HemiBeers

6 hookers and i will be destroying it.

I just started getting serious about booking my concert night hotel in Chicago for July 22. My wife has lots of Hilton points, so I was hoping to stay at a Hampton about 6 blocks from United Center. I just checked prices and they jacked it up to $700 a night or an ungodly amount of points. For a f***ing Hampton on a Wednesday night! All the other hotels within a mile were jacked way up as well. So onto plan B. Shopped around and found a Holiday Inn Express for $127 that's about 12 miles down the freeway. That'll do pig. Didn't screw me this time Chicago! ha!

they got sick of it. I got sick of it.

remixes...the magic formula to dust the old music off and sell it again as 'new and improved'.

hopefully he'll actually play the keyboard parts and not rely on one finger triggers for patches.

- keyboards + everything else should've been that way on the original.

More guitar grit, less synth burps and squawks.

Als tone was really one dimensional with the PRS cranked. Mix it up with whitey or the hentor. An acoustic track would've been a nice change. Sort of like he was trying to out-Tool Tool at the time. That and the fact that half the songs should have never made it to the album.

change the order of songs, especially side 1, so you separate the mid tempo songs in minor keys. That's the one thing that bugs me about GUP is that the songs sound so similar to each other. A good producer would have caught that and corrected it.

It's cheating when they don't record songs in the studio by playing them live. It's cheating when they cut and paste parts in the studio. It's cheating when the producer tells them...play it this way. Now that we've established this perspective, is it still egregious that they use samples live?

But can he cover La Villa?

I got a post from the Kicking Harold guy (who's pretty credible) predicting an album before the tour. Gotta admit, there's quite a bit of time between the tour announcement and the actual tour. I don't think they would need all that time for tour prep. It does seem odd that they would just do a greatest hits tour for the hell of it. Just not their style. We'll see.

The editing on this was more enjoyable.

tempo seems a little rushed (no pun intended).

New lyrics provided by ChatGPT. write lyrics for a song like neil peart Absolutely. I’ll aim for Peart-ish in spirit: cerebral, poetic, curious about time, choice, science, and the human engine—without echoing any specific lyrics. “Clockwork Latitude” Verse 1 Between the ticks of a borrowed watch I measure doubt in degrees Maps drawn in chalk on a moving floor Every answer shifts when you breathe The past is a rumor we tell ourselves The future, a half-lit sign I’m steering by stars I don’t fully trust But they’ve never once crossed a line Pre-Chorus If reason is a river And faith a frozen sea I’ll learn the sound of breaking ice To know what carries me Chorus We’re running on clockwork latitude Gears in the blood, sparks in the brain Every choice is a point of view Every loss is a form of gain You can’t stop the hands, you can’t slow the truth But you can decide what remains In the spin of the world, in the pull of you I’m learning the shape of change Verse 2 I’ve seen empires built out of sand Held together by fear and belief I’ve seen silence speak louder than drums When the noise had nothing to teach The mirror argues back at me With facts I don’t want to defend Is the self just a long experiment With no clear data at the end? Pre-Chorus If wisdom is a warning And youth a loaded die I’ll take my chances carefully And own the numbers I try Chorus We’re running on clockwork latitude Measuring hope in delay Every promise a changing mood Every right way’s a wrong way You can curse the night or study the moon Blame the dark or light the flame In the spin of the world, in the pull of you I’m learning the shape of change Bridge Time doesn’t heal, it reveals What survives the strain Pressure turns carbon into truth Or it shatters the frame I won’t pray to the past for permission Or wait for the future to choose I’ll stand in the moment between them With nothing to win, nothing to lose Instrumental / Percussive Break (Let the rhythm argue with itself) Final Chorus We’re running on clockwork latitude Hearts in the red, minds in the black Every forward motion is something new That won’t ever give you back You can follow the rules or rewrite the proof But the cost is always the same In the spin of the world, in the pull of you I’m learning the shape of change Outro When the watch finally runs out of words And the seconds learn how to sleep I won’t ask what the journey was worth I’ll count the steps I chose to keep If you want, I can tweak this to feel more early Rush (mythic/sci-fi), mid-era philosophical, or late-career reflective, or even shape it around a specific tempo or time signature. 🥁