiest or take out a loan. All of these things will affect your recording to some extent. Weakest link, ya know...but don't lose sleep over it. Do what you can do and do the best with it you are capable of. You can record something of higher quality than Neil Young's Harvest Moon album. Bit Depth, Resolution...talk to Bob Katz. HIGH. 24 bit is great. 32 is better. I don't trust floating parameters...some people do. 96hz is great, 192 is better, 384 is available...another blog altogether. The question for me is back to the performance again...Pink Floyd wasn't recording on a device that can capture sound at unimaginable frequency ranges that the cheapest interface on the market today can...Will your recording defy human hearing to the extent that we should debate 24/96 over 32/384? <br />
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6. When in doubt...too many mics is a good thing. Choose and change your mind as the mix progresses. Don't do it just to be doing it...but if you're truly uncertain about what you're hearing put up the extra mics. <br />
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Last note. You must record the guitar wrong several hundred times before you get it right. That's just a law around here. Get started. Try something new. Surprise us. Surprise yourself. Don't take my advice at all. Don't take anyone's if you so choose. At least lay awake at night and develop a theory about what "should" work and go from there. If it fails, move on. I tried a ribbon in front of the sound hole on an acoustic for a time, null point of the figure 8 pointed right into the nucleus of that low frequency train wreck and the did some fancy mix tricks to pioneer a sound that had never been achieved before. It didn't work of course (well it worked sort of), but the point is...there are still new ideas out there running around. Catch one. Let us know how it works out. Enjoy making music. Have a plan. Research and develop. <br />
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Hope this answered something for someone.<br />
I'm out.<br />
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Jefferson Fox<br />
maker of many mistakesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-54951286004292638132016-11-01T20:25:00.001-07:002016-11-01T20:25:56.360-07:00Mono music and why it keeps startling me I've been putting a lot of thought into this mono vs stereo debate...you know, the one you've never had with anybody. But I debate a lot of things with my other brain and this is how it has progressed:<br />
Originally I only knew stereo music. Born in the 70's, mono was dead. I actually arrived in my love for music about the time quadraphonic recordings reared their unusual heads and although Pink Floyd sounded fabulous in my 77' Cougar it just didn't work out in the long run. Now 5.1 surround and all that other fussy stereo stuff has happened. Mid Side processing has given a little more depth to recordings (or at times a LOT) and stereo width has become some sort of pecker measuring competition by most mixing and mastering engineers. I've heard it said many times that 'this tool' or 'that tool' will help one "maximize the width of the sound stage" and I bought all these things as they were sold to me and they are all just facts of the music world...not something to debate. <br />
The first thing I began to debate with myself was why mono recordings are so sought after by audiophiles when stereo versions of most of these records they covet are available and surely the stereo version must sound better. This debate is easy to settle when one buys a record that was originally intended as a mono work and compares it to it's "stereo" counterparts. 9 out of 10 times it is clear that the "stereo" mix was not actually a stereo mix but indeed a mono mix that has been destroyed by some whacky ass processor that was the latest and greatest "fuck up your mono mix" tool at the time of remastering. As the Beatles albums are being re-released in mono and audiophiles are shouting loud enough that the rest of the general listeners have to hear their cries it is actually coming to pass that a few people are accepting mono and I, for one, am very much sold on the idea that if the album was recorded mono and mixed in mono and mastered for mono release...you should get a copy of the mono record if you want to hear the music as it was intended to be heard. And now from the experience of comparing pseudo stereo masters and "stereo" masters to their mono parents it's easy for me to say that mono not only wins because of authenticity...recordings of the time period that belonged to the MONO God actually do SOUND better in mono. I have theories as to why but I'm not a scientist so I won't venture too far into that realm. I will say that I think a lot of this phenomenon has to do with recording technique (as everyone already knows) but as well with other decisions inspired by those techniques which include microphone placement (and style) as well as room choice. With no reverb to spice things up rooms were a HUGE part of the recording process (as they should be now) and those rooms dictate much of what we perceive in the way of tone...I believe. Debate settled. I understand why the audiophiles seek out mono.<br />
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So...startled. I said that in the title. A recent discovery of mine came as a result of Frank Sinatra's 'Come Dance With Me' record. (yes I listen to Tom Waits, Eminem, Dwight Yoakum, Radiohead and freakin Frank Sinatra). I had heard several songs from this record in several formats. The songs were good. The band was on. Frank did that thing Frank does. Ribbon mics rock. But it wasn't as "amazing" as history would have me believe and I couldn't make out why my mom and grandmother said over and over how mind blowing these records were. And then...I got the original mono pressing on vinyl. It sat for several months unplayed in my listening room. I finally pulled it out of the sleeve, gave it a quick cleaning and dropped it on in an attempt to make myself tired enough to go to bed. That's when it happened. I suddenly realized that there was no point ever recording vocal music again because it would never be done this well for the rest of time. This mono recording of Billy May's band playing back on my little 6.5" speaker sounded 40 feet wide and somehow Frank's voice was hanging from a thread right in front of my face in the middle of that band. It was a spiritually enlightening moment. No I take that back...it was a spiritually mystifying moment. I didn't understand it. I still don't really but I now realize that the techniques that great engineers of the day employed to make these recordings gave them dimension in a similar fashion to stereo and the process glued the tracks together in a way that stereo never could. Mystifying. Startling. <br />
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Once again. The rooms. The mics. Instrument bleed, timing of signal reception and reflections...instrument relativity, equalization approaches or persistence in frequency placement...lots of stuff happening here that we take for granted. All of the limitations that the format presented (most of which were insignificant to all involved, by the way) brought with them a long list of requirements that would force the production to take on very sophisticated and well planned techniques that ultimately would be conducive to great recordings. Decisions, decisions.<br />
