The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

Musician

For almost 35 years, I’ve had opportunities to collaborate with many talented musicians, singers, and songwriters — as a bassist, songwriter, and producer. I love working with others and bringing out their best.

Calendar

I’m active in a number of musical projects, and some have regular live shows. Here’s a list of my upcoming gigs. Find out where and when you can catch me playing live. Support local music!

Geek Wrangler

Like a lot of working semi-pro musicians, I have a day hustle. Mine’s pretty great — building, enabling, and serving incredible teams of software engineers as a director of global software engineering at Red Hat.

Moving Mastodon accounts.

Unfortunately my previous Mastodon server, lor.sh, is shutting down soon. Today I moved it to a new home on musicians.today. Fortunately moving Mastodon accounts turned out to be very easy....
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Digitakt II and Pro Tools Studio.

I recently purchased a Elektron Digitakt II (hereinafter DT2) and it's been a lot of fun to learn. It's been a while since I obsessed this much over a new...
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Social media game weak.

Lately I've become dissatisfied with the way my social media is organized. Back in the day I made a point of separating my music making persona -- at least the...
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