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.

Blog

Here’s where you’ll find my random musings about making music, making gear work properly, getting organized and being productive, leadership and management, and more.

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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