Evil Spud Boy

There is an interesting gallery at ABC News featuring guns that have been made into guitars by Columbian luthier, Luis Alberto Paredes. The guns are AK-47s and shotguns that were used by fighters in Columbia’s continuing conflict.

The gallery contains photographs of the creator as well as some of musicians performing with the guitars. There is even a photo of Bob Geldof holding one of the guitars.

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This is a video that I ran across on You Tube that features the late Brad Delp, jamming with Steve Lukather and Eddie Van Halen performing ‘Wild Thing’. According to the description, it took place at the opening of the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas.

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This is a useful comparison of how a typical pro-audio DAW performs under different versions of Windows. The tests were performed using Cubase 4 running on XP Pro SP2, Vista Ultimate 32 and Vista Ultimate 64. The results are very interesting.

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I just heard the news that Brad Delp, the original lead singer of the group, Boston, died today at the age of 55. At the time of this writing, not much is known about the cause. Just that he died at his New Hampshire home this afternoon and apparently was alone. You can read the news report here.

I was shocked by the news because he was so young and I was very saddened because he was a genuinely nice person who will be missed.

What do you get when you cross Linux with a guitar? You get a guitar with a built in recording studio. Or at least that is what Canadian luthier Mark Kett and linuxcaffe proprietor David Patrick hope to achieve with their Linux Guitar Project.

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That is, if you’re in the UK on Feb 18th; because, that is when Harrods will attempt to set a record for the largest guitar jam ever as part of the Harrods Rocks exhibition. They hope to enter the Guinness Book of Records by assembling 2000 guitarists to play Deep Purple’s “Smoke on The Water.”

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Taylor, Fender, Martin and Gibson have joined forces in an effort to preserve threatened Alaskan forests.

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So it seems that instead of updating iTunes to make it compatible with Vista. Apple is trying to turn it’s sluggishness to update iTunes as a reason to not upgrade to Vista. It’s not like they didn’t have plenty of time to work on compatibility.

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From Wired News:

A new online service is about to launch that will allow bedroom musicians worldwide to play together in real-time — without leaving their own bedrooms. In March, eJamming will introduce eJamming Audio, an online music studio that uses peer-to-peer connections to eliminate lag times between live performers.

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