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Where was I? Debating things. Why hasn't anyone gone back to mono? Well, a very few have tried it. Mellencamp did it in 2010 with the help of T-Bone Burnett and it sounds great. I suppose it simple to say that technology has never been very good at regressing. We tend to only move forward regardless of what the past has revealed as superior to the current trend although it's true that vinyl is relevant again and you and I (well just I really) are having this mono talk. Instrument and musical tool makers are heavily invested these days in retro gear, good components etc. I guess we're seeing a renaissance of sorts and perhaps mono will make it's way onto the scene once again. I certainly will be providing mono mixes of my own work going forward, or at least providing myself with mono mixes. I believe I'll start testing that very soon. I've never done it. Lots to learn I'm sure and I look forward to the lessons...kind of...no really that's going to suck, I haven't even figured out the modern stereo thing really. damnit. I'll do it anyway.<br />
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Last debate that is troubling me: While the audiophiles will always exist how do we account for the horrid methods of the consumption of music which first made it sound bad and then made people mix and master purposely for systems that sound bad (ie "mastered for I-tunes") and now that musicians have allowed the industry to degrade the products and fans, less impressed with music in general are becoming oblivious to the notion that music could actually sound better ...how the Hell are we going to fix this? I thought about writing letters to people or doing a Ted talk about Nyquist Theorem, tape saturation, audible frequency response vs digital capacity, overtones in up and down-sampling, ear buds etc...but I don't think anybody wants to hear it. It's kind of like music these days. Nobody wants to 'hear' it. There is plenty of demand for entertainers in the music "industry" but not a whole lot of concern over quality of art work done by musicians/engineers/etc. Nobody cares. So how are we going to fix it. For the moment all I can come up with is write a blog to make a few people think it over, make better records personally (which I vow to do...sorry I didn't give a shit in the past) and hope that the trend keeps moving in the right direction.<br />
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I'll be posting some comparison mixes soon to hash out my thoughts on a modern mono project versus the same ole stereo thing and I have a thought brewing about a "stereo" mix that utilizes mono instrumentation with stereo (probably Blumlein) room ambience to dictate room size. I haven't thought too deep into this yet but as the light reveals itself I'll put it here for no one to read. <br />
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side note: I'm so tired of "Remastered" releases I'm ready to set fire to some record company headquarters. If the record is legendary...stop screwing with it. I've yet to hear a remastered project that was as good as the original and since "remastered" generally means, "compressed all to Hell and CRANKED UP LOUD" it's easy to understand why those records are exhausting to listen to and don't hold the appeal of the originals. The other favorite thing to do is make the WIDER...again, penis size I suppose. "That modern sound"...we'll get to that. Soon. <br />
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That was tonight's thought. incomplete and incoherent perhaps. Oh well. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-43622231621199989212016-10-19T21:27:00.000-07:002016-10-19T21:27:04.180-07:00Embarrassed for US The third debate just ended. I'm SO embarrassed to be from the United States of America right now I don't think I would confess it if I were traveling abroad. No I'm sure of it. "I was living in America for a long time but I've since returned to my homeland in the Netherlands...hope the accent goes away soon." My Grandpa would kick me for saying that. He was proud to be an American. <br />
It makes perfect sense to me that Capitalism would evolve into organized crime eventually and professional politicians would all be corrupt and a two party system within the confines of this type of democracy would eventually reign over it's people without regard to their welfare or lifestyle in the sole pursuit of money...I just didn't want to live long enough to see it first hand. <br />
A little trivia for you: The Bill of Rights as we know it is the first ten amendments to our Constitution. Everyone knows that. The trivia...there were twelve proposed amendments hand written that same day on that same parchment. All twelve were by design simple ideas that James Madison penned on behalf of the states. The twelfth is the one that I think tells the American tale better than any other. It was written so that no lawmaker could raise his own pay during the current election cycle. They would indeed be able to pass a law that changed wages for lawmakers, but it couldn't take effect until the public had the chance to elect new leadership. Makes sense to me. Probably to you...it's a definite power check. Cant just give yourself a raise whenever... Now: It eventually passed becoming the 27th amendment to our Constitution but here's what I find so interesting. The other 26 amendments were all ratified in 3 years or less. The 12th proposed amendment took 202 years to be ratified. For 202 years our lawmakers just couldn't bring themselves to give up the power to vote in their own pay raises before the coming election. That's America in a nutshell to me. By the time it did pass lawmakers had realized the longest tenures in American history and were drawing more of their money from special interest parties, lobbyists, big business, insider trading...salaries don't mean anything to our lawmakers now. <br />
Thinking about salaries...I was glancing at campaign spending the other day. At the time Hillary Clinton had reported spending 700 million dollars in campaign money during her political career. There are 534 other people (mostly averaging just a few million each year) that have the same type of campaigning habit. I wonder how these people can spend 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS in a 5 year period to keep their $140,000 a year jobs...and talk to the American people about debt. The spending now is higher than what I quoted ...but 10 years ago a 5 year campaign spend for OUR REPRESENTATIVES was 1.5 Billion Dollars. So...150 Million a year spent by big business mostly to employ people to pass laws. Hard for me to imagine that these representatives are genuinely concerned with the well being of the average American. I don't believe it.<br />
So now. The crook or the loon. What will it be? Does it really matter? America is in a toilet because of greed. Because of capitalism. Because of capitalizing. Because the Land of Opportunity is the Land of Opportunists. <br />
Unfortunately it's human nature to capitalize on others. From our primal instincts we begin at infancy capitalizing on physical weakness and the more developed we become the farther reaching our dominant behavior becomes. America is just a great breeding ground for that behavior and we watch it daily all around us and we struggle to take the scraps for ourselves and I think far too many people would fall right into the patterns of our current "leaders" if given the chance so I'm not sure there's any fixing it. I'm afraid it will just have to broken before a new era can come to pass. I'm afraid we're hinging upon that climax in history. America is about to break.<br />
Our environment is a disaster. Big business in America justifies it with profit margins. Our happiness is a disaster. Big business in America justifies it with profit margins. Our home lives. Our sense of obligation to our children. Our compassion for animals. Our respect for one another. <br />
We are represented by people who won't even pretend to respect one another for what should be one of the most highly regarded public debates that could occur on this planet. How can people who act like THAT lead THIS Nation? Be the icons of world leadership that our youth model their ideals from ? How can these be the people we are choosing?? HOW????<br />
