Artscape 2018

Music At Artscape 2018

Rumba Club

Queen Wolf

Super City

Film At Artscape 2018 - Animated Shorts

AIRPORT

Michaela Müller, 2017, Switzerland/ Croatia, 11 MIN

Airports - the pinnacle of modern society, places where the limits of borders, security and tolerance are constantly tested.

THE BIGGEST WAD IS MINE

Sam Gurry, 2016, USA, 3 MIN

Junior High is one sticky situation.

THE ELEPHANT'S SONG

Lynn Tomlinson, 2018, USA, 8 MIN, World Premiere

An old farm dog recounts the true tale of Old Bet, the elephant at the start of the American circus. Their mournful melody is hand-crafted using both oil pastel and painterly clay-on-glass animation techniques.

GREEN WATER

Marnie Ellen Hertzler & Beth Hoeckel, 2017, USA, 2 MIN

Easter is here and things are starting to get strange.

SANS CHLOROPHYLL

Phil Davis, 2017, USA, 3 MIN

An experiment in animated choreography with autumn leaves. Consisting of hundreds of scanned and photographed leaves animated to a banjo soundscape. A celebration of the vibrant burst of seasonal beauty.

UGLY

Nikita Diakur, 2017, Germany, 12 MIN

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’ and animated with computer simulated marionettes.

Don Joyce, Negativland Sound Collagist

Interesting guy.

Link to Rolling Stone Article about Don Joyce from 2015

Link to Wikipedia article about Don Joyce.

Honfest 2017

Natalie and I went to Honfest on Saturday. Rob Fahey and Whiskey Train played while we were there. They sounded great. We saw Rob Fahey at Sunset Park in Ocean City a few years back but he sounded a lot better this time. I think his throat must have been a little raw back then. Whiskey Train kind of surprised me. I remember them as being a basic boogie-woogie band but they played all kinds of good stuff - Squeeze, REM, Alice in Chains, Cars. I liked the one original they did too.

Natalie brown-bagged a couple of beers and good thing she did. They didn't have anything worth buying. There were lots of Hons of varying degrees of authenticity and your stray native Hampdenite. We stayed a few hours and then headed home. Oh, and it was hot, record breaking hot.

Link to Photos from Honfest 2017

Metallica at Raven's Stadium

I saw Metallica at Raven's Stadium tonight with Karen, Dan and his girlfriend Amanda.  They were great. So was the Snake Dog. Good times. 

Photos by Dan & Karen

Metallica's set list from “Worldwired” tour's 1st show in Baltimore.

01. “Hardwired”
02. “Atlas, Rise!”
03. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
04. “Fuel”
05. “The Unforgiven”
06. “Now That We’re Dead” [w/ drum solo]
07. “Moth Into Flame”
08. “Wherever I May Roam”
09. “Halo on Fire” [w/ Kirk solo and Rob’s solo]
10. “Hit The Lights”
11. “Sad But True”
12. “One”
13. “Master Of Puppets”
14. “Fade to Black”
15. “Seek & Destroy”
16. “Battery”
17. “Nothing Else Matters”
18. “Enter Sandman” [w/ “Frayed Ends of Sanity” outro]

From Loudwire.

      The long wait is over as Metallica kicked off their first proper tour of North America since 2009 last night (May 10) in Baltimore at M&T Bank Stadium. Dubbed “Worldwired,” the trek is in support of the band’s latest LP, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, which came out last November and recently went platinum.

    The band unveiled a new set that featured a massive five-panel video screen, and opened with the new album’s lead single, “Hardwired.” In all, five songs were played from the disc, including “Atlas Rise!,” “Now that We’re Dead,” “Moth Into Flame” and “Halo on Fire.”

