Music TGIF - Bad Music Joke of the Week

It's Freaky Friday - time for bad music humor - and I've got lots...

This Friday, to tickle your ivories.... (perhaps more enlightened today to tickle one's *plastics*?

Anyway, back to the grand 88... !

Baldwin = People without hair win.

Ba-dum-CRASH


Find Piano and Keyboard graphics on merchandise at Music Stuff & More @ CafePress - The Piano Section

Piano and Keyboard graphics on merchandise can also be found at Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle

Have a nice weekend!

New Beethoven, Sale, also BeZazzled

Find the "new Beethoven" here @ Music Stuff & More store

What's new about it? This Beethoven graphic is larger and also can be used on dark apparel, meaning, yes, you can now get Beethoven on a black shirt if you wish. See an example of just that below... This is a linked image, which should take you directly to where you can see a larger photo, plus buy the darn thing if you would like.



In other news, there's a sale, starting today, at CafePress of their Junior Jerseys - $4 off - while supplies last.

In still more news... I've opened up a Zazzle store called Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle @ www.zazzle.com/chmayer. Yes, you'll find many of the same music graphics you know and love from my CafePress Music Stuff & More store.

(For some strange reason "Blogger" is screwing around with my links and will not "do" the Zazzle link as I would like. "Blogger" did this at another one of my blogs. Just the same... the Zazzle link above should work just fine and get you to the Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle store, regardless.)

Please drop me a Message on Facebook if you're there - both my CafePress and my Zazzle music stores are there. Before long I'll be adding some music goodies (not merch, but items of interest) to my Facebook Profile (I'm kinda new on Facebook.)

Keep cool.

Beethoven - Music on FoxyTunes Planet

Beethoven - Music on FoxyTunes Planet

I just discovered FoxyTunes Planet, something new (to me) brought to us by the Firefox browser folks.

Wow.

I keyed in "Beethoven" and look at what came back! So much of all kinds of media - YouTube, audio (music clips), photos, text, links.

Again, wow.

Try checking out your favorite music and musicians on http://www.foxytunes.com/planet (no, it's not all classical...)

Pathologist: Doctor killed Beethoven

Pathologist: Doctor killed Beethoven - Yahoo! News (AP)

Curious Beethoven news...

And, note, yet more news about lead problems.

BTW, speaking of Beethoven, do you know that Steinway (who now also owns pretty much every big band/orchestra instrument maker there is nowadays) uses the stock ticker symbol LVB? (get it?)

Bad Music Joke(s) of the Week

After this week, Bad Music Joke of the Week will be no more...

Don't be surprised if I post a bad music joke now and then here, however. You likely will find some other music humor here as well from time to time.

I've been posting the Bad Music Joke of the Week for years.

That's a lot of Bad Music Jokes.

Accordingly, there is a lengthy archive of Bad Music Jokes of the Week available on my website for your perusal.

Pardon my website - it is currently under massive renovation. As you can tell, it could use it. For the most part it works, however. You might find some music stuff there you like, what the heck...

Anyway, a listing of jokes is a listing of jokes, period, what more can you do with it? or would want to? Right?

In the same website + music vein, see also http://www.carolynhmayer.com/Music.htm - Music Stuff or The Music Page

Playing Music Makes You Smart

Playing Music Makes You Smart - Yahoo! News (Live Science)

This is a bit like preaching to the choir, but...

We always knew that making music is good for you, in many ways, right?

New Music Stuff

Check out, especially, the Music Merchandise section of Music Stuff & More - new shirts for kids, Women's Plus Size, and more new (and old)items added.

Also, my basic black-and-white piano keyboard graphic is now available in an improved size and on a transparent background (which means it can now be on dark shirts - not only black, but many colors, even red).

Mozart's entire musical score now free on Internet

Mozart's entire musical score now free on Internet - Yahoo! News (Reuters)

More than 600 works available free right on the Web - thanks to the International Mozart Foundation. Wow.

Toymaker Says Grand Piano Is World's Smallest

Toymaker Says Grand Piano Is World's Smallest

The toymaker? Sega.

A tiny functional, real-sounding grand for $500. Really hard to play - good thing it has an auto-play function.

Study: Waltzing helps mend hearts

Study: Waltzing helps mend hearts - Yahoo! News (AP)

Let everybody waltz now!

1-2-3, 1-2-3...

Time to crank up the Strauss? "Blue Danube", anyone?

Of course dancing is great exercise, certainly more fun than a treadmill...

Music Dark Apparel : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More : CafePress.com

Music Dark Apparel : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More : CafePress.com

New Music Shirts!

More Long Sleeve T-Shirts. More Women's T-Shirts (also Women's Long Sleeve T-Shirts). More Dark T-Shirts. Still more color choices.

And, new color choices have been added to the Men's Dark T-Shirts (Navy, Khaki Green), Ash Grey has been added as an additional color choice to the Men's White Long Sleeve T-Shirts. The new Men's Long Sleeve T-Shirts come in either Black or Navy.

