Comments on: About http://subversify.com An online magazine offering an alternative, subversive perspective to mainstream media. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:29:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: grainnerhuad http://subversify.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-49126 grainnerhuad Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:25:56 +0000 http://localhost.localdomain//wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-49126 @Wingnut, so glad to see you here. The olde school traveling troubadour has seen a distinct culling hasn't it. I wouldn't worry too much though the music industry is pissing everyone off. I am thinking a return to the olde ways is the next best thing. In fact I have been keeping watch of just how many musicians from many genres have been checking out from the industry. Old Country is amoungst my favorite, nothing coming out of Nashville today compares, it all sounds like Pop to me. Come and join the gang at the proboards. We would love some musical infusion and stories from the road. @Wingnut, so glad to see you here. The olde school traveling troubadour has seen a distinct culling hasn’t it. I wouldn’t worry too much though the music industry is pissing everyone off. I am thinking a return to the olde ways is the next best thing. In fact I have been keeping watch of just how many musicians from many genres have been checking out from the industry.

Old Country is amoungst my favorite, nothing coming out of Nashville today compares, it all sounds like Pop to me. Come and join the gang at the proboards. We would love some musical infusion and stories from the road.

]]> By: karlsie http://subversify.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-48117 karlsie Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:48:32 +0000 http://localhost.localdomain//wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-48117 Wingnut, i really feel you ought to join our forum as that is where we discuss topics and themes for the mag, bat around ideas, exchange information, offer suggestions, place submissions and generally get to know each other. There, you can meet the other staff members and talk to our radio podcasting group. You can locate the forum by scrolling down the right side until you reach the box showing the girl with the censor tape over her eyes. Click on it, and you'll be transferred to our forum. We'd like very much to chat with you about all the wonderful things you brought up. Wingnut, i really feel you ought to join our forum as that is where we discuss topics and themes for the mag, bat around ideas, exchange information, offer suggestions, place submissions and generally get to know each other. There, you can meet the other staff members and talk to our radio podcasting group. You can locate the forum by scrolling down the right side until you reach the box showing the girl with the censor tape over her eyes. Click on it, and you’ll be transferred to our forum. We’d like very much to chat with you about all the wonderful things you brought up.

]]> By: Wingnut http://subversify.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-48090 Wingnut Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:20:14 +0000 http://localhost.localdomain//wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-48090 Hi Karlsie and others... thanks for the welcome. Is there a blog area that talks specifically about the podcast? I've been pickin' and singin' for about 30 years now... but mostly 'live', and very little, if any, recording. When you're a proper disgusting road musician, your road pack consists of a pick and a prophylactic, and not much of a home life is ever established. I've never married, have no kids, and no recording equipment. In fact, the music "industry" has pretty much pissed me off. Club owners are angry too, and they lean on music acts to make or break their clubs, no matter what advertising the club has done. You (as a band/act) are supposed to "draw" the crowd, and hell, most of us road pickers are more concerned about how we're going to get the new waterpump for the car we've worn out hauling amps and lights to God-awful towns and clubs. The business of music... is just as grinding as most other enslavements... and its turned-off many of us good-time-loving pickers (and part-time drunks/stoners). Aside from the difficulty of finding some cheap recording equipment... what about (copy)rights? Will you be doing all-originals, or will you allow covers? And what's the "fair use" laws say about doing covers? And what is the purpose of the pod casting? Money? Messages? Will money be involved at all? Last I heard... when a copyrighted media is republished for the purpose of analysis and scrutiny (publicly nitpicking it to death)... the "fair use" situation holds-up in court pretty well (artists/publishers can't sue and win). So, we/you COULD... analyze the song before/after performing/airing. Originals? I have maybe 10, and maybe only 6 worth performing to anyone but the moose. I won't rule out performing on the podcast... but... its really not something that fits my style. I'd rather do campfires. Got some of those around? And yes, I will definitely ask around to see if I can find others that might want to perform or have their stuff pod-casted. I have one chap in mind right now... and I'll pass it on to him... a good local picker and singer. I liked Alaska a bunch, and after I take care of some aging local kin, I'll probably try to get back there. But I said the same about getting back to visit Korea... another place I loved... and I still haven't returned after 20 years. Money blockades. Affording. But, I suspect a guitar and a thumb will get a person up the Al-Can... under desperate circumstances. :) Yeah, I'm watching and drooling over the desktop hard-drive recording decks seen these days. You? Pretty nice stuff... some of it. I have a rack-mount Alesis S4 synth here with midi controller/keyboard on it, and I program cakewalk midi's too, so, hmmm. The S4 band-in-a-box is here and ready... but I don't have anything for multi-track recording. And a whole bunch of my time is spent writing javascript. I'm making a multimedia chat client... a Firefox add-on... been at it 9 years now. (erf) Its actually the love of my life these days... and almost done. Some screenshots here... http://webpages.charter.net/wingthing/html/test/xoozilla/ . It lets any person become a media-j... allows CSS chat and media sharing amongst all chatters in a room, so its quite related to pod-casting, I suspect. Its the world's best totally-free chat client... BY FAR... and has been claimed as so loudly... but nobody seems to care. If it hasn't got a corporate name on it, it can't be any good. Sad state of affairs. Do any of these "lets fix the planet" activists 'round these parts... have chronic depression? I know I do. It keeps me from getting very enthusiastic over ANYTHING, these days. But, I'm 52 years old, too. And I've enjoyed pipe tobacco and other pipe substances for... oh... all my life. Maybe I'm just fried-out, eh? Maybe I haven't been allowed to use my Alaskan-gotten cool telemark skis near enough, in recent years. I just don't have the energy and enthusiasm anymore, it seems. Ya think I've talked about me me me me me enough yet? Sheesh, Larry! How pathetic, huh? There's probably a better blog area for general blabbing like this. Point the way, as wanted. If ya wanna talk music, better keep it OLD CLASSIC COUNTRY or 70's radio rock, or else I won't understand. My favorite stuff is swing, though... and esp Texas swing... like Asleep At The Wheel and Bob Wills and similar. I also love 70/80's classic rock... Radar Love, My Sharona, BTO, Doobies, Steve Miller... era. Love playing that style too, but never had much chance... as I got stuck in countryville somehow. :) Am I talking about me again? Holy crap! SOMEONE, ANYONE... TALK ABOUT YOU! HURRY! :) Hi Karlsie and others… thanks for the welcome. Is there a blog area that talks specifically about the podcast? I’ve been pickin’ and singin’ for about 30 years now… but mostly ‘live’, and very little, if any, recording. When you’re a proper disgusting road musician, your road pack consists of a pick and a prophylactic, and not much of a home life is ever established. I’ve never married, have no kids, and no recording equipment. In fact, the music “industry” has pretty much pissed me off. Club owners are angry too, and they lean on music acts to make or break their clubs, no matter what advertising the club has done. You (as a band/act) are supposed to “draw” the crowd, and hell, most of us road pickers are more concerned about how we’re going to get the new waterpump for the car we’ve worn out hauling amps and lights to God-awful towns and clubs. The business of music… is just as grinding as most other enslavements… and its turned-off many of us good-time-loving pickers (and part-time drunks/stoners).

