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Adan

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  1. As some have already said, there easy and and fun one-offs, and then there are ones where the effort is disproportionate to the fun. As a part-time musician, the latter just doesn't make sense for me. There's no point in me networking to get other gigs that I can't do anyway because the extra gigging activity will cause my wife to divorce me (which is where finances really go into the red). So for me this comes down to being able to predict which kind of one-off it's going to be. Usually a 10-minute conversation with the BL and ideally at least one other bandmember gives me enough information to decide.
  2. I'm done with "first impression" videos. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a 50th time . . .
  3. I was sorry they ditched the 44. My 64 is a bit difficult to move, not so much because of the weight (53 lbs) but also the bulk, and I don't have as much cushion in my spine as I used to back when I was hauling a real rhodes. Can't believe I'm writing this, but I may decide to sell my 64. It's just not getting that much use, and now that we have a piano in the living room, it doesn't even get much playing at home. With the increase in prices on new ones, I think I could almost break even in the used market.
  4. All By Myself feels like it's at the core of the golden age of popular music on AM radio. I sat down and played it this morning, what an exquisitely crafted tune.
  5. This one's more interesting, though I'm still confounded about what we, the viewer, is supposed to take away from it. With enough talent and fresh ideas you can turn a pop hit into a Snarky Puppy fusion thing. But then it's probably no longer a pop hit.
  6. I love this one, because most practicing lawyers understand the bar exam merely filters out some of the idiots but has almost nothing to do with being a good lawyer.
  7. The context is that people believe what they want to believe. I personally believe this forum is a trojan horse for the Australians to take over the USA. It starts innocently enough, with crowd-funded tours by Lachy Doley. Next thing you know we're all eating vegemite and pretending to like it. Nothing you say can make me believe this isn't happening.
  8. Stuff like this is going to be common going forward. More likely unintended consequences than deliberate censorship, but the mechanism is opaque and people will assume the worst. Hearings will be held, apologies offered, correction will be followed by over-correction. The future is grim.
  9. I wrote a lot about the Soul in the first thread devoted to that topic. It would be better to have one Soul thread instead of two, so people wanting to learn about it can find that info in one place.
  10. A lot of what you say here is valid, but GRollins is not a provocateur. A benefit of being on this forum for many years is familiarity with other long time posters. It’s clear some people in this thread just relish a food fight. G is not one of them. For reasons I can’t understand, Beato has become a toxic subject. Easy enough not to click on those threads going forward. It’s hot as though I need these threads to be aware of Beato vids. They’re ubiquitous in my YT feed.
  11. That's not even debatable. It's the dffierence between proficiency and genius. Anyone can become proficient by putting in enough effort. But one can imagine an audience in 1931 getting a kick out of seeing him perform. Never mind the Great Depression!
  12. Unlistenable. I don't know who the narrator is, and don't care to find out, but he reminds me of the people I'd randomly run into living in San Franciso in the 2010's who'd make me think "what the hell happened to this City?" I get that it's early days and this might be a stepping stone to something more interesting. I'll wait. Edit: after thinking about it some more, "unlistenable" is too harsh. "uninteresting" more accurate. Makes me think of when there's a jazz band playing in a dream and in your dream mind you know it's a jazz band, and the music sounds vaguely jazzy, but it's also way off because of course your unconscious mind assembles things weirdly.
  13. I've been trying to figure out why I even care enough to post several times in this thread. I've watched a few of his videos and decided that while interesting, it's just not a good use of my time. So fine, I don't have to watch. I'm certainly not trying to take down Beato, who is one of the better things happening in the overall landscape of musicians trying to make a buck on YouTube. I think it's the same reaction I have whenever the mindless algorithms of social media platforms latch onto something good and blow it out of proportion. It's like our value system gets distorted and I feel the need to counteract that force. I have a similar reaction to Taylor Swift . . . yeah, she's good, but so are a lot of other women singer-songwriters. Yet I'm supposed to buy into the idea that Taylor is a hundred times better than these other very talented people. Let's lower her pedestal a bit and give other pop geniuses a bit more of our attention. These thought processes always lead me back to Voltaire's admonition to "tend to your own garden." Becoming another cranky person screeching into the ceaseless winds of the internet is not going to make me happier. That said, if Beato can interview Taylor, I probably will have to check it out.
  14. That's what I was trying to say, you just said it more better. I'm a little confused by attaching the label "educator" to Beato. He's educated, he has opinions, and he shares them. That's true of a lot of people. I'll save the term "educator" for people who actually work at educational institutions, just because otherwise that term starts to lose meaning. There's an implication being thrown around here that if you don't give Beato every ounce of support that you can, you're disrespecting musical educators. That's a non sequitar. The vast majority of musical educators are not monetizing themselves on YouTube. I'd call Beato a "popularizer," and popularizers certainly serve a purpose as a gateway to serious education. He's doing good stuff. At the same, there's no need to exaggerate his goodliness.
  15. Another annoying thing about social media is, for reasons I truly don't comprehend, it seems to force people into binary positions. So, either you think Beato is the greatest thing that ever happened to music, or you're a "hater." I mean, really? So all this time spent listening and reading just erases our brains ability to tolerate ambiguity and nuance? Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about this in his new Netflix special, where he talks about everything is either "great" or it "sucks." Seinfeld, by the way, is still great.
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