I'm almost surprised that I haven't been hurt at a concert yet.
Having stuff to listen to really helps in a lot of situations. Bored with "nothing to do"? Vibing to an album is always a cool way to fill the time. On a car ride? Having some music helps me stay awake. Want an excuse to travel? Live music is pretty sweet.
I've never made much music but I like to try. I have a Game Boy (DMG) with a LSDJ cartridge. I keep some synthesizers around, a Yamaha SY77 is my main workstation. Every now and then I play around with the YM2203 or YM2608 via my C86Box. I still have my oboe and bass clarinet from when I was a kid. I'd like to think that putting something out would be fun.
I like listening to a fair few generes. My usual "blankets" are metal, electronic, and rap. If you hop in my car, the YouTube Music auto-mix thing will probably give 90% those and 10% whatever else. I'll try to venture out of that range for live shows pretty often, seeing entirely unfamiliar things is always a good time.
I went to Wacken Open Air 2024. It was great!
I was going to write out a whole "page" on the experience but I found quite fast that I was basically just making a "how to festival if you're me" page, something that's quite subjective to my specific style of handling trips and camping in fields. Said page got scrapped. What I'll say instead is this:
Wacken lived up to the hype that I've heard for it over the years. Stages were well-assembled and had amazing sound, I'm still disappointed that the first few sets from every day had such poor quality from Magenta Musik trying to calibrate stuff while we heard beautiful music on the grounds. The crowds were huge, filled with all sorts of cool people from all around the world. The camping was fun, we had super social neighbors who were always happy to shoot the breeze and share a beer when nothing much was going on. The food situation was pretty alright, contactless payment for all sorts of reasonable items meant that I never felt disappointed and my stomach never complained at me. Drink prices were a bit high but such was to be expected, everyone already told me how the best way to have a drink was the free water, buying from the breakfast/general store tents outside the stages, or bringing my own in.
Would I do it again? Sure! I'm just still not fully decided on 2025 because I might have other things that I want to do.
I bought an Arturia MicroFreak Stellar. I know, Guitar Center sucks. I was given gift cards. Can you really blame me?
I'll make a page about it and the SY77 at some point within October. I find the $300 synthesizer as cool as the formerly $2,300 synthesizer!
One of my favorite bands redid one of my favorite albums of theirs and it sounds good. Here's a little page of me being happy about it.
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