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Saturday at Azzure
Bart / Whirl
Whirligig and I played Azzure this past Saturday night as part of a four show line up.
Savannah Cornet took the stage at 6 pm, she is just a real joy to listen too. Great voice if you haven’t heard her sing you should go to one of her concerts, you will not regret it.
Whirl and I played at 7pm, no issues except Garage Band went into the beachball spin cycle and I lost the recording of our show. I’ll try again this week and make some mp3′s to add to the site.
Cosmic Haystack took the stage at 8 pm, his band is great what more can I say. Once again if you haven’t had a chance to hear the best bluegrass band in SL, you have a chance this coming Saturday at Cookie at 8 pm sl time.
Nile Compton played at 9 pm SL, he is just great, really enjoyed hearing him as well.
To all of you who came out to hear us, thanks! Whirl and I do appreciate your support very much. See you at the next event for us this will be at the Merry Pranksters tomorrow night where we are playing an open mic at 7:30 pm (PDT) SL Time.
Bart / Whirl
Thanks to all of you who came out to listen to us play on Saturday and Sunday! Whirlgig and I really appreciate the support you all give us.
As many of you know we played Saturday at the Cookie Farm at 7 PM SL and again on Sunday afternoon 4 PM SL at the Space Gallery on Hobo Island.
Also on Sunday we attended the premier of Mourna’s and Scrim’s place, very cool build.
Also we attended another premier of the opening of the Fat Tuesday venue. Our friend Arman Finesmith played, he is always so good. Von Johin is right, his guitar can do things mine can’t as well. Arman, want to trade?
Great place and yep, we will be back
Have a great week, we will be playing on Sept 16th (Saturday) at Azzure at 7 PM, we are looking forward to that. So hope to see you all there, I think you will like the venue, its a really neat place.
A Busy Weekend
Bart / Whirl
Last weekend we demolished Cair, right down to the plywood. The only things we left were the steam house, which is some 500 meters up and the build platform (seemed kinda silly to take both of these up when we like them the way they are.
The ground was a different story. Cair has always been a park, although it has had many different structures on it over the years. Things on the ground were just not working, we were not using the builds, there were tons of prims being used for no apparent reason, and so it was time to tear it up! (did I mention I like this part?)
So we spent the Labor Day weekend designing and rebuilding Cair, setting things right and making it a park once again.
As luck would have it, we were scheduled to play at Miso’s Tap today (if I get this article in before midnight), however due to unforeseen events the event was cancelled.
So we decided since we had a set list ready and Cair had not been given a proper opening ceremony, that we should use the opportunity to play there.
Lots of nice folks showed up to lend us a hand in celebrating the opening, if i start naming names I will skip someone and then be in deep trouble. So thanks to everyone who came!! (yes, you are right I am a chicken)
Saturday we opened ahead of Peet Peterman at Guthries, I sure enjoy playing there, so many fine musicians in SL and so many nice folks who help those of us just starting out. Like Thinkerer Melville, Dottie Iceberg and Reggier Rumbaud.
Even Peet helped us with a difficult audio issue which had been driving both whirl and I almost crazy.
So here’s the deal, go see a show in Second Life, support the venues with a some lindens, because these places provide a place where musicians can all go. And without music, I’m afraid SL would be pretty dull.
See ya’all next week, we will be playing at Cookie on Saturday Sept 19th at 7 PM SL, and then Hobo Island on Sunday, Sept 20th at 2 PM SL, hope to see ya there!
Cookie Home Cooked Music Sept. 5
Look it's Nolan :)
We had a fun time with the Home Cooked Music show this weekend although most people were out for the holiday. Here’s a picture…will post some updated mp3′s when we get a chance. Thanks for coming out everyone!
Statement regarding Hobo Island sim
We will remain in then hobo junction group as we have many friends there.
If you read the notice bart put out, it states that he and I are no longer supporting the island or the hobo castaway group which manages the island. Our leaving the hobo island does not have anything to do with hobo junction.
