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  MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album - Part 354

  03.04.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is the last of the “Making Album Number Three” blogs. I’ve bored you enough with my tedious accounts of fumbling my way through making an album!
  So I shall keep it brief.
  If you want a percentage I would say I’m about 75-80% done. I have 8 tracks pretty much finished. I need to come up [...]

• Music

  MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album Blog Part 6

  01.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  It was my birthday recently (hooray) and I turned 37 (oh…). You can see in this picture I’m wearing a rather nifty t-shirt bought for me by my wife, it’s not that clear in the pic but it says “I Need To Score” and features pics of several movie soundtrack heroes of mine, like Morricone, [...]

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  MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album Part 5

  01.20.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  So it’s 2009, wow, doesn’t time fly? I daren’t think how long I’ve been messing around with songs for this third album.
  Mind you I only record a bit at a time, sometimes there’s weeks where nothing happens - laziness, business with other things or mental block takes over. If you added together the total time [...]

• Music, You Tube Videos

  Motown is 50

  01.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This week Motown celebrates 50 years. Here’s three great Motown tracks, proving that some of the Motown singles were the equal of The Beatles, Beach Boys, Dylan, Stones and everyone else around at the time. They truly don’t make them like this any more…

  ROB

• Music, You Tube Videos

  The Universal Mind of Bill Evans

  12.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I found this interview/documentary featuring Bill Evans a while back. It goes out of sync but it’s very intriguing to hear Bill Evans talk at length about music.

• Books, Music

  MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album Part 4

  12.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Remember that track I told you about in the last part? “Make a Stand“? I tried to record a brand new chorus and changed the instrumentation around but I’m still not happy with it. So I think the chorus needs another go, but I’m going to leave it for a bit. Sometimes it’s best to [...]

• Books, Music, Opinion

  Albums of the Year

  12.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  There’s been a lot of great albums released this year, so I thought I’d post what I think what were my favourites. I’ve not listened to every album released this year of course, so there are probably lots of great ones that have passed me by, but out of what I did hear these are [...]

• Music

  MISTER FUSTY: Making an Album - Part 3

  12.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I have learnt an important lesson today. I really must play the guitar more often for two reasons.
  1) So when I play for the first time in ages my fingers don’t really hurt.
  2) So when I record myself I don’t sound really bad due to my lack of abilities as a guitar player.
  After a few [...]

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  REVIEW: Mercury Rev Live In Vicar Street/ Snowflake Midnight & Strange Attractor

  11.13.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  On November 2nd, I had the good fortune to be in attendance for Mercury Rev’s performance in Vicar St. This was the first time I have seen the band that have informed so much of my musical taste since falling in love with Deserter’s Songs in late 1998. With two new albums out, Snowflake Midnight [...]

• Books, Music

  Knock, Knock, Knocking on Neil Young’s Door

  11.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Imagine you’ve just arrived at home from the supermarket, you’re unpacking the shopping and you look out of the window to see two old geezers arrive in a taxi and start staring at your house. Cause for concern perhaps? Before you hover near the phone, anticipating calling the cops you peer closer through the curtains [...]

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