I'm going to go ahead and state some obvious things here: Peace in the Middle East has never happened in all of human history. It's not going to happen because we stick our noses into the hornets nest. We're there and will remain there because Grumman and McDonald Douglas and Drug companies winning contracts with the government spend billions to buy votes. More people in Iraq died of heart attacks than violence before we invaded and now violence kills 95% more people than heart attacks in Iraq. Way to go us. The Iraq body count is only slightly higher than the US murder rate but we get serious when there's a travel package involved. It's good for Wall Street.<br />
A few years back I paid for insurance for myself, my wife and my children. It was good insurance with a low deductible. I can not afford insurance for my family now. If I could afford it the deductible would be 5 times as high (I really have priced it) and the benefits significantly fewer. Guess what industries top the campaign trail? Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Lawyers, Tech, Arms...<br />
I don't think it's a coincidence that when health care industries buy campaigns health costs go through the roof and become mandatory. I'm not that foolish.<br />
Chicago is a funny place. The highest individual contributor to political campaigns in America runs a few small newspapers like the Polish Times and such, as well as local radio and tv stations in Chicago. College newspapers is where this guy earned so much money that Forbes doesn't know what he's worth but can track down 100 million dollars that he gave away last year...So if it seems funny to ME that Fred Eychaner can top Microsoft, Apple, Google and every other global giant in campaign contributions with the money he made selling newspapers in the 60's...why isn't anyone else looking into it? I know...Chicago is just a nice place where historically people make their money milking unicorns for princesses and everyone is on the up and up...but newspapers???? Number one in the tech industry in Campaign contributions: Newsweb Corp, Chicago. go figure?<br />
When you're broke you stay at home. America is broke. Our military needs to be HERE. Not spending billions to drive around the desert so somebody's stock will rise accordingly. <br />
Fracking will cause a major earthquake. Then everybody will say "I knew it all along" and lie about who they supported when the votes are discussed. <br />
Our food sources will never be safe because the chemical industries that pay off politicians to legalize the pollution of our food will always have more money than the people forced to eat Americas garbage. Our water sources are being depleted by super farms and other industries. Our forests are being contaminated by crop dusting that would have long since been outlawed were it not for Big Businesses foothold in the farms and chemicals. <br />
We can't afford to be petitioning to bring in more immigrants. Yes we're all immigrants here but we're broke and about to go hungry and can't manage our own people and don't have a military at home and I'm sorry...trying to be "NUMBER ONE" on the "Let's bring in more strangers from the most militant Nation we can think of" list is just asinine. Somebody's making money at that I'm sure but I haven't figured out how we can justify it. Oh yeah...profit margin.<br />
Marijuana??? really??? That's not even an issue worth talking about.<br />
Abortion? Guns? Race? None of these issues matter as long as the people who are in control of this Country don't give a damn about it's backbone. Don't give a damn about the people who make up the masses in this Nation. Don't give a damn where we sleep or what we eat or if our children will have any respect left for their Nation or their leaders or for themselves come the next election. The next generation. None of it matters because America won't be a place we talk about in present context. <br />
America won't be great again. We got that warm and fuzzy feeling when we were kicking Nazi ass and removing genocidal maniacs from the planet. That's respectable work that needed to be done and I'm proud of those who sacrificed so that we could end that but those days are past. Since the days of real regimes that threatened the world we've had to work at staying busy conquering our own people one industry at a time. We work at digging up lost causes that we can invest our industries in. We work at political Whack-A-Mole and the distraction of our citizens so they don't notice our failing system falling apart all around them. Our leaders vote directly against their constituents, our Representatives get FREE health care for life and vote ours into oblivion, our representatives buy multi-million dollar homes while our lending system fails under the weight of an overextended middle and lower class. Our Representatives send forces all over the world while violence and corruption in our back yards rise to an all time high. Our Representatives lie to a generation which will be the first in human history to have a lower life expectancy than the previous generation about our leadership's commitment to a better environment and better food industry. They lie about their commitment to better jobs and better pay. Our Representatives prostitute their opportunity to affect change in this nation to the businesses with the most money and our food sources are victimized, our educational system is victimized, our Military is victimized, our neighbors are victimized, our environment is victimized, our freedoms are victimized, our public safety is victimized, our health care is victimized...<br />
and we're going to elect Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump now to take us further into the depth's of the Hell that America has made of itself.<br />
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I'm sorry Grandpa. I couldn't do it. I'd lie my ass off. "Not from America. Those people are nuts."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-7169167672622772042016-01-11T20:58:00.001-08:002016-01-11T20:58:24.700-08:00The Verdict Is In I've said that a lot in my lifetime but for the first time it means exactly that. A judge heard all our testimony at a trial in Iowa to decide if I owed an investor (in an album) a great deal of money because I wasn't as successful as he had hoped I would be. It's hard to believe even for me...I'm the least successful musician I've ever heard of being sued by an Executive Producer. He basically just wanted all of his money back plus 18% and I pained for a year over the idea of that...losing more money than I had used to make Chronicles of Harvey and the My Brother's Keeper video...all at once because the legal system allows anyone to claim anything, anytime...and forces all those accused to defend themselves. <br />
Defending yourself out of state, by the way, is a bit of a challenge. If a lawyer will take your case it seems customary to rape the out of state client for every imaginable fee one can conjure. Fortunately I had nearly no money for a lawyer and I was forced to defend myself so these fees were not something I stood to lose. But I had to do my very best research ever...play lawyer for a year...and cross my fingers. I prepared as well as I could. I responded to all of the clerical judiciary blah blah blah throughout the proceedings. I updated the court clerk and opposition as necessary (except that one deadline I missed...whoops). I read and read and read and phoned every intelligent friend I could as well as a couple lawyers. The lawyers I know gave me generic pointers and made sure to let me know that they could not give me real council...politely. I read some more. I still didn't have a clue on the day of court. I'd rehearsed my lines. I'd studied all the evidence and lack thereof. I had all my paperwork in order...First time I needed one of them the entire stack turned into wet leaves covered in Egyptian hieroglyphs. I couldn't make heads or tails of the process, the paperwork or my thoughts. Awww shit. So I gave up on keeping my composure and just answered the questions, stumbled through my own quandaries and asked the judge to be forgiving of my ignorance.<br />
