ON-DISC Artwork for the NEW Orgy Of Noise - Tricks & Treats DVD

New Orgy Of Noise DVD is Due Out on October 30, 2009.

* RRRROCKIN' in ROCKTOBER '09 *

WHOLE LOTTA OCTOBER SUNDAY THRILLS...

* OCT 4 - Mission Of Burma
@ MIT - Cambridge, MA

* OCT 11 - Them Crooked Vultures
@ House Of Blues - Boston, MA

* OCT 18 - Birthdays: Chuck Berry, Pam Dawber, Wynton Marsalis,
Lee Harvey Oswald, Laura Nyro, & MY DAD

* OCT 18 - The Flea @ MIT - Cambridge, MA (DAY)

* OCT 18 - Forbes Graham, Boston Lamb & Veal, Gang Clan Mafia
@ Piano Factory - Boston, MA (NIGHT)

* OCT 25 - 'ZBC - Bill T Miller/Orgy Of Noise live set/interview
on High Voltage Circumcision Show hosted by Deftly-D

* OCT 30 - Orgy Of Noise - Tricks & Treats DVD Screenings
@ Headroom Studios - Allston, MA

* OCT 31 - Out of Band Experience (OBE) - 20th Anniversary
Groatclusters Flexi-Disc Single (Halloween 1989)

Magick 8-Ball sez... All Signs Point to YES... Thank You !

UPDATE: Original post was on Sunday September 27th... it is now Tuesday September 29th and my surfing of the luck plane has tilted (slightly) as I am now once again (along with 76,575 lucky people) a Mega Millions Lotto Winner! Yessirreeee, I matched three numbers for a whopping SEVEN BUX. YES.

MY FORTUNE COOKIE sez...
First think of what you want to do
then do what you have to do.

Voidstar Productions presents ORDNANCE @ The Armory in Somerville (Boston) on 9.27.09

* SEE YOU THERE * early show = 5pm-9:30pm * MORE INFO HERE !

Since there were a few pro photogs around, I only I snapped TWO PHOTOS (see one above) of the projection screens.

If you look carefully in (the above snap by Erik Jacobs) you can see me front and center for max stereo effect perspective.

DEFTLY-D entitled THIS PHOTO (by Erik Jacobs)....
"now give me your best horde of zombies ready to eat my braaaaaains look!"

SEE MORE PHOTOS by Erik Jacobs at Boston Globe Online.

an evening with MARIANNE FAITHFULL and her band @ Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford (Boston) on 9.26.09

AUDIO SWEETS

Final audio sweetening mix tweekage (via Pro Tools) for the Orgy Of Noise Trick & Treats DVD due out on October 30, 2009. MMM...

SEE VIDEO PLAYLIST from Orgy Of Noise DVD !

THIS YouTube playlist has a dozen OON videos embedded.
JUST LET IT PLAY...
CLICK to SEE FULL SIZE VIDEOS - OrgyOfNoise.com/dvd/

Circuit Bent Robots Luv OrgyOfNoise.com

Autumnal Equinox * Happy Halloween Kids !

Fall is here.... foliage, tricks, treats and more. My local supermarket has been selling aisles of Halloween since late August. Seems like they should at least wait until fall. Before we know it November 1st will kick off the X-Mas season. Since I tend to release records, cds, dvds, etc on October 31, Halloween is always special around Headroom. Starting twenty years ago with the OBE Groatclusters Flex-Disc back on Halloween 1989.

October 30 will see the release of the Orgy Of Noise "Tricks & Treats" DVD and then October 31st will kick off a year long Out of Band Experience (OBE) 20th Anniversary celebration with lost outtakes, photos, and a MAKING OF the CLASSIC OBE CALL NOW ALBUM on DVD that will out on October 31, 2010.

Tricks & Treats DVD by Orgy Of Noise !!!!!!!

Due Out on October 30, 2009.
SHOW (TTs) & STUDIO (Headroom) & PHOTOS

ORGY OF NOISE - PLAGUE - complete album .....free download - 320 kbps mp3s, flac, aac, ogg vorbis, apple lossless and ARTWORK

*
listen... download... burn... share...


DOWNLOAD ORGY OF NOISE PLAGUE CD - 320kbps MP3
& flac, aac, ogg vorbis, apple lossless...
(from BandCamp.com)

DOWNLOAD ORGY OF NOISE PLAGUE CD - 128kbps MP3
(from MP3ORGY.com)

BURN THIS CD. Artwork available.

* ALL FIFTEEN BTM ALBUMS are still available as 128kbps MP3s at MP3ORGY.com, but I am slowly upgrading to 320K MP3s.

