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I was saddened to hear that one of the most pioneering and best drummers of the 60’s and 70’s, Mitch Mitchell died. Mitchell was a bad ass drummer and laid down some of the coolest grooves I’ve ever heard on many Jimi Hendrix tunes.

I was even more surprised, and happy, to hear that it appears he died in a Portland hotel of natural causes. No drugs I hope.

Here’s to you Mitch. Thanks for all the great grooves and awesome fills. We all know you kicked John Bonham’s ass.

Thanks to my pal Matt for these cool Obama pins:

Amalgamut and Title Of Record are two of the most rockin’ and kick ass albums ever. The new Filter album Anthems For The Damned, though sonically good, doesn’t come close to having the balls and edge the two previous albums did.

I guess when rock & roll musicians get older they lose their edge? Or as my friend Matt theorizes, perhaps Robert Patrick being “clean” had something to do with it.

I still like the album, but I was hoping for another ball crushing release.

Photo caption (courtesy of Hot Chicks With Douchebags): “Like the videotape in Ringu, The Sausage and Mellon Salad is cursed with the haunting spectrality of ghostly shrunken nads, mediated through a pixelated digital intermediary.”

Ok I don’t normally do a “site of the week.” I’m not sure how I stumbled upon this site, but there’s some good entertainment and commentary at Hot Chicks With Douchebags.

Be sure to check out the “Hall of Scrote” and “The 2007 Douchies” where you can find the cream of the crop.

I was working with this guitar player the other day. I’ve done a few gigs with him and his female bass player/vocalist. She’s super lesbian and looks like Linda Hamilton. Linda Hamilton’s girlfriend is a model and super hot.

This guitar player was rambling on about the hot lesbian girlfriend when he came up with this classic line:

“She’s a waste of good pussy.”

For those who sing in the shower this mic/sponge may be a good idea.

One of my favorite rock and roll bands of all time is FILTER. They don’t have many albums out unfortunately and their last release was in 2002. The sonic quality of their albums is freakin’ amazing. From a mere audio engineering standpoint their albums Amalgamut and Title Of Record are as good as anything I’ve ever heard.

New Album

FILTER is back together now, after about 6 years off. I’ve picked up the new album called Anthems For The Damned. It isn’t quite as heavy as their previous stuff but I’m reserving my opinion until I’ve had a few listens.

This post is nine days late, but I’d like to tip my hat and a glass of wine back to Richard Wright. Richard Wright, keyboard player and founder of Pink Floyd, died from cancer at 65.

Pink Floyd is one of the all time greatest bands in the history of rock & roll and produced, IMO, the best album in rock history in Dark Side Of The Moon. Wright co-wrote five of the songs on Dark Side Of The Moon, which was in the billboard top 200 for 14 years. Man I’d love to be collecting those royalty checks.

Cheers to you Richard. Many thanks for the enjoyment I’ve gotten from your music over the years.

A couple of posts back I wrote about the mouth breathing fiber eating drummer who shits all the time. He was to come in last week and “spend 30 minutes on a few tweaks” on the first song. He came and was very nice, offering me a king sized snickers bar (I don’t eat candy) and a starbucks vanilla frappuccino (I definitely do those). Nice gesture.

Problem

He was to come and sit in on the mix for 30 minutes to do a few tweaks. That 30 minutes ended up being over 4.5 hours. It never ends. Once again I pay in the ass for my big mistake of taking a flat fee. I don’t think I can forgive myself for that huge blunder. I never would have done that back in my full time engineering days.

This “project” I’m working on is a comedy of errors. The keyboard player has really gotten under my skin. There’s a guy like him in most bands. He’s the one who is very agreeable yet a total lazy flake. He fakes his way through everything and puts out a half assed effort.

His assignment was to have his parts recorded and bounced down and ready to submit so we can start mixing the next songs. He supposedly worked for over a month on these tracks. I get a flash drive with his audio files on it which only contains the aliases (shortcuts for windows). He never copied the actual files to the drive, just an icon which points to the files resident on his hard drive.

Naturally he didn’t notice that these audio files, which would take several if not dozens of minutes to copy, copied in a split second. He also didn’t bother to check the drive and see if the files were there. Or did he simply click the alias which opened his internal hard drive and he didn’t know it?

Problem

Ok, so no big deal. Just get the files off his main hard drive which the aliases are referring to…right? Uh, of course not. The problem now is that the files those aliases pointed to are probably in a pawn shop somewhere, as his laptop was stolen. Yes, this guy worked for a whole month on something and didn’t back it up.

I’d laugh at this guy because he put a whole month into something and because of his own stupidity and half-assed way of doing things, he has to work another month. But I’m not laughing because it effects me. This means another fucking month of waiting around for him to get his shit done. Another month of my time. Another month of dealing with this project which should have been done months ago.

I’m tempted to pull the plug and just eject on these unprofessional boneheads.