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OT I'm in a band called The Sophisticats but back to the puns

I'd put it in the music cartoon file, but IMO rap ain't music - it's poetry to a beat.

Another logo failure (last one for now)

What happened to pwal? The Needle And The Damage Done — Neil Young

Early Rock Music

Brain Damage — Pink Floyd

The cheese factory exploded today, there was de brie everywhere!

It's a simple song, and we play it. But it's the kind of song you just can't play without smiling. Now, back to the game at hand........ Catch a Wave — The Beach Boys

Wave — Antonio Carlos Jobim (Stan Getz version because he is one of all-time favorite jazz sax players))

We just learned Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull. It took me 3 days to make the backing track. I'll sing and play flute, and my partner will play one of the guitar parts. We'll try it on the PA for the first time later today.

But it's safe sax

I watch how the songs go over, and the older ones get mostly ignored these days. Sad, because although I'm happy to see some of them dropped from the current playlist, I miss others. As a musician, I like nice songs from any era. But you have to play the room. Most people want to hear the music of their lives, not the music of their parents' lives. “Old Cape Cod” was a hit for Patty Page, who was born in 1927. Although it was a late 1950s song, the baby-boomer kids definitely associated it with their parents. I can pull out an Elvis Presley song once in a while, anything older than that, it has to be the right place, the right time, and the right audience. We have over 600 songs in our songlist, so there is always plenty to choose from. https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/songlist.html Notes ♫

I really enjoy hearing all of the national anthems played at the Olympics. I love country music.

Almost Cut My Hear — CSNY

I make apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow.

I used the WX for the guitar solo and a patch that emulates overdrive and sustain, which is what guitarists use to get sax-ish sounding solos. There are a few things I learned after hearing that solo, the biggest one being the vibrato. It definitely was more sax-like, and what I've learned is (1) unless using a whammy, the vibrato should not go under the pitch, unless bending up from a lower note and (2) the bend is not linear, the more off pitch it goes, the faster, and shriller the tone gets. Another sax patch done on the same gig with the Archos Juke Box at 56k https://www.nortonmusic.com/mp3/_capecodsax.mp3 The pitch bends, dynamics, and articulation effects is what makes it sound sax-like. Even with the lame, tinny 56k mp3, it sounds sax like. Which is why I think tone is not nearly as important as expression when emulating another instrument on a synth. That was a nice song, but we don't play it anymore. That generation of music lovers have left the stage. We don't play anything much older than The mid 1960s and continue right up to the 2020s. Notes ♫

Sonic Reducer — Pearl Jam