    The show, which featured opening sets by Volbeat and Avenged Sevenfold, was heavy on hits and singles, with a total of 18 songs performed, along with solo spots from guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Drummer Lars Ulrich was joined on his solo by the rest of the band — including singer James Hetfield, who pounded away on large drums which were brought out. Nothing was featured from the previous two Metallica efforts, St. Anger and Death Magnetic, with just a snippet of “Bleeding Me” the sole representation from Load. “Seek and Destroy” closed out the main set with “Enter Sandman” wrapping up the encore.

Hardwired, Atlas Arise and For Whom The Bell Tolls

Now That We're Dead with Giant Drums

Moth Into Flame

Battery

Video by Ralph

2010 Photos Online

2010 Photos Pt.1

2010 Photos Pt.2

Creepy Creepy Creepy

MUTANT SOUNDS: JOHN DUNCAN-PLEASURE-ESCAPE, TAPE, 1984, USA

Was it a hoax? The comments are pretty interesting.

Ronnie James Dio Dead At 67

Dio has been making music for a long time. The Rock and Roll Geek Show played some of his first records - from 1957. I was one year old then.

Link To MTV Obituary

Link to Rock & Roll Geek Dio Tribute Show

Oh Vicki

Link to article on People Like Us (Vicki Bennett)

Of All Things, Maggot Brain.

I taped "House" for Natalie Monday and when it was almost over and the patient was dying, "Maggot Brain" started playing on the soundtrack. I couldn't believe it - Maggot Brain! Some great guitar playing there by Eddie Hazel.

Click on the album cover for Wikipedia's entry about the title song. Some creepy stuff there.

YouTube Downloader

I'm going to try this freeware out. It seems pretty straight forward. I used KeepVid a couple of times but it didn't work last time I tried it.

Download.com's video about the YouTube Downloader.

Downloaded and installed YouTube Downloader and it works as advertised. I used it to download videos and convert them for an ipod. There's an option for setting the quality used for the conversion. I used "Optimal" for my stuff. Below is a table listing the settings with the resulting file size.

• Original - 18 Meg
• High - 29 Meg
• Optimal - 11 Meg
• Medium - 6 Meg

2007 Pictures Now Online

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Donald Fagen Defends Steely Dan To Friends

Steely Dan Does Not Suck!

Hampdenfest 2008

Natalie and I went to Hampdenfest today. If you like live music, this is the street fair for you. There are 3 stages of bands playing all day. If you don't like the band on one stage, you can walk a 1/2 block over to the next one and check out that band. We got there just as the festiveal was starting, around 11:00 AM. I wanted to see the Jennifers and they were scheduled to start at 11:00 but they were late and didn't start till almost noon. They didn't play anything from the CD I have, Colours From The Future, but they were still great. I don't know if they were playing new stuff or what.

The rest of the fair was fun. Typical stuff - Art & Crafts stands, Community Action stands, Food stands. One thing we really like is the good beer, Brewer's Art Resurrection Ale and Beacon Ale for $4.00 a cup, pretty reasonable for a festival. The Resurrection Ale is better. Hampden is an interesting place with a lot of characters. While I was sitting on a wall watching the Jennifers, there were a bunch of kids skateboarding on the 7-11 parking lot right behind me and nobody said boo to them. Skateboarding to live music - not bad. There's sex shop off the avenue, Sugar, and they had some interesting people walking through the crowd. I liked the girl in the skimpy outfit on stilts. I guess somewhere in the world that's somebody's fantasy.

Later on that afternoon, we saw Susan Alcorn and The Tritons play. Susan Alcorn did a solo act. She plays pedal steel guitar and I really enjoyed it but Natalie thought it was a little mellow and laid back for a place like that. The Tritons are a surf music band and they were really good. We left around 3:00.
Photo of The Tritons by Chrissy Abbott. Photo of The Jennifers by Tim Heaney.

1,000,000 Records

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

It's True!

I'm Jimmy Buffet! Click my picture below to learn the horrible truth.

