Well, as long as we're counting, between my five various careers, I've been doing something for money for 51 years. Looks like it will be a few more. Glad others are able to get off the treadmill, though I still like my particular situation.
Glad to hear you're continuing your recovery, Gene!
Up here, as I mentioned in my post just now about finishing the Lou Reed biography, I'm pulling out my old Velvet Underground and Lou Reed albums for a re-listen.
Welcome from down south! Just finished listening to an album by one of your local heroes. Have a photographer and fishing buddy that lives somewhere up there on the Southside near a really good biker bar.
Pulled one out of the shelf tonight that I'd forgotten about. Glad it didn't go to Dallas...
Complete with an intro from Alligator's 1988 PR person, Cindy Wells, which attached 8 pages of press clippings, including the 1988 Rolling Stone article on Lonnie. Found it locally years ago and then...
That Steve Miller is kind of rare - my brother gave me the CD as a Christmas gift back in '89 or '90. I found the record a few years ago in pretty decent shape. I think people bought it thinking it was his usual stuff and an album may have only been played once or twice unless someone...
I feel your pain, Perry. Remember spending a lot of time scanning the pages into Acrobat and InDesign to line up the schematics and channel flow charts for the M-50 Tascam mixer I had 10 years ago. That manual was ridiculous.
They did have a good starting point but yes, the makeover was amazing. And am I correct in saying he sang, not lip-synced in the movie? I'd like to think that's the case.
Currently, the sound of rain and thunder. Power to the rig is switched off and I'm running from the laptop in case the power goes out.
Latest storm is passing through. Love the rain; apparently we had a very dry winter from the number of fires in the region.
I don't stream; haven't seen a streaming service that pays the artists appropriately. So my hi-res is all digital downloads and jukebox player software. Between downloading files from sites like ProStudioMasters or HDTracks, or directly from the artists sites, transferring my albums to digital...