Mr. T loves World of Warcraft

This is completely non-bass related but tons of fun.  This commercial featuring Mr. T promoting World of Warcraft is especially fun for folks familiar with either WoW or the great Mr. T himself.  It’s good to see that he doesn’t take himself too...

Massive blog outage

Blogger, my oh-so-flaky web host, seems to have been down for a good long while tonight, so my apologies to folks trying to access the blog.  I am planning on moving the site to WordPress very soon (maybe in the next few days), which would allow for a lot more...

Matt Heller plays excerpts from Ma Vlast in alternate tuning

Matt Heller filed this blog post under ‘extreme bass-geekdom’ on his blog hellafrisch, and he’s right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt’s post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana’s Ma Vlast. Matt...

Deutsche Grammophon launches online music store today

It’s great to see classical music leaders like Deutsche Grammophon enter the modern age of digital distribution.  Alex Ross wrote a post yesterday highlighting some of the features of this new online store, and I received some correspondence from DG...