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@pollytics
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Economist, musician, pollster, community development builder and political wrangler.

The stupidity in this country is exhausting.

NameScott Steel
LocationMoreton Bay, QLD
Hellsitehttps://twitter.com/Pollytics
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@Kels_316 Kelpie power

A couple of weeks ago my wife asked me to do a music night on Ska - where it came from, it's influence, it's punk and pop streams, through to 2tone, 3rd wave, how it changed New Wave and later the US west coast 90's sound etc. But her fav show as a kid was Degrassi Jr High. So we defs need to throw this Skankin' Pickle song in as the finale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahIrTy4WDGM

Skankin' Pickle - I'm In Love With A Girl Named Spike

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@thewetmale

Flattery will get you everywhere! 😄

@thewetmale

If the convo wasn't cut off, he just would have gone further into the Sulky Malcolm hole as everyone in the audience continued to laugh at his nonsensical bullshit. Nothing would have changed with the media - soft liberalism has always had infinite excuses for Turnbull. It would have been fun from my end, but I reckon still ultimately meaningless.

If you want to know just how clever great song writing is, this "why is this song great" on The Killers' Mr Brightside is fantastic, where he has access to the isolated tracks. 20 minutes of your life you wont regret if you love music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuCAFvcrtVc
What Makes This Song Great? - Season 2 Ep. 1 “The Killers”

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@weezmgk Surprised they were sold as anything other than that! <OK, not really, as if those sorts of retailers give a toss>
@weezmgk
They're cheap speaker connectors by design.
For those of you who don't know, I have a side gig of song writing. I thought I'd have a laugh this arvo using ChatGPT to try and solve some lyric issues I have in a bunch of long term drafts - mostly about rhyming phrasing of human feelings and experiences in the context of the song. Hoo boy, would not recommend even for "out of left field" inspiration. Piss funny though in a weird plastic sociopath way.

I wonder if the world of guitar music gear has invented everything there is to invent.

I went looking for new effects pedals and there's nothing released over the last 12 months that can do something that my existing gear can't exactly do already.

On guitars, the new PRS DGT SE is nice if you want that sound and not have to pay $6K AUD for it - but there's not much else.

Amps - more of the same across the board.

It's probably, finally, a good thing for guitar based music.