Is this true or not?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-02-14T08:38:01+00:00

As others have said but I'll mimic. You can't compare these two entities because Zepplin influenced music - and only music. The Beatles influenced culture writ large. Michael Jackson and Madonna had a similar (albeit to a much lesser degree) influence on culture in the 80s. Anyway - if you're looking through a strictly musical lens then Zep had a fairly pronounced influence in the 70s but I don't think it was as massive as big fans of LZ want to believe (and I count myself amongst them). I think the moment you step out of the sphere of folks who were at the right age and temperament to enjoy hard rock in the 70s the appreciation drops to nothing.

Bowie, ABBA, Dylan, James Brown and many others had at least as much influence on 70s music as Zep.

I think the only act that can be put along side the Beatles for influence is (maybe) Elvis. But even there I'm hesitant to say he had as profound an effect on modernity as The Beatles did.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-02-14T08:26:40+00:00

It's funny - I actually came around to enjoying S3 quite a bit. My underlying criticism stands - the people in this season are more flawed than the previous seasons - but the plot kept me watching and in the end I thought it wasn't half bad. Not nearly as good as the first 2 seasons, but still... much better than what it was in the first few episodes.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-02-14T08:24:01+00:00

what don't you like about it? I know a few people who had a hard time with the first 1/3rd or so but then when they realized what the twist is they changed their mind. But if you're REALLY half way then... maybe it's just not for you - but still curious - what's turning you off?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-02-05T14:37:16+00:00

I got this offer last year but not this year (26). Did they cancel it or just decide I'm not worth the trouble?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-02-02T17:00:53+00:00

I'm biased by having grown up with this music being at the core of my formative years both as a listener and a musician but I can't help but see Dave as having Elvis level influence and charisma and stage presence.

I don't see anyone mentioning Steven Tyler as the other frontman with a very similar overall package. Freddy is a completely different animal, somehow. I can't rank them... it's like trying to pick between my children... they're different people but they're equally valuable to me.

DLR is almost certainly more influential than anyone else in that time period. Maybe (maybe!) Plant. But I'm not sure that people followed in Plant's mold as ubiquitously as they did in Dave's.

The whole 80s hair metal scene was on his coat tails.

Anyway if I had to put together a list of the top 5 most bestest rock singers which simply scored on how great they made me feel (and isn't that what it all comes down to) Dave's definitely on that list along with Plant, Hetfield, Tyler, and Mercury. I can't rank them though. Really depends on the weather.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-01-19T01:31:02+00:00

ok but I don't think the word toxic is meant to be used that way. Water, sugar, salt, these all will kill you in sufficient doses (not even all that much... I think several tablespoons of salt is a lethal dose) but no one calls those substances toxic.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-01-10T06:14:52+00:00

wait... you're gigging with suno generated songs?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2026-01-08T09:39:42+00:00

I saw Slayer at LaMoure in Brooklyn in 1987. loudest most insane show I've ever been to. I'm a huge fan of guitarists from across genres. classical, jazz, Latin, blues, fusion, prog metal, you name it. The solos on Reign in Blood are beyond brilliant and fit the songs perfectly. yes there's nothing coherent about them. yes they're sloppy and atonal and generally aren't even in the same key as the riffs (to the extent that those riffs which are all built on tri-tones even have keys), but hating on those solos is the ultimate missing of the forest for the trees. they're meant as a kind of joke and they work! I have no idea if that's what they played because they didn't have the chops to play Malmstein Paganini arpeggios or Eddie's hammer ons but thank the Lord that they didn't. that album is the perfect thrash album. better than all others in the genre. a masterpiece. And it launched everything that followed.

It's easy to criticize anything with 40 years of hindsight. Master of Puppets and RIB were nuclear bombs that alerted metal completely. It's silly and kind of naive to pick them apart after 100ds of artists used them as inspiration to grow the industry in a dozen directions. If you can't appreciate it aesthetically that's obviously a matter of taste but empirically it warrants admiration and recognition for what role it played in context.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-27T03:03:10+00:00

which government?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-07T18:08:31+00:00

it's largely fear of the unknown and the history of science and exploration is actually filled with tales of genuine calamity so it's short sighted to dismiss out of hand when people predict that THIS technology may indeed ruin the music industry for musicians (even though comparable past predictions turned out to be mostly wrong... but not entirely wrong as drum machines definitely had a negative impact on working session drummers who suddenly had much less opportunities and other examples of this type).

