http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Bill+Dollar Entertainment Bill Dollar Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13959&ca=Entertainment Once a recording studio reaches a certain size, it has to have a studio cat. That seems to be Nature's unwritten law and you resist it at your peril. It happens as you're unwrapping the new Lexicon reverb unit that will take you up to the next level of sound. Before the carton has been cleared away,... Humor Bill Dollar Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13615&ca=Humor HAVANA,May 20 (www.cubanet.org) - Cuban authorities have implemented strict security measures at the embarkation points for the small ferries crossing Havana bay.Now, before boarding, all passengers must go through a metal detector. Newly posted signs warn passengers they can’t carry furniture or bi... Humor Bill Dollar Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=12549&ca=Humor Any real Beatle fan knows that Stu Sutcliffe was the original bass player,who died of a brain embolism before the Beatles became famous. But what if it hadn’t been Stu with the deadly weakness, but rather…? There is very little time left now. The meeting will take place in a matter of hours: an even... Entertainment Bill Dollar Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=12539&ca=Entertainment How do you fit a $500,000 recording studio into a small box? Easy. You buy a decent PC and $1000 worth of software. You can blame this as the start of the Golden Age of the songwriter, because before this evolutionary step-up, people like me used to write maybe four songs a year, badly recorded on t... Humor Bill Dollar Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=12244&ca=Humor Looking up this week from getting a reggae backing to sound like St Ann rather than St Felicity, I spotted the small dark mist in the usual corner behind the left monitor speaker. I have sometimes believed absolutely that this is my best muse, back from a pizza run to the outer starbelt. Or maybe ju...