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Young blues virtuoso guitarist Oli Brown, voted both male vocalist of the year and young artist of the year at the 2010 blues awards, talks us through his HT Stage 60 and how he gets the sound in his head with Blackstar Amps

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These days, technology is always available for any inspiring musician to record, create, and even
duplicate CDs. The duplication of CDs will involve CD-R media. CD-R media prices have dropped a lot over the last several years, making them affordable for anyone who wants to use them.

If your band is ready to start selling CDs, your best option may be to have your CDs replicated. Replicated CDs are the same CDs that you’ll find in music stores by major label artists. They all have excellent artwork printed on the CD inserts, nice tray card inserts, screened art on the CD, and they are even shrink wrapped.

The retail CDs that you buy aren’t duplicated, they are replicated. This means that an exact replica of your master CD has been stamped out on all of the other CDs. If you are serious about selling your music for profit, replication is the way to go. The fact is, most stores simply won’t sell duplicated CDs. Duplicated CDs can be against the law, which is the main reason retail stores simply won’t carry them. Replicated CDs let the stores know that the CD is legit, and they will almost always carry those CDs.

For musicians and inspiring bands, CD duplication can tend to be a bit more expensive than that of replication. To duplicate CDs, you need a computer with a CD burner, your CD-R media, cases, and a lot of man hours. With CD replication, you can get many more copies, professional artwork, a barcode for inventory, and cases included. Replication is obviously to expensive for those looking to simply back up pictures and data on a personal computer, although the prices are just right for musicians looking to make profit off of their CDs.

Glamour, money and popularity is what the people of this particular industry are associated with . It is one industry that can even give the IT sector a competition in terms of business. With its hub located in the very beautiful city of Milan and with beautiful stars in its sky stands a separate world of the fashion industry .the fashion industry is responsible of making good things look better and better things look beautiful. It is an industry which is responsible for dressing up the humankind.

To understand the various aspects of the fashion industry in depth we must first try to understand as to what is fashion. Fashion is something which is in vogue, something which is fuelled by conversion, something which is dynamic and not static….something which is constantly changing .It is not only clothes that the fashion industry is associated with but also with all the things that we use in our daily lives.

Its is an industry which is characterized with mass consumerism. it comprises of fashion designers , textile ,leather , jewellery etc , of models , artisans , makeup artists hair stylists , camera men , technicians …. Oh the list is endless .in short it is an industry in which people from myriad fields participate.

The fashion industry can be broadly divided into two aspects the export industry and the in house industry. The in house industry can further be categorized in the designer, local and the retail industry. The designer industry completely depends on the caliber; popularity and demand of the particular designer .different designers have different hubs where the demand of the designer’s product is the maximum. The designer industry is associated with a limited clientele and sky soaring prices. The retail fashion industry gives immense importance to branding and creating an own store look .They work to make people conscious of the existence of their brand and to increase the demand for its product in the market. They have many designers who work in the production department for the production of the best fashionable wares. In between the designer and the retail industry lies the local fashion industry .this industry caters to the masses. they are also knows as the copycats… because they get their designs by imitating the work of the big designers and the retail industry .so much so for the in house fashion industry The export fashion industry deals with exporting quality merchandise to the world.

Words are too little to describe an industry which is constantly changing, where millions of strugglers come and go, hundreds of famous people walk the ramp, new things are created every day and the affect of which spreads in the entire world .It is a titanic which will never sink.

I’ve been buying watercolor paintings for decorating jobs. I’ve found some really nice pieces on eBay. I recently bought a watercolor painting by an artist named Y. Gianni. The painting was produced in 1890 and depicted an Italian village. It was very vivid and pleasing to look at. I was trying to find just the right watercolor painting for a client when I came across one by an artist named William B. Gillette. The colors were pastel, ranging from soft greens, browns, blues, purples and peach. The scene was that of a pebble beach and crashing waves. The hills on one side gave the beach a feeling of privacy. It really spoke to me and my client loved it.

There was a cabin that I was decorating for a discerning client that needed one more piece of art to complete the look I was going for. I found a wonderful watercolor painting that fit just right. It had a lot of mossy green colors and there was a lake with a lake house. The artist turned out to be Charles Dickens Wader. He is a well known artist from New York.

