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3.5mm minijacks have officially been pro standard for a couple of years now, but goddammit, those little pieces of shit will never be stage material as far as Im concerned. Emergency fall-back at the most.

One of my all-time favourite albums.

if you're just watching YT, isn't it YT that is responsible to compensate the IP owner as they are the one distributing the content? If a user plays a YT feed in order to make a surreptitious copy and then retains that copy - that is a difference to just watching YT, no? I buy music - except for BL-requested live versions that cannot be bought. i'm a smaller sinner. but we are all sinners. If you download it, YT ain't paying squat to anybody for each time you play it afterwards. But yes, YouTube pays per play with all the caveats and stupidity involved with royalties (hah) on streaming models.

When i was a kid, used to go grandmas at Mission beach. Beach had a lot of tar/oil in it so whe we went back to her house, shed clean all our feet with turpentine. I think theyll call CPS nowadays if you clean your kids with solvents lol. The s**t that used to be OK back in the days. No seat belts. No bike helmets or airbags. Free-range parenting was the norm. Bullying in schools. Smoking. Fatty foods. Toxic s**t everywhere. The list goes on and on. It was a very different time. But somehow, we're all here. Maybe everyone should take a chill pill? Humankind has survived for many thousands of years. We just keep getting smarter. I keep reading stuff in that vein, and it really irks me. The laws and regulations werent written because of those of us who are still here. Yeah, we rode to birthday parties in the backs of station wagons without real seats, let alone seat belts. And we lived. Seatbelt laws werent passed because we survived. Yes, parents today are overprotective in many cases. But lets not act like the laws and regulations arent there for good reason. Enough of us did NOT make it.

I cannot measure up to the insanity already posted above, but: One of my first-ever top40 cover gigs. I was in over my head, and woefully underprepared, but just about able to pull it off. Had an Electro2 for organs and clav, and the SY77 on top for a bunch of strings, brass, pianos, and synths, with the Rock & Pop expansion cards supplying a lot of the samples. Sound check is all good. Get up on stage for the gig, and I notice the first patch sounds really weird. Turns out the card slots had failed in the meantime. Okay. I figure Ill have to start playing and switch to alternative sounds on the fly if theyre missing sample elements. Third song in, monitoring dies. Completely. For the rest of the show. At some point, the panicked adrenaline gave way to hilarity over the realisation that not only could I not hear what I was playing, but I couldnt hear whether I was playing at all. The singer hired me for another project a decade later though, so I must have come across okay... By far the worst gig Ive ever played was two nights in a row at a notoriously raunchy carnival festival here in Northern Germany. The...it...there was this guy in the audience wearing a wig, a black corset which left his belly spilling out underneath, and blue nylon pantyhose in black stilettos, with nothing underneath... and that, while poignant, wasnt the worst thing about that job...nor was the Roman guard dry-humping the Greek flower girl against my Monitor the next night...nor the fact that I could hardly hear the drummer nor my own monitor over the accordion music and dance polka blaring at my side of the stage from one of the other stages some twenty yards away...

YouTube is a streaming service. You know what I meant. Yes, I do, but I don't really see the difference you're making.. YouTube is, for all practical purposes, a streaming services, with all that implies for the rights owners. If you're using YouTube for music, you might as well be using Spotify.

YouTube is a streaming service.

Ahem: Were I to use such a tool, I would probably use 4K Video Downloader on the Mac. Lets people download any video from a number of sources, and directly load the audio as mp3 or aac. https://www.4kdownload.com/?source=videodownloader

"Oxygène", "Equinoxe", "Concerts in China", and "Magnetic Fields". And I recall Santana's "Moonflower" being quite present in my kid life, with Tom Coster's fantastic work.