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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Finish this sentence using a song lyric:
“Love is…”
I’ll start:
…the answer
…like oxygen
…in the air
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lamia6 posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What’s your Franks Red Hot in plugin form, you know, the “I Put That SH*T On Everything” one that just seems to fit in everywhere?
For me it’s Overloud’s Gem Mod for whatever width everything needs. Does the job perfectly, and so efficiently too. (yes the one that was a freebie at some point, can’t remember where though).
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I was recently talking to an indie developer about the market overall and the extreme deep discounting and how it puts pressure for developers to do very significant deep discounts to get attention in this market. Here we are months ahead of Black Friday and we have unbelievable discounts from developers big (NI, UAD, UJAM, IK, UVI…) and small.…Read More
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Brian posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
If you are not familiar with 404 Media, check them out. Tech journalists extraordinaire. This should be a free read to non-subscribers. I recommend the free newsletter if the sub it out of your budget. They cover ALL tech, but I thought this story might be of interest to…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
My wife was just showing me how this musician who goes by the name Plumes doesn’t just sing to audiences of people, but performs for wild animals. So far, I’ve seen videos of rhinos, a tortoise, and this sealion. The animals seemed soothed by his music.
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What was responsible for you deciding to learn a musical instrument? Did your parent/guardian enroll you in music lessons or did you decide on your own?
How old were you? And, if you chose to learn on your own, what inspired you to want to learn?
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13 years old. Christmas 1970 I received a $30 Tiesco electric guitar that I asked for. I took lessons for about three months and just kept playing. Started giving lessons myself a few years later. Memorable year because that Christmas morning Jupiter, Venus and Mars were all near each other (in conjunction) in the pre-dawn sky. My Dad’s love of…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
RIP Rick Davies of Supertramp. I’ve been a fan since I was a kid.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Perhaps the greatest rock band of all time weighs in on Ozzy, Autotune, reverb, and other important topics. A must watch from the rock GOATs.
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For anyone who is going on the road to tour with a band, this is a must-watch for lots of useful tips.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I used to run a Facebook Group called “Kindness” years ago. I suppose I was very motivated to do that when my kids were young and I wanted to impress upon them the imporrtance of kindness and caring for others. I would post inspiring stories and quotes about people doing acts of kindness in the group. While I stopped posting in it, I thought this…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
So, I was compiling lists of the best free audio production videos for the NEW Audio Production FORUM, using videos that I’ve saved in playlists over the years. Please join in these lists and add your own recommendations — and in my feed on YouTube was a video that seemed like it knew me. It was titled, “How to Mix Your Sh*tty Vocals.” I cracked…Read More
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I love Ben Folds Five — his stuff without them is nice, but man, these three guys are great together, a perfect fit.
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MagicRuss posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What have you actually learned from your influences?
We can all list the artists we’ve been influenced by, but I think it’s more interesting to list the things you’ve actually taken from them.
For example, I would say that I’ve learned how to do bends from Jimmy Page.
Melody from David Gilmour.
I don’t play bass that much, but most of what I…Read More
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This is such a great question. But it’s one that takes time to respond to. (I did respond earlier, but somehow, it was deleted).
I have so many influences that taught me various things. For songwriters, I’ve learned from everyone that’s moved me. Because I grew up with a musician and music teacher mother, and my mother’s education was classic…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
This just appeared in my YouTube feed and I really like it! AI did a damn good job with this, but slipped up with the background vocals.
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Another one.
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LOL!!!
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My daughter — who is in HS and sings in the school choir — and has an appreciation for much of the rock music I love, except for Zeppelin, sadly — had a very negative reaction to me playing this AI song for her yesterday. She responded, “I’d rather hear real human beings cover the song in that style than AI. No thanks.” I still had her…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
The guys over at Production Expert made a post about the demise of software subscriptions. I think it’s a little hopeful. But if we keep the discussion focused the DAW-related software industry, it’s pretty clear that most of the Millennials and older buyers LOATHE subscriptions. I’m careful to make a clear distinction between what I’d like to…Read More
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The only sub I have ATM is EW Composer Cloud that was $88 a couple months ago (1 year). I already own a few of theirs and it gives me chance to spend a year with everything I don’t have. I think the “fairest” option for DAW licensing (as a user) is the Bitwig / Studio One model. Pay for a year of updates and everything stays working as is…Read More
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bapu posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Anybody else got AYAIC’s M3 product? It’s a pretty impressive tool for the mix stage of a project.
