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Quad Recording Studios is a reputable and well known professional recording studio in Times Square, New York that has hosted sessions for many popular musicians such as Pop Smoke, Sam Smith, and Coldplay, and notably for being the scene of a shooting involving Tupac Shakur in 1994. | Quad Recording Studios is a reputable and well known professional recording studio in Times Square, New York that has hosted sessions for many popular musicians such as Pop Smoke, Lil Baby, Sam Smith, and Coldplay, and notably for being the scene of a shooting involving Tupac Shakur in 1994. | ||
Quad Studios is where [[Josh Block|Joshua]] and Mr. Based has recorded several of his tracks and has streamed multiple times. | Quad Studios is where [[Josh Block|Joshua]] and Mr. Based has recorded several of his tracks and has streamed multiple times. | ||
Due to many of Josh’s crashouts, [[Mr. Based]]’s behaviour, and various swattings, both are now | Due to many of Josh’s crashouts, [[Mr. Based]]’s behaviour, and various swattings, both are now no longer welcome at the studio anymore. | ||
During the many visits to the studio, the audio engineers have been subject to numerous text to speech donations that have been very harassing in nature, often intentionally not monitored or filtered by Mr. Based. | During the many visits to the studio prior to the ban, the audio engineers that work there have been subject to numerous text to speech donations that have been very harassing in nature, often intentionally not monitored or filtered by Mr. Based. Although, they were tipped generously several times for the trouble. | ||
The sound engineer who was present in every studio session: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g7n293/the_face_of_regretting_your_career_choices/#lightbox | The sound engineer who was present in every studio session: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g7n293/the_face_of_regretting_your_career_choices/#lightbox | ||
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== Studio sessions/notable incidents == | == Studio sessions/notable incidents == | ||
There are also potentially another 1-3 other sessions before October 2nd. | |||
'''October 2nd Crashout / "Whiskey Neat" and "Drink on" Recordings''' | |||
During this session, Josh recorded his own covers of [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1fv4qyq/this_might_truly_be_the_worst_singing_to_ever/ ’Too Sweet’ by Hozier] and ‘Dream On’ by Aerosmith. | |||
Josh was | Firstly, Josh recorded ‘Too Sweet’ on a backing track, which, due to Josh's terrible vocal abilities, had to be heavily edited with Auto-Tune for a somewhat listenable experience. The final result was heavily reliant on Auto-Tune, and very bad, with Josh still being completely out of key and having poor timing. | ||
Before he was about to cover ‘Dream On’, Josh started to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8y_c2x_s crash out] hard, [[Josh and Mental Health|he was screaming and crying]], as he was paranoid about men being after him, who claimed that they knew which hotel and room he was at and that they were after his passport, which came about through various TTS donations, and particularly through some unknown person who found Josh's personal number and decided to call him directly to troll him. He threatened to whoever was on the phone that he will sue them and kill them, and that he "is from the Bronx". The call ended, and Josh attempted to put his phone on Airplane Mode to stop the calls interrupting as he was trying to read the lyrics of the song he was recording online, but this attempt failed, and it resulted in him getting an endless barrage of calls which made him extremely angry, threatening to "smash his phone". Mr. Based, concerned about being kicked out the studio, tried to calm him down by singing "Rock-a-bye Baby", which Josh didn't appreciate. Josh, still furious, stated that "he wanted to kill someone". | |||
After this, he calmed down enough to go and cover ‘Dream On’, which was done with no Auto-Tune effects and truly showed Josh's inabilities as a singer. Still a little agitated, and probably self-aware of his inabilities, he was becoming increasingly frustrated whilst attempting to get takes down, often screaming "AGGGGHHHHH" and "I messed up!", and then biting his arm. | |||
Another TTS donation came through after Josh left the vocal booth, claiming that they were going to steal his TikTok account, which Josh responded angrily. | |||
More trolls donated via TTS, and Josh became increasingly upset, saying that he "doesn't like his life", and that his "life is terrible". Notably, as he was crying, ‘Roaring Thunder’ by another popular [[lolcow]] [[Daniel Larson]] was playing over the studio speakers, as Mr. Based thought Josh should cover it. Josh was still concerned about people stealing his passport and his potential inability of not going on his cruise that was coming up, he started biting his arm again. He then called his grandfather explaining his concerns, and he was convinced there were people outside of the studio with kitchen knives. Meanwhile, the audio engineer was keeping very quiet on his phone with his back turned, actively trying to not get involved, although Josh was asking him for his advice.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8y_c2x_s</ref> | |||
During this entire time, the audio engineer was trying very hard to keep professional, and to not to burst out in laughter during when Josh was 'singing', although he did have some [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1fux4ez/sound_engineer_is_really_rethinking_his_entire_job/ memorable reactions]. [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1fux22f/how_much_more_time_do_we_have_as_josh_screams_and/ This] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1fuw07l/audio_engineers_genuine_reaction_to_hearing_josh/ this image] basically sums up the session. | |||
After the session was over, as he and Mr. Based were leaving to get a taxi back to [[Mr Based's Apartment|the apartment]], Josh had another [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1fuy3ps/post_stream_update/ memorable crashout] when he got mocked and laughed at by a few young men who were waiting for him outside the studio and started screaming and intending to attack them. Amidst the chaos, due to his [[Alcoholism|drunken manic state]] of flailing his arms about and running around attacking and retreating from the young men being completely tunnel visioned and fixated on them, he was unintentionally hit by a cyclist who was passing by which caused the phone to fly out of his hand and on to the ground. Josh, who didn't realise who hit him, accused one of the men that it was them, all the while, Mr. Based was recording the entire time, and tried to get Josh to stop trying to attack them, calm down and get into a taxi nearby. This is one of the first popular crashouts that featured Josh biting his arm and rapidly gnashing his teeth like a wild animal. | |||
