Makemorelovemusic

13/07/2024

05/07/2024

This is punk af. Still can't stand Eddie Vedder's voice though 🤷‍♂️

In 1995, Pearl Jam canceled their tour due to a dispute with Ticketmaster, which began in 1992 with two free concerts in Seattle. Ticketmaster charged a fee of one dollar per ticket, which Pearl Jam found unacceptable. The band decided to distribute the tickets themselves.

In 1993, they set a maximum price of $18 for their concerts, despite promoters suggesting triple the price. They also reduced the price of their T-shirts, giving up $2 million in revenue.

In 1994, Pearl Jam declared that they would only play at venues that respected the maximum price of $18 and fees of less than $1.80. This led to a conflict with Ticketmaster, whose "service charge" ranged from $4 to $8. The band refused to give in, and because Ticketmaster controlled most of the concert venues, the 1994 summer tour was canceled, resulting in a loss of $3 million.

After the release of Vitalogy in 1994, Pearl Jam announced a summer tour only at venues not affiliated with Ticketmaster, organizing everything themselves.

Pearl Jam

26/06/2024

Shots fiiiiiired.

04/06/2024

Checks outtt

23/04/2024

This looks like an awesome route, who’s in?

The longest driveable road in the world!

The Pan-American Hwy passes through 14 countries and is a length of 18,000 miles.

Casey & I have considered this trip many times but have never really put it on paper and made a plan. Our youngest son graduates in a few weeks and now we are thinking this is possible for us to accomplish. The Toyota should handle the trip nicely and I can’t even imagine the videos & photos we could gather on a trip like this.

How long would you estimate it to take us? Would it be interesting to watch us travel and share with You?

23/04/2024

What do you think?

“Rick says things like ‘art is only pure if it’s made for only art’s sake’. Absolutely false.”

Jacob Collier has “critiqued” the artistic concepts of Rick Rubin, disagreeing with Rubin’s philosophy of “the audience comes last”.

I don’t think his audience is creative people. I think his audience is people who aren’t creative, for whom creativity is novel. And they’re thinking ‘Gosh, wow! I never even thought that you could make something for yourself!’ But I feel that anybody who’s inherently creative in some way knows that there’s no one way to do anything.”

“I look at Rick and I’m like, ‘has anyone ever debated [Rubin] on this stuff?’ because there are [multiple] ways of approaching creativity…I’d love to sit with Rick at one point and just talk to him, and chew the cud and push him. And I’ll also welcome being pushed…Our opinions need to be squeezed and broken…”

Read more https://musictech.com/news/music/jacob-collier-rick-rubin-disagree-creativity/

17/04/2024

One of these days I’m gonna find a better way.

Today is one of these days 🫶

04/04/2024

https://sharingideas.dua-tin.com/why-and-how-to-install-a-frog-hotel-in-your-garden-2912.html?utm_source=checkview&utm_medium=duly

26/03/2024

Melodic vs Linear approach to music theory and inspiration

24/03/2024

Interesting!

18/03/2024

“You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.

You have been built up from nothing but the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix, and small enough to be carried by a s***m. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.

You are not living on Earth. You are Earth."

Words by Aubrey Marcus

16/03/2024

Really cool interview with one of my most favorite lyricists

Celebrating a decade together with a special anniversary gig this week at the Salvage Station in Asheville, Fireside Collective has become a rapidly rising force in the Americana, bluegrass and jam realms in Southern Appalachia and beyond.  “At our core, we’re a grassroots band,” said Jes...

07/03/2024

Bad ass

"Somewhere in between Willie Nelson and Jimi Hendrix was Cordell Jackson, an American musician thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label. She was making music reminiscent of the Velvet Underground before the world was even introduced to rock & roll. The Mississippi-born, ballgown-wearing guitarist played with more energy than any Indie band worth their salt today, and during live performances, Cordell would strum on her guitar so fast that she would often break her guitar picks by the end of the song. At the height of her career, she appeared on David Letterman and MTV news and became known as “rock-and-roll granny”.
Jackson started playing the guitar at the age of 12 in a bible belt town where “girls didn’t play guitar”. She began writing her own songs in her 20s after moving to Memphis, the capital of rock & roll. “They didn’t have a name for “rock & roll then”, Cordell later told MTV news in 1989. “I just always played it fast” ( From Nessy Messy) ~ Laurie ~ 🤓

08/01/2024

Jim Hoffmann guide to sucking less at life when you are out seeing live music

Ok. Being respectful and showing it in general?
(Mixed for both musicians and audience)

