- 3:27 PM, Monday,
September 8th, 2025:
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- This is really nuts.
I’m trying to wrap my head around this technology
and I just can’t.
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- So Fernando Perdomo,
a guy I befriended last year because of his
crazy
good rendition
of Billy Joel’s new song (he produced it like
70’s Joel redoing the drums, etc) uploaded a video
of him using a new AI tool called suno. You can upload
you singing a song (he did guitar and voice) and
it’ll do a full production of it based on the
prompts you give it. The results are so stunning…
I’ll have to do a proper video explaining it all
later, but suffice to say, I tried it and for the past
couple days have been HOOKED. As some of you may know,
there’s lots of Journey songs. They fill the Journey
movies and they were always just “capture the
moment” songs as I just didn’t have the
equipment necessary for more production. Shit I
didn’t even have a keyboard until 2020 when I needed
to score Meeting Michael. Just banging on my piano and
some acoustic guitar. Well over 100 songs and so many
genres throughout the decades.
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- Then the Raiders
devastation started happening and suddenly, oh I’m
WRITIN’. Like, songs are pouring out. It’s
funny I wanted to do a film “Where You Once
Belonged” producing music a couple years back
(that’s why I built my studio) and then didn’t
have enough fucking trauma to write about ‘cause
life was too good. Well 2023-2025 changed THAT shit.
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- So the rabbit hole
starts and I wake up yesterday morning, upload
“Float Downstream” give it all the prompts as I
heard the song and the end result? I start bawwwwling. To
hear what my music would’ve been like 20 years ago
if I had gone down a different route was the most fucked
up alternative timeline of my life. It’s magic. I
mean, it’s just magic. Now of course, there’s
an AI singer and fuck that - I would re-perform my piano
and vocals - but that foundation it gives you? Drums,
bass, a real guitar player? (I mean, this is AI of
course) it’s dumbfounding.
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- Now it is also the
beginning of the end for recorded music, no doubt. This
is the dead-internet theory alive and well, but only
because people are misusing it. You can literally just
prompt it and it’ll create lyrics and music and
everything. It’s beyond fucked. However for someone
like me? Who already recorded the song, wrote the chords
and lyrics, sang it and played the piano? Fuuuuuuck - it
literally just fills in the blanks.
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- So I took this old
song which I loved the bones of, uploaded it, then
downloaded all the stems (separate tracks of instruments)
and pieced together a new version with their base and
guitar sounds, but adding my voice. The result is - I
mean, it’s perfect. Song about being numb to the
rejection of showbiz (or the silence therein, rejections
are actually a step up) seemed fitting for how this
summer is ending…
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- It’s like I
walked into a studio, sat down with a producer (in this
case EVERY PRODUCER on the planet) played them my demo
and told them my ideas, and they instantly made the band
appear and matched my meter, chords and melody and I
played along.
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- DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY
FUCKING GOOD SONGS I WROTE AND THEN MOVED ON FROM BECAUSE
I DIDNT HAVE THE TIME OR MONEY TO PULL THEM OFF
CORRECTLY?
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- But to be honest?
This isn’t about making the song to me - it’s
about playing this stuff live. That’s where ALLLL of
this is heading guys: we aren’t going to value
recorded ANYTHING pretty soon. I mean - like in less than
10 years. All that we’ll value will be LIVE
performance. Theater. Concerts. Sports. BEING PRESENT.
Like Virtual Presence can fill that void for awhile until
AI can recreate THAT of course. But yeah, that’s
what’s left. The only thing that will hold value
that isn’t live? Documented reality.
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- So I’m gonna
keep working on these songs and figuring out what the
hell Il supposed to do with my life because this shit is
bonkers.
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- Adam
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