February 25ths
2/25/1997 Final mix of Force of Will . [2/25/2025: 28 years later, the AI-generated version]: [2/25/2026: I still like my own version, even played on a uke. Not that the AI version isn't interesting in its own way, but you probably couldn't reduce it to chords and melody, and if you did, the result wouldn't be musically interesting on its own. That's typically the problem with AI music in general. I suppose over time, the training data will make the harmony more interesting. But humans will always be more effective--the reason being time itself. There is a difference between the creative moment with a guitar and a creative moment waiting for the result from typing a prompt]. 2/25/1998 Sitting in Starbucks listening to 1970s groove jazz, Herbie Mann/ Herbie Hancock, realizing that much of hip-hop and rap is based on the two-bar grooves that were the basis for long psychedelic improvisations. Also interesting that at this time (1974), Muhammad Ali was becoming famous and...
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