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People often turn more to entertainment when the going gets tough. It's a universal remedy that reduces anxiety & depression. Dr. Johnny-Boy In that case, since most of us here are involved in the music industry somehow, then we should all do our part to make sure the economy gets much worse.

I'm too cheap to go to games plus in San Diego you have to be able to sit in the blazing sun (yes, even in the winter) for 3 or 4 hours. I burn easy. Oh well, I have High Definition at home I'm originally from San Diego. Let me tell you. You don't know how lucky you are WRT pro sports, especially Baseball. I live in New England. We have the Red Sox. The Red Sox have the highest priced tickets in all of MLB. Besides that, they're all sold out anyways, so you can't get them unless you're willing to pay even bigger bucks from a scalper or from stubhub. At the beginning of the season this year, a local radio station had a big contest. The grand prize was the right to buy a set number of tickets to some Red Sox games at face value! A friend of ours won, and couldn't afford to buy all the tickets allotted, so she offered to let us buy some. Well, I did. I bought 4 tickets to a May game. My seats were in Right Field. I paid $50 per seat for them. I was in San Diego for a few days this past summer. I decided to see if I could get tickets to a Padres game (against LA) the day before the game. Well, not only did I find tickets (on stubhub), but I found 2 seats behind home plate at Field level for $35 a piece! We sat closer to home plate than the pitcher! This is simply not possible in Boston.

2. Go to somewhere that's not La Jolla. What if they are nice aliens that only have our best interest in mind, er, um, whatever they use to do something like thinking? Maybe Clem knows these guys...

For example buying a new Prius under the maxim "running cleaner cars" is not conserving resources, it is consuming them. I agree with you there. Actually, it is worse than that. The huge batteries associated with the Prius have no good way to be disposed of when the car is eventually scrapped. The problem is, those huge batteries are absolutely awful for the environment! They leak nasty chemicals into the ground.

Regardless of whether there's climate change that is man-made or not, running cleaner cars, having less toxic emissions, putting less crap in the air, and conserving natural resources and energy are all things that i can get behind and don't consider stupid. Well stated. I agree.

If the Dixie Chicks want to get political, then let them. If they're upset because some of their fan base leaves them over it, then I don't get it. Nevertheless, I really don't care what the Dixie Chicks say. If many people are dumb enough to change their views based on what the Dixie Chicks say, then we deserve the government we get. I'd like to think most people here in the US, even young ones, are smarter than that. As an aside, this morning, I heard (for as long as I could stand it), some DJs on my local rock station rant on an on about the awful liberal Dixie Chicks. All I could think of was to wonder why didn't they have anything bigger to get so upset about. OTOH, back in the Bush vs. Kerry race, Dave Matthews was a big supporter of Kerry. Dave Matthews also had a big environmentalist bent to his stance. However, when his bus driver dumped sewage into the Chicago River and onto boat passengers, nobody even seemed to notice. How many of you reading this knew about it? Funny huh? Here's a link: http://www.ag.state.il.us/pressroom/2004_08/20040824c.html

Originally posted by philbo But using celebrity to foist your views on anybody else puts you on exactly the same footing as Rush Limbaugh. And I just can't respect that. Limbaugh is a celebrity BECAUSE he "foists his views", not the other way around. Nevertheless, Limbaugh doesn't get my respect for other reasons... I used to agree that celebrity view foisting was dishonorable. However, I've had to rethink that because I came to the realization that celebrities are people too. Why shouldn't they be allowed to voice their opinions? On the other hand, celebrities should be aware that since their opinions are publicized, they bare a certain amount of responsibility for such.

Originally posted by Brittanylips Personally, I thought Johnny Depp was contrived in "Chocolate Factory" - it's like he's become too self-consciously wierd - but I generally like his movies. I liked Depp alot in "Chocolate Factory". The Burton-Elfman-Depp team never ceases to amaze me.

Originally posted by Kevin_FL My God! Am I the only one that see's the King has no clothes? This is everything that is wrong with music. A guy in his 50's playing Rave loops on a lap top. Frank Zappa is stabbing himself in the ears with a fork up there This is mean spirited and not called for. If you don't like it, instead of attacking, how about you post your own video instead?

1) Sample Libraries (sorry RockViolin). Eastwest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra (EWQLSO). $10,000 still isn't enough for VSL. Plus, EWQLSO is easier/quicker to use than VSL. I'd get the EWQLSO Platinum Pro XL Bundle. $3500. 2) A Mesa Boogie Roadking Series II 2x12 combo amp: $2700 3) NI Komplete 3 (I'm pining for all those cool synth machines plus it comes with GR2) $1300 Since the $10,000 is taxable, I'm probably already over budget.

Originally posted by Anderton I didn't explain anything about what I was doing. However, on Saturday, I gave a presentation at the Ableton booth about how I prepare loops for use in Live using Sonar and ReCycle. Mostly it involves doing the stretching with other programs so they can be broght into Live at the project tempo, therefore Live doesn't have to do much "work" and its CPU gets to loaf. That lets me set the latency real low so there's no significant latency with the guitar and voice. So then are you putting REX2 files into Live? I assume that's why you are using Recycle, yes?

Originally posted by blue2blue BTW, Craig, all kidding aside, as someone who, some years ago, did a one man electronic improv/echo loop act, I thought your rig -- and you -- delivered a rich, polished pop sound. I liked the Enoesque vocal and I thought the use of harmony was a definite plus. I wouldn't want to have to face you down at the Battle of the One Man Bands. +1

Originally posted by MikeRivers I suspect that more than an ad (the polite term is "demonstration") it was just a way to attract people to the Presonus booth where they might see some stuff they'd be interested in. Oops. Yes you are correct. Actually "demo" is really what I should have said, and it is what I meant.

I Loved it! I have a few questions about it: 1) Can you share with us some of what type of things you were modifying in real time. Like, are you swapping between loops, effects, modifying filters, etc? 2) Was the video effects done after the fact? If so, by who, and with what software? 3) If I'm not mistaken, it seems like it's more of an ad for Live than any of the hardware. Did your use of Live change the way you create? i.e., would you, could you have done this with any other software?

One M-Audio Oxygen 8. Excellent condition. $50. For that price, I'll even pay Fedex Ground shipping if you live in the 48 contiguous United States. Others pay actual shipping charges. Money order or personal checks only though -- I'm not a paypal member yet.