White Long Sleeve T-Shirts and Black T-Shirts now come in Women's sizes, with Women's Dark Long Sleeve T-Shirts coming in Black or Brown.

It's a lot to digest, even for me!

The new CafePress merchandise was added just last night. I've some examples of the new additions in the section linked to above, find more in the "NEW NEW NEW section" in "Sales & Features" on the Music Stuff & More storefront.

BTW, IMHO, the "gold" treble clef (and, surely, all the "gold" graphics...) look great on all the new colors. : D Check it out.

Watch for more and more of the music graphics to be added to the new merchandise. (I want to convert more music graphics for black/dark use as well.)

As lovers of music, 'We're brothers' - Los Angeles Times

As lovers of music, 'We're brothers' - Los Angeles Times

Great story. I've been following the "adventures" of Nathaniel the classical musician/homeless guy in Steve Lopez's columns for a long time. In today's column linked here, Lopez summarizes Nathaniel's story, writes about his future, and describes a meeting Nathaniel recently had with his once Julliard classmate (yes) Yo Yo Ma while they were all at Disney Hall. Yo Yo let Nathaniel play his cello, too. Apparently Lopez almost had to drag Nathaniel out of Disney Hall - he didn't want to leave. He was at home.

The title is about what Ma said about Nathaniel - how since both of them were such avid lovers of music they were like brothers.

Bass Clef Graphics : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More : CafePress.com

Bass Clef Graphics : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More : CafePress.com

I've been working long and hard on some new music stuff. "Gold" bass cleves - on black (or red), and on much of the rest of CafePress's merchandise. Some new novelty bass cleves - "glass", RGB Noise (labeled "Noiz"), a "silver" bass clef with a shadow shown... These are also on black (or red), plus on most other CafePress merch. Click the live links above to check them out.

I've also finally gotten around to a "gold" treble clef on black (or red). (The "gold" treble clef has been available on my merch for years.)

The new "gold" treble clef on black (or red, if you prefer - for the T-shirt)

And, find the new "gold" treble clef and bass clef on stickers with black backgrounds as well.

More coming. I'm not done yet.

The Observer | Review | The 50 [Albums That Changed Music]

The Observer Review The 50 [The Guardian (UK)]

#2 is The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", not surprisingly.

Recording artists listed in this top ten are...

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. The Beatles (see above album mention)
3. Kraftwerk
4. NWA
5. Robert Johnson
6. Marvin Gaye
7. Patti Smith
8. Bob Dylan
9. Elvis Presley
10. The Beach Boys

Instruments Blog

Instruments Blog

Music blog of interest, which has been kind enough to include this humble blog onto its Blogroll.

Worth visiting just the same for its extensive musical Blogroll and for its photos and descriptions of musical instruments (which are available for sale - note the live links).

Guitar Tools - News, Tips & Resources for Guitarists on Squidoo

Guitar Tools - News, Tips & Resources for Guitarists on Squidoo

Heads up, "Guitar People."

I was so impressed with this Squidoo Lens (kind of a cross between a website and a blog - I'm still learning about it) that I had to share the link to this great and rather comprehensive site about all things guitar. I'll be linking this to my Music Medley Page on my website as well.

New Circle of Fifths Graphics : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More : CafePress.com

Circle of Fifths : CHM Design Store - Music Stuff & More : CafePress.com
Check out all the new Circle of Fifths graphics available now: white, "gold", pink, light blue.

Four of the new Circle of Fifths graphics are available on black T-shirts.

They're already proving popular.

Orchestras seek classical revival with downloads

Orchestras seek classical revival with downloads - Yahoo! News

Great idea! From the article linked above...

The first concerts released in the series will be the New York Philharmonic's February performances of Mozart's Symphonies 39, 40 and 41 conducted by Lorin Maazel, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's March 24-26 performances of works by minimalists Part, Andriessen and Reich at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

They will be available at the end of March, priced at around $8 to $10 on Apple Computer's iTunes music store, with launches expected soon on services from RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody and Napster.

Consumers will have the option of downloading a movement, a symphony or the entire concert, said Jonathan Gruber, Universal's vice president of new media for classics and jazz.

New Violin/Fiddle Black T-Shirts

The violin or fiddle graphic from an antique woodcut illustration found in Music Stuff & More is now in white on black T-shirts. As with my other black T-shirts it also comes in a Freakin' Big Graphic version and a Pocket version (graphic in the shirt's pocket area).

And this new black tee is also included in my February black T-shirt sale, so it is presently priced at only $19.99.

Grammy Awards Tonight

http://www.grammy.com/ - the Grammy website

http://music.yahoo.com/promo-25023071 - to catch some Grammy-nominated music samples @ Yahoo

A few of my favorite songs this year: Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", U2's "Veritgo", Stevie's "So What the Fuss", McCartney's "A Fine Line"...

Some of my favorite nominees: Gwen Stefani, U2, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney...

Keane is a promising new artist, IMO.

Looking forward to the show tonight.