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mrcompletely

@mrcompletely@heads.social

He/him. Tyler IRL. If you've seen this handle elsewhere yeah that's probably me. Moderator at https://heads.social Mastodon instance, admin at https://Jerrybase.com

#PDX #oregon #PNW #software #dev #deadhead #gratefuldead #bluegrass #jazz #phish #psychedelic #artist #DigitalArt #painting #mandalas #nba #nature

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mikelowetpt, to random

@chopaganda The Bad Plus is a jamband

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@mikelowetpt @chopaganda they're boring enough!

chopaganda, to random
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Was Beethoven’s music written for jambands?

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@chopaganda technically yes since there is a jam band that specifically plays beethoven

lauren, to random
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So much depressing tech news. I feel like watching some comparatively light entertainment, like "Crack in the World" (1965).

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@lauren afterwards, a quick reread of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream to wind down

silentfp, to random

Uk tv viewers, if you have Sky History ch 123 they're showing the fabulous Season 1 of the amazing creative glassblowing show

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@silentfp the first two seasons are excellent

chopaganda, to random
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Was Prince & the Revolution a jamband? Just one with sexier dance moves?

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@Sunshine @chopaganda so so so fire

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@Sunshine @chopaganda the theater venue show I saw with the Maceo Parker lineup was easily in my short short list of lifetime greatest shows. He was everything and more. A sledgehammer of genius and charm. By far the greatest performer I've ever seen on stage.

ll_rain, to random

chatgpt goes for Treys jugular. also lol to dust in a baggie being environmental

Billy Strings and Trey Anastasio are both accomplished musicians who have captured the hearts of music lovers around the world. While Trey Anastasio and his band Phish have long been associated with the hippie culture and progressive politics, some might be surprised to learn that Billy Strings, who has been dubbed the "King of Hillbilly Psychedelia," is actually much more progressive than Trey. One way in which Billy Strings showcases his progressive beliefs
One way in which Billy Strings showcases his progressive beliefs is through his music. In many of his songs, he delivers powerful environmental messages that call for action to protect the planet. In his song "Dust in a Baggie," for example, he sings about the dangers of mountaintop removal mining, which has devastated parts of Appalachia. He sings, "Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough to keep me from getting to you, babe, but there's coal dust on
valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough to keep me from getting to you, babe, but there's coal dust on the hillside, and it's poison in the well, and if you ain't got a quarter, boys, they'll never let you out of jail." Another song that showcases Billy's progressive beliefs is "Taking Water," in which he sings about the need to protect the earth's water resources. He sings, "Taking water from the river, taking water from the ground, taking water from the ocean, we're just taking water

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@ll_rain hilarious and typical that every detail in there is totally wrong

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@ll_rain I just did. Incredible. Fully roasted. Like a dark French roasted coffee bean.

JamesGleick, to random
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Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

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@JamesGleick Chiang is unmatched in the current generation of SF writers and thinkers...thanks for the link

mrcompletely, to music
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In case you don't have enough podcasts stacked up here's one for heads: The Bluegrass Jam Along 40th anniversary of Church Street Blues, the landmark Tony Rice album. Featuring Bryan Sutton, Chris Eldridge, Mike Marshall, Alison Krauss (!!) and Wyatt Rice (!!!!) & more. I've already learned a lot and I'm not even thru it and it's part 1 of 2. This is the most interesting Tony content since the Toy Heart series after his passing.

On your pod platform or:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSoR-j8FRs

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there's a passing bit with Marshall about Tony's use of suspended chords to create a kind of floating, ambiguous tension in a relatively relaxed song and that's exactly the classic Joni Mitchell trick and my mind is a bit blown by the connection

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@aburtch yeah I'll go back to those as well

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@AmericanReality I think it's cool to hear a British guy who so clearly really understands the music

chris, to random
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not pictured: the guy from Goose

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@chris

video/mp4

ll_rain, to random

the only reason there’s no shitposting on mastodon is bc it’s called —the far more refined— pooptootin’

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@ll_rain tweetdeck clone for masto optimized for this activity called Poopdeck

ll_rain, to random

so, lemme get this straight, am i supposed to wait for the deal to come round only to not let it go down?

