AutoTune

Auto tune sounds like Astro turf looks!

The auto tuned singers are out!
Fake and phony is done!
Leave that noise for elevators!
Musicians are moving on!

Yes it is official in music
The auto tuned era is done
Fake is over, and real is back!
Which side are you on?

World of Musea

BEFORE YOU / INTERVIEW

Slowly I’m getting some recognition for all my work. That’s nice, but I note that in all the interviews I’ve had from the past, I’ve gotten the same response from both the interviewer and the audience. HUH?

Here in this post is a list of some things I might mention in an interview. For most listeners they would think I am talking in a different language.

Musea Readers of long standing, see how many on the list you can recall.

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Who is Musea for and against?

Name any two doors of the Five Doors to the Art Revolution video series.

What is the reason for the Texas Video Showdown?

Name three zines in the Zine Hall of Fame.

What is People Power , and how can it bring power in any emergency.

What is a Standup in art, and how has it escaped the wall?

What Dallas Street do I suggest should become a pedestrian walkway?

What is the Big LIst?

When and where was the last moment of Modern Art?

Why was 12 By 12 Records called a co-op record company?

What is “John and Martha”, a five act illustrated short story.

Name aspects of the art (painting) revolution.

Name a poem video.

What does Z.H.O.F stand for?

What is the 3 year science program for the world?

Recite a single line from any of my 2,500 Original Songs.

Name three columnists that have written for Musea.

Who is Corporate Art / Media?

Name two points from my UV paper on the Origin of Life.

What is, “Writings in Science”?

What direction do I suggest all evolution follows.

What are the Four Options and how do they determine all behavior.

What is psy phy physics and define the acronym dimp.

Name three of my websites.

Name two world’s firsts in music, connected to Tom Hendricks/ Hunkasaurus.

My large Sci-fi novel Writings in Science, is written in what form?

What is Pennies for Play online? How would it help everyone that makes creative content.

Name any instrumental I’ve written and recorded.

What are art envelopes?

Why does Musea think fair reviews are so important

Name one of the educational reforms in my essay on education.

Define a Quatro, Vision, or a Readymade, in poetry.

Why is Ben Bagdikian important to the art revolution?

Name any three of my books.

Name any of the ten points in the essay, “Ten Solutions.”

Name any point from the essay “Cogitology.” Who co-wrote it?

What does playing the guitar in the Combo Style, mean?

What is the music revolution?

What two recommendations does Musea make for all arts.

Where do hundreds of sayings like, “I don’t dumb down, so please wise up,” come from?

What is the History of Rock and Roll part one and two.

What is a CBA?

Name a Musea essay.

Name one of my short short plays.

What is the 150 song, outside-the-box set?

What is the Wheel Music Group, and why is it so important.

What is Musead?

What changes does Musea suggest for the NEA?

How does wiki college work?

Why do I suggest that Hollywood (and Broadway) have jumped the shark.

Name a golden age of film going on now.

Why should theater workers protest the Hollywood film industry?

What are Box Office Concerts?

Name one of my 9,000 poems.

What is the National Workers Organization and what national organization is it based on.

Name any of the 27 points from the Censored Art News article.

What is a bagatelle, and what music form is it usually written in.

Who are David McGhee, G.K.H. Bryant, Michael Helsem, Tevil X Bloom, Sparrow X Carter, Scott Jacob Loehr. – each a great artist in his field.

For answers see the website tomhendricks.us and follow the links.

Hunkasaurus Dot Com is Back

Dear Reader,Hunkasaurus dot com is BACK!
Webmaster Matthew Creed had set up all of my 150 songs to preview on a CDBaby framework, the company that distributes my music online and pays royalties. But CDBaby stopped it’s player.
Matthew found a substitute framework that has brought back preview snippets of all 150 studio version songs in my 9 CD OUTSIDE THE BOX SET. Fun to explore and as I always say – try a hundred or so of my songs and see what you think!
Hunkasaurus DOT come.

Tom, Why Don’t You Play Your Guitar Right?

HEY TOM, WHY DON’T. YOUR SONGS SOUND LIKE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO SOUND?
Here are some differences that are on purpose!
For me songs should be at 2 minutes, 3 minutes for Ballads, that forces the song to have just the essentials and no excess repeats. Motto: stop playing before they stop listening!
The other thing is my guitar playing. This is what I call combo guitar style, not a singer songwriter, not a band something in between something new, where I play bass, rhythm, and lead, at the same time on one guitar. This single guitar leads to a more direct, passionate, and personal song. Though I will add that in my studio recordings I expand this to background vocals, and sometimes a 2nd standard guitar for a fuller sound.
Besides playing a lot of maj7, diminish, and suspended chords, I often play these with ringing open notes, such as an open A on a Bflat chord. I also often make up chords to enhance the melody.
So I encourage you to take these things as new ideas.
Those that like the older style are certainly welcome to do covers of my songs, some have already.

Music That Challenges

MUSIC THAT CHALLENGES:

Part of what I’m doing has challenged the thinking of many:

1. Get back to basics – don’t over produce your music – let the song through, don’t muddy it with technical clutter.
2. D-Pop where the song is what counts. What doesn’t count is the promotional budget or the fame. Then all are on a level playing field with every new recording.
3. Don’t do videos – Videos are a trick that only about 9 ever promoted pop stars can afford with minimum budgets of $100,000 to make (at least) That is a trick to let money count, not quality, and block out all indie musicians that can’t afford it.
4. Support pennies for play – where everywhere you post your song, you get a penny per play. Customers pay to hear music, like a jukebox online. Works for all content.
5. Fair, no ad revue sites – open to all. Where EVERYONE gets a professional review for a fair processing fee per song.
6. The Music Revolution – that would change every aspect of music and get you a chance at a career by ending the monopoly of the Big 3 Labels that block out new music and prop up the same 9 pop stars you see promoted year after year.
7. Take a break from bands for awhile ( the usual electric guitars, bass, drums). This will force musicians to be innovative instead of fit a 60 year old formula done so well by thousands of others from last century.
8. No corporate radio station will play a protest song. Take away their licenses.
9. New type of Combo guitar playing where I try to play bass, rhythm, and lead all on one guitar. Style that is half way between band and singer songwriter.

You may agree or disagree with a point or two – but they are new ideas, progressive ideas, challenging ideas that will help make music exciting, fun, and out side of corporate hands!

Tom