Silas Scarborough
Graphics for "Dangerous Beauties" CD by Katzy Rigaud
Introduction
My name is Silas Scarborough and I play electric guitar and synthesizers as, in my life, there is music and then there's everything else. You can find many examples of my original tunes on my Songs page and the vast majority are from studio sessions so they don't truly represent what I do in a live set. If you like what you hear, you will probably like the live act as I tend to play more aggressively and will almost always extend songs when I feel the audience getting off on them.
The main focus of the site is music and you can see the 'everything else' in the Features. The tabs at the top of each page will help you navigate and you will get more tabs depending on where you are in the Duck Soup. For example, the Orchid Conservatory has a tab for seeing the pictures, another one for information, etc. Please do check out the Features as you may be surprised to find how many ingredients go into this soup.
Performance Calendar
You can open my Calendar to check for all currently-scheduled performances. If you see an open slot you would like to book, please keep in mind that I play hard so I will rarely book more than one gig per day. In the rare event of doing two gigs in a day, I need two hours in-between the end of the first gig and the start of the next one as it's too much of a rush otherwise and that short-changes the second venue. In general, on week-days, I cannot start a gig before 3:00 p.m. Second Life time but, for week-ends, I'm open to any scheduling at all.
Booking
Booking is on a catch-as-catch-can basis as I'm not actively soliciting new gigs and typically only play for my friends or at the venues of friends. If anyone has contacted you claiming to represent me, disregard whatever was said as I operate exclusively as an independent and never through a manager. The only management service I could recommend to anyone is Spotlight Productions through Ticious Trottier as the values of the others are, at best, questionable.
My booking fee has remained the same for almost two years and my tipjar splits twenty-five percent to the venue owner. For any further discussion of fees, please contact me in Second Life.
Blog
The topics in my Blog range from topical to inane to incendiary but it will keep you up-to-date on the latest news, how the current CD or DVD project is going, and anything else I find interesting along the way. It is set up for comments so please feel welcome to write your thoughts.
Video
Telia Soyer and I have shot quite a few videos in Second Life and you can see the latest on the Video page. The video quality is very much lower than will see on the DVDs as the master files are so large that it would be impossible to transmit them over the Web. Various improvements in Internet bandwidth should make a substantial difference to that but it remains to be seen how long it will take before those improvements will be delivered.
Studio
Pictures of my studio will give some idea of the requirements for broadcasting the type of music I play. Don't expect that Second Life will be even remotely useful in paying for this kind of stuff. The best reason to go to Second Life is to jam for your friends and arguably the worst reason is to try and make some money.
