New hearing and iPod.

Two things today. After seven years, I am planing to upgrade my hearing aid. The new HA is going awesome and more easy for my needs. Now since I found this out...the aid is competely Bluetooth so meaning I will use the wireless features. The problem with that is that I won't be able to use headphone jacks since my new hearing aid cable that connects to my headphone jack. Bummer. I won't be able to used my nano or the 80 gb classic ipod i  just ordered. I have never been a fan of the regular iPod touch. I have had three of them and to be honest, they are POS. The headphone jack on the touch is the worst that is why I use old iPods or Nanos. Now, since I will be using the Bluetooth tech, the new new touch that will be coming out in sept of this year will be better because it will have expandable memory instead of storage. I will have a bigger memory card to put all my media on it. That why I got that classic. So in summary, I will have a new hearing aid for first time in seven years, hear better, and like the touch a little bit better.

I will never conform

My music is so misunderstood. Everyone says they want a fresh take on music yet, its right there in front of them but they take unoriginal shit because it conforms with the standards of music. I don't sing but that doesn't mean I need to sing in order for my music to have meaning. Maybe I don't need to sing because my music is strong and already meaningful thru my fingers. I take influence from Post-Rock and Shoegaze but I fresh it up. I have been compared to some bands that I love but people would say that its something they never heard of despite that its similar to the bands I love. I have such a hard time playing shows because I don't conform to their ideals of music. Everyone here has a narrow mind yet they want something new and fresh. IMO, if its not your taste, it doesn't mean that your taste is everyone else taste. Look, I don't want money or fame, I just want to play and show what my music is, what I do and enjoy doing. I am not trying to be somebody...I'm just me. I love music, that i even give away my music for those who want it. I fucking play for free, because I enjoy so much, I'm not bitching about getting paid or anything, I don't even care if I play to three people, as along those three people were listening. I enjoy it that much, its not a job for me, its not something I want to get paid for. I will and live by the Joe Bonamassa style of music ideals, I will keep going and never stop the music I WANT TO PLAY even if you don't want it or understand it.  If I wasn't medical franige, I moved away from this place or just quit music and keep it to my self.

The point is: Don't conform for your passion, pay it forward, help unknown ORIGINAL HARD WORKING musicians. After all, we all want the fucking american dream. If its something you like, don't give it up, I sound like I'm giving up and I thinking I am but I don't want you to. I deal with too much stuff to keep doing this and for people not to understand...its not worth it. I don't know if my music would have made in past, like in the 70's or 80's or 90's, I don't fucking know. All I know is, I'm not going to make, I'm giving up, I don't care. Music is going no where for me so I am just going to give it up.

And oh yeah, I once played at a dinner place and got a $20 dollar tip from a couple, the only couple eating at that diner. I guess either they like the fresh diverse sound I had and set(Although my mom said I sound the same) or they just felt sorry for me. I don't know.

I scored this Peavey Envoy 110 at the Flea Market Sunday April 19th

While I was at the Nipomo Swap Meat, coming back to get some anime that I saw, I saw this amp. I asked the guy for how much. First, he saw the known-age of me knowing what the hell a peavey amp was. To show proof of that, I told him that I had a bunch of Peaveys, and have two in setup: T-30 and Patriot. I guess he like since he held for me and gave me a deal on. This amp is so awesome and loud for solid state. These solid state peavey amps are so awesome that they sound similar to a tube amp and sound really great with fuzz and dirt, which is a plus for me. With my T-30, I have the original amp case, with the amp inside and its awesome. I remember when I plugged the T-30 amp and played it, it had a similar sound to a tube believe or not because of the fuzz textures. That's why I picked up this amp because I need something to take with me on small open mics  and friends houses without the heavy weight and this is all I need. It still has the original Spring Reverb Tank.

Anne Hathaway video and pedalboard that was used.

My last video of Anne Hathaway was out of tuned because my t30, it innation but it fixed and will use it for cousins 2015 video, it will be the guitar solo only. I'm using my Patriot by Peavey and using a couple EQD pedals. You can see the board here:

Review for last years lackluster "A Very Serious Knock-Knock Joke"

This guy has written a really great and honest review of my lackluster work of my third album: A Very Serious Knock Knock Joke. He right on point about this not being my best work. I thank him and admired him for his honest review. You must think I'm crazy for not bashing him, but he's right. This is a guy who knows his stuff about music and not some weird close-minded motherfucker who think SLASH (the guitarist) is god.

Read the review here: http://cerebralrift.org/2014/04/01/very-serious-knock-knock-joke-is-no-april-fools-prank/

Don't bash him. He is good for his reviews and I am honor to have my work reviewed and telling me what I need to work on better.

Classic Track by P.V. Herrera "Olivia Wilde"

This track was recorded during the sessions of the out of print "Goat" in 2011. It never made it onto "Goat" due to it mood. At the time, I liked Olivia Wilde because of her role in House. She was in a good episode in season five, try to find it. The drums were by me, I can only do drums on my own songs. You can find this track as a bonus track on the album "Cigarettes and Weddings".

tags: #freemusic #freedownload #actress #music #songbasedonperson #postrock #shoegaze #2011 #pvherrera

The first time I listened to Kid A by Radiohead

I became a fan of Radiohead after listening to Karma Police, which impacted me in a big way and made me take the unused acoustic guitar in my grandparents garage which made me play acoustic for acoustic songs since I couldn't do the same on a unplugged Eleectirc guitar.

