PhonoBrainer

Kora! Kora! Kora!

I, want to Marcel Marceau all night,

and party every day

On 4/22/2024 at 7:51 AM, John Vere said:

The best gig I ever had was for 4 years I was an activity worker in a care home. I played my guitar every day and sang old songs.

You might not remember the name of your daughter but you can sing the chorus to Home on Range

Songs I avoid when playing care homes (a curated list):

After You've Gone

Don't  Get Around Much Anymore

Feel Like Makin' Love

Dammit, Nurse, I Rang Five Minutes Ago

13 hours ago, paulo said:

It's hard to imagine the mental gymnastics that a person who pretends to be furry must go through to convince themselves that they might have any credibility whatsoever.

Speciesist.

. . . unless it's a new musical instrument.

Epilogue: you'll  still die broke. 

At least the way down will be interesting!

2 hours ago, paulo said:

The one word that first came to mind.........

Rehearsed.

Yes, when the first one breaks down on the way to the cemetery.

Am there, doing that.

I own v1 and could still ask the q I asked in 2022 - dous v2 do a better job with presets and patches? The v1 gui is a horrible nested menu fest, just to get at a patch.

Maybe I should watch Simeon's vid !!!

Perhaps our language's inadequacy at having the proper word for it is the best definition of all.

How old are you? Just curious. Music has been your lifelong love, I can assume. Has it been your main job as well, or a sideline?

I've heard a bit of your opus and found it quite good IMHO, for what it's worth!

Anyway, if you no longer love doing it, I don't blame you for eschewing that hamster wheel.  There are no hamster wheels in labors of love.

Looking for musical crimes. 

I can't believe everyone involved just stood by in complicit silence.  Did anyone say anything? Would you have spoken? 

Next up, chainsaws.

MK.

"It Never Rains" (g solo starts about 4 min in, if you are pressed for time and need to skip the excellent song!)

6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

If you had to check out of mainstream pop culture for a decade, the 80's were a splendid decade to check out of . . .

My mother bought me a color TV for Christmas 1989, and I discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation and then Twin Peaks. That helped me transition back into the mainstream somewhat just in time for the 90's, which were much, much better.

Perhaps the 90's were better. For you 😀 and chalk up another cultural win for STTNG. Well done there.

In actual fact, having lived through both and enjoyed both, I can say with unassailable authority that the 90's were a mere capitalistic refresh of the vibes and patterns of the original 80s aesthetic. 

The core cultural principles of the 80s found their way from the streets and the cul-de-sacs into the boardrooms  where clever upper-middlemen harnessed the ethos, and monetized it.

Proof? OK. Max Headroom got a filter and some polish and became Ryan Seacrest.

We can't live in the past. But we can certainly argue about it 😀

Welcome to the Dead Man's  party. I saw them multiple times in '81 and '82 when they were just big enough to be touring colleges.

I've never danced my butt off as I did then. And their recordings still hold up well today. They were so original. Intellectual new wave punk with jungle drums and a three-piece horn section.

Congrats. To anyone I'd  recommend "Pictures of You", "Capitalism", or "On The Outside" or "No Spill Blood" as starters.

Might be worth a check to see if it works on an older computer. I tried the Pulsar Echorec on my 2013 win10 machine, and it froze my DAW because the GUI required Open GL or some such na na da da bla blah.

Maybe I should update a video card driver. But that makes me worried it might break something else.

Old man wanders into thread, mumbles something barely related to the topic, causes confusion, and leaves 🙄

Someone please talk me into, or out of, the reverb Pro-R2

I have, use, and love pro-eq3, pro-L2, pro-mb, and Timeless 3.

I've got a squad of good rvbs already, including Raum, Sonsig A, blackhole, breeze, plates by waves and soundtoys, the Liquidsonics one. Please tell me to move along, nothing to see here on the R2.

I went to sleep in a Three Dog Night tshirt. I woke up next to your mom.

You can guess what she told me.