Matthew! I was starting to feel a little recognizant last night,
about this previous reply to you, call it being a little too glib, if you want.
I should have recognized your scientific use of technology, not taking it for granted,
and your efforts at compiling, when I didn't do anything more than just look at your home page.
Considering the questions I see you asking in other forums, I have some advice.
You should look at Kijiji.
A friend of mine used Kijiji for a social thesis for his university doctorate,
explaining what he was doing for me.
He was looking at various North American cities, evaluating there musical instruments for sale section,
to determine musical activity levels for various provinces, states, and the cities they include.
He saw that small Canadian cities could have over a hundred times more musical activity,
when a major American city barely had any.
All Kijiji musical pages have ads for musician services, from finding players and bands to recording.
But, as a musician myself, let me inform you about a new, social phenomena,
and that's the musicians who build up an online presence with "recordings",
either uploading pre-recorded songs or song videos, or using online domains to construct "songs".
Too many musicians answer ads for players for bands by saying, listen to me here, see me here,
but that's it, that's all they want to do, is get you to listen to them online,
never showing up or leaving that confine to be real in real time.
Steve Vai was the first recording guitarist to really disappoint me this way.
His magazine interviews were lengthy, trippy, professorial, and high-tech informative.
He was coming off as the most exciting new guitarist in America, out of L.A.
So when he was just over the border in Niagara Falls New York, with David Lee Roth,
a friend and I went to see him.
He was a very ordinary player, obviously using tech to speed his playing up, adding notes,
when he never came close to sounding that way live.
It was nice to see Billy Sheehan, who was playing bass.
I jammed with him when his big Buffalo band, Pegasus, played my home town.
That was a very popular Saturday matinee, non-stop jamming until band time at nine.