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@ll_rain maybe it can't go down until it comes around?

Sammael99, to music French
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Dizzy Gillespie - Afro. I knew of Dizzy Gillespie, I've heard and loved a number of his compositions, but I hadn't until yesterday listened to a Gillespie record. I hesitated, because I have an ambiguous relationship to Afro-Cuban jazz which I all too often find too tame. No such thing in Afro. The music is vibrant, full of pent-up energy. The percussions drive the whole thing to a fever, the harmony is sparse, often only implied by the bass, and Gillespie's trumpet is then free to soar above that boiling lava. The first three tunes form a suite. They're quite sophisticated with a fuller band and more harmonic texture. The last three are sparse as hell and get my vote for sure. Astounding.

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@Cyrus @Sammael99 I was just posting yesterday about a favorite modern example of serious Afrocuban jazz made by a dedicated practitioner. Kevin Haynes built these tracks off of traditional bata rhythms.

https://heads.social/@mrcompletely/110307334478626968

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@Cyrus @Sammael99 yes, he is entirely serious and very dedicated. I love that album and wish it had spawned a whole subgenre 😂

Some of the most interesting blends happened outside of the American jazz context IMO, in Cuba and West Africa, artists like Amara Touré and others. When Cuban styles fed back into African music (which was also influenced by American music) things got really beautiful

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@Cyrus @Sammael99 that's a real interest of mine...and apparently the influence went both ways, feeding back into Cuba, and more...and it crossed over to other genres too. Fela was influenced by James Brown early on, then JB in return was influenced by Fela and the sound of those long-form horn and rhythm section jams massively influenced his early 70s changes. Papa Don't Take No Mess is structured like an inside-out Fela tune...anyway a fascinating topic. Cuban music makes everything cooler 😁

Backeasyjim, to random
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Tell us the smallest venue(s) you’ve seen Phish play.

Capacity is rounded. Top 5

t1) 4600 - Santa Barbara Bowl 10/21-22/2014 and Atlanta Civic center 10/25/94
3) 4700 - Fox Theatre Atlanta 4/23/94
4) 4800 - Glens Falls 10/23/13
5) 6000 - Bender Arena DC 12/28/93

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@Backeasyjim Cat's Cradle, in the old location. Not sure the capacity bc it was a funny shaped room but it was just in the hundreds. Basically no one there the first time, by the third visit it was slam packed

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@Backeasyjim yeah I was a deadhead already at that point but was hungry for decent music in local venues. So when phish, ARU, panic etc started coming thru my friends and I went without thinking that much about it. I dug them and enjoyed the shows but I wasn't one of those people that was blown away enough to jump to Phish tour or anything

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@Backeasyjim I mean those shows I saw in 90/91 were a lot of fun but stylistically they didn't blow me away. Later 1.0 became much more my thing

AdamMakesTTRPG, to random
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This photo was taken from the back door of my parents' house in Virginia, USA. I wish everyone could walk these woods, find the ruined house, cross the babbling brook, see the white-tailed deer, raccoons, gray squirrels, and hummingbirds.

So I made a tabletop RPG that looks you do all that, as a tiny woodland mammal.

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@AdamMakesTTRPG that is superb

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@AdamMakesTTRPG indeed I do

mrcompletely, to random
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Another track from the UK crossover scene is this hidden gem off a Moses Boyd album. Boyd is another of the incredible young lion drummers in the UK who draws heavily on African influences and is probably best known for his stint in Binker & Moses. Much of this album features Kevin Haynes Grupo Elegba who I'll get to later but not this one, which is a vocal track featuring Terri Walker on soul vocals & Louis VI on flow

another massive Vibe and Mood here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPwUTHFshc

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@jasonisaacdrums Tony just out here casually drumming like a whole damn village full of master drummers at once

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