Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable
rock 'n' roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This
week: Sharing quality time with Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' mastermind, and
Tom Dowd, one of music's most prolific producers.
When I have crossed paths
with that rare individual who is universally considered an icon, it's an
especially humbling experience. Likewise, when that person turns out to
be unassuming and down-to-earth, then the pleasure is magnified all the
more. That was the case with comic book legend Stan Lee and
producer extraordinaire Tom Dowd.
Lee was the man responsible for penning some of the most memorable characters of the comic book world -- Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, and Daredevil among them. He also helped propel the fledgling Marvel Comics brand when it was in its infancy, havin...
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You’re looking for functional software for music producing, aren’t you? Your search ends here! Why settle for expensive music producer programs that are just too hard to use, when you can go for one that is easy on the pocket and easy to operate? Describing a music producer software comes in two words…Sonic & Producer.
Sonic Producer has most of the features of expensive programs, for only a fraction of the price! Aside from being easy to use and navigate, Sonic Producer has unique beat samples in addition to the video tutorials that musicians, expert or novice will surely find helpful.
Whether you’re an experienced musician or a budding artist, you can find great tunes of your choice easily and conveniently! No more using a producer or spending money for a studio to create your own music. With this cutting-edge software, you can make your choice cuts the moment you want to make them!
As long as there is the Internet, you can...
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Along with the revamped Story Mode, Activision is putting a lot of work into creating incredible backdrops for epic guitar battles. The visuals in the story mode will be unprecedented for a Guitar Hero game. Think of the incredible backdrops of Brutal Legend, just custom made for each unique character in the game. During the final battle with “The Machine” you will be fighting in an epic wasteland with a fiery backdrop filled with volcanoes.
So is a beefed up story m0de enticing enough to spend more money on Guitar Hero? Or will you wait instead for the next Rock Band as your music video game of choice?
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is set for release September 28, 2010 for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii with for $59.99 for the game itself, $99.99 for the game and guitar, or $179.99 for the whole bundle, which includes the game, a guitar, drums and keyb...
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Music video by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones performing The Impression That I Get. (C) 1997 The Island Def Jam Music Group
- 600 VIP ticket/album bundles sold in 25 min. from MMB’s website. Average price: $40.00
- 2,800 fans redeemed promotional codes for free music
- 7,000 new Facebook fans added (100% increase)
- 5,000 new contacts added to fan list including sales and demographic info
- 4,000+ units sold of new album
Timeline:October 2009
- Start promoting via Facebook, MySpace and website, offering free track of a new song, and teasing the new album.
- Use redemption codes to track three different giveaway campaigns (via email and download cards).
- Start recapturing fan contacts through website and Facebook.
- Set up VIP offer to hard core fans for special presale bundle of new album with ticket to upcoming holiday shows i...
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Mystro is not Ostrelian! But he not British too. His real name is Vladimir Borodinov and he born in Vladivostok, which in Eastern most part of Russia. He move to UK when he was a teenager, hence the slight Russian accent & funny soviet attitude. I know this, because I too to be born behind the iron curtain & was exiled to UK around the same time. Maestro song Tellin’ You, is actually his modern take on CCCP propaganda, where posters was Tellin’ You things, you know? Comrades for life Vlad!
Mystro is not Ostrelian! But he not British too. His real name is Vladimir Borodinov and he born in Vladivostok, which in Eastern most part of Russia. He move to UK when he was a teenager, hence the slight Russian accent & funny soviet attitude. I know this, because I too to be born behind the iron curtain & was exiled to UK around the same time. Maestro song Tellin’ You, is actually his modern take on CCCP propaganda, where posters was Telli...
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Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy VIII VIII Fainaru (??????????? Fantajī EITO?) A console RPG developed and published by Square (now Square Enix), the eighth installment of Final Fantasy . He was released in 1999 for the Sony PlayStation and 2000 for computers based on Microsoft Windows. Final Fantasy VIII is the first game of the series to consistently use realistically proportioned characters, and have a magic system based on magic points. The game's story focuses on a group of young mercenaries who are drawn into an international conflict, and seeks to protect the world against a sorceress manipulating the war for its own purposes. Players follow Squall Leon Hart, a lonely 17 years old and students at the military academy Balamb Garden, who are training to become a "seed" mercenaries who are paid by the Academy. The development of Final Fantasy VIII began in 1997, while the English translation of Final Fantasy VII was in the ...
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Weapon of Choice is a single by UK DJ Fatboy Slim, and is best known for it’s video directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich – 1999, Adaptation – 2002). It features amazing dance moves by Christopher Walken. Shooting took place over 2 days in the lobby of a Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles shortly before Christmas in 2000.
This music video won 6 MTV Video Music awards: Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. It also won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.
Weapon of Choice (featuring Bootsy Collins) first appeared on the Fatboy Slim album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, released in November 2000.
(You can also watch the video in HD on YouTube as embedding is disabled.)
Weapon of Choice
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It's an antique collector's dream: buying an old box at a garage sale and discovering it contains famous lost works worth a fortune.
That's what Rick Norsigian said happened to him. Ten years ago, the Fresno painter stumbled upon a trove of 65 old glass negatives that he says have been authenticated as the work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams, possibly worth $200 million.
"This is absolutely beyond what I thought," the 64-year-old said at a press conference held at a Beverly Hills art gallery on Tuesday. "I'm very lucky."
Norsigian's lawyer Arnold Peter said a team of experts who studied the negatives over the past six months concluded "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the photos were Adams' early work, and they were believed to have been destroyed in a 1937 fire at his Yosemite National Park studio.
"These photographs are really the missing link," he said. "They really fill the void in Ansel Adams...
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Nokia X6 cell phone is one of the Nokia music cell phones series. This cell phone still use the same design with the other Nokia X series – the combination of firm line and angle design. However, not like the other X series, Nokia X6 cell phone is non slider cell phone. This cell phone is a bar cell phone with domination of touch screen. The screen is 3.2 inches 16M colors 360×640 pixels TFT capacitive touch screen. The capacitive touch screen is more comfort than resistive touch screen in the old Nokia X series.
However, since there is no proximity censor in it, the resistive technology become a nuisance when in calling. To avoid this issue, users is suggested to shut down the screen right after the calling is connected. It can be done by using the lock screen option or the lock button. There are three homescreens choice which are basic, shortcut bar, and contacts bar. At shortcut bar and contact bar mode, there are 4 shortcut icons which ca...
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Special announcement--Go here: http://heandshe.webs.com/apps/videos/ if you'd like to listen to the podcast of the "He Said She Said" radio show on which I appeared July 12, talking about Live Aid. The whole show is great and worth hearing, but if you are pressed for time, I come in at around 34 minutes. Thanks again to Billy and Amber for having me on the show.
Here's the latest installment in my quest to listen to a whole bunch of 45 r.p.m. records while I'm 45 years old. Click on the tag "45s@45" below to see past entries.
I have been distracted by this and that recently, but I actually have a few of these "45s@45" entries to catch up on, so let's go:
33. "Lady Madonna"/"The Inner Light"-The Beatles (1968/peaked #4).
34. "Hey Jude"/"Revolution"-The Beatles (1968/"Hey Jude" peaked at #1, while "Revolution" peaked at #12).
35. "Let It Be"/"You Know My Name (Look Up My Number)"-The Beatles (1970/peaked at #1).
36. "The Long ...
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