Agent Adam

Hey again,

Check out the last post for the context of this one.

If I keep the blog I mentioned, I'll hopefully be adding all my good vox friends to the links on the new one. I've added a a few of you already.

www.agmuir.wordpress.com

check it out!

Hey Vox friends,

As many of you know, I've been slightly frusterated in the lack of commenting abilities here at Vox.

Vox told me years ago they were working on public commenting, I assume now that it isn't happening.

I'm toying with the idea of making my new one at Wordpress. Wordpress allows people who are not signed up with that particular blog to still comment, as long as they have an email!    Correction: Email is not even necessary. 

I've copied over one post from here to www.agmuir.wordpress.com to play with designs and layouts.

Check it out AND COMMENT! (Because you can)

-Adam

I posed  and arranged these pictures in  Garry's Mod, using the  Team Fortress 2 environment. The scout is sitting on rockets fired from the sentry (a little hard to see).

Sorry friends and guests, Vox doesn't let you comment.

Hey team,

Here's what I'm thinking for our "Guest Commenting, Please" group.

When the group reaches a good size, I have a few humorous petitions in the making that (hopefully) every member can take & copy to their blog; creating simultaneous blasts in the voxosphere with a unanimous message.

The group is still growing. Let's see how many more we can recruit!

Mention it to your vox friends & post to the group! 

-Adam

p.s. I'm coining the term voxosphere ;)

http://weloveguests.groups.vox.com/

Dear Vox friends,

I haven't posted anything in a REALLY long time.

It's not because I haven't thought of things to write, but my house has been under siege since a group of vikings discovered I have a stash of ham in my fridge.

Viking

To those of you who know me personally: Please don't leave a comment that will show the previous statement to be utter deceit.

The other reason why I haven't been posting is that "I can't get no satisfaction" from Vox's current commenting setup. While I truly love the neighbourhood setup, I can't understand why anonymous, guest commenting is still unavailable.

This is a typical feature of most blogs, and many of my friends refuse to read my blog since they now know they are an excluded group of individuals. Should they actually want to comment, they must take the time to make an account which they will probably never use again.

Guests

I don't know whether Vox hasn't initiated this because they are having problems 'developing' it, or whether they think it's a bad idea, but if you support this desire please join the Guest Commenting group at

http://weloveguests.groups.vox.com.

-Adam

I saw this while having breakfast this morning and it made my day.

Enjoy!

An accident. A group of friends. Musical glory.

A few weeks ago I bought the repackaged collection of the Traveling Wilburys, as well as dvd footage of the recording of the album.
I haven't stopped listening since.

Handle with care

In 1988, after George Harrison's solo album, Cloud Nine, he was asked to record a B-side to add sales value to the record. It is said he was 'hanging out' with friends, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and Roy Orbison, and thought he might as well use the talents at hand to knock off the B-side.
However, when Handle With Care, was completed George Harrison and his producers agreed that this would be an offense to the universe [my choice of words here] to be put on some B-side.

This is truly a 'super group'. However, it is different from nearly every other supergroup, including those outside of the music industry, since it was not formed for money, fame or even efficiency; but for joy in music and friendship.

Writing in the house

Within the dvd footage, the comment was made that it was spectacular to see what is considered one of the best vocalists (Roy Orbison) standing next to, and working with one of the best lyricists (Bob Dylan).

Tom Petty makes another comment which made me laugh, and clearly demonstrates the underlying tone of this group. Since all members sang various pieces of the songs, George Harrison would 'audition' the members, to see who did the best, and where. His comment concerned having to sing after Roy Orbison, and the intimidation that that follows! 

Petty:  "We used to say to Roy, 'Roy, you must be the best singer in the world', and he would say '...yeah...' ".

There were no egos flying here folks, these were friends having fun.

To further demonstrate the relaxed tone to this album, it was not recorded in a studio with the latest technology available. The songs were written by everyone in a living room, the guitars were recorded in a kitchen, and the vocals in a makeshift studio of closet size, in the same house.

Sadly, Roy Orbison died shortly after the albums release, and thus disc 2 ( titled Volume 3), has one less Wilbury. Watch the End of the Line video, they have Roy Orbison's guitar in a rocking chair to represent him. 

These audio files are snippets from the free Traveling Wilbury Podcast available at their website. The first is the making of 'Dirty World' (very funny), the second is about the making of 'Rattled', and finally the third is Tom Petty talking about his experiences in the band.

Michael Palin of Monty Python was asked to create a history of the 'Traveling Wilburys'. This is also from the Traveling Wilbury's website; try to read it in a English accent, it makes it funnier.

Michael Palin

The original Wilburys were a stationary people who, realizing that their civilization could not stand still forever, began to go for short walks - not the “traveling”, as we now know it, but certainly as far as the corner and back. They must have taken to motion, in much the same way as penguins were at that time taking to ledges, for the next we hear of them they were going out for the day (often taking lunch or a picnic). Later, we don't as yet know how much later, some intrepid Wilburys began to go away for the weekend, leaving late Friday and coming back Sunday. It was they who evolved simple rhythmic forms to describe their adventures.

A remarkable sophisticated musical culture developed, considering there were no managers or agents, and the further the Wilburys traveled the more adventurous their music became, and the more it was revered by the elders of the tribe who believed it had the power to stave off madness, turn brunettes into blondes and increase the size of their ears.

As the Wilburys began to go further and further in their search for musical inspiration they found themselves the object of interest among many less developed species - nightclub owners, tour operators and recording executives. To the Wilburys, who had only just learnt to cope with wives, roadies and drummers, it was a blow from which many of them never recovered.

A tiny handful survived - the last of the Traveling Wilburys - and the songs gathered here represent the popular laments, the epic and heroic tales, which characterize the apotheosis of the elusive Wilbury sound. The message of the music travels, as indeed they traveled and as I myself must now travel for further treatment. Good listening, good night and let thy Wilbury be done . . .

The Traveling Wilburys

My peculiar Aristocratic title is:

 

Adams crest

His Noble Excellency Adam the Scattered of Lesser Wobbleton

 

I saw this on Mike E's Vox and I like the way it sounds! I think I'm going to use it in a later post.