Tim Krekel has died

The great guitar player, singer/songwriter, Tim Krekel, has died.  He played an innovative style of lead guitar on the 12-string.  I opened for him in Betty Dylan, and ever since I saw him play I always had dreams of being successful enough to have Tim Krekel play guitar in my band.

www.myspace.com/timkrekel

Listen to Tim’s now ironically-titled song Casualties, but they are all good.

Also nice to see him on video – great voice!

http://bit.ly/3vysP

Wyclef Jean Video #140conf

I edited a series from #140conf for Macala Wright.  These segments feature Wyclef Jean:

1)  This clip will make you love Wyclef.  ”There’s a happy side to these kids,” he says in reference to poor children.  He knows that you have to build on something positive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8TwCt8lTw

2)  ”You make it (Twitter) your own world,” says Wyclef Jean, explaining that the value is in the quality of the relationships.  There are ways to find all kinds of resources within your own community.  Wyclef became known as “The Twitter Police,” because the community is self-policing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MarketingFashion#play/uploads/8/MOFGSHVqP58

3)  Here Wyclef Jean explains that the record label doesn’t have enough time to promote all the singles, but the fans do.  ”A record compay ain’t gonna have no time…so that the fans are doing this…so through Twitter we have built our own street team online called the Warriors.”

http://www.youtube.com/user/MarketingFashion#play/uploads/5/P_FzhEXfaEs

100 Hours: Dan Dubelman & Sally Boyden

Dan Dubelman and Sally Boyden

I have been collaborating with Sally Boyden, the great Australian singer, on a multi-media project.  I am planning to post more photos and music soon.

The Geithner Plan

Loan money to “investors” so they can buy undervalued companies? What if the properties are not undervalued? The rich gambling with tax $?

“MR. GREGORY:  Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate, New York Times columnist, been very critical of this plan.  He and others have said this is effectively a transfer of wealth from the banks’ balance sheets to the government’s balance sheets. A bailout for the banks, trash for cash.  You’ve heard all of these terms. And in fact, Krugman writes in a column last Sunday that your approach is very similar to your predecessor’s in the Bush administration, Hank Paulson.  This is what he writes.  I want to have you respond to it:  “The common element to the Paulson and Geithner plans is the insistence that the bad assets on banks’ books are really worth much, much more than anyone is currently willing to pay for them.  In fact, their true value is so high that if they were properly priced, banks wouldn’t be in trouble.  And so the plan is to use taxpayer funds to drive the prices of bad assets up to `fair’ levels.  Mr. Paulson proposed having the government buy the assets directly.  Mr. Geithner instead proposes a complicated scheme in which the government lends money to private investors, who then use the money to buy the stuff.  …  The Geithner scheme would offer a one-way bet:  if asset values go up, the investors profit, but if they go down,” and again, these are all mortgage backed, “the investors can walk away from their debt.  So this isn’t really about letting markets work. It’s just an indirect, disguised way to subsidize purchases of bad assets.” Respond, please.”

Read The MSNBC Geithner Plan Article

Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$)

NIN.  Amazing video about the near future.

ARG games become ways to connect directly with fans.  ARG becomes Art.

Artist will be able to make money using online tools to create ARG games.

Robert Palmer

Robert Palmer was one of the great singers.

Sneakin Sally Through The Alley

John Lennon and Paul Simon

These kids are so crazy.  Watch the end with Art…

 

Freddie King

This is great guitar playing, and I don’t care what you say

Malcolm X

If you think Obama is a great speaker, then take seven minutes and listen to this:

From the Oxford Union Debate…have you ever really listened to Malcolm X speak?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmzaaf-9aHQ&feature=related

Magic Sam

Jimmy Page, Clapton, Jeff Beck and then Stevie Ray were heavily influenced by Magic Sam.