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ThinkIndie.com – The Future Supporting the Past

Posted in Myusings, tagged , , on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I know it’s automatically less convenient to buy music online from anywhere other than iTunes (yay anticompetition), but I really think this is an effort worth supporting. Local record shops are getting pushed out of business. Hell, even the Tower Records and Virgin Megastores of the world are struggling. But now the independent mom and [...]

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Learning to Make My Own Myusic

Posted in Myusings, Personal Notes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on May 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’ve spent my entire life staring in awe at guitarists. I’ve seen Clapton, Trucks, Haynes and Betts, Garcia, Springsteen, Malkmus, King and Guy. I’ve stood and danced and studied as my favorites picked and bent and pulled their way to new dimensions of song and sound, all on the surface of these six-strings. Well, watching [...]

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Great Dylan Interview

Posted in Myusings, tagged on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t seen the new interview with Bob Dylan posted on his website, you should definitely check it out. Here’s a sample: Say you wake up in a hotel room in Wichita and look out the window. A little girl is walking along the train tracks dragging a big statue of Buddha in a [...]

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Bell X1

Posted in Myusings, Song Review, tagged , , on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I am obsessed with the song, “The Great Defector.” I can’t get it out of my head. I don’t want to get it out of my head. They probably owe royalties to the Talking Heads, but honestly, what other band has been able to successfully copy David Byrne. That in itself is a marvel. Good [...]

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Myusings on Pitchfork

Posted in Myusings, tagged , on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s funny. Pitchfork‘s reputation, at least among my friends, is that it is pretentious and negative. Personally, I either don’t see that or I’m attracted to those qualities. Probably a dose of both. Either way, I’m struck by the following stats that Pitchformula put together back in 2004. I suspect not much has changed: score [...]

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Hello from London

Posted in Myusings, tagged , , , , , , on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What better place to blog from than the city that helped bring the Stones, Cream, Beatles and the Who to the world? Sitting in the heart of London, waiting for my iPhone to charge up enough that I can have some music for the flight home, I sit in recollection of a tremendous week-plus abroad. [...]

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Off to India

Posted in Myusings, tagged on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Folks, Heading out to India today until well after the new year. I don’t expect to post during that time, but you never know. Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve celebration, in the meantime. May it be filled with love, booze and lots of great myusic! Jon

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My Free Bird Tradition

Posted in Myusings, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I have a tradition dating back to when I was 13 and I got my first real stereo after my bar mitzvah. When I got that stereo, I also bought my first CDs. Among them were Jimmy Buffet’s boxed set, the Allman Brothers’ Decade of Hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s (pronounced ‘lĕh-’nérd ‘skin-’nérd) and their live masterpiece, [...]

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