The verdict is in.<br />
After over a year of suffering through this mess a judge has decided that my Executive Producer had no legal claim to the money he was seeking. My wife and I were both named in this frivolous lawsuit and we are both very happy to inform anyone who cares...that justice did prevail. The judge gave an insightful recap and evaluation of the proceedings/claims and found in our favor. As a result, our accuser had to pay our court costs as well. We lost some time and a trip to Iowa we didn't really want to take but Hell...we won. Thank God. Thank Iowa. Thank the Universe. Thanks friends and neighbors. We didn't lose. <br />
Note to self. Do everything alone. People suck. <br />
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I think I'll make another record.<br />
JeffersonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-73521612869257933412015-12-15T18:09:00.001-08:002015-12-15T18:09:21.355-08:00Quixote - 12/15/15 <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kZecoDhQxpo" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
This was originally just a test of some mic configurations...turned out nicely so it's here. For those who care: Blumlein pair of AKG C414B XLS mics, Mogami cables, Focusrite Scarlett 6i6, basement. Taylor 910 CE, D'Addario EXP 13's. Song is Quixote, from Drawing Board: available for download at jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com Love ya. See ya.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-56625472711501785112015-11-02T13:30:00.001-08:002015-11-02T13:30:58.931-08:00Drawing Boardhttp://jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com/album/drawing-board<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ukg_J8I48f5zaM0Zww-kWkHiT7bnWcxLegwHU4pr46TyTCQ2WbJbyc-zTsMxeKl0QMLO9_bhSFaqq4roomwqZEuSz3SauMh7uSfQM6ipJ2itcaElfknclqPo5FN8lmDudCSmcaNscfc/s640/blogger-image--1468191782.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ukg_J8I48f5zaM0Zww-kWkHiT7bnWcxLegwHU4pr46TyTCQ2WbJbyc-zTsMxeKl0QMLO9_bhSFaqq4roomwqZEuSz3SauMh7uSfQM6ipJ2itcaElfknclqPo5FN8lmDudCSmcaNscfc/s640/blogger-image--1468191782.jpg"></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-73383235309184232062015-08-18T22:08:00.002-07:002015-08-18T22:11:33.462-07:00Too old for this shit. I was asked earlier where someone can get my music. I said "all the usual internet sites and out of the boxes in my basement". Turns out I was mostly wrong. Apparently I let my contracts lapse with most of the usual internet sites so there's about one place you can download them now. <br />
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"So I should fix that"...I thought for a moment. No. Screw it. It's available at http://jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com and that's good enough. If anybody finds it I'll be just tickled. If they don't I'll be just tickled. <br />
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You may ask yourself: "Why's this guy not more interested in promotion?" or say to yourself "maybe this is a ploy: some type of reverse psychology thing." No. I'm just not interested. Bandcamp is easy and it's already done and the 400 ever-changing other sites that I don't want to update constantly just annoy me and I'm glad that shit expired. I still like music, making music, and putting together things that resemble records. Hell I might even do it again someday...but...I'm too old for this shit. The internet and the Instant Gratification Nation have fucking exhausted me. I don't have the time or the money to make another 'Animule' production happen and if I did I probably wouldn't because the only point in that would be to try to make a living at music and I don't want to tour enough to make that happen and I'm well aware that the depressing crap I write is not ever going to be "popular" so I'm not going to make a bunch of money at it. Oh well.<br />
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You may ask yourself: "If he knows the depressing crap he writes is never going to be popular, why doesn't he write less depressing crap?" or say to yourself : "He ought to just use a regular drummer and some electric guitars and make normal music." And I would answer both those notions with "Why in the Hell would I make music that didn't feel was coming from my own heart and mind?" <br />
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I used to really think that I wanted people to like my music and every now and again that happened. These days I am rarely reminded by someone at work or in our circle of very few friends that those days ever existed. I've been recording a lot since those days. I like some of it very much. I may release it to the internet. I might press little shiny circles with those songs on them. How will I sell them? Probably not well. I won't invest much in it because I understand that reality. If the shit goes viral I'll print more. And people can buy said shit at http://jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com <br />
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Why tell you all of this? There are a few people who just keep asking these questions. Here's your answer: I don't care at all who likes my music. I don't care at all who listens to my music. I'm recording these days so that my two girls may have these things to listen to when I'm dead and because I like listening to these songs. I like the process of writing them. It's really hard to want to spend money to let other people listen to my music. I'm sorry. I always busted my ass to make the house payment when I was touring and trying to force feed my music to people who really would rather hear the latest and greatest version of Maroon 5 or some cover band doing "Brick House" at the local sports bar. I slept on couches all over the country and nearly missed my kids growing up and ate like crap and got really depressed and hated my life...in an attempt to be famous or get rich or feel loved or something...not even sure what I thought I was trying to prove. I guess I wanted somebody to tell me I was really cool...honestly no fucking idea what I wanted.<br />
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Now I want to enjoy the remaining years of my life to the best of my ability. I want to see my children discover a meaning to their lives. I want to enjoy my garden and raising a few chickens. I want to play music for myself and enjoy the process of trying to record it well for the sake of making it sound nice. I want to get the bathroom remodel over so the drain won't leak in the studio. I don't want to be famous or rich (I'd like to be slightly richER). I don't want to compete for popularity with young people who really need that to feel complete. I don't need to be told I'm cool. I'm not all that cool. If you think I am you don't get out much. I'm pretty much a 40 year old nerd/philosopher who violated all of his own personal views on how a life should be lived before I figured out what I needed. Oh and I write poetry and play guitar (like 50 million other people)<br />
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So back to the reason I wrote this. If new music from my basement studio ever, in fact, becomes available to the public it will likely arrive at http://jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com although there's a good chance I'll forget to tell anyone. If you remember to look every few months and you find something interesting please enjoy it and don't bother to ponder why no one else likes it or knows about it. It doesn't matter. Just enjoy it. Have a good life.<br />
