tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47245953184025397062011-04-21T16:07:05.350-04:00The ongoing trials and tribulations in my quest to document the history of Canadian Rock and Roll.CanadianMusicArchivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08374937920702503896noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4724595318402539706.post-48400918927937543412008-06-13T17:08:00.002-04:002008-06-13T17:11:06.476-04:00

I quoted an American General, but the sentiment remains.I've been quite busy the past few months as I am in the process of recloating an hour or so up the road. But I assure you, there are big plans in the works for the Canadian Music Archive.

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Some big changes have taken place at the Canadian Music Archive.First off, unless you're at a mole convention being stalked by the Crocs, you will have noticed that the Canadian Music Archive logo has made it's debut! Designed by my lovely and talented girlfriend, the CMA logo will serve as the marker for the Canadian Music Archive on the web.Thus far, it is proudly marking it place as the header

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I've harped on this before, and it has finally come to a head -- my Crossley isn't going to cut it. Two recent events have convinced me of this. 1.) A thread over at RecordCollectorsGuild.org talks about the Crossley just eating vinyl and2.) The sound quality I'm getting. I was listening to a .wav of Dunrobins Gone by Bravebelt after I had done the requisite cleaning of the track in Audition (

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That has to be one of my favourite lines from any song.To bastardize a hoary old cliche -- and something I've previously written of -- the project is about the journey and not the destination, and it's a damn good thing too as the more I research and the more I think about things, the longer and more complex this journey becomes.It has started to appear that to speak with some of the people that

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I suppose it is time to fill in some of the missing blanks I rather foolishly left in the last entry.1.) Inroads: Yes, I can read. Shocking based on some of my blog entries, but utterly true. In no particular order I've read: Hand Me Down World: The Canadian Pop Rock Paradox by Greg Potter, Shakin' All Over: Rock and Roll Years in Canada by Peter Goddard and Phillip Kamin, Rock and Roll

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Wow, it's been nearly a month since my last entry. Not really due to laziness, but rather lack of much to say.I've spent a good portion of the month making some inroads into the book end of my archiving project. I've read four books on the history of CanCon, giving me not only more records to track down but some good leads in the area of names.I have also doubled my storage space, and I'm now

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But a chooser can be a beggar. Or something. I'm going to beg at any rate.If anyone out there in the music industry would like to send me some free CDs from some of today's Canadian rock artists, I most certainly won't say no. As much as I want to include everything, there is absolutely no way I can personally afford to buy every single new release by a Canadian artist, especially as I have a

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Not really, but developing creative and relevant titles for each blog post is proving far trickier than previously thought. Is it possible I'm not as on the cutting edge of pop culture cool as I had previously thought? No, that can't be it. It mustn't be it.The previous seven days have been a very good start for me. Not only did I accomplish my goals I set out for the Record Show, but I made

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What does the title have to do with music, and furthermore, this post? Not much of anything, however, I am at work, and this place smells of chicken at the moment.I have successfully digitized all but 2 sides of vinyl from my collection of 45 records. However, I'm not wholly thrilled with the results. Perhaps it's the quality of the record player I am using (more on this in a moment), but far

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I've made the first significant addition in my project to archive all my music, and the popular music of Canada. I've obtained a Crosley Keepsake in black. It's not the greatest of tools, as the construction seems somewhat wonky, I think a this point in time, with it's USB connection and stereo speakers for personal use (so as not to disturb anyone in the house with the record player on the

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1.) How will you decide what to include?Well, aside from including anything from my personal collection --which will be included-- the primary focus of the archive will be Canadian music circa 1945-present using the MAPL system as a starting off point. Of course, no such system is perfect, and I will most likely be leaning heavily towards the criterion needed for pre-1972 inclusion, but I will

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I've done it! I'm on the cutting edge of 2002!This, my little corner of the web, my so-called blog, will be a chronicle of several projects I've got on the go. The ultimate goal is to have all these projects come together in a form yet to be revealed.The first, and right now largest of these projects is the archiving of my music collection. Over the years I've accumulated a somewhat sizeable

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