11/8/2024 Though I didn`t know America was going to elect a convicted felon to be its next President when I scheduled this week`s release, I`ve got a couple of really great songs this week written by the late Pete Ham of the band Badfinger that are a little bit on the money: "Take It All" and "The Name Of The Game" from their highly underrated Straight Up album which remains a favorite to this day. The live piano-and-voice version of Take It All was enough to get it done but I added an acoustic guitar track to The Name Of The Game recording and did a little hocus-pocus on the piano track to do justice to the great vocal take.
These two tracks and all of the No Muse tracks from this series were mastered and fine tuned by Tom Waltz of Waltz Mastering but Tom put a little extra love into The Name Of The Game that put it over the line. If you are familiar with either of these songs I think you'll enjoy them immensely and if they are new to you then you should immediately go buy the Badfinger album Straight Up and thank me later.
For more info, check www.NoMuseIsBadNews.com . Also checkout the No Muse Is Bad News, Vol. 5 page at DistroKid .
Booking for live appearances soon. Stay tuned.
Beep, boop, boup. Yes. This does nothing but generate annoying test tones.
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"But, why? The world is annoying enough!". Thats`s true, especially when it is distorted. And I don`t mean idiots distorting the truth, though they are certainly annoying (and counter productive), I`m referring to distortion you hear when you are listening or playing music through speakers. It can be difficult to isolate the distortion on liars but for audio systems (i.e. speakers), test tones can help you quickly isolate problems.
The ST Oscillator (tone generator) is free and reqires no installation but will generate sine waves (tones), square waves, triangle waves and saw-tooth waves at frequencies from 20Hz to 20kHz.
Note - Set the volume low before turning on your speakers and Un-muting. It can be loud.
The Sound Pads panel lets you trigger/play built in drum and percussion sounds on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.
The buttons play softer near the edges.
The StecTools Budget Calculator is a simple page for comparing profits and costs for things like musical events.
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Anyone who has worked doing live music knows that it is next to impossible to earn a living wage from it. Though I don't have some magic solution, I did put together this simple online tool to help you find ways to improve your profitability. You might use the tool to determine how many seats you need to fill for everyone to get paid for instance.
The tool has two main sections: an Expenses section and an Income section. Expenses might include the cost to rent a hall or pay for each of the musicians and other staff. Income includes ticket sales as well as things like merchandise or sponsors. As you change the values in each of the fields the tool automatically recalculates the total income, the total expenses and the overall total (income minus expenses). By dropping different numbers into the quantity field of for tickets for instance, you can see where the breakeven point is for number of tickets verses the ticket price. You know that you will have to fill less seats if the ticket price is high enough but knowing exactly how high is useful information.
Check out my Road Trip album on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music and almost 20 other stores or my dazzling Road Trip console.
All of the songs from the Road Trip album are now available as separate [audio] videos on my "Bob Sellon" YouTube channel.
Music by Bob Sellon and friends. Features drums by Frank Sarcia (owner and operator of Port City Laundry), guitar by Ken Shano (Big City Wedding Band) , bass guitar by Jim Fabiano and piano, vocals, guitars and brass by Bob (me).
My online metronome lets you set the tempo, choose a sound, set the reverb level and to save different settings for quick recall. Check here for more info or go directly to the metronome here.
Beginning October 11th I'll be doing weekly releases of songs from the 2015 No Muse Is Bad News shows beginning with a series of solo performances of myself on piano/keyboards and vocal. Stay Tuned.
We're taking Road Trip LIVE! For several months I've been working with some great musicians to bring the Road Trip album to the stage and may be doing appearances as soon as September 2024. Stay tuned.
People keep telling me they see ufos on my web site but I don't believe them. Ow.