Sometimes when we least expect it, we find something amazing in the most mundane locations. I had that pleasure going to see a friend on mine play with his friend at a small bar on downtown Tolono, IL.
I had heard Matt play before and knew he was good - but had no idea just how good he really was. Matt and his band mate go by the name of Big Red Skillet.
Here is the deal - for those of you that know me, you know my opinion of country music. I respect the artists that are out there, but certainly do not have any country music stations programmed into my car stereo. That being said - Big Red Skillet may make a country music disciple out of me yet.
Mark Millsap - fantastic on the guitar. He plays with feeling. You can hear the heart with every note. And it was a pleasure to hear you play and put the hammer down on the lead breaks. One of the few guitarists out there that allow their lead playing to enhance the song, not try and steal it. Even when playing covers, this is a very important aspect that most live acts miss out on.
Matt Bundy - where can I start. You play with passion and honesty. Those characteristics are so relevant to playing live. It draws the people to you and allows you to command the stage. Your charisma and singing ability are truly inspiring and incredibly impressive. I was so amazed at your singing talent. For those that have not heard you sing, they need to do so. Immediately. Keep on going, I cant wait to hear you sing again. I was stunned and literally thought I was at a professional show with some huge rock/country star.
It will not be long until you two shake the dust of this area from your feet and move on. You certainly have the ability to do so.
Looking forward to the next gig. You have made a believer out of me.
Wyatt
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
May Start Writing Again
I have had a long time off from writing much of anything. Not sure why, but I always let life get in the way of actually living it.
I just felt moved enough to share this little piece of music with all two of you that read this blog.
It is a long story why, but it reminds me fondly of times long past, much simpler of days, and of innocence since washed away.
To our younger years - we will always hold on to you, because it is you that make us who we are today.
To those of you who may still be at that younger age, and especially to my two sons - who you are today creates who you will be tomorrow. Tread carefully on what you do and say. Make your future happen in the way you decide. Do not let others decide it for you.
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Music Store
Last weekend I went over to Indiana for a music fest. On the way, a friend wanted me to check out a music store he discovered. I thought "what the hell", but wasn’t expecting too much. I guess I am just used to today’s CD stores such as Best Buy, Circuit City, and even Wal-Mart to some extent. But let me tell you that walking in to this place was an awesome experience and it made me realize how much I miss a true record store.
Immediately as you walk in your senses are awash in the atmosphere. Simple things such as real music flowing through the real stereo system. Not the manufactured and formulated crap that the music industry has created that you always hear playing over the P.A. at Best Buy. The walls were covered wall to wall with posters of not just well known music acts, but also more obscure and underground bands as well. Even the small details were great such as the pungent smell of incense and the "20 something" dude behind the counter. But more than all of that was the shelves and shelves (not racks) of CDs. It was a veritable music paradise. The shelving setup made it very easy to flip through the thousands of CDs they had. They were all organized by genre and then each section had bands listed out by name for each letter of the alphabet. For each letter there was also a "Misc" section - this is where the treasure hunting was at. I could have spent hours and hours crawling through all of the CDs. I went in not expecting to spend a dime and came out of the store 50 bucks poorer. Give me another day where I actually have more time and I will spend about 5 times that.
The coolest thing about the place was their support of independent labels and bands. This is where Best Buy and the other corporate giants fall off of the map. There were so many titles that I have been looking for that the giants do not carry. And the used section was almost as large as their new section - yet again, Best Buy and the ilk can not compete here. I will never again spend money on CDs at Best Buy - I am just going to save up and go every couple of months to this place in Indianapolis and give them my money. In the mean time I will be scouring the area that I live for somewhere similar. There are a couple, but they are not as big or well maintained.
Check them out. It is worth it. Vibes Music
Immediately as you walk in your senses are awash in the atmosphere. Simple things such as real music flowing through the real stereo system. Not the manufactured and formulated crap that the music industry has created that you always hear playing over the P.A. at Best Buy. The walls were covered wall to wall with posters of not just well known music acts, but also more obscure and underground bands as well. Even the small details were great such as the pungent smell of incense and the "20 something" dude behind the counter. But more than all of that was the shelves and shelves (not racks) of CDs. It was a veritable music paradise. The shelving setup made it very easy to flip through the thousands of CDs they had. They were all organized by genre and then each section had bands listed out by name for each letter of the alphabet. For each letter there was also a "Misc" section - this is where the treasure hunting was at. I could have spent hours and hours crawling through all of the CDs. I went in not expecting to spend a dime and came out of the store 50 bucks poorer. Give me another day where I actually have more time and I will spend about 5 times that.
The coolest thing about the place was their support of independent labels and bands. This is where Best Buy and the other corporate giants fall off of the map. There were so many titles that I have been looking for that the giants do not carry. And the used section was almost as large as their new section - yet again, Best Buy and the ilk can not compete here. I will never again spend money on CDs at Best Buy - I am just going to save up and go every couple of months to this place in Indianapolis and give them my money. In the mean time I will be scouring the area that I live for somewhere similar. There are a couple, but they are not as big or well maintained.
Check them out. It is worth it. Vibes Music
Monday, June 18, 2007
Remote Desktop Failure on Windows Server 2003
Just like it says up at the title, we had 4 or 5 servers mysteriously start to deny any remote desktop connections after a patch update. Not sure which patch caused the issue because we patched up to SP2 and pushed all remaining patches after that.
After a great deal of testing different scenarios such as stopping the Virus Protection Service (Mcafee in this case), assuring all proper users were in the remote desktop users group, checking to see if windows sucky-ass firewall was running (it was not) we had to resort to any good engineers best tool. Google.
This was more of a challenge than usual because there was a lot of crap on this issue. We had to dig through quite a bit of useless garbage until we finally found a helpful hint. I just want to add it here in hope to make the search for the next sorry sucker who has this issue a little easier. I should add a bunch of meta tags in the code behind this, but I am too lazy for that.
Bottom line that fixed our issue: re-register the remote desktop connection dll.
in a command prompt type in regsvr32 remotepg.dll
Reboot system and voila.
After a great deal of testing different scenarios such as stopping the Virus Protection Service (Mcafee in this case), assuring all proper users were in the remote desktop users group, checking to see if windows sucky-ass firewall was running (it was not) we had to resort to any good engineers best tool. Google.
This was more of a challenge than usual because there was a lot of crap on this issue. We had to dig through quite a bit of useless garbage until we finally found a helpful hint. I just want to add it here in hope to make the search for the next sorry sucker who has this issue a little easier. I should add a bunch of meta tags in the code behind this, but I am too lazy for that.
Bottom line that fixed our issue: re-register the remote desktop connection dll.
in a command prompt type in regsvr32 remotepg.dll
Reboot system and voila.
Friday, June 1, 2007
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