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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months ago

Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust

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Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months ago
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The Dead Boys were a legendary Cleveland, Ohio, punk band who formed in 1976. Vocalist Stiv Bators died in 1990, but the rest of the band has reunited several times since. The current version forme…
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    Chrome and Cleopatra issued a statement that that guy was fired because he sucked anyway. Chrome assured fans it would not be an “AI record.”

    The plan was apparently for Hout to record a guide vocal that would then be reskinned with the “fakeass robot A.I. Stiv Bators voice.”

    there’s something extra disrespectful about a punk band lying about firing the guy they were planning on exploiting to train a horrid tool their record label insisted would make them more money

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      100% in character for both Cheetah Chrome and especially Cleopatra tho

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        just the worst fucking Chrome fork

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    Go ahead and drop the bomb, you don’t love anyone

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    oh we made jwz’s blog

    https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/11/not-just-merely-dead-boys-but-really-most-sincerely-dead-boys/

    apparently the singer’s last show was at his DNA Lounge

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    You can’t really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though

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