Time Keeps on Slippin' Slippin' Slippin'...

No, I didn't record that Steve Miller song, but I did just spend 4 hours solid trying to get "I Put a Spell on You" on the blog! Yes, thats 4 hours! Sheesh! But I love to learn and now I know what NOT to do!! AND... success! Benjamin Franklin had a hundred failures before he got the light bulb to work, so I'm in good company. To listen, go to my profile, and click on the audio clip that's towards the top.

Oh, and if I'm going to keep doing this, I realize now that I have to do the mechanical royalties thing so I can be on the up and up! For you musicians out there, check out HFA songfile for the scoop. So, though I was intending to just be a studio geek/artist, writing and playing to my hearts content, I'm ending up (today) doing computer geek stuff and (Monday) researching and paperworking legalities. Oh goody! Maybe I'll be back in the saddle by Tuesday. Sunday is sacred hubby territory, no music/work/geek stuff allowed. Just wonderful mushy stuff like sleeping in, making breakfast together, tending our (totally cool!!) garden and sitting on the deck watching the dolphins go by.

I'll get "Spell" polished up and re-posted, then on to my second song! What should it be?? Hmm. Last night I performed at Albies in Mission Valley, and a few songs really stuck to my ribs. "Some Enchanted Evening" has got to be the sweetest song on the planet. I like that Kid Rock/Sheryl Crowe song "Picture," it's really good for my voice. Even that old Sherell's song (how the heck do you spell Sherell?) "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is fun! Those stuck out last night. We'll see! What crazy impetuous thoughts stir in the subconscious of Rose? Mwa ha ha! We'll soon find out!

For Tech geeks only:

For all you tech geeks snickering at me, here's what took me 4 hours. I had my .wav file on a mac, I converted it using audacity to mp3 on my PC, then tried to make a URL out of it, first using my website builder Intuit program. No luck. So I tried to put it on my actual website. No go. So I tried to put it on You Tube, and FINALLY discovered you cant convert mp3 to URL, it has to be mpeg. I tried to convert using my Adobe Premiere Elements, only to find you HAVE to have a video, not just music, to convert to You Tube. So I got a still picture, but then I had to learn how to make a still picture last 4 1/2 minutes for a video. Out came the tech manual. Got it to work, dragged the wav file over, converted it, sent it to You Tube, copied and pasted the file to Blogspot and there you are. Now I know what to do next time and it will take me about 5 minutes. (Stop snickering already!)