The Cult
Under the Midnight Sun
2022 Black Hill
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Tracks:
1. Mirror
2. A Cut Inside
3. Vendetta X
4. Give Me Mercy
5. Outer Heaven
6. Knife through Butterfly Heart
7. Impermanence
8. Under the Midnight Sun
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This was the first time I've been able to attend a VCF, and it was the first held in the Dallas area in over a decade. I was lucky enough to participate as both event staff, helping to plan and run the show, and as an exhibitor. It was exhausting, it was overwhelming at times, and I nearly lost my voice by the end of the first day ... But it was also an incredible experience and I really enjoyed it.
I brought a few of my projects to show off. First and foremost was my Wrap030-ATX project, which I paired with a Wyse WY-30 terminal I rescued from Computer Reset, and had running a demo program for printing names on my recently-repaired Apple ImageWriter II/L. Next to that was my Wrap030 board stack running a Mandelbrot fractal renderer using its 68882 FPU and video generator cards. Then came the Mac SE from Computer Reset I repaired, with my SE-VGA card driving an external monitor, and running Oregon Trail (always a crowd favorite!). Finally I had my Franken-Plus, which sadly suffered a power supply failure early on the first day and sat dark all weekend.
My exhibit was situated just down the row from @commodorez , who won the show's Best Microcomputer award for his "VICs that aren't 20" exhibit of rare and lesser-known Commodore computers. Across from Commodore-Z was Usagi Electric, who won Best in Show for his exhibit of the Centurion, a PDP-11, and his vacuum tube computer.
I had a great time talking to Commodore-Z, @ms-dos5 , Usagi Electric, Nybbles and Bytes, Macintosh Librarian, Retrotech Chris, Kevin & Michael of the Turbo 9 Team, Al Williams, and so many more wonderful people that I couldn't even begin to catch names for.
I also got to go into deep-dive discussions on very specific details about my projects with people who already knew so much more about the components and the tools that I'm using than I do. It's energizing to be around people that understand the work that goes into these projects and appreciate what I've accomplished.
The show was so much bigger than I anticipated. Including staff, volunteers, sponsors, speakers, exhibitors, and attendees, we saw nearly 900 people come through the main hall over the course of the weekend. Seminars were full, with CuriousMarc's presentation on Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer forming an imposing line for entry well ahead of the scheduled start of the talk. We had incredible community turnout; it was great to see entire families come through with awestruck small children in tow.
There was so much to see and do, so many people to talk to. The entire weekend is just a blur. My brain is still trying to process everything from the show.
One thing does stand out though — an unbelievably generous act from someone I spoke to on Saturday about my homebrew builds and my methods for testing and debugging. This kind soul was so impressed by what I have accomplished without an oscilloscope that he bought one from the VCFSW charity auction and gave it to me on Sunday. I was so surprised I didn't think to even get his name before he disappeared into the crowd. I can't wait to put it to good use, and I hope that what I build with it lives up to his expectations.
Following VCF East earlier this year, Bil Herd said something about riding that high from VCFE, and that prompted him to agree to come out to join us at VCFSW this year. Now that I've experienced it for myself, I understand what he meant. I've been looking though all the pictures and blog posts everyone has been sharing, and catching up on recordings of the presentations I missed. Interest in some of my projects has me thinking about what I can do with them next. It's exciting.
Using the internet to bring us together and I guess trying to prove something to mankind and myself... itcwasnt until today that I got such a strong feeling that I know this will work.. the more people who participate- the more power to mankind. ( inspired by Chris " The Owl" Wyse ( hollywood vampires ) no pressure... only if you want a better tomorrow everyday. "Let us pray.." even if it's just this once...
June 22, 2016 Phil Chen and Chris Wyse at Lucky Strike Live in Los Angeles, CA
June 22, 2016 Phil Chen and Chris Wyse at Lucky Strike Live in Los Angeles, CA #philchen #chriswyse #luckystrike #luckystrikelive #jamnight #bass #livemusic #losangeles #hollywood #christyborgman #lawomanphoto #onthisday
“Há mais de dois anos eu não subia em um palco para tantas pessoas. A minha única audiência durante o período de pandemia era o meu cachorro. Estou feliz e honrado de estar aqui com vocês e com os meus parceiros de banda”. Foi desta forma que Joe Perry, um dos melhores guitarristas do mundo, traduziu a alegria de fazer parte da programação do Samsung Best of Blues and Rock 2022. Com edições gratuitas em Porto Alegre e em São Paulo, o festival retomou as atividades neste final de semana em uma celebração à música instrumental.
Um público de mais de 47.000 pessoas compareceu aos eventos em Porto Alegre (Parque Farroupilha , Redenção) e São Paulo (Parque Ibirapuera). Em Porto Alegre, na última sexta-feira, o Samsung Best of Blues and Rock 2022 trouxe Ian – Ocaradometal, responsável pelo primeiro show da noite. “Meu objetivo é apresentar o rock e o metal para um público jovem e esta é uma ótima oportunidade”, ele afirmou em entrevista. Na sequência, o músico Yohan Kisser, filho do guitarrista Andreas Kisser, da banda Sepultura, fez um show em que mostrou a pluralidade de sons possíveis, indo de Strauss a Frank Zappa. E o lendário fundador e guitarrista do Aerosmith, Joe Perry, encerrou a programação, na qual executou músicas do seu trabalho-solo, o “The Joe Perry Project”, com uma banda estelar, formada por Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen), Buck Johnson (Aerosmith, Doobie Brothers, Hollywood Vampires), Chris Wyse (Hollywood Vampires, The Cult, Ozzy Osbourne) e Jason Sutter (Chris Cornell, New York Dolls e Cher).
No domingo, em São Paulo, a celebração também foi grandiosa na plateia externa do Auditório Ibirapuera e teve o jornalista Zeca Camargo como mestre de cerimônias. Além de Joe Perry e Yohan Kisser, a edição paulistana do festival contou com o show da percussionista Lan Lahn, que apresentou uma fusão de ritmos, indo dos afro-sambas de Vinicius de Moraes e Baden Powell ao manguebeat da Nação Zumbi. O espetáculo teve a participação especial da percussionista Silvanny Sivuca, que integra a banda do rapper Emicida e a banda fixa do programa “Caldeirão com Mion”, da Rede Globo.
Realizado pelo Instituto Dançar e apresentado pelo Ministério do Turismo por meio da Secretaria Especial da Cultura, o Samsung Best of Blues and Rock 2022 contou com patrocínio da Samsung e cumpriu com excelência o seu objetivo de trazer o blues e o rock para perto do público, de forma acessível e gratuita.
Chris Wyse, baixista de Ace Frehley, Owl, The Cult, ex East Wall e ex Ozzy Osbourne, completa 53 anos nesta data. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgC_Uyfg8cB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The Cult
Born into This [Savage Edition]
2007 Roadrunner
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Tracks CD One:
01. Born into This
02. Citizens
03. Diamonds
04. Dirty Little Rockstar
05. Holy Mountain
06. I Assassin
07. Illuminated
08. Tiger in the Sun
09. Savages
10. Sound of Destruction
Tracks CD Two:
01. Stand Alone
02. War Pony Destroyer
03. I Assassin [demo]
04. Sound of Destruction [demo]
05. Savages [demo[
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TBT: The Hollywood Vampires, 3 years ago, on December 8, 2018, rehearsing and on the backstage of Alice Cooper’s 2018 Christmas Pudding, at the Celebrity Theater, in Phoenix, Arizona.