-don't touch me, random stranger. Don't get up in my s**t with ya stank breath asking me to play a song. Write it down or ask when it's quieter.. which leads to....
-don't talk to me when I'm playing.
-don't talk to me when I'm setting up.
-don't fu**in yell "freebird". Unless youre willing to pay $100 because jokes on you, I can play it, and I'm going to 10000% say "toss a hundo in that jar and I'll play it".
-tip. Tip well. Buy me a drink or be friendly, but appreciate the effort somehow.
-be nice to my homies the wait staff. I know all of them. Chances are I know the owner as well.
-don't talk loudly while I play.
-if I'm running sound and you criticize the mix in the first 8 seconds of the show while I am retuning, I will embarass the f**k out of you. IF you REALLY p**s me off, youre getting tossed. If you really REALLY p**s me off, I know almost every bar owner from here to Raleigh and down to myrtle. Keep that same energy when you get black-listed from 75 different bars. Never p**s the sound guy off.
-also along those lines, as your sound guy, just listen to me. Turn your goddamn amp down. You do not need a half stack in bourbon street.
-absolutely do NOT play videos on your phone (as previously mentioned). Showing me a song you'd like me to figure out, sure. But do it on a set break. (And preferably chuck some love in that bucket for the work of learning a song on thr spot in 3 minutes)
-don't let your phone ring and ring and ring while I'm playing.
-don't touch my s**t.
-don't ask to touch my s**t.
-no you can't sit in with us, random stranger.
-no random stranger, you can't get up and play a song by yourself.
-yes I know what all these buttons do.
-no I don't want to have long conversations with you between or during songs.
-awesome your cousin's nephew's neighbor's uncle's dog was on the cover of a weezer album, but im trying to work here.
-cool. You play too. Come to an open jam.and show off your chops, but in the middle of a show ain't the time for this.
-SOUND CHECK IS NOT BAND PRACTICE. (Say this 100x to yourself)
-SOUND CHECK IS FOR YOUR SOUND GUY. we're setting levels. This s**t is important. Sing like you mean it. Play at the volumes you plan on being at the whole time.
-DONT PLAY BETWEEN SONGS OR BEFORE YOUR SET STARTS. 5 people wanting different s**t on stage ain't it.
-DO.FU***NG.NOT.CAMP.OUT.ON.THE.STAGE. before a show, if you're standing in my way while I try to run cables and get s**t done, I'm going to p**s on you. Set your s**t on the stage then kindly f**k off until it's time to soundcheck. Then f**k off once more until it's time to play.
-DO FU***NG NOT set your drinks on my (or the venue's) speakers. My subs cost 4k a piece to replace and there's 6 of them. My mixer is 5 grand. My guitar rig is about 3k. That drink is not gonna stay there. It will move and it will spill. And you won't like the results of that.
-don't climb the gear.
-don't stand on the monitors.
-don't touch the band when they're doing their thing.
-don't pass drinks over pedals and gear.
-don't place drinks near pedals or gear.
-when moshing, try your best not to fall into the monitors and pedals.
-don't throw s**t at the band unless it's bras or money.
-don't rush or crowd the band members before, during or after a show.
-be nice to the people around you. We see everything. We know everything. We will make a scene. If you don't pick up that person that fell in the pit, the music stops and you're getting called out at LEAST.
-if you ask if you can help (set up or moving things or whatever) and someone says nah, just say ok. Some of us do a rolling inventory as we put our hands on gear. It sucks to lose track of stuff.
-I (personally) may "look" bored but I am.having a blast most likely. I'm not an animated musician. That doesn't mean I am.not.loving every second of entertaining you. No need to say "you look mad/bored/etc". I know. I do that all the time.
-no you can't plug your phone in at the sound board.
-no I prefer you not stow your purse or jacket or anything near or ON my stuff.
-no I'm not the dj.
-no I'm not the lighting guy.
-no I will not play some random song off your phone over the system.
-never play games with the tip jar.
-be nice to the audience as well as a player. Even if you don't really want to.

Many of these I think have been covered. Some pertain to musicians respecting other musicians. Some pertain to the audience. All can be universal though.

/rant

08/01/2024

Hey folks, Tyler here (just a warning this is long, but if you currently run - or are thinking about opening a small business - you might find this worth the read)

I am just about to lock up and head home tonight, and wanted to share my thoughts on 2023 and what it's been like running a small business over the last few years.

