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Little Feat - Dixie Chicken

The Cure - Piggy in the Mirror

Jane's Addiction - Pigs in Zen

Nine Inch Nails - All the Pigs, All Lined Up

Black Sabbath - Hot Line

Triumph - Lay It On The Line (I probably posted it before but, there...)

That's great insight, Kenny. And valid points. Honestly, I've not worked with Acid in over 2 decades, so I really wouldn't know. Amusingly the last time I used it was to write music for a short documentary. I'd written 5 of the 6 pieces of music in Cakewalk Pro Audio and still needed a little filler fo some inconsequential part - didn't really need to be musical. So I quickly put a little something together in Acid and then sent it for review along with the rest. They loved that bit so much that they asked me to redo the whole thing more like that one. To be delivered the next day before noon. And I'd already pulled an all-nighter the night before, so it took a lot of coffee, but by 8 the next morning I was done. That was in 2000, I was still on a dial-up modem. It literally took hours to upload those songs to a shared storage space. But they had all the songs on the drive just before noon and were super happy with them. I thought they were a bunch of philistines, preferring that junk over the stuff I'd put my heart into - but the paycheck was nice. lol But yeah - Acid saved the day.

Spent a week in the ICU a few years back, intubated, which messed up my voice and brought it down a bit. Not quite as low as that gentleman, but still lower than it was before. My (ex)wife HATED it for some reason - but other ladies LOVE it. Me, I thought it was amusing, so I went ahead and recorded a little poem by Baudelaire for fun.

The Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy

Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein

Alice Cooper - Teenage Lament '74

Lenny Kravitz - Black Velveteen

Sound Forge was one of my favorite pieces of software, back in the days of Sonic Foundry. The developers were very active on the web, and participated in the old Cakewalk newsgroup. I seem to remember a nice fellow named Peter Haller (?) - that may have been during the early Sony days, though. I kind of missed Sound Forge when I switched to Mac but when it was eventually ported, I 'd found an alternative, and did not really have a use for an audio editor all that much anyway. Glad I did not buy it because they seem to have discontinued that Mac version. Didn't know Acid still was being developped. As revolutionary as it was when it came out, with looping available in every DAW, I'm not sure what's its place in the current market. The advertised regular price tag seems beyond ridiculous.

Yeah, different type of environment. It was quite a shock for me when I started hanging out in places where DJ's had pre-established playlists from which they did not deviate much and were so focused on the BPM of their songs. Me I had to entertain people from 9-10 pm to 3 am, and I did that 4-5 nights a week, sometimes more. But you never knew what you were in for until the evening hit its stride. An evening might start with Django Reinhardt and end with Front Line Assembly. Really. The clientele was just that diverse, and although people did dance at times, it might to Violent Femme and Bob Marley one night and Ministry the next. The only thing you could be sure of is that at least one girl would ask for Closer, by Nine Inch Nails. Every night. For years.

Cheap Trick - Dream Police

On behalf of Steve: The Clash - Police and Thieves

Ministry - Thieves (lyrics "Inside, outside, which side, you don't know") It had been a while and I really felt like listening to it. A staple of my DJ days.

The Cure - A Man Inside My Mouth

Faith No More - Mouth to Mouth

Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby

Last night's picks. Both quite interesting.

For the first decade of the 2000's, I had a job as part of workforce management, and the last few years, for a company with an office in the US. That was my first glimpse at how big the Superbowl is. A lot of folks planned that months in adavance when they submitted vacation request for the year ahead. I was surprised to see how huge it was. Some were pretty blunt about it too, and they'd tell me that if their request for that Monday off was to be declined, they would call in sick. Although it was a really bad idea to be "sick" on that day, as it looked really suspicious.

Sorry your team lost, brother. I don't watch football but if I were to, I guess I would have rooted for the Eagles, being from the east coast up north and all.

Alice Cooper - Fresh Blood

Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils