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Goredho

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  1. We Salute You, Mr American
  2. Reverse piano hit into classical guitar lines and then that rhythm/bass as the song comes in. I feel like every Pink Floyd song could be listed, and this may be more of a transition from intro to the song, but every time I listen to TGGITS, the pedal steel sweep and drum fill into the full band with the sung death throws gives me chills
  3. Yeah, there's really nothing to say that hasn't been said. Either about the horror or culpable parties. I think for Nicole and maybe others, it's a form of cathartic release.
  4. Yeah, haven't listened to any of it, no idea if it's worth the time. It seems like a pretty lazy attempt given by what I see in the article, and a million Spotify followers is something you can just pay for. $1700 buys you 100,000. I do think there will likely be someone who successfully makes a largely AI-powered, commercially viable virtual artist that earns not insignificant money from streaming platforms. It's a matter of when. When I say largely AI-powered, I mean it will be a combination of AI and human talents with AI being responsible for 50% or more of the artist's "presence". Songwriting, production, videos, social media, etc... Maybe the songs are largely human written, and AI is generating a pop-star facade online. Or maybe its a pretty human face with not much else to offer using AI to generate a song catalog, videos, etc...
  5. I expect a significant number of their 1 million AI followers are bots themselves.
  6. So MechaHitler is really MechaMusk and no one can tell the difference?
  7. https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/entertainment/rock-band-with-more-than-1-million-spotify-listeners-reveals-its-entirely-ai-generated-down-to-the-musicians-themselves/ Rock band with more than 1 million Spotify listeners reveals it’s entirely AI-generated — down to the musicians themselves A fresh new rock band that quickly shot to Spotify’s top ranks announced that it’s actually wholly generated by artificial intelligence, just one month after its celebrated debut album earned it one million listeners. The ’60s-inspired rock-and-roll band, the Velvet Sundown, revealed on Saturday that nothing about it is real after fans of the up-and-coming artists noticed there were virtually no traces of any people associated with it online. Its debut album, “Floating on Echoes,” was released on June 5 to mass appeal online.
  8. One of these arrived today for that new Guild. Anyone ever install one before?
  9. This rock & roll lifestyle is not what I thought it would be.
  10. Thanks. I dabble in Ambient. @sidis is really good at it. I just sent him a sorta interesting ambient guitar piece and he built a composition around it.
  11. An ambient piece with me on guitar and @sidis on everything else.
  12. I read Malcolm Gladwell's "Revenge of the Tipping Point" last October and it freaked me the fuck out. Grok going off the rails yesterday reinforces some concerns I have. Building a racist, subversive AI into Twitter/X is basically Elon trying to hijack the overstory that influences our society. If you are familiar with "The Tipping Point" or "Revenge of the Tipping Point", Grok is simultaneously a super-spreader, connector and maven embedded into a widely-used social media platform. It will control the way people who use the platform view the world outside of their direct observation and lead them towards a tipping point. Your imagination will have to provide what sort of tipping point is the aim.
  13. And he wants to plug into your brain stem.
  14. Grok now reads a lot like Elon. What are the odds Elon's content is overly weighted in Grok's training set?
  15. Fuck if I know, but they are posting memes like this today.
  16. If all the west Texas people from my hometown are an indication, the average MAGA voter isn’t happy.
  17. So if Elon goes through with making a 3rd party, is it going to be right or left of Trump's MAGA party? Like, is it going to be tree hugging clean energy stuff, or nazi salute sieg heil stuff?
  18. Goredho

    Led Zeppelin

    Your post reminded me of one the things about When The Levee Breaks harmonica that I love. That’s just how big and raw it is, matching up to how big that beat is. Much different than how typical blues harmonica is rendered. Plant played it into a mic and through an amp and they recorded that so it had some saturation/overdrive to it. It was also recorded a half step above and then taken down through tape manipulation to give it more of a deeper resonate timbre. One of Zep/Page’s many clever production choices.
  19. This does not surprise me in the least. Most of the counselors were former campers, and the development campers receive at La Junta is the kind of stuff that would make them capable of this as young adults.
  20. I think he realizes he got used. I doubt he realizes he can't really do shit about it.
  21. I generally agree, but I think you left out one culpable party -- voters. People that vote for the leadership who say they are going to keep government expenditures as small as possible. The leadership that decided $1 million was just too much for an emergency warning service in Kerr county. You can say that leadership is negligent and the guilty party, but really, they are just carrying out the desires of the majority of their constituents. The people in these areas putting this leadership in place are ultimately to blame for the leadership you all suffer under. This is an uncomfortable conversation that needs to happen with people you know that vote for that leadership. Otherwise, you're just gonna keep getting underfunded incompetence at the state and local level every time shit gets real. Or you can avoid places like Kerr County and Texas as a whole and go to where the majority of people value funded competence in their local and state government. I wish it was different, but it is what it is.
  22. The outro solo on this is maybe my favorite of all time. The last chord in the progression is out of key and Knopfler uses that harmonic context brilliantly.
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