Kevin Gamble Music

For a deeper dive into the creative process, I released a "maxi-single" of 40 Trees, which includes instrumental & acoustic versions plus a truly raw mix - the full song with no effects whatsoever, just the raw audio of all tracks. Peek behind the curtain: kevingamble.bandcamp.com/album/40-trees…

@RollingStone It's not a feeling, it's a style. Strange how only one HOF is expected to include everything.

Melissa Etheridge on Gene Simmons comments about hip-hop not belonging in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: "That says more about him than anything. Rock & roll is a feeling. You can’t bottle it up and say, 'This is mine, not yours.'" rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

@brandonousley This takes me back to a time when it seemed like all the most notable arrivals on the music scene were really, really musically gifted, genuine talents & craftspeople. And the culture celebrated people participating in that aspirational ideal.

Album of the day. On her stellar 1983 debut album, The Songstress, Anita Baker emerged in an ever-evolving R&B landscape as an original song stylist with an extraordinarily rich, sultry voice that left listeners spellbound. But fans were clamouring for a new album, which would come when she signed onto a major label, Elektra Records. Partly financing the recording herself, she hired ex-Chapter 8 guitarist, Michael J. Powell as producer and surrounded herself with an ace crew of session players to cut her second album, Rapture, which was released 40 years ago today. From the sheen of Baker's soft, cocoa brown skin on the striking cover down to the senuous and precise music within, Rapture was right on time, steeped in the tradition of '70s soul music that Baker greatly admired with affecting, slow-burn minor songs of romantic devotion and earthy longing. The force in what made Rapture a multiplatinum sensation was Baker's singular voice, in which she brought to life love's pleasures and pains. Her conviction in hit classics like "Sweet Love" and "Caught Up in the Rapture" conveyed more than just the happiness of finding love; the Sarah Vaughan-like jazz sensibility in her phrasing dwelled in the esctasy of the emotion. When selecting songs, it's no small wonder Baker chose to cover sweet-voiced songwriter David Lasley's "You Bring Me Joy," which was originally cut in 1980 by Norman Connors and vocalist Ada Dyer, the Dionne Warwick ballad, "No One in the World," and the Rod Temperton-penned "Mystery" (originally cut three years prior by The Manhattan Transfer), as she imbued her lasting grace and flair into them; thus making them definitive show-stoppers to this very day. And how many times have we marveled at Baker's effortless scatting and improvised choruses during fan-favorite "Been So Long," which left a huge impression on the next wave of R&B ladies, including Mary J. Blige (check out "Love No Limit") and Toni Braxton (listen closely to Braxton's sultry phrasing on "Seven Whole Days")? An enduring '80s R&B landmark in every sense.

The world is worse off without Chuck Norris. I can still remember the first time I saw him, when I was a little kid reading the monthly brochure from some pay movie channel, maybe even The Movie Channel. For this movie, which my imagination worked hard to fill in the blanks for.

@ItsSchmittyyy_ The comic, or the movie, or both?

I've seen a lot of people get turned off of BND due to the idea of Man-Spider. I think these kind of stories are what make comics great and could benefit the MCU landscape. Give me the Savage Land, Give me Man-Spider. It all can go back to one thing. The Dark Knight ruined fun.

@JAWSHCRESPO_ What a nice thing to offer to the world - cheers. I promise you the quality of this is much better than the audience size. Plus, it's all real. open.spotify.com/artist/4FiabMQ…

Drop your music links! I want to review your music!

ai has no soul so it will have to take yours that's exactly what you trade away when you use it to create "art" musicians / artists i'm begging you please stay human

@1ssve Reminds me of an old Robert Fripp quote, "Act in private as if your behaviour were known in public." More such insight: dgmlive.com/in-depth/guita…

Dear Apple, create a safety feature in iMessage that doesn’t allow people to screenshot text messages unless both parties have given permission.

@Giantguitars Wow. That is gorgeous. A kind of timeless beauty that I don't feel from many newer guitar designs & styles, which mostly all feel like inferior attempts to not be what already worked.

There's something about old Gibson's that excite me more than the new stuff...

@shooterjennings It's been a slippery slope of dehumanization. Sampling, pitch correction, "interpolation" & the strange current form of non-remake reuse of backing tracks, all if it's been making the bed for AI. Art is the product of our limitations, not tech bypassing all of them for us.

