Valleys of Neptune?!?

Apparently, there's a record coming out with previously-unreleased Hendrix tracks. Billy Cox seems to be handling bass duties on what I've heard so far (awesome). Sometimes, listening to the classic rock radio station does have a payoff. Check this out.

This is Crap.

This blog might be going away if I can't figure out the migration situation. I'd like to be able to continue using this platform since I've gotten pretty used to it (since 2002). I might use this as an opportunity to switch to a more robust platform (if anyone knows of a cool one, feel free to comment). This is the bullshit that I got yesterday:

Dear FTP user:

You are receiving this e-mail because one or more of your blogs at Blogger.com are set up to publish via FTP. We recently announced a planned shut-down of FTP support on Blogger Buzz (the official Blogger blog), and wanted to make sure you saw the announcement. We will be following up with more information via e-mail in the weeks ahead, and regularly updating a blog dedicated to this service shut-down here: http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/.

The full text of the announcement at Blogger Buzz follows.

Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing[1] Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.

Three years ago we launched Custom Domains[2] to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. Last year's post discussed the advantages of custom domains over FTP[3] and addressed a number of reasons users have continued to use FTP publishing. (If you're interested in reading more about Custom Domains, our Help Center has a good overview[4] of how to use them on your blog.) In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.

For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible. To that end:

• We are building a migration tool that will walk users through a migration from their current URL to a Blogger-managed URL (either a Custom Domain or a Blogspot URL) that will be available to all users the week of February 22. This tool will handle redirecting traffic from the old URL to the new URL, and will handle the vast majority of situations.
• We will be providing a dedicated blog[5] and help documentation
• Blogger team members will also be available to answer questions on the forum, comments on the blog, and in a few scheduled conference calls once the tool is released.

We have a number of big releases planned in 2010. While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way. Thanks for using Blogger.

Regards,

Rick Klau

Blogger Product Manager

Google

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View, CA 94043

[1] http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/05/ftp-vs-custom-domains.html

[2] http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/01/blogger-custom-domains.html

[3] http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/05/ftp-vs-custom-domains.html

[4] http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

[5] http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/

Cool?

I'd rather see the Lips do it than "Pink Floyd". Everything that the Floyd did after Meddle has been pretty underwhelming. That video sounds like someone's out of tune to me. I dig all of those exotic speaker cabinets. This reminds me that I still need to get my hands on four boomboxes to listen to Zaireeka properly.

The Flaming Lips giving Dark Side of the Moon another go at Bonnaroo
By Dave Herrera in Upbeats and Beatdowns
Wed., Feb. 3 2010 @ 11:28AM

Speaking of festivals: Road trip, anybody? Who's up for making the trek out to Bonnaroo this summer? We've always wanted to go but the date always conflicted with the Westword Music Showcase and even if it didn't, there just didn't seem to be a compelling enough reason to jump in the hoopty and head towards the land of Elvis.



We have one now, by god. Just read that the Flaming Lips will be playing Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety as it did this past New Year's Eve. We can hardly think of a better place to experience such an event than the woods of Tennesee. What do you say? You in?

Time Capsule

Recently, Ross found some of the "Adolph sessions", which were recorded November 7, 2004 in the big, bad studio at the Auraria campus by the one and only Chris Adolph. I can sort of make out the phantasmal backing vocals on the chorus. Those singers were Marie Litton, Joe Sampson, and "some dude from the DU recording school that was there helping Chris". This is the only existing track, which is complete with studio chatter during the solo (I'll bet that the talk back microphone was left on by accident--this seems to happen a lot). The others aren't complete, and Chris has misplaced the DAT tapes, so they never will be. It sounds pretty nice; I've got a couple of gripes, but no big ones. I'm glad that these recordings surfaced. That wicked Abby Road console sure did sound nice.

Major Score

I managed to find a McNeilus 40 gallon hydraulic tank for my next project for $100. That's a $780 savings, friends.

Southern Amusement

My Grammy Sammie sent this one to me. I laughed and laughed.

Fw: Map of Where I Am

------ Send Location ------
This is my current location.

http://maps.BlackBerry.com?lat=42.04708&lon=-104.96786&z=4&label=Where+I+Am

Deep Dish?

The box says "your deep-dish π". I've always enjoyed the humor that accompanies Electro-Harmonix gear.

I picked up their bass fuzz this week, because I've been needing one for some of the Chariots' new material, as well as recordings. Bambi Lee actually desired a fuzz tone bass for one of her songs, so that's what really planted the seed (I didn't have anything that quite did what she was looking for). The pedal was priced right (whoot! to Robb's), and actually sounds huge. I think that I'll be using the "dry" mode mostly, but having the two others available does allow for some real flexibility. All of the EH gear that I've owned sounds pretty wicked, although that Black Finger compressor still has a wonky switch (but it does sound great).

It's definitely more mild than wild, but I wasn't looking for some self-oscillating fuzz pedal. It should serve its purpose.

Shielding?!?

Even if it does cause cancer, the (very expensive) paint is the way to go. The last coat goes on tonight.

This is Great.

I got turned on to this by the morning show on KHOW. They're doing some goofy conspiracy stuff with it. I generally cringe at the mention of God, but a short list of singers can pull it off without turning me off, and Johnny Cash is one of 'em.

I always thought that he wore black because it doesn't show dirt, so it means less dry cleaning. I really dig the Jew's harp. A pretty damn good music video, too: