Rain

KISS - War Machine

Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head

Judas Priest - White Heat, Red Hot

Accept. They have been doing quite well with Mark Tornillo. It's also one of the most extraordinary comebacks I can think of (thanks in no small part to Andy Sneap who has a way of rejuvenating those old bands and getting the best out of them). 12 years since that comeback started and they show no sign of slowing down. Although the old classics will always stand, imho, this version of the band released much more consistently good music than the original line up with Udo.

The year I moved into my first appartment all by myself - no roommates, no wife, no permanent gf. I wrote quite a bit of music that year, although for some reason I don't remember working with Sonar 2 , so I must be thinking late 2003. Version 3 is where I felt it really came into its own, with the updated console, the new channel inspector, Speedoft VSampler and the Sonitus plug-ins (I'd been a big fan of the Sonitus bundle from way back in the days of Ultrafunk). At that point, it felt like Cakewalk really was working hard on building my dream DAW. I LOVED that new console.

A triple play (you could call it a chain reaction) Judas Priest (Take These) Chains and Hellbent for Leather and Leather Rebel

Running Wild - Chains and Leather

Alice Cooper - Jacknife Johnny

Motörhead - Lost Johnny

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky

Black Sabbath - Hole in th Sky

Judas Priet - You've Got Another Thing Comin' (I had to, at this point)

Judas Priest - Here Come the Tears. (I may be a bit of a Priest fan)

Judas Priest - Night Comes Down

Agreed!

I've tried letting it hang low like the cool kids but that doesn't work for me. I do seem to like the Les Paul a little bit lower. But these two pics taken + 20 years apart with the same guitar show that, overall, try as I might, I always revert to the same strap length.

Noise Unit - Illicit Dreams

Judas Priest - Living Bad Dreams

Judas Priest - Dreamer/Deceiver

Glad to have you around, my friend.

I had no idea until I read a heartfelt Facebook post by Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) paying tribute to David Crosby. "If I may, I urge anyone reading this to listen to ‘Orleans’ and then ‘Traction on the rain’ from his solo record (‘If I could only remember my name’) from 1971. It’s a few minutes of your time. Perhaps it’s ‘too slow’ for some of you in a time when ‘speed-ed up’ versions of popular songs are a preference to some (what the actual *****!). But take a breath and brace yourselves. " I had to look it up, and I found this. https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/tiktok-sped-up-songs Mind you, I had tons of fun when I was a kid playing LP's and singles at 78 rpm - snare rolls in particular where hilarious. I thought the one in Hound Dog sounded like a fart. But that was just something stupid I did for fun. I loved the songs as they were. But yeah. This is what happens... Me, I have no time for people who have no time for music.

For the sake of being honest, I felt I had to post this here. Last year, I finally started streaming using Apple Music. Quite convenient. That being said, I still buy music - especially CDs that I rip and add to my iTunes library. Since I don't really bother with audio quality unless I'm sitting in my studio, I don't mind streaming when I'm in the gym or elsewhere in the house. This morning however, I really wanted to an album that is NOT available chez Apple. I figured - alright, simple. Connect the iPhone to the Mac, sync and transfer a copy of that album to the phone. That's how it used to work, anyway. Well, not anymore. Once you've bought into that streaming platform, there's no such thing a an easy way to transfer audio files from your computer to your phone. It's one or the other: your curated music collection OR the cloud. Your computer will let you use both local and cloud in conjunction but not your phone. So you either temporarily turn off the cloud and potentially erase everything you've set up or forget about importing music. Since I have experienced my share of disasters when importing music on my iPhone, I really don't trust Apple with this, so I had to forget about it. So yeah, even us Apple fans can hate them at times...

The Clash - London's Burning Seems obvious but I felt like litsening to it...

Tokyo Blade -School House is Burning