'''October 19th Session''' | '''October 19th Session''' | ||
Josh was with Letty in this session. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g7k6tk/megathread_101924_studio_stream_grandma_got_ran/ | Josh was with [[Letty]] in this session. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g7k6tk/megathread_101924_studio_stream_grandma_got_ran/ | ||
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'''October 20th Session''' | '''October 20th Session''' | ||
Josh was with Letty in this session again. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g8amzx/megathread_102024_stream_recording_studio_2/ | Josh was with [[Letty]] in this session again. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g8amzx/megathread_102024_stream_recording_studio_2/ | ||
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'''October 22nd Session''' | '''October 22nd Session''' | ||
Doozycruz was livestreaming outside the studio under the false impression that Josh and Mr. Based were inside for at least two or three hours waiting for come out, which during this time he recorded the cops coming to the studio and speaking to the staff. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g9cesl/studio_man_talking_to_cop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g9bj5t/that_doozycruz_guy_liquid_josh_is_camped_outside/ | [[Doozycruz]] was livestreaming outside the studio under the false impression that Josh and Mr. Based were inside for at least two or three hours, waiting for them to come out, in which during this time he recorded the cops coming to the studio and speaking to the staff. https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g9cesl/studio_man_talking_to_cop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1g9bj5t/that_doozycruz_guy_liquid_josh_is_camped_outside/ | ||
'''Lost Phone/Alana Incident''' | '''November 14th Session / Lost Phone/Alana Incident''' | ||
On November 14th 2024, Mr. Based and Josh met a young woman named Alana at a bar a night before this incident on stream, and they got talking. The next night on the 15th, Mr. Based was able to convince Alana to come to his apartment by herself to be featured on the livestream in order to get some "content" with Josh, later that night he planned to go to Quad Recording Studios for Josh to record some songs and Alana agreed to come with. | On November 14th 2024, [[Mr. Based]] and Josh met a young woman named Alana at a bar a night before this incident on stream, and they got talking. The next night on the 15th, Mr. Based was able to convince Alana to come to [[Mr Based's Apartment|his apartment]] by herself to be featured on the livestream in order to get some "content" with Josh, later that night he planned to go to Quad Recording Studios for Josh to record some songs and Alana agreed to come with. | ||
As were in the taxi going to the studio, Alana realised that she didn't have her phone on her, and she became very concerned. She checked the taxi, but it wasn't there. She requested Mr. Based and Josh to help her find it, asking to go back to the apartment, and then to use their respective phones to access her Apple account and Find My iPhone (something that could be done within 5-10 minutes), but the two declined every request and wasn't interested in helping her, with Mr. Based saying that she's probably left it at the apartment and that she shouldn't be concerned, and Josh making up excuses to not give her access to his phone. Mr. Based tried to justify his unwillingness to help as that he paid $700 for the studio time and they were already one hour late. | As were in the taxi going to the studio, Alana realised that she didn't have her phone on her, and she became very concerned. She checked the taxi, but it wasn't there. She requested Mr. Based and Josh to help her find it, asking to go back to the apartment, and then to use their respective phones to access her Apple account and Find My iPhone (something that could be done within 5-10 minutes), but the two declined every request and wasn't interested in helping her, with Mr. Based saying that she's probably left it at the apartment and that she shouldn't be concerned, and Josh making up excuses to not give her access to his phone. Mr. Based tried to justify his unwillingness to help as that he paid $700 for the studio time and they were already one hour late. | ||
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Fortunately for Alana, the sound engineer gave access to his phone for her to access Find My iPhone, and [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1grq42u/alana_is_ok/ offstream she got her phone back and was ok after this incident.]<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1grpt63/she_got_her_phone_back/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1grljzb/so_this_girl_lost_her_phone/</ref> | Fortunately for Alana, the sound engineer gave access to his phone for her to access Find My iPhone, and [https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1grq42u/alana_is_ok/ offstream she got her phone back and was ok after this incident.]<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1grpt63/she_got_her_phone_back/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTShirts/comments/1grljzb/so_this_girl_lost_her_phone/</ref> | ||
As a result of this incident, this session was very unproductive for Josh, with barely any recordings being completed. | |||
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!Taken down from streaming platforms due to copyright? (as of 4th May 2025) | !Taken down from streaming platforms due to copyright? (as of 4th May 2025) | ||
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|Forever Drunk | |[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStRlyxWcTE Forever Drunk] | ||
|19th September 2024 | |19th September 2024 | ||
|Forever Young by Alphaville | |Forever Young by Alphaville | ||
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|No | |No | ||
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There are many clips of Joshua [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8y_c2x_s raging and crashing out in the vocal booth] as he is attempting to get | There are many clips of Joshua [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd8y_c2x_s raging and crashing out in the vocal booth] as he is attempting to get acceptable takes to his own standard, which is absolutely hilarious. | ||
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