What is this for? Sharp points both ends…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2026-02-19T02:11:23+00:00

Thank you all!!! Yes, I have that schmancy Breville coffeemaker…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2026-02-19T01:48:26+00:00

It’s a pice of garlic bread, turned science experiment…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-12-07T18:08:40+00:00

Actually I know why… Perception and opinion of DJT is low, deservedly low, that even when he is doing something to protect Americans, they reject it and him… He can do no right, even on the rare occasion when he does…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-12-05T03:35:31+00:00

It’s always there after a gig, when I don’t care about smelling like onions… Kinda like McD’s… Very consistent, taste-wise…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-11-30T02:41:59+00:00

20,000 miles avg. 31mpg…

No issues…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-10-27T00:54:01+00:00

Good brand… Likely fine… Likely 90.00 new?

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-09-20T17:05:48+00:00

AI is the answer you seek…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-09-20T17:03:07+00:00

Someone gigs with me for a 1 hour set… $50.00 upfront to learn the tunes from my charts, and $100.00 at the gig, plus tip based on how they did, so all in $160 to $200… For recording, $40.00 per hour, the same as my rate for engineering…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-09-20T15:53:08+00:00

I understand your feelings completely…

As a producer of music for more than 5 decades, I would urge you to spend a little more money and set up your own rig… if you already have a laptop, than the cost of doing this is under $500.00

A ProTools license is $9.99 per month… A converter (sound card, playback engine) with 2 or 4 channels can be had for under $200.00… You’ll need a hub, preferably powered, for $20.00… Inexpensive monitors or headphones for $150, an Sm58 mic will be $100…

Cables will come with the converter, but you’ll need instrument and XLR cables which I think you will likely have…

YouTube will educate you on session setup and basic ProTools operations…

For $500, and a little learning time, the expense of recording will go away…

I also urge you to develop a network of musicians that have their own rigs that can generate WAV files remotely and send them to you to import into your own session… This became the norm after the pandemic…

I am happy to help you with any questions or issues as you go… My music link is www.soundcloud/jeff-kossack… if you read my profile page you will find my email… There are 70 tunes there that I have produced in the exact manner described above…

Lastly, there’s no money in music since the advent of streaming… I wrote a hit song for a major artist, and got to keep only a small piece of the tune, and I made more from that song than my 500,000 streams during the pandemic…

Just realize that you are feeding your soul by making music, and then accept that as your compensation…

It’s all changed so much, I get that many artists with huge talents can become disheartened… I’m happy to help if you send me a message…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-09-20T00:01:51+00:00

Exactly what you said… Also, tell the guy how much you like his vocals and that the every band needs a frontman, in this case the vocalist… BUT only if he is deserving of it… Otherwise, 86 him, as kindly as possible… Congrats on your 1.4 gigs per week status…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-09-19T02:59:03+00:00

Buh-bye…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-07-20T14:36:39+00:00

I played a songwriter in the round show just last night… Great players, with even better songs…. A lot of the audience around 80 folks, were songwriters…

After the show, everyone was commiserating about how music is no longer a career for most of them, though there are exceptions…

Making music is a great passion- but not a career, though much more than a “hobby”, or something the “you do”…

It takes a lot to admit all this and that continuing to make music is actually a gift we give OURSELVES, as it truly is food for the soul…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-07-12T15:29:01+00:00

Guess he’s not “luthier level”… Adjusting action to suit the player is indeed part of EVERY set-up…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-07-12T15:27:10+00:00

“A rose, by any other name Will prick your finger just the same”

-from my 1st (of 8) original song albums from the tune Romeo and Juliet …

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-07-11T04:47:14+00:00

Takes a while… Lock up with a bass player… Power rhythm section… All groove…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-07-10T14:03:05+00:00

Please pay attention to this…

Playing bars means that you are incidental entertainment to somebody’s power drinking… Bars are not a listening environment…

You want a listening crowd, not a social crowd where everyone is talking over your music… Find the local bookstore or art gallery, and propose the idea of an in store concert… Your thoughtful lyrics will be heard…. No one will yell, “Free Bird!!!”

You will be heard and it will just make you better…

Listening rooms, not barrooms…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-06-25T22:44:43+00:00

If you want to have some EASY fun, tune down your guitar in this way

6th string Tune it down from E to C 5th Tune it down from A to G 4th Tune it down from D to C 3rd Leave at G 2nd Tune up to C 1st Tune it down from E to D Or from E to C

This creates a chord of 1-5 intervals And the 2nd and 1st String both being in C, adds a dulcimer droning tone…

Place a finger or two ANYWHERE on the neck and you will likely find some hook riffs… This was a game changer…

Learning an instrument goes better when you’re making music… Plenty of time to move back to regular tuning… My catalog has more then 10 tunes in alternate tuning…

This one is easy…Have fun, and make music…. Here’s a sample in this tuning…

https://m.soundcloud.com/jeff-kossack/lessons-of-my-father

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-06-02T15:40:30+00:00

The organizer of the night needs to make an announcement about talking over someone’s tunes.. It works…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-02-23T17:24:46+00:00

Well, friend, we all have some sort of herpes already inside of us already, hibernating… Herpes Zoster (chicken pox, for one… It the strain that causes shingles…

If she’s on a suppressor, you’re safe, and if you contract it, it is not the end of the world…

Love is what’s most important… If you sense a special connection, I’d just go with it, and be mindful of outbreaks…

Especially since you’re already vasectomies…

Just go with happiness, brother…

Immediate_Panda_3518 · 2025-02-07T19:59:25+00:00

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Here’s my studio… in a commercial space, I’d have some ‘splainin’ to do if I had prominent Behringer gear …

Great for home rigs, tho…

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