Axisential

The real monster was the friends he made along the way

I'm a fan of DADGAD - has been well used, so easy to find reference chord shapes

The *arr suite all have web front ends - so you open the page from your phone or laptop etc, add the show you want and off they go with the download, rename, cataloging etc. It it is generally quite elegant in the way it works.

Pearl Jam. For me, Ten was the perfect album - riffs, hooks, emotive lyrics, powerful music, no filler. I stuck with them grudgingly until about the fourth album (Yield?) but haven't listened to a thing they've put out since. It seemed they just got more and more generic with every album, and had less and less of that spark that made Ten so special. I've often wondered why - was it a conscious decision to move from that heavily riff-based music, or did they just run out of original ideas?

Great album. The Warmth remains one of my top 10 songs of all time - just love the shifting harmonies and unusual phrasing of the bass.

I'd argue that guitars haven't been the priority in a very long time. Profits, shareholder value and leveraging the brand, though any means possible. Last few strats I've picked up have been pretty poorly finished for the price - and definitely not what I'd expect from a company that does "see the guitar as their priority"

Oh Christ, really? That's just sickening. I often sort by new, sounds like I've been very lucky to miss it entirely...

I like the comparisons with synthesizers, digital cameras, Photoshop etc. Not an aspect I'd considered before, so it will be interesting if we do in fact see a "creativity boom" as a result of these new techs...

Personally, I've found the text based LLMs to be invaluable in parts of my professional life - for example, churning out boilerplate type text for procedural documents. It's a tool to be used when appropriate, but currently it's new and shiny...

It's a conspiracy by the Big Pipette cartel to sell more tips to labs.

Arrrrr!

Fascinating read, cheers.

Unexpected goat