Nitrate Audio posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Some music news worth checking out.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/biggest-music-deals-2025-so-far-warner-music-concord/
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Do we have any baseball fans here?
I’ll share that I am most prolific at posting deals when the Chicago Cubs are playing (my favorite baseball team). In fact, there may be a correlation between my most enthusiastic posts and when the Cubs are winning and my shortest posts when the Cubs are losing. This is pretty much my expression when they’re losing:
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The game just started. The second pitch of the game, the Cubs batter got a home run! Look forward to some happy deal posts in the next hours! 🙂
* I make no apologies to any Yankees fans that may be here! 😉
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I’ve invested a good deal of time researching and asking members for recommendations for the best free effects plugins. My objective was to bring together the best plugin effects based on surveying our community members (in reality, I only tapped a handful of you). As this community grows, I’ll be using voting and other tools to compile these…Read More
LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I really enjoy Justin Hawkins’ Rides Again YouTube channel. HIs interesting and funny as heck. His latest video takes on the Velvet Underground, the AI rock band that I covered in the most recent LM blog post. Love to get your thoughts.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Welcome to all of our new members. I eventually delete the new member notice auto posts so they don’t clutter up this group. Just know that we’re very happy to have all of you here! Our objective isn’t to be the biggest music-making community, but to be the friendliest, most helpful, and welcoming community of musicians and producers.
joegyork posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Has anyone let gear go and come to regret it – like the people in this article from Production Expert?
My biggest regret was letting someone have my WASP synth & Spyder sequencer. They weren’t working but I wish I had got them repaired as they are being sold for prices between £600 and £1400 n…Read More4 Comments-
The first drum kit I ever had, which I bought at around age 7, was a Camco. It was a white pearl kit. It sounded great, but I wanted something that looked cooler. So maybe when I was 12 or so, I was persuaded by a guy at the local music store that this cool-looking blue kit — a garbage low end kit made in Taiwan called Royce — for around $400 was…Read More
My first “stage amp” (my Dad and I built a small Heathkit for my $29 Tiesco first guitar 🙂 was a 1965 Fender Twin Reverb and I still have it. BUT I blew the speakers (somehow) and instead of having the Jensens re-built (like my Dad advised), I bought el-cheapo nameless replacements (hey, they’re rated at 200W- what else matters?) and tossed the…Read More
Just like the guy in the article, I had a Roland Juno 60 that I got new in 1984 (was actually my first polysynth that I ever owned!). Sometime in the late 1990s, while it was still in great working condition, I let it go for a steal! I was diving headlong into digital stuff , and figured it was headed toward the ash heap. Bad call there.…Read More
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Just before we moved from Bradford to York I invited people round to take any vinyl albums that I either had CDs of or could hear on Spotify (before I realised what robbing g*ts they were)! I only kept my more obscure folk & prog stuff. Big mistake!
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
A new rock band — that strongly appears to be completely AI-generated music and images. They’ve now surpassed 750,000 monthly listeners and are rapidly becoming more popular. Of course, AI steals from real artists to make this stuff. So, what do we do now?
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An alleged spokesperson for the AI band has been interviewed by Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/velvet-sundown-ai-band-suno-1235377652/
I’ve been in IT since the 80’s. I’ve got AI “fatigue” and borderline conspiracy theory ideas on what is actually going on. My first revelation was that the press stories about the impending sci-fi level doom that AI will wreak upon us is psyop level marketing to prod managers to look into it. If it’s so good it’s dangerous then we better start…Read More
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When I was a working musician, I was pretty much like a lot of guys are about sports when it came to looking at playing skills and I sometimes hung out in a pack of Chicago working drummers that were similarly minded. If a drummer couldn’t play well, they were brutal. Then, as I became more experienced and joined a somewhat popular Chicago rock…Read More
I had a bit of a snoop into how they achieved 300,000 hits in such a short space of time and it makes it pretty clear that they’re AI bros, they appear to have used all sorts of nefarious trickery to get there. It’s a triumph of algorythm over substance, you can delve deeper with Chatgpt and get some of the tricks they used.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Rick Beato did a video about an open secret in the music industry, that pro songwriters — sometimes producers — write songs for a great deal of today’s young pop stars. The stars might want a lyric changed here and there to fit their style, but often have almost no involvement in the songwriting. In fact, several years ago a group of songwriters…Read More
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I watched this video a couple days ago. It’s unfortunate that songwriters may not be getting a fair deal, but if there is a “free market”, are they not able to choose a different artist / agreement? I really don’t know if most musical acts are under a single “megacorp” that could be considered a monopoly, which would be an anti-trust issue. If…Read More
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Quincy Jones shared, shortly before his death, that other people would write with Michael Jackson and he would refuse to give them credit purely out of greed. I can’t recall the exat tune he cited bfore, but I think it was the bridge in “Human Nature” that Jones aid keyboardist Greg Phillinganes wrote. Jones said he tried to persuade Jackson to…Read More
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Paul McCartney did the same to a lot of musicians, I think they learned a lot off of each other, met the guy who wrote most of the guitar and instrumental parts for live and let die, can’t remember the fella’s name now but yeah, totally did this back then.
