The Doors 2023 release of "Live at the Matrix 1967 (The Original Masters)". Recorded before they became famous and one of their best live performances with several tracks that I hadn't heard before.
All Music says "In March of 1967, relatively unknown Los Angeles rock band the Doors did a five-night residency at San Francisco club The Matrix, playing three sets a night for small but enthusiastic audiences. Just about six weeks later, the group would break through to the top of the charts with their song "Light My Fire," bringing the psychedelic revolution into homes and minds across America and beyond. There was no turning back from superstardom after "Light My Fire," but the band playing at The Matrix just beforehand was hungry and working hard to connect with their listeners.......The true fun of Live at the Matrix 1967 comes in the ample jams, covers, and non-album selections from the sets......Live at the Matrix 1967 is a thrilling document of the Doors just moments before they rocketed fully into the fame and spectacle they would forever be known for. It captures a group in a primal state, but one that was already electrifying and uncanny, despite their fresh-facedness."
I haven't been posting of late, no particular reason but I was just reminded of this album and although it's very fragmentary it is still good stuff. So basically Happy New Year one and all.
"Eros" by the French Zuehl Avant-Prog band Dün. Rated no. 3 for 1981 by ProgArchives.
ChatGPT says that "this, the band’s only studio album, is a highly complex, instrumental progressive-rock/Zeuhl masterpiece with strong avant-rock, jazz-fusion, and art-music tendencies".
You can tell that I have started to get into using AI e.g. ChatGPT et al! Interestingly, it is getting good at assessing my likes and dislikes and directing me towards new music that I have not heard before and, in some cases, find appealing.
Is anybody else using ChatGPT or equivalent to similar ends?
"Applause of a Distant Crowd" the 2018 album by the Progressive Rock band VOLA.
ChatGPT says "The album "Applause of a Distant Crowd" is modern progressive rock at its most mature: confident, melodic, emotionally resonant, and immaculately produced. It proves VOLA aren’t just a technical band—they’re writers, capable of saying more by playing less."
@peterfrederics beware of AI "hallucination". I recently peer reviewed a research article submitted for publication that turned out to contain a lot of completely invented references to non-existent studies. As part of the fact checking I tried searching for the full reference for one of the non-existent articles and AI confidently gave me a detailed summary of the supposed article's themes and findings (again I emphasize, an article that does not in fact exist).
Also bear in mind that when assembling music summaries, AI tools are likely aggregating a decent proportion of promotional copy, so you are likely getting summarized promotional blurbs ("modern progressive rock at its most mature") as much as or more than summarized analyses. That does, however, mean it can help find stuff that people online have used similar words to describe.
To go back to @peterfrederics comment, without going into the whole heated debate about AI I will just say that I would rather read your comments not something generated by ChatGPT (which I admit to never having used) or for that matter anything on the All-Music Guide or similar. I appreciate that it's being done just to give a quick pointer; and it certainly isn't for me to say how others should post - just post a bit more myself!
And this happens to be what I'm listening to as I typed earlier. Discovered after reading the Choice French Label Classics feature in a recent (not the current issue) Audion magazine. 1978 quirky keyboard fronted "neo" prog.
François Bréant – Sons Optiques
Also features Didier Lockwood and Albert Marcoeur amongst a large cast.
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All Music says "In March of 1967, relatively unknown Los Angeles rock band the Doors did a five-night residency at San Francisco club The Matrix, playing three sets a night for small but enthusiastic audiences. Just about six weeks later, the group would break through to the top of the charts with their song "Light My Fire," bringing the psychedelic revolution into homes and minds across America and beyond. There was no turning back from superstardom after "Light My Fire," but the band playing at The Matrix just beforehand was hungry and working hard to connect with their listeners.......The true fun of Live at the Matrix 1967 comes in the ample jams, covers, and non-album selections from the sets......Live at the Matrix 1967 is a thrilling document of the Doors just moments before they rocketed fully into the fame and spectacle they would forever be known for. It captures a group in a primal state, but one that was already electrifying and uncanny, despite their fresh-facedness."
Kind of enjoying their Tiny Desk Concert a bit more than the studio album:
I haven't been posting of late, no particular reason but I was just reminded of this album and although it's very fragmentary it is still good stuff. So basically Happy New Year one and all.
ChatGPT says that "this, the band’s only studio album, is a highly complex, instrumental progressive-rock/Zeuhl masterpiece with strong avant-rock, jazz-fusion, and art-music tendencies".
You can tell that I have started to get into using AI e.g. ChatGPT et al! Interestingly, it is getting good at assessing my likes and dislikes and directing me towards new music that I have not heard before and, in some cases, find appealing.
Is anybody else using ChatGPT or equivalent to similar ends?
"Applause of a Distant Crowd" the 2018 album by the Progressive Rock band VOLA.
ChatGPT says "The album "Applause of a Distant Crowd" is modern progressive rock at its most mature: confident, melodic, emotionally resonant, and immaculately produced. It proves VOLA aren’t just a technical band—they’re writers, capable of saying more by playing less."
And this happens to be what I'm listening to as I typed earlier. Discovered after reading the Choice French Label Classics feature in a recent (not the current issue) Audion magazine. 1978 quirky keyboard fronted "neo" prog.
François Bréant – Sons Optiques
Also features Didier Lockwood and Albert Marcoeur amongst a large cast.