blog
subscribe to the comments for this post
NAMM stuff
It's been a busy few days. The NAMM show in Anaheim was pretty successful, with my good self getting a sizeable writeup in the main trade paper, as well as a lot of compliments on my work, which was nice. Did a bit of hanging out with the stars - we had Teddy Riley doing a seminar for Steinberg, for which Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock (do I really need to link to them for people to know who they are?) both showed up as members of the audience! That was Twilight Zone stuff right there. Darryl Pearson also showed up the next day and proved to be a lovely man.
On Sunday I happened to be walking the floor when I heard a familiar voice yelling "It's not about the money, motherfucker!" And lo, twas the wonderful Martin Atkins promoting his new book Tour: Smart. Most of the kids listening to his rant had no idea who he was, but were listening in bemusement. He had a pile of his books on the stage in front of him, so I yelled up "How much for a book?". He said "It's 19.99 at Amazon but you can take one for free." I replied "No way, this is worth 20 bucks of anyone's money!" and pulled out a twenty, gave it to him while he was still on stage, and encouraged everyone else to do the same; which they did. We had a short but highly pleasant and productive talk while he ran for a plane; I'm hoping more will come of that in the not-so-distant future. I've been reading the book for the past couple of days, and it's excellent. Highly recommended for all musicians.
Most of the time I was too busy to do anything but work, eat, and sleep, but had a half day off on Monday after the show finished, so went shopping at the local Fry's electronic emporium. Bought a new Network Appliance Server to replace my aging Buffalo LinkStation, will rig that up when I finally get my brain working again. Also finally bought the full version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. I've been playing the demo version of this off and on over the past months and it's excellent - and there's a native Linux client, so no need to run it under emulation on my Linux desktop machine! So I figured it was worth 30 bucks on my money too. It'll keep me amused while I try to recover from the jet-lag...
On Sunday I happened to be walking the floor when I heard a familiar voice yelling "It's not about the money, motherfucker!" And lo, twas the wonderful Martin Atkins promoting his new book Tour: Smart. Most of the kids listening to his rant had no idea who he was, but were listening in bemusement. He had a pile of his books on the stage in front of him, so I yelled up "How much for a book?". He said "It's 19.99 at Amazon but you can take one for free." I replied "No way, this is worth 20 bucks of anyone's money!" and pulled out a twenty, gave it to him while he was still on stage, and encouraged everyone else to do the same; which they did. We had a short but highly pleasant and productive talk while he ran for a plane; I'm hoping more will come of that in the not-so-distant future. I've been reading the book for the past couple of days, and it's excellent. Highly recommended for all musicians.
Most of the time I was too busy to do anything but work, eat, and sleep, but had a half day off on Monday after the show finished, so went shopping at the local Fry's electronic emporium. Bought a new Network Appliance Server to replace my aging Buffalo LinkStation, will rig that up when I finally get my brain working again. Also finally bought the full version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. I've been playing the demo version of this off and on over the past months and it's excellent - and there's a native Linux client, so no need to run it under emulation on my Linux desktop machine! So I figured it was worth 30 bucks on my money too. It'll keep me amused while I try to recover from the jet-lag...
