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Paul Wesley

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  1. "The Stranger" totally holds up as a creative master class. Stranger-52nd Street-Glass Houses is a pretty solid run of albums. I wish they'd spent more time on the music, the musicians, the songs, the studio process, etc. - and a bit less on "the romantic history of Billy Joel." I'm sure Joel is capable of being abrupt and difficult, but I got a little weary of hearing how much it hurt Liberty's feelings when he didn't use him on a project, and how much it hurt Phil Ramone when Joel wanted to use a different producer, etc, etc. It's a complicated and nuanced thing to talk about loyalty in those situations where there's a completely one-sided power dynamic. I'm sure no one would argue that those people played a huge role in shaping the music. But let's remember that for a lot of those musicians, being in Joel's band is the difference between jetting around the world surrounded by luxury and adoration vs. teaching music lessons for $50/hr and making a few bucks every weekend at a nightclub. It has to be more complicated than Joel is the greatest down-home, loyal, never-changing, stand-up guy only as long as he uses the same cast of Long Island guys... and he's a treasonous disloyal asshole when he wants to do something different or work with a different person.
  2. You could post this observation on every thread on this board, and you'd be hammer-hitting-nail almost every time.
  3. Paring down the collection - and yes, I know that's not what the thread is for. But life has thrown me a few curveballs, and I'm downsizing to my most sentimental instruments in preparation for a move. Selling this I-35 LC with Fralin P90's. Cheapest used blond on Reverb is 6K, and cheapest new ones are well over 7K. Surly discount is $3950 plus shipping. PM me.
  4. An endorsement far more credible than mine: Ian Mclagan walked into a session and saw a pair of 421 at 90 degrees on a Leslie. He lit up and turned to engineer. "Finally! An engineer who knows how to mic a B3!"
  5. Yeah, I think that's the most common use. But pretty good on Leslie (pair, obviously) and guitar cabinets.
  6. I guess they sold out. There were only a few left, and I posted it here as soon as I saw it They were $139, which is crazy cheap.
  7. Musicians Friend selling Sennheiser 421 as stupid deal of the day. Good all-around dynamic mic for great price
  8. Good rant. Even when I was a kid, it bothered me to hear adults say that about weather in Texas. It's decidedly not true. I'd think, "Didn't we just hit 100 degrees thirty days (or more) in a row?"
  9. Me too. Keifer wrote some legit riffs/songs, even though the dominant genre at the time was cartoonishly bad. In the words of Bill Burr, "When I was a kid, you dressed like a girl and sang about the devil. Now THAT was music."
  10. They were the ones with spandex and hairspray.
  11. I'm not sure if the allegation is that the photos are AI-generated, or the music is, or both. Beato's theory is that AI-generated songs are harder for an algorithm to split into stems - which strikes me as a plausible theory but certainly not a slam-dunk. Or if the music was made by some dude in his bedroom, and then he marketed it with photos that were deliberately chosen to be recognized as AI-generated. I guess you could argue that if we're talking about it, then the ploy worked (but based on that YouTube clip, they're not gonna get any streams from me).
  12. Speaking of forgiving a clunker... I used to laugh about the backing vocals on this track. It sounds exactly like a backing vocalist learning a song they've never heard and fishing around to find the harmonies. Except in this case, they used the first pass on the record. Turns out the vocalists in question was Stevie. In fairness to her, Stewart hits a few clams himself. The first syllable of "shower" at 1:00 is off by at least a half step. I was under the impression that in 1979, cocaine gave everybody the energy to work hard and get it right, but maybe not...
  13. If the monitoring is bad, even reasonably good singers can sound pretty awful. Unless you're a unicorn of a vocalist, you're going to crash and burn without being able to hear both yourself and some instrument for reference. I'm willing to forgive a clunker here and there.
  14. For several years, I had the Empress phaser on my board. I was working on a lot of 70's-inspired funk songs, and the Empress has some modes where it behaves more like an envelope filter. The problem was that you had to access the back side of the pedal to engage those switches. It was a pretty cool studio tool, but way too complex and inaccessible to live on a pedalboard. It got replaced by the Waylon phaser, which is much simpler, yet still gets a nice range of useable sounds.
  15. I think you should start with a vast arsenal of high-end instruments and gear. Everything else flows from there.
  16. Ugh. Looked like an achilles.
  17. What do you have against 25-minute videos that could have been 3 minutes?
  18. Ignoring the clickbait headline (spoiler: nothing goes off the rails, much less OFF THE RAILS).
  19. Yeah, it's just weird to write an "I'm gonna kick his ass" song, and then hypertune your voice so you sound like Cher. That incongruence is one of the defining characteristics of Bro Country.
  20. I have a lot of fondness for this Nerf Herder tune:
  21. I rewatched the aggie game recently (what can I say... it's the offseason). It's crazy how they got most of the big-play breaks that night: Texas lost a fumble on the aggie 10, threw a pick-6 on a tipped ball on their 10, and got a punt blocked that the Aggies recovered at around the Texas 20. The Aggies got more than enough big breaks to pull off the home upset against a better team... EXCEPT that they were physically dominated pretty much every snap all night long. It was a 17-7 game that was nearly 34-0. Liucci watched the same game and says thing will "even out in short order?" "Farmer is better than Benson," "Reggie is better than Vince," "Things are going to even out in short order." No, no, and highly unlikely.
  22. Two things I knew: "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" Solo on Weird Al's "Eat it." One thing I learned yesterday: Guitar on "Hang on Sloopy"
  23. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/19/jim-morrisons-long-lost-graveside-bust-turns-up-during-french-police-search
  24. Missouri is exactly two losses away from an odds-defying perfect conference season. And I am rooting for (against) them.
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