2008 Wrap Up...

All other blogs do a yearly wrap-up post, so I might as well. With that in mind, I give you the Best AD info@ e-mail of 2008:

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Hallo!

I am going to buy your hole Plugins!!!

There are nothing comparable for this Price!!!

My only problem is,i don?t no about your vst3 support!!!!

Are you going to support it?Please,need fast response!!

I hope you will do it!!!

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This is just wall-to-wall Win, on so many different levels. Conveniently, it came this morning, so it just made the cut. Needless to say, I told him our usual spiel on VST3, which is “we’ll support it when we don’t have any other choice,” essentially.

And in other bests…

Best Little Hardware Thingie Of 2008: I think the Mopho wins hands down in this category, really no question of that. A well-made piece of kit that sounds good for a reasonable price. How could that not be the Best Thing Ever?

Best New Album I Bought In 2008: This is a subjective category if ever there was one. I’m gonna go with “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” This is the only time that Jim DeRogatis and I will ever agree on anything, ever. That miserable fuck got one right for once.

Best Live Music I Saw In 2008: I think I’m gonna give it to the Oregon Symphony for their performance of Carmina Burana, which was off the fucking hook. I didn’t see a lot of live music in ’08 (unless you count on TV, which I don’t) and almost all of it was symphonic. I had to miss the Tom Waits tour because of my damn family reunion; I have the NPR podcast of the Atlanta show, so I’ll say the best live music I heard in 2008 was that.

Biggest Music Industry “FAIL” of 2008: I think I’m gonna have to go ahead and go with VST3. Either that or Kanye’s absolutely tragic Not-O-Tuned “performance” on SNL. (If you’re a sucker for human tragedy and the like, you can absorb it here.)

Biggest Music Industry “WIN” of 2008: Well, shit. I can’t think of one off the top of my head. Can I say Bettye Lavette’s performance of “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors last night? Jesus, that was shit-hot. And everybody is like “who?” (That’s a pun, just in case you weren’t paying attention.) This is one of those moments when an unknown becomes a Known, and it’s kind of cool to see. You can see the whole Who tribute here. Keep the sound down until Joss Stone gets off the stage. Seriously. It’ll just make you mad.

I think that’s about it for 2008. Did I miss anything?