Jeremy Glen Castle (August 2, 1974) is an American country music singer and songwriter from Oklahoma.
Jeremy Castle was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Blanchard, Oklahoma. He grew up listening to the sound of traditional country artists such as Merle Haggard, George Jones, and George Strait. Castle began learning to play guitar from Charlie Archer, lead guitarist for Conway Twitty.
He began writing music and performing while a college student, playing football at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Castle graduated from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma in 1997.
Jeremy Castle started performing in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas during the 1990s, singing in venues such as the legendary Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma City's Diamond Ballroom, former legendary saloon-dancehall Tumbleweed's in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Nashville establishments such as The Bluebird Cafe and the world famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge, the popular Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, Stubbs B-B-Q in Austin, as well as the historic Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas, and also performing at Branson venues such as the former Barbara Fairchild Theater.
Jeremy Castle was coined the nickname "The Singing Fireman" by KKNG 93.3.FM on-air personality James Ayers, who was the first to play Castle's tune, "Take My Ring Off Your Finger" in 1999. In 2002, Jeremy Castle released an album For A While, which consists of 17 songs.
Jeremy Castle was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Blanchard, Oklahoma. He grew up listening to the sound of traditional country artists such as Merle Haggard, George Jones, and George Strait. Castle began learning to play guitar from Charlie Archer, lead guitarist for Conway Twitty.
He began writing music and performing while a college student, playing football at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Castle graduated from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma in 1997.
Jeremy Castle started performing in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas during the 1990s, singing in venues such as the legendary Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma City's Diamond Ballroom, former legendary saloon-dancehall Tumbleweed's in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Nashville establishments such as The Bluebird Cafe and the world famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge, the popular Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, Stubbs B-B-Q in Austin, as well as the historic Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas, and also performing at Branson venues such as the former Barbara Fairchild Theater.
Jeremy Castle was coined the nickname "The Singing Fireman" by KKNG 93.3.FM on-air personality James Ayers, who was the first to play Castle's tune, "Take My Ring Off Your Finger" in 1999. In 2002, Jeremy Castle released an album For A While, which consists of 17 songs.
CSBFL, or Computer Simulated Fantasy Baseball League, is a web-based baseball sports management simulation, hosted at http://www.csfbl.com.
History
The game's officially recognized launch date is April 1, 2000; however, the first verifiable reference to it is August 22, 2000. The game has gone through numerous revisions. The current version of the game (generally considered version 4) was launched on April 1, 2002.
CSFBL is one of the first, if not the first, Massive Multiplayer Baseball Simulation. CSFBL has been featured on the Multiplayer Online Games Directory (MPOGD) and by Andrew Koch in his blog.
In March of 2008, CSFBL announced a cross-promotion partnership with the basketball simulation site BuzzerBeater in order to help both games increase their user base.
Gameplay
In CSFBL, players take ownership of a fictional baseball team, taking the role of the team's General Manager. There are also limited field manager features available, but generally they are secondary.
Each team is a member of a 24-team league, broken down into four groups of six teams (called "divisions"). Each season is roughly equivalent to a Major League Baseball season, with some minor differences. After each season, the top two teams of each division participate in 7-game elimination playoffs. The final two teams participate in the game's equivalent of the World Series.
During the season, the player must maintain his team's roster and lineups by promoting and demoting players, making trades with other players, signing free agents, and participating in an amateur draft.
On October 19, 2007, a member of the CSFBL community made a YouTube video that provides a brief summary of the game experience.
Types of Leagues
CSFBL contains 3 types of leagues: public, private, and premier. Any member can be in a public league, while private leagues are only open to members who are selected by the commissioners. Premier leagues are only minutely different from private leagues right now; however, premier leagues generally have the most competitive level of play.
Most, but not all, public leagues are "Greek" leagues, which means that their names are made up of three letters of the Greek Alphabet. For instance, a league may be called Alpha Beta Gamma, or Alpha Delta Psi.
The Future of CSFBL
Brian DeMarzo has announced a new version of CSFBL to be released to be called ComputerSims Baseball. It will include many new features, be a complete redo of the site, starting from scratch, and will have a significantly faster sim engine. DeMarzo has said that instead of a game simming every 5 seconds, it sims in well under a second, resulting in a significant speed increase.
