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The Best Days Of Our Lives
There are those for whom the best days of their lives were their teenage years- high school, summer break, all the romantic crap that John Mellencamp and Brian Adams sang about in the 80′s. Then there...
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Matthew’s Throat vs. The Evils of Commerce
It’s a cruel, double-edged sword, this convention thing. On the positive side, I get to meet all kinds of cool people wearing cool outfits and wielding cool props. On the negative, every dealer’s den...
View ArticleWhen Consequences Come to Drive Away
This is the first time we’ve ever played “When Consequences Come” before a live audience, at least that I can remember. I don’t know why it took so long… it’s a very personal song and it seems to...
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10 Rules for Writing Your First Draft
Re-blogged with permission (hell, even encouragement) from Copyblogger.
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Building a MIDI-Controlled Light Show via Arduino, Part One
Professional stage lighting is big, heavy, expensive, and complicated. Then again, professional album creation used to be that way too- you’d pay session players, spend $1,000 an hour on studio time,...
View ArticleThe Good Life – Live in Pittsburgh
Don’t forget, we’re playing THE ENTIRE CONCERT tomorrow night at 7pm EDT! Tune in at www.matthewebel.com/live
View ArticleLive at Anthrocon – The Complete Concert
Our complete concert from Anthrocon 2013. 90 minutes of piano rock and dancing fuzzy things!
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I Get To Do Cool Shit For A Living
Phase One of the Nerf Barricade steampunk conversion is complete: Main body colors changed from “please don’t shoot me, officer, this is a toy gun” to more subtle shades. The bright yellow became a...
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Would you work for free?
The short version is this: Most reality TV shows, some news programs, even a few prime-time hits play all kinds of music… without paying a dime for it. After being played (and paid) by Breaking Bad,...
View ArticleTwas the Week Before Christmas
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the ship how the coffee was flowing at a blistering drip. The BMF drive was filled up with charges and both of the cargo bays packed full like barges....
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Riley Carbaugh: Animating The Revolution
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then the three-minute concert intro being created by Canine Hybrid Creations is worth over four million words. And all of those words are “awesome”. Riley, the...
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The Copper Evolution
After months of fine-tuning (a never-ending process, actually), we finally debuted the new live show, The Copper Revolution. Runtt, the robots, and I were joined by bassist Matt Pompei for the first...
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Anyone Want A Cat?
Anyone want the World’s Most Adorable Cat™? In a couple of weeks I’ll be piloting the Revolution to the Allergen Planet (read: moving into a new apartment, one that unfortunately doesn’t allow pets)....
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The Three-Con Report
Runtt and I played three conventions in three consecutive weeks, each one with a different theme. Normally people write a post-con wrap-up after each weekend getaway, but chances are good most people...
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The Most Dumberest Person In The World
I’m not kidding, this is an email I just got yesterday morning. And it was via my contact form, so it had to be a human being sending this to me. I added emphasis just to point out how special-needs...
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Mixing It Like The Foo Fighters
So like anyone with taste, I’ve become a huge fan of the Foo Fighters. On top of the fact that Dave Grohl’s a geek and a mind-blowing performer, the dude’s also got an amazing voice, their music is...
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The Economics of Pooping On Your Friends
We all do it. Something pisses us off and we need to tell the world- or at least our Twitter followers. The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions is...
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Saving The Pandas, Raising The Bar
It’s been a good run for The Copper Revolution so far. I’d never tried to produce a theatrical, sci-fi-meets-steampunk piano rock show before, so this was something of a major gamble for me both...
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Matthew Ebel’s Laws of Touring: The Drive
I’ve played concerts all over the USA and there’s one constant that most touring musicians already know: People don’t know how to drive. Seattle drivers are maniacs, Boston drivers are assholes,...
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