In Chicago, all Hammond players are blind Of course, buying jazz records is not enough. In Chicago, you have to go and see live music. Traditionally, it’s blues, though jazz is acceptable for the first time visitor. Especially when you’re me. We had a flick through the local gig listings and ended up with a [...]
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Postcard from Chicago: Jazz Records 1
My happy place One of the things I made an absolute point of doing in Chicago was to visit a record shop or two. As you’d imagine, this was a fairly good place for someone like me on that particular front. In fact, it couldn’t have been better. Records that sell for £20 upwards here [...]
Postcard from Chicago: Bloggers Beard 7
Chris Brogan, sporting a pro-blogger One of the things that quickly became apparent at SOBCon08 was the predominance of facial hair amongst the male bloggers. Chris Garrett noticed it first. Oddly, I had been growing a bit of a goatee for a couple of weeks (first time in at least five or six years), and [...]
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Postcard from Chicago: The Bean 2
It’s a giant mirror bean. What’s not to like? One of the most touristy attractions in all of Chicago is the Cloud Gate. It’s a giant bean-shaped thing, looks just-polished, and reflects the city’s skyline. David, who was showing me around, was not impressed. “It’s a colossal waste of money.” Perhaps. But it’s hugely impressive [...]
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Chicago – part 4 0
Copyblogger’s Brian Clark speaks at SOBCon08 No disastrous travel stories to tell on the way back from Chicago, I’m happy to report. I know my travel mishaps make for great blog posts (who can forget the ‘New York via the Bermuda Triangle‘ saga or the ‘Lost in France‘ debacle – not to mention the recent [...]
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Chicago – part 3 1
Train hit by lightning. Wait here for bus. Part 3 of the story, and I actually make it in to Chicago. To say the flight was uneventful would be to downplay how much it was all about sitting around and doing nothing. I arrived at O’Hare a bit bewildered and looked around for the shuttle [...]
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On the radio 0
Ed Doolan with producer Anna I have 8 hours to kill on a plane journey, so I thought I’d blog this while I remember… I did my occasional radio show with Ed Doolan earlier in the week. We talked about gadgets, as usual, and I knew very little about many of them. But I think [...]
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Chicago – part 1 4
This is the wrong sort of train I spent a very pleasant evening playing ‘hackgammon’ with Stef at the Fighting Cocks — a game similar in most respects to backgammon, but with a variation in that it involves coding a random number generator within a spreadsheet on a laptop to make up for the fact [...]
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Visiting Tony Levin 1
Tim and I went to visit legendary UK jazz drummer Tony Levin at his home in Church Stretton today. We’re keen to work with him on an online jazz project, and this was an initial conversation to get the ball rolling. Tony runs a semi-regular jazz club at the Patrick Kavanagh pub in Moseley, where [...]
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Internet dating 3
Paul of Inglesby Greenhow It occurs to me that I’ve been doing things online longer than most people I know. I was involved in bulletin boards back in the early 1990s, was a keen user of Usenet, and had a website up and running as early as 1995. It was around that time that I [...]
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