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Headed out last night to check out the Mississippi Ave 2nd Thursday gatherings, which is basically shops open up and there is wine tasting, etc, and some bands playing outside. It wasn’t as big as I expected, but still cool, good to see another part of the city for sure.
After that, headed out the The [...]

Last week, Heidi and I went to The Veranda Lounge at the Pioneer Place Theatre in St. Cloud. The Half Steps were singing. I pulled out the digital camera and recorded them singing “That’s Amore” (think: Dean Martin).

 
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A few years ago I was in a punk band for about 2-3 weeks, and this is one of the songs we learned, after we actually got everyone tuned to the same key.

Really not liking the vocals, should be an octave higher, I didn’t feel like screaming at 4:30 in my apartment though :)
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Well, it has been over a week since I picked up my guitar, and I figured it was time to pull it out. Here is the result of that:

Figured too since I am growing the Paul McCartney beard out, I might as well try to sing like him. :)
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When I am not listening to my music collection, I usually listen to Pandora, using Open Pandora. Now, I know, no ad’s, how does Pandora make money? Well, I would gladly pay 30 bucks a year for this service, the Open Pandora app should be eaten up by Pandora.
Anyway’s, I kept hearing this song [...]

Since everyone thinks I won’t be in Portland long, I figured I would respond the way they would on the Simpson’s, in song.

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As I mentioned in a previous post, I met up with some guys that I met through Craigslist on the musicians forums, and we jammed on Wednesday night.
We met up at Audio Cinema, in the an area full of warehouses on the SE side of Portland. At first I couldn’t find the place, it was [...]

Last night, we headed to the Cheerful Pit Stop in Beaverton, Oregon for some food and it was open mic night. The backup band was 24/7.
I had my guitar, but no strap, but I sang a few songs. “What I Got” by Sublime, “Hound Dog” by Elvis, and “Red House” by Jimi Hendrix.
It was a fun time, [...]

I have listened to Pandora here and there for a while, and it is ok, I just hate having a browser open, and I wanted to integrate my Last.FM profile info and put the song in MSN Windows Live Messenger. Pandora on the web just wasn’t doing it for me.
I heard about Open Pandora a while [...]

Second clip from last night:

 
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