Everything posted by Paul Wesley
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Is there a thread to talk about how much Bon Jovi sucks?
They were the ones with spandex and hairspray.
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Suspected AI band gains 550k users on Spotify
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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The Guitar Pron Thread
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...
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The Guitar Pron Thread
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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Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
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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The Guitar Pron Thread
I think you should start with a vast arsenal of high-end instruments and gear. Everything else flows from there.
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NBA 2024-25 Playoff Thread
Ugh. Looked like an achilles.
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The Guitar Pron Thread
What do you have against 25-minute videos that could have been 3 minutes?
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Ignoring the clickbait headline (spoiler: nothing goes off the rails, much less OFF THE RAILS).
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2025 Celebrity Death Pool
Sly Stone, 82.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
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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Ztejas and Jimmy debate weezer
I have a lot of fondness for this Nerf Herder tune:
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
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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RIP Rick Derringer
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"
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Let's discuss "The Doors"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/19/jim-morrisons-long-lost-graveside-bust-turns-up-during-french-police-search
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Texas Baseball 2025 - Your SEC regular season champions!!
Missouri is exactly two losses away from an odds-defying perfect conference season. And I am rooting for (against) them.
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Awesome music you only recently discovered
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.
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Best opening lyrics of all time
That has always been one of my favorites too. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/17296-share-your-music-it-probably-sucks-but-that’s-not-why-we-do-it/page/12/#findComment-5586480
- Texas A&M @ Texas Series Thread
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Texas A&M @ Texas Series Thread
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.
- Texas A&M @ Texas Series Thread
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is terrible at this job
Her reward: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/weather/trump-denied-disaster-aid-arkansas-tornadoes/index.html
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The children are gone
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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Your unpopular music opinions
I live in a world where everyone around me thinks "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" is genius. Since I just didn't see it, I thought the failure must be my own. Today I decided it's just a bad song. *Excerpted from my upcoming collection of essays, "All of My Issues Are Someone Else's Fault." Pre-order on Amazon.
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