@MeltdownRocks Midnight Rider~Allmans
Gimme 3 steps~Skynyrd
Another One Bites the Dust~Queen
Simple 'kinda' Man~SD🤣
Cowboys From Hell~Pantera
The Tropper~Maiden
It'd have to be 5 or 6 even, because you know, Chuck Norris
@Shinedown To sum up this post, I just want to thank them for what they did for me and the motivation to continue on for the last 20 years especially through some dark times.
Any help in actually thanking them and maybe even having a beer at one of their shows would be greatly appreciated.
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If you have plans to fly from FLL Terminal 1 or 2, arrive at least 3-5 hours early or cancel your plans. The TSA lines are outside the building about a block long. It’s only 5am 😫
2 other Cosmic Horror films that, imo, are deeply Lovecraftian in tone, if not text? Carpenter’s The Thing, & Cronenberg’s The Fly. BTW? I’m sorry but Hellraiser is more on the mark than From Beyond. In your mind, hear Pinhead intoning “Humans are such easy prey!”. And weep.
I was shocked this last week to start to realize that AI’s use in music is much more pervasive than I thought. I’ve seen a lot of people making acoustic demos of songs they wrote and then feeding them into Suno or other models to make full band demos.
I guess I’m more isolated from it on the daily in the studio as it’s never used when we record… so this revelation came as a shock of sorts.
I don’t have a problem with AI being used as a tool at all, I’m using it to help me convert a game I programmed in another language to one that will work on phones. It has great use…
But to see how commonplace it is to lean on it through multiple layers of the artistic creative and conjuration process made me concerned.
Time to double down if you’re doing it the old way, I guess!
Signed, the old man
@BLABBERMOUTHNET They put out great albums, but they're really hard to like as individuals ..Something about Charlie and Scott Ian really irks me. Who is the lead player now they've been through Spitz, Pauly Crook and Caggiano, all fired or left.
@jasintodd@shooterjennings I’m old enough to have recorded on reel to reel once. I was in a band called SVEN, pretty sure a couple songs are still available out there in the cloud. We practiced nearly every day we didn’t play out so didn’t take forever. Can definitely tell my vocals were real.
I find myself leaning more towards imperfections in recordings now because of the existence of AI. Mistakes, finger-fowls and wild vocal takes just feel so much more valuable now. Before, somehow everyone was seeking sonic conformity, and now it seems like we’re seeking things that sound human.
@shooterjennings Agree. In metal it’s always hard with drums because it takes so long. On my vocals, I prefer to just do a lot of takes & layers until I like it rather tuning. Dax Riggs told me around 2015 or so that he stopped editing anything really. Of course his voice is so good anyway.
Maynard James Keenan identified Minor Threat as an album that was "very influential to me in early early stages" in a new installment of Amoeba's What's In My Bag?
"This album specifically, this to me embodies what that punk movement was. This guy has... remained pretty true to that, to that whole approach to life and community. Very influential to me in early early stages.
"I think there's a bunch of stuff that you when you go back in your youth, you go back and listen to some of these albums, they don't hold up. There's not a lot to them. It was more about where you were, how old you were, what was around you. But then there's ones that just completely shine and transform, you know, like they they survive.
"I can listen to this all the time."