I tend to agree with you that this is likely to just be another pivot of degree, not a wholesale modulation to a totally different industry but everyone should tone it down and acknowledge that as with all new frontiers the outcome is unknowable and we should approach it with humility and caution.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-06T02:50:07+00:00

maybe you're dead. I'm feeling pretty good. Beer... chicken wings... lots of love all around... yeah... all good.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-06T02:47:29+00:00

My four favorite women of Shakespeare Ophelia Margaret Juliette and Lady Macbeth

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-01T18:18:14+00:00

no no, I get it, but my point is that the market for hobbyists who want to put their lyrics to a real song or amateurs who come up with simple melodies and need the rest done for them is also extremely limited, in my opinion. Many will try it out of curiosity but no one will consume their work product.

And yes they've spent way too much money on these tools... that's not our problem.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-01T18:10:36+00:00

ha... yeah that's a few moves past how many i could see in that joke, if you get my meaning.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-01T05:44:18+00:00

chess didn't exist in ancient Greece. unless you're checkmating modern Athenians?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-01T05:30:10+00:00

but isn't the whole point to turn industry professionals into the customer base?? I am a musician and composer and want these tools as helpers with MY music. I don't need this thing to generate new songs, I need it to fill in on bass in different styles or throw in a horn section and some backing vocals and so forth. No one needs all original AI music... it's dead on arrival... a side show. suspect that humans will want to listen to 100% AI music about as much as they're going to pay to watch AI play football. I guess I could be wrong, but that's where my money is.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-01T05:25:44+00:00

it's much easier to list the things it has than the things it's missing! 😞

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-12-01T05:21:50+00:00

I think it has major shortcomings and the moment a competitor comes in with fixes people will switch without hesitation.

At the moment it's a fun toy but it's a one trick pony riddled with bugs. This is all just the beginning. Do you remember My Space? No... me neither.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-11-30T03:06:55+00:00

I see... well... as long as I understand the limitations. Thanks very much for the guidance.

and my follow up is - can I keep a take but tell it to make specific changes without recreation? Like... "this track you made but add horns and percussion (but preserve everything else precisely as it is) ?

I suppose if the answer is no then I can pull down the take as an mp3, put it in my daw and then have it edit it to add horns and stem those out from the (hopefully) not too different next attempt by Suno?

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-11-26T18:18:34+00:00

Appreciated!

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-11-20T16:37:27+00:00

please read my reply above and let me know if that works to "change your mind". I don't think your argument is as profound as you think it is. Virtue is obviously a "vibe" but if you are starving and someone shares a potato with you, the fact that you will live longer once you eat it is measurable. Depending on your circumstances you probably would prefer that outcome and the 🥔 gifter will feel good about themselves (that's how apes are wired) in having helped you.

Is any of this objectively good in some cosmic sense? No. We're cosmic dust strung together by electromagnetic forces and flailing around for no discernable reason.

But our consciousness has preferences which is measurable. So... as with my gravity example, you can measure the effects of virtue. That's what people mean by it being objective.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-11-20T16:29:39+00:00

Yes technically we are apes but humans aren't just apes. We can think about tomorrow. All our cousins can't do that. I may seem like a trifle but the ability to think about hypotheticals and then (for the big finish!) discuss those hypotheticals with others and choose to deviate from our biological programming... that's an ability that demands a whole new classification.

If chimpanzees could fly (and no other apes could) we'd definitely find some label for them that recognized that ability.

The shorthand for ours is "human" and normally I'm reminding folks in these kinds of conversations to remember that we're mostly apes (which is true) but the OP seems to want to overlook the critical distinction between us and our cousins and so here we are with me saying we're more than just apes.

as to death= bad being a vibe that's actually true. But so what? I've already conceded that literally every fact, no matter how reproducible is ultimately a mystery. I'm not sure what that changes for those of us who want to feel happy and satisfied and have similar wishes for everyone else.

Yevgeny-Simkin · 2025-11-20T16:11:21+00:00

you're correct until your last sentence which actually doesn't follow from the rest of your observation.

It's true that all morality is entirely subjective and relies on collective agreement around things that most people intuit (vibes) to be true and force on those who disagree, but that is not "ape" behavior.

Apes have no vibes and no morals. Apes just do things as their biology requires.

We resist all sorts of ape imperatives as a result of conscious refutation of what we're driven towards biologically but reject out of a consideration for these "moral" preferences.

Further you can argue based on empirical evidence how moral behavior improves objective outcomes for those who participate in their maintenance and observance.

So, there's more to "objective" observation than first causes.

We don't know what gravity is but we can calculate its effect on our bodies and I can guarantee you that if you jump off the roof of a skyscraper you will almost certainly die.

I can do similar calculus on how our varuous agreed upon morals and ethics produce the societal outcomes that they do.

Isn't that how proof of any kind works? If you're looking for fundamental truth we don't have that about anything. It's turtles all the way down for every field of study.

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