I have a client that collects art from Romeo Tabuena. I was fortunate to find two watercolors that the owners had purchased directly from Tabuena in the fifties when they lived in San Miguel. The owner settled with me for an even thousand dollars. My client was thrilled.

A lawyer friend of mine hired me to redecorate his office. I had a lot of fun putting in things that reflected his interests and tastes. He loves polo and I found a wonderful watercolor painting of two polo players on horses. My friend liked the paintings and they have become a conversation piece in the new office.

My friend’s dad liked the office I decorated so much that he commissioned me to redecorate his office. He is a hunter and I found a really nice watercolor painting of several mallard ducks flying above a marsh. The painting was done by Jim Killen and he has painted for Ducks Unlimited. His work is well known and respected. My friend’s father really liked the find and proudly hung it in his reception area.

I was really unsure where I was going to find suitable art for the program director’s office at a local radio station. When I went to visit with him for a consultation, his office was absolutely stark. I like watercolor paintings and that is my first choice for buying art. I found a fantastic watercolor painting of Bob Marley surrounded by sunflowers. It was awesome and perfect for this job.

There is a musician that I was working for a couple of years ago that wanted their studio decorated with paintings from the artist Raoul Dufy. Raoul Dufy made a whole series of paintings called Hommage to Mozart. I was able to purchase three watercolor paintings in this series. I have always been on the lookout for more paintings to purchase for this client.

A friend of mine asked me to find a watercolor painting to give to her mother. I found one by Henry H. Parker that was of cattle in landscape. The frame was what caught my eye at first because it is heavy gilt. It would never hang in my house, but it looked great at my friend’s mother’s house.

Birmingham Sam, Texas Slim, Johnny Lee, Boogie Man, and John Lee Booker all had one thing in common, they were the same man. His real name is John Lee Hooker and he started recording in 1948 under numerous names, outwitting contractual obligations in the unbridled recording operations of the era. Making his biggest mark in Detroit, John Lee is probably the most recorded man alive.

Hooker recorded for more than two dozen labels.

Handy traveled the country at the turn of the last century in black minstral shows. He came off the road and became a music professor at Alabama A&M and then quit to go back on the road. He made more money as a minstral!

John Lee and Canned Heat recorded together in 1970.

John Lee learned guitar down home in Mississippi. He saw country Blues legends Charley Patton, Leadbelly, and Blind Lemon Jefferson pass though his hometown.

The Doors recorded “Crawlin’ King Snake”.

Hooker style is easy to recognize. Usually one chord with a pulsing rhythmic groove chugging along, random vocal phrasing that the less-than-hip would call mistakes, and open-tuned guitar with a choppy percussive sound. His lyrics sound spontaneous and unrelated, but they are all Blues statements that tie the music together.

John Lee Hooker is in the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

John Lee Hooker died in his sleep in San Fransisco in June of 2001.

Because of its personalized form, the popularity of blues music among blacks marked a unique period in the history of secular African American song. Prior to the emergence of the blues sometime in the 1890s, solo music was atypical. Such individualized song had never been the main ingredient of black music. Prior songs consisted of field hollers, which served as a means of communication among plantation workers, and work songs, which were used by slaves to keep time with a task. While field hollers and work songs had elements of personalized song, they had never truly developed as solo songs.

Despite the blues uniqueness from hollers and songs, it was forged from the same musical repertory and traditions. The call and response form of expression remained, but instead of incorporating a response from another participant, the blues singer responded to himself or herself. Thus, it was not created from a new type of music, but from a new perception about oneself.

Blues music reflected the new status of blacks. Slaves newly acquired freedom, Booker T. Washington’s teachings, and the Horatio Alger model, which asserted that the individual molds his own destiny, influenced this form of personalized music. According to historian Lawrence Levine, “there was a direct relationship between the national ideological emphasis upon the individual, the popularity of Booker T. Washington’s teachings, and the rise of the blues. Psychologically, socially, and economically, Negroes were being acculturated in a way that would have been impossible during slavery, and it is hardly surprising that their secular music reflected this as much as their religious music did.” (Levine, Lawrence W., Black Culture and Black Consciousness) As a consequence, it was the emphasis on the individual that influenced the blues personalized form of song.