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On 5/2/2024 at 12:32 PM, CyberGene said:
I even remember how I suggested it for jamming with a band I played in and the guitarist said something along the lines of: I like it but for the life of me I can’t make sense of its chords, nor I know what to play over it 😕 Hard to admit that I feel the same way, despite being pretty comfortable with music theory and harmony.
Yeah the chords are kind of arbitrary in a lot of ways. It makes sense though when they describe how Chris would start with the lyric melody and then experimentally try to fit chords around it. What I find fascinating is that when you listen to the above interview, it's clear that these guys are/were barely cognizant of anything going on then or even today.
Rick to Kim: "What part did you play on the song"?
Kim: "What do you mean, 'part' "
Rick: "You know, 'part'. Did you play that guitar part on the Intro?"
Kim: "Oh, part. I don't remember".
Rick: "Really?"
Kim: "Oh, I couldn't play that tinkly stuff with the Leslie so it was definitely Chris"
And they were the sane ones. Imagine them having to deal with Kurt and Chris. They didn't know how to do anything. Couldn't sing, couldn't play.
Producer: "What are you guys doing?"
Kris: "We're going to have a rehearsal session"
Producer: "GOOD! GOOD! GOOD! GOOD! Don't listen to anything we just talked about, JUST HANG UP AND HAVE THAT REHEARSAL!! "
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I want one of these for the fridge.
https://www.teepublic.com/magnet/33098059-a-chechen-garden-gnome
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Here's Babylon Sisters UHQR 45 rpm on a $370K Wilson-Benesch GMT One Turntable and $75k CH Precision P10 phono preamplifier. I had forgotten how Don Grolnick's Rhodes playing and tone is so perfect.
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One thing that intrigued me about the VV is the variable voice control. Then again a Rhodes aficionado may not find that of much use in practice, and just dial the real Rhodes in to the voicing of their liking.
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Bay area media is predicting Lebron is going to the Warriors. independent odds are (4:1), if I'm reading it right.
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In a way, I think Covid also hastened the demise. The pandemic made people realize nobody has to do anything. Just stay in your house, have things delivered and live off PPP or savings. If anyone comes to the door today, you just hit the deck and wait till they leave unless they're delivering groceries or Arby's.
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Czech into Handbrake. It ripped anything and everything during my ripping years. At the time is was the best. I used it for my DVD library. I keep a legacy version around (1.2.2) that avoids court decisions and keeps all of the legacy defeat of copying protection alive. It basically converts anything to anything with all options in between. I always love how it pops up "Put down that Cocktail" dialog box when the ripping is done !!
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7 hours ago, El Lobo said:
Same adage for airplane owners.
True, but a lot of non aviator owners when expenses get out of control. My experience is that private pilots are a pretty seriously devoted lot that don't give up their dream easily. Yes private plane owners end up not finding the time/money to keep up, but it is gated by the prior.... people taking an order of magnitude more balls and dedication to personally defy gravity than to float on the water 😆.
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I don't know..... something else has changed. It's not just that mail-order has supplanted local brick and mortar. Back in the day, unless you lived in a major city you had to mail order from Sam Ash, Bananna's, etc for a lot of stuff. It was just over the phone. Lots of keyboards were stocked locally, however - mostly flagships and price points. So why didn't mail order put the local keyboard music dealer out of this business? Was it that Sam Ash only gave you a small discount relative to local back then? I bought a lot of keyboards locally, but all of the esoteric stuff mail order (specific mixers, effects, controllers, modules).
There was something magical about walking into a great music store in the 80s and 90s. Even in small town western Iowa, we had Griggs Music that stocked all of the Yamaha, Korg and Roland keyboard gear. It was like a candy store. All hooked up to a glorious stereo PA designed to make you buy it on the spot.
Maybe what has changed the most is that you can nearly perfectly audition gear with YouTube and all the info you could ever ask is ubiquitous online. So that magic music store experience like a theme park is gone. Well, one thing is that after the 2010's+ these stores weren't set up to be a theme park. Guitar Center in San Jose was definitely set up as the theme park in the 90's till ~2010 or so.
