Some of you may recall that I participated in an episode of The Late Show with Angelico Babii on 5 May. I’ve just received the news that the episode has been posted. You can find the show at Metaverse-tv.com and at Metaversetv.Blip.tv.

Here’s the video as it stands. Angelico told me that there may be additional editing (sound effects, transitions, and such). I think it stands well as a top-notch show, though!

Update: Apparently this show widget may automatically update to new shows when they add them. If you see a different episode in the player and want to find the episode with my tunes, please visit Metaverse-tv.com and look for the show featuring Ham Rambler.

An SL television show

Last night I was asked to be the musical guest on the Late Show with Angelico Babii. You can find this show at Metaverse-tv.com. It was an interesting experience and I’m glad to have been asked to participate.

The Blarney Stone

What made this most special is that this episode was recorded at the Blarney Stone Irish Bar in Dublin. This is one of my favorite locations in Second Life. I’m always honored and humbled to be asked to perform at this venue. There are so many people from around the world that regularly tune in to the Blarney Stone music streams, even when they are not in-world.

Guests on the show

Ham Rambler, the owner and creator of the Dublin sim, was the featured guest on the program. Also interviewed was Madddyyy Schnook, the author of How to Get a Second Life: Build a Successful Business and Social Network Inworld.

It is my understanding that the show is being edited and should be available at the Metaverse TV web site later in the week. You can also find the show at blip.tv.

I wanted to share this info for anyone that may not have received it in-world. This text was in a notecard recently distributed by Yxes Delacroix. You can now find the open mic at the Lonely Yak Texas Roadhouse on BlaksleeWorld.

Hello all,

This is a notice to let all our loyal Open Mic friends that Rich and I have relocated to a new venue for our Monday Night Open Mic event. The landmark is [http://slurl.com/secondlife/BlaksleeWorld/225/225/25], and we hope to see you at our new place this Monday, and each Monday you can make it!

Yes!, we are still having the Open Mic on Monday nights, 6-8pm SL time, with the same great talent that we have brought to you over the last year. We will continue to show off the talent you all know, as well as giving new talent a place to perform and get into the SL Live music scene.

We are opening a new “group” for this new venue, called “Roadhouse Open Mic”, and will be sending out invites later this weekend, so you can get the announcements of who will be performing each Monday night! (And we already have a full show planned for this coming Monday at the new venue!!! Hope to see you there!)

Hopefully, you have a slot open for the invite, and will be joining us for Open Mic Monday Night at our new place!!

See Ya’ll then!
Yxes and Rich

Happy Rez Day to me, w00t. Wow, two years. Time flies…

Logins resume

From the official blog:

[3.30 AM] [RESOLVED] - The doors are open and we are back. It turned out there were multiple issues with our ISPs network which have been worked around for now. The network provider is working to resolve the issue permanently - Matthew

No festival today

However, the I-World Music Festival is postponed, possibly to next Saturday.

Here’s the message I received in-world from Matthew Linden:

Hello all, due to the difficulties with our routing (see the SL blog) we are regretfully postponing our launch. We would like to look at putting it on again perhaps next Saturday but we will get back to you on that. If there is apossibility you can offer the same availability next week then do let me know.

Sincere apologies to you all.

I hope we can get the entire event back on board. I know this will be a scheduling nightmare for Matthew and the crew, though. Some performers will obviously not be available due to other commitments.

Logins disabled

It seems that the entire grid is down for now. According to information by Jack Linden, as posted by Teeple Linden, there is some problem with the way their network provider is bundling network links. This information was posted on their blog at 2:30 a.m. It is now 3:21 a.m. PST as I post this.

I-World Music Festival performances

I do not know how this affects the schedule I-World music event. Perhaps they will attempt to reschedule the performers that were unable to play to another time or date. I actually awakened early today. I wanted to log in to catch Dann Numbers’s performance and to show a brand new resident (and life long friend) the joy of live music in SL.

Tech failures

It is a shame that technology sometimes fails when events are planned. However, we all know that technology does have occasional hiccups. We have to roll with the punches sometimes.

Matthew Linden recently blogged about the I-World Team and the opening of I-World Island. According to him, “This team answers support tickets and live chats from residents who are experiencing some difficulties or looking for guidance with in-world issues.”

There are several things that the team is working toward to enhance the experience of residents in-world. One of those is the opening of I-World Island. According to Matthew, it is “…a place where we will try to offer additional signposting and guidance for some of the in-world issues that occur.”

