Yes John. I try to back up everything, but a lot of times I just forget. I try to plug in my phone to my computer and it automatically backs up. The computer is backed up by an online service, but takes days to reload. All of it just bothers me. the fact that we are SO tied to everything electronic. If something were to happen, terrorists hit vital points, we have an overall technology breakdown, we are all sunk. Every place we shop, suddenly has millions of hacking problems. Home Depot just a few days ago.
Tina deals with it first hand. DIEBOLD, the company she works for are the largest producers of ATM machines in the world. Security is one of the biggest issues they deal with. The second they get another model out there with new hard and software, there are thousands of people trying to find ways to break into them. It seems we spend most of our time trying to defend against criminal acts.
All just wears me out to a point of exhaustion.
One of the main reasons I like to come here is we can talk about things I enjoy, music and helping people instead of dealing with all of this other garbage. It is why I like it when you guys start asking questions are starting discussions. Somethings I can't help with. The Band in a Box deal because I have never used that and approach recording very differently than most of you.
Yesterday was a lot of fun. Disecting the ways songs work and don't work is pretty naturally to me. Being an entertainer all my life, I kind of have a good handle on what works with the listening public. So being asked to illustrate some songs, like Phil did, helps me do what I do best. I love that.
Technology drives me out of my mind because I don't assimilate information that way. You find that a lot in creative people. They absorb information in different ways. What might seem very simple to many people, math, tech stuff, comes very difficultly to me. What is very hard for some people, public interaction, dealing with music and the various CRAFT sections is pretty much like falling off a log for me. A lot of people can't do that at all.
Losing the current batch of songs is not that bad for me, because I have another weird thing I can do. I generally can look at a lyric I have written, and if I have just a little bit of time, can pretty much recall the whole thing. Not the lyrics by memory, but I could probably find my way through almost every song I have ever written. I don't have TOTAL recall, but I do have pretty good recall. Doesn't mean I can go out and perform every one of those songs, but I can find my way through them.
And a lot of my co-writers have recorded them at the same time. (AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, ISN'T IT RIDAWN!!!!) So I will be able to deal with that.
But the constant demands technology makes on us is pretty depressing sometimes. It has connected all of us, yet disconnected us at the same time.
Enough of my Rant. Let';s get back to Music. Phil, did you have something else you wanted me to do?
MAB