It is hoped that this new sim engine will be able to get the full 8 sims/day sim schedule in. It is unclear when it will be released, but DeMarzo has been quoted that he hopes to have it finished by the end of 2008.
Criticism
CSFBL has endured some criticism from many people, including members. For instance, although in theory the 8-game-per-day sims should run 8 times a day, they only run 5 or 6, due to the server being overload. The game and forums run on just one server in Brian DeMarzo's basement and the currently CSFBL code is designed for only 1/10th of the traffic the game experiences currently.
On January 25, 2008, Demarzo responded to this overload by capping the sim rate at 4-games-per day for leagues that had previously ran 8. 4 and 2 game a day leagues were unaffected. Also, the community forums used by CSFBL have been known to be very buggy and unreliable at times. The game staff is in the process of replacing the forums to respond to this.
The CSFBL Community
CSFBL also includes community forums, which, as of March 2008 have over 11,000 registered users. .
History
The game's officially recognized launch date is April 1, 2000; however, the first verifiable reference to it is August 22, 2000. The game has gone through numerous revisions. The current version of the game (generally considered version 4) was launched on April 1, 2002.
CSFBL is one of the first, if not the first, Massive Multiplayer Baseball Simulation. CSFBL has been featured on the Multiplayer Online Games Directory (MPOGD) and by Andrew Koch in his blog.
In March of 2008, CSFBL announced a cross-promotion partnership with the basketball simulation site BuzzerBeater in order to help both games increase their user base.
Gameplay
In CSFBL, players take ownership of a fictional baseball team, taking the role of the team's General Manager. There are also limited field manager features available, but generally they are secondary.
Each team is a member of a 24-team league, broken down into four groups of six teams (called "divisions"). Each season is roughly equivalent to a Major League Baseball season, with some minor differences. After each season, the top two teams of each division participate in 7-game elimination playoffs. The final two teams participate in the game's equivalent of the World Series.
During the season, the player must maintain his team's roster and lineups by promoting and demoting players, making trades with other players, signing free agents, and participating in an amateur draft.
On October 19, 2007, a member of the CSFBL community made a YouTube video that provides a brief summary of the game experience.
Types of Leagues
CSFBL contains 3 types of leagues: public, private, and premier. Any member can be in a public league, while private leagues are only open to members who are selected by the commissioners. Premier leagues are only minutely different from private leagues right now; however, premier leagues generally have the most competitive level of play.
Most, but not all, public leagues are "Greek" leagues, which means that their names are made up of three letters of the Greek Alphabet. For instance, a league may be called Alpha Beta Gamma, or Alpha Delta Psi.
The Future of CSFBL
Brian DeMarzo has announced a new version of CSFBL to be released to be called ComputerSims Baseball. It will include many new features, be a complete redo of the site, starting from scratch, and will have a significantly faster sim engine. DeMarzo has said that instead of a game simming every 5 seconds, it sims in well under a second, resulting in a significant speed increase.
It is hoped that this new sim engine will be able to get the full 8 sims/day sim schedule in. It is unclear when it will be released, but DeMarzo has been quoted that he hopes to have it finished by the end of 2008.
Criticism
CSFBL has endured some criticism from many people, including members. For instance, although in theory the 8-game-per-day sims should run 8 times a day, they only run 5 or 6, due to the server being overload. The game and forums run on just one server in Brian DeMarzo's basement and the currently CSFBL code is designed for only 1/10th of the traffic the game experiences currently.
On January 25, 2008, Demarzo responded to this overload by capping the sim rate at 4-games-per day for leagues that had previously ran 8. 4 and 2 game a day leagues were unaffected. Also, the community forums used by CSFBL have been known to be very buggy and unreliable at times. The game staff is in the process of replacing the forums to respond to this.
The CSFBL Community
CSFBL also includes community forums, which, as of March 2008 have over 11,000 registered users. .
Chip Wave is a form of electronic dance music that fuses the sounds of New Wave, Chicago acid house. electro, Hi-nrg, post-punk, Italo Disco, with instrumentation of the Commodore 64, Amiga, Texas Instruments, or Atari music workstations used to synthesize sound. It was started in 1988 out of the Chicago house scene and NYC Cabaret. Chip Wave was coined by its originator Nico Demonte who has introduced the genre by using the Commodore 64, Amiga 500, Atari, TRS-80 and other vintage computers.
