Christopher Joel

I finally made the jump to Twitter.  For those who are not familiar, Twitter is a micro-blogging service.  Basically, you post updates on what you’re doing throughout the day.  I thought it sounded inane when i first heard about it and didn’t want to detail my day for other people.  Then I read a few.  [...]

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I read this article on Hypebot today and I can’t help saying: WTF??!?!
It appears that performance rights organizations (PROs), ASCAP, BMI, & SESAC, are suing AT&T Mobile over their use of the 30 second clips of songs in order to sell said songs.  These are the same clips that iTunes, Amazon, and pretty much every [...]

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Just posted some pics from the Broken Wheel Festival in Nolensville, TN.  Thanks to Taylor’s parents for taking those!
The festival was different than I thought it would be, but fun overall.  The stage was a flatbed trailer that was parked on a slightly sloping grass area.  There was another little flatbed right behind it and [...]

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In the tradition of Stephen Colbert, I’m declaring the next week to Forehead Awareness Week!  More specifically, “Watch Out For Pens in Wall-Mounted Penholders, Especially When Bending Over Near Said Wall to Unplug A Computer Week”.  Without such awareness weeks, everyone would end up with my current fashion statement: the forehead Band-Aid.  Be careful out [...]

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You couldn’t make this stuff up.  Ironically, someone already did.  One of my favorite comedy sources in The Onion.  They wrote this article back in 2002 and it’s simultaneously funny and sad that it’s come true.
What I find truly sad is that an industry that is so obviously hurting to regain it’s popularity, profits, and [...]

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So I finished tracking guitars at Vibe Dial Studios on Sunday.  We thought we had everything finished up when there’s that one little part that I just had to have in there.  The song just wouldn’t be right without it.  In the next few weeks I’ll start recording vocals and any odds and ends that [...]

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Random idea for someone to take and run with:
My site is run off a Wordpress installation.  I downloaded the software, uploaded it to my GoDaddy server, set it all up, and here you are reading it.  I was able to change the way it looks, added functions that weren’t built-in and even linked into other [...]

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I have never liked the idea of subscriptions for music.  You pay $x amount per month and you get to play all the music you want.  Stop paying, you’re outta luck.  It just seems mobster-ish to me, which is par for the course for record labels, but not for Apple.  So I’m a little queezy [...]

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I’ve tried Limewire once or twice.  I’ve gotten away from the whole file sharing thing, although I will be adding my own files there once we get them all finished up.  Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Limewire has opened a legit, for-pay music store.  I’m stoked because they are working with mostly [...]

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I saw this speech given by Barack Obama and he actually references one of my songs!   Ok, so he doesn’t mention my name, but he does make a big point of “not this time” and repeats it several times.  His first mention is around 31 minutes, check it out.
Incidentally, if anyone from the campaign [...]

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