I am locking up around 7:30pm on a Sunday evening. I've been here since around 10am installing new acoustic treatment in the control room of the recording studio. I took this picture as I was coming in from my second trip to Lowe's about an hour ago (you never get everything you need on your first trip). As I was pulling in, the street was dark and the only light on the block happened to be the lights I'd left on glowing out of our little storefront. And I had this overwhelming feeling of pride, gratitude, and humility all at the same time.

See, Bri and I have technically been "off" from Gold City since December 23rd. But both of us have been occupied everyday, all day, except for a few family gatherings doing something to improve this place while our clients are absent. The truth is, you are never off when you run your own business. And it is hard. But what makes it worth it are the moments like I had tonight when I can look at everything we've built here and say "we did that."

Day-to-day I don't think about the individual things in this photograph, and most of our clients likely don't either. We all come here to share in our time together. But tonight when I look at this photo I see the furniture that I put together (tediously on another "night off") that sits around our stereo, where kids, teenagers, artists, musicians, parents, grandparents and people of all walks of life have sat, laughed, listened to music, viewed local artists' work, debated, cried - and lived.

I see my personal record collection and turntable sitting in what has become our second home, where the records that I picked out walking through many other little stores like ours, or that were given to me by my dad have filled this space with memories that were once just mine, but now belong to others.

I see the record racks that I built out of materials that were left here by the previous owners. Racks that I built with no idea what I was doing and that required many second and third trips to Lowe's to complete. Literal blood, sweat and tears went into building those racks - along with many words that are not appropriate for this post. But now new customers come in and flip through hundreds of future memories, moments and stories in those racks.

I see the sales counter I put together and at which I sat for the month of January 2021 inspecting and pricing over 2,500 records to seed our store.

I see the blank walls that have served as a temporary home for local artists' work. Paintings, photographs, collage and mixed media works have all been viewed, pondered, discussed, debated, challenged, praised, and sold off of these walls. And we have all shared many memories at the opening receptions where we come together to showcase the talent and individual vision of each artist.

But what you can't see in this image are the studio rooms down that hallway where albums (including mine and several others') have been recorded, mixed and mastered, where my band has rehearsed for our shows, where our students have learned, failed, succeeded, overcome, confided, cried, laughed, worshipped, loved, performed, grown, and made hours of music, and memories.

Bri and I have poured our entire selves into this little storefront, on this dark street, on many "days off" just like today. We have each given more of ourselves than we had to give at times, and fortunately the other was there to make up the difference. We have had times where we really thought we might not make it with this business, but we somehow always managed to. We have felt imposter syndrome, burnout, financial hardship, frustration with each other, and somehow we have kept going.

We love what we do. Truly. And neither of us could do it without each other and without the loving support of our community. 2023 was an incredibly difficult year for me personally - but the new year brings new opportunity. We don't have the biggest, best vinyl shop. We don't have a multi-million dollar recording facility. I am not a Grammy-award winning producer, and neither of us have a formal education in music.

But this place is truly our own - and we have built something that we know is special. Being a small business owner means giving up the stress of the mundane for the stress of uncertainty. It is often the case that you're flying through life just barely making it through each week. But there are some lucky moments - where it's quiet and you're locking up after a long day - where you get to step back and look at something that is truly your own.

Here's to 2024.

10/10/2020

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10/10/2020

....”Plant the seed and watch it grow”🍃

10/10/2020

“Teach her that magic is inside of her, not out there...”💗

10/10/2020

...What song takes you back in time? 💗

10/10/2020

“If you doubt your power, you power your doubt”
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10/10/2020

....Challenge:
When a negative thought enters your mind, think three positive ones. Train yourself to flip the script.
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10/10/2020

...Share & show your love 💗

10/10/2020

TreeHouse! end of summer at-home reggae concert (& stories behind the songs) - Creator Sessions

“During this Creator Session, Jeremy breaks down everything from the technical creation of his songs, instruments used, and the deeper meaning that drives the positivity in his writing.” -Positive J

Loving these Creator Sessions? Subscribe to the series to find more about who is up next week. https://convertkit.com/creator-session-this-week To close out ...

09/10/2020

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Last night’s sunset in Cherry Grove was stunning. Can you see the heart in the clouds?

[Photo Credit: Angel Jacobs!]

09/10/2020

IMAGINE cover

Love this💗.... Happy 80th John Lennon

Happy 80th birthday John Lennon!

09/10/2020

....💗What is your favorite album?

09/10/2020

“time is an interesting term for the passage of memories” -mmlm 💗