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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by RajT88 »

mp05 wrote: post #50
IAmGraydon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I say this as a guy who’s been playing electric guitar for over 25 years - Rivers is certainly competent on guitar. He’s not some virtuoso and he’s definitely no Yngwie. His real superpower, however, is songwriting. He’s one the best who has ever lived.

Yeah you're right, who can forget such classics as: "Goddamn, you half-Japanese girls/Do it to me every time" "Everyone’s a little queer/why can’t she be a little straight?" "When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf." "I wonder what clothes you wear to school/I wonder how you decorate your room/I wonder how you touch yourself and curse myself for being across the sea" (sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was…

I think he was referring more to the notes than the lyrics.

But - there's definitely a type of fan who admires the "creepy stalker" bent of the lyrics. I have a friend who is in that camp for sure.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by mp05 »

RajT88 wrote: post #51
mp05 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah you're right, who can forget such classics as: "Goddamn, you half-Japanese girls/Do it to me every time" "Everyone’s a little queer/why can’t she be a little straight?" "When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf." "I wonder what clothes you wear to school/I wonder how you decorate your room/I wonder how you touch yourself and curse myself for being across the sea" (sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was…

I think he was referring more to the notes than the lyrics. But - there's definitely a type of fan who admires the "creepy stalker" bent of the lyrics. I have a friend who is in that camp for sure.

Yeah sure, he has a knack for melodies, I won't argue that.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by roywiggins »

freedomben wrote: post #30

Interesting, he seems to primarily work on a Discord Bot. This is at heavy risk for confirmation bias, but I believe that writing chat bots is one of the best ways for people to get into and enjoy coding, because it's fun and rewarding, and simple enough (with an existing framework to use) that just uses strings. For a large generation it was MySpace and the ability to customize your page heavily with HTML. I know a…

There was a fad for chatbots during the MySpace era (or at least the early-mid-00s AIM era?) too, I remember messing around with trying to build them. They were a lot less accessible and less documented than the APIs available today though!

Eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmarterChild

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by dang »

happytiger wrote: post #47
amagitakayosi wrote: post #35

Wait, no one remembers now? He once released a mobile app to stream Weezer songs, all written by himself. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weezify/id1598140531 I'm glad he's still writing code so hard.

It’s so great that musicians can have a backup plan that works lol. :)

My parents-in-law had an old friend who with her folk-singer husband ran a club in Montreal in the early 60s. Bob Dylan came through town before he changed his name. They were sitting around after the show and Annette said to him: "Kid. You better go back to college. You need something to fall back on." Dylan told her: "If I don't, you'll eat my hat."

She had other great stories. Lenny Cohen played "Suzanne" for her and said "what do you think?" Annette: "it stinks. who wrote it?" Lenny: "I did."

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by johnxie »

amagitakayosi wrote: post #35

Wait, no one remembers now? He once released a mobile app to stream Weezer songs, all written by himself. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weezify/id1598140531 I'm glad he's still writing code so hard.

This is still being actively updated, just wow. Growing up on alt rock, it's so good to see most of these bands still kicking it. (RIP Chris and Chester)

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by gonzo »

dang wrote: post #55
happytiger wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s so great that musicians can have a backup plan that works lol. :)

My parents-in-law had an old friend who with her folk-singer husband ran a club in Montreal in the early 60s. Bob Dylan came through town before he changed his name. They were sitting around after the show and Annette said to him: "Kid. You better go back to college. You need something to fall back on." Dylan told her: "If I don't, you'll eat my hat." She had other great stories. Lenny Cohen played "Suzanne" for her…

She’s not wrong

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by drifkin »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #12
kazinator wrote: post #7

Over twenty years ago I discovered Jens Johannson's* site, where he revealed he was into programming. He hacked on someone's Phase Vocoder code: https://www.panix.com/~jens/pvoc.par I built Jens' version and used it for cleanly slowing down some audio tracks. -- * Keyboard player of Stratovarious, formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Johansson

> formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Which made me remember that Cuomo is also a pretty good guitar shredder, not long ago there was an interview with him shredding along his favorite lines from Malmsteen

Guessing you're talking about this interview? https://youtu.be/1UES4gQZH6o?si=X_zP2AKmvVrkpVi4&t=1069

I just saw it a couple of weeks ago, it's great. I linked to him trying to remember one of those lines, but the whole interview is worth listening to

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by dang »

gonzo wrote: post #57
dang wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My parents-in-law had an old friend who with her folk-singer husband ran a club in Montreal in the early 60s. Bob Dylan came through town before he changed his name. They were sitting around after the show and Annette said to him: "Kid. You better go back to college. You need something to fall back on." Dylan told her: "If I don't, you'll eat my hat." She had other great stories. Lenny Cohen played "Suzanne" for her…

She’s not wrong

Aw come on. It's Suzanne by Lenny Cohen.
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