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Paul Wesley

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  1. 3 hours ago, stc said:

    these must be the same people who think the weather in their state is special "if you don't like the weather in (insert state) just wait 5 minutes and it will change!". no shit, that's what the weather does everywhere.

     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?"

  2. 3 hours ago, G650 said:

    Yeah, I unironically really like a lot of Cinderella tunes. 

    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."

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  3. 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).  

     

     

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  4. 10 hours ago, G650 said:

    I'd also not use Stevie Nicks of all people as an example of singing on key, and I say this as a Stevie Nicks fan.

     

    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...

     

  5. 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.  

     

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  6. 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.  

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  7. 8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Damn, when I can hear the AutoTune on note #2 then we're done.

    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.  

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  8. On 5/25/2025 at 8:41 AM, DFW Horn said:

    Barring disaster, aggy doesn't have the talent, depth, or coaching to hang with the Longhorns. 

    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.  

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  9. 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"

     

     

  10. On 5/9/2025 at 7:08 PM, dcbc said:

    Also, because of the amount of radio play, I slept on Tom Petty's Wildflowers as a total album. 

    Yeah, my experience was similar.  I heard all the singles in real time because terrestrial radio was still a thing.  

    Only after I bought the CD (years later) did I appreciate the front-to-back high-level songwriting.  

  11. 2 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

    I have figured out why A&M hasn't played up to projections this season, other than the simple fact that they are aggy.  The names in these two bullet points piqued my curiosity.

    So I went and took a look at their roster, and here is my in depth analysis.  They have:

    • Caden X 2
    • Kaeden
    • Kaiden
    • Aiden
    • Hayden X 2
    • Clayton
    • Payton
    • Gavin X 3

    The coaches have no way to effectively address instruction to any individual player.  It's mass confusion on the practice field.

     

     

    20 years ago, my then-girlfriend was a postpartum nurse.  She came home from the hospital one day and announced, "In six years these babies will be showing up for kindergarten, every single boy will be named Hayden, Brayden, Aidan, and Cayden."

    They're in college now.  

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  12. I don't think there's anything wrong with that clip of Earley talking about the ejection.  He's obviously frustrated, and he's calling out his own player ("I've never seen someone fly out and then go talk to the other team's dugout"), and he's entirely correct.  

    Maybe I'm misreading it.  

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  13. On 4/21/2025 at 5:09 PM, Nivek said:

    Just bribe the new administration. 

    I think it's hard to overstate how much the existence of cryptocurrency has raised the payoffs for venal politicians.  

    In Trump 1.0, we got all worked up about people staying in Trump hotels in order to win favor.  But those transactions were teeny little sums of money, and they were at least somewhat traceable and discoverable.  We're a couple orders of magnitude beyond that in 2.0.  We're looking at many, many millions of dollars that cannot be accounted for in any way... even if law enforcement had the willpower and/or courage to try.

    Having gold bars in your closet is horse-and-buggy treason by comparison.  

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