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  Cover Band Soap Opera: Lead Singer Leaves the Stage; I am Forced to Sing, Practically at Gunpoint

  1151 readers A while back, I blogged about a time when our lead singer was sick and his voice just gave out about 10 minutes into a four-hour show. Well, this past Saturday gave me flashbacks to then. My cover band was playing a show on Saturday night in Cincinnati and the lead singer was/is battling a "toothache from hell." So

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  Band Soap Operas: Tales of My Old Originals Band…

  1411 readers I'm going to briefly put the continuing ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band on hold for a second to rewind band life a bit. My roots in music go back as far as I want to remember, starting with high school band from grades 7-12 (band geek the whole nine). Now I play with a rock cover band. But one

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: An Ugly Kid Joe Song 15 Years in the Making

  1321 readers After watching a few of my stage plays produced when I was in college, a fellow student asked me where I "came up with these crazy ideas." I responded that we all have good ideas, but I just take the time to write them down. In fact, I write everything down - or else it slips away from me.

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: ‘Alive’ by Pearl Jam

  1250 readers For anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put video up of us.  Truth is, I'm self-conscious.  Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    > Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "Alive" by Pearl Jam at a recent fall show. That's

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  InDigest Song of the Day: J. Roddy Walston & the Business – “Don’t Break the Needle”

  1590 readersListen: J. Roddy Walston & the Business – “Don’t Break the Needle“ Let’s start here: Yes, this is straight up rock-and-roll. But to put together a song this good that’s nothing but straight rock music is a difficult feat, especially when almost all straight rock songs are required to either be ironic or terrible. I’m inclined

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: My Wife Guest Stars for ”Ice Ice Baby” Duet in Crowd-Pleasing Bonanza

  1532 readersI can't really piece together how it happened, but one moment I was up on stage, swigging a beer, wrapping up some Weezer chords, and the next moment, my wife was now front and center on the stage, with the rowdy bar crowd chanting for ''Ice Ice Baby.'' So the bassist starts laying down the easily-recognized, very-much-stolen riff, and

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  iTunes and Your Writing

  1033 readersIn the age of smart phones and iPods, people are rarely without their music. Music always seems to be partnered with creative work. Artists play music while they paint, designers play music while they create their websites and you probably have music on while you write your masterpiece. While most people use music as background,

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: What Do Our Concert Ticket Stubs Say About Us?

  1753 readersMy rock cover band had a show last night. Combined with that, I went to my first concert in years the other night - seeing Stone Temple Pilots at Riverbend here in Cincinnati (and Scott Weiland fell off the stage, btw). The whole week got me thinking about how my musical preferences of today (and in turn, what I

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: How Alcohol Affects Playing

  1450 readers I had a few beers1 at this weekend's show with my cover band. As the night went on, three things you started to see from me were more smiles, more stage presence2 and more mistakes. It's all part of the way alcohol affects one's musicianship when consumed in not-tiny quantities.   You ever read one of those articles, where it

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  Best Writing Music of 2011

  17139 readersWhat’s your favorite writing music from 2011? Share the songs or albums that inspired you in the comments section and we will add it to our growing Spotify playlist (also posted below)–it currently contains six hours of instrumental, Amazon’s best classical music of 2011, rock, folk, electronica and more for your listening pleasure. If you want more