If the author’s science is correct (all based on the concept of universal laws of level planes) it makes a mix rather quick and more accurate compared to this amateur’s mixing skills.
I took a project where I had applied all the EQ, compression…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Your pick for the song with the worst lyrics ever written
Share as many songs as you like. Quote the lyrics, and, even better, include a link to the song on YouTube so that we can hear it for ourselves.
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One of my son’s college roommates is studying etymology, and for some reason, this song came to mind and I told him, if he wants to amuse his classmates, play it before a class. Michael Jackson wrote this and sang background vocals for his sister. You need to see all of the lyrics for this one, but here’s just some of it:
“But when the centipede…Read More
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My vote (tongue in cheek) is Mah Na Mah Na. Really the BEST lyrics because I had the whole song memorized since I heard it for the first time in 1969. It still worms around up there and spills into my consciousness every once in a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc760ioVf0A
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This version was on a playlist I made for my kids when they were little. Don’t tell me you haven’t sung along with it!
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I have multiple submissions for worst song lyrics. One of the Hall of Shame worthy lyrics is certainly Meatloaf’s Anything for Love:
“Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will you hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?”Not to be outdone is Justin Beiber’s song Yummy:
“Yeah, you got that yummy-yum/that yummy-yum, that…Read More
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I have no idea who it is or song name,but I was flippin through the radio one day and all I heard was “hey batter batter batter hey batter batter”, so annoying, supposed to country.
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Kesha, Timber:
It’s goin’ down, I’m yellin’, “Timber”
You better move, you better dance
Let’s make a night you won’t remember
I’ll be the one you won’t forgetthe verses aren’t much better
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Nitrate Audio posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I am a big Robbie Robertson fan and I finally got around to watching the doc about The Band. Sharing in case anyone interested. The doc is good. A lot of stuff I already knew from before. Some stuff I didn’t. I didn’t know Dylan lived in pink house with them for 6 months and thats when they made basement tapes for instance.
I am also a Band fan,…Read More
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Robertson was huge to me in my working musician days. I was a devout Christian– that’s why I turned down Veruca Salt. Roberson, like Bruce Cockburn, seemed very authentic artists who didn’t exploit their faith for marketing purposes, but were legitimately talented artists that were great storytellers.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Man, what a tough day. I have way too much going on today and tomorrow and spent this morning troubleshooting the site. Everything should now be working fine. I believe I located the plugin / script that was causing the problem (which brought the site down).
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
As I bought tickets for my son and I to see a Chicago Cubs game before he goes back to college and there’s now a 100 percent chance of thunderstorms, I started singing this song. I had to play the video so my son would know it.
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jude77 posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Good darn question. In no particular order:
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Freddie Mercury
Roger Daltrey
Paul Rogers
Except for the first two, this list will change in one hour.
In the FWIW category I saw a chart once comparing Freddie Mercury’s highest sung note (not a scream, but a sung note) and Paul McCartney’s. Both covered FOUR FULL…Read More -
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Your picks for the 5 greatest rock singers of all time.
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Freddie Mercury
Paul Rodgers
Robert Plant
Steve Wash
Steve PerryThere are a lot more I would include, but they aren’t so well known or didn’t have much output, such as Jeff Buckley.
HONORABLE MENTIONS – not all technically great, but these singers have tremendous character in their voices.
Chris Cornell
Ann WIlson
Steven Tyler
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I’m not really a rock guy so my picks would probably the standard icons. However, there is this one guy in the deathcore genre (you know, just screams and grunts, no clean ‘allowed’), Will Ramos from the band Lorna Shore. The things he does with his voice are out of this world.
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He had a great voice. I was just talking about his voice the other day when I was out with my family and a Boston song came on. Of course, Tom Scholz guitar and organ playing was also excellent. Foreplay/Longtime was a staple of my childhood and everything about that was perfect, IMO.
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Freddy Mercury
Brad Delp
Steve Perry
Robert Plant
Ian Anderson (prior to voice issues, circa 1970 and before)
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Name a guitarist you think is greatly underrated.
