Jon Batiste Hears Green Day for the First Time
In this video from Pianote, the multi-talented Jon Batiste hears Green Day’s Holiday for the first time (drum & vocals only) and is challenged to come up with a piano accompaniment for it — and he really really gets into it. (How do you find a song that a musical encyclopedia like Batiste has never heard before though?)
These are always so fun to watch — see also Drummer Plays Metallica’s Enter Sandman After Hearing It Only Once. Oh and Green Day’s demastering of Dookie. (via @unlikelywords.bsky.social)
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This was lovely. I'd love to see a writer do this for a few pages of another writer's story or a cartoonist do this for another comic strip. Give 'em the nuts and bolts and see how they break it apart and rearrange it.
Not quite what you've asked for, but here a podcast about an author who wrote a short story on a topic and then told ChatGPT to write the same story in her style.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opinion/curtis-sittenfeld-chatgpt-summer-beach-story.html
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