LinkedMusiciansLinkedMusicians LinkedMusicians
  • JOIN LINKEDMUSICIANS!
  • Community
  • FORUMS
    • Latest Topics
    • POPULAR FORUMS:
      • Virtual & Physical Music Gear Deals
      • Free Sample Libraries, Plugins, Effects, Presets…
      • Share Your Music
      • All Things Music
  • OPEN MIC
  • ACTIVITY
  • BLOG
  • MEMBERS
  • Resources
  • FREE SAMPLE LIBRARIES, LOOPS, PLUGINS & PRESETS
    • Best Free Kontakt Libraries
    • Best Free Sample Libraries for Free Players
    • Best Free Effects Plugins
    • Best Free Synths
    • Best Free DAWs
    • Free Synth Presets PowerSEARCH
    • Free Samples, Loops, Sound FX PowerSEARCH
  • AUDIO PRODUCTION TOOLS
    • Audio Production Tutorials
    • Mixing & Mastering Problem Solver
    • Glossary of Audio Production Terms
  • SONGWRITING/ COMPOSING TOOLS
    • Songwriter’s Toolbox
    • Songwriter’s Dictionary
    • Scale, Mode and Chord Finder
    • The Interactive Circle of Fifths
  • RESEARCH TOOLS: PowerSEARCH
    • Music Gear Reviews
    • Forums + subreddits
    • Vintage Synth Manuals
  • KNOWLEDGE HUB
    • Magazines & Podcasts
    • QuickGuides
    • Dictionaries
  • Other
  • MIXTAPES: Member Music
  • LM MERCH
  • THE LM TEAM
  • COMMUNITY RULES
  • SUPPORT LM
    • Make a Financial Contribution
    • LM Affiliate Codes
    • Thanks to Our Supporters
No results found
View All Results
LinkedMusicians
  • Login
  • Register
  • Opt-out preferences
  • Terms and Conditions
Profile Photo

Maxx Son

    • 3

      Posts

    • 0

      Comments

    • Activity
    • Friends 0
    • Groups 3
    • Forums
    • Personal
    • Mentions
    • Favorites
    • Friends
    • Groups
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months ago

      As we’re not seeing much activity in the various discussion groups, I’m going to be TEMPORARILY hiding ALL of the Discussion Groups with the exception of The Wall. So one group to handle it all, The Wall (yep, it rhymes). Consolidate and conquer! 🙂

      1
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months ago

      News flash! We’re increasingly seeing developers registering for LinkedMusicians. Clearly, the word is starting to spread. If you’re a developer, or an employee or contractor of a developer or retailer that sells music-related products or services, please be sure to read our Community Rules (linked near the bottom of the navigation bar) before…Read More

      LinkedMusician Community Rules And Site Policies - LinkedMusicians
      The son of a music teacher and musician, I started piano lessons at 3, became a drummer in our family band the next year playing around the Chicago area. I later took organ and drum lessons from various teachers, played percussion in school bands from elementary school to HS and started playing as a drummer semi-professional at 18, continuing for around 12 years until sustatining an injury causing lifelong tendinitis. Biggest achievements: joining a critics darling rock band and getting fans including Jimmy Chamberlan and Louise Post (Veruca Salt) who attempted to persuade me to join Veruca Salt for their first major US tour. I declined. Oops. Today I'm just a dad / hobbyist musician attempting to record music 20+ years after stopping.
      linkedmusicians.com
      4
      3 Comments
      • Profile picture of MagicRuss
        MagicRuss
        6 months, 4 weeks ago

        What language is that above the Chinese?

        • Profile picture of peter
          peter
          6 months, 4 weeks ago

          The message at the bottom is in several languages. From what I can tell it’s Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and I’m not sure of the others. You might appreciate that it was created by a bunch of residential neighbors in Chicago after a hate crime in the neighborhood and the people banded together to show support for the diverse neighborhood,…Read More

          • Profile picture of MagicRuss
            MagicRuss
            6 months, 4 weeks ago

            I do appreciate the sentiment. I was mostly curious because there are two languages which look like Arabic.

            1
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months ago

      SPINAL TAP 2 TRAILER

      A friend of mine, a songwriter and musician out in LA, saw a special showing of SPINAL TAP 2 a few weeks ago and said it was hilarious. I can’t wait until this comes out! My most anticipated movie of the year!

      4
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months ago

      🙂 I made this fooling around with AI (obviously). The guy kind of resembles Steven Slate…

      2
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months ago
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months ago
    • Profile picture of thesteven

      thesteven posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 1 week ago

      Re: Help Name the LinkedMusicians Bear

      How about:
      “Naked Ladies”

      It would also be tribute to an often underappreciated band.
      Hey! Have you seen the Bear ‘insert name’ on LinkedMusicians?

      Not really serious but, it at least, made me smile.

      1 Comment
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months ago

        Just an FYI, to comment on a post, just click on comment, even when there are already comments. It basically works the same as Facebook.

    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 1 week ago

      “Maybe it’s not too late
      To learn how to love and forget how to hate”

      – Ozzy Osbourne

      2
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 1 week ago

      Name a cover song you think is better than the original.

      1
      1 Comment
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months, 1 week ago

        Song for You, Donny Hathaway

        Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley

        Hurt, Johnny Cash

        All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix

        1
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months, 1 week ago
    • Profile picture of dsteinschneider

      dsteinschneider posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago

      I’m more of an Eli Mercer fan than Velvet Sundown 🤣

      1
      1 Comment
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months, 2 weeks ago

        I know that reference!!! I meant to post that video. I am such a fan of Rick Beato’s channel that my kids know his name and tease me about watching his videos!

