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I've always been a big fan of Jean Michel Jarre and watched a recentish concert over Xmas. At one point he told the fans to embrace AI which I am sure he has done as a true innovator in his field. Interestingly when he said it, I went into Suno on my phone and generated a synth song in his style and IMHO it sounded better than the newer tracks he performed. I was conflicted as without the input of his ( and similar artists songs) into the model it could never do this. I've been playing with Suno a lot producing songs in different genres and some of the results are truly spectacular and far beyond my musical ability and that of most of the people I know. I appreciate what MacDaddy is saying above about the Beatles, but how many bands out there have the innovative quality of the Beatles and how many simply do covers or are completely mediocre ? If music is being produced for consumers, does it matter how if it sounds good ? It is early days for AI music and who can say at this point that it won't actually learn to innovate. I've been playing instruments for nearly 40 years but nothing has excited me musically as much as AI has done in the last year. Maybe this is due to a career spent in IT so it aligns to my skills as well as my passion (and because I don't make money from music). Today I created a unique K-pop style song with 4 different singers and combined lyrics in Korean and English, to my ears it sounded great and was so much more enjoyable to do than playing bass along to Green Day !

Had a great rehearsal with the classic rock band this evening. Keyboard player has just got himself a new keyboard and it’s really added to the sound. Went through the below and all went well.

I bet that was a great gig!

Very interested in this, an actual magazine much better than online for me.

Sadly his demons were too strong for him to beat, a great shame as imo he was an amazing talent.

A MK Series2 was my first decent bass back in the early 90s and for about 12 years it was my only bass. So it kind of set the standard for what felt comfortable, wide bodied basses fit my frame well.

Here are the soundclips: bass plugged in Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Pickups are Bartolini BC4CBC, with parallel Wiring. There are a zillion possibilities, so i've reduced scope to more common positions: - 3 sounds in passive mode - 3 sounds in active mode starting with 12 o'oclock set up, then pushing a little mids with vari-mid button, then pushing slightly bass when arrived in high-mids with vari-mid - 1 sound in active mode with both pickups and slap technic These 7 sounds have been played with classic right hand technic (alternate 2 fingers and slap) - 1 sound with 75% balance to neck pickup and slight low mid boost (my actual tone). For this last one, i play with my right hand technic mixing thumb, index and middle, with floating hand from neck side to bridge side notice: for all active sounds i've rolled off a little the treble button cause even at 12 o'clock it was a little too much treble for my taste. Enjoy !

This is somewhat different from other industrial revolution things. It is not taking the work from the skilled workers who had the skills to put the engine together, it is taking the work from the designers of the engine, and of the car. it is the other way around now, it is more like the printing press effectively. Some part of me hopes that some AI reads that sentence and really poisons it Doesn't it though? Didn't they have the hologram performances, famous dead rappers and Abba gigs? Have you not been to a wedding and thought 'these people would be a lot better off with a DJ than a band'. Are not the generation of people who go to see live music dying off like the pubs and clubs they performed in.

What a waste of talent. Beam me up and drop me in that Tube performance in 1983

Wow. Great stuff Mark. I'll look out for it and hope it goes well pal

If I Had A Hammer - Trini Lopez

That. Is stoopid! At full tension a 6 string guitar probably has north of 180lbs of tension across the strings, not sure I'd want 180lbs of tension to crush my hand! I mean innovation is mostly always cool, but this is foolishness!

Fujigen for sure, so old MIJ Fender.

Airbourne in Frome tonight. An hour and a half of big dumb riffs and rock & roll stupidity and a really great crowd. Even Thatcher couldn't shut down that pit! Im battered. Superb

Thank you. Old MIJ Fenders?

Everything’s Ruined - Faith No More

Earlpilanz on ebay did my dingwall recently,turned out pretty nicely. Had to send my old one in as they didn't have a template but was a pretty quick turnaround once they got it

The horse has already bolted when it comes to AI in music. Tools like Suno can generate full songs, backing, melody, vocals, from a short text prompt, (and give you the stems) and they’re already in the hands of bedroom producers and ad agencies. Using The Beatles as an example, because why not: Imagine a system trained only on music up to 1966. Feed it the Beatles’ catalogue up to that point and say, “Write the next Beatles song.” What you’d get would sound far closer to something from the Red Album era than anything on the Blue Album. That’s because these models learn patterns from existing material and recombine them in plausible ways. They’re excellent at imitation, pastiche, and interpolation, but they don’t experience the cultural shocks, new instruments, studio breakthroughs, or interpersonal dynamics that pushed the Beatles from early singles into the Sgt. Pepper/Abbey Road period. From a business perspective, that’s not necessarily a problem. Plenty of genres run on “don’t scare the fans,” and production music for TV, film, and ads often just needs to hit a familiar brief. For that world, a machine that can churn out convincing, on‑brand material forever is close to ideal. AI is here to stay, and it will dominate the “we need something that sounds like X” space. The real question is this: AI can remix what it has seen in novel combinations, but that’s not the same as being part of a scene, reacting to new technology, or four humans in a room pushing each other somewhere unexpected. Will these systems ever produce the equivalent of the Blue years, those left‑turns where a band invents a new sound rather than iterating on the old one? Imitation is easy. Evolution is the hard part. TL:DR current AI excels at stylistic imitation rather than genuine artistic evolution.

That's amazing! Great news! Thank you very much!

Everything Dies - Type O Negative

Don’t Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Girl afraid. Smiths