As if you didn't know already that MySpace is the ghetto of the internet, allow me to offer you this warning:

If you got a spam with a photo and clicked on it, AND if you were suddenly directed to the MySpace log-in page, AND THEN if you innocently "signed in"....

...voila and congratulations. Your profile was hacked. I just saw a bulletin board message from a good friend that was the following:

"i'm tired of everyone sending me messages asking how i pimp out my cell phone. to put an end to all the questions, here is the secret website i go to and get Free stuff for my phone: www.abunchofmorons.com."

(Of course, 'a bunch of morons' is not the real URL they dropped there, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna advertise it further. )

This is not the way she speaks, at all. So here's my advice in caps to everyone:

GO INTO YOUR ACCOUNT SETTINGS AND FERCHRISSAKES, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY, EVEN IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU WERE HACKED.

As social software goes, MySpace is verkrapt garbage, just in case you didn't notice. And by the way, if I wasn't a professional musician, I wouldn't be here. But it seems that it's a necessary evil to have a MySpace profile if in the performing arts.

Ick. Just ICK!

I ran into a tribe.net friend recently. She's a musician. She told me that I absolutely must join MySpace.com, because it's all starting to happen. Dunno. Looks like the interactivity on MySpace is limited in comparison to Tribe.net. In fact, there's a Tribe on Tribe.net called "MySpace Is For Hoochies." Nonetheless...

...I've decided to join up here, conisdering that this particular medium is more like advertising space for musicians. Probably a lot of my musical friends are on MySpace too. So I'll get a search going after I experiment with this here blog.

Okay, so I'm an old guy which makes me old skool right? Not so. If you listen to my music at www.vincognito.com, you'll find a generous offering of music from my CD, "Loop Du Jour".

I do live looping. I use a Lexicon JamMan and explore the use of multiple loops. I've experimented with everything. I'm as postmodern as anyone half my age, except that I've got the experience, the musicality and the skills. When people half my age come to see my shows, I always get plenty of kudos, accolades and plaudits for the guitar work and the looping itself.

I bill myself as "The Eclectic Guitarist", because I use and blend various styles together. I've been known to do a reggae version of Pachelbel's Canon; a funk version of Amazing Grace; a morphing loop called, "All Along The Bloody Stairway To Heaven", where I begin a loop by playing U2's "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", transform it into Jimi's "All Along The Watchtower" and then coda out with a huge version of the guitar solo section of "Stairway To Heaven."

I also jam with singer/songwriter, Spring and Matt Demerritt, who will momentarily be on my friends list.

Bottom line is, the only reason I'm writing this blog is to entertain myself while Tribe.net is undergoing maintenance. It's always exciting when they do this because there's always new bells & whistles I can add to my profile or work with as a tribe moderator.