I posted this elsewhere on the web and I think it sums up my argument about ai and creativity so I’ll share it here, it was written to my ChatGPT account that I use every day to analyze data and help make smarter decisions about advertising performance which it’s very good at. AI can never create original art. Only humans can. You can identify patterns, research, analyze what makes
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I think my point is getting missed so I’ll just end with saying again this conversation is not about AI music itself. I don’t care if people like it or if kids like it or if no humans will be making music 10 years from now. My point is about people using AI to make music and calling themselves musicians. AI is not like “another technology” used to make music like multitracking and reve
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I’m not morally outraged or anything. I could listen to an AI song and not be able to tell if it’s AI or not or I may even think an AI song is cool. I’m in advertising. I use AI for hours a day all day long. In fact one of the great bangers I’ve heard over the past year was when I took an ad script about a constipation product I had written and fed it into Suno and came out with a k
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I'm mostly talking about people using AI to make music and calling themselves musicians. Or musicians using AI to make music and calling it "music." Sure, if someone wants to shortcut making an album cover or logo because it's just too hard to find a cool picture on a stock site or grab your $1500 pocket phone camera to take some shots yourself, that's lazy but it's to be expected.
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I guess I'm missing something here, maybe it was covered elsewhere but... How did independent musicians without label backing or resources ever afford to release their music before they could just fire up Claude and spit out a logo and an album cover? How did they manage to write and record songs if they couldn't play a few guitar chords into Suno and come out with a fully fleshed out demo?
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I also have 3 versions of this on vinyl, My second favorite of theirs behind Seeds of Love. In fact, I've listened to The Tipping Point maybe 12 times today alone (it's my current working soundtrack). I would push back on the "fell on deaf ears," the album performance as I remember it marked a significant return to form both artistically and commercially. It debuted at #8, hit #
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JBJ's voice sounds pretty much as one would expect with the affliction he's been dealing with for years now. Most of what you're hearing is glottal inefficiency, with him having very specific training on how to force air to get closure of the vocal folds and compensate for the compromised vocal cord. That training makes everything he does on stage seem measured and mechanical, not natural
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I was revisiting OU812 this weekend and was just stunned at the things Sammy was doing with his voice at the age of 40. He had accessed some harmonic head voice that wasn't quite the screaming or whistle register of a Halford or Perry but was more controlled than the typical scream of someone like Chris Cornell or Robert Plant in his prime. I think he was in the best form of his career on tha
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Agree - 78 year old Sammy Hagar is out there killing it which is remarkable really compared to... anyone single one of his peers out there right now? And the criticism is that he's tuned down? We got any 78 year olds here that can chime in on the superhuman Sammy and what it takes for him to perform at this level on a cross-continental tour?
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I honestly think this video may have ruined DLR for me. Just listening to my playlist this morning and "Unchained" came on and all I could think of was creepy 72 year old Roth grinding against a 12 year old girl. Geez.
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It's a decent listen. I find Mike's voice being so similar to Tom's in a lot of material to the point of distraction though. Nothing against Mike, it's his voice and it's 50 years of muscle memory. Not something I would have in regular rotation.
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Just imagine if it was "Reach Out" or "My Paradise" I was jamming to LOL... reminds me of one time I was at a stoplight listening to "Chain Reaction" by Journey and the car of metalhead teens next to me threw horns and yelled out FUCK YEAH, GREAT SONG or something to that effect haha!
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Interesting cover I hadn't heard that before. Generally I'm not a fan of Jorn's style of singing personally and I think the heavy guitars takes away a little of the nuance of the original Stuermer/Foster guitar/bass arrangements but I can definitely be in the mood for that kind of thing if the mood strikes. Thanks for sharing the cover!
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It's crazy that until about 5 minutes ago I always thought Phil Collins wrote that song too, it's actually written by Russ Ballard/Argent. Just goes to show how massively successful that Collins sound was after "Face Value." Apparently Freda was obsessed with that album. I always kind of put In The Air Tonight, Something Going On and Mama in a similar bucket, they are all incredible
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"It's 5 in the morning and I can feel the beads of sweat running down the back of my neck... so good to be with you again..." One of my favorite musical passages ever. This one came out my senior year of high school and into my freshman year of college, the most formative time of my life!