Here are his comments regarding the opening of the island (embellishments my own):

To officially unveil the island, on Saturday 5th April, we are hosting the I-World Music Festival and want to offer you the opportunity to tune in to our broadcast (stream details) or to drop in on us at I-World Island and enjoy some live music over the course of 24 hours from Midnight PST until Midnight PST Sunday 6th April. We’ll follow up with some more details later in the week but you can be assured there are some fantastic live musicians gearing up to perform for you on the day!

Naturally we won’t be able to host everyone on one island but don’t forget you can tune in and hopefully be able to pop in for a wee while at another time during the day.

I’m pleased to be added to this roster of performances. This is an impressive event in that the performances last a full 24-hours! Here’s the lineup that Matthew shared with me:

PROGRAMME for SATURDAY 5TH APRIL 2008

12:00 AM Mikelec Criss
1:00 AM Jackdog Snook
2:00 AM Cromwell Hoobinoo
3:00 AM Dann Numbers
4:00 AM Allister Westland
5:00 AM Phemie Alcott
6:00 AM Lacoppia Hax (Fontana Orchestra)
7:00 AM Spaceman Opus
8:00 AM Heath Elvehjem
9:00 AM Rich Desoto
10:00 AM POL Arida
11:00 AM Jean Munro
12:00 PM Shamanes)
1:00 PM Fable Sinatra
2:00 PM Kei Mars
3:00 PM Virtual Live Band
4:00 PM Jaycatt Nico & Frogg Marlowe
5:00 PM Melanie Keller & Keiko Takakura
6:00 PM Kyle Beltran
7:00 PM CTM Underwood
8:00 PM Chouchou
9:00 PM kelvinblue Oh
10:00 PM Melodee McDonnell
11:00 PM KevinMThomas Carpool
FINISH

I hope to see you there! If you can’t make it, definitely tune in to the stream to hear these great performers. Many people use iTunes or WinAmp to listen. At this time Windows Media Player does not support these live music streams.

Live music in SL is definitely one of the things that enhances my experience there.

Machinima Contest

The people at Koinup.com are offering 20,000L and a MachinimaCam to the winner of a contest they are sponsoring. Complete rules and details can be found at the Koinup announcement page.

Basically they say:

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features your first 100 days in Second Life, or create a whole story, directing other avatars! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow, Just remember to add your video a good soundtrack!

They require this to be a music video. You can use Creative Commons based tracks or, if you wish, tracks from some artists in SL that have agreed to provide music for the project (including yours truly).

Regarding the music

Here are the links to download:

• Dizzy Baio (together with: Funk Shepherd)
• Lyn Carlberg
• Melanie Fudge
• Rich Palmer
• Kim Seifert

Pay attention:
you can use these songs, but only for the contest.
you have to type credits (authors, titles and links of the tracks you have used)

If you want use other music, we highly suggest to use only contents released with Creative Commons licences. You can find good sources of CC music here:

http://ccmixter.org/ 
http://creativecommons.org/audio 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts 

Get full details and rules at Koinup.com.

I had a great time performing at the Cisco Systems event today. The event is part of the celebration of events for their Quantum Shift campaign that launches March 4.

This was the lineup of musicians:
Orangelife Holmer, Rich Desoto, Cylindrian Rutabaga, Groucho March, Edward Lowell, Jeff Tully, and Capos Calderwood.

As is often the case, I couldn’t stay for the entire event. I was able to catch Orangelife’s performances, as well as Cylindrian’s. Both were dynamic and extremely great sets of music. It was the first time I had the opportunity to catch Portuguese performer Orangelife. This guy has a great voice and chooses some great tunes to play. His cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” became one of my favorites during this show.

I hope to see regular music events as part of Cisco’s connection in virtual worlds.

Many thanks to Banana Stein and Yxes Delacroix for their participation and coordination of this event.

My performance time for the show at Old Salt’s Pub this coming Sunday will now be 3 p.m. SLT. Ricardo Sprocket (Rich Petko) has a real life schedule conflict, so I accepted his request to trade. So, the lineup for now is:

noon - Snow Gretsky
12:30 - Stalkerwolf Breed
1:00 - Ricardo Sprocket
1:30 - Luigi DiPrima
2:00 - Silas Scarborough
2:30 - Angel Stormwind
3:00 - Rich Desoto
3:30 - Matthew Perreault
4:00 - Maximillion Kleene
4:30 - Kim Seifert
5:00 - Etherian Kamaboko
5:30 - Chronic Skronski
6:00 - Lyndon Heart
6:30 - Dann Numbers*