a $3,000 Egg McMuffin, adventures in wedding music |
The calendar section of my beloved New Yorker magazine has a notice above all the show listings that admonishes: "Musicians lead very complicated lives, it's always best to check scheduled performance...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:19:00 PST |
Paul Simon kind of pisses me off |
And it's not the fucking Princess Leia thing, either- although she just revealed that she was boning Harrison Ford on the set of Empire Strikes Back and that seems a little out of line to me. Anyway, ...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:16:00 PST |
Abbey Road part 3 |
Part 3Compressor clarification from Charlle :" In fact it was the (UA/Teletronix) LA-2A which I chose for the vocals.. The Altec did bass duty. Fairchild for overhead."So, you see, I just make things ...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:20:00 PST |
recording at Abbey Road part 2 |
..">When I recorded my last album, I really hit upon a recording method that works for me. It's very simple; I play acoustic guitar while facing the drummer and we keep it to to 2 or 3 takes of each s...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:53:00 PST |
recording at Abbey Road part one |
I was so excited about recording at Abbey Road, I can’t even begin to tell you. I really expected someone to put the kibosh on the whole thing at some point, like someone from the studio would j...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:38:00 PST |
40 is the new 40, trust me (and Abbey Road content) |
On this historic day in 1968...not very much happened. In fact, I don’t even share my birthday with anybody particularly interesting- Diane Wiest, and I’ve always kind of liked her in "Han...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:00:00 PST |
very, very sad |
The lead singer of my wedding band, Mark, this is his daughter who died Thursday night. I spent yesterday afternoon with him while he cried his eyes out- it was like being in a movie, but it was real....
Posted by Corin Ashley on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:33:00 PST |
new songs, new iMac, new aches, new moon on Monday |
Well, well, well, if it isn't faithful reader. I've been missing you. What's been going on, kids? Lettuce see;The bee (the wee man, miracle child of the universe) is doing great and is just magnificen...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST |
Mike Campbell is the Gene Hackman of guitar |
God, I love both those guys. Mississippi Burning was on last night- it's always on, though, isn't it? Whenever I find that movie on my screen, I just can't sop watching it. Gene Hackman was so intense...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:06:00 PST |
XTC made me laugh right into a pineapple |
Crusing the tiles of the Johnny Foodmaster with my cart with 3 good wheels- those of you in other parts of the world may have very nice super markets, but we've got the friggin' MASTER OF ALL FOOD he...
Posted by Corin Ashley on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:11:00 PST |
