What [music] do you listen to? Share your favs

[activpop]

Saw this band in a Boston bar first time '72.  Great bar band. Saw them many times back in the day...maybe because we were always in bars...

[p6x]

One of my favorite ballad, bluesy style, played by my favorite guitarist;

 

[docc]

Cheer up, y'all!

It's 2025 . . .

                "Is it Candy? "       . . .

 

[audiomick]

21 hours ago, docc said:

Cheer up, y'all!

It's 2025 . . .

 

No idea why I thought of this just now. I don't even like R.E.M. much. Just a weird day, I suppose.

 

[docc]

 

[audiomick]

I want the guitars on the wall. They're not playing them, so they could easily give them to me.

[footgoose]

21 hours ago, docc said:

 

There is so much incredible talent out there, and so much of it 'under the radar'. Always has been I suppose. I saw a curious post from a musician I follow on X. He asked an AI to write and preform vocals and all instruments, using some of his own ideas/prompts for style and genre. He posted a short clip, which had a spiritual rock band sound. Generic but very professional. Human soul was represented well. Wish I could repost it here. He then said the result made him wonder if he should ever pick up a guitar again.

I hope real human talent like these folk doesn't get lost in the race to transhumanism.

[audiomick]

18 minutes ago, footgoose said:

.... He asked an AI to write and preform vocals and all instruments, using some of his own ideas/prompts for style and genre....

I listened to a segment on the radio here recently. They were talking about that subject. What interested me most was that the "expert" doing the talking, who spoke as if she had invented that whole subject area, said exactly the same things that I heard during my time at the university. In the mid 1980's.

The gist of it is, if you let the computer do all the work, you are not composing the music. If you "feed" the computer with data of your choice, and select elements of the result to your choice, you are composing.

It's all about using the AI, and not letting it use you.

[docc]

39 minutes ago, audiomick said:

It's all about using the AI, and not letting it use you.

I've felt the same about some of my bandmates at times . . .  

[Bill Hagan]

Even Kathi thinks my Moto Grappa music is a bit of a brown egg.  

But, it and the (strange) like are what I listen to much of the time.

Played drums "back in the day" in all sorts of bands -- from 18th century rudimental groups, to Big Band, to rock (of the times, i.e., late '60's; if I ever hear "Wipeout" again, I'll hurl. 

But I just can't enjoy any contemporary popular music, and especially so if blaring at decibel levels that put F16 afterburners at take-off to shame.  

Now ... get off my lawn!  

Bill

[LowRyter]

On 1/2/2025 at 4:19 PM, audiomick said:

No idea why I thought of this just now. I don't even like R.E.M. much. Just a weird day, I suppose.

 

It totally fits for '25