On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

IN THIS ISSUE: - THE BLUES, RAP, AND ChatGPT - PART ONE -  LIES, MORE LIES, AND MUSIC HISTORY…AND STREAMING -  INSTRUMENT REVIEW: DONNER DLH-003 16 STRING LYRE HARP -  A SURVEY OF BUDGET INSTRUMENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD - SPECIAL PREVIEW: EPISODE 2 OF “I, IVY” ON VELLA, TITLED “MY GAELIC GARDIAN,   JEZEBEL” - SHORT TAKES All content unless noted otherwise by  Al  Handa ( deltasnake@yahoo.com) The Blues, Rap, And ChatGPT: Part One I'm sure most of you have heard about the new ChatGPT and the various views, ranging from embarrassingly uncritical raves to it being a third column for the AI conquerors who'll destroy humankind. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle; there's no doubt it'll be misused, but from my initial exposure to it, it looks like the next wave in search engines. It also has the feel of a paradigm shift and could profoundly change the tech landscape. I know it's new, but think it will be a great quick and dirty tool for research tasks...

Al  Handa  deltasnake@yahoo.com CONTENTS: From The Archive: If Music Reviews Are Purely Opinion, Do People Take Reviews Seriously?  (Plus An Informal History Of Music Reviews) (Originally published June 14, 2014, and revised Jan. 19, 2023) GUITAR REVIEW: EPIPHONE LES PAUL SL MELODY MAKER AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF CHEAP CHIC GUITARS FROM THE ARCHIVE: REMASTERED RECORDINGS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD (2015) Special Preview: Excerpt from Jook by Al Handa (Due August 2023) From The Archive: 1996 Review Of Television’s Marquee Moon Album (revised 2023) SPECIAL PREVIEW: Episode 3 of The Quitters on Kindle Vella From The Archive: If Music Reviews Are Purely Opinion, Do People Take Reviews Seriously?  (Plus An Informal History Of Music Reviews) (Originally published June 14, 2014, and revised Jan. 19, 2023) The answer to the above question is yes, no, maybe, and who cares. For a new artist who has a new release out, it can be a matter of life or death to have that release reviewed. N...