It's another Bandcamp Friday - the best day to reach out a get some music you can hold, with extra icing for your favorite creators. It doesn't have to be me, but go find something to pick up today and show some love to a musician Spotify pretends doesn't matter!
(if it is me, here's a link: theislen.bandcamp.com ) #BandcampFriday #music

"As long as we create technology primarily to extract resources and annihilate each other, the belief that technology will come to our rescue and help us solve our existential crises is a product of a highly delusional thought process."
-Geo. Tsakraklides

Welp, Robert Fripp wins April Fool's for this year (who'd a thunk?).

(All-time trophy still belongs to Moog....)

#CoSoMusic
https://youtu.be/bnKl-o13AQU

You see interviews with drummers, etc., saying "I never knew the words, I don't know what so and so was doing....," then you see videos of The Who back in the live heyday and Moon is singing along! It starts to dawn how they were able to pull off the insane level of group improvisation...
Take heed, young 'uns....
#music

So, Lucian Grainge now owns 99% of Daniel Ek's gonads.
If you haven't dumped Spotify yet.....

PayPal is apparently staffed exclusively by loonburgers and idiots.

Okay, musicians, I'm fine with some variation in nomenclature when it comes to harmony, it's just a fact of functional (sorry) musical life.
One exception:

Keys have tonics, chords have roots, ok?

Trying to keep my students from going completely crosseyed....
#music

The week so far: Monday, Paypal fraud. Tuesday, printer goes down, have to order what it needs overnight 'cause no one stocks it. Today, fraud on wife's debit card, phone account changed without authorization ("Oh, that's a system update," yeah, and it would have cost me a bundle if I hadn't caught it...) Needless to say, way behind on what I'd planned to do....

Elon says Starship will make humans interplanetary.
Guess he has no choice, since he can't get it back down to Earth...

From the dead bird #covid :

Spring Merch Sale is here! $13 tees, big discounts on mugs, wall art, etc. All sales benefit World Central Kitchen, feeding the people of Ukraine. theislen.threadless.com #musiciansupport #music #FeedUkraine #singersongwriter

Tx Senator launches "Democrats for Cruz."
I a related story, "Foreheads for Ball Peen Hammers" held their first meeting...

Bandcamp Friday! Best day to support your favorite creators! All my CDs are download price + shipping at theislen.bandcamp.com! #BandcampFriday #singersongwriter #music

Of course:
https://boingboing.net/2024/02/28/jesse-watters-secret-double-life-revealed-in-photo-he-eats-ice-cream-cones.html

Smokehouse Creek fire headed for the Pantex Nuclear Weapons plant.
It's all fine, just fine....

Among other observances, it's the 54th of the concert that gave us Live at Leeds.
A good day to play it loud.
(Crackling noises ok, do not correct!)
#CoSoMusic

No livestreams this week - injured finger.
But! Valentine's/Mardi Gras Merch sale! Select tees $15, everything discounted - all sales benefit World Central Kitchen, feeding the people of Ukraine!
theislen.threadless.com
#musicmerch #music #singersongwriter

So, a new amp is being built, but in the meantime, after seeing Uncle Larry shoot it out with his old ODR-1, I picked up the new 30th anniversary Nobels...
and yeah, I'll be ditching a couple of old overdrives.
#gear