The Chip Wave sound is broadcast in Chicago, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Detroit. Artists like Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, Commodore 64 Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Euro Lipstick, Hillary Snyder (A.K.A. DJ: Unknown) of XM 80 Satellite Radio show REDUX, and labels like mp3death, xxnaughty wood, HEXAWE, Scatologics, Xylophone Jones, and Computer Music.
Chip Wave artists use a number of electronic instruments and synthesizers, MIDI sequencing, live video performance using the EJ Midi Turntable and ScratchTV, but the microprocessor seems to be the likely instrument of choice. Chip Wave evolved out of the attempts to resurrect old computer systems that created music like the Commodore Amiga CD32, the Acorn Archimedes, magnetic cartridges, hand-held sequencers, and emulation of Physical Modeling/Hardware Design: Protel, OpenGL, SolidWorks, Blender, Commodore SX-100, SXE MIDI Music composer synthesizer, Sequential Circuits, MITS Altair 8800, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), Plato (computer system), PLATO IV, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Atari 8-bit family, Zenith Z-100 and (later)Radio Shack TRS-80 &; IBM PC. GROOVE hybrid computer music system, Executive 64 with 170 KB floppy, Commodore 264, Commodore C16 / 116, Commodore 364, Commodore 232, Commodore 116 NTSC Prototype, MAX Machine, Commodore 1541C, Yamaha YM2149 Yamaha_YM2149 on the Atari ST AY-3-8910 AY-3-8910, and Commodore 128, AY-3-8910 or 8912 on Amstrad CPC, MSX and ZX SpectrumA1200 computers, Little Sound Dj, Nanoloop, Commodore KIM-1, Commodore CBM-II, SuperPET, Plus/4, sound on the 6510 Central Processor, Ricoh 2A03 on the Nintendo Entertainment System or , homebrewed cartridge, GEOS Operating System, C65, C-One, Konami SCC Konami_SCC the Yamaha YM2413 Yamaha_YM2413 (MSX-MUSIC) and Yamaha Y8950 (MSX-AUDIO, 8051 assembler, Python, C/C++, PIC/AVR C/Assembler, the Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datassette, analog-digital hybrid Atari POKEY on the Atari 400/800, MATLAB, FORTRAN, MIT Scheme, Java, MySQL, PHP, Max/MSP.
kode label
DJ-Unknown
Computer Music Label
Chip Wave Charts
The Chip Wave sound is broadcast in Chicago, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Detroit. Artists like Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, Commodore 64 Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Euro Lipstick, Hillary Snyder (A.K.A. DJ: Unknown) of XM 80 Satellite Radio show REDUX, and labels like mp3death, xxnaughty wood, HEXAWE, Scatologics, Xylophone Jones, and Computer Music.
Chip Wave artists use a number of electronic instruments and synthesizers, MIDI sequencing, live video performance using the EJ Midi Turntable and ScratchTV, but the microprocessor seems to be the likely instrument of choice. Chip Wave evolved out of the attempts to resurrect old computer systems that created music like the Commodore Amiga CD32, the Acorn Archimedes, magnetic cartridges, hand-held sequencers, and emulation of Physical Modeling/Hardware Design: Protel, OpenGL, SolidWorks, Blender, Commodore SX-100, SXE MIDI Music composer synthesizer, Sequential Circuits, MITS Altair 8800, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), Plato (computer system), PLATO IV, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Atari 8-bit family, Zenith Z-100 and (later)Radio Shack TRS-80 &; IBM PC. GROOVE hybrid computer music system, Executive 64 with 170 KB floppy, Commodore 264, Commodore C16 / 116, Commodore 364, Commodore 232, Commodore 116 NTSC Prototype, MAX Machine, Commodore 1541C, Yamaha YM2149 Yamaha_YM2149 on the Atari ST AY-3-8910 AY-3-8910, and Commodore 128, AY-3-8910 or 8912 on Amstrad CPC, MSX and ZX SpectrumA1200 computers, Little Sound Dj, Nanoloop, Commodore KIM-1, Commodore CBM-II, SuperPET, Plus/4, sound on the 6510 Central Processor, Ricoh 2A03 on the Nintendo Entertainment System or , homebrewed cartridge, GEOS Operating System, C65, C-One, Konami SCC Konami_SCC the Yamaha YM2413 Yamaha_YM2413 (MSX-MUSIC) and Yamaha Y8950 (MSX-AUDIO, 8051 assembler, Python, C/C++, PIC/AVR C/Assembler, the Commodore 1530 (C2N) Datassette, analog-digital hybrid Atari POKEY on the Atari 400/800, MATLAB, FORTRAN, MIT Scheme, Java, MySQL, PHP, Max/MSP.
