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what the heck happened to the product lib?
I've been working my way through decades of old CD's from under bed storage boxes. There's some good stuff back there, and I wondered how much survived to Rollong Stone Magazine's latest 500 Greatest Albums list. Happily, quite a lot. A few excerpts from their list
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" ... Phil Spector builds his Wall of Sound as his teen protégée (and future wife) Ronnie Spector belts 'Be My Baby' ... [Bonnie] Raitt herself pointed out, her 10th try [Nick Of Time] was 'my first sober album' ... [Linda Ronstadt's] version of the Betty Everett oldie 'You’re No Good' hits a perfect mix of desire and paranoia ... the real trip is the [Jefferson] Airplane’s hallucinatory distillation of folk-blues vocals, garage-rock guitar, and crisp pop songwriting ... Bands immediately started ripping off [Bo Diddley's] signature rollicking beat, and they haven’t stopped yet ... the Supremes were their own hit factory ... 'Try a Little Tenderness' was a forgotten Bing Crosby oldie from the Thirties until [Otis] Redding claimed it ... Mark Knopfler started writing 'Money for Nothing' when he overheard a New York appliance salesman’s anti-rock-star, anti-MTV rant ... brutally simple singles like the Standells’ 'Dirty Water,'' the Shadows of Knight’s 'Oh Yeah!'' and the Count Five’s 'Psychotic Reaction' ... [Tina Turner's] triumph is 'Proud Mary', seizing the already-classic Creedence song and turning it into her own soul testimony ... “With ‘You Really Got Me’ and ‘All Day and All of the Night,’ [The Kinks] were saying, ‘We’re here, we’re gonna grab you,’” ... Ronnie Van Zant flexes his wiseass drawl in 'Gimme Three Steps' ... Songs like 'Tom Sawyer' ... showcased [Rush's] superhuman chops ... these San Francisco acid rockers [Big Brother & The Holding Co.] were the most simpatico band [Janis Jolpin] ever had, especially when their raw racket backs Joplin up on 'Piece of My Heart', perhaps her greatest recording ... [George Harrison's]'My Sweet Lord' the first Number One hit to include a Hare Krishna chant ... 'Black Magic Woman', the Top Five hit from Abraxas, is definitive Santana: Afro-Latin grooves and piercing, lyrical, psychedelic blues guitar ... On tracks such as 'Blue Suede Shoes' that meant revved-up country music with the sexiest voice anyone had ever heard ... you might agree with the Killer’s characteristically self-deprecating claim that 'Elvis was the greatest, but I’m the best' ... 'I Can See for Miles' rode Pete Townshend’s thrashiest power chords into the Top 10 ... The Byrds hit Number One with their jangled-up 'Mr. Tambourine Man', but as they soon proved, they were a whole band full of brilliant songwriters ... [Randy Newman] was still L.A.’s weirdest singer-songwriter, a piano man singing sardonic tales of sleazy grifters in tunes full of New Orleans R&B and Tin Pan Alley showbiz ... Paul McCartney’s 'Yesterday', recorded without the help of any other Beatles, became the most widely covered song in pop-music history ... [Hard Day's Night] was [The Beatles] first album of all-original material, showcasing leaps in their songwriting ... On 'Pearl', Janis Joplin finally made a solo album worthy of her mighty blues-mama voice ... [Patsy Cline's] version of 'Crazy' was a godsend to the song’s struggling writer, a young Willie Nelson ... [Little] Richard’s raucous debut collected singles such as “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” in which his rollicking boogie-woogie piano and falsetto scream ignited the unfettered possibilities of rock & roll ... American Beauty has some of [The Grateful Deaed's] most beloved songs [like] 'Truckin’ ... [Ray Charles] turned out brilliant singles such as 'What’d I Say' and 'I Got a Woman' ... behind [The Eagles'] mellow message — 'Take It Easy', 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' — was a relentless drive ... with 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' and 'I Saw Her Standing There' ... John Lennon and Paul McCartney were on a roll that would be unmatched in rock history ... Sharp social criticism ('Fortunate Son') and party music ('Down on the Corner') take a ride on the Creedence bandwagon ... Driven by the hellbent drumming of Keith Moon, the Who surge and shine, igniting the drama in Townshend’s melodies ('Pinball Wizard', 'We’re Not Gonna Take It') ... [Bob Dylan's] 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'Maggie’s Farm' are loud, caustic, and funny as hell ... [Rod] Stewart scored his first Number One hit with 'Maggie May', his autobiographical tale of a young stud getting kicked in the head by an older lady ... [Simon & Garfunkel] at its best: wry, wounded songs with healing harmonies such as “The Boxer” ... 