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JFAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-82533542531573934522015-06-16T20:43:00.001-07:002015-06-16T20:43:36.171-07:00Ruby Jane Allen (Mom) Obituary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ruby "Jane" Allen, 66, of Puxico, Missouri passed away peacefully on June 15, 2015 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She was surrounded by those closest to her at the end of a battle with cancer.<br />
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Born on January 31, 1949 in Piggott, Arkansas to L.D. and Ruby Eskew, she and her two sisters, Joyce (Stahl) and Janet (Mason) were raised lovingly, taught the values of hard work, compassion and commitment. The family moved to Puxico, Missouri in 1962. They farmed, raised cattle and became ingrained in a close-knit community which remained dear to her heart. Jane's mother was a beautician. She became one as well.<br />
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She married Elbert M. Fox in 1968 and gave birth to son, Jefferson Fox in 1972. The marriage did not endure but mutual love for their son and granddaughters allowed the two to remain friends all of her life.<br />
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On February 20, 1976 Jane married Michael Ellsworth Allen of Puxico, Missouri. Together they had one daughter, Kelly Renee Allen (Marconyak). She also loved dearly Mike's son, Douglas from a previous marriage. The two devoted their lives to each other and to raising their children well. They traveled extensively while Mike worked as a pilot for the United States Army, retiring to Puxico in 1997.<br />
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Jane was an avid volunteer, sports enthusiast, active member of Brown General Baptist Church, and caregiver both professionally and in private. She worked at Pinelawn Residential Care in Puxico until her own mother's care became her primary duty. She came to the rescue of those in need. She burned the candle at both ends. She loved deeply and she forgave. She was outgoing and made life-long friends everywhere she went. She stayed in touch with those people and she truly appreciated every opportunity to be near them. She was a best friend to many.<br />
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She is survived by her mother, Ruby Eskew, her husband Mike Allen, her son Jefferson and Sharon Fox, her daughter Kelly and Jaison Marconyak, her step-son Doug and Bernice Allen, grandchildren Andie and Zoe Fox, Lucy and Kelson Marconyak, Grace and Rebecca Allen and her sister Joyce and Barry Stahl.<br />
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She was preceded in death by her father L.D. Eskew and sister Janet K. Mason. She loved them both dearly.<br />
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A visitation for family members will be held at Morgan Sifford Funeral Home at 5pm on Friday, June 19, 2015 opening to friends at 6pm. <br />
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Her funeral will be held at 11am on Saturday, June 20, 2015 at Brown General Baptist Church of Puxico, Missouri.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-82362939035975414902014-12-17T07:51:00.000-08:002014-12-17T07:51:26.565-08:00The Art of SongwritingThis article is about art. It is not about making money. It is not about gaining popularity. It is less about rules and more about definitions. So lets go.<br />
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Vincent Van Gogh was an artist. He created art. He attempted to sell some of it and was a miserable failure. However, you know his name and may or may not appreciate his work but his work was art. There is a guy in your home town who makes a living painting houses. He has paint and brushes. He may or may not be an artist. The defining point here is that painting houses commercially does not make him an artist. It is possible for him to be an artist who also is a commercial painter. These two titles are unrelated though the function of painting is shared by the two tasks. How does that relate?<br />
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I don't want you thinking that every test-tube pop star that ends up on the cover of Rolling Stone is an artist. While being successful does not negate your artisanship the two are not related. Many "stars" of the "music business" are house painters. Or rather, singers. You know...those people at work who belt out Joplin, the little girl at church who squeals out Christmas tunes every year...the people on The Voice. Any of these people may be artists...as perhaps they create something as well, but the act of singing is a task of rudimentary addition to an already existing piece of art. You can be an artist who sings. You can be a singer who is also an artist. Nothing however, links the two together. Many singers are just that. Many guitarists make no attempt to create artwork. Many drummers just want to know what the set list will be and if there's free beer involved. These people are musicians. <br />
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While I'm saying this I'm sensing an arrogance in my own tone. There isn't any intended. There is nothing wrong with being a singer, a guitarist, a drummer or a house painter. Those are fine pursuits with their own unique challenges. But I want to be clear. Creating a piece of music from nothing is an art form. <br />
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So now. You're going to write a song. That's your goal. Where should you start? What kind of songs will you write? Why should you write them? What should you write them about? How should you display your artwork? Key Signatures? Tempo? ...who cares<br />
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Here comes the freedom.<br />
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There are no rules. It's art.<br />
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Assembling musical notes and/or words in a musical manner constitutes writing a song...varying quantities of notes and/or words may bridge the gap between jingles, tunes, verses etc but that's all subjective.<br />
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Oh wait. Everything about art is subjective.<br />
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This is the best song ever. You're the best writer ever. It sucks. You suck. It's all subjective.<br />
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This is good news for you! The wonderful news for the would-be songwriter tearing themselves apart over whether what they intend to do is "good", "valid", "smart", "funny", "entertaining"...The good news is it's all subjective. The good news is that there are people who like Lady Gaga and there are people who like John Denver. Linda Ronstadt and Marilyn Manson, Eminem and Tom Waits, Elvis Presley and the Sex Pistols. There are no rules! You can write whatever you like and present it however you like and somebody out there is going to enjoy it. <br />
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This is an important lesson: Someone is going to HATE it! That's right. The art that you create, from the depths of your soul, with all of your heart and mind and effort is going to suck...in someone's eyes. And that someone may well be your best friend, the girl you were hoping to impress, your spouse/significant other. That's just the way the ball bounces baby. Van Gogh's mother used his paintings to patch holes in the roof. <br />
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More good news. Doesn't freaking matter.<br />
