Dad3353

Fellow of the Royal Society.

I'll not be playing much of that 👆 stuff; not much at all.

I hadn't noticed. I was listening to the music.

Both sound fine to me, although I preferred the first half. I think you're over-thinking it. (Disclaimer : I play tape-wound...)

Touché, and thanks.

Yeah, sure ... ...

Unpopular indeed; I'll take Schubert's symphonies every time over his leider.

And the winner is... @skankdelvar..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2022_05.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)... BC_Chal_Cert_2022_05.pdf

Sorry, it's a 'No' from me. On the other hand, how many Fairport Convention songs can you sing the lyrics to..?

Contrast, compare and comment...

It's not black..! Savage woods ...

Not fussed. It makes no difference to me (I have fretted and fretless, but couldn't say what woods they are...). I just play 'em.

For those decades I was out playing in variety bands, and didn't listen to UK radio. I consider myself to be a (modest...) musician, and could name no bands from that era, either. On the other hand, I could reel off a list of certainly 50, maybe more, classical composers, most of whom I listen to and appreciate often. Not everyone attends clubs, discos, raves, parties and such. My own listening, at the time, was either my own, and my groups', compositions, or West Coast acid stuff, Brazilian sambas, 'typique' music from the West Indies and African tribal stuff. I cannot name one single Japanese band, either. The World is a very wide range of stuff, and UK 'indie' is only a speck of what's out there.

You did that on porpoise.

'Après moi le déluge.'

You've not heard me play guitar. ...

Did it..? If so, my apologies; I didn't (couldn't...) listen to it all the way through. I just skipped to every thirty seconds or so, and even then I found it long, very long.

I believe that this had some popularity...

My apologies; I offer as excuse a long 'phone call from Our Daughter, for which I left my keyboard. Upon my return, I simply posted, instead of following the topic, nor reading through my own text. Mea Culpa, and well spotted.

But that is the mistake, right there..! 'It's' is an abbreviation of 'It is'. 'Its' is a different word, and has no need of an apostrophe. It is a word indicating possesion

And does '...because of what it had to experience with it is owner.' make sense..? I think not, and would use '...because of what it had to experience with its owner.' OK it's pedantic, I know, and is of no consequence in the Great Scheme Of Things, but it's so easy to avoid tiny errors of the sort. Hope this helps. Carry on; you're doing fine.

I'm led to believe that there are, at present, video games in which the storyline evolves as a function of the Player's decisions and actions. I'm sure that it's not that far removed from a hologram concert, as far as AI programming is concerned. I worked for a while on the portage of a video game from Megadrive to Atari (same processor...), and even back then, there was much interaction available. Hmm... Maybe I should dust off the old STacy and get writing 68K code again. At least I wouldn't have to programme the soundtrack..!