A Tri-Force of Independent Music Women.

Lindsey Stirling, Amy Lee and Orianthi Panagaris.

 I personally have listed to all 3 of these incredible women over the last 10 years. Each in their own genres of music, they both dominate and inspire in every way of musical excellence.
 Through trials and tribulations against their art, they have shown the world that they are strong, talented and will not be silenced or shutdown.
  I can honestly say that I haven't heard all of their music, but I am making a firm effort to find and listen to all their music.
 Amy Lee was my first encounter in this musical force. Her singing with the band Evanescence hooked me from the first moment it hit my ear drums. I have been hooked on her music ever since. Her ability with a microphone and a piano gives me chills and raises the hairs on my back to new heights of enjoyment that makes me thankful that my ears function properly. The story of her beginnings and where she is now, is truly inspiring.
 I was introduced to Orianthi Panagaris through Michael Jackson's movie "This is it". I can only imagine what her career might have been if the King of Pop had gone on his final tour with her. Her ability with the 6 string guitar is truly Amazing. You can name off  on one hand the top female guitarist in the world. She by far towers high above them. To see and hear the beautiful rifts that come off of her fingers tickling the strings of a "axe", is something every pair of ears needs to hear and appreciate. Her tale of discovery and continued excellence is beyond words of Divinity.
 I discovered Lindsey Stirling last of the 3 women. I happened across one of her videos on Youtube quite by chance about 4 years ago. It was astounding at the time I didn't think it was real. Then just yesterday I heard her hauntingly Awesome violin again over Satellite Radio. When I arrived home and looked her up, I was amazed that it was the same woman I had seen 4 years earlier.  I began searching the web and discovered that her playing and style was not only REAL, but Magnificent. I'm still discovering all that she is and I can say I am thoroughly impressed, especially with the resistance she originally received. When reading about where she came from and how she has succeeded in her craft is incredible.
 
 Then it struck me. 3 women, 3 string instruments, A tri-force of Music Power the likes of which no ear has ever heard.
 To combine Amy Lee's Piano, Lindsey Stirling's Violin and Orianthi Panagaris' Guitar, would be to possibly bring into creation the most epic music machine that has ever existed on this earth. If the talent of these three incredible women could be brought together for a song, a single, an album, a concert, a tour; could we possibly see .... Dare I say it... Music to tame the savage heart of mankind!

Oh what a incredible melody that could be.

Take these words as you will. Just the thoughts of a fan struck by these 3 amazing women of music.

Lindsaey Stirling - Shatter Me feat. Lzzy Hale

Orianthi Panagaris - Right Now

Evanescence - The Change

This Injustice Must End: The Ticketmaster Monopoly

The Consumerist » Uncle Sam Cool With Live Nation/Ticketmaster Monopoly:
Time to break TicketMaster’s monopoly?
More on Ticketmaster’s legal ‘ticket scalping’ | AEIdeas:
The Ticketmaster Monopoly - Geek.com Stuff - Geek.com:
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Above are links to sites where others have posted and made information available about the ridiculous injustice that exists in the United States of America today.

 Ticketmaster has a monopoly on the ticketing of music and entertainment events all across the country. If you want to go to a concert for your favorite band, you have to go  through Ticketmaster to get those tickets. Now I say this because even if you go to a different company that will purchase the tickets for you, they have to go through Ticketmaster to get those tickets.  What's truly sad about this is that our government can see and knows that this is a monopoly but refuses to make any moves to change it.  Why this is, baffles me.   I don't want to assume corruption or bribes through campaign contributions or just negligence on our state legislature-rs, but and answer needs to be found and changes must be made.

   I have a frame at home that holds all of the concert tickets for the shows I have attended since I was in High School.  Almost every single one of them has the Ticketmaster logo on them. Many of them were purchased through ticket-vendors around town. The more recent ones were purchased online. Which is always, even if going through my favorite bands website, routed to Ticketmaster.
   The ticket prices are usually acceptable amounts that I'm willing to pay. I don't even go for different then general seating because I usually can get great seats. What is ridiculous is the charges that come after the ticket purchase; Convenience charge, Handling charge, etc... In the end you've paid for your ticket and your halfway to paying for a second ticket. Plus the amounts are not even reasonable considering the amount of people attending these events. I can understand service charges for purchasing online but the amount is completely unreasonable. Even if the show doesn't sell out, Ticketmaster is making a gigantic profit just off of the additional charges. What's worse is that if you average out how many concerts are held every year and you add up those additional charges, Ticketmaster keeps that for themselves and doesn't share with the performers or the venues.

   More than anything else. The people are the ones who are screwed out of their enjoyment. This all comes back harder on the people who have to pay to go to the show. There is the enormous price on the tickets, then the high prices for food and drink at the venue as well as parking and transportation to the venue.  Ticketmaster can be placed as the Primary suspect for the current state of the Entertainment and Music Concert Tours that go one throughout the country today.  All the prices for the shows are stemmed from Ticketmaster not sharing it's profits with the partners of its ticketed events.

  What's worse is that Ticketmaster takes jobs off the market that could exist as part of the normal consumer market.  Ticketmaster is the only game in town when it comes to ticketing for events.  If there were 2 or 3 companies that could offer tickets besides Ticketmaster, there would be a major change in how the economy of concerts and events was handled. First off, if you look at the size of Ticketmaster's employment; slice it in half and you see how many jobs would be available if another company existed in the market.  That's around a 1,000 jobs right there. When Live Nation was started, it looked like a change in the concert music scene. Many were hopeful that Live Nation would finally change how Ticketmaster did business and force them to change their ways.  But then Ticketmaster's partnership with Live Nation took that all away.

  It is a classic story of how a single company has used and abused the people for it's own selfish needs instead of the promotion of entertainment and art in our country. The only way this story ends, is that the people need to stand against this tyranny and force a change for the betterment of our economy and our low job rates. By forcing Ticketmaster to break up it's company and release Live Nation as a independent ticketing vendor, will we see a change in the amounts we have to pay for events as well as a change in how these events are handled.
 This only happens if you make that change. So go online and post your opinion. Contact your state official's and refuse to use Ticketmaster for your concert going needs. Before change can happen, you have to push for the change.

Bring Guitar Hero Back!

This article goes right to the heart of the problem with Guitar Hero and shows how to bring it back in to the league of gaming a New!
Guitar Hero: What Now? | ScrewAttack.com

Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes - Bloomberg

Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes - Bloomberg:

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Doesn't matter if Apple has a head start, look how long it took Google Android phone to catch the iPhone in sales. I think we will see a similar action against iTunes. :)

Seriously though, Apple is the top gun in this situation. Even with Amazon and Spotify as competitors, Google is the challenger to Apple. Google has shown that people who enjoy easy access to their apps and internet while on the go, can give what they want for a cheaper price and easier problem solving. In many ways we are looking at a new match that used to be Microsoft and Apple. Now it's Google and Apple.

The funny thing is that Google may be late getting the store up, but they were one of the first for creating a cloud service for music storage and access, besides Amazon. Granted Amazon got to the line first, but Google came right back and offered access for free, no fees. Also the storage on Google's Music is much larger then what Apple and Amazon offer and requires no purchases to have access.

   Apple iTunes has the massive library, also ease of purchasing both on your computer and through mobile devices as well as easy sync of music and apps, not to mention back-up. Google does have a big monster of a dragon to slay in matters of iTunes. But as the defeat of the Apple iPhone has shown, Google is up to the task.