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03/07/2024

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29/05/2024

This is a rare recording of WMNF Radio in 1982. The radio show is called, "Sunglasses After Dark" i dunno the DJ i recorded this off a crummy cassette. I had jus arrived in Tampa to work for a year. On the dial i found 88.5 FM radio WMNF. WHoally cows it was the coolest thing I ever heard.

If you know this 1982 show "Sunglasses After Dark" tell us who the DJ is! The show was midnight to 3am. It mentions the "Screaming Platter Dance Party" November 20th Ybor City Square Courtyard Ybor City Tampa Florida. Next show after his: Carl Cowden and Wubba Butch. If you know these people write down the name of their Show in the Comments.

He plays a great Compilation, recorded at the "Spirit Club" in San Deigo in 1981 released in 1982 on label Government Records. The compiltation is called, "Who's Listening" every track i s good-

This is a WMNF Radio Show circa 1982, called, "Sunglasses After Dark" it’s a Saturday night in November. (until 3am) "Screaming Platter Dance Party" November...

29/05/2024

Reverend Billy C. Wirtz at New World Beirgarten! Mark this on your Upcoming Events List. The New World Beirgarten is North Tampa by 275 and Busch Blvd. The show is free so you can buy some Belgian Tripel, La Fin du Monde, or Delirium Tremens, whew that one is 8.5% a few of those and yer speakin' Dutch and French while listening to the coolest boogie woogie blues playin story tellin' cat this side of the Mason Dixon Line.

29/05/2024

Speaking of using AI to create Images on the R. Crumb FB Group I got complaints for using AI "in the style of" R. Crumb so i deleted the Post. It could have should have -been done better so i deleted it, otherwise I would argue with them about what I can and can't do as an artist. They don't know that I can draw without computers. To me the AI is merely another "instrument" in the band so to speak. Frank Zappa replaced his nusicians with the Synclavier, I never had anyone to replace I can use the help.

One of my other favorite artists is Zappa album cover guru Cal Schenkal. I posted a imitation of his style on the Zappa FB group and to my surprise he saw it. He said it was good. But this was different situation than R. Crumb.

Cal has a contentous relationship with the Zappa Estate. I madeup a "new" Zappa album cover saying this is what Cal Schenkal "would do" if he were back in the fold. He said it would be a good cover for one of the new releases that regularly come out of the vast Zappa vault.

The ZAPPA estate went from Frank to Gail to the kids to a large corporation and Cal did not get his proper due in that whole chain of events. Now had i copied a straight non-Zappa piece of Cal's work maybe he would not be happy? I'm not famous I'm broke I'm feeling out what I can and can't do with AI and artwork.

29/05/2024

Matt O'Neill people in the artist R. Crumb FB Group got mad at me when I posted an "AI Generator Image" that mimics R. Crumb style. I was scolded that AI has no place here, no business on this page. For one thing I'm fukking broke I have yet to make money off my art using AI or not. Secondly the day is coming SOON when the AI 'industry" will make a Blanket Licensing Deal just like YouTube did with Music Publishing, I'm not saying this is a good thing.

Many MANY artists are getting hosed by Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, Facebook, etc. etc. The big ones like Taylor Swift don't care. Lou Reed said, "the little people get fu**ed."

R. Crumb was never "owned" by a big company (like music industries) his "underground" tendencies for sexual inuendo made sure of that, so he might be safe from AI ? But i think they need to lighten up i never said it anything other than my crazy art. I see AI as just another instrument, like adding a Keyboard to the band, or getting a Synth guy, it's just another instrument I can fuqqing draw without a computer you bi***es!

Had I done a Hand Drawing of my R. Crumb style they wouldda been saying how talented I am blah blah. I see it like Frank Zappa does in the days the audio "purists" said using Digital is inferior and only Analog is the best. Frank said the "trade off" of so-called audio quality for the many possiblities offered by digital editing makes it well worth it because your music either sucks or it doesn't digital analog whatever isn't going to save you. He's right you either suck or you don't.

29/05/2024

Bill Millard my cute little wifey said the other day, "Why are you in the studio by yourself cracking up howling laughing!?! What are you doing in therre!?! I could blame it on Rock Pathology but thats not really true. Maybe its Mike Michalaks fault i dunno but this AI s**t is killing me.

Jennifer Lopez has a new movie out where AI is destroying humans and humanity. David Petrucci should see it and tell us if we are going to be okay. When asked about AI, Peter Gabriel said we're probably all doomed but we should have a fun time going down,, it was something to that effect when he was asked if AI replace him. When, or if AI can replace Peter Gabriel we are done.

26/05/2024

Dave Valdini and Walter you guys are in the new AI Hearing Test 2.0 .! .. This is a special new test designed especially, to improve your hearing and comphrehension levels-

This part two of the artifical intelligence hearing test. Don't be scared. Don't panic. This is only a test of sounds this will not hurt you. This is not ver...

