Beatles Rock Band!

Played this last Friday night (a friend had a pre-release copy) and boy is this game fun! The visuals once you get to the Sgt. Pepper era are distractingly trippy, but super cool! You can also sing in harmony, up to three parts which is also a lot of fun, as it turns out. Finally my obsessive listening to the Beatles in my teens has paid off!

RIP Les Paul

Les Paul, creator of one of the first solid body guitars, a musical innovator who developed multitrack recording and audio effects like reverb, passed away at 94 yesterday. While the signature Gibson guitar named after him has changed the way music sounds, I think his contributions to recording are even more meaningful. I hope he's rocking out, wherever he is.

iTunes Time Travel

Whoa, my iTunes just went on a trip back to 2003. First I get the live version of "The Great Below" by NIN (wish I could have heard that live one more time), followed up by Darts from System of A Down. Weird.


Arise, as did the gods Ninti
Arise, as did the gods Ninti
Arise, as did the gods Ninti,
And Ishkur, Ishkur, motherfucker!

Ok, back to 2009...