U2 360º Tour Boston 9.20.09 & U2 Horizon Tour 2008 & U2 War Tour 1983

THIS SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY... U2 Super Duper 360º Rock Show at the Mega Football Stadium in Boston. No monster trucks or Patriots football team cheering, but my guess is the crowd won't be much different. Since I don't do sports and generally miss mega huge rock shows, the only time I ever went to Foxboro was to see THE WHO back in July '89. Had excellent floor seats. Of course The Who concerts I saw in CA in 1976 were even more fun.


Killer seats for this U2 show (see red circle)... I MIGHT even bring a camera. Saw the last U2 No Line on the Horizon tour at The Garden in Boston and kept thinking.... how many follow spotlights does Bono need to prove his rock stardom-ness? I lost count at sixteen and thought it must cost a fortune in gear, truck, hotels, paychecks etc to keep just the spotlight crew on the road. It appears they outdid that with their 360º spaceship staging. Truth his I would just assume see them with a simple rig of a couple of amps, pedals and very basic drum and lighting rig with ENO and DANIEL LANOIS in the band or at least opening the show. Or just an evening with U2... they did that small stage show at a small theater in Boston area last year for the who's who and the lucky few and I missed that one. Oh well.

Closest I will ever get to a simpler U2 show is when I saw them in North Carolina on the opening date of their WAR TOUR (with Todd Rundgren.) Check out photos,interviews and info by Deacon Light of that April 23, 1983 show. Look for Bono with white flag up in the lighting rig tower.

After going to so many underground indie type shows, it is always fun to go to one of these bloated rock star shows and see bands I saw in the 60s-70s-80s still banging away. See you there.

PS: NO MIT FLEA for ME today. Prob catch OCTOBER FLEA. Might go a hundred yards down the street to check out Allston Street Fair this Sunday afternoon.... but who knows. It's really hard to complain about too much non-stop entertainment happenings around town.... except that I can't consume it all.

DIGGIN' into the ARTWORK for NEW OON DVD...

WERE YOU THERE at the ORGY OF NOISE SHOW at TTs on 10.30.08? ...if so, POST in COMMENTS (below) - http://billtmiller.blogspot.com

B&W FILM PHOTOS by SNAPPED by the one and only JON STRYMISH of the ORGY OF NOISE Show on 10.30.08

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ALL PHOTOS is THIS POST are by
Jon Strymish - strymish.com

SEE MORE ORGY OF NOISE by STRYMISH...
HERE! & HERE!
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REMEMBER CLICK on PHOTOS to SEE LARGER VERSION

---> wet show screen <---

OrgyOfNoise.com

Flashback 2005-2006....... Boston Phoenix Club Shots by Bill T Miller

- Amanda Palmer - Miss Pussycat - Dana Colley
- Vampire Belt - Elisa Ambrigio
- Matmos - Wolf Eyes - Mr. Butch

* Boston Phoenix Club Shots by Bill T Miller *

click to see images to see larger versions

SEE MORE BTM PHOTOS

Photo-Me

SEE MORE PHOTOS by BTM

THIS is the Best Video (That Should Have Won A Moonman) at the VMAs on MTV ! YO !

THIS critiquely acclaimed fan favorite video has won countless other video awards and was robbed at this year's Video Music Awards 2009. One of the best videos of all time! Out of this world visuals, toe tappin' beats, angelic melodies, this video has it all.

SEE MORE VMA MOONMAN MASTERPIECES !

Pile of Gig Rig Toys....

(click image to see larger version)

Bill T Miller's Orgy Of Noise Rig
- 10.30.08 TTs Gig and October '08 Headroom Sessions

* BTM Spring-O-Caster Tennis Racquet
--- Gold Contact Mic & ART Tube Pre-amp
* Guttar Toy Guitar Bent by Thom Uliasz
* WarpSpeak Megaphone - Bent by Waterhed
* Albino Beatbox - Bent by Evil Instruments
* DJ Scratch Toy - Bent by J Smiley & Thom Uliasz
* Stylophone - Stock Re-Issue
* Kaoss Mini-Pad
* Panasonic Micro-Cassette Deck
* Toy Piano Guts with Springs

-- below are not pictured --
* Tron Robot - Bent by Evil Instruments
* Assorted Percussion Junk
* Crank Sturgeon Plug Ugly Contact Mic
* Realistic 4-Channel Battery Mixer
* Peavey Self-Powered 15-inch Cabinet

- OrgyOfNoise.com - CircuitBending.com

The Beatles White Album on White Vinyl German Pressing...

