JoCo in a Bubble

It doesn't seem to be working right now.

Maybe he turned if off to make a sandwich or something, still NEW SONG on the way!

I agree! I'm waiting till he finishes that snack or whatever. Anyway, new song? This sounds like something interesting since Thing a Week.

Cat got your Webcam?

New song ... anti-ci-pation!

Why do I suddenly want a Dr. Pepper?

It's our very own Truman Show!

Seems to be in and out here - not sure what's up...

I don't know, Glenn. Hey, you going to eat those Potato Wedges?

Look, JoCo's looking at the back of the fancy equipment on his rack!

Now he's unplugging things and plugging other things in!

Looks like there should be sound, but I'm not getting any...

It was silent for awhile but I think there's only sound when he's actually playing, no ambient sound. I hear sound now! Riffs! Woot!

And... he's gone...

Pretty cool. I've always enjoyed the process of song creation. Thanks for doing this. Leaving it on in the background while I work means I'm getting occasional unexpected bursts of music, which is an interesting experience.

OMG. This has to be the NEXT NEW THING in being a Web Machine Rock God 2.0. I am so digging this.

way to go.

love your music.

It's hypnotic. I can't look away.

He just held a white piece of paper up to he camera, but I couldn't see what was on it.

The server is full. Colleenky is sad. :-(

Yeah, I've been trying off and on to connect for a couple of hours, and the server has been full every time. Love the concept, but wish the server could handle the demand of all the JC fans!

Darn - I hit refresh to see if any new messages had come up while it looked like he was going on a bathroom break... then as Colleenky says... the server's full and I can't see anymore... I was digging having the intermittent music in the background while I was working.

It seemed like he had picked up a sharpie and written something on that piece of paper which he held up. Did anyone see an image of the paper they could read?

So the first part of the verse is C# A F# Bm G#...

Make that B Major.... whoops

That actually looks kinda frustrating. I assumed that the JoCo magic just rolled out on the first take. the song sounds great.

This is /way/ more entertaining to watch than Big Brother :)

Could maybe some of you who have been watching for a while logoff and make some room on the server for some of us who haven't seen it yet? Maybe? Please?

Didn't mean to kill the conversation...

I'm sorry. I'll be going now...

This rocks, almost as much as his canary yellow tshirt...

I had the stream up while getting ready for an appointment. The sound quality's quite good.
It's really soothing to listen to you work. (Much more soothing than the dentist will be. )

This is really interesting. Thank you for making this available. I'm glad to hear that a new song is coming.

Hey, it works! Song sounds great!

This is actually really cool.

I'm with Coleenky... four hours of "The server is full" is more than a little frustrating. Oh well.

Also, Paypal is apparently having some kind of server overhaul today, which means I'm not even able to buy any JC music from this site. Grr. Not my day, apparently.

Any chance of eventually posting a video download of this later on? (since the audio for the live streaming seems to always cut in and out)

Well, I left the site whenever I left my desk, and checked back in about four or five times with no Server Full messages at all. I feel bad for ColleenKY & CSJoe -- what's with the problems they were having? Geeks? Podcasters? Anyone?

OK, break time in Brooklyn.

The audio was cutting in and out. I caught that JoCo isn't sure he likes the bridge but can live with it, he's gonna add backing vocals...anyone catch the rest of his comments about the song? It's neat watching an artist work. I hope the bubble isn't too annoying.

What?!?! Did I Miss it? Nooo!!!

I got to see the slightest bit of it... mostly it was cutting in and out for me. Entertaining... what I did see. I'm excited about this song.

All of this, I watched as I sipped a Dr. Pepper.

I guess now we know what the inside of Lunar Base One looks like.

For me it seems like it wasn't "cutting in and out" per se, but every once in a while, it froze for a few seconds. Not sure if that's what you mean by "cutting in and out," but that's what it seemed like to me.

Yeah screw Dr.Pepper!

It wasn't freezing for me. The picture froze intermittently, but when the audio dropped out it left missing chunks, so that I only heard fragments of JC's comments before the break.

Janet:

Thanks for the emotional support. :) But really, the knowledge that new JC music is on the way is enough to cheer me up. Still, I envy those of you who had the chance to "sit in" on the recording via the Internet.

-CSJ

Janet, apparently JoCo's new server likes you better. ;-) Sorry if I sounded whiney, internets. Just got frustrated. Felt like I was in a web-version of keep-away and had traumatic flashbacks from elementary school. :-)

I was lucky enough to get in all the times I stopped by, though I too had the cut-in-and-out, which I think was really the feed clogging up... it would pause for a bit, a second or two, and then usually resume, but sometimes it seemed like it would skip to catch up (I figured this out when I noticed it skipping seconds on the clock)... Even when it seemed to be flowing fine, the sound was a bit shaky - I can tell it's about an octopus, but not sure what it's actually saying at this point.

Even with all those gaps, I gotta say I found this fascinating. I know not to expect it to all be magical, but to hear JoCo saying "I gotta get a bridge, no bridge", and watching him, fidget around it... that was awesome. for a while, it looks like he was systematically progressing through cords trying to get something to work, but then he'd get stymied and do something else for a bit. Alas, I got drawn away before he got the bridge together, so I'm hoping to see that in the captured footage.

Altogether, a great chance to see the (Scruffily Handsome) Mad Genius at work...!

This was an interesting experience. I was traveling around a few websites, earlier this morning, to see if I could find some new music. I stopped at this one and stayed there all afternoon. I even moved the pottery I was working into the living room where I occasionally looked over at my monitor. Why? I don’t know. But it was kind of neat to have a live scene of this guy in a yellow shirt, who I will probably never meet in person, a couple of time zones away, working in his studio (well…closet) on a song that I will in the future buy from itunes, play in my van for months, store on my hard drive which will become obsolete and placed in my closet along side my cassette tapes and LP’s, discovered one day while I’m moving, plugged into an old PC I have stored next to my record player, to see what’s on it. I’ll scan the list of songs, this one will jump out—Oh YEA, I watched this guy on a video cam, put this together one afternoon. Why? I don’t know.

Coulton, you are awesome, but Dr. Pepper is very tasty.

I've been off soda for almost two months. I don't know why. It just happened. Today though I had a Dr. Pepper. I'm going back to water.

Yeah, I love Coulton's songs and everything, but he'll have to pry the Dr Pepper out of my cold, dead, severed hands.

When do you climb into your bubble again?

You, suh, have insulted my honor. *glove slap*

Ooh, a challenge... aI do believe that slap is a call for a duel.

It's the first ever JoCo-Dr.Pepper Challenge...! (Does JoCo get to choose weapons now?)

I'll be gathering wagers once the time and date are agreed. *grin*

i got a idee! why can you not begin to make a video from your self and say all thing ther at once instead writing manny thing

DR PEPPER IS DELICIOUS. LIES. ALL LIES.

Oh, Man! I missed it!

You beat me to it. I'm getting ready to do "Band in a Pacer", sponsored by American Motors at Band in a Pacer. I'll spend the month writing, rehearsing, and recording in a sponsor-supplied vehicle, eating sponsor-supplied food (note to self: call Krispy Creme), and doing what I must in Zip-Locks and Folger's Cans.

Cheers!

That is a lie, sir. Dr Pepper is the epitome of deliciousness.