PhonoBrainer

I blame the idiom shortage. The last paragraph is a nice summary.

https://theonion.com/idiom-shortage-leaves-nation-all-sewed-up-in-horse-pies-1819569663/

100% it's really because she's old, and can't be arsed to travel to Cleveland.

On 6/24/2025 at 6:36 PM, Starship Krupa said:

My next live music adventure will be seeing Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' second to last show 

At one point I tried to get a ticket for the Indianapolis show, but....sold out.

Crossed my fingers that they would add a second LA show, and lo and behold they did. 

Of course they went and added shows in Santa Rosa and Sacramento, which I could have driven to and from without an overnight 

When did they play Tijuana?

Did they upgrade the strumming engine? It was being discussed last summer.

I'll let you know after I  see Cristopher Cross, Men at Work, and Toto this summer. (Same bill)

Aaaah. That was fun. Appreciate the musicianship, swell guitar work. 

Nice vocal delivery!!! A bit sibilant in the esses, I was listening on decent earbuds. The bass came through nicely.

Your lyrics are wrong? Isn't it "caged animals"?

The chorus sticks.

Well done y'all. 

2 hours ago, Wibbles said:

 

 

I came here for an argument.

Level 42 "World Machine"

Rush "2112"

Talking Heads "Speaking in Tongues"

So how's the beta testing going? Curious!

<thank you for your service >

FYI the Jazz and the Steely Dan one are not included. Again.

7 hours ago, reginaldStjohn said:

Six amazing deals, this weekend only!*

https://www.toontrack.com/weekend-deals/

For comparison, this is an *amazing* photo of lightning over the Grand Canyon.

Hi Jason! I've got a slew of Ample basses. You say v3 and v4 "cannot coexist" - but, dumb question, can I have a song with both v3 and v4 instances? If they are two truly different vst's, then why not?

Or did you mean that "v3 instances are not compatible with v4", or something like that?

Great products, highly recommended

Thanks!

If he goes to hell . . .

. . . it will be Hot, Hot, Hot

Almost as good as "Yachtly Crew"

In my piano lounge solo gigging days (15 years' worth), the number 1 request was "Somewhere Over The Rainbow".

It was the most requested because, on more nights than I care to mention, after I played it, someone else would soon come up to request it. 

They are completely sincere. As if They Had No Idea I Just Played It.

That's the fun of being restaurant wallpaper. Some patrons listen, and some enjoy a more subliminally suggestive listening experience.

Closest I ever got was "Brown-Eyed Girl"

10 hours ago, craigb said:

the source of global warming.

<spoiler alert: I was a decades-deep SC user, and I dropped them two years ago>

Regardless of any comfort issues you may have with login/authentication things, you should consider dropping them anyway.

1) filled with fake bots that "love" your tunes. Immediately after you post them.

2) The cases where bad actors downloaded a indie group's tunes, and re-uploaded them under the BA's own name, got some streaming royalties? and established copywrite on them. That's fraud and theft.

3) last I heard, the only reason SC is still solvent is they rely on venture capital loans. So it's not "by musicians, for musicians" at all.  Expect to be preyed upon and treated like sheep.

4) if you are using it as an upload site for demos or sharing, it's better and cheaper to roll your own website. Bandzoogle or equivalent, and share your links to your tunes here or on social media as much as you want.

5) SC "pro" is like $160 a year. Fun fact: when I finally did not renew, they kept "autorenew" charging my credit card. So I emailed their billing tech support, several times, initially no response. Finally a bot email: "thank you for your concern, we'll examine the billing and get back to you" . . 

 Months go by, no follow up from SC. I finally turned the matter over to my CC company, who eventually reversed the charge. Took me a year to get my $160 back

6) if your primary utility for it is an audio storage system, better to create a YouTube account. . . SC could die tomorrow, but YouTube seems to be as futureproof as

I'm still trying to process "Barbie"

Just now, PhonoBrainer said:

Bummer Andy. Sounds like it's a bit past silica packets. Best of luck!

Plus you can write a blues song.

Bummer Andy. Sounds like it's a bit past silica packets. Best of luck!

I've had this done. Very unlikely to hear anything immediately afterwards. For the next few weeks, it will feel as though he were in a head-on car crash and his chest was impaled by the steering wheel. Weight restrictions, can't lift anything. But it gets better.

Hopefully he brought his laptop into the hospital so he can still drop some bangers. Songs, that is, not sausages.

I look forward to a healthy Wookiee vigorously banning me for the first time ever, when I finally unleash my full beast mode of political and religious hot takes.

Thank you, in advance, for your service! May your surgeons be competent and may your insurance system be better than mine.