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Here's an interesting interview with Kim Thayil talking about Black Hole Sun and the recording of it.
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Cav's Garland is something else. The way he greased through traffic was unbelieivable at times!
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Most human creation and research is made up, so AI making stuff up isn't a big deal to me. You can ask the chat for some prose and cut and paste here:
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Many years ago, a figure skating performer (Olympics or World Championships IIRC) used Leon's "A Song For You" and the music completely eclipsed the skating performance. I can't find it anywhere, but it was mind blowing. I think they got the gold medal for their selection of music alone, irrespective of how they skated.
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It's interesting, he's on record saying he doesn't care about how, or if, he is remembered. His main goal was to create humor based on the absurdity around him.
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Not helpful to the discussion, but I always chuckle at the adage that the two happiest days in a boat owner's life, in rank order, are the day they sell the boat and the day they acquire the boat. I have great memories of transporting our canoe on the roof of our first generation Honda Civic. Getting swamped in a barge's wake on the Mississippi River and portaging around a 10' high, 100' long beaver dam were also fun!
I hope you can get a taker, as it looks cool!
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11 minutes ago, Anderton said:
Reminds of when samplers came out, and a union guy said to me they were "going to put musicians out of business." To which my reply was "who do you think plays these things - accountants"?
But I think the situation is different here. You won't be paid to produce music for clients. The video director or some video grunt will just type in "something like a Beach Boys song that's uptempo and peppy for a commercial about deodorant, using guitar, bass and drums," and 30 seconds later they have something that's "good enough." The pursuit of excellence seems to have been overtaken by the pursuit of "good enough."
I'm looking forward to the come to Jesus court decision where they decide how to compensate the people who's creative content was used to train the models. It'll have to be some broad tax on something that everyone pays that gets distributed in some way.
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2 hours ago, Geoff Grace said:
The main difference between games 3 and 4 that I can see is that LA was facing elimination in game 4 and managed to play like their season was at stake
That was my impression. They seemed to be trying rather than loping up and down.
I think that is a unique aspect to this sport and particularly the NBA. It’s like it’s monotonous to them, up and down continuously for the entire game, whereas other sports have bursts in action and lots of space in between. Although hockey is also a bit similar. -
Montage M8x.
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Do the winded Lakers also lose in LA due the their windedness in Game 3? I assume you think it's a residual phenomenon? How does the oldness of the Lakers work against Denver in Games 3 vs 4? Can you compare games 3 and 4 specifically in your analysis of both windedness and ageness?
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4 hours ago, JamPro said:
I have a question for NFL fans. I would like to watch NFL games, both live and archived on demand. What is the best streaming service to use? Thanks.
I don't know if they're the best, but I use YouTubeTV + Sunday Ticket. I've never had any issues except the local blackouts and occasional exclusive deal like that one game on the Peacock Network that the YouTube doesn't carry. I just checked and still have access to all of last years games. I watch on both desktop web browser and AppleTV on the TV. Ususally on playback as I don't have the patience or time to sit through a live game.
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You could tell they were trying harder in this game.
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Are we talking the Bell Curve of piano talent? I'd put Billy at the 62nd percentile. Elton is the 52nd percentile. For comparison Larry Goldings is at the 90th percentile.
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I'll take Billy's Accordion over Elton's
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I’ll go with Billy. Elton was more of a chord pounder by and large. Billy had a lot more harmony going on.
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Montage M internals (PSU, fan, CPU)
in The Keyboard Corner
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Can you guys provide some color as to the negative implications of this difference? I've got both the M8X and M8 side by side here and don't detect the difference in the power supply, Is it a reliability problem? I can imagine that component sourcing and costs could be a factor in the change? Also are we sure it's a fixed change? At my company, some non-critical systems could be swapped out in manufacturing as long as we informed the customer, which wouldn't be required for a consumer product.
I'm in a dead quiet room and cannot hear any evidence of a fan upon powering up the M8 or the M8x.