26/05/2024

Really don't mind if you sit this one out
My word's but a whisper, your deafness a shout
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think
Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink
So you ride yourselves over the fields
And you make all your animal deals
And your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick

Jethro Tull performing 'Thick As A Brick' live on Sight And Sound on the 19th of February, 1977.Footage licensed from BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. All right...

16/05/2024

Bill Millard I was never a fan user of Spotify or any streaming music service, after seeing this now I really don’t like them. This is very disturbing even if half what he says is not true. We tend to think AI is going to do all this bad stuff to us as if AI is a demon or force from the twilight zone when it’s really us doing this to ourselves.

I thought the clip here was just about the music business but it’s more than that, if you are an artist of any kind this will perk up your ears. There’s different theories of human creativity and progress that it comes in "cycles" with droughts in decades or centuries. He makes the case that backs up Gene Simmons complaining how there are no more Rock "Stars" and the music biz sucks now.

Their main takeaway is AI involved in the consolidation of EVERYTHING. Good ole fashion monopoly. This guys name is Tee DiGioia hmm a secret code for Michael DiGioia ?? no not yet, but is Mike DiGioia a clue to the future sEE yEH oH ehe huh. Matt O'Neill and Tony Gold and maybe Davy Force can fix all this?

In this episode I'm joined by author, historian, and futurist Ted Gioia for another far reaching conversation that ranges from AI's effect on culture to his ...

13/05/2024

Happy Mothers Day

11/05/2024

Col. Bill Millard I was listening to Captain Maxine Reyes her song, "If Yu Wann Good" is a excellent groove with the reggae vibe. She does work for Female Veterans organization. How long have I been sayn that SongFest For Vets needs to do a Reggae version! She gonna be the first one to call.

Thank you for listening to If Yu Waan Good! Make sure to subscribe and click the notification bell to join me on my musical journey! Follow me on my other so...

11/05/2024

Oh this is good this kinda reminds me of my friend Maxine Reyes, she does some cool reggae style tunes.

SUSU - Typical - Why Do You Treat Me SoLiza Colby - Lead VocalKia Warren - Lead VocalJoey Wunsch - GuitarRonnie Bruno - DrumsConnor McClelland - Basshttp://w...

09/05/2024

Communism doesn’t work because it is out of phase with human nature. Are we going to wake up one day to find this statement equally true when applied to the concept of Western democracy
— The Real Frank Zappa Book 1990

05/05/2024

David Petrucci one of the year’s most anticipated films will be on sale for independent buyers at the upcoming Cannes market. We could buy this. Its his $120M self-financed epic. If we got a kickstarted fund we could pool resources and buy this gem.

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ will be on sale for independent buyers after striking a deal with Goodfellas.

05/05/2024

Anyone who went to grade school in the 1960’s will get a laugh out of Jerry Seinfeld’s new movie, "Unfrosted" (flakes) his comedian friends and actors are sprinkled throughout this tale of Breakfast Cereals Kelloggs vs Post and the creation of Pop Tarts.

Kelloggs creates a super Team like, "The Right Stuff" but in instead of Test Pilots they have Taste Pilots. This movie is really silly but they sneak in a joke at every chance they get and it’s jolly good fun. Young people aren’t gonna feel it like us boomers man we were there.

Adrian Obfuscated you were talking about those X Ray Specs from the comic book Ads in 1960’s the guy that invented those Harold Van Brauton he also in vented "Sea Monkeys" his character is in the movie he's one of the Taste Pilots.

Here is a shot from the movie Christian Slater is a retro Milkman in this 1963 Divco Milk Truck. I remember this truck, he used to come to Villa Park in the early 1960’s you had a galvanized metal box on your porch with the empty milk bottle and he would replace it with a full one. The glass bottle was unique it was square with rounded edges.
"Unfrosted" debuted today, its on Netflix.

04/05/2024

Theo Von is telling Will Sasso about his Jesse Ventura Interview and Will breaks out his JESSE and it’s killing me-

Excerpt from Will Sasso | This Past Weekend 444 Full Episode: https://youtu.be/mg_SAc8tqKk Find Theo Von:Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://inst...

01/05/2024

Bill Millard I think you'll like this because I know you're a Leon Russell fan. I always loved Leon Russell but I never paid attention to JJ Cale. He is splantastic. Who knew. I like his style I dunno what it is but it's good.

Amazing set recorded live in Leon Russell's Paradise Studios in Los Angeles.SET LIST:1.T-Bone Shuffle2.Nowhere To Run3.Cocaine4.Ten Easy Lessons5.Sensitive K...

