No Muse Is Bad News Vol. 8 because I love you
11/28/2024
First of all, if it's Thursday November 28th 2024 that you're viewing this, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Sorry, did I yell? happy thanksgiving.
I have a couple of great tunes for you this week that can both be traced back to the amazing Harry Nilsson: "Let The Good Times Roll" and "Gotta Get Up". Harry didn't write Good Times Roll (that was Shirley Goodman/Pixley and Leonard Lee) but I was much influenced by Harry's version so mine is effectively a cover of a cover. "Gotta Get Up" is, of course, one of Harry's and a great one at that, opening his Nilsson Schmilsson album which also contains the aforementioned song about good times and how they might, you know, roll.
See my Vol. 8 page for more.
For more info, check www.NoMuseIsBadNews.com . Also checkout the No Muse Is Bad News, Vol. 8 page at DistroKid .
The Bob Sellon Band
Booking for live appearances soon. Stay tuned.
Tone Generator
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.
ST Sound Pads
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.
Check Your Numbers
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.
Road Trip
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.
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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).
ST Metronome
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.
No Muse Is Bad News Vol. 1
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.
Road Trip - Live!
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.
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Sitings (site-ings?)
People keep telling me they see ufos on my web site but I don't believe them. Ow.
