Worthless iPhone case!

So this morning is cold and rainy.  I was running in from my car, and out from my hoodie pocket tumbles… yep, my iPhone. Now, when I got my phone back in July, I made sure to pick up a good case for it, since I’m prone to dropping my phones.  I had an Incase case for my last phone (a vx8300), and it was great.  It did its job of protecting the phone when…

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iTunes password required on accessing App Store?

This has been happening the last few days or week maybe that I’ve noticed.  When I open the App Store on my phone, I immediately get prompted for my iTunes password.  I used to only have to enter it when I wanted to download a new app or update.  Does that happen for everyone now? On another note, I miss the “Install all updates” thing.  It’s sort of a pain to have to manually install…

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Thoughts on recording guitar

So, I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m gonna do the guitars for this here thing.  Ideally, I’d record a mic’d up amp for all the guitars.  Unfortunately, that also means having space for an amp and a mic stand to be set up for an extended period of time for consistent sounds between takes (which might be days or weeks apart at this rate!).  I don’t really have all that much space here…

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Four More Drum Tracks!

This is quite exciting.  I’ve now got all but two songs’ drum tracks recorded for the new album.  I went back down to Easter Island Studios in Coxsackie, NY (what a great town name!) on Sunday.  Rick Little (the drummer for Split 2nd Alibi) played on “Drive Me”, “Status Quo”, and “Without You”.  Chris Fisher (from Conehead Buddha and Brian Kaplan Band) pulled double duty, both engineering the session and also playing drums on “Sometimes”. …

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