Kurt Browning and BNL

Lorraine and I were invited to a box at the Air Canada Centre to see Kurt Browning‘s Gotta Skate VI. Also on the headline were the Barenaked Ladies, now known as BnL.

I wasn’t too keen on the skating but I was really interested in hearing BnL in concert. The band and the material were both great. The sound was just plain awful. I cannot recall the last time I heard a professional sound system come across so poorly. Very disappointing.

BnL has a great website with a very interesting feature. You can download the multitrack stems for some of their songs and remix them. I guess the proliferation of wannabe recording engineers has reached mass market. Or, more likely, the proliferation of PCs with recording software.

For a couple of dollars, you can download 16-bit/44KHz stems and remix their songs. Upload them and they will get judged. Check it out here.

Neat idea.

I like the band. I need to pick up their latest CD. Without the bother of having to remix it myself.