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Prince covering Creep by Radiohead at Coachella 2008.

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Prince also did a cover of the Beatles’ Come Together.

- The story on Prince’s performance
- More Coachella videos

[Thanks Mr. SunCaughtFire]

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I don’t know which is worse, the fact that it’s Monday morning or this video. I’m just glad to be alive.

David Blassingame, Stephen Arthur and Steve Candelari

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Houston 3, St. Louis 2 at Busch Stadium
Houston Record: (12-12)
St. Louis Record: (14-10)

Winning pitcher - Wesley Wright (3-0)
Losing pitcher - Jason Isringhausen (1-2)
SV - Jose Valverde (4)

HOU HR - C. Lee (5)
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I know no one gives a crap about sitting next to me at Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Houston show at The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, but I am selling the two tickets next to us. The show is next Sunday May 4th.

These are really good tickets! They are Right row S seat 11 and 12. That is pretty close to the stage.

Roger Waters will play Dark Side of the Moon from his Pink Floyd days!

CLICK HERE TO BUY THE TICKETS

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The Sony Alpha 100 has been a good camera for me and I have gotten some very good results. Overall, I simply cannot complain. Still, I find myself jonesing for something new in my camera world and the desire runs the gamut from just just buying a new lens or upgrading my current camera to […]

I love Photoshop. However some artists can go a little crazy with the program. They can go so over the top that reality doesn’t matter anymore.

The PsD Photoshop Disasters blog is there chronicling all the errors and weird Photoshop art they can find.

[via BoingBoing]

This one is for all of you recording and music geeks who read this blog. It’s an interview with producer Tom Werman about the recording of Motley Crue’s Girls, Girls, Girls.

This is one part on how the recorded Tommy Lee’s drum sound - it doesn’t sound easy:

“Tommy was very exacting about his drums and was a very adventurous experimenter,” says Werman. To get an even more explosive sound, engineer Duane Baron made use of the studio’s P.A. system to send kick and toms back out into the large main studio.

They also discovered a new way to isolate the drums. “We were just screwing around and trying to find an optimum way to record drums, keep the leakage down and get rid of some of the hi-hat,” says Baron, who first worked with the band on Theatre of Pain. “We put towels on the toms, hi-hat and cymbals, and then Tommy would play kick and snare because he wanted really good isolation on those. Then we’d do the opposite thing, where we’d pad up the kick and snare and he’d play the hi-hat, toms and cymbals to a click track. He’s one of the few drummers who could really pull that off.”

The towel method worked. In addition, Baron incorporated drum samples for the first time with this record. “We were using a MIDI sequencer and programmed one hit at a time,” he recalls. “Then we would record it off the sequencer as opposed to triggering. We were trying to get rid of the delay between the triggers and the real snare.” They used an E-mu Emulator 12-bit sampler, operating at half-speed. “We realized that by using a half-speed sample and doubling up, you got a better bit rate,” says Baron.

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