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  1. It's not Cubase, that's maybe the point. It's a sampler with a DAW bolted on. Kinda like an MPC, but not as good a sampler. Better DAW, though (because you can use VSTs).
  2. Someone already recycled the joke (from 1969) that when they arrived they encountered a Malayali tea salesman. Only this time people were not amused. Sigh.
  3. Yup. Spent some time going through it to refresh my memory. Your list is fantastically thorough. Thanks! Some quick observations: Poison: still no, but I’ll admit they’re like a really well trained pub band so I guess that’s the appeal. Warrant: oh god no. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Ratt: the most 80s thing imaginable and therefore dull, but very competent. Cinderella: couldn’t for the life of me remember what they sounded like. Very good, it turns out. Like a mix between AC/DC and Motley Crue. Like you, I was very young when this was relevant. 13/14. Hated the ballads but liked the energetic stuff. But then I discovered punk rock and “alternative” and I was so glad there existed music that was loud and energetic but that didn’t use those blues rock clichés all the time that I dumped absolutely all of it.
  4. Hahaha … Title track from this album is pretty good too, but like this one I never know much is the band and how much the producer. Oh boy … Poison? Really? ;-) I see you included LA Guns, though. That’s cool. Will save this for … uhm … later reference
  5. Yeah, but for me 89 was also when I discovered "alternative" music and the accompanying anti hair metal attitude, so in my head these guys were all flash and no substance (with really awful music to boot). I still feel that way about most of the other bands they're often lumped in with but judging from this video these guys actually did what they did very well. Like I don't think it's really *necessary* to have such an elaborate stage act, but if you're going to do it at least do it like you really mean it, like they do. Also, this video gives me the impression that even without it these guys could probably still rock, unlike, say, Ratt or Poison.
  6. For some reason YT has started feeding me Motley Crue stuff. Out of curiosity I watched a few things. To my great surprise this show from 1989 was actually quite good: I mean, yeah, it's stupidly excessive, with all the fireworks, the band rising up through the stage and the drummer doing a 15 minute (I think? didn't watch the whole thing) segment *suspended above the audience* not to mention his spinning his drumsticks *every* *other* *beat* that really gets on my nerves after a while ... But if you take it for what it is: simple balls to the wall balls to the wall bad taste rock and roll ... They're *way* better than I remember them.
  7. Tommy Simpson. Died during his ascent of the Mont Ventoux from having drunk too much brandy and taken amphetamines in a 42 degree (centigrade) heat.
  8. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-peripheral-canceled-amazon-season-2-renewal-1235700019/ There will not be a second season for the Peripheral. Shame. It was easily the best, most intelligent thing on television the past year.
  9. What also makes this is good is, and I can not stress this enough, that every episode is self contained (ok, there’s some recurring things, but they’re minor). None of this story arc soap opera bullshit. In other news: - Star Trek Strange New Worlds: “Boldly crying and whining where no one has cried and whined before”. Nay. - What We Do In The Shadows S5: running out of ideas but still fun. - Good Omens S2: obviously the original source material has run out so it’s all a bit stretchy. Still fun.
  10. RIP indeed. Nature has an interesting article on what LK99 turned out to be and why it wasn’t a superconductor but looked to people like it may have been. Interesting and surprisingly accessible read to close off an interesting summer diversion: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02585-7
  11. I was such a fan of them back in the day but for some reason their music hasn’t aged all that well. In addition to everything that was mentioned above (especially Mouse on Mars - that they do not have their own featured section is criminal): FX Randomiz.
  12. Update: there’s now a paper that shows the material sort of half-hovering over a magnet is not, as first thought, proof of superconductivity. Instead, this effect has been shown to also occur in materials that are definitely not superconducting. As most of the evidence of LK-99 being superconducting was this half-hovering over a magnet, this does not bode well. Ah well, summer is almost over anyway. Edit: the paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
  13. Same presenter / piano player with Wes Montgomery:
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