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I know that @peter-ik have discussed this one before (not in social media, but privately). The late Terry Kath of Chicago. His studio version of “25 or 6 to 4” is a masterpiece. I realize that some of you will say that I’m biased (because Chicago is my hometown), but I have been in love with this guitar work since I was a kid. Hey, even Jimi…Read More
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Agreed of course, since you know how I love his work especially on that song. That song and copping a bunch of his techniques was a good part of how I got into the music school of my dreams… Ah to be that 17 year old again…
Sorry I didn’t realize hitting enter would submit, duh. I know this is the question of a different day already but I…Read More
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Okay, side note, I only intended the title “Question of the Day” to be kind of a silly theme about me coming up with a question — not even on a daily basis. I hope people will respond to them whenever they see them. So I suppose maybe I should rename it. Suggestions? Question of the Week??? I’m open. My goal is just to create something fun that…Read More
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Only underrated by “young me”. When I was growing up on the Great Plains I was a cultural snob and hated country music, probably because that genre was most popular there. I personally didn’t appreciate guys like Jerry Reed and Roy Clark at the time (remember Hee-Haw?). Both great talents.
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He is massively rated on the English folk scene (despite now living in the US 😉 ) but Richard Thompson has never acquired the wider recognition he so Rich(ly) deserves. I must admit the first time I saw him playing acoustic I didn’t get it but then I saw him electric with a full band and I very much did! An astonishing player whom I have seen…Read More
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If it weren’t for a certain other guitar player in his band, I think Pat Sansone would get a bit more credit.
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I love Wilco. I even did a cover of “Radio Cure” and considered “On and On.” But your mentioning one of the band members name caused me to realize that I’ve never really thought of the guitar on a critical level in the band, and that’s super rare for me. I have to go back and listen more critically. Any songs that you think stand out as really…Read More
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Obviously “Impossible Germany”. I should point out that Pat Sansone does most of the lead work during the verses, which is overshadowed by Nels Cline’s Solo, most of which is improvised on any given night. I’d also recommend looking for a live version of “Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull” which features those two trading licks. Also look up…Read More
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Thanks, I will be doing that. I’m driving my son back to college tomorrow or Weds. and will listen to my Wilco playlist on the ride back.
On a Wilco related note, I got turned on to the music of @reidjamiesonmusic because some of the Wilco guys are fans and got one of his songs played on a Chicago radio station back in the 00s (WXRT, if you are…Read More
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I am from Chicago originally so I am familiar with “Chicago’s Finest Rock”, although I was more of a Loop fan in high school during the 80s. I was aware of a lot of the alt-country artists, liked a few tracks here and there, but didn’t follow any of them. One day I heard “Box Full of Letters” on the air and had to pick it up. Of course at that…Read More
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The Loop and Johnny B! I listened to The Loop too (unfortunately, they’re long gone and WXRT is more about playing oldies and classic rock, not what made them great). But back in the 80s and 90s XRT was great and exposed me to a lot of off-the-beaten-path rock bands as well as jazz, fusion, and blues on the weekends when they had shows that would…Read More
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Brian posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
MUSIC or LYRICS ?
I was recently vacationing with extended family at a lake house in the Olympic mountains. This debate arose during a game of Kubb (lot of fun BTW). My son-in-law believes that lyrics are more important than music in a song. His brother and I took the other side.
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Great question @Brian For me it is definitely the music – much of the music I love is purely instrumental and I consider that it reaches parts that words cannot reach. However I am also a lover of folk music and in that genre (excluding instrumentals obviously!) the words can be as, or more, important.
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It depends on the song. Ideally a song has both. But then, there are so many song great songs with meaningless lyrics that we all love. Songs that have it all are ideal and rare. Songs that have stood the test of time with meaingless lyrics or lyrics about a subject that really is not very meaningful include:
“I Am the Walrus” — it’s…Read More
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RE: Stranglehold, Norwegian wood also ends with a bit of arson.
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I’ll also put in that there’s no shortage of songs out there which would be pointless without the lyrics. “Positively 4th Street” and “Sometime Around Midnight” being some good examples.
On the other hand, “Apache” needs no lyrics.
Then of course there are the songs that are only popular because people misunderstand the lyrics like “Every…Read More
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I think most instrument players are going to side with “Music” over lyrics. Good point about the “nonsense lyrics” @Peter– I had not thought of that. In support of lyrics, we agreed that “Rap” is all about lyrics. Same can be said for any novelty song (Weird Al, etc) that is reusing a melody. Many places I have seen the quote to the effect:…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Okay, my two most anticipated movies of 2025 are Spinal Tap 2 and this… I was and remain a huge fan of Jeff Buckley. He was pure musical magic. An unbelievable talent.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What’s life without humor? Sure, it’s a bit cocky. It’s also true.
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Some time ago when Klevgrand released “Revolv”, I absolutely didn’t need another reverb but I though it was so cool that I wanted to take advantage of the “introductory price” so I bought it, then, if I remember correct, it was just a couple of weeks after the introductory price offer ended, the company started a huge sale that made the plugin…Read More