{"id":1043,"date":"2007-03-17T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2007-03-18T01:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T07:21:34","slug":"more-thoughts-from-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts from SxSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1043\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>    Man, I still love music. I even like music that was created in the past year. Some of the stuff we had cross our ears in Austin, well&#8230; perhaps I&#8217;ve moved over that line into being an old fuddy duddy. I still think I can recognize good music no matter what era or genre (I&#8217;m a little dense on rap though). There just seems to be a lot of junk.<\/p>\n<p>The SxSW Live program was somewhat diverse and had a few good moments. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annualsmusic.com\/\">Annuals<\/a> (or caution, their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/annuals\">MySpace link<\/a>) double drummer space fest caught my attention. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kraaksmaak.com\/\">Kraak and Smaak<\/a> did a great set of music too. Rudy Deluca is much better without Kiefer Sutherland. Pete Townsend is a great accompanist. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzcocks.com\/site\/index.html\">The Buzzcocks<\/a> have earned their name.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that &#8220;Dub&#8221; is a Jamacian word for &#8220;I will require more patch cables, mon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevinberkline\/417166336\/\">Spree&#8217;s 25 Billy Joe Armstrong body doubles<\/a> was interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know that I hate people who pimp out children, especially parents.<\/p>\n<p>The favorite drum kit was a vintage Ludwig, the favorite bass amp (for the bands, not the sound mixers) was an Ampeg SVT Classic with an 8&#215;10, the favorite guitar amp was a tie between the Vox AC-30 and the Fender Deluxe reverb and the favorite band accessory was a female red head (ok, some of them were talented and cute, but every other band had a one in a dress and most of them were girls!)<\/p>\n<p>I know that TV has nothing to do with reality but it takes a lot of real people to make it seem that way.<\/p>\n<p>All the things I wasnted to see here happened in the same building but I never got to get away. I wanted to see Gilberto Gil&#8217;s keynote and missed David Byrne&#8217;s panel (covered below)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/03\/17\/david_byrne_who_need.html\">David Byrne: Who needs music labels?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s nearly over.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Toby and Johnny Lord for making this such a good work experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I still love music. I even like music that was created in the past year. Some of the stuff we had cross our ears in Austin, well&#8230; perhaps I&#8217;ve moved over that line into being an old fuddy duddy. I still think I can recognize good music no matter what era or genre (I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,10,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-gP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}