Can You Tell Which Drums Are Real?

Earlier this week, I released a new record by Dr. Zoltan Øbelisk called, “Why I Am So Wise, Why I Am So Clever, And Why I Write Such Good Songs…” It contains a 5-minute drum battle against Marco Minnemann, over a bunch of tuplets. Half of the drums were played by Marco on his acoustic [...]

There Is No Competition In The Music Business

Let’s say there are 1,000,000,000 Musicians out there.
That’s a good number that we can all imagine, right? These days it doesn’t seem unlikely that it’s 1 out of 7 people. Maybe it’s even more than that.
For this example, a musician is a person who went through the trouble of acquiring an instrument and [...]

How To Avoid Honking

Some of you may have seen my recent attempt at coining a phrase called Honking.
A “Honker” is an unimaginative artist whose sole purpose for Social Networking is to promote his / her latest CD, Book, Movie, or Live Performance: “honking” obnoxiously like an ugly, fat goose rather than “tweeting” like a pretty little bird. [...]

What Is A Honker?

It’s Official!
Honker: an unimaginative artist whose sole purpose for Social Networking is to promote his / her latest CD, Book, Movie, or Live Performance: “honking” obnoxiously like an ugly, fat goose rather than “tweeting” like a pretty little bird. These perpetrators are responded to by civilized users with a simple “Honk!”
If anyone asks, tell them [...]