Musicians Cooler - Dave Jackson

Spent some time looking for cool stage clothes on the net today trying to work on an article about getting a "look". Didn't come up empty, but it s a hard subject to research. I did find some cool t-shirts and such. I organized them into a section on the site. I've had some people coming to the site looking for clothes. At least now there is something. After writing to Mark Curran, I've decided to wait for the updated version of his book. Super nice guy. The one frustrating thing, is I had at one point, linked tothe audio files on the amazon.com site for sampled of Chris Duarte. They worked. Now when you click on them it launches the amazon.com SITE. Didn't really want that. I am waiting to publish the newsletter. My email list server is down. Figures. For once I'm ready to publish on time. As promised CDG came though. I can't stop listening to 101 off the new CD. I hope all my cred doesn't go out the window with this issue.

Just spent half a day looking over my CD Consignment guide. With the internet things change so fast. I have 19 sites lised, and one is apparently having issues, one now has LOTs of adult pop ups, and two are working deals to have CD baby take over the store. I've also found some cool new sites. I need to set up a form on the site so I can direct CD Consignment sites to the form, and let them enter the info. Then I'll go to the site and look it over, and decide to include or exclude their site. Still no info from Chris Duarte. I've got a small portion of the next issue done. I need ot get cracking on it as I hae gigs all weekend.

What a treat. Living in Ohio, the power went out Thursday afternoon, and didn't come back at my house till 2 AM Friday morning. Not so bad, some people had it much worse. As the reports come in, fingers are pointing at Cleveland as possible the source of the blackout (great cause now that we've got over the whole "burning river" icon....). Went to a "musician's picnic" on Sunday where about 20-30 different people from different bands just got together and jammed for the fun of it. It was lots of fun. We kept doing a bunch of I IV V blues. I like the blues, but I think if I was the bass player or drummer I would've had to shoot myself (how many shuffles can you do?). It was fun, and some of the folks were familiar with the Cyber Cooler, and I got some positive feedback. That was cool. The one guy really liked the last issue about logos (so much for my thoughts on it being weak). I've got to do some recording of an organist tonight for a wedding this weekend. That should be raw excitement.

Man I am tired. Recorded a friend of mine's band this weekend. Rushed for time we didn't get to do a quick test. Turns out the first two sets are unusable as we only recorded the vocals. NICE. Set three was fine. I enrolled myself in a two day seminar on my Roland VS-2480. That should solve having gigs like that.

I am in contact with Chris Duarte's people and it appears that the interview will be completed in time for the next issue. I hope to include all the things I learned from Chris in that issue. Speaking of issues, I'm not super proud of the "Logo" stuff in the last issue. It was good, and we got LOTS of input. I just feel I should've scaled it down a bit. MINK was a great interview, and we had some cool anti spam articles (and Bobby Borg's articles are always good), but I kept thinking "Man thats alot about logos..." Do we really need four pages about logos? Hmmmm

I went back to using my voting script that I purchased. HTML GEAR SUCKS. I was able to vote more than once by clicking on the back button (Which I hten had to do twice to be fair). In the end I through it out. The battle of the bands can be such a pain. We had someone in the metal category leave a comment that "Jesus is a dead jew on a stick." Call me a prude, but I don't consider that constructive criticism about the song. I pulled the comments for the rest of the battle.

I went over 1000 readers (up to 1055). Thats cool as I have not been inviting people as aggressive as I have in the past. That means some of this is word of mouth.