All posts by Kev Brock

I'm a musician, singer/songwriter, blogger, writer, poet, bodybuilder, movie lover, music lover, video gamer, history/political buff, conservative/republican, etc. I like to do a lot of things.

Expensive Recording studios really are a thing of the past now…

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There are a lot of recording studios that pay a lot to record in by the hour. You don’t need to spend 1,000 of dollars to record professionally anymore. All that professional equipment you see in the professional studios you can buy all on your own now. Those huge control boards that you see and other equipment. When home recording you don’t even need to buy all that expensive equipment anyways.

You can still get a perfect studio clean sound with even a small basic setup like the photo above for example.

Bands & artists still rely on paying a lot of money to get their albums recorded when they don’t need to.

Sure, I understand that bands & artists wants the best possible sound for their music which is why they go for these studios that pay by the hour. If you work with another engineer or producer, you’re not gonna get the sound that you want. You’re gonna get the sound that they want. If you want to get your sound and your own vision, you get your own home recording equipment and you can get all that stuff on a small budget like the photo above. The photo above is all you need to get a good professional sound.

Yeah, I recorded in a professional studio that payed by the hour before and I didn’t like the experience to be honest. Bands & artists don’t need to do all that anymore with all this home recording equipment you can buy online and in music stores.

I feel more comfortable with home recording. You don’t have to worry about people telling you how to do things and plus, you save a lot of money.

I wanted a good studio-like sound and I think I got what I wanted. I haven’t started recording new songs on my new system yet. Just playing around with some ideas and trying to come up with stuff. I usually write first before recording. So I’m gonna stop doing cover songs for a long while and keep my focus on originals only. I love doing cover songs but I don’t wanna do too much of them. I would like to get my first album made and get it out there. I’ll just release my albums on that bandcamp site probably. I’m gonna look into trying to get my music on Itunes as well.

Back to the topic, though, I think bands continue to rely on professional studios out of pure laziness, in my opinion. They’re just not good at recording the music themselves so they have someone else do it. Either that or they’re just too lazy to buy all the home recording equipment themselves.

There are even a lot of famous bands out there that avoid professional studios and they just build their own studios right at their own home. Just something to think about there. Paying a lot of money for studios really is the thing of the past but I see bands are still doing it anyway.

You wanna learn how to mix and master your music? You don’t need to pay thousands of dollars for some courses. You don’t need to pay thousands of dollars to have someone else mix and master for you. Just teach yourself and figure it all out.

Kev

Truthfully nothing is gonna happen to Hillary unless we get a Republican president…

As long as Barack Obama is still president, Eric Holder is still the Attorney General and John Boehner is still House Speaker… nothing is gonna happen to Hillary unless we get a Republican president. That is why WE ARE in need of a republican president for the White House so those responsible for Benghazi would be held accountable. Hillary and Barack both can be thrown in prison for Benghazi if we get a Republican president in the White House. That’s why we need guys like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. If one of those two gets get elected in 2016, then they will very quickly try to close the case on Benghazi by firing those who were involved in the cover up and replacing those who would help uncover the truth of Benghazi. Once we get a Republican president like Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, they will try to get rid of Eric Holder, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, etc. They’ll take ’em all out. Ted and Rand don’t mess around. Those two guys want to get the bottom of Benghazi too. So if one of those guys ever get elected, watch out!!!

Hillary can be stopped. We just need a Republican president that has the balls to do so. I don’t think Jeb Bush would get near the Benghazi investigation if he was elected and I hope he doesn’t.

We need either Ted Cruz or Rand Paul. As long as we still have Democrats in the White House, the truth of Benghazi will remain unsolved and nothing will happen to Hillary/Barack. We need a Republican president who is a fighter and willing to get to the bottom of everything: Benghazi, Operation F&F, The IRS targeting, Obamacare, NSA spying, etc. I think he will do that.

I honestly hope we get either Ted Cruz or Rand Paul. I heard Marco Rubio’s announcement speech and I’m not that crazy about that guy at all.

I know how people think it’s impossible to take down Hillary and Barack but it can be. The White House and the president’s administration needs to be changed. This is why Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are both so popular ’cause people expect them to do something about Hillary and Barack. This is why the liberal media is attacking Ted Cruz and Rand Paul ’cause they know they’re gonna go after Barack Obama if one of them gets elected.

We need a Republican president with a spine. Get rid of all the crooks and criminals. Let us have our country back for once.

You see, when people attack Hillary and Barack, it’s not really about them. Not about them at all. We just hate what they’re doing to the country and we just want our country back. It’s just as simple as that. They’ve taken everything away from us and they’re not letting us feel safe at all. If you feel safe under Barack Obama, what planet are you living on?