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The beauty of art is truly in the eyes of the beholder. I'm not joking. I'm not trying to be poetic. Only you will ever know the experiences, the information, the feelings that generated your artwork. You can attempt to describe those things to other people but no matter how valiant an effort you make they will never truly understand you. The piece of work you've created should give some insight perhaps but that's it. You have interpreted an idea, a feeling, a mood, a moment in time...you have interpreted <i>something </i>into a new language that only you can understand. I'm going to get a little philosophical for a moment so buckle up. I fear at times that the art form of music has suffered the broad transfiguration of the gravity of fear. So many people criticize this particular art form that it is difficult to eliminate such fears from the artist's mind, especially wholly remove those fears to the point that they can create work without fear guiding their creation more than their own spirits.<br />
It's tough to be criticized or rather it's tough to not allow that criticism to influence you. But you need to remember:<br />
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It's not your job to make other people like your work. That's THEIR job. Your job is to make your art. Make your art the way your soul and mind want you to make it. If you choose to show anyone your art work then they can decide what they think of it. And remember...even if you don't meet the people who love your art work, they exist. Maybe one day they'll see it and know that they love your art work or perhaps they wont...but they exist. It's statistically far more probable that you will first find many people who do not love your art work. That doesn't matter.<br />
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The art work is what matters. Before you can concern yourself with what folks think you need to do something. You need to do something good...but wait, that's subjective. But<br />
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It has to be good to you. So the first song you write may be fit for the trash can. Oh well. You write another and another. You choose to or not to use various influences from other work as you create. Doesn't matter. You choose to or not to read books that may influence you. Doesn't matter. You create and create and create and now what?<br />
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Is it good? to you? That's all you need to be asking as these creations come to be. And then answer yourself. No? Well then it's time to make a change. I won't suggest an approach that works. They all work. Leonard Cohen likes to pain over lyrics for years at a time and perfect every nuance. I don't think the Ramones did that with "Beat on The Brat". It's your deal. You may benefit from working late, working early, eating well, traveling, being happy, being sad, listening to other music, being in silence, doing drugs, doing cake...it's your deal. There are no rules. One thing is for sure. All artists go through a roller-coaster of ups and downs creatively and you need to know that going into this. You will win big (with yourself) and you will walk in circles. <br />
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Why are you doing this? Having a goal is helpful. "Because it's fun to me" is sufficient but if your goal is to make a political statement then maybe some research will help. If your goal is make people happy then maybe some research will help. See where I'm going with this? Sit on the street, see a movie, watch the neighbors, ask yourself questions. Do any kind of research you like but LIVING is a good way to research life and may inspire you to write about it. Some artists benefit from time away from their art. Maybe write a blog or something.<br />
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Music does differ from other art medias in that it branches off as we decide how to capture the art in some form for display. <br />
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Recording:<br />
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It's a different art form but capturing a song on a device in a way that imparts the desired emotion is very creative. It's not what I'm here to talk about right now.<br />
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You should certainly document your work. You don't HAVE to record it. You could write it down but that's perhaps not as rewarding and certainly not easy to deliver to the random person who wants to know what your songs sound like. Maybe they don't read music. So you may WANT to record it. Record it. Record it poorly. Do that before you try to do it any better. If you feel the need to hire an orchestra and get a producer involved than by all means do it but please be advised: A song is very nearly a living organism and it will grow and change within you. No need to rush to putting it in a jar. And here's the kicker. The recording does not make the song any better or worse. It just makes it sound better or worse. Some of the greatest songs (subjective) I've ever heard were very poorly recorded or I only heard them live. No recording. I'm just throwing that out there. It's not a law.<br />
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The real reason I'm writing this is to clear my head of conversations I've had with lots of people about songwriting. I don't think many people believe me but I do firmly believe that the art of music is in no way related to the business of it. Many people who call themselves "artists" are just people who want to be famous or people who would like to make money at an art form instead of what they do. I get tired of talking to them.<br />
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I hope that someone reads this and realizes that I've given you my permission to do any damn thing you please musically. If it makes you feel more fulfilled then I think it was worth doing. If you want to show someone who won't criticize your work (unless you ask) you can send them to me. I won't steal your work and I may tell you thank you. I will not tell you if I liked it or not...unless I like it a whole lot and then I'll be your groupie. I think my email is on this page somewhere. Doesn't matter either way.<br />
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Happy Music Making. Go out and be artists!<br />
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Jefferson Fox<br />
artistAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-32736736471563968872014-11-13T23:23:00.001-08:002014-11-13T23:23:13.703-08:00The Evolution of StupidityHow does nature change us? <div><br><div>Mutations. </div><div><br></div><div> The gene pool throws them out everyday as we are poured into existence. Every kind of mutation imaginable. Some of them kill us before we're able to walk, others give us hypothermic resistance or the ability to sense electromagnetism. Too many fingers, big eyes, white streak in an eyebrow...anything can happen. And of course, occasionally we get an Einstein or a Dommer as a result of subtle neurological mutations. <div><br></div><div>Yay mutants!</div><div><br></div><div>Throughout the history of the world a fascinating trend has occurred. Along with strength, speed and ferocity as needs for survival, the intellect of species has dictated their survival opportunities. So what happens?...</div><div> </div><div> The dumb gazelle doesn't think to run from the big cat and he's eaten. That stupidity mutation does not get passed on. The gazelle who likes to eat near the middle of the herd so the others can be eaten? She has many offspring who develop similar behaviors. Natural selection.</div><div><br></div><div> So what of humans? </div><div><br></div><div>Remember that kid in school that drank Drain-O and smashed mail boxes on weekends that you knew wouldn't live to be 30? Well, you were right. He died in a car crash after a bottle of reds and a rum and vodka fountain drink, rest his soul, and he won't continue breeding. The sharp kid with a sensible amount of caution and a desire to succeed will have 3 or 4 kids (though in recent decades he could have had 12) and that cautious intellect will get passed on. Natural selection.