Missteps were made by both sides resulting in some of more nastier behavior. Neither one consulted the other when changes were being discussed, neither one worked with each other to resolve disagreements after a point, nor were these disagreements discussed with the larger hobo group as a whole, until events had spiraled so far out of control each were demanding the resignations of each other.
One of the issues we see that is still not being addressed is whomever the owner of the island is bears then sole responsibility for the island, read the SL TOS for further clarification. The owner can not be just a collector of donations, they must manage the island according to the TOS as they are solely held accountable for everything which goes on there.
It is because of the way we personally have seen the current management operate that we are concerned hobo island currently operates without a charter and at the disposition of a few people. The current issues are not the first time hobo island has come under fire between owners and managers, over a 2 year period, since the island was formed. We are well aware it takes both sides to make a fight. However this last instance is more serious than the previous ones.
It is because, as we have witnessed many times, the island is presented as an extension of the hobo junction community and an open, transparent community where all hobos have a say regarding the island…that all decisions regarding the island are open to debate with all hobos since the island is supported from donations and work of the entire hobo community…and this is not the case in multiple instances we have witnessed.
If the island expects to be funded from donations with those parameters, we simply advise others to be aware of what your donations, work, and time support, and if you choose to support anyway, that is totally your right. Also, if the island becomes privately funded, the owner has a right to run it however they want within the TOS.
Our issue here is not with anyone personally; until recently we have always tried to be pleasant to all the people involved in the mgmt. of hobo island and outside of it. Our issue here is, and it is our opinion, that the parameters of the island are grossly misrepresented. It is not a community with open transparency where all hobos have a say. It is a private sandbox run by a small group that decides what is done and who is involved with the island. In our opinion they should be up front about that, and that the donations, work and time given are supporting that. If they are up front about that, and the owner of the sim supports it, it is totally their right to run it that way.
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Leon Russell
We were fortunate to see Leon and his amazing band of proteges last night at the Granada. I saw him solo years ago but Bart had never seen him. Leon is 67 now…he came out and absolutely, loudly kicked butt for an hour and a half. The man has not lost any of his chops or his vocal ability and he can still cut heads…he was incredible :) His site is here and he’s touring. Go see him if you get a chance! Another great vid of the band here.
A Premier Weekend
We had another great weekend, performing Saturday at 12:00PM SL for the first time at Guthries and again at 7PM SL at the Cookie Farm.
We both were honored to open for Peet Peterman, one of the very first hobos I ever met, and the first person I heard perform live in Second Life.
We will be heading back to play at Guthries September 12th at 12:00PM SL.
Toward the end of the show at Guthries our audio demon came back (argh) and armed with some advice from Peet I worked the issue between shows. I decided to hook the mixer into the Macintosh audio and remove the firewire interface. Making the new connections, looking for cables and adapters and testing the software, I barely had time to bring it all back up in time for the 7PM show so we ran with a very course sound check.
The good news is the audio demon did not return and the audio was much proved. Thanks Peet for the help.
The Cookie Farm show went off without a hitch, its so much nicer to just concentrate on performing and not having to worry about the next appearance of the audio demon.
One last thank you is for the nice folks that come our and listen to our show and the other shows that follow.
One thing I did discover this weekend, when broadcasting in Icecast (which uses Ogg-Vorbis), the Evergreen client can not connect to the stream, switching the stream back to Shoutcast cleared up the issue, so if you are broadcasting into Second Life, you might want to consider using Shoutcast and not Icecast, until Evergreen corrects the issue.
Progress
Peet @ Home Cooked Music!
Been installing just a few applications on the server, and sadly the TonePort from Line6 has already failed. By failed I mean the presence of audio noise; a clicking appearing at random times.
I am not sure when it happened but it was either after installing the native instrument drivers or when I plugged the mixer back into the FireWire port.
I will try and isolate it tonight, it’s not that I use the toneport that much but the whole purpose of this rebuild was to try and eliminate the noise sources. As much as I could.
One bright note the noise floor has dropped and our audio signal was so loud last night it was actually tripping the feedback protection circuit which I had never seen happen before.
So much to learn….but it is fun
