{"id":14046,"date":"2024-08-06T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2024-08-06T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T16:12:10","slug":"fembot-manips-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=14046","title":{"rendered":"Fembot Manips \u2014 August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I share my latest two dozen manips, I&#8217;m going to talk a little bit about how two of my very favourite musical acts crossed paths in the early 1970s.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a huge fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=9390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Miller Band<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=7206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genesis<\/a> is my favourite band of all time &#8211; especially their 1970s output.\u00a0 So I was delighted to see this fairly recent upload of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C25ALC4fHRA&amp;t=73s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 1974 episode of the American variety show Midnight Special<\/a>, which was hosted by Steve Miller and featured Genesis as one of the guests.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the music of Genesis in 1973 (when the episode was filmed), let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s like aliens invading a boogie and blues rock jamboree.\u00a0 I encourage watching the whole episode, because it&#8217;s full of great performances from some popular bands and musicians of the time.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a small, minute-long clip I made of Steve Miller introducing Genesis, and Mike Rutherford&#8217;s recollection of that evening four decades later:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-14046-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Genesis-Steve-Miller-WTF.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Genesis-Steve-Miller-WTF.mp4\">http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Genesis-Steve-Miller-WTF.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now that I&#8217;ve gotten that out of the way, here are my latest manips.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14046 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl 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