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What song are you playing right now?
- Thread starter No Ash More Cash
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Aw Jeez...
The "music" ain't so great. The Chicks are awesome!
From the land of Fiords:
The Master:
Uncle Carl:
Damn.....
Uncle Bill:
Bastards! EVIL fuckin' bastards!Ain't that some shit? Especially considering Zappa's past legal battles... ...you wouldn't expect the fam to be caught dead on the other side of it. Goes against everything the man himself stood and fought for!
Eh, they've prolly got some bureaucrats that don't know shit about Frank Zappa handling things. The irony is lost on them. :/
Youtube copyright is all kinds of fucked, though. You could post my music with my explicit consent and youtube's copyright system would still pick it up, block the video, put up a strike against your channel, and take all of your ad money - and I still can't do shit about it, even though I've allowed you to use it. THAT should be illegal. Every day, people are getting fucked out of their money/investments because the system has tourettes and youtube doesn't have enough human oversight to make sure it's not tripping out over nothing. It's a real mess right now.
Copyright law, in general, needs to be re-written. The internet didn't exist when it was formed. All efforts to enforce it have hurt the little guys more than it has even helped the big guys. Personally, I don't think there's much to be made in digital sales to begin with. There just isn't enough inherent value to an audio stream. It's time for labels to evolve and look for better opportunities. The only artists who break even on digital sales are chart-toppers... ...and only for so long. What's really hurting them is that nobody goes to their shows anymore. Maybe focus on that instead of petty youtube uploads with 50-100k views?
That aside, I'd have to think that nobody is not buying albums because they can listen to them on youtube. The audio quality is shit and it's not exactly convenient to just load up youtube every time you want to listen to music. These suits don't seem to understand how people listen to music anymore. They're lost, scared, and probably losing a lot of money because of it.
May they all rot in stinky hell....
Gotta fire up the "way back" machine....
Some Miles:
More Miles:
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No shit? I thought that you were into brain-dead zombie techno krappe.
Impressed I am.
Go RZ!
Haha, I am into brain-dead zombie techno krappe! Sometimes it's really nice to just turn off your brain! That's more of a recent addition to my repertoire, though. Prog, jazz, classical, the snobby virtuoso stuff... ...that's more my bread and butter. I just listen music of those spheres more judiciously. I save it for when I'm geared towards maximum enjoyment - those "gotta have it" days.
I like to have a bunch of consumable music to toss around the rest of the time so I don't ruin everything for myself by over-listening. Nothing is lost by burning yourself out to consumable music. There's always more of that. If anything, it just makes me appreciate the classics and neo-classics that much more. It becomes like a breath of fresh air. Keeps it special.
There's stuff that you put on in the background and then there is stuff you sit your ass down for, headphones-on and eyes closed or lock yourself in a room with a large speaker system. The three don't compare at all, but it all has its place in my book. I just dig it all man. There's stuff I like and then there is stuff I haven't given a chance or been exposed to yet...
I love it.
RZ, you are a gem!
Chicks! Atmosphere is reserved for certain "other" pieces....
OK Deep Breath.
We're going waay back. Before Hypno-time.
Crank this up for your friends. Check out the reactions.
It IS baddass:
We're going waay back. Before Hypno-time.
Crank this up for your friends. Check out the reactions.
It IS baddass:
OK then, Here's the big one:
Y'all have been taught that is cheesy.
Well, not so much.
It's good shit.
Astrud, mmmmmm.
Y'all have been taught that is cheesy.
Well, not so much.
It's good shit.
Astrud, mmmmmm.
Fascinating lady, snowflake in the sun
You make me feel so bourgeois
Oh, you've captured everyone
I hear you've been a dancer
At some famous Paris show
And million dollar lovers
Neatly saw you to your door
Nineteen fifty seven,
Sweetheart of the year
Secret of your beauty,
Was your moon tan and your fear
And now you run this city
You're still honey to the flies
Attract the in crowd dandies
Faraway-look in their eyes
You're the bright, nocturnal Vanilla Queen
Your mask is sterile dignity
Tell me why, nocturnal Vanilla Queen
You haunt me, even in my dreams
It couldn't be avoided
We were bound to meet
I knew you would drag me down
And toss me off my feet
Sweet moments of desire
Sweet moments of relief
You blew down my fences
You're natural make-believe
You're the bright, nocturnal Vanilla Queen
Your mask is sterile dignity
Tell me why, nocturnal Vanilla Queen
You haunt me, even in my dreams
Songwriters: BARRY HAY, GEORGE KOOYMANS
If your circles could be spirals
And your idols weren't machines
If you could pick up all the signals
And flash on where you've been
Maybe you don't feel it at all
It's your own fault crawl boy, crawl!
If you could quit the miming
And try some different timing
You could get a chance to be free
Are you receiving me
It's the pilot's plea
Are you receiving me
Close to insanity
Are you receiving me
Recharge your battery
Are you receiving me
(or are you out to lunch)
If your prayers could all be answered
And you were given time to pay
The chances would be so heavy
But you'd find a better way
Songwriters
FENTON/KOOYMANS/HAY
Read more: Golden Earring - Are You Receiving Me Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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Honestly, I think it makes more sense this way. Real drums win out over fake ones every time, even though fake drums can be really compelling if you put in the time and effort. It's just that guitars in this genre go through so much compression, hard-limiting, and gating, that a live performance already sounds fake - that's kind of the idea... ...to be robotically tight and clean. Usually, they're not even using real amps, anyway. Might as well have real drums and fake guitars to get a more concise and refined guitar sound. This guy at least seems to get more ideal results that way.
I'd really like to know about his process for doing the guitars. He does a lot that can't be simple "play a bunch of random stuff and chop it up" types of deals. There's too much intricacy in the fretting and attack on the individual notes. He's gotta be intentionally playing certain sections certain ways before chopping them up. I'm assuming he also has a lot of general samples that he shapes with envelopes. Hmm... ...it's simple, but meticulous work, I'm sure.
As a guitarist myself, it presents some interesting possibilities. There should be a way to streamline the process. I'd like to build a massive sample-base of dry guitar notes straight from the output jack, complete with velocity gradients, mutes, staccatos, slides, legato... ...all of it. I feel like it would be really fun to call the samples via a midi keyboard and re-amp them. Dedicate a wheel to a soft-hard envelope to control attack and sustain. That way I can do clean, heavy distortion, and everything in between. Just toss on whatever effects I want and perform it all in real-time. Even switch tones on the fly or split different sounds across the keys so that I can play two guitars at once.
I dunno. I learned the keys so that I could start to approach the guitar like a piano... ...to start using chords and melodies that aren't so intuitive on guitar and break away from my 13 years of built-up guitar laurels. So having a keyboard that literally sounds like a real guitar would be sweet. That would be an awesome creative tool. I think when I have a few days, I'll start working out a way to do that. It will be one hell of an endeavor, but I don't see anybody else trying it!
Hammond, Steinway, Moog.
Laurels?
Jeez....
RZ I love ya, but damn.
Pick an instrument. Learn it. Play it.
I have one US dollar here for whoever can make it through this:
Laurels?
Jeez....
RZ I love ya, but damn.
Pick an instrument. Learn it. Play it.
I have one US dollar here for whoever can make it through this:
