Jim Allchin Rocks! | The Coffeehouse

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Heh, remember the Jim Allchin interview where he told us he played guitar? Well, he sent over a couple of samples. They are WMA format, recorded at a fairly low sample rate (48khz). Enjoy! He's pretty good. Recorded on a Windows XP machine, of course.

Clip One: Roadhouse. 1.30 MB
Clip Two: Latin Star. 415 KB

eagle

Hey, he's really good!

Jim should have played at the WinHEC party or at the Jam Sessions at TechEd, maybe he'll rock the PDC!

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

Not 3 bad!

Jim could give up the day job with those dirty riffs!

(shhh Dave we don't want him to do that - Scoble)

TDavid
Learn more so you can earn more

Not bad at all Smiley

Like the slowdown section in Roadhouse and then the kick back to jamming again.

markwan

Do you know if he can read normal music charts? If he does I can hook him up with the folks here up the I5 and BC99 for some work... Smiley

I suppose he did the composition and arrangement as well.

A video visit to his music studio would be cool. If you can promise a live jam session at PDC I am registering right now! Smiley

Mark

rhm

That really whips the llama's ass!

Andre Da Costa
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I like "Latin Star" Smiley

jamie

sounds great!

is that the Santana guitar?

Erisan

I can't listen wma-format. Can you convert it to OGG Vorbis so everyone can listen them.. ?

fdezjose
Hello from Madrid...

It's really nice! Will it become longhorn's new star up melody?

moofish
Living in Scotland, UK

If I told him I liked it, and made it sound sincere. Do you think he'd spill on Longhorn?

accelerator
Net Badger

I'd like to listen to this, but I lost sound on Windows Media Player v10.00.00.3802, either when I installed iTunes or upgraded to XP SP2. Other apps play music ok. Has anyone has got any pointers as to what I could try?

Sound Card is SoundMax Digital Audio v5.10
Motherboard is Asus K8VSE
Win XP2 patched yesterday

Andre Da Costa
Created with PhotoDraw 2000 V2

fdezjose wrote:
It's really nice! Will it become longhorn's new star up melody?

I was going to ask the same question myself, although it would be a very, very, very long start up sound.

Did Jim do the Startup sound for Windows 98? Smiley

sc00ter
Always in motion the future is..

wow.. thats my kind of music.. i love it. where can we get more of this? Smiley

ChrisChance
;)

Wow, seriously maybe there should be an alchin theme for longhorn Smiley

He rockin ... but as a microsoft exec couldn't he have done wmv lossless Sad

"I can't listen wma-format. Can you convert it to OGG Vorbis so everyone can listen them.. ?"-----

Since when is ogg vorbis the format "everyone can listen to" I mean really, i don't have an ogg vorbis codec installed, last i knew the only fully supported universal format is mp3 Tongue Out

NetRyder
Tech Junkie

Very cool! =)

iStation
Fuujin

Super cool!
Big Smile

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Chris123NT
Longhorn Guide Writer

Wow hes really good, awesome stuff Smiley

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Nice.

I'm just picking up my sticks again after 2 years of backing out (doing it professionally can be full of politics).

Good job Jim. It's not necessarily my style, but it's very good Smiley

Shmuelpro

Does anybody else play an instrument?
I play the clarinet and the soprano Sax

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Shmuelpro wrote:
Does anybody else play an instrument?
I play the clarinet and the soprano Sax

I play piano and a little bit of guitar. And when I say a little bit, I mean I know like five chords. Smiley

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Shmuelpro wrote:
Does anybody else play an instrument?
I play the clarinet and the soprano Sax

I've played almost everything over the years. I was a professional drummer (touring and studio) for a few years, I played all the brass instruments for a few years, I've got a lot of percussion experience, done piano, played guitar until recently...

Music's a huge part of my life.

Shmuelpro

Sven Groot wrote:

I play piano and a little bit of guitar. And when I say a little bit, I mean I know like five chords.

Jeremy W. wrote:

I've played almost everything over the years. I was a professional drummer (touring and studio) for a few years, I played all the brass instruments for a few years, I've got a lot of percussion experience, done piano, played guitar until recently...

Music's a huge part of my life.

Great We could create a Channel9 Band!!! Smiley

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I rarely play anymore. With this profession, I need to be careful of my wrists.

Shmuelpro

Sven Groot wrote:
I rarely play anymore. With this profession, I need to be careful of my wrists.

Oh Great so now we only have Jim and Jeremy.