kode label
DJ-Unknown
Computer Music Label
Chip Wave Charts
Computer Disco is a genre of electronic music commonly attributed to the father of disco, Giorgio Moroder, Harold Faltermeyer, Juergen Koppers, G. Mathieson, Keith Forsey, and Donna Summer. Computer Disco was coined by Nico Demonte who pointed to the existence of the classic analog step sequencer programming and rhythm of the arpeggiating bassline (one-octave basslines or One Octave Major Triad), Four on the floor drum machine beat, dramatic lyrics, E-Series SSL desk, Italian made Elka Synthex synthesizer, Crumar Bit 99 + Bit One, and the 24-track digital machine. Computer Disco influenced many genres including house, Hi-Nrg, electroclash, disco, techno, Italo disco, and electronica. Many artists in this category use the classic Linn synth drum machine and synthesizers. Computer Disco is in part a resurgence of the Euro-Disco, Chip Wave, and the Hi-Nrg sound.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Harold Faltermeyer, The Eurythmics, Heaven 17, Telex, Michael Jackson and other musicians have been influenced by the advent of Computer Disco. As was common with most disco productions, classical music was integrated into the scores like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other classical elements that Giorgio Moroder used. Computer Disco has had an influential hand in film soundtracks like American Gigolo, Scarface, Metropolis, Top Gun, Superman III, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, and Flashdance. Parts of the American Gigolo soundtrack (1980). Camille Paglia wrote that Madonna is following in the computer disco style of Giorgio Moroder.
To create the arpeggiating bassline, musical instruments, synthesizers, and computers used by Computer Disco artists include the The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument series Quasar I, II, III), Korg Mono/Poly, Jupiter-4 random arpeggio, Oberheim 4-voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and Juno 60, Moog Taurus, Roland JX-3P, ARP 2600, Moog modular, Multimoog, TB303, Roland Microcomposer, PPG 2.3, and the Buchla, Linn Drum Machine, Roland Jupiter 8, Landscape, David Bowie, Yamaha DX, OSC OSCar, Roland TR-606 "Drumatix" Analogue Drum Machine, Sequential Prophet 5.
Giorgio Moroder
Moroder on Discogs
Camille Paglia Article
Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Harold Faltermeyer, The Eurythmics, Heaven 17, Telex, Michael Jackson and other musicians have been influenced by the advent of Computer Disco. As was common with most disco productions, classical music was integrated into the scores like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other classical elements that Giorgio Moroder used. Computer Disco has had an influential hand in film soundtracks like American Gigolo, Scarface, Metropolis, Top Gun, Superman III, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, and Flashdance. Parts of the American Gigolo soundtrack (1980). Camille Paglia wrote that Madonna is following in the computer disco style of Giorgio Moroder.
To create the arpeggiating bassline, musical instruments, synthesizers, and computers used by Computer Disco artists include the The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument series Quasar I, II, III), Korg Mono/Poly, Jupiter-4 random arpeggio, Oberheim 4-voice, Roland Jupiter 8 and Juno 60, Moog Taurus, Roland JX-3P, ARP 2600, Moog modular, Multimoog, TB303, Roland Microcomposer, PPG 2.3, and the Buchla, Linn Drum Machine, Roland Jupiter 8, Landscape, David Bowie, Yamaha DX, OSC OSCar, Roland TR-606 "Drumatix" Analogue Drum Machine, Sequential Prophet 5.
Giorgio Moroder
Moroder on Discogs
Camille Paglia Article