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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 5h

"The Sicilian pizza is 'upside-down.' Is that OK?"

"What do you mean?"

"First the cheese, and then the sauce on top of that."

"Sure."

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 12h

If I'd heard solo John first it would be hard for me to believe that he'd produced all that Beatle stuff. The solo stuff is mostly pretty mediocre. And I'm a huge Beatles fan, and think John is one of the very greatest rock singers.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 12h

I don't give John much or any credit for that. To me, it was Yoko and their producer. I think the producers get a ton of credit for John's solo work. I don't think he could be bothered with those details.

Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 12h

I love Beatle John but am much less generous about his later stuff. The way I see it, he mostly retreated into the rock and roll of his youth and rarely ventured very far from that. Compare McCartney, who was all over the place (in a good way) in the '70s.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 14h

The whole thing is crazy. I can't imagine anyone actually choosing to go through all that. I have four tone controls on my amp (with high mid and low mid) and I can't see having any more than that unless you're recording, in which you use the EQ on the board.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 15h

😂Good point.

Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 15h

That's possible!

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 16h

Midwood: Kabbalah?

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 16h

You mean to say you don't know how much 510 Hz you like?

A lot of amps have graphic equalizers (with maybe ten bands), which I think is also crazy, though seeing the curve helps a bit. These numbers are meaningless.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 16h

Someone generously lent me this bass amp at a gig last night, and I won't look a gift horse in the mouth, but I don't get how people use amps this complicated. When you're playing live you've got a minute to get your sound right, and with an amp like this it takes an hour. P.S.: I've seen worse.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Serious question: Does anyone have a good explanation for all this, beyond "They want to kill everyone"?

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Midwood.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Little Haiti garage. #photography

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

...The Ohara project is a very '70s thing (1974, I think), obviously inspired by the popularity of chain letters, a big thing at the time.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

...Some of the collages were obvious inspiration for the xerox-art movement that blossomed in the '80s. Surprised to see that this stuff was from the early '60s.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 1d

Great stuff at the Whitney right now: "Sixties Surreal," including some incredible paintings, sculptures, and ahead-of-their time collages from quite a few artists I'd never heard of, and CONTACTS by Ken Ohara, where he sent a camera to random people around the US and had them shoot rolls of film.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

One of the current exhibits at Poster House is US National Parks posters, many of them (like this one) by the brilliant artist/illustrator Dorothy Waugh. Poster House remains one of the best-kept secrets in NYC.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

That place may have been out of business for twenty years. I can't remember.

Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

Auto shop.

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

774 Alabama Ave.

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WFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 2d

Today on WFMU: On Give the Drummer Some with Doug Schulkind (Give the Drummer Radio stream), a three-hour Yusef Lateef special! To celebrate this monumental artist's 105th birthday, Doug devotes this full episode to the sounds of Lateef in concert (9 a.m. ET).

Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU

www.wfmu.org

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

McSweeney's doing the Lord's work here.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

We're close to completing our list for September. Look for it on our site next week. If you need a refresher, or, you know, lean toward masochism, here are all 416 atrocities committed by the Trump administration since the reality TV star/steak salesman/convicted felon took office.

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

...Transitioning from Scene Five to Scene Six: What human is capable of such marvels?

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 7d

The Living Wage for Musicians Act would claim a portion of streaming platform earnings for *human* recording musicians, which means if they choose to do nothing about AI slop, they pay us for the privilege weareumaw.org/make-streami...

Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers

United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 2d

People have been running schools, writing stories, writing plays, and composing music for millennia, and suddenly no can imagine how those things are possible without AI.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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