I have the VCR but is no longer hooked up. I bet it will be on again though.

Yeah, I think they cycle through their library. They've also shown Ladies and Gentlemen...The Fabulous Stains and Times Square.

I had Tivoed Urgh! A Music War

Hey, I watched that last night! Tivo was kind enough to copy it for me. It was quite awesome, and yet I was glad I could forward through some of the songs.

I know just the Stones song to drown away those blues.

Hah!

Man or Astro-Man, with a flaming theremin.

with a flaming theremin.

Rock-n-Roll!!!

ION, progress marches on: Miraculous Direct Note Access can completely change music

Music recording software just took another giant leap, now able to do what was thought to be impossible. Direct Note Access individually manipulates groups of musical notes (chords), giving recording engineers the ability to completely and undetectably create pitch-perfect performances, even from groups of tone-deaf musicians playing together. Created by German programmer and erstwhile guitar maker Peter Neubäcker, his company, Celemony, will offer the software as a plug-in for its Melodyne voice and instrument tuning software.

Until now, this trick was only possible with single notes — an exaggerated example can be heard in Cher’s 1998 hit, “Believe,” which used the competing Auto-Tune system. For more than a decade, that software has been the recording industry’s dirty little secret, fixing any out-of-tune notes crooned by an individual singer or played on any single-note instrument. But this breakthrough takes that magic manipulation many steps further, allowing engineers to create entirely new music from existing recordings.

With this astonishing software, engineers can dig deep into a mix. For example, they could change each individual note of a guitar chord, or fix one wrong note played by a musician in a symphony orchestra. It’s like Photoshop for music. Available this fall, let’s hope Direct Note Access is ready in time to fix up next season's American Idol performances, especially the auditions. Randy Jackson might like the resulting absence of "pitchiness," but then maybe some humanity of performance will be lost, too.

Amazing. Plus there's a video....

xkcd - Buying techno on iTunes: [link]

Check this kid out!

(A tangent about music scenes. I posted this in my LJ, but I'm curious as to what you people think about it.)

While talking about music and music scenes last night with Pete, I realized that one of the reasons I preferred (and still prefer) the hair metal scene to the grunge scene is that the hair metal guys were completely up-front about their sexism and the misogyny that was rampant in that scene. The grunge guys, in my experience, acted like they were sensitive feminist types, but that was a complete facade. Any girl the grunge guys were interested in who didn't reciprocate that interest? A bitch, a whore, a slut. Now, I didn't hang out with the Olympia grunge scene much, so maybe things were different there. But in Seattle and the northern suburbs? That's how things were. Of course, I actually preferred hanging out with the speed metal guys, because there were at least some glimmerings of intelligence there. They had to read, because how else were they going to get H.P. Lovecraft references for their lyrics?

Weren't there any options that didn't include regrettable sexism? Maybe you should've been an indie-pop girl.

::tries to imagine Jilli in a home-made bob, barrettes and cardigan::

Weren't there any options that didn't include regrettable sexism? Maybe you should've been an indie-pop girl.

Definitely true! I love the aesthetics of indie. I mean, where else is someone like Kim Deal considered a friggin' goddess? And believe that! She totally is!