Seattle Earthquake

Got shook around real good today. We had an earthquake in the greater Seattle area. I was at my part-time day job (pays the taxes and benefits) and everything started shaking. Being from Southern California I've experienced more than my share of earthquakes, but this one was different. It kept on going. Usually by the time you figure out your experiencing an earthquake it's over. With this one we walked out to the front of the building and stood there looking at each for at least a minute before it ended. Haa haa haa...I'm all shook up.

Milkin' It For All It's Worth- The Best Of Kill Switch..Klick

According to CDNOW.COM the Milkin' It For All It's Worth- The Best Of Kill Switch..Klick CD will be available March 20th. My new self titled solo CD d.A. Sebasstian will also be available March 27th. March is gonna be big month. I also cut a bunch of titles from the iSTORE today. The titles were CD's that I had to order from out-side distributors. I want to focus more on my own label releases and underground band releases that I have on hand. I keep getting orders for things I don't have in stock and then I have to order it and that can take alot of my time. I'd rather keep it simple.

Hold The Vocals...

Perry Fulfs came by the other day with a copy of the cover for our next compilation called Hold The Vocals- A Tribute To The Instrumental Hits. That's pretty self-explanatory. Should be available in May 2001 on Go-Kustom.

Snow

It's snowing like crazy. That doesn't happen often in Seattle. My wife made a snowman in the back yard with the kids. Ohh and we bombed Iraq again. What a weird day.

CDR Enhanced Master

Got the CDR Enhanced Master back from Disc Makers and I'm ready to put the new d.A. Sebasstian into production. Looks like I'll make the March 27th, 2001, Street Date. I also got some substitute software so I can direct record into my iMAC. It's in lieu of the Steinberg Cubasis software that was supposed to come with the TASCAM US-428 I bought four months ago. I guess Steinberg is still working on the drivers to work with the Mac US-428 drivers. us poor Mac users have to wait for all the good stuff. Anyways this new software (DECK LE by BIAS) has enabled me to record again, since I gave my hard disk recorder away. Working on a new concept CD and song (no title yet). This tune is verging on surf rock! What a big departure from the good ol' industrial days. I realized that some of my earliest musical influences (like when I was an eight year old pining through my Mom's old Boyfriends LPs) are Dick Dale and Henry Mancini. Strange that it took me until I'm 36 years old to figure it out. I guess I was in denial. Maybe that's why I hate 80's pop metal with such a passion. The Malmsteens and Satrianis took the twangy bass heavy guitar sounds that I loved from the 60's and turned it into a lame assed shred fest. That whole "I can play faster than you can," crap. My initial interest in New Wave (circa 1980) started with hearing the B-52's Planet Claire which is a direct rip on Mancini's Peter Gunn. It was more primal and basic than the radio candy of at the time, not to mention, all my friends at the time hated the B-52's (a good way to reinforce your own individuality). Maybe this whole new CD will end up being an instrumental surf album. I'll just have to wait and see.

Disc Makers

Sent off the Audio CDR to Disc Makers to have a Quicktime movie added to the new d.A. Sebasstian CD. 10 songs and a movie! Not a bad deal for $13.00. I've also started laying out the song order for an Instrumentals Tribute I'm putting out this spring on Go-Kustom. It's the busy time.