May 10ths
5/10/2005 Louis XIV Jason Hill: “I had to find the white blues guys to get to the black blues guys who were doing it better.” This is how inspiration works: you discover the copy, which leads you back to the original influences. This is how one discovers classical music as well. You can never expect that people will appreciate music history if they don’t see the context. ( Like telling people The Rite of Spring caused riots at its Premiere). [5/10/2025: It’s interesting now with AI-generated music that there are no influences that we could ever know because it’s all anonymous. Musicians always learned through imitation at some point, but with AI artists, they might be asked in the future who their influences were, and they will have no answer–or it might be anything except music]. 5/10/2013 Carbon Dioxide at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory Reaches New Milestone: Tops 400 Parts Per Million [ Now at 4 31] When I like something, then I discover something that I have been before, that is...