27/04/2024

This is Bon Harris singing "I Give To You" in Las Vegas Brooklyn Bowl show. This is the video I was watching in 1991, in the studio Lobby, a few weeks later I meet Bon! How cool is that.

26/04/2024

We lost Mike Pinder today. Founder of The Moody Blues. I was about 13 or 14 and the Moody Blues were so cool they seemed very "sophisticated" and "intellectual" when I didn’t know what that meant. I was getting soaked in Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. The Moody Blues brought philosophy and concepts into rock n roll,, you had to be over 20 to understand. Here is a excellent documentary explains the whole lot-

The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964, initially consisting of keyboardist Mike Pinder, multi-instrumentalist Ray Thomas, gu...

19/04/2024

I asked the AI "How to Make Money With artificial intelligence" and this is what she said-

18/04/2024

Who is this guy in his living room doing a really good Bowie imitation-

Our Tribute to the late GREAT David Bowie!Dr Scientist performs "Moonage Daydream"www.drscimusic.com Connect with Dr Scientist:https://www.facebook.com/drsci...

18/04/2024

David Petrucci did you see the Werner Herzog movie, "Rescue Dawn" with Christian Bale, the only POW to ever escape Laos. Dieter Dengler. In that movie things are really rough but right here, is Dieter himself telling the real life story. It’s horrifying. It’s a worst nightmare. The dude is amazing.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (German: Flucht aus Laos, lit. 'Escape from Laos') is a 1997 German-British-French documentary film written and directed by Werner...

03/04/2024

At first I didn’t think this was very funny. But then I paid attention it got crazier each time I view it. That show with Sean wots-his-name he interviews celebrities as they taste Hot Sauce. This is Beyonce, the Bey tastes the sauces like "Hitlers A**s" and "The Devils Diarrhea" super hot the Bey chokes up. She says she’s gonna blow a hole in her bloomers…. from this Hot Sauce. I jus wanna apologize, to the Bey, for this outrageous folly-

Beyoncé (Maya Rudolph) has a hard time being interviewed by Sean Evans (Mikey Day) after eating an extremely hot wing.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peac...

01/04/2024

Look out for this guy "Matt Friend" he's 24 years old, red hot comedian he's nailing it. He's doin' Howard Stern talking to Howard Stern-

The real Howard Stern gives props to 24-year-old Matt Friend for his spot-on impression of the King of All Media.SUBSCRIBE for more videos: http://bit.ly/2qs...

20/03/2024

Joe Kropsch Michael Kropsch Peter Tomaras Lou Reece here is Lilac Day Part Three. Part One is still in the repair shop, it’s 1980’s videotape. The war imagery here is from the "JBTV War Special" it was captured off CNN using a "Abekus" Disk Recorder. It did 30 seconds of video. $40k for that. its a "hard drive" that did video, a very big deal in those days. I was just happy to do anything with anything -In those days!@

Here is Bogies Lilac Day Parade Part Three. Part One is still in the repair shop, it’s 1980’s videotape. Its being repaired with duct tape, wire, AI, new pai...

20/03/2024

Tony Gold Michael DiGioia Brien Rullman you remember in the Wheelie Circus, Ottawa quarry, by the Waterfall "Angelica" and you remember later playing the Hammer Dulcimer at Sunset,.. you need to see the same Dulcimer playing the same tune three and a half years prior. The timbre and the rhythm is the same but the pitch is so different you have to see it to believe it. At the halfway mark in this video-

The original full length movie of the 1990 Lilac Day Parade and Bluff Road Ride has been split into three pieces. This is the second piece. Number 1 and numb...

18/03/2024

The Lilac Day Parade 1990 documentary! Its been in the vaults for 25 years and here it is oh joy. It was too exciting to air the whole thing all at once, so its been broken up into three pieces. This is No.2 out of the 3.

We have pre internet broadcast graphics, that don't really make sense, they did at the time jus go with it. People in Romania are saying, "Who is Kirby" they just don't understand. This is graphics from the Amiga Toaster at the low end and the very high end the Aurora Paint System. I was still in Public Access TV and I didn't know how to operate either one properly but that didn't stop us! No way this is a go all the way Ok here we go-

The original full length movie of the 1990 Lilac Day Parade and Bluff Road Ride has been split into three pieces. This is the second piece. Number 1 and numb...

18/03/2024

Every day this question just gets more pertinent.

11/03/2024

I jus want to address the rumors MMB is not up for an Oscar tonight. The Mike Michalak Band is not nominated for Best Band or Best Supporting Band or any of the Oscar categories its jus rumors. None of the band members are up for Best Stunt Work, Best Wardrobe MakeUp, or Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, its all just rumors ignore it. They are in the studio that much is true.

11/03/2024

No. NO truth to the rumors that NIghtWatch BM was up for an Oscar tonight. Nor any of the guests or host. It's all rumors jus ignore it. Wait til next year...