        1
    • Profile picture of Nitrate Audio

      Nitrate Audio posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago

      Some music news worth checking out.

      https://www.billboard.com/lists/biggest-music-deals-2025-so-far-warner-music-concord/

      The 5 Biggest Music Deals of 2025 So Far: Concord, Pophouse, Warner & More
      The biggest music deals of 2025 so far include those entered into by Warner Music Group, Concord, Pophouse and more (but not Taylor Swift).
      www.billboard.com
      1
      1 Comment
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months, 2 weeks ago

        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

    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago

      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:

      2
      1 Comment
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months, 2 weeks ago

        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! 😉

    • Profile picture of Nitrate Audio

      Nitrate Audio posted in the group Music That Inspires You / What You’re Listening to

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago

      I started teaching myself bass and have been listening to old Police and Sting music to pickup some bass lines. Its good stuff.

      1
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago

      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

      LM Official Curated List Of Best Free VST Effects Plugins - LinkedMusicians
      LinkedMusicians has what is arguably the most extensive curated list of the best free sample libraries anywhere on the web (based on digging through the first
      linkedmusicians.com
      1
    • Profile picture of LinkedMusicians

      LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago

      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.

      2
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months, 2 weeks ago
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 3 weeks ago

      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.

    • Profile picture of LinkedMusicians

      LinkedMusicians posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months, 3 weeks ago
      1
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 8 months, 3 weeks ago

      This one cracked me up.

      2
    • Profile picture of joegyork

      joegyork posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 8 months, 3 weeks ago

      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 More

      The Gear We Let Go Too Easily | Production Expert
      For every shrewd investment there are mistakes which range from unfortunate to ‘best not think about it…’. We put the question to the Experts team and got responses which predictably covered everything from ‘oops’ to ‘ouch!’. Here are our highlights…
      www.production-expert.com
      5
      4 Comments
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months, 3 weeks ago

        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

        4
      • Profile picture of Brian
        Brian
        8 months, 3 weeks ago

        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

        3
      • Profile picture of Ross
        Ross
        8 months, 3 weeks ago

        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

        3
        • Profile picture of joegyork
          joegyork
          8 months, 3 weeks ago

          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!

          3
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 9 months ago

      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?

      What Appears to Be An AI Rock Band is Taking the World By Storm and They’re Pretty Good. So What Do We Do Now?

      What Appears To Be An AI Rock Band Is Taking The World By Storm And They're Pretty Good. So What Do We Do Now? - LinkedMusicians
      The son of a music teacher and musician, I started piano lessons at 3, became a drummer in our family band the next year playing around the Chicago area. I later took organ and drum lessons from various teachers, played percussion in school bands from elementary school to HS and started playing as a drummer semi-professional at 18, continuing for around 12 years until sustatining an injury causing lifelong tendinitis. Biggest achievements: joining a critics darling rock band and getting fans including Jimmy Chamberlan and Louise Post (Veruca Salt) who attempted to persuade me to join Veruca Salt for their first major US tour. I declined. Oops. Today I'm just a dad / hobbyist musician attempting to record music 20+ years after stopping.
      linkedmusicians.com
      1
      4 Comments
      • Profile picture of peter
        peter
        8 months, 4 weeks ago

        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/

      • Profile picture of dsteinschneider
        dsteinschneider
        8 months, 3 weeks ago

        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

        1
        • Profile picture of peter
          peter
          8 months, 3 weeks ago

          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

          1
      • Profile picture of chris leate
        chris leate
        8 months, 3 weeks ago

        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.

    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 9 months ago
      5
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)

      • 9 months ago

      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

      “These are not songs coming out of Sabrina Carpenter’s head”: Rick Beato says most modern popstars are just “vehicles” for songs crafted by professional songwriters
      Rick Beato has called out the machinery behind modern pop and the way most popstars today just function as “vehicles” for songs crafted by professional songwriters.
      musictech.com
      2
      5 Comments
      • Profile picture of Brian
        Brian
        9 months ago

        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

        • Profile picture of peter
          peter
          9 months ago

          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

          • Profile picture of chris leate
            chris leate
            8 months, 3 weeks ago

            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.

            • Profile picture of peter
              peter
              8 months, 3 weeks ago

              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

              1
            • Profile picture of peter
              peter
              8 months, 3 weeks ago

              Here’s an early version of the song with McCartney playing the piano. McCartney plays the key parts of the song.

              1
    • Profile picture of peter

      peter posted in the group Music Memes and Quotes

      • 9 months ago
      4
    • Load More Posts
    Sign in to your account

    Share to you socials

    Groups

    Group logo of Open Mic (Open Discussion)
    Open Mic (Open Discussion)
    Public Group
    Group logo of Music That Inspires You / What You’re Listening to
    Music That Inspires You / What You’re Listening to
    Public Group
    Group logo of Music Memes and Quotes
    Music Memes and Quotes
    Public Group
    Copyright © 2026 B2B Digital. Some of the links on this website are affiliate links to help with the operating costs of the site. It does not change the price you pay compared to a non-affiliate link.
    Manage Consent
    To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
    Functional Always active
    The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
    Preferences
    The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
    Statistics
    The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
    Marketing
    The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
    • Manage options
    • Manage services
    • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
    • Read more about these purposes
    View preferences
    • {title}
    • {title}
    • {title}

    Login

    Lost password?
    Create New Account