</div><div><br></div><div>In 5000B.C. or even 1926 A.D, those two kids had pretty significantly different odds of survival and Nature had a fair shake at the future of their race. The dumb die off, the smart keep breeding and intellectually, this species of animal is racing for the edge of the universe. </div><div><br></div><div>But then something radical happened...</div><div><br></div><div>CAPITALISM. (You like that? I Capitalized on that)</div><div><br></div><div>So what? capitalism? What's that got to do with anything?</div><div><br></div><div>Well...</div><div><br></div><div>Capitalism was churning out riches left and right in the West. Mostly in large industry but also in services of one sort or another. People got very creative with it. For awhile we humans used our common defense mechanism mutation, bullying, to create criminal opportunity like strong-arming. If you have nothing to sell you can still sell protection. Let folks know: pay me and "nothing bad will happen to you".</div><div><br></div><div>Then we got even more creative.</div><div><br></div><div>We legalized it!!!</div><div><br></div><div>Let's sell INSURANCE!!</div><div><br></div><div>Insure your house. Your car. Your life, your teeth, your kids, your cats, your ideas, your...well, you get it. We insured everything. We even insure our insurance companies against lawsuits brought by the insured for failure to insure them. Insure people against illness at a rate they can't afford and still charge them when they try to use it and insure the doctor against the patient and the company against the doctor and.... ... ...</div><div><br></div><div>Enter Modern Health Care.</div><div><br></div><div>People will pay insane amounts of money to stay alive. </div><div><br></div><div>Funny how that works. We'll still die but would gladly give up the grandkids college tuition for another 30 minutes on life support. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies got good! They began extending the lives of human beings and making crazy great money at it. </div><div><br></div><div>They got So good at it that a race of hairless monkeys with the kinds of genetic mutations that give way to religious cults, Baskin Robbins and Pet Rocks began living nearly THREE times their normal life expectancy!!</div><div><br></div><div>HOLY Crap!,, But wait a minute... Which ones are living longer?</div><div><br></div><div>Is it the smart ones? The fast ones? The ones that look over their shoulder for big cats?</div><div><br></div><div>Nope.</div><div><br></div><div>All of em brother!!</div><div><br></div><div>Screw Mother Nature and natural selection! Doesn't matter how stupid you are!! BREED brother, BREED!!! You pop em out and we will keep em alive. </div><div><br></div><div>Genetic failures welcome. This is the age of 'anything goes' (and a lot of them go to Office)</div><div><br></div><div>Stupidity found its savior in the human race. It found a way to succeed. Nature is truly amazing. While genetic mutation after genetic mutation has been tried and tested on the fields of battle for survival for Millenia, we have finally come to a point in history where greed has equalized the plight of nature and that of human desire. Today, stupidity abounds and natural selection has been thwarted by the sheer mass of our stupidity. </div><div><br></div><div> Like a black hole, limitless in its destruction and nearly impossible to comprehend...a void that is only detected by the effects on its surroundings. Stupidity abounds in every crevice of the human experience and it leads us into the future. You're holding onto it tightly. </div><div><br></div><div>You're afraid of what this may imply. </div><div><br></div><div>You're looking around for an opinion to adopt. Uncertainty has her hands around your throat.</div><div><br></div><div>You have the mutation...</div><div><br></div><div>just like me.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-30204358133055524612014-10-02T14:19:00.001-07:002014-10-02T14:19:32.705-07:00Drafting new tunesHere's one<div><br></div><div><a href="http://youtu.be/op1KYR4G-dM">http://youtu.be/op1KYR4G-dM</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-61134458649864552982014-08-27T07:40:00.001-07:002014-08-27T07:40:50.810-07:00WHO dictates pace of Ebola outbreak 2015So. Americans need not worry about Ebola at all. ??<div> How is it that the World Health Organization can tell the planet that there is no need to be concerned about the deadliest outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in human history when the incubation period is 21 days and the disease is being transmitted readily to health care workers and flown all over the world?</div><div> The WHO website says "<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions be applied except in cases where individuals have been confirmed or are suspected of being infected with EVD or where individuals have had contact with cases of EVD. (Contacts do not include properly-protected health-care workers and laboratory staff.)" note that exception...contacts do not include health care workers. Really? They account for 10% of the death toll and are flying all over the world. The "experts" on the disease who fashioned the "safe practices" for treating patients with the illness...they've all died from it subsequently. Also the WHO makes it clear that clothing and articles handled by infected persons are a definite threat but they're throwing their baggage on the carousel at an airport near you, crossing their fingers for 21 days and watching the outbreak migrate throughout the world as we speak. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Over 100 passengers from the infected area landed in New Delhi today, several quarantined with symptoms and still we hear "no need to worry" as the rest of the passengers collect their infected baggage and airport workers carry the disease off to their homes. This is clearly madness.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Historically, Ebola outbreaks have burned themselves out by now but this round is just ramping up at an unprecedented rate moving smoothly from 12 deaths a day 2 months ago to over 100 per day in the past week. Mathematically, this exponentially growing trend puts the death toll at around 120,000 by New Year and that's IF it stays regional which is highly unlikely with the current practices in place. What could happen in 2015 if this outbreak isn't stopped is an unspeakable situation.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Of course I understand that if the medical community sees progress in the fight and slows the spread this will not be the case...and that's what we hope for...but so far the virus is winning the fight in a horrible manner.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I should note that a Harvard study released yesterday showed that the poorly educated are more likely to fear this disease spreading to America than those with a higher education...so we should probably have someone with a college degree check my math. I'm probably not educated enough to perform trend analysis.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Meanwhile, the President of Liberia has fired several high ranking cabinet members as they have refused to return from abroad to the homeland. I guess they've decided unemployed beats dead. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Airlines everywhere have ceased flying into the affected areas, for obvious health reasons and as we all know, because the public will not want to board planes that have been there (which seems reasonable to the uneducated like myself) thus lowering profits dramatically. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> There is good news though...the drug company Tekmira who signed a 140 million dollar contract with the US Department of Defense to develop a vaccine effective on Ebola back in 2010 has a new investor! Guess who? Oh come on...that's too easy. Monsanto!