[KiwiHopeful]

Originally Posted by selchie

Darn, I missed it. How'd it go?

The parts of it I saw went pretty well. I was having some connection problems--no surprises there, since I can't ever seem to smoothly stream any videos here. I think the particular technology is a little limiting in that it was hard to both watch the chat in the right-side frame and the video in the center.

That said, John Herman is a new media wiz ... I'm sure that when he next tries it, they'll find a way to overcome the limits of the current platform.

As an aside, this was IMHO the coolest project John was part of:

On another front, Herman recently put together a CD. It started when he read about musician Jon Nolan's RPM Challenge in The Wire and decided to take its challenge to create a CD in 28 days. He had no band. And he's not a musician. But he is a former music reviewer for Pitchfork Media (Home: Pitchfork), an independent online site.

Herman contacted bands as far away as Italy, with whom he had no more than a reviewer's relationship, and made them into a single entity. He named the band The Man Who Was Thursday, after a book he'd read. Tracks were moved between participants, each adding to the work.

"No one heard the album in-progress, but me and Joseph K. Murphy. I'd get a banjo track from a player. We'd send the banjo to Italy and have them put a drum to it. I loved that. It's extremely collaborative." There may even be another "Thursday" CD in the future.

He's going to be one of those guys who paid his dues for years and years who will one day make it big and everyone will write about him that he 'came out of nowhere.'