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Posts posted by McnaughtonPark
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Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed it.
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They’d all be double albums, the White album for certain, maybe The Wall, maybe REO You Get What You Play For, maybe Exile On Main Street, but I’ve been thinking too hard on this now, I have to go to bed.
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I rarely like what I’ve written afterwards. The only time I like it is when I’m working on something. I think I enjoy the process more than the results if it’s all my work.
collaborations are different tho. I really like those results. I truly enjoy the new melody as opposed to the melody the lyric was written with.
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Like Rich, one concert in particular stands out, and it’s surprising as well. Dan Fogelberg.
1983. I had just graduated boot camp and was home on Christmas leave. My older sister had gotten me a ticket and she and I went while my girlfriend babysat her daughter.
The first thing I noticed was the variety of people who were there, all age groups from the very old to the very young. Calm is how I would describe the scene inside the Peoria Civic Center that night. Hanging from the ceiling was the largest American flag I’d ever seen and on stage stood a lone grand piano, black.
A hometown boy, many in the audience personally knew him or his family. His father, of “The Leader of The Band” was a school teacher so you can imagine all the prior students of his and Dans teachers and friends had gathered in the thousands and it seemed like everyone we met had their own personal story about their experiences with the Fogel family.
I’ve never experienced anything like it since, a great night all in all. RIP Dan, thanks for the memory.
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Okay, I was able to do that in the past too, except I never hit return on the phones keyboard. I guess I was looking for Enter, it’s the return key to enter.
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I guess my Luddite tendencies have come home to roost. I can’t figure out how to add a remark in the chat room using my phone. I almost exclusively use the phone to get on line anymore.
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On 3/1/2023 at 5:51 PM, jhanover said:
There’s a razor thin line between Funk and Disco on strumming patterns be careful. Agree though, Disco still sucks lol
I guess it was more about the bands I liked moving from rock to disco just to appease the market. Some didn’t do that, some for perhaps only one song, but some just went along with it. R and B went the way of disco, radio, but there were a lot of bands that held their own. For people of my generation, rock and folk had mainly ruled the airwaves form many years until disco then punk and all the rest that followed. I honestly think the real problem I had with it was that it marked the end of an era the likes of which we probably won’t see again. The rest of it is probably attributable to human nature not liking changes of any kind.
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The article makes some points that I’ve heard before, we listen to the music we grew up with in adolescence.
I like more of the same but new releases. Thankfully there were so many artists I didn’t get to hear much of back then. 45’s had B sides, so I’m kinda listening to the B sides so to speak.
Public Radio has some good new music on after 7 pm that I enjoy. Mostly indie stuff so occasionally I reject what I’m hearing as rubbish but I like most of it, for the reason that it’s new to me.
I do not care for canned pop, country, or any other genre that’s just pumped out on an assembly line.
im too old for some heavy metal of the 80’s. Weird thing was my friends liked it. I went the way of the blues instead. I suppose it’s still what draws me in. Funk makes me want to dance but I don’t like disco.
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I’ve never seen an introduction post receive 1.3 thousand views. Pretty obvious people want to know who you are.
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2 hours ago, Jac said:
that's very kind of you. i'v got hundreds of poems written down, l just wish l could put them into lyric form, as that's where my interest is.
It’s harder than it should be. I haven’t written a poem for a long time but recently I’ve wanted to take a poem, then write a paragraph about it like the free writing exercise does it, then build a lyric from there. My thinking is, we’re trying to turn the poem into a lyric, but maybe instead of trying to literally interpret it, we should just let the poem inspire what comes next you know.
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This is very good, so well written.
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24 minutes ago, Steve Mueske said:
Yes! Although with some you can start by uploading a seed image. Starryai, Night Cafe, Dall-E 2, and Midjourney are a few. Most give a you a few credits to start with and then you can buy more. IMO, Dall-E provides the most useful images. I used one for my recent album cover.
I would too, those are great
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Great stuff! Do you put words into a program that AI interprets as art? I could get addicted to the results of doing that.
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That’s a great performance,
terroristically introspective. I would be interested in his perspective on lyrics for sure.
thanks for posting this
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That’s a real fear today. If you’re 90 you say who cares. If you’re 50 you say, how am I going to deal with this. If you’re 20 you say, how am I going to make money from this.
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In a few years, probably much the same as it is now. In fifty years, an AI programmer will have integrated Boz Scaggs, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Springsteen and be rocking the crap outta some space station on Mars.
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My son would say the same about things. My daughters, I’d be interested in hearing. Good suggestion.
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I’m so proud of this collaboration between Rich and I. His attention to detail and musical interpretation of the lyric are outstanding.
As a lyric writer, it is incumbent that I collaborate with a music writer to develop a song out of my work and I couldn’t have asked for a better composer than Rich. In this case, the process began with me contacting Rich, who I’d met on Songstuff when he had first expressed interest in working together on another song. This is our second collaboration.
John, if you choose to use this, I would humbly suggest interviewing MisterB as his approach to writing and creating music truly reflects more of the current trends. His experience and knowledge are also quite impressive.
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I’m good with exploring the different song forms in current music. Will I be catching all the ways a song is still using aspects of old genres? I think so, at least instinctively. I’ll hear 12 bar blues style lyrics, or when a style references the old standards or jazz. For me, it makes sense to build on those and move it along.
I don’t feel well enough equipped to write for my daughters’ generations, or my sons, I’m not sure what they listen to, but I sometimes hear them singing one of my songs. You never really know what someone might value lyric wise.
I actually want to separate somewhat from convention. I feel free when I’m out there, I know where the strings attach and hopefully which ones to pull to guide the kite. Of course I’ll get it wrong sometimes, most times perhaps. Sometimes, just to see if I can, I might try taking the kite to the forest, another time to the beach, but learn from the settings and the elements that work.
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18 minutes ago, GregB said:
"Synthetic plastisoid notes symbiotically, life’s existence in digital chronology"
Who said AI lyrics weren't original?Or were you just putting a Hex on me?
I wrote those thinking I was a machine
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11 hours ago, GregB said:
Seems so. See ...
Oh no, I hate that.
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1 hour ago, GregB said:
Yep. And AI will be has started to do this a billion times faster and will be doing it a billion times over.
Are the AI lyric generators working? I imagine they’re cheaper than signing contracts.
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34 minutes ago, Glammerocity said:
I have a Twain quote on my YouTube mashup playlist:
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”
I was only semi-serious about the rhyming disctionary but this was the reason I thought my friend's writing was lacking, though it might not have all been the fault of the dictionary. And I suggested a thesaurus, which is basically doing the same thing: throwing in words you can use or reject. It's the songwriting partner which doesn't get in a huff when you don't use their ideas.here no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”
Yeah, I use both the rhyming dictionary and thesaurus. I used to have a list of adjectives and adverbs that I put together and really liked using that as well. It’s either well hidden or just gone now but I recently wrote a lyric where today I’m going to be searching for new adjectives again.
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Welcome, congratulations on the numbers!
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