Posted on 2025-01-06 Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - January 2025 - Bebop Beatniks Album - The Dragon's Egg Playtest - Indie Archive Ok, there's a new Bebop Beatniks album out featuring Paul Lessard on alto sax playing on top of our piano trio with Jeremy Jackson on bass and Alex Washam, drums. It's called "The Blue Crane" and it's got Audubon on the cover. Want to listen? Here's some links. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hl2024-09-29.album Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/4eYhV5ZXSu7i0Wb4fqlkKD Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-blue-crane-single/1787936815 Amazon https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0DRZ1HRH5 Youtube https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxSx2w_CR8YPd8JH8Zsd7CBVCl3Is9bDg Deezer https://www.deezer.com/us/album/691212751 The Internet Archive link has the whole set which is also available as a video here. https://archive.org/details/hl2024-09-29 I also have a new Something Blue show and a From The Archives Of Something Blue podcast featuring Jerry Bone and some other fine guitarists. Also another podcast with beat poetry and a Bebop Beatniks show from 2016 featuring Carl Heyl and Rev. Rick reading. Here's some links. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jerry Bone Playing Something https://sbblues.com/2024/12/29/dj-hairy-larry-presents-jerry-bone-playing-something/ Something Blue - Ladybug https://sbblues.com/2025/01/04/ladybug/ DJ Hairy Larry Presents Carl Heyl Reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti https://sbblues.com/2025/01/05/dj-hairy-larry-presents-carl-heyl-reading-lawrence-ferlinghetti/ Bebop Beatniks Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2016-06-18 https://archive.org/details/hl2016-06-18 At Library Game Day the RPG table was kind enough to let me playtest The Dragon's Egg. The modified combat went well. It's great to just look for ones and not have to add stuff up. (The Dragon's Egg uses D6 dice pools in combat and if you roll a 1 on any die you miss.) I ran a one hour one shot, which was a little bit short, but we wanted to playtest Alan Wortman's new Chronicles Of Ember module too. I didn't get to run any puzzles which happens if the players lose to the dragon mid game. So, my conclusion was that a two hour one shot would be better. Player feedback was good. They saw it as a light system they could pull out if they had some company over that wanted to play a short RPG one shot. My programming time has been devoted to The Indie Archive, an archival system for Indie Producers. It's a hardware and software project with three systems to set up so most of the work has been writing installation documents. I have it working. I'm testing it now. There's still a little bit of programming work to be done and quite a bit more documentation. Right now I'm testing The Indie Archive with different Operating Systems and documenting recovery procedures in case one of the three systems goes belly up. Who is it for? If you're a producer of digital art like videos, albums, photos, etc and you really don't ever want to lose your finished pieces you store them on The Indie Archive which stores them on seven hard drives across four systems in three locations with minimal monthly expense. I'm making it for me because I need it but it will be released as open source software and will be available on codeberg. So there you go. Music, gaming, free culture. The primary areas of interest at Gamer+DBN running on Mastodon. If you aren't on Mastodon yet you are invited to join Gamer+DBN, The Delta Boogie Network and Gamer+, at this link. https://gamerplus.org Please forward this email to your music/gaming friends and share this link. https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_January_2025.txt Let me know what projects you've been working on so I can help spread the word. Thanks, @hairylarry@gamerplus.org - on Mastodon https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry - link to my profile hairylarry@deltaboogie.com - send me an email