Aside from the difficulty of finding some cheap recording equipment… what about (copy)rights? Will you be doing all-originals, or will you allow covers? And what’s the “fair use” laws say about doing covers? And what is the purpose of the pod casting? Money? Messages? Will money be involved at all?

Last I heard… when a copyrighted media is republished for the purpose of analysis and scrutiny (publicly nitpicking it to death)… the “fair use” situation holds-up in court pretty well (artists/publishers can’t sue and win). So, we/you COULD… analyze the song before/after performing/airing. Originals? I have maybe 10, and maybe only 6 worth performing to anyone but the moose.

I won’t rule out performing on the podcast… but… its really not something that fits my style. I’d rather do campfires. Got some of those around? And yes, I will definitely ask around to see if I can find others that might want to perform or have their stuff pod-casted. I have one chap in mind right now… and I’ll pass it on to him… a good local picker and singer.

I liked Alaska a bunch, and after I take care of some aging local kin, I’ll probably try to get back there. But I said the same about getting back to visit Korea… another place I loved… and I still haven’t returned after 20 years. Money blockades. Affording. But, I suspect a guitar and a thumb will get a person up the Al-Can… under desperate circumstances. :)

Yeah, I’m watching and drooling over the desktop hard-drive recording decks seen these days. You? Pretty nice stuff… some of it. I have a rack-mount Alesis S4 synth here with midi controller/keyboard on it, and I program cakewalk midi’s too, so, hmmm. The S4 band-in-a-box is here and ready… but I don’t have anything for multi-track recording. And a whole bunch of my time is spent writing javascript. I’m making a multimedia chat client… a Firefox add-on… been at it 9 years now. (erf) Its actually the love of my life these days… and almost done. Some screenshots here… http://webpages.charter.net/wingthing/html/test/xoozilla/ . It lets any person become a media-j… allows CSS chat and media sharing amongst all chatters in a room, so its quite related to pod-casting, I suspect. Its the world’s best totally-free chat client… BY FAR… and has been claimed as so loudly… but nobody seems to care. If it hasn’t got a corporate name on it, it can’t be any good. Sad state of affairs.

Do any of these “lets fix the planet” activists ’round these parts… have chronic depression? I know I do. It keeps me from getting very enthusiastic over ANYTHING, these days. But, I’m 52 years old, too. And I’ve enjoyed pipe tobacco and other pipe substances for… oh… all my life. Maybe I’m just fried-out, eh? Maybe I haven’t been allowed to use my Alaskan-gotten cool telemark skis near enough, in recent years. I just don’t have the energy and enthusiasm anymore, it seems.

