Seconds out...

Playlist
Various – Rock and Pop Jukebox on Shuffleplay
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
Pol Arida - Live on Second Life

A lovely moon this morning as I left Crispycat Towers to bring home the bacon...



Today, for a wee change, I didn’t walk along to FOPP at lunch time – instead, I walked down the 1 in 10 gradient hill to Stockbridge...



...and visited a few shops down there, including a reasonably regular weekend haunt, the Oxfam Music shop...

In the event they had nothing which took my fancy, however, along the road at the Shelter shop, a brand new copy of AC/DC’s classic, “Highway to Hell” in the window caught my eye and, following the exchange of three pounds sterling, it joined my collection...

Rockin’...

And indeed, AC/DC rocked the CBQ Mobile tonight as I headed out to Lasswade to the abode of Second Life musical star extraordinaire Pol Arida and his lovely assistant Sam (and their dog, Dave!)...

Pol has been performing on Second Life for around 11 months and has built up a considerable reputation there, not solely, but partly, because he performs original material...

Musicians are apparently amongst the highest “earners” in this virtual cyberspace world, performances are free to enter but audience members leave virtual money in virtual tip jars for both the performer and the venue...

This virtual money however has an exchange rate with real dollars and can be withdrawn into reality via Paypal...

Ingenious...

So, without leaving the comfort of his own home, Pol can perform to a room full of fans (most of whom live across in the USA where Second Life is seemingly a huge phenomenon)...

He plays in his studio and the performance is streamed into the bar where his avatar stands on a stage playing to a virtual room filled with the avatars of all the listeners who post their appreciation onto the screen...



Weird stuff but intriguing...

And of course Pol wants CBQ to enter this strange world to perform too...

So this will probably happen at some point in the reasonably near future...

Noted tonight a bit of gyp in my left knee which may mean a withdrawal from the footie tomorrow night...

We’ll see...

Highlight of the Day : An introduction to a weird new world...