Ahhh the American zeitgeist, gotta love it. Figure a few months before someone names their kid "Huak Tuah". We will literally make ANYONE famous.

When I say the setlist was amazing - that's for me personally - all of Yoshimi in order, and they did more than half of my favorite album Soft Bulletin. Sure I would have loved to hear some really old stuff live but I don't die on that hill anymore.

#cosomusic
I was way too absorbed to take any video - but Flaming Lips put on a freaking seminar last night on how to entertain an audience (they always do). This was the 4th time I've seen them and the best performance I've seen them put on, and the longest. Wayne's voice held out all night, the set list was amazing, the band was super tight and the crowd was all in. What a great show.

@Pungent
This show is awesome. The entire Yoshimi album straight thru and now they are doing a second set.

Flaming Lips. Wow. And this is the first song.

@voltronic
I think that music, like anything in the arts, is eternal. Yeah most folks just consume whatever and dont care how the sausage is made. We’ve always taught our kids that the artist is why the art exists and to not trust entertainment made by machines. Honestly I am kind of oblivious to pop music because it hurts my brain,

@voltronic
I think I took his vid the wrong way. It felt like I was being scolded (“music is too easy to make/consume”) for taking advantage of the tools. I dont know. Im a weirdo because I still pay for music. My kids vinyl collection is bigger than mine. Your points are totally valid.

@voltronic
It's also kind of shitty for industry people like Rick Beato to make people feel bad about how they produce/consume music. We, as artists and/or consumers, have been given the tools, and now we're supposed to feel bad because we don't trudge to the record store with our lawn mowing money to purchase Zeppelin 2 on vinyl? I get it, I'm from that generation too. But I can't connect his dots. Bad music is made by bad musicians, who are using the same exact tools as everyone else.

@voltronic
If I like an album enough, I will either purchase a download or buy the vinyl (which has become outrageously overpriced due to bloated production costs) directly from the artist if possible, because the only to sustain good music is to support the people who make it and do an end run around the middlemen.

@voltronic Interesting. Is music getting worse, or is it getting more abundant. If I can only afford one apple, it's gonna be perfect when I eat it. If I can have unlimited apples for the same price, chances are most of them are gonna be rotten. I don't think music is getting worse, I think that the industry has become dependent on a handful of artists to sustain it. Having spent countless thousands of dollars on music and gear, I fully embrace the current models of production and consumption.

@CanisPundit
Kind of wondering when he's going to market his own brand of diapers to his cult of idiots.

Joe Biden should totally walk out on stage tomorrow night and place a bottle of mountain dew on his podium.

Been up since 445. Long day of meetings but I'll need to rally later because we're seeing Flaming Lips tonight and that is always exhausting!

@Ellico2020bis @northernbassist
I think that was for increased treble, which they imprinted directly onto the tape.

What the fuck is wrong with these people? I’d vote for a rancid pile of shit before I voted for her. And the pile of shit better not be a carpetbagging handjobber else I’d write in “bowl of pus”. These people are lost in hate.

@northernbassist @Ellico2020bis
Yeah. Another reason I converted! And my cassettes got a work out. From the home deck to the car to a walkman, they never maintained their initial sound for long.

@Ellico2020bis
Nice. I miss having all that gear. I went completely digital pretty early on. The only thing I have left is an old solid state pre-amp that sits between my mixer and my speakers to give everything a little more punch. Dolby-S, in theory, adds enough noise reduction to faithfully reproduce the sound of a CD. Never got a chance to try it though.

@Ellico2020bis
Oooooh mixtapes. I was a Maxell XLII-S/Denon HD8 person (TDK on occasion). All those amazing hours of planning and plotting!! I still plan my digital playlists to adhere to cassette running times of 60, 75, 100 or 120. Now I wanna make a mix tape.

@MookyTroubadour
You have my full support.

@Helical_Code
Yes! Exactly - my kids know, when we're in the car and SIRIUS is on, and certain bands come on, my thumb goes right to the "channel down" button. There's a "hard shit" list.

I thought autotune was an interesting studio effect - until people started using it as a cheat - and it went from being a novelty to being a standard tool. Yuck.