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Best Daft Punk show I ever saw was Lollapalooza with LCD Soundsystem opening on the nearby stage. LCD Soundsytem closed with “Daft Punk is Playing..” and Daft Punk emerged in a pyramid and absolutely melted our faces.
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The word 'sheltered' is still misapplied here.
How so? Having never experienced things outside of your "comfort zone" or your upbringing seems like the culturally accepted definition of sheltered. Whether that was overbearing parents never allowing you to listen to music other than prescribed by religious beliefs or parental personal preference or just one's own personal preference all seems like sheltered to me. Being culturally unaware of events that occurred o…
There’s many influential things that won’t matter to individuals. It’s not possible to know about all influential things any way.
The only way to even perform about bigger paloozas is to be a big name. Being a big name doesn’t mean influential. Someone could be very into specific influential music that doesn’t overlap with palooza events.
I’m sure any one who’s geeky into pop media like music, film, tv, can look at your history and call you sheltered under your constraints. Meaning everyone is sheltered to some others based off your meaning of sheltered.
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Phil Collins did a "First Finale Farewell Tour." Then followed it with a "Not Dead Yet Tour."
Tina Turner has had quite a few "last" tour. And I'm sure there are plenty more. People can always change their mind.
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LOL. The way she moves her butt is so distinctive that if she just walks like a normal person that’s a disguise of sorts.
I recognize alot of people by how they walk, from behind I could see that being a disguise
Shame we're seeing places explicitly banning facial recognition rather than biometric recognition.
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I recognize alot of people by how they walk, from behind I could see that being a disguise
Gait recognition is a thing, in humans and in ML. Shame we're seeing places explicitly banning facial recognition rather than biometric recognition.
Well, I guess we still have M83 and Carpenter Brut to supply French synth awesomeness, but I'll really miss Daft Punk.
And N'to, Worakls, Danger, Justice, French79, Kavinsky, Jean-Michel Jarre, Air, Birdy Nam Nam, Gesaffelstein, Perturbator, SebastiAn, ... French electro is doing well.
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Wasn’t that story about Marilyn Monroe? https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-marilyn-monroe-effect-the-...
The article I'm remembering was linked as part of an obit right after Bowie's death. I wish I could find it, but I'm apparently not coming up with the right phrase for Google. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a common trait of celebrities. Wear a mask, literally or figuratively, on stage or camera. Take the mask off and you're just an ordinary person that no one else will notice. Bowie talked about that mask here,…
One of my regrets in life is not going to Alive 2007 because I was young and none of my friends wanted to go with me.
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I went to a smashing pumpkins show and was so turned off that I stopped being a fan. I have met several others with the same experience
Since I don't go to live shows, I tend to just have the disappointment of finding out that I only like some of my favorite bands' albums, because the arc of their own musical careers doesn't match my own tastes. Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?
There is one English psychedelic outfit I like called "Ozric Tentacles". Every album is pretty much identical. And it turns out that I really like that album, so I have bought it ten times over the years, plus a couple of live albums.
This happens in part because whenever the people behind Ozric Tentacles want to make something different from their trademark sound, they'll usually put it out under another name. If you go to their site right now the front page advertises recent albums from two different side projects with even sillier names than "Ozric Tentacles".
(The Ozrics are far from the only band to do this, they're just the first example that comes to mind.)
There are other bands I like where every album is something different. King Crimson, for instance, is a different lineup for pretty much every album. Same bandleader, some people return to perform in multiple incarnations of the band, some are only there for one album and some tour dates. I love some of their albums and some are flat for me. I'd still grab another one if I heard that Fripp had declared that the current assemblage of musicians he was working with was an incarnation of King Crimson, because the albums that work for me work really well. If it's a dud I just consider it a down payment on the next hit.