"...the Live Music Archive...is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. Artists' commercial releases are off-limits."
Incredible selection of live bootleg, all legal. The "lossless" format is best quality-wise, but songs are 25-30 mb each, making one concert as much as a gig. Try "Browse bands with MP3/Ogg versions" to download shorter files.
To convert the huge lossless files requires a software program to decode them. They arrive in .shn format. Information about how to do all that is in the web site.
My recommendation: anything by Martin Sexton to start with.
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php
Friday, December 10, 2004
The modern church - thumbs up or down?
Have problems with the modern church? Want to hear from others with the same feelings?
http://www.kbproweb.com/gel/reform/lovehate.shtml
http://www.kbproweb.com/gel/reform/lovehate.shtml
Spiritual renewal and social justice
"Sojourners is a Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice." Check out this proposal about "Confessing Christ in a World of Violence."
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041020#3
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=041020#3
Daily devotional
Oswald Chambers may be old-fashioned, but his daily devotionals pack a whallop. Not for the faint of heart. If you want to be challenged and you're serious about shaping up, this will do it. I try to read "Ozzie" every day.
http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/
http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Build Your Own Guitar Effects
Okay, so it's time-consuming, frustrating and challenging. The advantage is, in a given design you can swap a resistor for a potentiometer, and get a variety of sounds that an off the shelf effects pedal won't have. Or, where you see a capacitor you might be able to add a multi-position switch connected to capacitors of various values for a multitude of unique sounds. Once you control the design, the possibilities are endless.
My only successful project so far is a mosfet booster that works great. When I first built it, the only container I had around the house was a specimen test vial from the hospital, but then I put it in a standard black box.
Some great projects are here, including my booster:
AMZ
Other designs can be found at:
Geofex
Harmony Central
General Guitar Gadgets
Vintage Guitar Effects
There's enough here to keep you busy until the wee hours.
Also for your edification, some of my favorite stuff:
Z.VEX
Blackstone Appliances
Fulltone
Voodoo Labs
Hughes & Kettner
Some of these sites have sound files of their effects...fun!
My only successful project so far is a mosfet booster that works great. When I first built it, the only container I had around the house was a specimen test vial from the hospital, but then I put it in a standard black box.
Some great projects are here, including my booster:
AMZ
Other designs can be found at:
Geofex
Harmony Central
General Guitar Gadgets
Vintage Guitar Effects
There's enough here to keep you busy until the wee hours.
Also for your edification, some of my favorite stuff:
Z.VEX
Blackstone Appliances
Fulltone
Voodoo Labs
Hughes & Kettner
Some of these sites have sound files of their effects...fun!
Postmodern Christianity
One author that has really been challenging me and making me think about the status quo is Brian McLaren. He considers himself a post-modern Christian, and challenges Christians to learn the new language and thought processes of postmodernism so we can more effectively communicate with those around us. These are the books I've read lately:
A New Kind of Christian and its sequel The Story We Find Ourselves In. These are fiction books based on McLaren's true experiences as a pastor in a church that likes to challenge modern thought. Excellent mind-stretching stuff.
More Ready Than You Realize. This is basically the history of an email exchange between McLaren and a woman he met, walking her through the difficult questions many thinking seekers are asking today. Very interesting stuff.
Get 'em here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-6456511-8706465
Also, there's an interesting exchange between McLaren and Chuck Colson on McLaren's web site http://ww.anewkindofchristian.com/archives/000160.html in response to a column Colson wrote in Christianity Today, expressing an opinion that postmodern thought is a "dead end" http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/012/24.72.html.
Interesting stuff...
A New Kind of Christian and its sequel The Story We Find Ourselves In. These are fiction books based on McLaren's true experiences as a pastor in a church that likes to challenge modern thought. Excellent mind-stretching stuff.
More Ready Than You Realize. This is basically the history of an email exchange between McLaren and a woman he met, walking her through the difficult questions many thinking seekers are asking today. Very interesting stuff.
Get 'em here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-6456511-8706465
Also, there's an interesting exchange between McLaren and Chuck Colson on McLaren's web site http://ww.anewkindofchristian.com/archives/000160.html in response to a column Colson wrote in Christianity Today, expressing an opinion that postmodern thought is a "dead end" http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/012/24.72.html.
Interesting stuff...
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