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Thread revival for the wrong reason(s) and probably the sign of the times. MU Takes on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing to Fight Against Cuts to Popular Live Band | The MU (musiciansunion.org.uk)

Once downloaded and installed, there are a whole load of options on the left-hand side to toggle on and off. So it's worth having a good look. It really can tidy up Facebook.

If the adds start to pop up again use the below ' X Zap', then close Facebook, re-open, then the ads will be gone. The chap running F.B. Purity tends to keep on top of it, an update will appear every now and again. The above is always a workaround until an update. It's usually down to Facebook fighting back.

Nah, none of that...Just use 'F.B. Purity'. You can choose pretty much anything you want or don't want on your timeline.

I also find his story telling and anecdotes funny. He's quite a character. The story from the Sunset Sound Studio video interview about when he got banned from Berklee College of Music...

Not as funny as the interview when he relates the story, but here it is from Lukather (below). Interesting he mentions the Gene Page arrangement. on the video on the Freddie Washington thread, Freddie mentions the great Gene Page and how he like to write out detailed note arrangements. That time Lee Ritenour bailed Steve Lukather out on a session

Steve Lukather didn't nail everything on the spot. On one of his many interviews and funny tales of the session world, he tells a great story about when he was sitting next to Lee Ritenour on a session: He was on Guitar two and 'Rit' was on Guitar one. For some reason, Guitar two had nothing but wall to wall ink on the pages and Guitar one had very little of anything. SL couldn't read the part or get anywhere close... 'Rit' noticed him struggling so quickly swapped the parts over and all ended fine. Lee Ritenour told the same story on one of his interviews and funny tales of the LA golden session years when asked about it. Very funny...

On the Spotify platform it is a 70/30% split (Spotify are the 30%).

Yes, definitely less than some of the other platforms. I was just responding to your Spotify reference.

The Spotify finance distribution info is available from plenty of outlets, and they are all pretty much using the same figures. Which, If I'm not mistaken, are quite a way off from what 'Karen & Dave' spew out on Facebook and X and other SM platforms. The not so 'fair share' is more to do with the record labels, publishers and distributors than Spotify itself. How Much Do Artists Make on Spotify (2024)

Roberta & Donny...

What, maybe something like 'Annie Get Your Gun', or 'Fiddler on the Roof' ?

I like him... I think he plays great, entertains well and is top draw at promoting his product. His playing is articulate, tight and certainly 'on it' as far as groove goes. He has a musical brain that phrases well and to my ears, he does sound like he knows what he is doing. A lot of the material on his albums I find a bit lacking, boring even, but they were from his early days. He's probably matured since then. Good luck to him, he's certainly a hard worker!!... I happen to like his Fretless playing and at times, I find his musicality and technique are top draw (IMO of course).

Freddie also played Bass on 'Loco in Acapulco' from the 'Buster' album. The great Gene Page wrote the arrangement and conducted on this one. I might be mistaken, but I thought he also arranged 'Two Hearts'? The string arranging does sound like his style.

I really like the "Musician Behind" videos presented by Mason Marangella on his 'Vertex' channel. He gets to chat with some of the great musicians from the golden session era. The chap has great ears and asks all the right, nerdy questions. This one with Freddie is another gem. The Lee Ritenour video is also worth a watch and listen.

I don't really use Audacity much, but I have just installed the very latest update (V3.6.1). I'm using Windows 11. I imported a drum loop into Audacity, then copied it onto another track and I had no problems. It worked as expected. Also, I chopped the original loop into various clips, then copied and pasted them into a new track and once again, all worked as expected. It looks like the Windows version is okay.

An excellent freebie from Sonuscore. An Orchestral library that works in the free Kontakt player. A smallish download of around 4 gigs and personally, I think the library is worth checking out. Link: The Orchestra Elements I've linked a couple of walkthroughs below:

Steve Ferrone has a terrific cover band...

I've still got that album!! There are a few catchy 'Sexy' Disco arrangements and orchestrations on there. Apart from 'Short Shorts', I'm not sure what that was all about. Mostly arranged by the 'Godfather of Disco' arrangements, Vince Montana. He was a member of MFSB as well. Talking of Sexy Orchestrations...TSOP.

Ah, okay... For any W11 users, I've been using it for a couple of hours with no problems at all (Nuemdo/Cubase). It has a very low CPU hit as well.

We all like a freebie and this one is pretty mad. "Introducing Influx – an instantaneous “Sonic Retox” engine featuring the powerful FLUX resonator module, complete with Low Pass and Tube distortion capabilities." Download link: Influx - FKFX (fkfxaudio.com)

Or, maybe he missed his Twain.

Especially, 'Time Out Of Time'. I like Cyndi Lauper (or have liked in the past), but that performance was quite a car crash in places. Shame really.

Ewe Steger as a soloist.... And then the duo with his wife, Heidi.

WebSampler in a VST... $10.00 from WXAudio Plugins. You can record YouTube audio straight into your DAW. A look at what's going on is in this Video below'. Link for the product: WebSampler | WXAudio Plugins