Kev

Hillary stops in for a bite to eat at a Chipotle restaurant in Ohio…

When sitting presidents decide to grab a bite to eat at a public restaurant, they almost never try to hide themselves when they walk in. Why? It’s because when a president doesn’t hide himself, it shows that he loves being president and not afraid of people. Well, Hillary here walks in a Chipotle restaurant which is a Mexican restaurant I believe in Ohio. She walks in wearing these big sunglasses as you can see so you won’t be able to see her face too well. She has her hair down and probably has a lot of makeup on so she won’t get recognized.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/04/296256-hillary-clinton-ate-chipotle-nobody-knew/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Politics

Sorry guys but this isn’t presidential at all. When you’re running for president, you WANT to be seen by the public in order to attract votes and get people to like you… well this is gonna turn a lot of people off.

On top of that, I’m sure people in that restaurant knew exactly who that woman was and I’m sure everybody noticed her, they just never cared.

She’s gonna get this everywhere she goes during her campaigning. She’s definitely gonna get plenty of hecklers during her speeches. Benghazi will always haunt her everywhere she goes. People knows what she did and what she’s responsible for. She shouldn’t be in society. She really needs to be in prison.

It really does make me sick that she still has “fans”.

The way I’m looking at it, Hillary is NOT popular as the media tries to make her out to be. Look at her new facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton?fref=ts

She only has about 700,000 followers and technically that’s not a lot at all. That’s a pretty bad number. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul has over a million facebook followers.

Not a lot of people like Hillary even though it seems like it. So I don’t understand why the mainstream media continues to overhype her when she is an unaccomplished nobody. Anyone who thinks she’s an accomplished woman is an idiot. You know she isn’t accomplished and you will never admit it.

Kev

The Rolling Stones song, “Thru and Thru” from “The Sopranos”…

So I just finished watching “The Sopranos – Season 2” earlier today and toward the end of Season 2 finale, they were playing this really incredible song that blew my mind. I never heard the song before so I looked it up online and the song was written by the Rolling Stones. I’m like, really? The singer didn’t sound like Mick Jagger at all. Then I realized it was Keith Richards singing the lead vocals in the tune. Sometimes Keith Richards does sing the lead vocals on some Stones songs. It is a beautiful song even though I’m not much of a Stones fan. This song “Thru and Thru” came from the “Voodoo Lounge” album. I’m actually thinking about getting that album for this song.

Before anyone accuses me of watching TV all day… I don’t. I usually watch TV at night but for “The Sopranos” I have been watching during the day though. I was just getting back in from a long walk to the gym to do my workout and walk back home so I’m not a lazy person at all if that’s what you’re thinking.

“The Sopranos” is such an epic show. I think it’s my favorite show in the history of TV. Really… I thank HBO for giving us the opportunity to watch their shows without having to pay for cable. What HBO did was pretty amazing despite their subscription price being a bit pricey. I’ll have no problem paying 14.99 a month, it’s no big deal to me.

Back to this song, I think it’s an amazing tune and might get the Voodoo Lounge album. “The Sopranos” do have the best soundtrack in TV history, in my opinion. Their song selections is good.

Kev

Did Barack Obama just come out of the closet???

Obama here arrives in Jamaica… stepping off of Air Force One it looks like. When he steps at the top of the airstair, it seems like the photographer was intentionally waiting for him to wave under the rainbow.

And it’s pretty odd that the White House would copy and paste Obama’s quote here:

“What gives me so much hope about your generation is that you’re more interested in the hard work of waging peace than resorting to the quick impulses of conflict. You’re more interested in the hard work of building prosperity through entrepreneurship, not cronyism or corruption. You’re more eager for progress that comes not by holding down any segment of society, but by holding up the rights of every human being, regardless” – Obama

Sorry but it’s definitely looking like that he’s trying to tell us that he’s gay here. Is this his coming out photo? Was this intentional to wait for Obama to step at the end of the rainbow so the photographer can shoot the picture? Was this Obama’s idea? Why is Barack so obsessed with gay pride all of a sudden? Why is he obsessed with homosexuality, transgenders, transexuals and all that stuff? Sure, it’s possible that straight men can be very supporting of the LGBT but when you become WAY TOO supportive, that’s gotta say something there.

Come on, Barack O’. You’re not fooling anyone. I think he’s gonna come out before his presidency is over with, that’s my prediction. As a matter of fact, I think he just did come out already with this photo.

Kev

More on HBO Now…

Well, I’ve been watching “The Sopranos” a lot on that HBO NOW streaming service for the Ipad and it’s real nice! I’ve already watched Season 1 of “The Sopranos” and I’m just at the very end of Season 2 already. Yeah, admittedly I’ve been doing a lot of binge watching on this show ’cause I was hoping to watch it all before the 1 month free subscription expired . I would watch like 4 episodes a night but admittedly it’s gonna take me a while longer to watch the whole show so it’s looking like that if I want to watch the rest of it, I’ll have to pay the subscription soon and I will. I think I’ll keep this service for a little while longer ’cause the only reason I wanted this service to begin with is to watch “The Sopranos”. A show I always wanted to see.