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Yeah what I hear in JBJ's recent performances really reminds me of someone with a vocal cord sulcus. He is having to breathe in very inefficient ways to force enough pressure for closure on his vocal cords. This causes pitch variations, croakiness, and odd pronunciations to get enough air to move his voice around whatever injury he's dealing with. It would be audible in his speaking voice as well
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Smoking is definitely an irritant and can thicken vocal cords over time but everyone's biology is different. Plenty of smokers never develop problems and plenty of non-smokers develop problems. Bottom line, there's no argument here that smoking is not good for you. But it's not usually the reason for someone to lose their voice. It can definitely shape the CHARACTER of the voice but it's rare tha
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As someone who has experienced catastrophic vocal cord damage, AND worked with the same doctor/team as Tom, I think the major difference is Tom's diligence and awareness of his problems and his ability to fly under the radar as he did recovery and therapy to bring his voice back into shape over time. He had a very high awareness of his issues and sought treatment very quickly, and over the ye
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As a regular lurker here for years, I know there are some fans of The Outfield on this board, so I thought I'd share my new storytelling video about the time I discovered The Outfield in 1986, and how I ended up meeting, befriending, and working with John Spinks over 20 years later. If you are a fan of the band, and of John and Tony's legacy you may enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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John told me once that Neal Schon used to make fun of his guitar solos, and not in a “just bustin’ balls” way but like he really made it known what he thought of John’s guitar ability and would “whistle” John’s guitar solos to him when he was around.
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Hey Andrew thanks bud! What a great song.
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Thanks, appreciate you checking it out! Hoping to do some Outfield next once I get over this winter cold, ugh. Got my sights on Nervous Alibi.
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Hey folks, just wanted to come and share here as I launch a new YouTube channel. Some of you may remember me from a bit of a Journey fiasco back in 2007 when I was asked to join Journey for a few weeks to see if there would be a fit with the band (Between JSS and Arnel). Ultimately that didn't pan out, and eventually I had to quit performing in 2011 when I got chemical burns and a vocal cord
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The vocals sound great on this, although there are a few bombastic choices that I don't really follow (verges on screamo at some points?). I've never heard this band but the guy has a great voice, and kudos I guess for putting their own spin on a Journey song in 2024. The arrangement is way cluttered and the production leaves a lot to be desired. It's like taking a sledgehammer to a song that
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This song has been an earworm for me for 30+ years, as it was played nonstop for many months on the radio, but then my church youth group ended up doing a whole puppet show performance of the song for another year or two after that, ugh... Everyone always loved Perry's part but I was always such a fan of the textures of the voices across that recording. Listen to everyone from Bob Dylan to Ste
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I got bit by the audiophile bug a few years back when I stepped away from music, and I found that following the producers usually is a good indication of whether a record is going to be exceptional sonically speaking. Some of my all-time favorites, vinyl or digital... Toto IV and Tambu, Al Schmidt one of the most legendary producers of all time producing a couple of the best-sounding AOR a
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I don't think JBJ was ever a particularly strong singer, but he had a soulful delivery and a "cool factor" that was pretty iconic. Smoking is a funny thing, I'm not so sure it led to JBJ's issues, it can usually reduce range over time and affect clarity and other things that are important to singing like breath control and support. But it rarely causes a debilitating injury like wha
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Does anyone know if Hagar regularly plays "Your Love is Driving Me Crazy?" That song is a 10/10
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I may like Elemental more than Seeds of Love. So much I once named a band after it. I don't think it's as timeless as Seeds of Love, but the songs are stronger... some of the strongest of any they've ever released. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for a Portuguese import of Elemental. Sonically, Seeds of Love is one of the best produced albums of all time and a definite hifi demo album. But El
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I really, really love The Tipping Point and I hated ELAHE. But Tipping Point is a real dark album and I was going through a really stressful time when it came out, so it's been hard to go back and enjoy without bringing up the emotional context. Hopefully someday I'll be able to listen and appreciate it as much as I did when it was first released.
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