Ya think I’ve talked about me me me me me enough yet? Sheesh, Larry! How pathetic, huh? There’s probably a better blog area for general blabbing like this. Point the way, as wanted.

If ya wanna talk music, better keep it OLD CLASSIC COUNTRY or 70′s radio rock, or else I won’t understand. My favorite stuff is swing, though… and esp Texas swing… like Asleep At The Wheel and Bob Wills and similar. I also love 70/80′s classic rock… Radar Love, My Sharona, BTO, Doobies, Steve Miller… era. Love playing that style too, but never had much chance… as I got stuck in countryville somehow. :)

Am I talking about me again? Holy crap! SOMEONE, ANYONE… TALK ABOUT YOU! HURRY! :)

]]> By: karlsie http://subversify.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-47930 karlsie Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:52:07 +0000 http://localhost.localdomain//wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-47930 Hello Larry, and welcome. Since you've been to Alaska, you know how we Alaskans are. If someone says, "hey, this boat looks sea worthy", than everyone has to climb on board. We're on a mission right now to put together a radio podcast, and we're looking for some promising musicians to help fill the bandwidth. If you think you or some of your friends might be interested, don't hesitate to contact us. In the meantime, i'll keep my eyes and ears open for Maurel Kidd. Palmer's a stone's throw from the door and we're looking at a return trip to Talkeetna in the near future. Hello Larry, and welcome. Since you’ve been to Alaska, you know how we Alaskans are. If someone says, “hey, this boat looks sea worthy”, than everyone has to climb on board. We’re on a mission right now to put together a radio podcast, and we’re looking for some promising musicians to help fill the bandwidth. If you think you or some of your friends might be interested, don’t hesitate to contact us. In the meantime, i’ll keep my eyes and ears open for Maurel Kidd. Palmer’s a stone’s throw from the door and we’re looking at a return trip to Talkeetna in the near future.

]]> By: Wingnut http://subversify.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-47849 Wingnut Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:38:24 +0000 http://localhost.localdomain//wordpress/?page_id=2#comment-47849 Hi gang! Excellent blog, as far as I can tell so far. Look at all the clear-thinking Alaskans on the boat! Gotta love it! I was in Anchorage from... oh, 89-93 give or take a little. I was a bassist/singer in a band (Dakota Country) that had a sit-down gig at Anchorage's Sawmill Club, and later I moved to the Buckaroo in Spenard, and also to a place downtown where be played "atop" the bar? Can't rem the name of that joint. Plus, I met some excellent friends in Alaska that just refused to let me "camp in Anchorage". So, I had to learn telemark skiing and hiking and biking and survival skills... and about everything there is to know about salmon, moose, bears, and dredging for gold. I had a wonderful time... both playing music during a time when north shore oil money was hopping... and in learning about a few of the many wonders of Alaska. Anyhoo, I'm a pseudo-Christian anti-capitalism activist, and country music singer/picker. Howdy to all... hope we get to do some good work together. Take care. I think my former bandmate Murel Kidd is still hanging around Palmer or Talkeetna somewhere. If anyone knows/sees him, push a fingerful of DeKuyper's peach schnapps into his left nostril and say "Wingnut says HI!". :) Larry "Wingnut" Wendlandt MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain't Right (anti-capitalism-ists) Bessemer MI USA Hi gang! Excellent blog, as far as I can tell so far. Look at all the clear-thinking Alaskans on the boat! Gotta love it! I was in Anchorage from… oh, 89-93 give or take a little. I was a bassist/singer in a band (Dakota Country) that had a sit-down gig at Anchorage’s Sawmill Club, and later I moved to the Buckaroo in Spenard, and also to a place downtown where be played “atop” the bar? Can’t rem the name of that joint. Plus, I met some excellent friends in Alaska that just refused to let me “camp in Anchorage”. So, I had to learn telemark skiing and hiking and biking and survival skills… and about everything there is to know about salmon, moose, bears, and dredging for gold. I had a wonderful time… both playing music during a time when north shore oil money was hopping… and in learning about a few of the many wonders of Alaska.

Anyhoo, I’m a pseudo-Christian anti-capitalism activist, and country music singer/picker. Howdy to all… hope we get to do some good work together. Take care. I think my former bandmate Murel Kidd is still hanging around Palmer or Talkeetna somewhere. If anyone knows/sees him, push a fingerful of DeKuyper’s peach schnapps into his left nostril and say “Wingnut says HI!”. :)

Larry “Wingnut” Wendlandt
MaStars – Mothers Against Stuff That Ain’t Right
(anti-capitalism-ists)
Bessemer MI USA

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