Share your skillz with the world
What do you do if you just have to hear a specific song right now? If you subscribe to Rhapsody, you listen to it there, but if you don't you go to Seeqpod. Seeqpod will often find the song you're looking for sitting on a website somewhere and stream it for you. (It won't let you save it, though; for that you need the Jaseeq standalone Java app.) So the other night Mrs. Veneer and I had to hear Journey's "Separate Ways" for some reason or other (I think whatever I was listening to at the time reminded her of it, but now I don't remember what I was listening to), and Seeqpod brought up this:
It soon becomes apparent that this is not Journey, because that is definitely not Steve Perry singing. So who is it? The URL for the song is http://www.aeroventure.com/My_Song_Bios/songs/remove/Journey_Separate-Ways.mp3; browsing to that file's directory, we find a whole slew of classic rock songs and ballads, all sung in the same striking falsetto--enjoy! There are some cool obscurities there, too, such as Yes' "Release, Release" and "Parallels." Who stored all their karaoke recordings on a web server? The directory name is "remove;" did they mean to remove it? We go to the home page and discover that Aeroventure is a flight school. Is it one of the web designers? Or is it one of the flight instructors? We think it's Tom, all the way down at the bottom of the page. On the other hand, it could be the undisclosed person who runs the office, mans the phones, answers the email, and updates the website. Whoever it is, it takes guts to put your stuff out there for the world to hear, and I salute you.
(By the way, remember that awful video for "Separate Ways," where the band lurches around playing air instruments down by the docks? Gag!)