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I’m a huge McCartney fan, and I’ve never heard that, and I’ve had a number of chats with one of Paul’s former drummers, Chris Whitten. Chris spoke very well of Paul. I asked Chris if Paul was really bossy with the musicians, and Chris told me that Paul was always really easy going and was never like that. Plus, Paul wrote “Live and Let Die” and…Read More
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Here’s an early version of the song with McCartney playing the piano. McCartney plays the key parts of the song.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What music-related activities/projects are you currently working on?
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
RIP, Mick Ralphs, one of the founders of Bad Company.…Read More
LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Today is International Make Music Day. Celebrate it!
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I know what I’m going to watch this weekend! NetFlix just released, “Becoming Led Zeppelin.”
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My sister gave me Led Zeppelin II for Christmas, it had just been released a couple of months before. So far I had only bought 2 albums – The Who Live at Leeds and The Band’s brown album. First track, Whole Lotta Love, was like nothing I had ever heard.
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As a very young boy, Zeppelin and The Who were my favorite rock bands. The first rock record album I ever bought was Zeppelin III — and I still love it (and everything else from the band) to this day.
I started piano lessons at age 3 1/2. By the next year, my siblings decided to form a band and voted that I would be the drummer. So at the end…Read More
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WOW (!) I remember well in 1969 when I was 12 years old listening to my Archies “Sugar Sugar” 45 rpm. My big sister came in to have her turn at the hifi and said “You have to listen to this”. I was expressing interest in learning to play. She put on Zeppelin 2 and Hendix’ “Are You Experienced”. I admit that Hendrix was above my head at the…Read More
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I was the only one of my siblings to love Zeppelin. My sisters turned me on to Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, ELO, and many other artists I came to love. They were my resource. But my sisters didn’t care much for Zeppelin. My mother used to refer to them as “acid rock” and “drug music.” However, when I was in my late teens, I finally had a…Read More
bapu posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Becoming Led Zeppelin on Netflix
Excellent doc.
Has the only known audio interview with John Bonham.
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Ed, the first rock record I ever purchased was Led Zeppelin III when I was around 7 years old. I literally wore out the grooves on “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and “Friends” because I played them so much. And I still have that original album with the worn out grooves in my basement and its replacement. Yet, while I’ve turned my wife and kids on to…Read More
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I saw them at The Rose Palace in Pasadena, CA May 2nd, 1969 with:
Julie Driscoll – Brian Auger and the Trinity
The Elvin Bishop Blues Band
The Chambers BrothersThe four band did a full set, took an intermission and all four came back for another (different) set.
The stage had no curtains and no back stage area. The were no chairs, it was…Read More
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Great story. Their first album from back then was killer. Zeppelin still rules!
Last night I watched “Becoming Led Zeppelin.” My wife stayed through the entire movie, but my kids didn’t. While I enjoyed it — and I’d pretty much watch anay official documntary on one of my favorite bands of all time — I thought it was just okay as a documentary.
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Also, as we learned from the doc and I witnessed firsthand, in the second set they played Moby D!ck, Heartbreaker and Whole Lotta Love. The world did not know of those songs yet, but they moved me then and of course in due time I immediately recognized them when LZ II came out.
