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One of the "family stories" which was dusted off and bought out for Christmas (again) was about how my parents and I arrived in Australia, and they used to go swimming in the river, as it was such lovely weather and couldn't understand why the locals were all rugged up, in winter. I think they would have suffered during that summer; that would have been their first 40°c day anywhere ...

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Sounding good!

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I don't usually wander into the poetry section, but that was pretty funny!!

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This was a bit of a protest song I wrote:

Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVb0ud5L2j8

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Edit1: I also did this song a while ago in our local historic spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUgTLF_dn0 - enjoy!

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Thanks! That song has been around for a while, I think that was written in my second band, and has gone through a few different variations of people playing it, but it's stayed basically the same ... here's a version from 30 years ago (the audio is v. bad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAXaFVpKMs

Thank you for listening!!

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I believe you have to think about AI music in the context that it's written for, and the environment you're in. We, as musicians, listen to music in a different way to other people do, so - think about a crowded restaurant where there is lively conversation going on, and some background music ... you're not really thinking about the music, but it registers in the background and gives you the right vibes for eating and talking ... in those situations AI will do well, the music is not a focal point of the night - but, if you're going out to hear a band play, then you don't want to sit in front of a PC with other people and watch it make it's 0's and 1's into music ....

I remember back in the 80's or 90's when I first got into multi-tracking and a friend quipped some remark about how using the multi-track was 'cheating' as we couldn't reproduce the sounds live ... every new technology is a tool that we can use - the problem is the same with cameras. I studied photography in school with analog/film cameras - learning about composition and the rule of thirds etc, film wasn't cheap, so you had to use a roll of film to the best of your ability, now with a digital camera attached to the phone, anybody can take 100 different photos of the same thing and pick out the best of the 100 and throw out the rest. Law of averages says you will get one good photo from those 100 ... the same with AI music, there will be one good song in 100, but it's wading through all the 99 other songs to find the good one.

BTW I tried some AI "song -> video" website and they produced these two videos for my music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTECwT8uP4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuIGwP-1tVk

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Pretty much anything by Bob Dylan is a protest song, The times they are a changin' or Knocking on heavens door, and even Like a rolling stone

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Thanks!

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That was pretty good Peatle ... quite enjoyed it!

I did "Valerie" at the Pines a couple of months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWc8UIoj6k

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Thanks, we also did All along the watchtower, but my microphone was recorded too high which causes distortion on the vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvC4DzDYKPM

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