status report

It's been a hard decision and took a lot of soul searching, but the fact is that original music is just an endless uphill battle. To that end, we're gonna bail the originals and move to a top-40 cover format, Phil Collins and stuff.

Erm, what day is it again today? Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.

The punchline to the last post is I re-worked the guitar sound a couple more times, and actually got to the point that I've been so pleased with it I've been playing the strat non-stop.

Non-stop pretty accurately describes the gig schedule, we did 15 shows in SL last week alone. It still makes me laugh, what a cool thing. Plug an IP address and password into the broadcasting software, click connect, and we're pumping live audio from our living room to folks around the world. In my previous life working for the web hosting company, I was a semi-frequent guest on a syndicated technology radio show that the guy broadcast from his house, and he needed a wall full of gear and dual ISDN lines. I shouldn't be surprised, I've got a phone in my pocket with more computing power and bandwidth than my first 4 PC's combined.

We did a show for Mediaset, which is a huge TV network in Italy, and they filmed the performance for a video. It came out really nice-

http://www.youtube.com/mediasetsecondlife

We've got a song on a compilation album called Dancing In The Combat Zone, coming out in the early summer. The album features South Florida bands doing anti-war stuff, we were glad to be asked to participate. There's going to be a release party it looks like on June 28th, and we will be doing a RL performance at Churchill's Pub in Miami. It will be the first one in over a year. Actually, that won't be completely accurate, we're going to do a RL performance at a secret location in Central Florida the end of April, kind of a jam fest with a friend of mine and his band. It'll give us a chance to see how well (or not) it works live with the programmed drum tracks. If it falls completely flat, we'll have time to get a live drummer for the Churchill's thing. If it *does* work, well, that would be cool wouldn't it?