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Zeppelin would have been great to see at any point, but the excitement of seeing them back then had to be incredible. I’ve seen a few bands before they became big, but the biggest one that I saw that blew me away with a new sound was Rage Against the Machine. They weren’t even booked at the club I saw them at, it was a surprise show (it was a cool…Read More
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I saw them shortly after LZ III at the L.A. Forum too. We were three rows back from the floor at the middle on the side.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
One of my favorite songs of all time, redone by Brian Wilson in 2009.
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Very sad news. If I have a “favourite”, it’s him. Saw him with the BB’s in 1980. and several times with his own band since 2002. Al Jardine will be doing some shows with some of his band later this year. Brian was clearly a reluctant genius (“I’m just a hard working guy”). He had a warm soul, a lovely sense of humour and zero ego.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
RIP Sly Stone. He brought us some awesome music.
Many years ago, Sly lived in and performed in Chicago at local clubs. A friend of mine, a very talented female rock singer in the mold of Janis Joplin, had sometimes sang with the band an dated Sly’s drummer.
Unfortunately, Sly had long battled addiction, and it had, at various times, led…Read More
Zargg posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I’m just getting back in the saddle after managing to get a prolapse in my lower back, and fracture in the middle of my back at the start of February..
I’m doing some mixing, and some shouting on a Citizen Regen song these past weeks.
I’m still not able to sit at my studio desk for more than 45-60 mins a day for the time being.
Plus trying to…Read More2 Comments-
Sorry to hear what you’re dealing with, but I’m glad to know that you’re on the mend. @bapu was one of our earliest LM members, and is a great guy and, of course, a talented musician. I put one his songs with Fizzy Pickle on the first LM Mixtape and plan on doing a Mixtape of heavier rock music with Citizen Regen on it.…Read More
MrFigg posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I bought Wave Alchemy Triaz a couple of days ago and already nearly done with a song. I haven’t recorded more than 8 bar loops for over a year so I’m pretty pleased. Inspired.
I’m also totally pissed off that I bought the Caelum Audio sample bundle. Total crap.bapu posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Citizen Regen is working on the 2nd part of “concept” song that may well be over 45 minutes long if not more.
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45 minutes or more? I’m a huge Yes fan. Their longest song is around 24 minutes. ELP’s Karn Evil 9 is around 29 and a half minutes. 45 minutes???-Wow!!! Be sure to share it in the Song forum. I realize that it doesn’t get a lot of traffic at this point, but our community is growing, and I’m fully committed to that forum. Also,, I plan on…Read More
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What are you working on lately? Are you writing something? Recording something? Are you bringing aboard some new hardware? Learning some new software? Share what you’re up to!
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I’ll start. I’m more than halfway through a cover of The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence.” I’m hoping to complete it this weekend.
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Now that Studio One appears to be working well for me, I am re-learning the DAW while also learning the Synthesizer V version 2 (vocal AI) that I just acquired. Studio One is great. and I think Synth V can do a nice vocal performance if I can stop rewriting the melody/lyrics.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
You know a $450 million US-valued software company’s forum isn’t important to them when it’s outsourced to a SasS company and the server is down on a regular basis. It was down a lot of the day today.
Let your friends know about LinkedMusicians, including friends over at Cakewalk Forums, which I suspect won’t be operating very much longer.…Read More
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I love this. Rock-Jazz-Fusion band, Vital Information, is given a song and are challenged to quickly come up with a unique arrangement. In this case, they are presented with the Soundgarden song, “Black Hole Sun,” and I think they absolutely kill it. Just a great job.
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
RIP, Rick Derringer.
https://people.com/rick-derringer-lead-singer-of-the-mccoys-dead-at-77-11742500
peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Okay kids, this is one of my favorite days of the year. I’m off to pick up my son from college for the summer. Hold the fort down @bluescat , @joegyork and @lamia6 !
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Okay, this is kind of an ad — so feel free to call me out on it — but the LM Knowledge Hub feeds include Billboard magazine and this very article. In fact, if anyone has any publications they love that they’d like to see added, just let me know. They’re technically RSS feeds from the publications. Most include a short summary, and if you’re…Read More