Trax!

Bones Writer of Trax

There is a reason I put an exclamation point on the title of this one .    A few weeks ago Freestar  Tammas IM’d me and said “hey have your heard about this place called Trax?”  They really should be on Tonight Live you know”.   So I went over there  and I got to meet Tangle Giano  the not so silent parter of Bones Writer (Pictured Above)  and she proceeded to take me on a voice tour.  Needless to say I was impressed!  I advise any Venue owner, Fan, and of course Musician to go to Trax Live Music Resource Center   .. meet with Bones or Tangle and spend a little time with two of the nicest people you will ever meet,  who are  also very dedicated to the advancement of  Live music in SL.

Just some of what they do there…  Produce Hosted Streamed CD’s that play high quality  MP3  directly to your land or PC  that you can also  have a copy of  the music in RL when you buy a CD..  They distribute these Cd’s thru the Trax Cd stores and CD Vendors.. ( I have one setup at The Pocket   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fendahl/191/53/22  ).    Listening booths  that fans and venue owners can go to and listen to samples of up to threee trax of each  of the around 100 SL Live Artist’s currently featured.  Excellent educational videos and tutorials that Bones and Tangle have put together including  a place to test streams  and  just get setup for gigging in SLl.. (especially useful if you don’t own any land to stream on).  They even have tutorials on how to ninjam and  a server that you can use to try it out!  All of the educational stuff is free and the booth and stream rentals are very reasonably priced.. as far as I can see they are  pretty much trying to just cover their costs.   If you know someone who is interested in performing in SL.. I highly advise you send them there!  If you know an artist who already performs in sl and is not with them yet..  I would let them knwo about this.. and of course if your a venue owner looking for more artists.. this is an unbeatable resource!  They even have links to each artists calendar in the booths so you can see if they would fit your schedule b4 you even talk to them.  Also for Venue owners you can get lisited there by categorie for Musicans and Fns to find you!   Great Stuff!  Tangle and Bones ..I wish you the best of luck.

Oh and my SL bosslady…  Paisley Beebe.  She has a new “Best of” CD out and its the vendor!  Check it out.

Best of Paisley Beebe CD Cover

Trax   http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trax/134/128/27

Woops wrong window/IM

We all do it.. we all get them.. After a sudden burst of energy this morning..I decided to go thru my chat log and find some mistaken IMs.. I probably found over 100 of them so Ill do this post in several installments. Some of the names have been changed to JOHN or JANE DOE for obvious reasons.. TO PROTECT THE GUILTY! Enjoy..

Delinda Dyrssen: hey Cell

Delinda Dyrssen: great show today.. the part that went ok

Delinda Dyrssen: cant blame you for SL troubles…

Arianwen Mercy: ??

Arianwen Mercy: lol

Delinda Dyrssen: oh wrong IM

Delinda Dyrssen: sorry

Arianwen Mercy: rofl

Arianwen Mercy: its ok

Arianwen Mercy: giggles

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John Doe: how are you my luscious one?

John Doe: you must be busy you usual I wanted to say hi right away

John Doe: sorry Belinda wrong window hope you are well

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AutumnFoxx Sutherland: *stupid tooth

AutumnFoxx Sutherland: and ffs wrong window sorry del

Delinda Dyrssen: ouch

AutumnFoxx Sutherland: didn’t mean to bug you sorry.. i have an infected tooth

AutumnFoxx Sutherland: just hurts like hell

Delinda Dyrssen: sends huggz and anbasol

AutumnFoxx Sutherland: waits

AutumnFoxx Sutherland: Oops wrong window

AutumnFoxx Sutherland: lol

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Frew Lovenkraft: the other side of the river is the second sim

Frew Lovenkraft: wrong window, sorry

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Elise Rodenberger: o o o that is cooool, go have a look, are there ppl on the street near u ?

Elise Rodenberger: oops w,wrong window, sorry

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Dammit Dawg: pawn shop

Dammit Dawg: srry wrong window.

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bigwalter1957 Drut: there u are \

bigwalter1957 Drut: where are u

Delinda Dyrssen: lol

bigwalter1957 Drut: wrong im sorry \

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cre8tivefemme Chemistry: sorry eric …. ilost it i had to go

Delinda Dyrssen: ?

cre8tivefemme Chemistry: ahh sorry young lad asking advice and i hit wrong one …. again sorry have a great night

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Delinda Dyrssen: lets go race around her sim make up a course for her?

Delinda Dyrssen: oh wrong IM

Delinda Dyrssen: lol

Enniv Zarf: hehe…np

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Fiery8702 Tomsen: yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fiery8702 Tomsen: oops wrong window

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John Doe: hey Beth !!!

Delinda Dyrssen: no.. Im Delinda

John Doe: oops wrong im

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Delinda Dyrssen: which island?