'The Piano Man' sharpens [Billy Joel's] storytelling gifts with a Scorsese-style sense of humor and compassion ... 'Rave On', 'Peggy Sue' and 'Not Fade Away' made [Buddy] Holly one of rock’s first great singer-songwriters ... [Johnny] Cash guffaws his way through ... 'Folsom Prison Blues', with its line about shooting a man just to watch him die ... [Aretha] Franklin approaches sacred songs as if they were soul standards, and delivers Carole King’s 'You’ve Got a Friend' like it’s a hymn ... [John Prine's] first album is loaded with enduring gems, including 'Angel From Montgomery', 'Hello in There', and a song that regularly returns to relevance, 'Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore' ... punk and New Wave broke through to a mass U.S. audience, thanks to [Blondie's] Number One hit 'Heart of Glass'... [Adele] had actually cut an entire album with producer Rick Rubin but wound up preferring earlier demos of songs like 'Rolling in the Deep' ... [Hank Williams] was equally at home with lovesick ballads like 'I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry' and long-gone-daddy romps such as 'You’re Gonna Change (Or I’m Gonna Leave)' ... Prince plays most every instrument himself and creates a relentless, irresistible musical sequence of apocalypse ('1999') ... [Queen's] coup was 'Bohemian Rhapsody', an opera buffa in which [Freddie] Mercury combined three different songs he’d been writing into a suite that took weeks to record ... one of the most exhilarating guitar riffs in rock & roll: Jimmy Page’s searing stutter in 'Whole Lotta Love'... The highlight is the title track ['Hotel California'], a monument to the rock-aristocrat decadence of the day and a feast of triple-guitar interplay ... [Jimi] Hendrix was inventing new ways to make the electric guitar roar, sing, talk, shriek, flutter, and fly ... the Doors hit pay dirt by editing one of their jam songs for airplay: 'Light My Fire'... Elvis Presley, guitarist Scotty Moore, and bassist Bill Black were horsing around with 'That’s All Right' ... [Producer] Phillips told them to 'back up and do it again'... an extraordinary cache of songs that the Who honed for what became their best studio album, Who’s Next [including] “Baba O’Riley” ... In the latter half of the Fifties, Chuck Berry released a string of singles that defined the sound and spirit of rock & roll. 'Maybellene', 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'School Day', 'Rock & Roll Music', 'Sweet Little Sixteen', 'Johnny B. Goode' ... the universal soul [Bob Marley] brought to Jamaican rhythm and Rastafarian spirituality in the gunfighter ballad 'I Shot the Sheriff' ... [Bob] Dylan’s quicksilver language and incisive singing in barrelhouse surrealism such as 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35' ... 'Norwegian Wood' in which John Lennon sings about sex with a humor and candor unlike any rock & roller before and George Harrison lays down rock’s first sitar solo ... [Miles Davis' 'Kind Of Blue'] is one of the most important, influential, and popular albums in jazz ... Jimi Hendrix's 'Are You Experienced' is ablaze with rainbow blues, orchestral guitar feedback, and cosmic possibility ... Carole King wrote pop songs with her then-husband, Gerry Goffin: hits such as Little Eva’s 'The Loco-Motion' ... [The Beatles'] Sgt. Pepper christened the Summer of Love with the lavish psychedelic daydream 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' ... Bruce Springsteen has described the beginning of 'Like a Rolling Stone' as the 'snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind' ... [Aretha Franklin's] storefront-church makeover of Otis Redding’s 'Respect', which became Franklin’s first Number One pop single ... 'Revolver' was the sound of the Beatles fully embracing the recording studio as a sonic canvas ... Fleetwood Mac’s catchy exposés, produced with California-sunshine polish, touched a nerve: 'Rumours' became the sixth-best-selling album of all time ... Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison reputedly sang more three-part harmonies [on 'Abbey Road'] than on any other Beatles album ... With its vivid orchestration, lyrical ambition, elegant pacing, and thematic coherence, [The Beach Boys'] Pet Sounds invented — and in several senses, perfected — the notion that an album could be more than the sum of its parts ... "
Very Cool! I didn't see them on His SCG pages, but that doesn't mean I didn't miss something accidentally. Pretty exhausted right now! LOL
I have most of his stuff, I see... I'm going to go ahead and get the rest as well! It's all great stuff!