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Of course Monsanto. Why wouldn't an agriculture based company get invested in the germ warfare game. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> On a side note the US branched out on the moral fiber front a few years ago and Patented its own strain of Ebola. That's right. We own a US Patent on ebola. Read more about that at </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">http://www.google.com/patents/US20120251502</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Interestingly in this patent you will find that the CDC extracted their virus from patients...then patented it as an invention. Where would they do this? That's right. Atlanta at Emory. The same place they shipped our first two Guinea pigs during this new and obviously ferocious strain. Look for another patent on this one I would guess.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> I've gotten sidetracked.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Back to the good news. Investors in Monsanto or Tekmira can look for huge returns as a vaccine is expected very soon and I would guess this latest tragedy should adequately inspire more vaccinations than one would need to get rich. Since our Government categorizes Ebola as a bio weapon (and our testing facility is set up in Sierra Leone...) I'm sure military use will be mandatory making this a golden opportunity. That's what we do isn't it? Find the money.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Although I cannot find my source right now I saw in one of the very early releases that Sierra Leone officials had asked USAMRIID to halt biowarfare ebola testing during the outbreak. Isn't that strange...</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Ok. Back out of the conspiracy theories...beep...beep...beep. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> There are 245 million people in West Africa and while the disease has killed far too many people we are indeed talking about a very low percentage of infected people. Things could get far better very quickly and I sincerely hope for that as does every decent human being. The past outbreaks were mostly isolated in rural locations making them much easier to handle and maybe soon we'll have this more complicated problem solved. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Regardless, I believe taking every imaginable caution would be the way to go here. Even the director of WHO says that attention to every single detail is the key (even if he does say don't count the medical community when you're talking about threats as carriers...I'll never get past that one). So if that is indeed the key, then travel should be solely for medical reasons. A mass exodus from the infected region could spread the disease to a range so far and wide it would be unstoppable. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Don't panic. That's not why I wrote this. Use common sense. Urge those around you to use common sense. Don't be caught dead near an airport. And most of all, don't let the Harvard study get you down. You're not dumb because you don't have a BS in business management.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> In the immortal words of Curt Cobain "just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Good luck out there.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Jefferson Fox </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-45282749773966058772013-11-04T17:53:00.001-08:002013-11-04T17:55:01.917-08:00Sorry - Jefferson Fox - (and Zoe)This is Zoe's guitar...and Zoe. and it was fun filming this. see ya soon.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sfMizAmR5A0" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-7771747939595153482013-11-04T12:05:00.001-08:002013-11-04T13:19:41.135-08:00Diggin Dahlias<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>So I started growing dahlias a couple of years ago. As with anything I do I soon became infatuated with them. So what I'm gonna show you now is a quick look at how to get those things out of the ground and stored for next year. Since Dahlias multiply sort of like potatoes you will amass a large quantity quickly. I'm not an expert but I dig mine after the frost has blackened all the leaves on the plants. To be more specific about a week following that episode. <div><br></div><div>Be very careful as they're extremely delicate and if you break their little necks they wont come back next year. Even light duty with the hose please... And try to keep just a small portion of the stem or main portion of the bulb (or tuber as it were) with the end of each individual tuber. Here we go in pictures! <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlhp3Iqu0WJY5ll2eNIGg6bH9lL-U9nJ2QVv1aTdc2xVxlU-Rr1B1_1hsLOtp0pLtyS8-35FcD_-hXBEREQHQgb02hVESbYPgL7dFP3JfJJQu_Wy6kvvQzWEMcLN9Gsw5C2uEvJbFmgZ4/s640/blogger-image-1695288667.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlhp3Iqu0WJY5ll2eNIGg6bH9lL-U9nJ2QVv1aTdc2xVxlU-Rr1B1_1hsLOtp0pLtyS8-35FcD_-hXBEREQHQgb02hVESbYPgL7dFP3JfJJQu_Wy6kvvQzWEMcLN9Gsw5C2uEvJbFmgZ4/s640/blogger-image-1695288667.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlhp3Iqu0WJY5ll2eNIGg6bH9lL-U9nJ2QVv1aTdc2xVxlU-Rr1B1_1hsLOtp0pLtyS8-35FcD_-hXBEREQHQgb02hVESbYPgL7dFP3JfJJQu_Wy6kvvQzWEMcLN9Gsw5C2uEvJbFmgZ4/s640/blogger-image-1695288667.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjidqcHShtS2sIBM5AHD3E54jdEzZtwRA_AI2CiSIvwMo4dcoQfYdDUhpvUo_Ip3PK91QJi3RG4fmSkU3sONVw1INCukvVtbKFjKNS-aF2q3SVKeukicAlrgIX9gCAp53w4Ehrry5ZERFQ/s640/blogger-image-3942913.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6oVLrm-Cx_9urq1PGunmgj3jyoeEbEGX2rQP0DRP7qxGSm5_grBV4C43y9e6tnqgWX4vpjj9Rkg3M8PpBlMQG1B4eAeEzgEfXSmfj1aPM_7ekvlqHG1PB3X94tW-HpZC0kZ03JFvohjM/s640/blogger-image-266596904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6oVLrm-Cx_9urq1PGunmgj3jyoeEbEGX2rQP0DRP7qxGSm5_grBV4C43y9e6tnqgWX4vpjj9Rkg3M8PpBlMQG1B4eAeEzgEfXSmfj1aPM_7ekvlqHG1PB3X94tW-HpZC0kZ03JFvohjM/s640/blogger-image-266596904.jpg"></a>Found this guy amid the tubers..careful.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJWIj1sQIqo5xJYmemSUqvvWkgYfkil3Kv7GGJRP2o3UIyJxL2Hm_vhnrcua9dcMwFYxLvJcfH9qyWi3s2x63ZxmCjvznPHwGFTOBrVz4p2FbV1ObUszfDeyPlL21tS_MG_RdulW9c3Y/s640/blogger-image--344088649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJWIj1sQIqo5xJYmemSUqvvWkgYfkil3Kv7GGJRP2o3UIyJxL2Hm_vhnrcua9dcMwFYxLvJcfH9qyWi3s2x63ZxmCjvznPHwGFTOBrVz4p2FbV1ObUszfDeyPlL21tS_MG_RdulW9c3Y/s640/blogger-image--344088649.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOwPY3ckewV7O5Xe8ZtrHqasrXUOWjqXC6GFwuaOHhKQsYDGnbQ-ojNoI-zs60e0Y9UkKZG0LoyTetYamAK85kfrfZ8qORGiO9JVZRhxuRzSJq8C1XPlv15j9Jx2Xsf2AQavjOlMRMF1A/s640/blogger-image-1861251300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Pack all of the individual tubers into vermiculite or some other drying material to keep them safe. No moisture. No sunlight. No mice. 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See me next year! For this!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORzwPugdV6DbtCvsUGXd8sDkH3muxLBAkApDoBt9_w0aK-UsQnry0t2fcumcFcNIgVgJ6RFeQ19ovT8pNKhXz-gDgZlAWBPj4DJASMY8pQYflK5IE2lIob4goKCGV_wVAicssrlqVcPI/s640/blogger-image-1488269507.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORzwPugdV6DbtCvsUGXd8sDkH3muxLBAkApDoBt9_w0aK-UsQnry0t2fcumcFcNIgVgJ6RFeQ19ovT8pNKhXz-gDgZlAWBPj4DJASMY8pQYflK5IE2lIob4goKCGV_wVAicssrlqVcPI/s640/blogger-image-1488269507.jpg"></a></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803065946065308115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327469119846721338.post-67227831820132537892013-11-03T19:19:00.003-08:002013-11-03T19:19:43.669-08:00Jesus and Johnny Cash (live)Hey. Look at me.<br />
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