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Back to Basics
Yep, I'm back in the UK and back to basics.
It's quite amazing how long I have been writing these 'One Minute With Dec's ..... At the start I had a a few complaints that it could be read in 30 seconds ....check out the original ones at www.makehits.com/archive.htm
Through the years, and bearing in mind that The Serious Writers Guild now has members in 47 countries, the amount of info that arrives on my desk and in my Emails is staggering. I literally have to sift through and make hard choices on what to include. So? They got longer and longer .... but now.....Back to basics?
I am going to go back to my original idea of a short sharp One Minute chock a block full of info and cutting edge ideas.
Good news for Atari lovers:
Just an aside, I came across this small company in London that stock Atari computers and it's peripherals, I guess you might want to have a look... www.keychange.co.uk
KK [Nigeria]
Tip of the Day
Event Viewer
Has someone been using your computer when you’re not there?
Windows XP has an Event Viewer to help you keep track of what your computer is doing. An event is anything noteworthy that happens to your computer. To bring up the Event Viewer go to Start/Run and type the following...
eventvwr.msc
Events are stored in three log files: Application, Security, and System. These logs can be reviewed and archived. For our purposes we want the System log. Click on "System" in the left-hand column for a list of events. Look for a date and time when you weren't home and your computer should have been off.
By double-clicking the event you can get more details on what the event was. Just click on the link for that says, "For more information..."
You can also use this log to see how long someone was on the computer. Just look at the time the computer was turned on and off for that day.
Bob
Dec – do please warn everyone about the danger of working without earplugs (the MU ran an article in the last edition as well) – I’m retiring from playing early next year because of tinnitus. Our gigs are not even that loud, it’s just the cumulative effect over the decades. I use them now, but started too late.
Best wishes ... Paul Hurst
My Reply:
Thank you for the warning .... I am extremely careful with my ears.
It is the hard mid frequencies which cause the most problems .... we had a bass player who similarly got severe tinnitus and had to retire early. He put it down to working with a Fender Twin Reverb guitarist in a residency for years .... knocked his ears to pieces every night.
I personally do not use earplugs ever .... but I advice our drummers to always use them .... we also use one of the best sound engineers around: so the mix is totally safe and not damaging. In my studio I have a fixed level for monitoring on each of the three speaker systems and never exceed it.
Regards
DEC [Cluskey]
mailto:dec@makehits.co.uk
Hiya - I'm literally been saved by your 'Serious Performer's Guild'...Thank You So Much for that...I'm learning with each performance.
Thank You
Sharon NET1047040W
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine a marriage and a career." -- Gloria Steinem
Charts:
USA [my thanks to Charles in the USA for supplying this]
(1) Nelly Furtado Featuring Timbaland .... Promiscuous .... Mosley | Geffen
(2) Shakira Featuring Wyclef Jean ... Hips Don't Lie .... Epic
(3) Gnarls Barkley ... Crazy ... Downtown | Lava
UK1) Shakira
ft Wyclef Jean .... 'Hips don't lie'
2) Nelly Furtado .... 'Maneater'
3) Pussycat
Dolls ft Snoop Dog .... 'Buttons'
Download Chart [now the most important chart in the UK]
1) Nelly Furtado .... Maneater ... (Universal Music)
2)
Shakira
.... Hips Don't Lie .... (Sony
BMG Music)
3) Christina Aguilera .... Ain't No Other Man .... (Sony BMG Music)
"Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths." -- Baroness Edith Summerskill
A question on lip synching.
My Reply:Hey Dec,
Ever since the Ashlee Simpson lip-synch gaffe on Saturday Night Live last year, I've been hearing that non-lipsynch'ed live performance is on its' way back. Have you heard anything to support/refute this?
F ********
Hello F *******
The only aim of any artist is to present the best musical presentation and the best visual presentation ... End of story.
Whether that involves lip synching, back tracks, live/prerecorded is of absolutely no consequence to the record and DVD buying public.
No one really knows what happened in the Ashlee Simpson case...I have watched it many times and even I can't figure out what went on ... It appeared that her voice was prerecorded without a band and the band played live ... A truly weird thing to do .... They also played the wrong track which confused eveyone concerned. Only the sound engineer involved knows what went on ... And no one ever blames the sound engineer - they only blame the artist ....EVERYTIME! Ain't that the truth?
And that is why all the top bands and managements go to great lenghts to ensure that the sound and visual presentation will be as geat as possible ....as I say, they never blame the sound engineer, only the artist.
There is absolutely no mileage in 'demanding to play live' ... I have seen artists destroy their short lived career by following this route.... it is essential to be involved with musicians/band members who enjoy miming as much as playing and are brilliant at understanding the importance of enjoying entertaining the public ... be that live or miming. All the top players in the world understand that the trick is to appear at all times as if they are playing their hearts out.
We had the all time greatest sound disaster a couple of years ago in the UK for the Queen's Jubilee at Buckingham Palace .....some d**k decided that the whole show would be live....what a disaster. They even managed to make Brian May sound like an amateur.
It is most important to understand that the public could not give a monkey's how a sound is arrived at.... They just want great sound to bop to and great visuals.....no argument!
Also interesting - to muse on the fact that EVERY filmed music sequence is totally mimed ... without exception ... simply because it is impossible to do it any other way.
Regards
DEC [Cluskey]Just released:- "57 Secrets of a Hit
Record" ... - 260 pages of the Secrets plus the CDrom Analysis
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The gags: ..... [if you are easily offended please do not read ... a little, in fact a lot, risqué!]
Godliness and Coming Clean
Two priests are off to the showers late one night. They undress and step in the showers before they realize there is no soap. Father John says he has soap in his room and goes to get it, not bothering to dress.
He grabs two bars of soap, one in each hand, and heads back to the showers. He is halfway down the hall when he sees three nuns heading his way. Having no place to hide, Father John stands against the wall and freezes like he's a statue.
The nuns stop and comment on how life-like he looks. The first nun suddenly reaches out and pulls on his manhood. Startled, he drops a bar of soap. "Oh look," says the first nun, "it's a soap dispenser."
To test her theory, the second nun also pulls on his manhood ... sure enough he drops the other bar of soap.
The third nun decides to have a go. She pulls once, then twice and three times but nothing happens. So she gives a few more gentle tugs then yells... "Mary, Mother of God! Hand Lotion!"
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