Earfarm posted this vocal outtake here of David Lee Roth singing “Running with the Devil” .  It’s pretty amusing without the music!

If you liked that, you might also enjoy this outtake here of Smashmouth’s” Days like These”.

Undiscovered footage of Phil Collins recording the drum track for “In the Air Tonight”  (flash required)?  No it’s a commercial, silly.

I’m not a sports fan, and I really rolled my eyes when I discovered that Chunklet had this country ditty labled as “Worst Song” here;  Being an Auburn grad. myself, I’d quickly add that this doesn’t seem to be an officially produced song about Auburn University(at least I sure hope it’s not!!).

Creative loafing has an article about the songwriter who’s started the UGA music business program.

Simon Napier-Bell reflects on the great injustices of the major record labels. (Thanks Media Futurist)

The Listenerd share a cool interactive music video, “Black Mirror” that allows you to mute the multitrack audio (1 = vocals, 2 – drums, 3 – pad, etc…).

Protooler noticed this Strum-Acoustics release:   a virtual acoustic guitar plugin with performance-enhancing voicing/strum algorithms to make any hack keyboard player sound just like a real acoustic guitar player.

How much of the mediocre stuff in your life have you let yourself believe is great?

Seth Godin talks about breaking bad habits: (video link).

Wire to the Ear reminds us that it’s better to start tracking softly to avoid the big “D“.(article is tagged Ableton Live, but applies to Pro Tools, too!)

Make it a good day!

-J