Artscape 2008

Natalie and I went to went to Artscape twice this weekend. Friday night we got there late, but managed to catch some of Joan Jett and Roberta Flack. We heard Joan Jett do about six or seven songs and she was really good. Even Natalie liked her. She did "I Love Rock and Roll", "I Hate Myself for Loving You", "Crimson and Clover", the theme song from "That Girl", "Naked" and a couple of others before we left to go see Roberta Flack.


Roberta Flack played on the main stage, which is at the bottom of a hill. It was packed. We ended up standing inside a metal sculpture just trying to catch a glimpse of her. Natalie was disappointed. It sounded like light jazz to me. We wondered around checking out some of the booths till the place started closing up and then went home. If you want to avoid the crowds, Friday afternoon would be a good time to go to Artscape.

Saturday we got there about 12:30. Somebody was playing acoustic guitar on the main stage and we went to check it out. A couple were getting married there. Don't know what that was all about - did they originally meet at Artscape or what? We caught the parade of art cars as they drove down Mount Royal Avenue. The art cars are always cool. We saw a fashion show put on by the Fabulous Four. I saw that on the program and thought it was a Beatles tribute band. Natalie and I both liked it -there was even a Janet Jackson moment. Heading over towards Charles Street, we stopped to watch some demonstrations of pottery and jewelry making, calligraphy, drum making and, my personal favorite, belly dancing.


It was really hot on Saturday. By 3:00 o'clock we were both already wiped out. Luckily it was time for the BSO's free concert in air-conditioned Meyerhoff Symphony hall. That was a real nice break from the heat. The conductor was BSO/Peabody Conducting Fellow, Joseph Young. Here's a partial set list of what they played:

• Mozart - Marriage Of Figaro Overture
• Mendelssohn
• Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
• Beethoven
• Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight Of The Bumble Bee

After the BSO concert, we headed back to Charles Street. This is the new section of Artscape. There was a Midway set up on the bridge over I-83, filled with all kinds of weird stuff, like a Freak Show and an Alien Space ship. The Freak Show was just Barbie Dolls and stuff like that but it still got to people. A couple of bands played, mostly just guitar and drums. And lots of audience participation. The Sensorama was creepy - little black boxes you stuck you hand into. The one full of warm water made me cringe for some reason. The Charles Theater didn't seem to be involved with Artscape at all, which was disappointing. I thought they'd take the place of "Shorts In A Tent" from last years show. We didn't make it the XXX show on North Avenue. By this time we had both had it, so we headed south on Charles Street to Brewer's Art for some liquid refreshment. We planned on going back on Sunday but since it was going to be another 95 degree day, we decided to go out Mom & Dads for a swim instead.

Click for Photobucket Album Of Artscape 2008 Photos

Baltimore Municipal Band Concert

Natalie and I went to see the Baltimore Municipal Band at Burdick park tonight. It was great, as usual. They always play some interesting stuff. I could do without the sing-along portion of the show but I guess that must be a tradition. They had some technical problems with the PA that pretty much drowned out the band while they were playing "West Side Story" but they finally got things sorted out and finished the show, although it was shortened. This is one of two concerts by the band this year. They used to do a lot more than that. The other one is at Northside Baptist Church, over where we used to live on Cedarcroft. Mitchell and Cheryl got married there.

Set List:

• Pride of Baltimore March (Written by the Band Director, George Gaylor)
• Holst "Music for Band In F"
• West Side Story
• Three Italian Songs - La Strada, Venice in Summer, Anna Macora (Sung by Joe DiFranco)
• Respighi's Pines of Rome "Pines of the Apian Way"
• From Camelot "If ever I would Leave You" (Sung by Joe DiFranco)
• Souza "Hands Across The Sea"
• Plus the sing-along songs and of course, God Bless America

Dan's Band

Here's the link to their myspace page.

Stated

Shuffle Playlist On iPods

Make sure the iPod is set to shuffle. Navigate to your playlist but  DO NOT  go into the playlist on the iPod, just highlight the name. Then hit play. This will shuffle the playlist. Same thing applies to artists, albums, etc.

A little reminder to myself. I'm old, I'm confused!