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...I cashed in the generous Amoeba Gift Certificate she got for me. I am never able to keeep it within the confines off the gift certificate:
Me and my new friends:
I basically let my CD purchases pile up for about 1/2 a year and then do a mammoth sell-off-what-I-don't-want-and-put-the-rest-in-the-books rampage. The next rampage is currently scheduled for sometime after the holidays.
Hey, I'm 35 today. It's already a pretty good birthday: my wife served me Birthday Breakfast In Bed (a big slice of Boston Cream Pie and a big cup of Hot Tea) and then hooked me up with a sizeable Amoeba Gift Certiificate. Later tonight: Steak.
The title of this particular MOG post is not just a reference to the obvious Beatles tune, but also to those off us MOGgers from back in the Addicted To Noise/SonicNet Daily Music News days. Not just those of us who worked there, but any off you who may have been regular readers as well.
I was an intern and then a contributing editor for many years but for the, like, almost 2 years I toiled away in the office with fellow MOGers Michael Goldberg, David Hyman and Nick Tangborn ((i'm sure there are others from the SF office around here, I just haven't stumbled upon 'em yet) -- one of my responssabilities was to write the daily birthday profile of whatever musician happened to be born that day. It was always an amazingly ridiculous task: either write a two parargaph career profile of a legend (such as this one of Eric Clapton: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/150083/03271998/clapton_eric.jhtml) or a two paragraph career profile of an artist who was deserving of maybe two sentences at most (such as one that MTV no longer archives about someone from 80s 1 hit wonder Real Life ['Send Me An Angel"]. I basically remember writing that he was born and then spen the next paragaph and a half detailing how many times "Send Me An Angel" had been re-released.)
That's the end of that tangent. On to the next one.
I just started to write a long post about all the great people who came out of thosee ATN/SonicNet days and how they all continue to shape the online music scene be it through working of the big online music sellers or continuing to write amazing stuff, but the interesting thing is that there's way too many to mention without fear of slighting other folks! I can confidently say that without the contributions of fromer ATN/SonicNet staffers/contributors, the following would be very different places or have not-as-great coverage: mtvnews.com, Listen.Com/Rhapsody, Sony Connect, iTunes, c-Net's Mp3.com, Gracenote, Salon, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Vanity Fair and on an on and on.
Here's two really goood articles that mention a lot of the folks I wanted to cover: http://www.hybridmagazine.com/music/0701/goldberg.shtml http://www.rockcritics.com/interview/michaelgoldberg.html
And bring this all back home: turning 35 makes me reflect and one of the things I was reflecting on today was the murder's row of music/internet folk that came out of the sonicnet/ATN cocoon. Like all those actors who appeared in "American Graffiti" without knowing they'd individually go on too such great achievements. It's a good story that should be written someday (and also include somee of the other folks in the "Sillicon Alley NYC"/"16th Street in SF Area That Neveer really Had A Name But Included Nullsoft, ATN/Soncinet and Rhapssody")
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i think a rousing version of happy birthday is in order...unfortunately there is some folly in that and the internet, ah well, a very happy b-day to ya, enjoy it
WOW! Now I understand why this site rocks so hard; I LOVED Addicted To Noise, and was personally devastated when ATN got bought out by MTV, because I knew it would start sucking, since MTV had about as much to do with music, even then, as KFC has to do with good chicken.
Have y'all checked out Wolfgang's Vault ? Specifically, the streaming radio?
The short story that Wolfgang's Vault are all the goodies Bill Grahm tucked away over the years (concert recordings, posrters, tickets, contracts, t-shirts, everything). You can bu or bid on a lot of awesome memorbillia at the site.
As tempting as that is, i've been digging the streaming radio. Super rare live recordings, all pretty high quality-- it skews classic rock, bu i've heard some milees davis and classic blues as well. I'm not one to spend my timee listeniong to classic rock radio, but whoever programmed it really has donee a good job of picking stand out performances, not neccicarily hits.
the little player that pops up gives u the artist name, track title, where it was recorded and what date. you cann also check out the poster of that show and ocassional triva bitss (did u know Bill booked Chicago Transit Authority for four nights at the Fillmore before they even had a record deal?)
anyway, check it out. good stuff.
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vintage vintage vintage! even the new stuff looks vintage! nice link, thanks for posting it. i'll be listening to the stream for some old bluesy hendrixand miles davis, fo sho!
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Oh.. Amoeba... how I miss thee...
Jealous... and wiping up the drool...
nice piles.
we need more posts about piles of things.
forget the music, why did she get to go to BM and you didn't....what a bum deal