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#876
#876
RandomUTfan said:
My man, I was privileged enough to have my first concert be Pink Floyd at Vanderbilt stadium on that same tour and it was the experience of a lifetime. No Roger Waters. but still Pink Floyd. Still Rick Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour. I hardly knew how lucky I was at the time. No concert ever quite lived up to that experience. I will smell certain smells and it will remind me of that night.
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Lol I can guess one of those smells.
 
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#877
#877
Devo182 said:
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I have a couple of those. Live music certainly exists somewhere in the spiritual realm.
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So do I. I was lucky that concerts were dirt cheap in my formative years and I also knew a lot of people who worked for radio stations so I have not paid to get into a lot of concerts I have seen. True story, our family friend worked at this radio station in Nashville and he knew Chico Moreno who showed up to this Self concert we got into for free. He knew our friend so he hung out with us. Chico ended up spewing shot of alcohol in some girl's face and getting thrown out. It was an epic night.
 
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#882
#882
Devo182 said:
Very cool. I've been trying to get more into Python, just don't have the time also trying to up my PowerBI. But a younger guy at work uses it a lot and builds some absolutely wild tools in very little time. Like apps that interact with sensors, scan guns, and instantly goes into a database, then outputs into a dashboard.

Did you use any specific book or training site to get into it?
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If you’ve done any coding before, I’d start with the official Python tutorial:
The Python Tutorial


It’s straightforward and gives you a good understanding of the language itself.


If you’re newer to coding or just want to jump into something practical, I’d recommend:
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
It teaches Python by walking through practical tasks like automating Excel, working with files and scraping websites. It’s especially useful for things like dashboards or sensor data.


I got started years ago with C#, Visual C, VB, and HTML so Python clicked pretty quickly for me. It’s a very beginner-friendly language, but it can also scale up to some powerful stuff. I use it for AI/ML at work so if you've got any questions feel free to shoot me a PM.
 
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#885
#885
RandomUTfan said:
This is my kind of convo because this is my wheelhouse. I don't think you can really compare Gilmour and Page. I know people don't realize this but many of Gilmour's best solos were written by other musicians. Sometimes Roger, sometimes session musicians. The Comfortably Numb solos were written largely by a session guitarist they hired to work on a different song. Jimmy Page could write anything on the guitar. Didn't need help. He was also a genius producer in his own right. He still handles most any Led-Zeppelin remix that's done.
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where did you hear that?
 
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#887
#887
RandomUTfan said:
An interview with the session guitarist who wrote them. David put his spin on them but he immediately recognized them when he heard the final track.
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not what Gilmour says


Following this, Gilmour described his meticulous system for creating his epic guitar solo. “I banged out five or six solos,” Gilmour said. “From there, I just followed my usual procedure, which is to listen back to each solo and make a chart, noting which bits are good. Then, by following the chart, I create one great composite solo by whipping one fader up, then another fader, jumping from phrase to phrase until everything flows together. That’s the way we did it on ‘Comfortably Numb.'”
 
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#888
Orangeburst said:
not what Gilmour says


Following this, Gilmour described his meticulous system for creating his epic guitar solo. “I banged out five or six solos,” Gilmour said. “From there, I just followed my usual procedure, which is to listen back to each solo and make a chart, noting which bits are good. Then, by following the chart, I create one great composite solo by whipping one fader up, then another fader, jumping from phrase to phrase until everything flows together. That’s the way we did it on ‘Comfortably Numb.'”
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Musicians say a lot of things, my guy. I don't care which story you prefer to believe. Both are stories. Hard to say either way who is being honest. Anyway, I tend to believe it just based on what I know about David Gilmour. He's much less a writer than he is just a really talented guitarist with a really distinctive style and sound. So many times he would complain that Roger was doing so much of the wiriting in Pink Floyd and Roger would go, "Okay, Dave, what have you got?" And Dave would have nothing. He contributed his part of Comfortably Numb to the Wall and not much else. And Roger wrote the lyrics. David never writes lyrics.
 
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#889
#889
peaygolf said:
July 19, 64 AD

Rome burns

During the early morning of July 19, 64 AD, fire broke out in the merchant area of the city of Rome. Fanned by summer winds, the flames quickly spread through the dry, wooden structures of the Imperial City. Soon the fire took on a life of its own consuming all in its path for six days and seven nights. When the conflagration finally ran its course it left seventy percent of the city in smoldering ruins.

Rumors soon arose accusing the Emperor Nero of ordering the torching of the city and standing on the summit of the Palatine playing his lyre as flames devoured the world around him. These rumors have never been confirmed. In fact, Nero rushed to Rome from his palace in Antium (Anzio) and ran about the city all that first night without his guards directing efforts to quell the blaze. But the rumors persisted and the Emperor looked for a scapegoat. He found it in the Christians, at that time a rather obscure religious sect with a small following in the city. To appease the masses, Nero literally had his victims fed to the lions during giant spectacles held in the city's remaining amphitheater.

From the ashes of the fire rose a more spectacular Rome. A city made of marble and stone with wide streets, pedestrian arcades and ample supplies of water to quell any future blaze. The debris from the fire was used to fill the malaria-ridden marshes that had plagued the city for generations.

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Also, the Lord took the persecution of the Christians in this time and spread the gospel even further. Amazing how the Lord will take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it for the ultimate good, salvation of souls.
 
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#890
#890
RandomUTfan said:
Musicians say a lot of things, my guy. I don't care which story you prefer to believe. Both are stories. Hard to say either way who is being honest. Anyway, I tend to believe it just based on what I know about David Gilmour. He's much less a writer than he is just a really talented guitarist with a really distinctive style and sound. So many times he would complain that Roger was doing so much of the wiriting in Pink Floyd and Roger would go, "Okay, Dave, what have you got?" And Dave would have nothing. He contributed his part of Comfortably Numb to the Wall and not much else. And Roger wrote the lyrics. David never writes lyrics.
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Why would PF use a session guitarist, especially when you have a great one. PF is a band,not a record maker likeSteely Dan.

I believe Gilmour, not you..my guy.
 
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#897
#897
25vol said:
If you’ve done any coding before, I’d start with the official Python tutorial:
The Python Tutorial


It’s straightforward and gives you a good understanding of the language itself.


If you’re newer to coding or just want to jump into something practical, I’d recommend:
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
It teaches Python by walking through practical tasks like automating Excel, working with files and scraping websites. It’s especially useful for things like dashboards or sensor data.


I got started years ago with C#, Visual C, VB, and HTML so Python clicked pretty quickly for me. It’s a very beginner-friendly language, but it can also scale up to some powerful stuff. I use it for AI/ML at work so if you've got any questions feel free to shoot me a PM.


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Seriously, we have tons of data in my role and we dashboard/PowerBI some of it. I know there’s more potential tho that can better inform project decision making and program management. I want to know more about how to automate data into digestible formats, and this looks informative. I’ve got good staff that could do the production work, but I want to have more of an understanding of Python to even see what’s possible.
 
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Brillovol said:
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Seriously, we have tons of data in my role and we dashboard/PowerBI some of it. I know there’s more potential tho that can better inform project decision making and program management. I want to know more about how to automate data into digestible formats, and this looks informative. I’ve got good staff that could do the production work, but I want to have more of an understanding of Python to even see what’s possible.
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