New Music Anyone?

Posted on | November 3, 2008 |

This weekend I heard some great new music. My brother Bryan and I happened to catch a band called Spector 45 at the Billiard Bar on Friday night. What’s funny is I have met these guys before and didn’t realize it was them that I was enjoying so much. The lead singer/guitarist Frankie had changed his hair color and I just did not recognize him. What’s even funnier is that I went out with my friend Brian Nesbit on Saturday night and before we hit the streets I was bragging about this really cool band I heard the previous night. Well it turns out Brian, who owns a recording studio, is actually producing Spector 45’s new album … lol So after a few moments I was listening to some un-mastered tracks that will be on their forth coming album. Too funny.

Anyway, you should check out Spector 45. Their music is like a combination of rockabilly, punk, and country, mixed with generous amounts of young angst. I really liked what I heard and hopefully I will be helping them out in the future with a some live mixing. For me that would be really cool as I have been dying to get back into music. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and we’ll just have to see what happens. But seriously check them out.

So what have you been listening to lately?
Does anyone have any recommendations?

After drinking a few too many beers Friday night I woke up Saturday morning (ok, afternoon) and decided to go for a run. I have been using this new site mapmyrun.com and before I took off I plotted myself a 3.5 mile course and then off I went. I’m really happy with my progress and despite being slightly hungover I managed to beat my average mile time by over a minute. So that felt really good.

I spent most of today doing the basic chores of life and working on my dreaded pdf project. Late Friday afternoon I was given a review of it by the client and they asked for some fairly significant changes that required me to rebuild nearly every portion of the project. Oh and did I mention the final version is due to the duplicator on Monday morning?! Jeez … what a mess. Needless to say I spent most of the day tweaking this and that on it and only just finished it a few moments ago. But whatever, it’s done and time to move onto the next project.

I have a few minor major things to kick out tis week and then Sunday its on to San Jose, CA for the Adobe DevLearn 2008 Conference. I’ll be attending a specific portion of the conference geared towards the Adobe Presenter software which I have been using for the past several years. This is really exciting for me as I finally get to be face to face with Adobe and hopefully present and discuss this software and its uses, limitations, workarounds, and future directly with the people who make it. I’m also hoping to meet a few peers and gain some contacts. It should be a fun learning experience for me.

Plus this is the first conference I will be attending and not working in quite a while.

Ok kids, send me your suggestions for new music and have a good day tomorrow.