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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from news Talk, Said B Higgs, new releases and keeping
tabs on local artists. It's music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Time to talk music with the old mate, James Rward,
James E, James E, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's time to have some fun.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We've had a heavy morning this morning, so let's have
a little bit of fun that's relaxed.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ai.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I saw her on the news yesterday. I don't know
whether you saw it in the first recording completely video
music hit song.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
All All, would you tell?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Yeah, because I'm finding that with a lot of graphic
boards around the city, I can see advertising and sometimes
I look at it and nothing that just looks like.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's almost overprocessed.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Sometimes it's that skinny woman on the skinny ad.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
She's Ai, and that that grates me. That one.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
I don't know what it does great me too, and
it makes me not want to use skinny.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So I don't know if they've got that one right
or not. I don't know. No, no abbviated, haven't we.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You said to me a couple of days ago you
could make some ads because you're the ad maker.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, well, Genie the music man, what I wanted
to do was make so you know AI is. I've
got these pros and cons to it, like I everyone
and everyone's got an opinion on it, and some of
it's real slap and quite frankly here as in me.
Last week, I needed a female voice at about ten
past five for an ad that was going to air,
and I went out to the building and you can
imagine there's no one there.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You would have probably been here in that, but you.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Were probably down the road a female and not a
female voice, but there were no females here. So I
actually recorded my voice and then I did what we
call a skin so I skinned myself as a female,
a younger female, and it came out really good. So
this certain team, I haven't got it here, and I
shouldn't have even brought it up, because now I'll find
you an example of that next time, and I'll bring
(01:59):
it and show you how I because I'm on a
lot of radio ads here into me and so now
I'm actually a young female.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
On the ad and you will about a tell with
music behind me. But we're deviating.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I know it is crazy, and so I've made some
AI jingles for the show. And what I want to
say is, you know, I'm all about creative industries and
I love people who record and make stuff. And that's
been my whole career, is working in recording studios and
making things and working with musicians and trying to be
a musician myself. And these jingles that I've made for
(02:33):
the Nick Mills Wellington Morning Show is about six or
seven of them. I've just got little samples of them.
They took me seven minutes. Here we go just have
a listen.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
About the place of.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Out of state up the stream, so the way that
today it is always raining.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
This one took me forty five seconds. We go to
jazz hop, jazz hip hop to.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Beat them policy here this city scene, Graces producing keeping
it side, Grace to producer, keeping.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And keeping it on.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Local blues.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh, this is the Golden Mile and.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Mile where did so the crazy thing is? For that
last one, the Golden Mile, I just put it in
quite frankly. I put in I want a jazzy hip
hop type tune with Nick Mills's does a morning radio
show on news talks het B. He's got a producer
called Grace and he talks about the price of products
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and contentious local politics and the Golden Mile.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That's all I wrote.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And how long did it take?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
That took about forty five seconds to spit that out
that last week.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That is terrifying. It is too worried about you could
lose your job.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
It's there's always going to have to be someone they
say with AI, there's always going to have to be
someone there fixing peoples up. And some of them got
frustrating because it started doing some stuff that I didn't want,
and I tried to change the lyric and I liked
the tune, but then I changed the lyric and suddenly
it changed the whole song.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
And I'm not skilled enough to know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So who's going to get the royalty? See that song
that I talk about? I mean, what's going to happen
with that? I mean, say, everybody that's got a computer
now can write a song, yeah and actually create a hit. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
And you know that's the problem is they might have
learnt from a whole of you know, that's probably that
last one. You could have learnt off bands like Tribe
called Quest or you know, a whole of nineties hip
hop groups and jazz artists, and so the AI has
learned from all those artists who have put their own
music out there, because the AI is stripping out, stripping out,
(05:02):
you know, the Spotify's and that it's just listening to
everything and then going that's the category. And so when
I go, hey, I want a jazzy hip hop tune,
it's using all of those things to create it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Can can anybody do this on any computer.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Or anyone So you can use a program called no
this is This is a program called souno dot com.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
We'll put a link on the Facebook page.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
It's good fun if you want to make I made
one for my niece's twenty first had had a couple
of jingles played it. Everyone thought I had recorded it. It
had been a one minute thing. It's good fun. Hey, anyway,
over the last wee while, we might play another one
at the end if we've got time. A buddy of
mine always hassles me about the show here and said,
we've done the greatest songs, We've done the greatest drum solos,
(05:42):
we've done the greatest guitar licks, We've done the greatest
air drumming songs. But he said, I bet you can't
do songs that start with bass guitar.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Fleetwood Mac.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yes, this Fleetwood Mac. Here we go so.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Bass or BASI chase them Jeremy by Pearl Jam, the Beatles.
It's got another little sound effect in there, but it's
bass heavy starting.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It was a Stevie.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Wonder that's on keyboard, but.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's the baseline, so I kind of good steepy Wonder.
