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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
Big Thank You
We had another great weekend, performing at 5PM SL on Hobo Island and again at 7PM SL on Cookie.
A big thank you to all of you who came out on Saturday for the hobo island benefit. We will do more of these performances. Watch our calendar for more details.
We had a great time playing our second set on Cookie, and Punky even wrote some lyrics for the “Hobo Lullaby” to include some names of some of the hobos. And she wants to make this song sort of a collaborative effort to get other folks to add some verses as well. Sound like a great idea to me.
On Sunday, I tore the audio server completely down, eradicating all of audio drivers left over from trying out so many different audio editors. I am happy to report the machine is running almost 2X faster and I have left out most of the larger applications.
I will begin testing and checking out the system this week to work out any kinks or configuration issues before our next performance.
Weekend of Aug. 7-9
We had a great weekend, we played three times and bart DJ’d once.
Friday night we went to see the awesome Savannah Coronet at Gunsmoke, and the band following her cancelled, so we did an impromptu gig thanks to Reggier and the folks at Gunsmoke.
Saturday was a big day for Home Cooked Music at Cookie. We played at 3, followed by Cosmic and Savannah, and we played again at 7. We had a great crowd, thanks y’all :) Savannah and Cosmic were incredible. In between our gigs bart got called in to DJ over at Hobo Island for Fujin’s birthday party, so bart really worked his furry tail off this weekend, even if he was human yesterday!
Thank you all very much for showing up and your generosity. SL is always a collaborative effort, that’s what makes it cool. Inga, one of my dearest friends in SL, made us a t-shirt we’ll be giving away at our shows. Inga has come far from being a humble hobo to being one of the best clothing designers in SL, please check out her store, Inga Wind….there’s an ad with an SLURL teleport link on this blog. Her clothes are to be seen to be believed.
The picture is Thinkerer sporting his ‘grizzled prospector’ look, which I think is really cute :) I blatantly stole it from Arabella’s Flickr group she made for Home Cooked Music — join it if you like, we love pictures! There are snapshots from it in a widget on this blog, and check out her regular account, she takes lovely shots.
Thinkerer is way more than just the owner of Cookie. Think is a retired professor who works tirelessly in SL to promote and mentor new talent…builders, scripters, artists, comedians, musicians, actors, you name it. He mentors and promotes them tirelessly and quietly. He builds sims and helps others build sims, he works with other educators in SL, he helps newbies to SL in countless ways. I can’t list all the stuff he does or all the people he has helped, it’s a very long list, but he does it all just because he wants to and he is a real sweetie and a huge asset to the SL community. He doesn’t take compliments very well :) but let him know you appreciate him and help support his sims like Cookie, that make SL better for everyone! Thank you Think :)
Some mp3s
Cold Cold Heart
Jambalaya
Tell Old Bill
Good Night Irene
Hai!
Welcome to bart & whirl’s mess on the web. We have just started playing for people ‘officially’ in SL, so this blog is part of the promotion effort. Scary!
I blame Inga, Derek, Nolan, Titter and Beezle :P
Actually I suppose it is my fault. I missed playing drums, so I got a banjo (drummer and banjo jokes are much the same, that’s my excuse.) Then bart got a banjo. Then when I whined about wanting to learn bottleneck slide on a resonator but Nationals cost too much, bart found the awesome Frank at Republic Guitars, and I got a great tricone. Started making horrible noises and scaring the dogs. Bart naturally got his first acoustic shortly after that, and before I knew it was giving in to his inner geek and trying to figure out how to stream in SL. That’s when our friends started to bug us to play at our home in SL and it all went downhill from there.
Thinkerer and Reggier prodded us to start playing at Think’s sim, Cookie, so we’ve done that a couple of times. Reggier is our manager now and a HUGE help. She also manages Lauren, a good friend, and Cosmic, a great banjo player, so it’s all very conspiratorial I think :) Anyway, people seem to like it, and we’re willing to play anywhere, open for anyone, and practice a lot. Right now we’re doing mostly folk tunes, but we hope to expand on that. We’ve both been playing a little over a year (bart’s never played guitar, and I consider bottleneck playing a whole different animal from my years piddling w/ chords in regular tuning). Bart’s learning fingerpicking fast, though, and I continue to attempt real bottleneck blues, so hopefully we can incorporate those later.
Geo Meek is all over SL making vids and has made all of ours so far. We hope to put lots of videos and I’m not sure what we’ll post on the blog portion of this site, but we’re open to any suggestions :)