Freestar Tammas: huh?

Delinda Dyrssen: oops wrong im

Delinda Dyrssen: lol

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Jane Doe: hello Ms Deg…came on for business related issues…not alone

Delinda Dyrssen: ?

Jane Doe: i am meeting with my management team in about five minutes, and my husband is here in rl….fyi, i am not in a private situation….that’s all:)

Jane Doe: lmao

Delinda Dyrssen: oh ok..np I didnt know anything about a meeting

Jane Doe: wrong window lol

Delinda Dyrssen: lol

Jane Doe: hi!

Jane Doe: ahhhhh

Jane Doe: hehe

Delinda Dyrssen: np

Jane Doe: lmao…your name is spelled just like another friend lol

Jane Doe: so sorry babe:)

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Delinda Dyrssen: ok brixton just sent bio and pic

Delinda Dyrssen: oh I didnt get the texture can you send again please?

Delinda Dyrssen: ok you should have both of brixtons items

Delinda Dyrssen: bio and a texture

Nekololi Woodget: 4 what?

Delinda Dyrssen: oh wrong IM

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Jojamela Soon: I do love how recognizable it is, the texture is excellent

Jojamela Soon: oops

Delinda Dyrssen: ?

Jojamela Soon: wrong window lol

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Noma Falta: look at the one that says jessica

Delinda Dyrssen: ?

Delinda Dyrssen: oh wrong IM huh?

Noma Falta: oph im sorry

Noma Falta: yes another delinda lol

Noma Falta: two delinda’sgrr

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Pakito Crimson: creo q es solo tips…es una especie de OPEN MIC

Pakito Crimson: Habia tocado aqui hace tiempo… me han visto conectado y me han preguntado si podia tocar

Delinda Dyrssen: no habla espanol

Pakito Crimson: sorry..wrong window

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Jane Doe: if i was really with you right now……i would be all over you….kissing your, rubbing you, tearing off your clothes….

Jane Doe: just so ya know

Jane Doe:

Delinda Dyrssen: omg

Delinda Dyrssen: wrong IM?

Jane Doe: ooops

Jane Doe: shit

Jane Doe: lol

Delinda Dyrssen: lol

Jane Doe: sorry

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John Doe: ok baby my wife will be leaving for work in a few minuets then you an come over to my real house and we will have about 6 hours together

Delinda Dyrssen: ???? what?

John Doe: opps wrong IM

John Doe: please don’t tell anyone

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Jane Doe: shall we go to my home or yours

Jane Doe: sorry wrong im lol

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The following IMs were seen in a group chat with over 4000 members..

Jane Doe: cum for me quicky before i go

Jane Doe: as you feel my tongue

Titanium Paperclip: no thanks

Abigail Republic: um

Delinda Dyrssen: ??

Tpenta Vanalten: did you realy mean to post that here?

AnnieBlue Octavia dies laughing

Love Holiday: lol too funny

Celestria Henly: O.o

Love Holiday: lil to sexy in here

Satin Galli: wonders what she’s playing

Tpenta Vanalten: I’m guessing wrong chat

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John Doe: hehe wild

John Doe: but very fun i think

Jane Doe: I don’t know if there are free ones to use here or not

Jane Doe: Some places have free ones to use while you are on their land

John Doe: oops sorr wrong window

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John Doe: viel zu gross fuer gewisse Ausfluege

John Doe: stares at the definitely wrong window and murmurs an apology

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Bernan Pashinin: Jeez, I was just writing you a long email!…

Bernan Pashinin: OOps, wrong window (damn)

Delinda Dyrssen: oh I was waiting for the next part!

Sienna Pinklady: cliffhanger

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Wolffe Lancaster: hey how about live music ? into that?

Wolffe Lancaster: oops wrong window

Nippy Moonites: use the postion thingy

Nippy Moonites: you can enter absolute numbers for position

Nippy Moonites: up the object tab

Nippy Moonites: in the editor

Nippy Moonites: enter the xoordinates

MincedMedia Clip: Okay, wrong window, I’ll wager

CapnJac Blazer: thats a good Bet ill have some of that lol

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Pato Milo: hello~

Pato Milo: no, wrong window

Pato Milo: sorry

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Leah Shikami: How’s it going?

Leah Shikami: me too, but I’m totally stuck.

Leah Shikami: I am so close!

Leah Shikami: Did you find all the shards?

Leah Shikami: ?

Leto Albatros: wrong window leah

Leah Shikami: sorry!

Leto Albatros: lol

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Truelie Telling: hope it’s more like the old San Fran than the current

Truelie Telling: whoops… wrong window

Ophelia Loon: lol true not me for change typing wrong window

Truelie Telling: who here doesn’t? you kin throw that first stone…

Ophelia Loon: lol i have hugged everyone in group

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Robert69 Little: hea baby.. wendys playing… want to go?