bruce willis movie night. all the die hards. yippy kye ay mike foxtrot
just don't watch his latest on Netflix!... from all reports it's terrible
the 6th element?
Trauma Center
cords mess arund my desk eek
a lot of wires for the wireless age
i tried seeing carrara on big tv,
pumpkin pie season
harumph
whats missung here
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Bryce
So want Moshi to work! Fingers crossed.
https://www.daz3d.com/moshi-the-kitten
I asked for a Carrara bridge on the fb page announcement, lol
LOL!!! Bravo! Tee Hee Hee!
BOO!
What'd i miss?
cuz ghosts go thru doors
i hope i didnt miss any of the mmoir sets when they were available
been quiet from plug in developers.
yeah hope all are well
I have been spending too much time in other softwares sadly including the eponymous DAZ software called Stu stu studio.
MAJourney - Greetings. You've missed a few challenges, and we've missed you.
Misty - hope your eyes are getting the care they need because we need you.
Wendy - I've been spending a lot of time in other software also, including some time in the free plugin called Daz Studio. Even some time in Blender. Now, I am trying my hand at ZBrush. Whoah, ZBrush has a steep learning curve for someone like me. But very powerful and useful if I can get it to work. I will post a screengrab of a silly ZBrush-sculpted figure I am working on if I get it rigged in Carrara.
My off-topic is a movie recommendation. October tends to inspire a lot of horror movie marathons. This is the time of year for Mad Monster Party!
Do the Mummy!
Did the forum software get really tiny for anyone else? When did that happen?
yeah on Chrome I noticed it trying to read a wall of text in another thread
made my brain hurt
the files names on the prodlib page turne soft gray, might as well be invisible ink.
@Mystiarra
I watch listen to a lot of Reddit read videos on Youtube and they would be great fir you with your eyesight,
it is much easier than trying to find topics to read as they pick out all the interesting threads
one I really like is RadioTTS as he picks very interesting topics, some dark and controversial but also engages his viewers
while a text to speech voice it is well edited and presented
a cool Aussie guy with a great personality is Vincey he does all the Neckbeards, Nice guys/girls, incels etc and their ridiculous posts with lots of Simpsons references and clips
Markee is another Aussie with a great voice and personality who shares interesting Reddit posts
I post to the forum in font (heading 3).
interesting way to get volumes from Blender as mesh
which should import to Carrara
OMG eeek I tried an Embergen openVDB series
and stupidly exported the 130 frame animation as obj series
thats a lot of highpoly objs
this is one of them
Hope your computer didn't crash !
no but my drive is filling up with objs and I cannot stop it
(will delete them once I am finished)
uncorking a fresh bottle of roscato. fractal visions may follow
errg/ forum giving me a lot of page not found errors
they mucked with the wishlist. thumnail looks like a big dead pixel