Philbo King

I like Exact Audio Copy on windows. https://flemmingss.com/perfect-cd-ripping-to-flac-with-exact-audio-copy/

RIP Duane. See on the other side.

To keep perspective, remember that once Hitler was Times Man of the Year.

I looked into these for our house (USA). They run 25-40 $US for each. Since we have solar power on the roof and currently have a 1.4 MW-Hr generated surplus, they didn't make economic sense for us. But if we didn't, it would be fairly pain free to buy & install one per month.

Pretty hilarious. Also a good formula for a top 40 hit... unfortunately

Re: Beato video Some very cool ideas. I just wish he had less chorusing effect muddying it up.

One I used while a teen to investigate modal music (something like sitar melodies). It's also a drone tuning: D A D A A D I got really fond of the slight phasing/flanging sound of the intonation imperfections between 2nd and 3rd strings of the Teisco Del-rey $20 electric I had at the time. This is one example of the idea that imperfections are often way more interesting than totally perfect sound.

I still sell CDs at my (increasingly rare) gigs, mostly at blues festivals, mail them out to various radio stations when I release a new one, and occasionally just hand them out for free. I'd greatly prefer to sell albums on thumb drives, for ecological reasons, but they are surprisingly expensive.

I've thought about this a few times, like "what would music look like if there were no electricity?" My guess is it would return to being acoustic music, and the audiences would need to be retrained to actually listen rather than trying to shout at each other over the music. I'm not optimistic it would work very well due to the increasingly common trait of people feeling compelled to speak every thought that crosses their minds. But maybe I'm just a crabby old man... 🤣

I was able to see the partial eclipse. I was on a gravel road returning from a trip to buy cannabis-infused water my spouse sent me after... By making a pinhole camera with my hand and watching the shadow of it. It was a little bit underwhelming but at least I saw it.

dBw (power) is different than dBv (voltage). +3 dB is a doubling of power. +6 dB is a doubling of voltage. Perceived volume is not really measurable, at least not until Elon perfects his computer/brain interface.

It was Bart Starr for me. ~60 years ago. Over the years I've come to regard organized team sports as a form of brain damage (YMMV)

I remember recently reading the Motley Crue bassist quit after being told all live shows would be done using prerecorded tracks. He wanted to (gasp) actually play his instrument!

Partially. It won't be a total eclipse here. And if things go as normal for Iowa, it'll be cloudy (Murphys Law); the last time we had a clear night for astronomic phenomenon was comet Kohoutec in the 80s.

After a night of thunderstorms and rain, it's been snowing all day here in Iowa.

I think my choice would be an old-school music stand. Most mic stands are subject to toppling. One like this: https://www.amazon.com/OEF-Furnishings-Portable-Height-Adjustable/dp/B08JD2VC3H/ref=asc_df_B08JD2VC3H?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80058307777658&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583657835964775&psc=1

I can't speak authoritively on the location of your marbles, but I also like 12" album covers!

Attitude is a big piece of depression. When living alone, you can feel lonely, or you can feel free. Easier said than done sometimes... When I was 15 in 1970, I fell 65 feet while in some deep woods. I had a near-death experience (too long to bring up here), and woke to find I had a 2 mile walk back to the house. My whole body was clenched like a fist, the back of my head was a bit mushy, and my left wrist was dangling at a peculiar angle. I was in severe shock, but I made it home and my sister got me to a hospital. They found 4 vertebrae exploded from the pressure of landing along with the fractured wrist and skull fracture. Anyway... fast forward a month, they had me strung out on pills until I got the body cast off 9 months later. Then the hard part started - getting unstrung. I would delay taking a pill until I was soaked in sweat, but not yet into convulsions. For months I kept increasing the delay until it stretched into several days, when I finally just stopped. The depression was astoundingly bad, but using less harmful drugs (pot & an occasional brain reset with mushrooms) got me through it. I guess we all have 'war stories'; this was one of mine.

I had a friend, Birddog, who did shows exactly this way. (He passed away last Christmas day). He was a regular at Honolulu gigs for years. His shows sounded great!

It seems do-able. Personally I try to do solo shows,well, solo; one guy playing/singing on maybe 3 or 4 instruments at once (harmonica, guitar, kick drum, high hat). Not even a looper pedal. But I play blues, which adapts itself well to stripped down instrumentation. Other styles may not fare as well in stripped-down mode...

Just imagine how much the stock price would surge if they quit making computers... 🤣😅

Biden said he'd veto it. Personally I think it'd be the greater good if Musk and Zuckerberg sold their social media to China or Russia so X & FB could be shut down too.

His predictions have a tendency to be wrong a lot. Like the TV weatherman, you can't really fault him; he operates at the mercy of factors beyond his control. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/20/ray-kurzweils-predictions-for-2009-were-mostly-inaccurate/

OT: I wonder a bit about the new ELP tour... Using stand-in players, or holograms of Lake & Emerson?

Before I had monitors with decent bass, I used a spectrum analyser on every mix to get the bass close to right. It became a habit; I still do that. One useful thing to set is the slope of the analyser. I use 3 dB/octave, which makes pink noise look flat.