Robert69 Little: opps

Delinda Dyrssen: lol wrong IM huh Robert?

Annasue Barzane: lol

Robert69 Little: yep…lol

Pannie Paperdoll: aw damn, thought he was inviting me

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Tracy Serra: nice to meet you Orobin

Tracy Serra: i can

Tracy Serra: yeo… loud and clear;)

Tracy Serra: *yes

Leyah Renegade: hey Tracy I think you’re in the wrong IM window

Tracy Serra: ears? i guess

Tracy Serra: sry

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More to come soon.. I hope I didn’t upset anyone all in good fun.

Tonight Live..another fun show this week

Mifune Rezzed some of his planes on stage .. Max and Dolomere did a song Max just wrote on a piggyback stream live and Drift Monde talked about the oldest Live Music Venue in Second Life..

http://www.slcn.tv/tonight-live-paisley-beebe

Come as an avatar – leave as a human being

“Come as an avatar – leave as a human being. Dare you become Homo Sapiens V2.0?” This is what the producers of The Rings are challenging us to do. I would say that after experiencing this full all original “Rock Opera” with a very powerful message and wonderful music (by the same people who did The Wall V.2 in SL ), at the very least you will be left in awe of what can be accomplished in a live performance using all the tools SL currently has to offer. I almost did not post a picture because they really dont do justice to a performance but here s one anyways.. below is some PR they have sent out and Ill pass along…

The Rings

The Rings is virtual reality’s first protest rock opera. It has grown over months from new forms of international artistic collaboration. The new show is created by the CARP/Diabolus team of international artists as a follow up to the successful The Wall. Music has been specially written and composed for the show. There are spectacular images and effects and a team of live performers.

The Rings celebrates the miracle of the Metaverse. It asks – is this where humanity can at last unite? Can we overcome the force that pushes us towards global destruction and blames victims for the pain they feel? It reminds us that we can be guided towards optimistic action by great humanists and philosophers.

There will be regular performances on Fridays and Sundays at 2pm SLT. After some performances there will be Rings discussion circles, involving campaign organisations active in Second Life.

A new camera system has been developed to focus audience views in special scenes on closeups of the action. Arrive early to get a seat the sim has been filling up fast for the first few shows so far.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/NMC%20Labs/128/128/2

Rock The Vote!

Kieko sent me this and wants to let you all know! make sure you go out and Vote!

more on the 9.11 memorial about halfway thru this CNN video

http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=dom&vid=/video/ireports/2008/09/12/ireport.weekly.9.12.cnn

for some reason I cant imbed video here.. im not sure what im doing wrong..   oh well Ill figure it out eventually.

9.11 memorial

Saluting Marine at SL 9.11 Memorial

Recently I was asked by my friend Bellissima Benneli of Regent Estates in Second Life to help out with a memorial event in Second life. I said yes I would be honored to help out and after meeting with the Regent Estates staff and Melody Regent it was decided that I would help with assigning people to read the names of people who died in the attacks and to do some PR on the event itself. I had no Idea how successful this event would be and I have to say the staff of Regents Estates, all of the people who read, and the attendees and the media “thank You” you were all a pleasure to work with. Thank you all for being involved and letting me be involved with such an important event in RL and SL. Im running out of time to post here right now but I will put up one pic and a couple of links.

Podmafia on the event

CNN Ireport

Sl newspaper

Nikas Video on you tube

Noma Faltas Tornado

Friday Night at The Pocket  the music was great as usual..  but then at the end of the show.. Noma being the last one on Stage  I asked her if she could show off the Tornado  shes been rezzing all over SL this week ( Just couldn’t help myself its so much fun to get sucked up in it..( although I do respect the danger and feel for those in RL who have been harmed by these things)  anyways with about 40 avatars in the sim.. she summoned one up and about half the people in the area eventually were sucked up into it for a free spinning ride in the winds unlike anything else on SL.  Thank you Noma!  You Rock.. Warrior Princes of The Blues and Winds!

Dont worry .. no one was injured in this one

Jamm for Genes in SL a great success!

Jamm for Genes went off as planned on Friday Aug 1 with few changes in the lineup of live artists for the 24 hours as planned and ended up stretching to 26 hours in total with a grand total amount of $612,482Lindens raised. Jamm for Genes SL 2008 is now officially over however if you would like to donate to Jamm for Genes which is still going on in the real world as of this posting you can go to the Jeans for Genes website

A huge thank you and group hug to all the artists, volunteers and our sponsors  Music Academy Online,  Sleepy Engineers, and  Sailors Cove Theater. Now for your enjoyment.. some video of Ohmy Kidd performing at the live event…

Jamm for Genes

Jamm fo Genes Poster