Time for fucking and fighting...or something like that. I've managed to throw up two youtube videos and not play on any of them, how lazy is that? I made one video for my friend Phil which is on the "Friend's videos" section, and i made a holiday video which i haven't added here...the power chord to my zoom 4 track recorder had been eaten by the moving house monster, and to be honest i've been too tired to make a decent song for a video lately. I've been sitting here for a while playing my guitar on chatroulette. There are less wankers on than last time i was here and i managed to play a few tunes to normal people. i sweated a bit when they stopped clicking next to listen....but hey, i guess i should be ready for that right? Phil asked me to edit some pictures into a song he made after the barbeque we had. I did what i could, and added it to youtube for him. Also made a video of maybe 300 pictures the wife took of our holiday in America. If you want to see it, it's here..
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People were actually watching me tonight!! I had like 4 or 5 stayers, and people jumping in and out of my live feed. Most of them were actually from the livevideo site itself rather than watching form here but still....woo fuckin hoo. I started alone and then someone started watching...then someone else....then one of them started chatting...then i had like 4 people watching. At this point i was at the end of my first half hour and decided to play on for a while - I ended up playing for 90 minutes then played another couple of tunes while chatting for 30 minutes with some guy from Valleja...it was kinda cool to have people watch/listen and not leave right away, and i think one of the main reasons was my new YETI! I have got a Blue (brand name) Yeti, which is a professional usb mic. It's actually quite big (maybe a foot tall), and it has really really improved the sound from my live feed. I think it's the main reason people have started sticking around during my shows.
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It's Sunday again. I think i'll post here every Sunday from now on. When i come back from holidays i will make Sunday the day to update the site. Sunday is also Beer night for me, the night i usually get drunk at home. This may make for an interesting blog (i've come to terms with the fact that this is actually a blog, no matter how many swears i put in the title link) on the Sundays i work dayshift, i will have to write it after i play and after a couple of beers. I played on my livefeed when i could this week. The connectivity is really becoming an issue, three days this week i couldn't connect with the livevideo server and had to abandon my attempt to play online. I think i will give up the idea to play live every day. Not only were my fingers hurting like buggery, but it was getting really stale really quickly. I will pick two days to play and maybe a third to play inpromtu if i feel like it. I'll still try to practice every day but i will try to learn new songs and stuff o
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First off, i've clocked another 370 minutes practice time (making 1610 so far). I've got my new fangled web cam and i've been playing in front of it most days for at least 30 minutes. I've been going live on the old live feed and playing my wee heart out - to an empty chat room for the most part. This is not really such a bad thing as i've been making some holwers of mistakes, and it's more like live feeding practice sessions than anything worth listening to. I don't mind though, it's all practice and i like doing it so...go me This will be the last time i mention the fact, but i may write 500 words or so on the first time i get more than one viewer at any one time hehe :) My new web cam being the first one i've owned in a few years (since i gave my old one ot my wife's mother so she could chat with her family back in China), i decided to visit that chat roulette site to see what it was all about. I'd seen that video with the piano player making songs up for the people he met, a
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Going live soon. MY web cam has just left the UK (or so my UPS tracking number tells me), and i expect it sometime tomorrow or the Thursday at the latest. My next port of call will be a blog TV type site to play a few covers and get the nerves ready for playing. I will be eventually playing through this site...http://www.livevideo.com...They have a site addonthat i can use to show my stuff, but i will have to beta test my balls to see if i'm up to it. I have noticed that i may be playing to an empty room, and i have to whore my videos in my game forums to get people to watch them. Not sure if i feel ok with that, but what can you do? I made a video about a girl called Sarah Shroud, who is currently in prison in Iran where she has been for the last year or so without charge...I think i will make a lot more stuff like this. I've never really tried to make shit people like (just stuff i liked), and i think it's time to ratchet up the output with some head fuck (i like that).<
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