This is interesting to hear. I really like getting to learn people’s personal stories about AI music use. I don’t want to blindly dismiss it… that would be unwise… certainly having human elements on top of it makes it more easy to digest, for me at least. Especially a human voice. Just sitting here positing outcomes, we can kinda know electronic music is taking the biggest hit here in ways, just because it’s harder to distinguish from human made electronic music… but now that it’s easy to generate music from any era and tweak it until it feels real, will retro/throwback style music take a big hit? Seems like the only way for future generations to be stand out from this (and outpace it) is to start making some really weird music that sounds like nothing we’ve ever heard before and then keep evolving it as fast as possible… (?) Thanks for all of the responses…

@genesimmons That is some quality unhinged, well done!

Oboy. NEVER TOO YOUNG TO DIE… instagram.com/reel/DUOkczWgP…

@shooterjennings Well said. I would suggest that no one is making AI art. There are people using AI to make a digital simulation of art.

I’m sorry to keep it up with AI discussions but I’m genuinely intrigued at the moment. I think it’s very interesting that most of the responses to my posts about this go one of two ways: 1. I agree, I hope AI doesn’t become the only way art is made, I love real music written and played by real people and humans should continue to learn instruments (and/or this will be great for live concert ticket sales) 2. You’re just mad because, now, everyone can make music and your time as a musician in a real studio is running out There is a #3 which is generally neutral (AI is a tool but shouldn’t be the only tool) but this is far less. Everyone is entitled to their position… but it is worth saying that when I inspect the profile of most of the #2 responses they are full of AI generated songs… which makes sense in regards to their response. They’re defending their new found ability to make art with AI when they previously couldn’t. Assuming all the #2 aren’t AI bot accounts, it would seem two sides of the art wall are forming. I wonder where this will take us next…

@mojitomomma @asymmetricinfo Thank you, that's very kind. It's felt like something I needed to hang onto and not allow to get far out of mind.

@KevGambleMusic @asymmetricinfo This quote was desperately needed today. It’s so obvious, but you memorialized it for us. Thank you.

When I was extremely broke and extremely depressed from a bad breakup, I spent some days lying around my apartment, despairing, and then I realized I was out of shampoo and dishwashing liquid and I thought “I can’t do much about things, but I can go to the drugstore” and that little decision gave me such an enormous lift that I still remember it 20 years later. Stop ruminating and do something, even something tiny. True in politics as it is in life.

@vurnt22 Well said. For some reason this reminded me of another little example I like. I don't go for gore-horror but the short non-gory segment from 'ABCs of Death' called "K is for Knell" had something that hit my cosmic-horror imagination in the right place. youtu.be/oCibKB-87QU

It would take a director who 🖤’s The Cthulhu Mythos- not as titillation, but as a seriously considered cosmology. The Horror of the Universe’s utter indifference. The idea of humanity’s creation as the byproduct of processes that would drive us mad if we even got a hint of them.

@suzania Look at all the deflection, dubious analogies & general defensiveness you're getting in the replies. I hear what you're saying and it's correct. I would have to have a lot less self-respect to use AI as my voice.

Talking with ppl who are fine with using generative llms for writing and trying to explain why they should not be is one of the more disturbing experiences I've had. Like, what I am trying to say is that you as a person matter, and y'all keep saying "prove it to me."

@Epiphone I've always wanted an Explorer but have never even played one. So that one.

Which Epiphone would you plug in first? Tell us below!

What’s your favourite album from 1976?

@mitchlafon Apart from Plant steaming in, not much movement on the chart - a lot of durable hits there. A lot of iconic albums all together - Joshua Tree, Faith, Bad, Whitney, Cloud Nine, Permanent Vacation, then the GNR/Def Lep/Whitesnake behemoths. A crowd of giants.

@mitchlafon Appetite was only gold at that point? That's hard to believe, with Hysteria & Whitesnake both multi-platinum.

The Top 25 Albums in 🇺🇸 #OnThisDay - March 19th 1988 Notice anything?

@davidsirota It's probably a mix of both and several other things to boot, & never being able to be 100% sure without looking into every single account (and even then having doubts) is a corrosive foundation for all of it. With everything tech can do, filtering the unreal should be easy.