- 12:01 AM, Thursday,
October 9th, 2025:
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- It could very well be
that the past 3 years was just the universe trying to
remind me of what I was trying to do all along when I
built this studio. It's hard not to look at it like
that...
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- ...it could also very
well be that I'm so focused on "The Lemonade Life" that
this is just my pattern: make awful things that happen to
you fodder for the next adventure....
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- The truth is, I have
no idea what's happening or why I'm so freaking happy and
so focused and having literally the time of my
life - but to say that on my 50th birthday is not
remotely what I thought I'd be saying or doing... just a
few weeks ago. I'm in the middle of a whirlwind of
character changing shit that happens in The Journey
sometimes and I'm just enjoying the ride. So buckle
up!
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-
- Whew. I'll just post
the voice-over and then try to explain
everything:
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- I believe that
hidden in the thousands of entries in the Journey is a
live theater show incorporating music and video
that’s never been done before. I wrote well over
a hundred songs in a dozen genres working through the
stories of my life, but they were never produced,
never pushed - I simply uploaded a video of me
performing them to an unpublicized site and later on
an unpublicized YouTube channel ‘cause that
accountability is how I kept
going…
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- You’ve
seen about 20% of these demos if you watched the two
Journey films, but those were only the songs that
furthered the main story… the best songs? And I
mean,
beat-you-over-the-head-why-were-these-hidden-holy-shit-Adam-why
would you follow any other talent other than
songwriting… good songs? Yeah, no one’s
heard ‘em… until now.
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- In an effort to
make that theater show a reality with a band,
orchestra and video presentation showing those
original demos and storylines, I’m going to be
re-performing every song, live to the camera in one
take with fully produced background tracks to see what
sticks.
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- That’s
where you come in: for the first time in 25 years,
I’m asking for you to subscribe. I need your
likes, I need your comments I need you to share what
you think is special and help get eyes and ears on
this content.
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- Starting
tomorrow on my Tik-Tok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
and DeoVR channels I’ll be uploading 10
performances a month for an entire year. I’ve
color coded the songs into 6 different genres so you
can easily skip the types of music you don’t like
and find the stuff you do. Each video includes the
entry number and date if you want to know the
backstory and I’ll be filming everything in
Virtual Presence, so if you have a headset and want to
sit in the studio with me while I perform, have at it
- but the point is getting this music shared: so pick
your favorite app and subscribe.
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- I know you
don’t think I’m talking to you right now,
but really, YOU are the only way this show happens. I
believe live music and theater is all that anyone is
going to trust to be real in the future, and The
Journey Project just might give me a shot at being
part of that reality.
- Hef thinks I'm crazy.
He laughs though. I finally showed him Adam &
The Egos on the Price is Right so he now understands I'm
the strangest person he's ever met. And I will say
this again, publicly, Virtual Presence is not over.
However...
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- ...it really, really,
really feels like:
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- -my SOUL announced
"Where You Once Belonged" in November of 2021 about
recording music and I started buillding this
studio.
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- -I then spent
months struggling to write songs because life was
pretty awesome.
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- -Something told me
in September of that year to buy the VR180 camera and
devote my entire life into making that a
business.
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- -The 3 years that
followed was some of the most tumultuous, stressful
shit I have ever been though.
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- -annnnnnnnnnnnnnd
here come all these songs pouring out of me and we're
right back to where we started.
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- And of course today
I'm announcing ALLLLLLLLLLLLL the songs. It's 126.
It's a LOT of editing, producing and performing that I've
spent an entire month doing and holy shit was I was
out of practice in a big way. It's coming back... but
it's hard. As you guys will all see starting tomorrow,
what makes this so hard is the workflow:
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- First, crafting the
backing tracks for all of these songs is some of the most
intricate editing I've ever done (which is saying
something after 35 years). I will eventually do a video
on how I'm using Suno AI because there's a MASSIVE
misunderstanding on what's happening and people are just
abusing it and putting out absolute slop. That's
obviously not what I'm doing, I upload me demo to Suno
and tell it the type of song it is and what I want - and
it fills in the blanks. I can then download those
instruments separately. I usually have to attempt it
multiple times and then edit all the parts into a what I
want the song to be. It's tedious as fuck and honestly? I
could just play the bass parts on my keyboard... but holy
fuck does it sound better this way. It has made me want
to perform live with real musicians so bad I can barely
fucking sleep. I keep envisioning this stage show -
AHH.
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- So then we come to
the performance and video - this is where we really enter
a logistical nightmare: each VR180 video shows the
original entry bar/date/year from when I wrote it,
the original journey video with a song clip, and one of 6
different color coded music genres that it corresponds
to. Then in the performance I overlay the original
video and attempt to sync it up to my live performance
(even though I only use my new audio) to give people an
understanding that these songs did indeed exist
before.
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- Then of course I
perform it in one shot, no edits - live to the camera. In
most shots you can literally see it recording live within
the frame (especially in VR180). Then I have to piece
that all together and render it for VR180, then re-edit
and re-frame it vertically for TikTok/Instagram. Upload
it to YouTube/DeoVR and TikTok (all with different
thumbnails) and I'm not done yet! I have to caption the
TikTok videos and then once they go live, download that
captioned video and re-upload it to Instagram/FB because
fuck my life.
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- I just do that
every 2-3 days for an entire year and see where that
takes me.
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- <gulp>
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- Which means I will be
bugging everyone - a BUNCH. I don't have a choice. It's
my only shot for this to go viral. My YouTube channel has
been shadow banned for years so I'm not exactly sure what
to do there.- it seems insane to start a new channel and
start over for these videos, but maybe I have to? No
idea. Honestly it's pretty cool on TikTok - the music is
all that really matters. The color coding will be awesome
on TikTok beacuse there's 6 colors and the arrangement is
in rows of 3 - so in the future if you just want to hear
Funk/Jazz - you can easily scroll down and skip every
other row and watch what you want - or just scroll 6
times. Logisitically - holy fuck. Like this is a
spreadsheet of EPIC proportions LOL. And to rotate it all
perfectly? Pop/Funk/Ballad/Rock/TinPan/Folk? Oh and to
have each genre have a DIFFERENT camera placement and
lights so it actually feels different for the viewer in a
72 SQUARE FOOT SPACE?
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- Mother of fuck. Happy
goddamn Birthday Adam - welcome to your 50s. LMAO. Oh and
finally for every single one of those songs? An entry bar
and all that entails AND AN ENTRY.
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- <throws hands
up>
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- And none of it
would've been happening if not for The Raiders. In fact
my original folder was entitled "Raiders of the Lost Art"
(which I'm very proud of btw). I needed all of that
awfulness to push the new songs and then technology
advancing to a point where I can produce them like THIS?
Fuuuuuuuuuck.
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- I'm in Heaven. Best
birthday ever. Christ wait'll you hear the first song
tomorrow...
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- Adam
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