This massive space used to be where The Rainforest Cafe was. It is now a huge Bavarian bar & restaurant that can easily hold a few hundred people. Live entertainment every night on the stage. It is open until 2am every day , except Sunday. It is their fourth UK location, and first i...
Before long, Rosca was building soundscapes that featured just his vocal and guitars. “I used the multitrack recording method, because I had no group at that time and I was eager to record all my ideas and background voices at the same time. I discovered the flanger effect by using two...
I mean, samplers hell, these folks don’t even use electric guitars. The thing is, while there is much fascinating and beautiful music to be made with samplers, for many people who adopt the instrument carelessly it becomes a crutch. When each button you press creates not just a note (...
What I want to say is that ALL THESE GAME CONTROLLERS still use THE SAME 2.4 GHz radio spectrum used by Bluetooth headphones and Wifi signals. How did they avoid congestion and collisions? By customizing the protocols to give priority to their own communications, be it by tweaking the way ra...
A last chance to sell some of my CD’s – pictured here with course leader Anna Wendy Stevenson After our last morning, we had a few hours of free time and spent the afternoon in a very sunny Stornoway with sunglasses, sunscreen, and shandies before we all needed to get our various mod...
Strings are called upon to sound as if they are strumming guitars. Castanets, timpani, snare drums are used throughout, but the trumpets, flutes and oboes carry the rhythmic pulse as well. Just as a pianist is called upon to sometimes play in the lowest and highest ranges of the keyboard...
“There were all sorts of things going on in the Army. It had never really been an issue, but then Joy Webb and the Joystrings inspired a whole generation of Salvationists to start using guitars and drums in worship. We had such a group in our corps. They had saxophones, I think, ...
Think about what you've just heard. I mentioned bass guitar, vocals, and clarinets. There is also a lead singer, a piano, guitars, drums, a harmonica. What's so unusual about that? What is unusual is thatnoneof this is real. There arenoindividual sounds of instruments...
like a wet hen, he says. “I never raised her rent again. Everybody loved Grandma Watson. She became part of the family. One time when she thought I was going to sell the house, she marched into my office and said, ‘Buck Owens, you’re not going to sell this house until I die...
The Academy Is... are a quintet of Illinois pretty boys who play watered-down pseudo-rock that Taking Back Sunday and Brand New fans will most certainly lose their shit over. With distorted guitars and lyrics about heavy hearts, they're trying to be bitter and unfuckwitable. But there jus...