Strokers blues jam, awesome night with great music. Nothing with me tonight so far. I might get video before the night is over.

The dangers of spending your birthday at a blues jam.

Here’s some pictures of my time on stage. Thanks Rick for the shots.

Hey Woodshedders, I found and interesting article and video for ya. A company has produced a singing hologram. An artificial performer that does live concerts. The  vocals are designed by Sony.

They don’t need your music any more to make money. They can produce it digitally and even do live concerts, If you can call watching a hologram do a pre-programmed animation with digitally produced vocals playing over loud speakers a live concert.

“Her hair is blue, she dresses like Sailor Moon, and she’ll only appear in concerts via a 3D ‘hologram’. Oh, and did I forget to mention that she’s completely fictional? Created by Crypton Future Media, Hatsune Miku is a virtual singing avatar that you can purchase for your PC and program to play any song you create.”

So now they only need music producers and song writers. The rest can be done on the desktop. Check out the performance.

Nothing can replace live performance with real people. Record companies aren’t about performance or creativity. They are about commerce. If they can cut the musicians and singers out of the loop, they will. The record deals they have now have almost done that. Digital performers are next step for them.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t succeed as a musician. It just means that record companies aren’t the way to go. Besides, as I said before Music Should Be Free.

Check out the full article about holographic performers.

Headin’ out to jam. Working up a few things with the locals. I’ll update more later.