Don't listen to Stevie Wonder album.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I listened to Walk yesterday, which I haven't heard for its.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Garrison Sweet was a sweet, sweet emotion, sweet sensation, I
can't emotional.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Great.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, I think that's the last of that one. So
you know, this was the.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Fleetwood Max and I talked about it the news reader
the other day. Yeah, yeah, and and and then I
forgot to put it in because it's definitely that's.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
A base one.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I don't know what the song is someone.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I can't think.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Yeah, that's a good point texton if you can think
of a bass a song that starts very bass heavy
Texas and is a nine nine.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Two, give me that Fleetwood MA song because that was
really it was really based that baseline on that was amazing.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Yeah, so we've got a couple of others as well.
Let's have a listen to another one.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
We go Queen. We've got two in a row from Queen, and.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I wouldn't even know who the base player was.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Again base, yeah, but I mean instantly recognizable. Sure, it's
got drums on this, it's not just bass starting.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Ah, here we go. Here's some lead Zeppelin.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Confused.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
How many wines you had before you stuff? Put the
stuff to?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
He is the one that they played every stadium.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We've got New Zealand one.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I think it's the best one coming up. Okay, lou Read,
I'm taking a few liberties here. That bass lines, that
bassline is pretty good.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Here.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think it's the New Zealand one coming up.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Take a walk on the way outside and the cold
girls go do.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Directed on somber. Oh, George George Benson. You're not George Benson.
It's from a Tarotino film and I can't George Baker project.
You know this.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
One exponents starts truly on the base one of the
greatest bass and throw ever of a song.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Chang change yeah, change there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Perfect.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
So, I mean that's just a bit of fun to
kind of finish that series that we've done guitars, we've
done bass, we've done drums, we've done e guitar solos, drummers.
It's all been a bit of fun just looking at music,
and I.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Thought we should probably talk gigs. So a couple of
gigs won this week. Let's have it.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
We've got Cowboy JUNKI Junkies this Thursday night at the
Opera House. They're a band that started in about nineteen
eighty four. Now I've got a little sample here. We're
gonna plays god plea kind of old country and folk rock.
It's going to be at the Opera House Thursday night.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It'll be a really lovely gig. I saw them last
time they here.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
And this lady, Sharon van Etton, this is going to
be a Keller concert.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'll tell you about this and second, Jesus Dad, this
is a killer song. This is not actually offer a
new album.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
She's got a new album about Sharon van Etton and
the Attachment Theory is her band, and she's kind of
I don't know what age Sharon is. I reckon use
no No, She's from California. She's coming out here. She's
playing a festival in Auckland coming to Wellington bringing one
of the side shows with her. She's playing Tuesday the
twenty fifth at the Opera House.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's kind of synth rock.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
If you listen to a lot of her stuff. I've
been listening to her a lot lately. It's kind of
eighty synth rock, and even some of the songs Give
Me that has the basslines just because she got a
great bass player and it's very talking heads at times.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
She's kind of I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I just it's bringing back that eighties feel to me.
I reckon, you'd really love it. I'm gonna actually say,
if I can get hold of the promoter, see if
we can maybe get a ticket and we'll talk about it.
Next time I might play it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Can you get a quick as you if you went
to Dave Dobbin.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I didn't go to Dave Dobbin.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I went to the Saints the same night at Meao Nui,
who are kind of That's the one I talked about
last time that Bob Guildof said is one of the
most important. It was fantastic and I did see big
crowd and a lot of sixty year old men pretending
they were punk rockers again and heaving into each other
and pogo dancing. I don't know if you would have
liked that.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Nick, Yeah, just got to play this.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, there we go the change. That's all right, that's great.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
You know the best jurisions when Neil Finn.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
On YouTube.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No no no, I saw it live on on the YouTube.
Sorry sorry, but oh my god. You know I'm not
a Neil film fan, but it was amazing. But anyway,
that's finished with the gigs.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yeah, that's pretty much those two.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Tuesday the twenty fifth, Sharon van Edden also a band
that I've talked about before. I love these guys, not
it's probably more for our gen X listeners high dependency units,
a bit noisy. Wednesday the twenty sixth, and November. I've
got all these gigs coming up. Another one I love
Andrew Fagan from the Mockers. He is playing Saturday the
fifteenth that Vogel Morn. I think they might be sold out.
(11:53):
But he is also playing at the pie Cockerrikey Hall
Sunday the sixteenth of November.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
So you know you love the pie Cock the Pikockerrikey Hall.
Oh so good, so good. Give yourself some weeks before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Have some fun, have some fun. We need to have
some fun on the show.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
We've got some We saw what io I. Well, you
can still if you want to go out.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
With a b Yeah, just go out with a couple
of them.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
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