Anyways, I was 16, it was in June or July of 2007 and I was playing teiris on my iPod( remember those days?) and i listen to kid a straight thru. My first time of listening to it was in my room, on a couch from target, with a old iPod and just loving the beats and sounds. It became my favorite Radiohead album like many others. Don't get me wrong I love old Radiohead Rock albums like the bends and ok computer, but it show me how a band must evolved and can evolved. If you can't grow as a musician and as a artist, i don't the answer, but I think it's important.

Because of this album,i wrote my own kid a style album called Vera Dynamite, which was uses of synthesizers mostly. That show me to grow from my roots of punk and classic rock.

Then i heard Sigur Ros in 2008, which we will talk about in another post.

Bye.

tags: #radiohead #kida #music #albumsthatinspriedme #pvherrera

Postrocker

A few things about me

I am a local guitar player

I enjoy make melodies and not shredding. A girl that I asked out before ask me if I was a shredder when I told her i played guitar. I wrote a album about her and gave it to her.

I enjoy anime and which I named an album after an anime called Death Note, which Gus Van Saint will be directing a american version of it. It will probably be shitty considering american adaptions are shitty of japanese stuff. I LOVE DEATH NOTE.

I am not  a joke, I do joke a lot  but I am not a joke. I make very serious knock knock jokes. 

I do like to play shows but no one seems to care about what I do. I want shows, have the skills, played with some good bands like EL Ten Eleven in 2013 and Pit Per Pat and Evangicails in 2008. 

I think Myspace was a good form of social music media. We had better contacts with other musicians and could get shows easily via message sometimes. Back then, I was an horrible musician with no skills but after my depression and smelling the coffee I became better and played better. I wish we still have the old MySpace for music because just like we are in a recession, we are in music media recession. And I could’ve not ruined my persona and making people think that I suck at music and did not grow as musician. I did suck back then but I grew and am better now, which is part of the human life.

Yeah, oh and here some links:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQfdibtYzntJgnVpcrnLXQg

https://soundcloud.com/p-v-herrera

http://pvherreraoffical.blogspot.com

P.S. I am also effect pedal nerd and a snobby one too.

My j Macsis Jazzmaster

When I got this Jazzmaster, it didn't come with a tremolo arm and just a while ago, I modded myself. What I did was get a gorralla tape and tape the steel arm holder and then stuck in it to hold in place. Just about two days ago, I basically had the tape and the arm become one (that's doesn't make sense), meaning I put the arm on top of the tape and it doesn't come lose or anything. I am getting cool sounds out it.

I got this jazzmaster in the fall of 2012, about a month or so before my surgery in the hole in my stochen. I remember before buying I would play it and sounded good. I really like the Fender Japan stuff better then the American stuff (That's just my option, I always had tried the american and I just don't like the feel of the neck and stuff). These guitars are a lot of money like $1299 brand new back in the day, I got mine on consignment at a little guitar store called Coelho Music (mostly is a place to get lessons, but he got stuff that are cool and rare to the naked eye) in Santa Maria. You probably thought I was going to say Lighting Joes, but no, I think small places have better stuff sometimes and they are not always found beacause their small. The guitar was in really great condion when I got it. My grandma bought for me, herself thinking that to much for a guitar but she don't know the real value. Big bang for my buck, or in other words, my grandma's buck. 

Picture one: My mod for the tremolo arm

My Jazzy

tags: #jazzmaster #guitar #fender #fenderguitars #awesome #purple

Crystal Clearwater song meaning and story behind making it.

Memories of it:

Back in 2008, I began to explore the sounds of post-rock and shoegaze. This is one of the early songs that I wrote in that year. The loop you hear in the begining, I remember how it was made, I was working on one of my early albums, a album you have some of you have not heard and is hidden in my archvies, called "Death Smiles and the Angels Fall", a double album, and a sqeurl to my other early album "Vera Dynatime", which some of you have but not all. It just came to me, by accident, the loop meoldy was perhaps the most beauiftul sound I heard and back then, if you knew me, my sound did not sound like it does now. This is somewhat my flagship song. It was nearly a month before Prom and I really wanted to impress a girl with this song, but she never gave me a time a day to even listen to the song. Back then, there was myspace, and bands actually listen to other bands music. There was band from Lompoc, the name I can't recall, but the lead singer/acoustic guitarist, after I recorded it and released on myspace, heard and said it was one of the most beauiftul things he had ever heard.

in 2010, during the time of my depression, this song acutally made me skip a show because it didn't make the timing right and playing, and that was the time that I started to hate real digital delays (digital analog and tape echos are fine for me), becauase I couldn't get the time right, in reality the delay time was too long, and I got super pissed off and just said "Fuck it". I was in a really bad place at that time. But in the same year, a couple months later, I remember my mom's friend and her children came to visit for the first time (right around the time that Frank Black came to SLO, the second time), I striped down my pedalboard and worked my way up and started to use this song as a practice tool. I started to work on the timing and playing better, using my head to think, until it became auto to me.

It still a regular on the setlists today in 2013-14. Also, it one of my favorites to play. When I play a guitar and/or a amp, I use this song to see if it works with the amp or guitar that I am trying out.

Meaning behind the song

Most of the time post rock songs don't have meaning, at least to me, because they are wordless songs, but I have wrote lyrics for this song back in 2012. When I write lyrics, I just write words without realizing what the meaning it out, its basically my sub-consusic writng my words and it isn't until I read them and figure out what it means. Based on the lyrics, its about sudcide by jumping off a edge, more like a hill, and going to the afterlife. The twist is that someone is watching, and is decding to wait to go die naturally or go after that person and be with them in death. Weird idea but I did however posted in my creative wrting class and it was a hit with the old and smart people.