Yeah, I’m really loving this show. Tony Soprano is a bad ass and I love Steven Van Zandt’s character. I never realized that Steven Van Zant (who is well known as the guitar player for Bruce Springsteen) is such a good actor! Van Zandt is a talented actor… I’m blown away by his talent! “The Sopranos” is an addicting as hell show. It’s not just a mob drama… I view it as a comedy as well ’cause there’s a lot of hilarious scenes in it. James Gandolfini was a genius of an actor though. I’ve always respected the hell out of that man even before he passed. I was bummed when I heard about his passing.

Anyway, I should get back to watching, “Game of Thrones – Season 4” a season I haven’t seen yet… that way I can start watching Season 5 on there too. I love “game of thrones” and that’s another reason I wanna subscribe to HBO Now and will. Admittedly $14.99 a month is kind of pricey but I don’t think I’m gonna keep HBO NOW forever. I’m only gonna get it to watch certain shows and I also wanna watch that upcoming Kurt Cobain documentary “Montage of Heck” which is gonna be on there next month so I’m definitely gonna pay for it for another month.

“The Sopranos” is a masterpiece of a TV show. It’s definitely one of the best shows on TV of all time. Why did I start watching it so late?

What I love is how HBO NOW lets you pay for the subscription from Itunes so that means you get to use those Itunes cards. I don’t do credit cards hardly at all so when I need to get stuff from Apple, I use those gift cards you see in the store. I guess that’s why Apple sells them gift cards in the store so people can buy things for their devices who don’t have a credit card.

I’ll admit that I bought a lot of stuff from Apple… albums from Itunes, books, apps, etc. The Ipad is an addicting tool.

Kev

One thing I don’t get about liberals and Hillary supporters…

Liberals are always protesting about the food we eat. They’re against Monsanto and GMO’s… things like that. I see them all over GMO’s all the time in facebook but the funny thing is their hero, Hillary Clinton is proGMO. Are liberals this naive and dumb? They are also mad at this Religious Freedom Law that Indiana and Arkansas signed but the funny thing is, their Bill Clinton was the one who signed the Religious Freedom law to begin with.

Everything that liberals are mad about, the Clintons support so how come liberals aren’t outraged at them?

She is also against weed legalization and liberals are all over that too: http://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8393495/hillary-clinton-marijuana-legalization

Liberals really are strange human beings. I just don’t understand them at all.

Kev

Sly’s instagram page is pretty good stuff…

I never realized Sly Stallone had his own instagram page. Check it out here:

https://instagram.com/officialslystallone/

As you can see, Sly’s got a bunch of videos on there that he probably took from his mobile phone or something. You’d be surprised to see that Sly is just a normal guy just like the rest of us. He’s got a lot of stuff in Philly while filming the movie, “Creed”. As I expected, he seems pretty happy to be back there and he even had a video about moving back there, I’m sure he was just joking of course.

Kev

Thoughts about Madonna kissing Drake on stage…

Check this out, I hate discussing these kind of stuff on my blog but I thought I would talk about this one:

http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/13/drake-madonna-kiss-coachella-video/

This sparked a huge debate on the internet so I thought I would get my thoughts on it too. Madonna made a surprise appearance at Coachella during Drake’s set. As she was walking around on stage while singing, doing her usual thing… she made out with Drake onstage. Then there was a lot of speculation that Drake was disgusted ’cause a 56 year old woman kissed him since he had his hand over his mouth after she did it.

You see, I don’t think Drake was being disgusted. From what I saw, he fucking LOVED IT!!! He covered his mouth ’cause from the looks of things, he looked pretty shocked and thrilled. He was in one of those moments that he was pretty speechless that one of pop’s biggest icons made out on stage with him. He did love it. If you watch the video in the link above as Madonna made out with him, he was trying to brush his hand through her hair but she took his hand away. In my opinion, I think it was a bit of a thrill and excitement. He just couldn’t believe that a legend just kissed him, ya know?

I’d be the same way if a female pop star kissed me. This is one of those moments he’s never gonna forget. He was just pretty surprised and shocked, that was all. You heard him himself, “Oh shit, look what just fucking happened”. He was just a little too star struck is what it was. He probably never expected it and she just did it. The kiss was probably improvised and not planned ’cause you know how Madonna is. That woman is unpredictable when she performs. She’s always been sexual like that. Still the same old Madonna she’s always been.

Kev

Marco Rubio next Republican to announce Presidential run today…

I might give his speech a listen today to see what his vision for America is gonna be like. I was never a big fan of Marco Rubio ’cause I don’t like his border security ideas.

Still though, I wonder why there has been more Republicans announcing a president run than Democrats? So far Hillary is the only Democrat who announced a run. Probably because we’re all getting sick of Democrats ruining the country and they are scared of Republicans.

I do hope we get a Republican president, though. We definitely need one!

Kev