January 30ths (Rooftop Show)

1/30/1969

(Beatles Studio Diary)  

The 42-minute rooftop show, a lunchtime blast into the cold wind, imagine a high London rooftop in January. Little wonder Ringo borrowed wife Maureen’s red mac. John borrowed Yoko’s fur wrap—is preserved in its entirety on to 8-track audio tapes at EMI, engineered down below in the basement by Glyn Johns, sadly unable to be an eyewitness to the events...

Rooftop Show (1/30/2025) by meta4s

 1/30/1999

Went bass shopping with S. all over southside. Sam Ash a real disappointment, Guitar Center only marginally better. Stopped at Snukst Music, a tiny shop on South Pulaski, with tens of thousands of instruments. Everything was just sort of stacked randomly in “forests” of basses, guitars, dobros, nothing on stands or racks. The clerk said, " Please be careful with the instruments” (Funny). I saw some beautiful instruments but everything was so buried you couldn't get your hands on them. She said, “Everything is new”...including the Orange bass amp circa 1969. They had some beautiful fretless basses but I was reluctant to make a purchase, asking myself, " I wonder if this is used or new?” I wonder if the stuff is hot?

1/30/2022

In terms of the connection between language and music, there is a finite number of rhythms that can be extracted from poetry and prose—probably in any language. If you read a passage in a book out loud, sometimes you will come upon phrases that are inherently musical.

1/30/2025

 

AI Music seems to work bottom-up where it’s placing words and phrases to the riffs on the genre you’ve selected. The placement of words will be different in R&B/Funky than it is EDM/Melancholic. This is where machines will never do what musicians and lyricists have done historically. There will never be that kind of collaboration because you have two minds working together drawing from collective human knowledge instead of two collectives, one which is just a mechanical process. Not that it isn’t interesting, but AI is more of an interlocutor].

1/30/2046

(Tony Townes Diary) 

Went to Club Anom-E. Just an AJ and guitar player. When guitarists play basic chords as accompaniment, it suggests other parts that you hear in your head, but the algorithms think faster than you, and sometimes you feel you have a telepathic connection.

What is Club Anom-E?