In the post 09.09.09 Beatles frenzy, it is clear I will NOT be BUYING anything anytime SOON, so i am appreciating what I have. Re-watched Hard Days Night and Help earlier this summer and been listening to some outtake boot rarities via mp3 and those amazing Sgt. Pepper 4-track multi-tracks. Glad to see that BEATLEMANIA is alive and well.

TONIGHT @ The Butcher Shoppe Basement in Allston Noise City....

----------> SEE YOU THERE !

- Hrvatski (Keith Fullerton Whitman)
- Karlheinz
- Mavis Concave (Realicide)
- Sharpwaist
- Typical White Male
- Astral Wolfer & Max Lord
+ DJ Travis England

@ The Butcher Shoppe in Allston 9/11/09

PS: NOT gonna to take my camera, so the above shot from a Nov 07 Butcher Shoppe basement show is it from me. If you dig around BTM PHOTOS you can find tons of shots of at least five of the people playing tonight.

UPDATE:
EVERYBODY DELIVERED the NOISE & BEATS & ETC AS PROMISED....

(L-R) Pete Cassin (Dev/Null) - Bill T Miller - Max Lord
Cell phone camera snapped by Ellen Godena (after Max's set.)

BTM glowing in the fluorescent nicotine poisoned haze of the Butcher Shoppe basement... snapped by the Max Lord via cell phone camera.

All Hail Mr. Butch - Born on September 11th...

MR. BUTCH in Allston Rock City - April 2004

MrButchShow.com

Scored Transformers Optimus Prime Voice Changer Helmet and some Ice Cream for ME and some Chicken Breast for Tippi Cat....

Just scored this super fun FREE Transformers Voice Change Helmet... Thanx to a cool nintendo chiptune loving nerd dude on Craigslist.


I got back from the percussion concert and received the phone call to meet up in front of local supermarket to get the free helmet. Of course this was just the excuse I needed to score ME some Caramel Cone Ice Cream and Tippi Cat her favorite Stouffer's Baked Chicken Breast. Triple score. Mmmmmmm.

Cheezy Stevie's Pizza, Back to School Berklee at Daddy's Junky Music and Tekeyé Concert at New England Conservatory on 09.09.09

Took the Green Line T Train out to Boston to go to Tekeyé percussion concert and had to grab a nice and cheeeezzy greeeezzzy SLICE at Little Stevie's Pizza on the way for old times sake. PIZZZZZA ! Some of you OBE fans may even remember our pizza delivery tune ZA from Open Your Ears CD (1994).

Then took a peak in the window of Daddy's Junky Music where I worked in the Pro Audio Department selling recording and PA gear back in the early/mid 80s when I first landed in Boston twenty five years ago. Perfect day job for meeting local musicians for my real "career" as a freelance live sound mixer and recording engineer/producer.

Then I continued down Mass Ave over to Huntington Ave to Brown Hall at the New England Conservatory to see Tekeyé. They are a percussion ensemble founded in Bogota, Colombia (almost a decade ago) by Tupac Mantilla who is a graduate of NEC.

Tekeyé conjured up top notch beats and fun vibes, morphing Airto (eye ear toe), Charlie Chaplin, Harlem Globe Trotters, Sesame Street, Mickey Hart's Planet Drum and a healthy dose of Stomp into a show all their own. They specialize in found objects and body percussion. Great flow to the set and superb audience interaction.

My recording engineer/musician pal Dave Sullivan (who has partnered with legendary jazz drum BOB MOSES to form production company Native Pulse) had recorded Tekeyé the night before and recommended that I go to the show. Bob Moses who also teaches at NEC did the session the night before, but had flown out of the country to gig. It was great to see Dave and chat for a moment. Spoke with Rafa García who is one of the members of Tekeyé and recording engineer and gave him my DRUM ARMY CD from early 90s and wished him well and let him know I snapped a few photos of them.

Make sure to poke around YouTube to see some videos of Tekeyé.

It is up to YOU to help DRUM ARMY VIDEO go VIRAL across the WORLD.

Drum Army Video Trilogy is now live on FOUR sites on the net. YouTube and Vimeo and in the early AM hours of 09.09.09, I even uploaded it to Facebook since a lot of my "friends" there are drummers and some of them even play on the tracks so I could tag them. AND even uploaded the vid to MySpaced.

I need YOU to help this VID go VIRAL across the net by YOUR LINKING, TWEETING, EMBEDING, YELLING, BURNING, COMMENTING and general SHARING. It is up to YOU. The complete WANTS YOU album is available for download with artwork at: DrumArmy.com

DRUM ARMY - WANTS YOU ! - percussion world rock beat trip-out music from BTMTV on Vimeo.

09.09.09 - Number 9... Number 9... Number NINE... The Watusi, the twist...

