Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/28/2007Antryg , my love! Where have you been?!? I miss you! My life is incomplete without your shining presence.
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/27/2007I thought I felt a disturbance in the force...
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/27/2007Hey Robert, I went to Lincoln Nebraska to visit my son and I waved when I drove through Wichita.
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/25/2007Coffee, double strong, extra black, and really hot...I"ve been working overtime, and I need it. Ok, maybe working is a bad word, but my eye has decided to be allergic to something lately, and if I were to place a bet, I'd say it's sunlight. It gets really aggravated if I have to be outside for anything, and gets to watering so bad I can't see out of the other eye...It's gotten to the point where it keeps me up nights, and a trip to the ER has turned up nothing. Story of my life...all kinds of problems, and nobody can figure them out.
Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/04/2007Well I'm glad to see you two have been chatting.
I've been fighting a particularly nasty cold or somesuch. The kind you run a fever and can't breath for a couple days then when your sinuses clear, you can't stop coughing. My ribs hurt so badly. If it doesn't clear soon, I'll make some of my herbal cough syrup. At least I know it works. (It takes a while to make, and I gave the last of the last batch to a friend this winter.)
Damned germs made me miss a colored wool fiber festival in Sedalia this weekend I've been looking forward to majorly. It's been probably a decade since I've been last, and a bunch of us were going to get together for a visit. Oh well.
Any articles for the next issue need to be submitted ASAP. I'll be working on it today off and on and hopefully get it published sometime tomorrow.
~Falcon
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/03/2007Nope, I can't say that I've heard of him. I played cello for about 8 years through school, and had some exposure to classical music there, and I like Bach, and Beethoven for sure. A few others that escape me right now.
I have a lot of acoustic work, but I also have stuff that's closer to my actual influences, which includes Metallica. I listened to a lot of the Moody Blues growing up, and Pink Floyd as well, although I really think that Kiss, and eventually Metallica really caused me to pick up the guitar in high school. Unfortunately, I've never had any formal lessons, so I'm pretty much "limited" to things I pick up as I play. I've been playing a long time though.
I finally got some software to let me work on my next CD as well, which will be quite a bit different from my first one. I have a working title for it, Departure From the Norm, and the music is closer to the Eye of the Storm piece on my Samples page. In fact, that piece will probably be on the next CD, if with a title that makes a bit more sense, since the "eye" of a storm is relatively calm.
Some of the buzz is undoubtably due to my inexperience on the mixer board. I produced that whole CD in my kitchen though, including laying down all the tracks. In retrospect, I won't be dual channeling the rythm parts anymore. I think that added to the "buzz".
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/03/2007Oh, forgot to say: congratulations on your newfound international success.
By the way, I bumped your karma back up to 2. You were the one whose karma I accidentally demolished with my curiosity last night. I immediately tried to fix it, but got a message saying that karmas can only be adjusted every 6 hours. Something tells me the Buddha would find that idea hilarious. At any rate, hope your temporary karmic drop didn't cause you any serious disturbance.
I went to a meditation service for the first time at a Buddhist temple recently, after we hosted a Korean exchange student who took his English classes at the temple (he was Buddhist as well.) Very nice.
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/03/2007Well, Robert it looks like it's the two of us keeping this place going right now, and it looks like the topic is you.
I listened to your samples... lovely and soulful. I tend to like minor key on the guitar as well. Are you mainly acoustic? The last one sounded electric but it might've just been the buzzing of my cheap headphones.
I found The Bard's Song parts 1 & 2 as well as Remember Me interesting explorations on a progression... they bring to mind something... maybe somewhat reminiscent of early Moody Blues. Hmmm. No, I've got it... There's a piece I've heard Segovia play before. Now it's gonna drive me crazy until I figure it out. Maybe Recuerdos de la Alhambra or the Prelude to Suite Compostelana, or maybe even his guitar arrangement of Bach's Lute Prelude in C minor, an incredible piece of music, not at all what you might think it would be.
By any chance are you a fan of Segovia?
What else have you written? It looks like your CD has 5 songs.
And since I'm here and this is a coffee shop, pretty please could I get a cafe au lait, New Orleans style with chicory?
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/03/2007Thank you. Yes, it's a piece I did for a friend online that passed away. The pic, and the video were both shot at the same time...I was trying to learn how to use the camera. The piece is available on my site for free download, along with the CD I produced that has that piece on it.
Side note, because I'm not sure if I mentioned it here, but I'm now an international recording artist, as I have officially sold, and shipped a CD to the UK. Hooray. Success, one continent at a time...
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/02/2007and YIKES what is this karma thing about?
I just accidentally voted someone's karma down... just messing around and pressing buttons to see what those thumb icons were about.... oops... and can't bump it back up for another six hours.
I don't get it. Apparently it's quite easy to control someone else's karma.
Wow, the you in the video looks just like the you in your sig picture here. You might even be wearing the same shirt.
By the way... to anyone here who wields power over such things... when I registered, I submitted an avatar image. I'm still getting a "pending approval" message over that androgenous anonymous government-issue picture everyone gets. I swear I did not submit anything pornographic, rude or socially unacceptable! But just curious - how long does the approval process generally take?
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