Song: Allison Iraheta – Just Like You

John Lennon selling a car. Is this reality? What’s even weirder is it sounds more to me like someone impersonating him rather than his actual voice. It’s funny though how celebrity endorsements work. I’m seeing a musician I love featured next to some car and some of those good feelings transfer over. Subtle and devious! But really Steve, did Lennon really have anything to do with this considering he was killed almost 30 years ago?

Song: Brian Littrell – I’m Alive

In an earlier blog I mentioned how I saw one of my favorite bands, The Click Five, at a venue called Jammin Java. These guys are not a huge band, but their song “Just The Girl” made it to #11 in Billboard back in 2005, so they’re a real band. Like I said, I think they’re awesome.

…And now I just played the same stage I saw them perform on! As George Costanza would say “I’m busting!” It’s a new personal musical high for me, and I’m proud of it.

…to an extent. It was also one of Elementary’s worst performances. The audience didn’t seem to notice, they all said we did pretty well. I even recorded it straight from the soundboard (recording-wise, my best recording yet) and it wasn’t that bad. But internally, as one of the musicians up on that stage I could tell we were not at 100%. At least twice I looked over at Nate and we both just shook our heads and laughed. I did my best to struggle with a guitar that was just not happy with me tuning-wise. I was pretty rough vocally (luckily not too many bad notes, but my voice was almost completely gone because of an illness.) I think the other band members felt similarly.

In the back near where we load in, there’s a spray painted wall that many of the bands sign. I signed and dated it to prove I played there! As far as the band goes, we’re going to need to make some improvements in order to get to the next level. Luckily we don’t have too many shows booked for a bit, so we’ll have plenty of time to buckle down.

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Song: Chantal Kreviazuk – Feels Like Home

What – you didn’t like the new SteverOnline Layout?

So I was checking on SteverOnline yesterday, which is something I do everyday (which is weird, considering I’m the only one who can update …or so I thought!) and I discovered some changes had gone on during the night. The changes were that MY SITE GOT HACKED AND THE FRONT PAGE WAS GONE. The blog photo here is a (miniaturized) capture of what it looked like. From what I gather it’s either a hacker from Saudi Arabia or someone trying to pretend they are. They’ve gotten a lot of sites recently, not just SteverOnline, and here’s what my host company had to say:

“The hacker had gained access into the server and had replaced all index files causing it to be defaced using his page. We were able to identify the hacker IP and script used for which the latter has been removed from the server. Our admins are working at the moment in closing all open doors that caused the issue and securing the server to prevent such attacks in the near future.”