Music Choice Cable Channels; What You Don't Know

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One way to avoid spending money online and buying "iTunes downloads" or even the slightly almost out of style CD purchase - is to tune into the channels that you usually skip over on your Cable TV. 


(I so wanna sing that part in "Money For Nothing" by the Dire Straits - HAHA!)


Being a great DJ for your party can be super easy. Granted, you COULD go with that 67 year old accordionist for 20 bucks an hour for the first 5 hours, but we know how that would end. Well, the party probably wouldn't even get started. 


SO! Here's an alternative that works. Turn on your TV and see if you have the "Music Choice" service with your local cable provider. It's usually the channels you normally skip through! :o)


These select channels GIVE you your time back to actually enjoy your own party. Also, you can concentrate on being the host that everyone knows you are. When you have to "juggle" talking to each guest at your party, it helps to ICE BREAK as well about favorite types of music first. Or even what people "DON'T" like...i.e. the newest release by Britney Spears. Honestly, i can't think of the name, so i guess that's a good thing. Usually the radio stations ingrain our already information-overloaded minds with overplayed singles.


Moving onto the performer's reality: in the past, private parties that I've played for have saved by voice by having Music Choice service as a filler for the songs that weren't in my songbook. After the end of each set of songs, I'd take a break - the coversation would thicken and enrich and, some "chill music" would "volume up" in everyone's background. 


Another reason why MC is awesome is that guests will ask for requests or different songs by artists/bands playing currently on the MC play-list and you can utilize that to book more gigs and personalized set-lists for the requester. Usually people are pretty agreeable once someone chimes in with a song name the love. It's like lightning around the room. Volumes get louder, smiles stretch beyond happy and laughing commences. It's a cool sight for my eyes - to know that I'm helping people connect and have a good time.   

SIGN UP HERE FOR A MUSIC CHOICE ACCOUNT!: 


http://www.musicchoice.com/UserRegistrationConsolidation.aspx

 

September 11th, 2001 - Custom Guitar Made for a Solder!!!

Originally, I wanted to write a special note today about not giving up, about bouncing back from most coldest, scariest, horrific odds and circumstances. I still might in the future; people are always trying to dismiss each other's dreams as not worth the effort or the time. COMPLETELY FALSE by the way. ;o)

I began searching for an all white Spanish-style acoustic electric guitar to be my main recording guitar and one that I'd do upscale gigs with. Besides my $6-700 Godin guitar, i don't have an electric or acoustic over around 250-325 range.

So, I found an ad for a custom guitar luthier in California. www.leachguitar.com    Went to his site, then fell in love with his artistic genius embedded in the woods of his guitars. Many are rare stones and I can only imagine how long this guitar took to complete. I guess i could always, ASK him. HAHA

He also has a guitar that hinges at the neck and the body for a mere $600. This is the first I've ever seen and would be the perfect replacement for the Martin Backpacker guitar. Plus these are all American Made! Awesome!

READ BELOW ABOUT THE EXACT SPECIFICATIONS!!!!   AMAZING!

"This guitar was built for my brother who is recently retired from the U.S. Army. When he first asked me to do this guitar it was not that long after 911, I can honestly say the theme originally didn't inspire me very much. Every time I tried to think about the inlays all I could see were the planes crashing into the side of the WTC. My thoughts seemed to be filled with the defeat of the day. Exactly one year after the attacks the local paper ran a special section commemorating Sept. 11, it was then that I realized the theme had to be one of victory and resilience. The challenge for me was to create 3 distinct areas that equally represented the 3 crash sites. One of the things that I noticed while doing the research for this project was the way the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crashes were almost forgotten in the overwhelming coverage of the WTC crashes. I wanted this guitar to be an example of "modern mythology" that told the complete story with equal emphasis. One of the inlays that I ended up doing that seemed out of place for some reason was "Let's Roll"... it just seemed to not fit with more artistic and subtle inlays, I even tried to translated the phrase in Latin to make it a little more artistic sounding, after much input for several internet friends I came to the now obvious conclusion that it needed to be verbatim and dead center on the guitar.

"Let's Roll" represents the moment we went from reeling from the attack to fighting back."

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