I wonder if the ancient prophets saw The Beatles Rock Band Game and Remasters Box in their predictions for the fabled date: 09.09.09


Take this, brother, may it serve you well...


The Beatles 45 "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and The Beatles "'65" LP were the very first records I scored back in X-Mas 1964 when I was eight years old (which became the soundtrack for my RACQUET BAND)... so of course the Fab Four are etched deep into my soul and you know I want all the instrument controllers and the vinyl and all the rest. BUT until the lotto luck comes my way, it's no dice.

Have you ever actually READ the layers of lyrics for Revolution 9 ?

Tuesday Thrills... Hard Drive Back-Up and Cathodic Jam Out & R-N-R Social @ The Model

Tuesday AM... decided to go for a full mirror back-up of my current main 750 GB firewire hard drive. I have been doing tons of edits on the Orgy Of Noise Tricks and Treats DVD in Final Cut Pro and just couldn't rest with only one copy on one drive, so now there's a safety. Slept the morning away with a nerdy peace of mind, knowing that the MIRROR DRIVE was updated.


On a whim I went to the Rock-N-Roll Social @ The Model for the first time ever, mainly cause I noticed that Monte McGuire, Joel Simches and Geoff Chase had all facebooked that they would be there. Arrived a bit after 10pm (somehow thinking the thing went 'til midnight) and they had ALL left the building. BUT I did get to hang a bit with JustBill, Tracey Stark & had a decent chat with James Willetts & later with Joe Kowalski, so it all rocked at The Model in the end.

* Cut back to my MegaMillions LOTTO TICKET... the numbers were JUST posted and I matched ONE, for a big fat zero pay out... instead of my 11 MILLION PAYDAY DREAM. It's a fool's dream, but sooner or later some fool will win and it should be me.

* OK, enough blogging, gotta get back to the endless editing and tweakage for the new OON DVD..... I wonder, did you ever even SEE/HEAR the ORIGINAL OON DVD?

Some Hot Dates in a Cool September............. SEE YA THERE !!! ?

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* September 10th
- Axemunkee
- The Invisible Rays
- The Weistronauts

@ TTs in Cambridge, MA
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* September 11th
- Hrvatski (Keith Fullerton Whitman)
- Karlheinz
- Mavis Concave (Realicide)
- Sharpwaist
- Typical White Male
- Astral Wolfer & Max Lord
+ DJ Travis England

@ The Butcher Shoppe in Allston
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* September 20th
- U2 360 Tour

@ Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA
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* September 25-26th
- GANG CLAN MAFIA

@ MEME Gallery in E. Cambridge, MA.
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* September 26
- MARIANNE FAITHFULL

@ Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford, MA
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* September 27th
-Mono No Aware
-Xanopticon
-Edgey
-So So Gutter
-Synnack

@ The Armory in Somerville, MA
5.30-9.30 pm early show
Presented by Voidstar Productions

Ordnance is a new multimedia dance night incorporating skilled uncompromising DJs, drummers, video artists, and more. On September 27th, a taste of Ordnance will be given throughout the show with DJ Deftly-D (WZBC, Dark Intentions, Voidstar Productions, Nau-Zee-auN, etc.), video artist Jared Falcon (November 14, Anime Boston, video artist for Nau-Zee-auN and Scrap.edx, etc.), and tentatively drummers Mike D'Errico (Mike D and the 3:2 percusion ensemble, Attic Bat Conspiracy) and Roland Adams (Battery Cage, Nau-Zee-auN, Grenadier, etc.)

Visit to The Vintage Mac Museum

Yesterday I trekked out to Malden, MA to visit local Mac Guru ADAM ROSEN of Oakbog Consulting and his Vintage Mac Museum. Also got to hang with his two iCats, Oreo and Fudge The VMM is located in on the second floor of Adam's vintage 1920s house and is available to the public by appointment only. He has assembled a subjective collection that spans the history of Macintosh. Think vintage.

SEE Vintage Mac Museum PHOTOS
that I snapped FPAC Gallery installation for MacWorld 2004.

visit official site
vintagemacmuseum.com
and on a semi-related note... I was just thinking how much ROZ ROX.

+ UPDATE: As I was leaving the Vintage Mac Museum, Adam gave me an empty shell for a Macintosh Plus to use in one of my assorted arty projects... so after poking around in my toys, this seemed like the best option for a grin. He also gave me a floppy disc with a copy of TALKING MOOSE program for my working Macintosh Classic computer (running System 6 software) that I haven't run yet.

Full Tippi Moon Over Headroom Dawn

click on image to see larger photo and spot full moon and Tippi Cat !