Posted on 03/15/2024 7:36:45 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Thanks! :)
The Who. Putting out hits since 1965. Amazing.
AI is an always-wrong sometimes-useful mathematical model that can live forever, just like the number 13 for example, so doesn't really need a soul. But a few numbers *seem* to have souls.
From a law perspective, a corporation is considered a legal person. It won't be long before an AI machine will have the same rights and responsibilities.
We live in interesting times.
Angus Young of AC/DC is famous for being a teetotaler -- neither alcohol nor drugs, ever in his career. AC/DC started in 1973 so they're arguably "from the 70's" though they got going later than the Who by a decade.
That’s fair, I was just having some ‘fun’ with them, given all their issues!
Nobody can touch them live around 1970, just watch their Isle of Wight show. My favorite version of “Young Man Blues”, even better than the one on Live at Leeds.
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss...”
Prophetic.
AI has potential to destroy many businesses.
Using AI to absorb/study all patterns of demand, AI can “decide” what is, and what is not, “viable” or “sustainable” or whatever the owner-controller of AI wishes.
For example, if AI “decides” that QLXQYLZ Grocery Chain is THE best investment, funds for the competitors may vanish.
IOW, AI is naturally monopolistic.
Let me ask if you’re familiar with;
“The Who at Kilburn:1977”-——?
They Filmed it for ‘The Kids Alright’
Movie which I’ve not seen.
Been a Fan since ‘Who’s Next’ and this
‘KILBURN’ video is The Most Awsome !!!
Keith’s last I think but His Best.
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I’ve got 3 versions of TOMMY,
Can’t find Quadrophenia.
Young man Blues.....?
Perhaps
Summertime Blues...
That’s on KILBURN too.
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Yup They Kill It!
Roger must have been listing to that AI piece with new words for The Sound of Silence....
S’ploded lol. Reminds me of Ricky Ricardo.
He should be grateful that they were not a top 10 pop band. As it were, The Who sold over 100 million songs. I think I would be happy with that.
There are only 6 media companies that control 90% of what we see and hear. They are the ones destroying tv, movies and music with blandness, bad writing, now DEI and quotas.
Not AI. AI will enable anyone to create better shows as they can write a show and use AI to create the sets and fill in the scenes with generated characters instead of using green screens.
AI can’t possibly go lower than a huge amount of what appears on top forty. What I hear on top forty is so simple and uninspired that I couldn’t t parody it. That is not hyperbole. I hear this stuff because my son likes it. There are real singers and songwriters on top forty but there ain’t a lot of them. Most of the stuff a kid thirty years ago could do in his bedroom. He’d call it a demo and put it out with the understanding that if someone wanted to produce it they could arrange it and flesh it out.
“The Who only had one top 10 song during their lifework, “I Can See for Miles,””
IIRC, “Squeeze Box”, arguably their worst single, hit #1 and was the only song of theirs to do that. But so many others deserved it.
Let me ask if you’re familiar with;
“The Who at Kilburn:1977”-——?
Oh yeah, I’ve probably watched “The Kids Are Alright” about 20 times.
Pete was so disappointed it only went to #9, that he decided that he wouldn't worry about writing hit singles anymore, and decided to do a Rock Opera instead.
"Slip Kid" from the same album, is probably my favorite Who song.
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